The Retarded Dove
Hunter
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Part 2
Immediately, the action of the battle kicked off as Kid vanished into thin air, reappearing right next to Aura with a confidence loaded smirk as he dashed past her. Diviana was his target for the moment, when he approached her he lot loose a strong left hook right at her face. It was however not to her surprise that Kid would pull such a cheap shot. Although it had seemed as if Kid had made contact to her face, it was exactly what she wanted. At the split second, Kid's fist had simply brushed the tip of her nose before she quickly phased herself through and out from his shot. Returning the favour, she had began to deliver a fury of kicks targeting his head. Kid turned back towards her the moment his fist didn’t connect, raising up both arms to block her kicks. The day she didn’t try to kick him in the head was the day she found her sincerity. His hands began glowing as he defended against her strikes until he finally moved, stepping forward as his free hand moved to give her an explosive treat. Diviana was slightly disappointed in herself that she although she has been training for many long hours, she was still unable to at least break a finger for someone in a defensive position. Although it was somewhat of an unrealistic goal, she knew for sure that she’d try her hardest every time to see if she ever got lucky. Noticing this recognizable glow, she had quickly switched to a butterfly twist kick to keep his top hand occupied and knock his other hand to a direction away from her. Knowing that since they were engaged in close combat, she knew there was no way that she could deliver this kick perfectly without any collision unless she phased through him once more. Doing so, it had just so happened that she had phased through one of the maze walls as well, being that she was situated by one to avoid Kid’s previous projectiles.
Once landing to the other side, she had immediately phased back through the walls through a sliding motion in hopes of knocking Kid prone to the ground. His eyes scanned over the entire wall quickly. Diviana had options the moment her opponent lost visibility. Since she was able to attack from nearly anywhere, Kid chose to move up. Floating above allowed him to go over the Wisp’s attack, but would leave him vulnerable, so he retreated away as he moved, eventually dropping from above right next to Aura and giving her a resounding slap for throwing spider guts on him. ”You know your partner is a bad influence, right?” The nymph would bring a hand up to her sullied cheek, taking a moment to rub where it stung the most. ”You would be mistaken, Kid Disaster. It's because we're so alike that we work together so well. No influence necessary.” Giving the magician a bit of a glare for the indignity her own face had just suffered by his hand, she would curl one hand into a fist and aim to punch him in the gut, intending for the move to be accompanied by a blast of wind that would hopefully send him back and into some of the surrounding web. The spiders could do her dirty work… If she succeeded at least. Kid covered his pocket as he was blown away and into the web...it succeeded. ”You okay in there?” He whispered to Singlet. "I'm super-duper!" Singlet whispered as loud as could, brushing her hair out of her face with her hands after tumbling around the corner of Kid's pocket. ”Good, just...gimme a second here.” He had a free arm, but everything else was stuck in the thick webbing, he just needed a moment to think...
Nix watched as Kid and Diviana exchanged blows, knowing better than to get in the middle of that from all their training. Though it might’ve been the ‘cowardly’ tactic, the demoness decided to stay hidden until a chance arose for her to sneak into the fray. She had no idea where Sergio was or what he was doing but that became the least of her worries as she continued to observe. Seeing Kid slap Aura brought back a brief, painful memory that she quickly shoved aside to keep herself focused. The moment Nix hoped for arrived in an unexpected way as Aura hit Kid to send him flying into a web. Normally one would aim for the person trapped in the web and not the one that put him there in the first place since he was trapped.. Well the silverette wasn’t taking that route because even in this situation Kid was her friend. Even as her ‘partner’s’ words of warning passed through her mind about even friends turning on each other, she wanted to deeply believe that wasn’t true. So there were two objectives that needed to be carried out without being discovered immediately. Get Kid out of the web and get revenge on Aura for putting him there. Luckily an idea materialized in her mind and decided to put it to use. Nix pulled some shadows together, gathering them in the tree above where Kid was struggling, and formed them into the shape of a large spider. This shadow creation had a possible chance of getting Kid free or at the very least providing a distraction for herself. With the shadow spider now lowering towards the Magician, Nix jumped into her own shadow to get started on plan number two. The demoness emerged from a shadow a few steps away from Aura and set her sights on the Nymph’s own shadow. The shadow rose to quickly form a large hand, grabbing onto the woman and slamming her against the ground once before tossing her away. During this attack, the shadowed arachnid would cut at the webbing keeping Kid stuck.. If all went according to plan.
