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You don't have to be so mean! Can't you see how torn up she is? That was once us, you know. We never wanted to let Mom down, remember?

Don't try to lecture me about things you choose not to remember. Or are you finally ready to face what really happened?

...

Figured as much.

Naomi returned her attention to Wren, who she could still feel trying to summon more water. She even shot off a few blasts of it from her spirit energy, but Naomi effortlessly froze them too.

"I get you're having some sort of episode, but by now, you must have at least noticed that using water against me isn't smart."

"I'll kill you..." Wren muttered as she formed more blobs of water around her.

Naomi smiled internally.

"You know, among the humans, there's a particular stereo–

You don't have to insult her.

"Fine, let's just get this over with. Apparently, her mind's as fragile as she is spoiled." Naomi said as the winds picked up. The starry night was nowhere to be seen as she summoned a blizzard that started to limit visibility and covered the area in snow.

To her surprise, Wren countered this by summoning a massive hurricane with strong winds and heavy rain, soaking them both.

Naomi could hear thunder cracking and see flashes of lightning from behind the thick clouds as their storms raged on in their clash of power.

Suddenly, she was hit with a powerful geyser of water that pushed her back. Naomi extended her aura of cold, turning the water into snow before she released sonic pulses that dispersed the attack.

While Wren continued her pointless attack, Naomi vanished and appeared behind her in a crouched position. In one hand was a concentration of sonic waves, while in the other was focused nitrogen gas.

"Gotta say, I'm disappointed," Naomi remarked as she hit Wren with the sonic attack. Wren screamed in agony as the sound waves rang violently enough to crack the ice beneath them. Once the ringing ceased, Wren stumbled, her hair looking as if she'd been asleep for a week.

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Naomi walked up to her calmly as she readied the nitrogen gas in her hand. Without saying anything, she touched Wren on the shoulder with it. Her body instantly began to appear discolored and stiffened as it was layered in ice and frost until she stopped moving.

"This should hold you until everyone else is finished," she said. Naomi stepped back. She couldn't deny the fact that she felt a little letdown. She wasn't able to use the power she'd trained to master.

You shouldn't look forward to fighting. Isn't it good that you were able to avoid it?

Sure, I guess... Naomi responded, desolate. She looked up and noticed the winds still raged on. That was weird; if Wren were unconscious, the winds would have slowed down. They weren't slowly in the slightest.

Naomi looked back at Wren and noticed her body had started to steam as the ice around her began to thaw. Suddenly, a release of heat radiated from her, and she began to move again, slumping forward.

As the wave spread, Naomi let it hit her to gauge its strength. She stood within its effects as most of the ice she stood on melted, but she didn't find it impressive. If she had to guess, she'd say Wren's flames were half as hot as Earth's core; however, she'd felt hotter flames from Za'Fia.

Naomi watched Wren, who now floated over the thawed water, as she continued to release a consistent burst of thermal energy. She decided to flaunt some of her power too by releasing an even bigger blast of arctic air that refroze everything again, canceling Wren's heat.

Wren looked at her in confusion.

"You thought you'd match me with fire? You won't beat me with flames that weak," Naomi said as she strolled closer. She activated 'Blue Fur,' a technique of hers that constantly released freezing air from her skin, resulting in the immediate area around her and anything she touched freezing to its core. Its reach wasn't as far as 'Arctic Burst,' and it used up more energy, but its concentration of cold was much more potent. She did this to ensure she'd continually counter any water or heat Wren could attack with.

Wren took a nervous step back.

"If you're afraid, then you should've just stayed frozen..." Naomi called out as she dashed forward, "Because now I have to beat you unconscious."

Naomi struck Wren, who blocked the punch with her arm. Naomi currently lacked the strength to overpower or out-speed her, but she could see Wren's arm freezing from her touch.

"Get...away from me..." Wren hissed as her body was clad in an aura of flame that warded off Naomi's ice. Before Naomi knew what had happened, Wren used her superior speed and strength to kick Naomi so hard she was sent twenty feet into the frozen ocean.

Naomi lay there for a second as the reverberation of the kick still had her organs in a painful state of shock. It took everything in her to resist the urge to hurl, and her heartbeat was beating so fast it rang in her ears. When she inhaled deeply to slow it down, she winced in pain as she felt a couple of her ribs were cracked.

"Ughh," Naomi grunted, shaking off the daze. She righted herself as she floated out of the hole and landed clumsily as she held a hand to her spinning head. She was met with Wren unleashing her full power, but Naomi knew not to fret over this because, according to Za'Fia, Wren had an EQN of 10,085,000. Compared to her full potential of 10,126,300, Naomi, accompanied with Wren's addled state, was confident in how the fight would end.

Naomi squinted as she noticed something odd. Some device was now on the center of Wren's chest and glowed the same light green as her spirit energy.

[Spirit energy boosted]