Kalista and Runa vs Gobaela...

Kalista floated over the forest, neighbouring the castle, while searching for Gobaela past the large trees and branches, while Runa trailed behind her. Suddenly strikes of lightning aimed at them, from high above. Instinctively, Kalista raised a magma barrier shielding them, using a bit of the platform she flew on. Then out from below them, within the forest, a beam of electricity, streaked out, targeting them.

"She's crafty," Kalista deduced, as she raised another barrier to block it. Then without remorse, she pulled together a burning sphere of lava, condensing it over and over, until she was satisfied. "Scorch Aygo!" She yelled as the sphere razed the environment below them, searching for the child of Atlas.

Suddenly, from as far all over the forest, beams of electricity, shot at them, making it harder, to discern where she could be. Followed by constant, lightning strikes, resulting in some making it through their defences and harming them.

There was way too much going on. However, among the constant lights and attacks, Gobaela appeared behind Runa and grabbed her, then shot straight into the sky.

"No!" Kalista called out and immediately shot up, after them.

Runa struggled to get free, as Gobaela pinned her arms and continued shocking her, past her limit, making her nauseous. Then the princess stopped flying after a high enough altitude, above large floating clouds, surrounding them. Kalista caught up, just a distance away, as Gobaela, held one finger to Runa's temple. "Ah, ah, ah, stay back, and drop the rocks."

Kalista glared back at her, but seeing Runa in danger, she did as she was told, and was rewarded with dozens of lightning strikes, zapping her from the clouds around them. Gobaela laughed out loud, as Runa watched. Barely able to catch her breath from the high altitude and was slowly drifting in and out of consciousness.

She knew, Kalista needed help and hated herself for being a burden, even though she said she wouldn't be. Prompting her to ignore the pain and draw in all of the electricity, that built up in their surroundings.

Kalista screamed and seized, unable to take it anymore. Gobaela enjoying herself, continued shocking her and changed it up with different intervals. Giving Gobaela the pleasure she was looking for, however, she started feeling uncomfortable, as Runa's energy reached her peak.

She reached down with one finger, creating an electric scalpel and singed Runa's throat. "Stop what you're doing. I might let you survive this and be my new cute little toy if you behave yourself." She whispered in her ear before her head was rocked back, by an incredible impact, marking her forehead.

Runa looked ahead, seeing Kalista, sweating and breathing with difficulty, while holding her hand up, in a gun-like shape, with her index finger missing. Runa took the chance and elbowed herself away toward Kalista, with a burst of electricity, shocking Gobaela back.

Kalista laughed out loud while preparing to fire a second round. Runa floated behind her, trying to regain her composure. "There's an old saying: 'From Rennaya, we came, and to Rennaya we shall return.'" She said, as Gobaela pulled the charred finger, out of her head, boiling with anger.

The princess floated a bit above them, as thunder bellowed through the skies around them. "Why are you even here, you should have perished along with your people. Allow me to reunite you with them."

The clouds began to shift, swirling, and combining into a hurricane of dark clouds. Electricity zapped them, every few seconds. It was dangerous just being there, however, Gobaela laughed in a psychotic episode, as the lightning and electricity raced into a large pool above them, bearing down enormous pressure and power.

Runa floated forward, preparing herself as Kalista tried to stop her. She shook her head and looked back at her. "At some point, I've got to pull my own weight." She said, turning back towards Gobaela. "I'm going to absorb most of it. When you find the chance, end this."

Kalista looked at her once more, then nodded. With her free, she had already begun summoning lava, from down below, however it would take too long to reach them.

She looked up as Gobaela yelled at them amongst the howling rain and wind. "Feel my rage! Stratus Surge, Convergence!" The center of the clouds high above them, crackled even louder and surged all the electricity in the area into one point. Then, lasered a beam of lightning at the Novas, at blinding speed.

Runa had just generated, an electric forcefield around them, reinforcing it with as much energy as she could. Suddenly stone fragments began to attach themselves, to her barrier, making it larger and stronger. Kalista hurried as fast as she could, raising as many stones and rocks to them, in the sky.

