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"That's quite a technique you have created there, Firomis. I'm impressed beyond that which words can describe. These past two years, I was training Deckard and I became a bit stronger myself. However, I never thought that kid would actually teach me something. I suppose it's time to unveil my technique too then." Kaneas stood straight up and closed his eyes. The same lightning currents from before started to surround him, though there were many more than before. "That won't work on me, I've already seen it." Kaneas opens his eyes and raised his arms and palms to his sides, creating a powerful swirling wind around him as well as streams of lightning. The ground around him began to shake, mostly from the wind but also from being struck over and over by the arcs of lightning. Firomis flapped the wings on his back up and down quickly, launching a barrage of feathers down towards the ground. The arrows exploded on contact into spheres of lightning arcs that were two feet in diameter, mostly hitting the lightning and gusts of wind that was surrounding Kaneas, but still getting close enough to do damage to him.

Several orbs of lightning began to surround Kaneas, spinning around in circles because of the swirling winds around him. The orbs were massive, being five feet in diameter each, making Firomis open his eyes widely in fear of what they'd explode into once he set them off. Just when Firomis was about to release another barrage of feathers, Kaneas dropped down onto one knee and began to pant loudly, and all of his magic disappeared. Firomis narrowed his eyes in surprise. "Ran out of magic to use already?" He grinned for a moment before he charged in quickly, throwing at where Kaneas was kneeling at. Kaneas, however, was now up in midair where Firomis had came from. "What?!" Firomis looked around trying to find Kaneas as quick as he could before he noticed his shadow on the ground and looked up in the air. "I call this technique, Azure Dynamite." Kaneas said calmly and loudly.

The winds that were once surrounding Kaneas reappeared, several times more fierce than before and caused the feathers on Firomis's wings to fly everywhere and explode once they had contact with something solid or abnormal until the wings were completely gone. The orbs, five in all, re-appeared shortly after his wings were gone and began to crackle and expand. All at one time, the orbs exploded and created a large sphere of lightning in which Firomis had been caught in. To make things worse, the swirling winds became more violent, it was a cage of pain and Firomis had been caught in the middle. Strangely, there wasn't any cries of pain that came from where he was at, nor was there any sign that he had escaped from it and moved somewhere else. When the spells finally ceased, Rydia was sitting on Firomis's shoulders and there was a bright yellow barrier of light surrounding the two of them, and each of them was unscathed. "Thank you, Rydia. You won this duel Kaneas, I would have lost if Rydia wasn't here to save me from that attack." Kaneas dropped down to the ground and looked at Rydia. "That attack was a bit much, I didn't even think about it when I used it. Good thinking Rydia." She shook her head and jumped off Firomis's shoulders. "I just wanted to make sure Firie was okay." she smiled.

"Here Kaney." Rydia put her hand on his chest and emitted her usual white light as she began to heal the small wounds that he had. "Thanks Rydia." he patted her on the head lightly and picked her up, setting her on his shoulders. "Deckard taught that to you?" Firomis asked Kaneas, still a bit confused on the whole issue. Kaneas laughed at that comment and shook his head. "He didn't teach it to me, he just taught me the concept during one of our duels a while back. You might have read something about delayed spells in the history books. Stuff like that hasn't been used in ages, mainly because it requires a ton of concentration and lots of magical energy reserves. You can imagine my surprise when Deckard used something like that, just like you were surprised when I used it. Estellise apparently uses the tactic herself." Firomis nodded slowly, taking in all the information he had just heard. "Delaying a spell... hm, that's certainly something I never even thought about doing. I thought you were dangerous before, but now you're even worse. What would you do in a real fight if you didn't have the capability to move out of the way of an attack?" Kaneas looked directly at Firomis. "Simple, if my opponent was that powerful I'd simply just use the technique while we were both in range of it. I might die, but at least I know the other person would too."

Rydia banged Kaneas on the head. "If you die, who's going to take care of me after Toren is gone? Stupid." Kaneas laughed, "Sorry, I forgot Rydia. Don't worry, I won't die. I promise you that. We're going to check up on Deckard, see you later." Kaneas and Rydia waved as they turned into a light and disappeared.

"It was indeed a good fight. Kaneas is just as strong as ever." Firomis smiled and looked at the rest of the members of Silver, who were now gathering in one spot. "I did notice you left the Coliseum for a bit, was something wrong?"

"You shouldn't worry about me so much, I haven't even used up a quarter of my energy reserves today. The perfected technique isn't as reckless as what I did that other day." he turned and began walking towards the others.

Celestia walked over and stood right beside Kristin, putting her arm around her and pulling her against her side. The glove that she had put on her hand before was no longer there, and she had a smile on her face. She leaned closer and whispered into Kristin's ear. "Cheer up, we all do things we regret later." she turned back to look at Firomis, still with her arm around Kristin.

"I have something important to tell everyone, so listen up." Firomis spoke in a loud and clear voice. He paused for a moment to make sure he had everyone's attention before he spoke again. "Rydia is leaving with Kaneas." The members of Silver all gasped in response. "W-what? Why?!" Celestia asked, taking her arm away from Kristin and walking up to Firomis. "As you all well know, Rydia is a unique and very gifted magic user that is capable of controlling the mysterious and unknown element that belongs to Mystics. Because that, Kaneas believes that all the raids on Beythemisia within the past few years and on other towns, have all be so that he could find her. The safest place for her to be now is with Kaneas, Deckard and Estellise. She's like a sister to him, so she'll be well taken care of. It'll also be good for her to be around Estellise and Deckard, since they also can use Light Magic. This is for the best." Firomis looked around at everyone, and though they all hesitated for a moment they agreed with him. "Rydia contacted me through telepathy just a moment ago, saying that the four of them had already left town. She also told me she left a personal message for someone with Celestia, so whenever you have a chance make sure the message is told, Celestia." Celestia, opened her mouth in shock. "Ahh. So that's what she meant... I didn't think about the possibility that she was leaving us..." Celestia looked down at the ground for a moment. "Well then, you're all free to do whatever you wish for the rest of today. We managed to beat Kaneas up pretty badly today, so feel proud of yourselves." he laughed, and shortly after was joined by everyone else as they laughed also.

The members of Silver all leave except for Celestia who stayed in the spot where she was standing. She slowly turned and looked over to Kristin.

"Don't look so sad, Rydia isn't." Celestia smiled for a moment. "Neither one of us is mad at you for thinking like you did. Nor is Rydia mad or upset that you thought she was spying on you. She wanted you to know that she only read your mind twice, the first time was when you two were in the kitchen. The second time was when you ran away from the coliseum. She also wanted you to know that she's sorry that she couldn't tell you this herself. Rydia's powers as a mystic are... quite different than normal magic. She can communicate with people telepathically from long or short distances, but in order to do so she has to spend enough time with that person so she can memorize their brain waves. The more time she spends, the further away she can communicate. She's almost always reading Firomis's mind, not really listening to what he's saying in conversation, or thinking, but she's just waiting for her name to be called. She doesn't listen to anything else until her name is called. Usually when Firomis calls her name in his mind it means he wants to talk to her, or wants her to try to get into contact with everyone else. That's how we all know to show up when we're called. Unfortunately, the minimum requirement according to Rydia is 1 week. So she won't be able to contact you at all I'm afraid..." Celestia looked down at the ground.