Mandi VS Amera (2)

Amera instantly started to freak out. It was understandable, as she didn't know what was in this syringe I held.

Tavian explained it to be a coagulant and adrenaline shot packed into one. Using it near a wound would stop bleeding and be specifically useful if I was about to die, however, using adrenaline on Amera would heighten her abilities and make her overlook basic things. Her defense would dwindle even more, but her attacks would become even more vicious. I was against this idea I formulated in my head at first, but seeing my sword begin to lose its edge while the bladed ring bounced around it on the ground, I had to act fast.

I ran at her and dodged the ring by jumping in the air and tilting my body upwards. My pant leg was caught by the ring and it tore some off, but when I landed cleanly on the ground, Amera shot back in surprise. "STAY BACK YOU DISGUSTING HUMAN!" Amera threw a punch at my face.

I deflected it and inverted her elbow. She cried out in pain as I stole the magnet stuck on her hand and shoved the syringe into her neck, injecting all of it before backing up and creating distance between us.

I put the magnetic device onto my left hand and rose it up, pulling the bladed ring out in addition to my sword. The blade on my sword had been scraped too much to be considered sharp, so I threw it to the side, wielding half of Amera's weapon.

I finally digested what she had yelled at me. "Human... what are you talking about, Human? Are you not Human?" Amera shook her head, tears fell from her eyes, but her voice didn't quiver. She wasn't feeling pain anymore, which means the adrenaline kicked in. In a battle of attrition, now that I had one of her weapons, I had won.

"Of course not! I am an Arkian by birthright. My father might've been a Human, but my mother was an Arkian!" She explained.

"What makes a person an Arkian?!" I yelled out to her. Amera ignored me and threw her bladed ring at me. Her force had increased by a lot as I threw the ring I possessed and was instantly overpowered by her strength.

I dodged out of the way, recalled my ring, and held it onto the magnet while defending against Amera's ring as it spun into mine.

Maybe I overlooked the adrenaline shot!

"What makes them an Arkian?! BEING IN ORION'S RANKS MAKES YOU AN ARKIAN!" She yelled at me. I knew deep down inside that something wasn't lining up with what I read in Ellie's book.

"That's not right! Those born on this Isle are Humans, and those born from those Humans are Arkians, right?! When were they clarified as Arkians and not Humans?!" Out of my own childish rage, while screaming at her, I threw my ring and created sparks off of Amera's ring as she defended. I recalled it and perfected the receive as she looked back up at me.

"The humans are everybody born at the same time as Orion and before. Everybody after was granted the opportunity to be an Arkian by birth." Amera told me.

"I'm an Arkian. I was born with Sky." I told Amera. She threw her ring at my response and her power had increased, even more, cutting my ring straight down the middle. I couldn't react in time and found both sharp blades of the split ring flying into the magnet. It cut up my hand really badly as they fought over who got the most room on the magnet until I ripped one of the blades off with my teeth. I couldn't use my right hand thanks to the injury I received.

I held the ring in my teeth and one on the magnet when my brain came up with another bad idea.

I dropped the ring in my mouth on the floor and threw the other one while simultaneously covering the magnet on my hand with my limp right arm. I ran at her as the ring passed right by her head and the ring Amera had was thrown directly at my chest. I put my right hand over the buckle on the back of my left hand and prepared to release the magnet.

Just as the ring that I threw passed her, her stance tripped up as she realized what I was doing. Amera attempted to run in the opposite direction, so I kicked my sword right by her feet as she tried running. She stopped out of fear she would sustain an injury and noticed how close the ring behind her was about to reach her.

Amera perfectly deflected the ring and because of the magnet and its position on my hand, the sharp edge of the split ring stabbed into the palm of my right hand. I screamed out in pain and threw the magnet right at her head when the ring behind him launched straight into the right side of her face.

The magnet was put against her face and luckily stopped a fatal strike, but the other half of the split ring I had recalled to the magnet weirdly cut into her face, putting a deep wound into her left eye and most of the left side of her head. I thought that would've killed her, but Amera still stood with the ring in her hand. With the last of her strength waning as her eyes began to close, she threw the ring at me once more.

My muscles were locking up because of the shock on my right hand, so I quickly put my left hand underneath the plate mail on my chest and blocked a fatal hit as the ring cut all of my fingers off and placed a cut deep into my chest. Nothing was broken, but I was bleeding way too much to be considered okay.

I gasped in pain, wishing I had another adrenaline shot. I even fell to the floor as the pain shot all over my body and blood started to puddle on the floor. I picked my weakened body up, looking at Amera. She wasn't bleeding as bad as I was, considering I gave her the shot, but she was unconscious. I ran over to where Carl was during his fight and saw him lying on the floor in a puddle of his own blood as well.

"CARL!" I reached his position and slid by his face when his eyes turned over to me.

"Oh... you're alive... you're able to walk? You should get help quickly... I don't think I'll make it." He told me.

I stole the stim-shot out of his plate-mail and stuck it into his chest. I could tell his bones were broken and he sustained several other injuries. I got up to run when I noticed how light-headed I was.

I planted my face into the snowy mounds over by our position in pain that was beginning to subside... no... I can't die here... somebody... help us...

"SKKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

-1:15 P.M.-