Dani and Illya VS Zeka (1)

Zeka slashed at the spires of ice, cracking them down the middle, and shattering them back into golden strands.

Illya and I bolted at him with the same speed, coming up on his right and left side respectively, and taking one slash at him.

We collided with the staff and the blades, pushing against them as the metal rattled and sparked behind the pressure.

"Come, find out why I'm the second-ranking in Quake!" He said.

With a burst of wind created by exponential strength in each of the blades, Illya and I slid on the floor briefly before running back at him.

Illya came at him with two swings, one upwards, and the other to the right. She finished her combo by slamming her hands together with both of the handles to the golden sabers to collide with Zeka's neck.

He cracked the sabers with the blade, wrapped the strand connecting it to the staff around her neck, and pulled upward.

While he was pulling upward, I slid my rapier into the back of his knee, raised my leg up, and cracked his skull down the middle with an axe kick.

Illya freed herself and I threw a golden saber to her that I summoned with my left hand.

She caught it, kicked her other one up in the air, and threw them all down at Zeka while he ran toward me.

The sabers all outlined his pathing as he took steps forward, but with a simple raise of my hand, gravity was launched toward him and he fell into a golden saber, pinning him to the ground.

Illya and I both jumped up into the air with our weapons raised, ready to stab down at him.

He jumped out of the way, wrapped the strands around us with his blades, and pulled to split us in half.

The Eye of Providence triggered a weird noise, piercing my ears, and causing the strands around me to explode into nothing.

Illya wasn't so lucky, with the strands cutting her in half.

I helped her heal her body before she hit the ground, as right as her heel hit the floor, she took off running again.

Illya was starting to turn into a blur of golden strands. I thought she had her power seized from her, but it seemed that she was holding back the entire time on purpose... out of respect for Sky.

I ran with her, unable to keep up with her speed. She was swinging, clashing, kicking, punching, and pushing Zeka back and causing him to exert more stamina than I thought would ever be possible.

I took the opportunity for a moment delay in which Zeka was swinging at Illya to reverse his gravity.

The blade wrapped around himself and with a punch from Illya's golden fists, his jaw popped off of his body and a shockwave ensued from the point of impact.

It rattled my ears and launched Zeka through an evacuated building.

He sat in the shambles of collapsing cement, pointy rebar, and shards of glass scattered everywhere.

Illya didn't take that lightly, as she pulled him out with strands, and slid his body along the ground.

"You're troublesome..." He said.

He healed his body back to perfect health. It wasn't fast like Cole's healing, but it was just as powerful. That meant he is able to die if we were fast enough.

He picked up his blade again, and from the original two blades came four more, sprouting three blades on the end of his staff. They swung so fast that I could see the points ripping through the wind. It was terrifying, but I couldn't just let him get more powerful!

I used gravity to repel the weapons before getting close, but he prepared for that, using the other half of the staff to swing up and toward me.

I was able to block three of the blades, but the other two ripped up and past my face.

It cut out my normal eye and slid up on my cheek. I felt a bout of rage, launching more gravity at him...

But he countered it?!

Illya came in with a fast kick, dislocating her ankle, but launching him and his weapon into a small incline about thirty feet away.

She put her hand on my face and healed my injuries, noticing what I did.

"He countered that gravity... but, he can't do that, he doesn't have that ability..." Illya muttered, peering over in his direction.

"Surprised? Do you know my ability? Illya?" Zeka asked her.

"Heal your teammates, how does that explain your counter?" Illya asked.

"No no... don't undermine it like that. It's not healing my teammates, it's to understand their strands and replenish them at an atomic level... to understand that level of their abilities, causes some sort of strain on me, but in turn, I understand them... very well..." Zeka said with a wicked smile.

That was a certain expression that reeked of a hidden ability to use the abilities that the people he heals possess. At an atomic level though... why did he mention that? What was so important at that level?

"Illya, he has all of Quake's abilities, doesn't he? Who's to say he doesn't have Austin and Amy's? Can he do that?" I asked her while standing behind her. She slightly nodded, and we both kept our eyes on Zeka.

"What? Are you surprised? I told you, I'm second in Quake for a reason, not for show. I can prove it to you more if you'd like," He said.

As he began to explain to us, his muscles got bigger, he got taller, his clothing ripping with him, and on the left side of his head sprouted a darkened eye, familiar to my own...

Zeka was now in possession of an Eye of Providence.

No... Cole was in possession of the other one, how did he get that?!