The ground beneath Azala once more shattered as he launched himself forward with a single leap, his ax raised up high into the air. It came screaming down, smashing through the ground not long after. Elise had taken a step back just in time, at which point everyone else began to back away. David and Milly stood ready but only for a moment as Elise shouted, “David, Milly, step back. This fight is mine, a fight for Vulfax!”
“But-”
“Ahahahahaha!” Azala laughed again, this time with a somewhat metallic-like echo, “Foolish child, what hope have you got?”
“I have all the hope I need to put an end to this. Once I deal with you, the rest of them will fall,” Elise spat in response launching forward swinging her sword.
Azala’s hand quickly shot up and caught the blade, no blood flowing as if rock had caught it.
“How did he-” David sputtered stepping back.
“I’m not the same little girl that you ordered around anymore Azala, this fight is mine!” Elise shouted as light quickly flooded out of her left arm and into the blade.
Azala yelled out in rage, releasing the blade as it slowly slipped from his hand. A white glow coated it, tight to the blade. Elise yanked the weapon back and drew with it a cut and blood.
“GYAH! You worm-” he barked stomping back, the ax raising and flying down, slamming down atop Elise’s blade held high.
The ground beneath her cracked from the hit as her knees bent, light continuing to flow into her weapon as well as around her knees. With a grunt she slowly pushed up, “Grrr- I’m not going down like this, hyaa!”
With that yell she flung herself up, the ax flying into the air. Azala stared wide eyed as the ax flew up, staring beneath it as Elise swung and cleaved through his chest, “GYAAAHH!” he groaned leaping back.
Again he slammed down, blood oozing from the fresh cut on his chest, the ax smashing down again. “It is the will of Vulfax I carry Azala. They will be lied to by you no longer, harmed by you no longer, controlled by you no longer.”
“Grrr, you wretched little brat, do you think my power is weak enough to allow me to fall here?”
At once the wounds on his hand and chest began to shine a black light, the blood turning to powder and flowing away on the wind as the wounds closed shut. Again Azala laughed and moved forward, “Ahahahaha! You little ingrate, what do you know of Vulfax and of this world? I have been around eons longer than you child. Power is what matters and it is power I intend to get.”
“Hmph, even at the cost of your body huh?”
“What’s that? Gah, my body is- no, what have you done?” he said, gargling slowly as the color left his skin, his body turning to liquid.
Darkness flowed out like a river of muddy water, his voice becoming deep and echoing, gurgling with a deep growl. His eyes faded to black with only a vague dark purple visible, then the dark red pupils. Shocked murmurs and gulps could be heard all around as his face became much like that of a skull made of darkness with dark tentacles flying all around. He breathed in and roared out, dark sands drifting way, “Gyahhh! How dare you Elise?”
“Lord Azala-” came a murmur from the crowd.
“How could this happen to him?”
“What is he?”
His clothes faded mostly as his body continued to flow, only an old ragged coat remaining behind. Vulper stepped forward, nothing but shock on his face much like everyone around him. Above Winston looked down with a puzzled expression, his three comrades somewhat in horror, while Toby simply looked on calmly. At once the liquid energy exploded with a dark mist roaring out until it became a flame.
“This is what Azala has become for his power. My Wolfsbane stopped his transformation and has revealed the real him.”
“Mwahahahahahaaa!” he laughed, his voice echoing again with a strong metallic sound to it as slowly the dark water ceased, slowly his color returning.
He stomped forward, his voice slowly returned to normal, “Impudent child, what do you think you know of me? Anything is worth the cost for power. There is no tole too great. What you see is simply true greatness, a form many of the best of the Dharkanians take on, Dark Mode. For me though, it is still a cocoon of power until my body restructures to the new power.”
“Clan Vulfax I urge you to see this man for what he truly is!”
“I knew all along that you would come to try and ruin what I have worked for and I will not allow it Lightonian.”
“The joke’s on you. Shadow already discovered what you and the rest thought of me was wrong, I’m as much a mortal as any other person born of this planet. Your own fear and lust for power has become your downfall.”