The moment she had seen the spider descend upon Kid after getting him snagged something had felt different about it. It took a moment for the warning flag to be raised in Aura's mind though that in the end turned out to be too late for the realization that they weren't alone there and that the next contender wasn't Singlet. Before she could voice it or locate the one who was interfering Aura had found herself grabbed and forced to the ground. Though the breath was knocked out of her there was no way the nymph was out of the game yet. If anything it had served to annoy her, almost flipping a switch from how she had started the battle. Closing her eyes she would focus a moment on the air surrounding her, before creating a strong burst to lash out in all directions from the area around her. While it may not work on shadow, chances were high that she could at least make the one controlling them stumble. “Diviana, be wary!” she would yell to her partner, “There are others here!”
Her eyes darted around her to find Nix and soon found a darker tone spider working on Kid. Although Nix wasn’t visibly present, she knew she was within the area and decided to leech from her spider tactic idea. Not too bad for a demon. Phasing away from the battle scene and through the adjacent walls, she began to grow new bones and appendages as her skin also began to twist and stretch in inhuman ways. Clapping her two pedipalps together she would solidify the fog before her into a thick lining as her own silk, zip up to the web canopy and quickly to the crime scene. As the shadow spider continued to work on Kid, Diviana has slowly lowered behind it to take a bite, but be disappointed as it puffed away in a cloud of smoke. It was thanks to her spider senses that she on this spider web it was not only her and Kid, but another, Nix’s partner. Quickly having a feeling that he was approaching in a matter of seconds, she quickly spun back up her silk to prepare for a kill of two with one stone. It was at the moment a smirk appeared on the demon’s face. He pulled on the vine that he was holding and all the bones holding the tree roots in place fell. With a quick snap the roots sprang up and just like a catapult sent the spider fangs soaring through the bush. In less than a second the fangs appeared soar through the bushes. Coming from all sides they formed a circle around the group of fighters as they flew at great neck speed. Unclipping the hook from his pants the bone demon secured the mask on his face as it fused with him. Once again the demonic smiled appeared on his face as his demonic side took control. ”Now let the real fun begin.”
Everything was going crazy around Kid, if anything he’d need a moment to collect his thoughts. Thanks to the assistance of Singlet’s powers boost and Nix, who was apparently also there-- three teams?! In any case, the moment he was freed by the demoness’ spider, the sound of a trap being sprung caused him to almost desperately use his Phantom Step to get him upwards and hopefully out of the way of the chaos. Disappearing and reappearing floating above the combat, he got to see everything and relayed the information to Singlet. ”Nix and Sergio are also here, Diviana seems to have disappeared, though, but it looks like she made some kind of spider of her own to fight with everyone. Nix has to be hiding up here, so we’ll find her and kick her butt! However, we have to keep an eye on Sergio and Aura...well, assuming Sergio hasn’t already done so. The fire is spreading, and Sergio just did...something. It gives me a bad feeling…” Singlet hoped so much so that when Kid meant a bad feeling, he didn’t mean a bad feeling in his belly because she didn’t know if Mr. Knife would pause everything so that Kid could use the bathroom. Thought listening to what Kid had relayed back to her, things began to make more sense to her. As being inside of Kid’s pocket hidden away, she was blinded to what was happening in real-time but not to the sounds being made such as the snipping of the shadow spider or Diviana coming down her silk. "I’m going to kick the bread out of Nix, so we can make sandwiches!" Singlet replied, obviously showing where her mind was at.
