Sheets of ice manifested into wings and armour, on Amir and Sofia. "Frost: Wardi" Nur spoke, exhaling clouds of vapour, as the chill crept up on her. She was starting to feel cold, yet she looked at them with newfound conviction. "Let's go."
Sofia and Amir nodded back. "Right!"
Out of nowhere jet spikes of ice, mixed with millions of volts of electricity, shot past them, missing their targets, as Nur had moved the Novas, into the air, just in time.
They looked off in the direction it came from, noticing Lita race towards them, with lightning speed. "Aww! The little chiclet is all grown up now!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, as she placed one palm out, condensing a large sphere of white-hot electricity, within a pressurized ice cage.
"Frozen Revolution!" Lita spoke it into existence, as she launched the sphere at breakneck speeds, colliding with several walls of ice, Nur had managed to place up, as they frantically retreated way from its path.
The fifth and last wall stopped it, erupting a large electric explosion and sending ice shrapnel in all directions. Nur struggled to stay focused, as the winds, almost separated them from each other.
The princess laughed out loud, admiring her explosive artwork. She instinctively turned around to catch an ice arrow, almost sailing into her back and aiming for her core. Then, dozens more sailed past her, smashing into barriers of ice, she manifested on time to block them.
She looked down, noticing the natives switch formation to take turns firing on her. Smirking, she glanced back up, about to give Nur some credit, when she finally noticed the concoction they were brewing up there.
Nur struggled to hold it all together. A pressurized swirling sphere of flaming stones, the size of all three of them. She condensed it once more, before launching it at their victim.
"Combo Series: Nova Sphere!" They yelled in unison.
Shocked, Lita immediately tried to look for an exit, however, hundreds of arrows surrounded her, stopping in midair and reshaping into a massive hand, while grabbing her still.
"Frost: Clutch!" Nur yelled, gripping her left hand, as blood dripped down from it, while she held the other steady, to maintain the shape of their combination.
Lita gathered an immense amount of energy, erupting an avalanche of ice, out of herself into a dome. Deciding to protect herself, since it was too late to escape.
"Artahan's Domain!" She screeched in despair, as the sphere touched down. Bringing forth a devastating impact, while crumbling her barrier down with ease and dragging her down below. Before erupting and levelling everything around them for dozens of kilometres.
Amir perked up throwing his hands in the air. "We did it! That was insane!"
Sofia smiled with him, but grimaced from the pains of first-degree burns, bearing it only with the relief of Nur's armour cooling her down. She floated in front of Nur, wanting to check up on her and wondered what was going through her mind, now that the mission was over.
However, Nur was still trembling, slightly, while looking down below with a terrified expression. Suddenly they heard a wounded blood-curdling scream, from down below them.
Within the large smoking crater, soldering from the bomb they had unleashed on her, The princess got back up onto one knee, as the other reformed. Her body was dismembered, still readjusting itself, as she yelled out to them. "I'm gonna make sure, you feel 10 times the amount of pain!"
It began to rain, as lightning struck Lita several times, while she held the charge. "Lightning's Embrace." She whispered while covering her hands in gauntlets of ice.
Nur hopped into a stance, bracing for an incoming strike. "Keep your guard up!" She yelled as the draft shifted the smoke and dust, blocking their vision of Lita. The next moment, she disappeared.
Reappearing with a blur of electricity in front of Nur and striking her, with incredible force. Sending her tumbling out of the sky, as she watched the princess go after Amir. Fortunately, she managed to move him out of harm's way, fluttering his wings to safety.
Lita turned angrily to Sofia, trying to at the very least, finish her off. The Nova prepared a fireball, in defence, but it dissipated, due to Lita's pressure, while Nur moved her around to dodge, incoming electric spikes.
Nur finally regained composure, realizing she couldn't take any more of the princess' strikes. Luckily the valley was destroyed and was no longer draining her of energy, but she knew, she needed to reactivate it soon. Lita charged her, giving up on the rookies.
"If I take you out first, they will all fall." She yelled out, maniacally
Nur gave her the deadliest stare but chose to focus on her movements. They traded blow for blow, while Nur continued to heal herself, as each of Lita's strikes, left sweltering hot stings, due to her burning off her gauntlets, boiling with rage.
'This was the technique Helio used!' She thought to herself while dodging a strike from her left.
Although she couldn't replicate it, she went out of her way to understand it better, asking Helio and Tobi questions about what it could do, in hopes of one day, unlocking it herself. It was already getting harder for her to breathe.
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On her last strike, she broke the deadlock, by kicking Lita's chest, sending her flying back, with superior martial arts. She was incredibly talented, picking up several styles, under her belt, as a hobby, but she had never imagined using them to kill.
Lita drew her sword, knowing she couldn't beat her in hand-to-hand combat, however, strength was still on her side. Before she could strike Nur, flaming rocks rained on her from up above and blocked her vision.
Then, she gasped feeling a stinging sensation, as her vision cleared, she looked down only to find a deep gaping gash, running diagonally across her chest and Nur spinning around once more to finish her off, with her daggers covered in ice.
The princess froze her wound instantly and began healing herself, while rapidly moving to counter Nur's strike. However, from behind her, an arm of stones and fire, held back her arm, just ever so slightly, yet distracting her once again, as the stones singed into her skin. Giving Nur the chance to sever her head off.
Her head and body fell down below, as a massive ice shark swallowed them hole. Seemingly leaping out of a pool of water in the barren ground.
