With a wave of her hand a line of blades sprout out of the ground leading to the young man before the queen. Trying to counter this powerful display the man cracks his whip. Water lashing out wrapping around one of the pillars of steel that was created by Clarie. With a swing Zef pivots around the blades as the ground under him starts breaking. Looking at the woman’s smile he knows it's her doing. Seeing this the man pulls his whip forcing it to become unlatched, with it he swings it wrapping it around the lady’s heel and tripping her to break her focus. Before the whip formed of water reaches the queen it slows allowing the queen to block it with a pillar of dirt. The knight who had mainly stayed to the side was staring a hole into the whip. Both of her golden eyes were open wide and taking a step forward she appeared right before the man and punched in the face.
Sending the man before her flying Raine felt something wrap around her leg. In order to punch the man she had taken her eyes off the whip. It was a costly mistake, one that had allowed the man to bring her with him as he flew off due to the force of such a dangerous punch. With only seconds remaining she swung her sword on the whip hoping to free herself but as the blade cut the whip it formed into water and avoided the blade wrapping around her once more. With its swiftness it pulled her along with Zef. bringing the two into the air at a speed that neither could prevent. However while the two flew in the air a giant pillar of dirt shot from the ground and turned to sand as the two crashed into it comforting their fall just enough not to kill them both.
[Clarie- That was a nice attack babe, but sadly that whip of his has a mind of its own literally. It's one of the seven Dragon spine weapons, the Bici de apă or The bullwhip of water in particular. And on top of that he's not even using his power or syncing with the weapon. He's looking down on us and it's starting to piss my ass off. HEY, boy come on go all out i want to have fun.]
With a grin the queen dashed for the man reaching out to the ground as a sword and a suit of black and gray armor formed around her. These were the weapons she was known to weild againist foes during the wars she had been a part of. The sword was twice her weight with a black and gold design. It was formed by compressing the steel she used normally for the blades she sprouted under the ground, It was a feat that she had been forced to learn in order to fight the previous royal knight commander Hansik. She had needed a blade that could withstand an attack from anything and this was the best she could produce without added materials. Rushing for the man with anger in her heart she swung the massive claymore towards the man. Before she could reach the man with the blade she was suddenly stopped as water twisted around her and threw her back.
Taking this moment the Slave Zef that his whip had created he stood and brushed himself off pulling on his weapon it released allowing him to get prepared for the two women. They had both only taken moments to ready themselves for the slave before them. Raine had but just cuts and bruises from her crash and Clarie had nothing more than a few scraps. Zef however was at a great disadvantage compared to these two as not only was he battered and bruised before the fight, he had gained new injuries as the punch to his face had surely broken his nose and the fall had caused more than a few new bruises. On top of his injuries he was fighting alone against two of the strongest people in the Aestar kingdom.
[Zef- I’d like to make it clear I’m not syncing with the weapon nor using my ability because I look down on you both. Sadly I'm not in a situation where I have the freedom to do either of those actions. Due to my bond with this weapon the Schcelt empire forced me to become a slave. I have to ask that man for permission to use my powers unless it's life or death.]
[Clarie- So what you're telling me is if i try killing you yall have to go all out right? Now this is getting exciting i can't wait to see a power that even the almighty schcelt empire is scared of ]
[Raine- Oh my god! What? They forced you into slavery just to have you as a weapon. That's horrific. Zef, If that's true we can help you. I know that you might be under the Schcelt kingdom but you're still a person and that doesn't mean they can treat you or anyone like this. From our talk earlier you seemed kind, you don't have to be a weapon for them. Wait what, Clarie, NO that's not what we should be doing here.]
Before Raine could stop her however the queen dashed for the man with a wave of one of her hands, The road that they stood on peeled and rose in the sky, within seconds three spears formed and started spinning glowing red with heat. They compressed and reformed over and over again turning the three into clear diamond-like weapons. her other hand however she raised up to the sky. The sky above crackled and flashed as if it was answering her call. It started to pour rain with an intensity that made it hard to see but a few feet in front of one. Waving her hands down to the young man the three spears flew and caused a boom due to their speed. Or it might have been due to the sky sending a bolt of lightning to Zef.