The Magician looked from tree to tree and bush to bush. Staying in the air wouldn’t be the greatest idea so long as he was glowing, it’d make for an easy target once they noticed. The illumination made for a great lightbulb though, making it easy to single out Nix in the bushes when Sergio’s trap was completed. ”Alright, get ready, partner!” Immediately, he zeroed in on Nix, getting right behind her in an attempt to wrap a fistful of her hair around one of his hands and holding the other hand low. Nix watched as Kid broke free of the web after Diviana caused her shadow to vanish, then disappearing from sight herself. Though the demoness had no time to try and search for the other fighter as Kid darted her way, getting behind her in a flash. There was not enough time to move as the Magician grabbed a clump of her hair and pulled down, sending a sharp pain up through her head. Why was he attacking her after she helped him escape the web? Well that was the least of her worries as ideas flooded into her mind on how to escape the bind she was in. Nix reached back to grab the free length of her hair as her own shadow stretched up, taking the shape of a sharp edge to swing down at what kept her trapped. Her own white locks. The teen quickly got to her feet, spun around, and looked at Kid as she back peddled. The sharp formed shadow went to work on cutting the rest of her hair to match the same length of what had been removed. This left her hair sitting just barely past her shoulders, the rest of it lying upon the forest floor. ”That wasn’t very nice, Kid!” The Magician raised his other hand wordlessly, as a familiar blue glow emanated from it. Without so much as a taunt, he fired his beams at her point blank. Nix saw that familiar glow and her shadows moved to create a wall in front of her, providing some defense from the incoming beams. The silverette darted off to the side and made her shadows stretch forward like ribbon to wrap around the Magician tightly. This bind would not last long as the shadows threw him towards a nearby tree, knowing that she needed to keep some distance away from him. The demoness quickly grabbed some of her fallen locks before making her way up to a branch, ducking into the darkness. Crashing right into the trunk, Kid realized that the shadows were even stronger than normal as the entire base of the tree shattered around him. With a loud crack he dropped to his knees with heavy breaths, surprised and impressed. Poking her head out for just a second, she looked at Kid instantly as she heard a loud snap. "You gotta get up, Kid!" She whispered as loud as she could as she began to fistpump and chant his name. For Singlet, it didn't make much sense to her to why Kid was acting such a way because he was pretty sparkly already. "Heyyy! Wait a minute. You're not as hurt than I thought! I knew my sparkles were working!" She said as she squinted her eyes and waved her finger at him. He hadn’t even realized, after all the punishment he was used to taking at this point. Popping back into Kid pocket, Singlet was going to take Kid’s lint ball and throw it in the air to emphasize the magic of her sparkles, but when she returned, her eyes had darted to the falling leaves from the canopy. "Aha!" Singlet said as she pointed her finger like a lightbulb from her head. Something clicked in her mind. "Kid, do you think that if I was standing in front of your disaster bullet, that it would give me enough momentum and the inertia to fly up to the top, grow super big and then give them the ole one-two?" Singlet questioned while punching the air. To some people it sounded weird because sometimes she would use certain vocabulary that didn't seem to match her appearance or the way she acted and sounded, "Like riding on a chocolate chip into the milky way," and then suddenly revert back to normal. Though to her, it was just normal. ”...” Well that was...weird. Kid didn’t actually think she had that kind of vocabulary and critical thinking skill. He simply stared at her in confusion for a moment from the initial shock of this out of nowhere idea she had, but...she did seem to be invulnerable, thus far, so how bad could it be? ”...Y- Yeah. I...do?” A veil of sparkling blue and yellow swirled around the two as he began charging the strongest Disaster Bullet he could safely muster. Pointing his finger forward and placing his other hand underneath it not only to help handle the inevitable recoil, but to give Singlet a spot to stand on before firing. ”While we look for a target, want me to put some more oomf into it? It’ll be a heck of a ride, cowgirl!” Hopping into his palm, Singlet had held onto Kid’s thumb as a support as she prepared herself to be positioned properly. "Yes! I want to make all the mommy and daddy cows proud of me!" Was her immediate response as she got ready and looked up into the direction of the canopy. Thinking about her ride she had many ideas of flying in butt first, but thought it would be way better if she went head first so that Gooby could see her face and be jealous.