"Frost: Tiger Shark." Ice crept up over Nur's cheek, burning her, as her body started to shiver.
Amir and Sofia flew over, worried about Nur's condition. She looked over at them, with kind eyes. "Don't worry about me, just keep supporting me. I think we've almost got her."
However, seconds later, what they heard, stopped them in their tracks. A stomach-churning scream, pierced every fibre of their beings, as they felt an immense amount of energy overwhelming them from below.
A massive arm of ice fell from the sky, dragged down by lightning and slapped the three of them before they could react. They crashed down like meteors, into the ground. Nur tried her best to slow down the rookies' descent. Amir and Sofia had already fallen unconscious as soon, as the hand struck them.
Nur laid there, suffering from multiple fractures, unable to feel her legs. She panicked and for a moment, reverted back to her old self, forgetting her situation entirely, while talking herself into depression.
Saphyra, broke her pessimistic train of thought, speaking into her comm. "Nur! The mission isn't over... What would the hero do?"
Watching Tobi in action, especially during the battle for Earth, inspired her to find her stronger, true self. One where she wasn't always afraid and could make decisions quickly.
However facing death over and over had brought her closer to the point, where the lines between it being a question and it being a necessity, became much more blurry. Especially when there were those she still needed to protect.
She started to heal herself after injecting a booster, into her thigh. While she groaned from the pain of her bones realigning, she heard footsteps closing in, near their landing spot.
"That hurt you know! That was incredibly painful. I don't even want to see you suffer anymore. I just want you dead. Begone from my sight!" She yelled as she called dark clouds to rumble, intensifying the thunder. Then a massive ray of lightning, dropped like a hammer, toward the Novas.
Nur had already begun gathering an umbrella of ice, redirecting the lightning into the ground. She quickly frosted up a column of ice to propel herself up and reinforce her broken, bleeding legs, so that she could walk. "Frost: Prosthetics." She chuckled to herself in pain, as it was still difficult for her to stand, let alone walk, however, wings appeared behind her back keeping her semi-floating in the air.
The booster had bought her some time, but she still needed to end this as soon as possible. Lita looked at her, realizing that they were both on their last legs. "Seriously though, I never expected you to put up this much of a fight."
A term came to Nur's mind, that she had heard from either a book or a show, but she smiled regardless. "Expect, the unexpected." Then she charged at her, pushing her away from the rookies. "Frost: Ancient Valley."
The valley returned, but this time with more natives, firing arrows at Lita whenever she was alone. Their fight continued, crashing through buildings, obliterating inhabitants and marking the ancient village unrecognizable.
However, Nur's fatigue was starting to become visible, as the pain of hunger pangs suddenly dropped on her, since she skipped a meal out of anxiety due to the mission. Parts of the buildings began to crumble, as some of the Natives stopped moving.
Nur broke away from Lita, having been dealt the last blow. She made some distance, to catch her breath. Her knees started to buckle, as she started to feel drowsy. Multiple patches of ice appeared on her skin. Stinging her and turning into blisters, however, she held on, as Amir and Sofia flew overhead, bombing Lita with fireballs and rocks.
On their second lap, Lita clipped Sofia's wing with a volley of ice, spinning her out of control. Then caught Amir, square in the chest with another.
Sofia landed roughly beside Nur, who had just manifested an intricately detailed bow. "Frost: Leenda."
Sofia looked at the bow with wonder. "Woah! Let me help!" She placed out her hands and an arrow of fire manifested floating between them. "Cover it and make it stronger Nur!"
Nur nodded back, already performing the task, when another voice stopped her.
"Let me help too! Don't count me out yet." Amir floated towards them, carried by a rock platform he raised, but it was evident he was on his last legs, as his platform plunged several times midflight.
An arrow made out of ignitable rocks gathered and rose from deep, below the ground. Sofia made room for it, opening up her arrow like a casing as it slid in.
Nur could not describe what she was feeling at the moment. She was glad she wasn't fighting alone. "We'll end it with this."
She reached out over the burning arrow, and a light sheet of ice formed, perfectly over it. Allowing her to grab it and begin drawing. She watched Lita rise up into the sky, creating an immensely large ball of energy, struck several times by lightning.
"I'm done with you all. You lot are no fun. This time, I'll make sure you're all dead." She spat as she encased her ball of energy within the ice, placing it under incredible pressure and strain.
"Erase it all! Erase everything from my sight!" She felt a rough gag after yelling at them, warning her that, she'd have to cough up the core at any moment. She dropped her hand forth, sending off her last attack and aiming to wipe them off the planet. "World Revolution!"
Nur faced down, the incoming sphere of destruction, with no fear, while drawing the arrow, to the furthest she could pull it back. She poured the last of her energy, betting all their lives on one shot.
Then took a deep breath and released it, adding more velocity by telekinetically jetting the arrow forward. "Combo Series: Nova Arrow!"
Sofia ignited the back end of the arrow, as Nur crushed together some of the fire and rocks, boosting the arrow faster than the eye could see. It ripped through Lita's attack, striking her with a bone-shattering impact, while the Nova continued to ignite the rest of the arrow, exploding it along its victim.
Engulfing the princess in a dense ball of fire and destroying all traces of her. The Novas were in shock, disbelieving that they had actually won. Then one by one, each of them fell back, suffering from their side effects and laughing in relief.