The thunderbolt struck their makeshift dome, with incredible force, pushing them dozens of meters down, as they held on for their lives. At the same time, Runa could feel the heat, coming from the attack Kalista was preparing. "Cover me," Kalista asked her.

Runa nodded, as she struggled to absorb any of the electricity escaping through the dome, while it continued to crumble apart around them. Blue veins began to flicker around her body, while she raised her hand, cladding Kalista in electricity. "You're good to go. Don't die." She said, struggling as she was completely past her limit.

Kalista shook her head. "Of course not. When I finally got you to speak? Nope. Me and you are gonna grab a bite after this, and you can finally tell me all about where you came from. Promise?

Runa chuckled, then nodded. "Looking forward to it." She said, turning back to her task and helping her open an entrance behind them.

Kalista dived into the swirling clouds, out of Gobaela's vision, then zipped through, flanking behind her, with Runa's aid, rocketing her forward. She had almost reached her destination when Gobaela noticed unnatural flashes within the clouds and raised her guard. Too late, as Kalista crashed through, bearing down on her.

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"No! Stay away from me." The princess screamed.

Kalista laughed out loud. "You're afraid of me, aren't you?" She bellowed, less than a dozen meters away.

Gobaela, raised her hand, converging electricity into a quick beam, and blasted Kalista point blank, with only enough time, to raise a barrier out of the armour of magma that protected her. However, she braced through it, covering her eyes and thrusting her hand forth. Runa watched, free from the lightning strike, as Gobaela let up, and reinforced Kalista's attack with the last of of her strength.

"Do it, Kalista!" She yelled.

Kalista smirked as she pushed through, kicking her barrier onto Gobaela and thrusting her sphere forth, as she knocked it away. "It's time for you to face your fears, Gobaela! Scorch Mataygo!"

The sphere rocketed down, along with Gobaela in complete despair, screaming and unable to get the burning electric ball out of her stomach. Only to succumb to an incredible explosion as she touched down, with a cloud of smoke, nearly reaching the Novas.

Kalista looked, back at Runa, as they gave each other, the brightest smiles. Then Kalista fell unconscious, as Runa rushed to catch her.

Simon and Koji vs Hadron...

Simon had heated a small blade and cauterized his wounds. Luckily, the bullet had gone, clean through, but it was still painful nonetheless. He got up and injected himself with a booster then flew right back through the hole he made when he fell through the roof of a house.

He had fractures but he bared with it, as the painkiller started to kick in. Livid, to see Hadron still floating on his rock platform.

"You're still alive... I'm fine with just studying your corpse." The prince said, in disappointment, then summoned his full stock of versillium from his castle and morphed it into thousands of small bullets. Simon placed his hands together, as blood dripped down his chin. "We'll be the ones to finish this... Right, Koji!" He yelled out but connected through to Koji's comm.

Suddenly an electric explosion burst out from the rubble, that Hadron had crashed down earlier. Koji landed on top of the rubble, supporting himself with his katana. Bloody, but still rearing to go.

"I thought you wanted me to steal all the glory." He replied, breathing heavily, then raised his hand to the sky summoning dark clouds together, as it began to rain.

Lightning struck him multiple times over and over, as he converged all of the energy into a condensed sphere between his palms. His eyes glowed hazel, as cobalt blue veins raced across his body. Streaks of silver evenly popped up in his hair, as electricity crackled in a dangerous ring around him. Ripping up the ground as it rose in tiny pieces.

Simon did the same, shifting into second gear and pulling together a blue ball of fire between his palms. They placed everything they had into the palm of their hands.

Hadron stopped, what he was doing, as he noticed the danger. He raised two massive stone golems and reinforced their fists in versillium. Then, charged them, each swinging a giant fist four times the size of them, covered in versillium knuckledusters.

The Novas placed their hands forth, aiming for Hadron, through the golems with their senses. Then they let it all go.

"Ignite: Hyacintho Ignis!

"Static: Kaminari Kyannon."