The bone demon looked up above as he saw the magician appear above the battlefield. The demon hid in the bushes and stood still as not to draw any attention to himself. Normally he would have started his attack on the magician but it seemed the magician had a different target in his mind as the man suddenly found Nix and attacked her. Luckily his partner managed to get free from the magician and attacked back sending the magician flying into a tree trunk. The air had already quickly filled up with dust and debris as the trunk shattered on impact. Now would of been a perfect time to attack but the demon didn’t know what kind of tricks Kid had up his sleeves. It was best to wait a bit and see what he would do. It was at that moment that he could see the magician form a gun with his hands. This wasn’t good at all for the demon. Bones began to emerge from his fingertips and decided to attack first. He swiped his hand quickly and watched as the fingertips flew towards the magician. Though it seemed as if he had forgotten what was around him, millions if not hundred of spiders where rappelling up and down the trees, and her. Smart, but not smart enough. Her eyes quickly began to glow a dark purple as she began to chatter and buzz beneath her breath. Within a matter of seconds, these fine nails of Sergio should have already attempted to pierce Kid, however, it seemed as if the nails had gained some weight during their flight to rather fall straight down before reaching Kid. It was that by her presence, the fog had condensed and attracted to the nails to send it in a different direction. As the nails had began to fall, Diviana had quickly climbed up her silk and headed towards Sergio’s direction. Once reaching much higher ground, she began to skitter and jump her way with the other spiders to hide the sound of her movement. The webbing made by the other spiders who had inhabited this environment made it much easier for her to move around with better stealth. Keeping a close eye on Sergio, she quickly took note of how his fingers looked much different, structural-wise, in comparison to most of the other creatures she's seen on campus. Quickly luring herself above him, she had then lunged for his head. Sergio watched as his fingertips began to descend and hit the ground before they reached the intended target. The fog was much to thick for his projectiles to fly through. It was then the heard a noise from above. Reacting quickly bones began to protrude from his back and stopped her attack. He twisted his head till it made a complete hundred and eighty degrees as the demon looked at his attacker with a grin on his face. ”So close but not close enough.” She must admit that it was interesting to see someone be capable of manipulating their bone structure as well, but what she had hoped for was that this was not the only ability he had. Because that would be horrifyingly boring. Clenching her fangs within these bones were no use, until it hit her. All she really needed was for her fangs to have physically contact with his bones at this point. Quickly it had then became much more visible to the two on what was happening. As the tips of her fangs slowly turned to a darker shade of purple, they suddenly been able to create a small crack, digging into the bone that had stopped her bite. Absorbing ones' soul took a long time depending on the type of contact, but absorbing energy was much more different as it could be replenished depending on the creature. Taking previous note of the strength of his bones, she took the other route instead to absorb the energy of his bones to make them more brittle and easier to deal with. For a second the masked demon believed he had stopped her attack but then he realized what was happening. His bone began to crack the longer her fangs remained in contact with him. At that moment a bone began to emerge from his his shoulder. Grasping the bone he pulled it out to reveal the sword like shape it had become and then cut the infected bone from his body as well as pushing her off his back. Once off his back the infected bone that was cut off began to slowly grow back. ”It seemed I underestimated you. I’m impressed by your skill. It had been a long time since I had to regenerate a bone like this. I’m going to enjoy this fight.”
Being pushed off from the infected bone was more of an advantage for her than she thought, as she used the push to bounce back and moved around her opponent as she watched him. It was slightly interesting to see that she was not the only one who was able to freely alter parts of her body, but not a surprise. After seeing him pull out a bone sword from his shoulder and regrow the decapitated from his back, she had continued with her strike. Move around her opponent as if he was her prey, she began to spit slithers of ectoplasm at him. Naturally, spiders spat down at their prey to liquify them, however, that was not what she was going for. Instead, her intention was for it to land on him and if not, the ground, so that she could have more control on her environment rather than just relying on fog. He looked at her and saw that she was getting ready for an attack. It was then that she began to spit a liquid at him. He dodged her blobs of goo and closed the distance in on her. The masked man gave her a demented smile before striking her with his fist and slammed her through one of the trees that surrounded them. He looked at her and saw that she was getting ready for an attack. It was then that she began to spit a liquid at him. He dodged her blobs of goo and closed the distance in on her. The masked man gave her a demented smile before striking her with his fist and slammed her through one of the trees that surrounded them. Quickly shuffling to the side, she had easily dodged his strike with her upper hand in mobility, however not his push "How foolish," She simply said as he had re-entered her personal space. Leaning into him during his push, she had placed her pedipalps and the rest of her remaining legs, but two, at the pressure points of a typical human's body to begin absorbing his energy once again. Her remaining pair of legs were rather used as her support like other normal creatures. If he's reliant on his bones, this should be beneficial in the long run. The bone demon could feel her grabbed a hold of him as she began to suck his energy. Just when it seemed like she had the upper hand in him the masked demon gave her a sinister smirk. ”I think you are the foolish one here.” At that moment his ribs perturbed from his chest. Five of his ribs ended up piercing straight through her body. When the bones pierced through her body he was able to gain enough strength to pull her off him before backing up a distance. ”Note to self I need to keep my distance from her.” The masked demon then reached behind him and began to pull out his own spine. Letting a short screech escape her lips, she stood there slightly slouching and mostly quiet like some kind of dead doll. During this period, she was mainly suppressing the pain signaled by her nerves from the most recent witnessed event. Not bad, for a plebeian, but not good enough. Slowly as she raised her head with a small smirk on her face, the tissues of her skin began to realign to fill the five holes that he had pierced. Although she had not been able to develop regenerant abilities, she was very privileged to develop the skill of manipulating the elements of her body with Asura a few months ago. "That can't be all, can it?" She had chattered as she wiggled the tips of her toes and then legs, before getting back onto her feet.