[Zef- Well you took killing me a bit literally didn't you?]
Signing the slave before the two girls activated his ability. A wave went over the whole camp. Everything around them became brighter.
Within seconds the four weapons of destruction pointed at Zef were gone. All of the ground around them had returned to normal as if no fight had taken place. Shocked faces appeared on the two but only one remained shocked. Quickly, Clarie shifted to focusing on the person not what just happened. She knew that a person's powers were ruled by four things. Their desire created the power, for example Raine who could siphon speed from a person desired the most to be fast due to some past trauma. Then a person's mindstate left them with their control over the power; her brother had lost control over his power when the royals had been slaughtered and it caused him to turn the entirety of the old capital into one giant tree killing hundreds of innocents. Although, due to his mindstate she figured it was unlikely he had remembered doing such a terrifying feat. Next was a person's personality which dictated how a person can use their powers and their weaknesses; her mother was a liar through and through and due to that she always was insecure about people believing her causing her power to rely on a person's belief in her. And finally came Will power that made up how strong a person's power is. After all you could have the desire to become the strongest but without the will power to push on you’ll probably fail. What peaked her interest was that a person can only directly effect someone elses power if their will was equal to or was stronger than the other persons. This made it so that even if a person had a power that was made to affect others like Raine they could only use it on those who were willing, weaker, or equal to them. But not only had he made her attacks disappear but the whole fight almost as if it had never happened. With this though joy spread across her face as she believed she had uncovered what his power was. It was something she had dreamed of being able to fight.
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[???- Hate to pop your bubble claire, but that's not a time ability. His power is too strong don't fight him, you will die. I know you don't want me to interfere with your fights but you used my power and your MY proxy so I have every right to stop you from killing yourself. From what i can tell you wont be able to rely on your own strengths nor will you have my gift to help]
[Claire- Shit, “Z” spoilers don't tell me anything about the goddamn fight. I’ll let it slide due to the fact that you've helped me by gifting me with sick ass power but don’t help me again. It ruins the fight if I know how they will fight. I'm the one doing you a favor by finding this temple and allowing you access to your corpse, so please let me have the joy of battle.]
[“Z”- Woman, if i can get to my body I'll be able to get rid of your problems with both the Caute kingdom and your brother so it's not a favor.]
[Claire- Fine fine anyway just don't interfere and i don’t want you to take out Lucian i want to fight him if he really is the proxy of Aethos then it'll be fun. I just hope he'll be able to control his powers and not let them go rampage again]
[“Z”- Huff, I won't ever understand why you love fighting so much. But fine i'll let you deal with the boy put we need to stop my brother from erasing the demigods influence on this world otherwise he'll be free with complete control over the world as the only living god]
Taking a moment to think of what “Z” had told her. She was wondering what this power could be if it didn't affect time but nothing popped into her head. This only caused her to get frustrated and pissed off. So she made the decision that she doesn't need to know a person's powers to fight them. With a dash Clarie clears the distance between her and the slave boy launching a flurry of blows to the boy. With swift water-like moves he dodges and lands a knee into her stomach. In response she grabs his knee and flips over him using his knee as a catalyst to get above him. Once adobe she waved her hand walling the sky to strike him but nothing came. With a moment of confusion she landed and waved her hand out to call the earth to her, however only a confusion came. The sky nor earth answered her calls almost as if she did have a power..
[Raine- Clarie, i've been keeping in contact with him for a while now and he's not slowing down nor am I speeding up. What is going on it's almost like my eyes aren't doing anything]
Taking a step to Raine, Clarie looked at her worried face. The face she had loved and stared for many nights straight but this face was different her beautiful golden eyes were no longer there replaced with blue ones.
[Clarie- I know love, neither the earth nor the sky are answering my calls. It feels lonely to be honest. But I'm more worried about your lovely eyes. I fear they aren't right.]
[Zef- You wanted my full power, you'll have it and with it we'll all be on an equal playing field. Is what i'd like to say but sadly i'm cursed with a beast.]