“Ha, hahaha! This is rich, truly. Now that you have seen what I am I suppose I’ve no choice but to kill you,” he chuckled slamming the ax down, his hand leaving it as slowly he walked forward, his body slowly returning to its somewhat liquid state.
Elise stepped back and took stance again, this time with the sword behind her and her punching arm out, ready to thrust the blade forward if need be. Azala slammed to a stop only a few meters away, “Until now you have yet to see the true power of a Dark Wielder. Now I shall show you the essence of Dharkanian strength.”
His left side lurched back, the arm flying and stretching back. Quickly his left hand clamped onto the ax and solidified slightly. Up the arm went and over like an arch forward, stretched and crashing down to Elise. She looked up wide eyed and stepped back quickly, barely missing as the blade crashed through the ground with intense force, force enough to blow her back off her feet. On the ground she crashed, looking up as Azala’s arm slowly retracted without the ax. All eyes looked, seeing it buried into the ground nearly all the way to where the bottom-most hand would be placed on it as a weapon.
“Holy crap, he slammed it that far in with just one hand?”
“He’s-”
“Oh man, can Elise even stop him at this point?”
Slowly she stepped forward, her eyes locked on Azala’s form with the sword now held to her side with a single swipe. Azala cocked his head, his voice gurgling as he watched Elise stand, his eyes narrowing as his pupils became slits. His growl could be heard growing louder and louder as Elise looked at him ready.
“BRAT!” he barked out charging forward, his feet stomping down as he drew his fist back and flung it forward, his entire arm stretching at Elise.
She looked up, hearing people shouting her name. Eyes shut, slowly she raised her weapon. As the fist was only a meter away her eyes shot open and she swung down. A blinding light could be seen illuminating from the sword, a large crescent of Light Energy launched forward from the swing straight into Azala’s fist, ripping through. He yelled out as it continued on through his arm, roaring as it cleaved through his body. He stumbled backwards as a loud crash could be heard behind from the energy crashing and slicing into the surface behind.
Darkness flopped and melted out like butter in a hot pan, darkness that had been cut loose from his arm, “Miserable cow!” he yelled out as the wound bubbled.
“Holy crap!” came a surprised shout from Belama off to the side.
Elise held her sword out, “I’m not a child anymore. Your chance to kill me has long passed. You are just as unfamiliar with this power as I am, Azala.”
Above Toby looked down at Azala’s wound, a slight growl coming from him, “Damn it all, I warned him that she would catch on to manipulating energy quickly. He should have killed her when he had the chance. Winston, do it.”
“Right.”
Azala’s arm retracted and quickly became whole once it was of normal length again. Elise looked up, the sound of laughter heard. Winston and his three comrades had jumped down and were aiming straight at her at various distances apart from each other. At the same time Azala’s arm flew out, his hand grabbing and ripping the ax out, quickly swinging it around from the side now.
“No way to block five attacks at once Elise!” Scourge laughed out.
Several claps could be heard at once, three crashes and one slam, then a loud clang. Elise had turned round and quickly blocked Azala’s swing using her Light Infused weapon, while off to her right Winston’s three comrades crashed down. Zoey, Scott, Samantha, and several others had crashed straight into them while Vulper had crashed right into Winston.
Both Vulper and Winston slammed down onto the ground, standing. Quickly they launched at each other as Azala retracted his arm yet again. Elise turned, face to face with him, and then towards Toby who approached from behind. Her sword held at the ready, her eyes locked, she readied her stance.
“Hear me Clan Vulfax, our leader is a traitor. Capture all of them and back Elise up!” Vulper shouted, to which a huge roar of yells could be heard as quickly everyone swarmed forward.
Toby snapped his fingers, an act which summoned many more figures from up above. Wolves and Beasts shot from the ledge and crashed quickly into the clan’s ranks, shouts and sounds of battles heard all around. Vulper quickly tussled with Winston as Elise stood off with Azala and Toby before her, “Round two, traitors.”507Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW8sojjNVmn