”Alright, it’s gonna be fierce!” The Magician announced to his Spectrum ally. Planting his feet firmly on the ground, this extra kick was going be...essentially the most powerful attack he’d ever used, he could tell. Still looking for a target, he decided to go ahead and push his power even further. ”Magigage power!” In that instant, the spider guts, ectoplasm and everything else was blown off of the magician as his attire reformed itself into his Magigage gear. The swirl of energies around him literally thickened into a near-solid state, his own power, the power of the Magigage, and the power of Singlet all combined into one, being absorbed into his aimed index finger with an absolutely brilliant shine, illuminating everything in the area. He finally managed to settle on a target, which was Nix yet again as she stood in a tree, her farkness unable to hide from the light of the powers. Pointing it at her, it was time to let Singlet loose, making up an attack name to inspire her further.. ”Super Disaster Railgun Singlet Punch!!” The remainder of the energies immediately all went to the charge at the tip of his finger, the shine around him going dark, before a high-velocity bullet the size of a large cannonball fired out with such force that the Magician was left with his entire body trembling. Blowing through the forest, everything the shot passed began to burn faster and faster, slowly setting the forest ablaze. Due to the vibrant light Kid illuminated, Nix winced as a burning sensation came to her eyes. Due to the darkness of being in this forest, she wasn’t prepared for such a level of light. Being launched out of Kid's hands with the power of his magigage by his disaster bullet was much more exhilarating than she thought. With the initial launch should could feel her cheeks slap back to the sides of her face and her skin pull back to a large grin. "This. IS. AWESOME!" She yelled as slapped her hands together for aerodynamic sake, as she began to quickly grow back to size and eventually a little larger.
Nix was able to focus her eyesight again, despite the glaring light, only to see someone flying in her direction. The demoness was shocked to see that the shimmering ‘projectile’ was actually Singlet! What was she doing flying through the air like this? Didn’t she know how dangerous it was!? ”Singlet!! What are you doing!?” She called out, unaware that she was the intended target for quite the crafty attack. Instantly noticing Nix reaching out to her, Singlet had called out to Nix as well with pure joy, "Nix!" Although Kid did warn her of Nix, Singlet was still very happy either way to see her, even if she had to kick her tushy. Seeing much clearer with the assistance of the bright light from the bullet that she was growing near of Nix, Singlet had yelled, "GIVE ME BREAD!" before unleashing a fury of kicks from the bottom of her chin and moving upwards to her face. However, it was by the uppercut-like-movement that allowed the bullet to continue upward and toss Singlet the other direction. Nix’s joy at seeing Singlet unharmed was short lived as the tiny attacker slammed surprisingly powerful kicks into her face. The force of the assault knocked Nix from the tree and tumbling towards the ground, bouncing off a tree on her way down. It put her in enough of a daze that the shadows around her were unable to catch her before her body slammed into the ground with a painful thud. ’I forgot that Singlet is here to fight too.. And that really hurt.’ The silverette thought as she slowly got to her feet, feeling pain all across her face from the small foot impressions left behind. She needed to go hide before she was attacked again, this was her only choice since she couldn’t think clearly at that exact moment. For Singlet on the other hand, with the influence of Kid's powerful Disaster Bullet in combination with his magigage and her "glow," it had sent the child through a few trees and slamming face down to the ground. Upon impact towards the ground, her impact had created a small crater of her shape and a small dust cloud for a couple of seconds. Getting up and looking at her palms, arms and legs, she suddenly noticed that she was entirely bruised as she was a mixture of a light tinge of purple, red and grey colour. It was to her knowledge that this happened to normal people when they fall and get hurt, so it was only "normal" for it to happen to her. Upon examination, she also noticed that she seemed to bit a little bit skinnier as well, to which she correlated with how cartoon characters would be like after an anvil had been dropped on them. Taking her time to walk back to the battlefield to help Kid further, she noticed that although the gems on her wrists have been slightly scuffed, the one by her bellybutton was in a much worse condition. Not only scratched had the gem been scratched, but it also had a few chips and several more cracks due to the impact from the dynamic of both Kid and her power. As hope quickly turned to reassurance that she was probably going to be fine, she began to rub her tummy during her walk, because that was children did on television when they weren't feeling too well.