Water sprayed from the whip and circled around zef as it wrapped and reformed around his body it made bones of water and covered his body with them as armor. A skull covered his head as a helmet, ribs and a sternum formed a breastplate over his chest. Many bones created from the water formed an armor on his flesh.But the most terrifying pieces of the armor were pair of dragon wings and a set of water horns that made the visage of a dragon appear. One of the beasts of old that could take down entire kingdoms alone now seemingly stood before these two women. Even Claire, who in most cases would find such a scene exciting, felt fear well up in her. She quickly tried to push it to the side however only to be met with confusion as it wasn't going away.
[Claire- Now i understand why Grace was able to kill a demigod, the Spine weapons are truly terrifying. That and this is someone in control of the beast, grace wasn't even. Now i understand “Z” ]
[“Z”- Humph.}
Taking a few steps to the two girls Zef prepared to take them down. However before he could do such he released the transformation and bowed towards the tent that the queen was previously in. as he did such a man walked out of the tent.
[???- Due to the unauthorized use of your powers 100 children have been sent to the gallows tonight. We’ve warned you Zef, you're a national threat and weapon so we can’t have you misfire. As one of the four wings of the empire you must be obedient. That's why you're forced into slavery because all you care for is the citizens of the country when your job is to help the nobles and the Empress herself.]
Stepping out into the open was Mr. Gensith. The man no longer had an open wound nor did he have any signs of an injury. The power that Zef had seemingly made it so all of the actions taken within the past few hours were erased from history. This must have included the impaling of the noble man before the three.
[Mr. Gensith-I understand your anger for the insult I tossed at you lover, Queen of the Aestar kingdom. And for it I understand your response but it's time to stop this pointless battle. It might have helped with my wounds but I'm done with it now so let's go slave.
[Raine- Wait why should we let you take Zef you and your empire are clearly hurting him and threatening him. We're not going to let you leave like this.
[Clarie- Yeah that's right I was just getting excited let us fight more. I wanna fight a dragon.]
[Mr.Gensith- Dear knight of the queen, if that man does not report to the empress every night our empire is authorized to destroy a village. Neither of you have a choice of where this man goes, only he can decide that. After all he can choose to leave whenever he so wishes. After all our empire is built off of the freedom of choice so of course we let him make the choice and so far he's chosen to stay.]
[Raine- But you are not giving him a choice. If he doesn’t go with you, you'll kill people.
With passion and sadness in her voice raine dashes to the man with mind boggling speed. She put her all into slowing down the noble before her and dashed for him with everything. But before she could reach him she was stopped by a whip pulling her. Stopping her was none other than the slave she was trying to free. In his eyes was a message one that told her to stop and that this was not something she could stop.
[Mr.Gensith- Thank you for that save, my dear wing of the empire for that i'll see if i can't get the court to only round up 75 children for you. HAHAHAH. You see my dear he doesn't want to leave he's here of his own accord. ]
The two after that continued to walk back to the carriage and ride off in search for the weapon that they seeked. This left the two girls alone where the battle before had taken place. However the ground itself showed no signs of a battle to begin with.
[Raine- FUCK why. That poor man has villages slaughtered if you don't lay down your life for the people holding you as a prisoner. Dear god it's horrible don't you agree Claire.]
[Clarie- i'm looking forward to fighting him again.]
[Raine- Shit dear you could at least act like you cared about other things that fighting.]
[Clarie- I do though I care about you]
After saying this Claire rushed over to hug and kiss Raine but slowed down as Raine turned her back to her.
[Raine- Sure you do. You weren't even listening to me earlier.]
[Clarie- I’m sorry baby I was just joking, he is in a bad situation and i'd love to help but you heard the man if he doesn't go to the empress every night then they kill entire villages of people. I don't know what we can do.]
[Raine- I know you were joking about my love but still i hope we can help him next time we meet. But for now we have to worry about tomorrow we're setting out for the Tinirka city.]
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Name: Claire Aestar Powers: Earth domination, all of the ground within 20ft around her she can freely manipulate.
Affiliation: Raine, Aestar kingdom, Temple of “Z”, and the Aestar army
Powers stats: Offense 9/10, Defense 9/10, Speed 7/10, Hax 6/10, Versatility 10/10, Recovery 0/10
Weaknesses: She's headed strong and dislikes thinking during a battle so she'll rush into danger. She can run out to resources to use in a attack and can easily get others involved by accident due to her power ripping up the ground