Blue beams of electricity and fire closed in from both sides, demolishing the golems as it raced towards Hadron. The prince's life flashed in front of his eyes. He flew up trying to escape. They noticed and directed their attacks upward

Trails of fire and electricity, collided shaping into a parallel wall, causing a trail of explosions leading to the biggest one, with Hadron in the middle. Screaming. The explosion sent shockwaves levelling the entire castle and city, while simultaneously sending Simon and Koji flying, back unconscious.

At Haylon's castle...

Hamorn and Tobi stared each other down, as the ground between them cracked and ripped itself apart. Electricity crackled around the room, along with pebbles and rocks floating up all around them.

Hamorn secured Tamorn's body in a corner of the room. Enclosing it in a dome, made of stones, clay, and metal lying around, while he continued to stare Tobi down.

Then, unsheathed his sword as he spoke. "Let's take this somewhere else shall we?" He asked politely.

"Why? Is there something you need to protect?" Tobi responded.

Hamorn chuckled then lunged striking at Tobi. He barely managed to register it in time, as he unsheathed his sword to block, but was sent crashing out of the castle.

He caught himself, floating in midair and wiped blood off of his mouth. 'He's strong,' Tobi thought. He didn't think it was possible, but they had definitely, doubled their strength.

Buzzes interrupted his thoughts, as Sarah spoke up. "I know you haven't been checking, but that guy's power level spiked to 215,000, and it's still growing. You've got to watch out, Tobi!"

He took a deep breath, as Hamorn appeared right in front of him with a blur of electricity. "I know, I'm going to take this more seriously from here on out... They played us and I'm not going to let that slide."

He shifted into second gear. It was still taxing, but he practiced maintaining it before the raid, knowing he might need it. However, he didn't think he would require it this early.

They clashed swords, as the winds from their sword strikes carved destruction in the castle city below. Then jumped back, making some distance.

Tobi formed a condensed flaming ball hovering above his palm. Hamorn did the same using electricity and summoned lava from the ground below.

Tobi shocked, did the same, then covered his arm in sheets of spiralling ice and magma. They lunged at each other, palms first, with the resulting explosion, nearly levelling half of the castle and city. A deafening disaster.

Both of them were sent flying back, disarmed from the shockwave, but they didn't hesitate to race back to each other. Throwing a furious barrage of fists from both sides, as blood rained down on the ground below them.

Hamorn summoned a large wide tower, of lava into the sky, as Tobi looked up wondering what he was trying to do. Then it cooled quickly into magma, as it leaned forward, falling towards him. Hamorn, then heated it back up into lava, as it crashed down like a falling skyscraper.

Tobi turned around and started zipping away from the crash zone, while the merged prince continued to drag it across the sky, homing it in towards Tobi. He followed up by, reusing the lava raining around him, into compressed spears and sent them on a hunt for his retreating prey.

Tobi flew as far out as he could, barely dodging each one, then decided not to run anymore and summoned a massive wall of magma. Raising it incredibly high all around him and blocking the remaining incoming projectiles.

Then he descended and burrowed out a crater while creating an ice & magma-covered dome to protect himself from the falling tower, as he braced for impact. The lava crashed down exploding in waves around his dome, rocking him back and forth, as the very world seemed to shake. He begged his dome to hold on and continued layering more ice within to not burn up.

Then when it died down, he broke his dome out of the sea of magma, by raising himself out with it. Hamorn rushed to the dome with a massive sphere of lava and electricity hovering a distance from his palm, hoping to catch Tobi by surprise.

However, as the dome cracked open, all that came out was a blinding beam of Tobi's full strength, as he yelled out. "Ignite: Ultra Static Cannon!"

Catching Hamorn by surprise. Instinctively he shot his sphere forward, however, it was too close, with both erupting in an incredible explosion, engulfing him whole.

Tobi searched out, all around him, frantic, as his side effects began to take over. Hamorn's vitals had disappeared.

He rejoiced, then called Sarah to fill her in on the details as he flew over to grab Tamorn's body. Then, he suddenly stopped. The air itself seemed to stand still. He started shivering, out of fear. The fear you have, when you know a predator is watching you...