Kid wasn’t tired from the move, per se. He was just extremely shocked from the amount of power he had at that moment, staring at the hand that fired. His feeling would be short lived, however, when a burst of wind whipped Kid right into another tree face-first and without Singlet’s assistance. A reverberating crunch as the point of contact caved in on itself somewhat. The Magician’s face recoiled off of the wood like a soccer ball as he turned only to be met screaming with a cyclone of flames into his midsection. The magigage gear was able to absorb the brunt of it, but that wouldn’t make it much less painful for somebody as pitifully human as Kid Disaster. “I've had about enough of sitting back and watching you play games. Shall we end this with you first Disaster?” As she spoke, he slowly regained his balance, running a hand over his face to find is completely smothered in his blood. Something about it made him...smile. It was a feeling reminiscent of sparring with Diviana, but with enough twists that it was something of its own. It seemed all consciousness was lost after that, as his body crumpled to the floor without so much as a twitch. Seeing the magician fall prone it looked as if things were already over for him, though one could never be too sure. Still a bit wary she would close the distance to check and make sure, or finish him off if he wasn't. Once within distance she would pause when she suddenly felt a tight grip on her ankle. Glancing at the offending arm she could see that it belonged to the magician, as though it was the only thing he could really manage against her right then. Naturally, it was all a part of his plan...it was a risky plan, no doubt, but it just could work. Keeping his grasp tight, the Magician ignited the woman’s leg into an explosion of red fireworks, causing her to stumble just enough that he had the time to leap up, revealing his possum-playing ploy and gaining a momentary advantage by grabbing her face within his gloved hand, which was slowly glowing whiter and whiter until it also ignited. The nymph was aware that if she were to stumble and stop any farther, she’d end up in a desperate situation. A small tornado enveloped Aura’s had as she retaliated immediately, completely taking his Gleaming Palm, but counterattacking with a power blow to his face, followed by and even more powerful strike that tore through his abdomen like tissue paper.
”Augh…damn it…” His risk failed to pay off for him, unfortunately, as the concussed Magician hunched over, blood spilling from his stomach area. His breathing was heavy as his vision doubled. He could see Aura approaching him. “You aren’t appearing as strong as I had thought you were. It’s almost disappointing to see with how long you’ve been in this school. Perhaps I will do what I can to enjoy your end thoroughly.” Without further ado, she struck her hand directly inside of his wound and the Magician could feel the nymph’s grasp. “Now this is quite the interesting feeling, wouldn’t you say?” Normally she wasn’t one to indulge in the pain of others but he wasn’t going to actually die, so it was as good of a time as any to try something a bit out of the norm. As she did so she would keep her gaze trained on Kid, studying as various expressions of pain crossed his face with the few little things she tried. Kid could hardly speak, let alone stand. His body slumped towards Aura, a weak grip on her being the only thing holding him up. Turning up the heat on what was bound to be torture by that point she would add some of her winds into the mix, forcing extra pressure on certain points of his abdominal anatomy. “Don’t slip away on me yet, this is nothing compared to how either of us can finish you off.”
