Catching The Rat

--Dani's Perspective--

As Austin flew out of the dome, I was quick to draw. I knew others wanted to fight him off, but this pleasure belonged to me alone.

I jumped through buildings that were nothing but slabs of cement with some broken windows in them, curving myself to jump through panes of broken glass. Any wounds I suffered were instantly healed, and I took a wide swing with a saber as he began to crash down toward the ground.

I cut his leg off and he bounced off of a building he hit and fell onto an overpass of a road above me. I clicked my tongue in irritation, trying to find a way up.

There was a fallen street pole right beside the building he hit, and it was at about a 45-degree angle from the ground up.

There were indents in the pole as it got higher to support the height of the thing, and it made for great footing as I ran up, to the middle of the overpass, to catch up to where Austin was.

He was slowly regenerating his leg, not as fast as I could regenerate my wounds, and I summoned another golden saber. My body started to ache, as I was close to reaching my limit.

"That damn Asterio!" He screamed out. His voice cracked under the pressure of losing, and he began to punch the ground until his knuckles started to bleed. His cries of anguish would've awakened some sort of guilt in me, had I been a single day older.

"Very fitting, for a stupid kid like you. Do you remember on the top of that building when you acted so cocky? You had no idea what you were up against, and that's pretty funny to me," I told Austin, walking closer.

The Eye of Providence fired off, and I swiveled my head to avoid an attack he launched at me with those blades, continuing my stride forward.

"The cockiness of one will bring ruin to you. Whether that was your annoying ass sister talking, or you, I figured you've been humbled enough by now," I told him.

"That Eye of Providence... can't see everything," Austin muttered. He stopped punching the ground, and my eye triggered at the last possible second. It was moving too fast for me to counter it.

Blades shot up out of him and came down right for my head. They were long enough to stab straight through me, and I couldn't raise my hands in time to block it. I was preparing strands in my body to block it... but they can expand! I can't possibly block that, can I?!

As I shot off so many questions, my breaths shortened, and I came to terms with taking a lot of damage.

Before the blades touched my head, a strange, golden saber of high brightness collided with Austin's weaponry right beside my head, and launched it all back.

Illya's white hair and red eyes lit up the entire bridge we were all sitting on, and she pushed Austin back with several tendrils from her back, before turning to me again.

"That's the last time I save you. That Eye of Providence needs to speed up, it's almost useless at this point," Illya told me.

"About time you showed up. You'd think, a flying rat through the sky and you wouldn't be on the ground as soon as it happened. Are you getting slower with your age?" I asked her.

"Real funny coming from you. Can we set aside the talk until they're both dead?" Illya asked me next, throwing me one of the golden sabers she had.

"This one is special, it has a special something that yours can't do," Illya told me, taking steps toward Austin and Amy. They had escaped various times throughout the day so far, and both Illya and I decided enough was enough.

If we had a dome around them the first time, we would've wiped them out. Both Austin and Amy were weaklings against Illya and me at full power.

"Don't get too cocky, Dani... I'm able to stomp out Illya more times than you could count, so you better pull most of the weight here!" Austin told me.

Blades shot out in the form of appendages, just like Illya's tendrils, and lifted him into the sky. He sent them down at us like they were missiles, and the bridge trembled as he focused on the supports underneath us.

I was able to push them away with my gravity ability, covering both Illya and I as we inched closer.

The bricks and cement blockades between the two roads on the bridge were up and moving everywhere now as Austin launched everything at us.

My gravity ability wasn't at the point of being able to turn the gravity of other things around me up or completely off, and I could only push it one way at the moment.

"You won't survive on that base. Become the Goddess of Wrath," Illya told me. The tendrils blocked other blades and suffered wounds that leaked strands. Austin absorbed them as the strands ran up the blades, going into his arms, and expanding the blades further.

I listened to her, falling into the Wrath, and fighting against a time limit to beat Austin.

My gravity ability heightened in capabilities as the blocks around me stopped and floated in the air without me doing anything to them. I weaved between a bunch, and the closer I focused on Austin, the more my tunnel vision narrowed onto him.

Illya's hair was beaming white now, and her eyes were blood red, glistening in the sunlight. It looked like she was becoming The Deity once more, leaving us on an even level of power.

Or should I say, a level of power that was a little close to mine... she still couldn't beat me in that form.

That hardly matters now... all that matters is beating Austin and Amy. Quake can be wiped out here, I know they can. We have to pull our own weight here.