Nix finally regained a clear mind after the horrible stumble she took due to Singlet and Kid’s joint attack. Her head and body still ached but at least she could think clearly now. Though when the demoness looked towards the fighting, she saw a gruesome sight that sent a chill through her very being. Blood was spilling from Kid’s stomach and the culprit behind such an injury made themselves known immediately. Seeing Aura aggravating the wound infuriated Nix, in fact it was much more then that. She hurt her friend, caused him pain. The fact that Kid attacked her a few times held no relevance anymore. The rage within the silverette grew out of control as she watched Aura yank her hand out of Kid’s stomach and proceed to kick him in it, continuing the attack while he was down. This level of emotion being entirely new to her, and it took physical form. Nix’s shadow rose from the ground and covered her like a ghastly cocoon. The darkness then shrank until her body could clearly be seen again, as if her entire being had been dyed black. Bright, glowing crimson eyes stood out though the horizontal pupils showed that the kind Nix they all knew before wasn’t standing before them. Adding to the transformation was the fact her fingers had taken on the appearance of long and dangerous claws. The shadow demon looked at those around her before settling her gaze upon Aura. Nix opened her mouth to unleash a sharp, piercing shriek that sounded inhuman and caused the shadows around them all to writhe in response to her rage. The shrieking noise was enough to make anyone nearby cringe, which was exactly the reaction that the nymph had as she corrected her posture, no longer toying around with the wound Kid had suffered. Though she would have to finish off the magician if she were to pay closer heed to the newer threat. At last she would pick him up by the collar of his shirt before letting go as she channeled a blast of wind directly into the center of his being in order to knock him back and away into a nearby gnarled tree. As if to add insult to injury one of the mangled tree limbs would pierce through Kid’s midsection. He belted out a literal blood-curdling scream as his vision darkened. His consciousness seemed to leave him quickly these days, but...a look at his face would make anyone note that though he was unconscious, he was…smiling. "HUH?!" Singlet blurted out of a sudden hearing a shriek that echoed and rebounded around the walls around her, just when a hard breeze blew by. "NO YELLING ALLOWED!" Singlet yelled as her hands covered her ears to buffer the sound. As soon as her dress stopped blowing up in front of her, she put her hands down and continued to walk, until she heard another blood-curdling scream to follow. Stopping her tracks instantly, she became furious, knowing that she could recognize Kid's voice anywhere. "How come all the fun stuff always happens without me!" She spoke to herself as she began to run back to the destination of the battle with her fists clenched.
Nix rushed towards the nymph, her focus set on her for now, and tackled her down to the ground. Though instead of falling onto the dirt, they both sank into the shadow cast below them and vanished from sight. The pathways between shadow weren’t like what most people would imagine. The two fell through a mixture of black and goldenrod, flowing past them on all sides like tunnel. During this passage, Nix raked her claws across Aura’s limbs and cut her deeply before they neared the exit, prompting the nymph to cry out in pain. Turning towards her aggressor Aura would try to force Nix away though it was to no avail there, in the shadowy dimension. The attacks were painful, far more so than had been in the previous round and made what Shaun had done feel like child’s play in comparison. She just knew she had to get out of it or...well, she was probably done for. The demoness grabbed Aura and threw her through it before following suit, both of them flying out of a shadow along the ground. With a thud the nymph would hit the forest floor once more, far more bloodied than she had been going into it. Deep lacerations covered her form and the blood could be seen seeping freely from each wound. The growing weakness felt just like it had the previous round, with blood loss settling in once more. With what energy she had she would struggle to stand up once more, the winds she summoned to assist far weaker than before. She wouldn’t make it far though as her limbs became trapped by shadows once more, pinning her back down to the ground. Having the shadows stretch and pierce through Aura’s limbs showed that even in this enraged state, they were still very much under Nix’s control. The shadow clad demoness walked towards her trapped prey, only stopping to see Kid against the tree. Though seeing a gnarled branch through his midsection only stoked the flames of her anger, making the shadows in the area to shift once again. Crimson eyes stared down at the nymph as a growl passed the silverette’s lips. The demoness then rose an arm and forced it through Aura’s own midsection, even giving her hand a twist to add to the pain as the nymph let out a strained cry of agony. With a sicking sound and spray of crimson, Nix pulled her hand free but wasn’t done with the nymph just yet. When she stood up straight, her eyes never left the bleeding being still pinned to the ground. The shadowed claws on her hand grew longer and sharper before she rose her arm into the air. With a powerful swing, she cut through Aura’s neck with a grotesque crack, her head moving just enough to show it had been severed..
