Sky Asterio VS Cole Achamo

My left hand struck Cole in the face so hard that it almost exploded from the pressure. I felt his teeth fall out into my hand, and his nose crush, sending him flying back toward where my friends used to stand.

I took another step and charged forward, cracking the ground underneath me as I pulled my fist back again while running near him.

He still couldn't move, holding his vomit back even more while regenerating, I hit him four times in the chest, cracking the sound barrier with every punch. Golden strands outlined my every move, exaggerating the power I put into everything.

It didn't matter anymore... using all I had just to torture Cole was satisfying enough to me. I had no barriers, no limiters, and I was striking out of pure hatred for my circumstances.

Every time I hit Cole, I felt.. alive. Like life was being brought back into me. It felt... satisfying... almost gratifying.

Every time I hit him in the face, the body, or anything else, Cole screamed out in pain as my punches scorched his body. The ground underneath us was cracking and plummeting even further, almost fifty feet under where it started before the buildings were destroyed. With every hit Cole took, more of his body started to crack like Providence's did... revealing strands flowing underneath the surface of his skin.

He was starting to crack and let a smile form on my face for the first time. I couldn't help but giggle as he tried to run back toward me with The Retriever.

I seamlessly dodged it, grabbing onto the blade as it moved, and ripped it out of his reach, bursting it into strands upon striking the edge once.

"What the hell?" He asked from afar. He tried to run, but the Gaze of Wrath put him to his knees again. He slammed to the ground, and suffered a punch to the side of his head that blew it open, exposing it to the open air.

"What... are... you...?" Cole asked me. I had no time to respond, as I punched him in the chest from underneath his body, cracking the ground underneath us.

It cracked, sunk, and exploded all around us even more. It sunk instantaneously, shifting downward by twenty feet at least.

Cole was sent flying into the air, flailing his limbs wildly while experiencing a blast most powerful than anything he had ever experienced. It was a one-sided fight, in which I was the only one doing damage. He was rendered utterly useless, scrambling to run far with his incapacitated limbs.

"Back. To. Me," I said, keeping my eyes locked on Cole.

He paused in mid-air, breaking both of his knees by the force of the pause, and came back to my hand as easily as a blade I recalled.

"You can't kill me... no matter what you do!" Cole told me. I pushed the hair out of my face and the tears kept flowing as the Gaze of Wrath caused him to puke again.

"I don't want to kill you. I want to torture you," I told him.

I threw him into the ground, pushing him almost half a mile deep into the Earth. Then, I rose him out of the ground with even more force from Ali Asterio's ability.

He was midair again, paused for a moment, and then came back to my hand, only to puke again when he got close range.

He vomited all over my clothing, which I retaliated against by punching him in the chest again.

My fist went through his chest and he was sent over six hundred feet back, bouncing off of the ground, and cracking his bones with every bounce.

I ripped my shirt off of my body and walked forward without one. I started to feel cold because of the breeze, continuing to walk toward Cole with hatred in my mind.

I absolutely would not let him live. I would only let him die if he begged me to spare him, to which I would take away his life slowly, but surely.

"You're still weak... you still can't kill me!" Cole told me.

I pointed my finger upward for a moment so Cole would turn his head in that direction. As soon as he did, I sped up right above him with my leg charged back, and kicked him in the same way Avie would.

When my kick landed, a large chasm was created as a result, digging up even more pipelines, and creating a perfect path from the ocean to the current location.

Water started to pour in, now that the giant sunken crater I created was exposed to the ocean, and it started to form around Cole and I.

He noticed, scrambling to get away from the water. He figured out my plan.

The Gaze of Wrath froze him in his path, and I slowly walked past him, starting to climb up the side of the crater as water started to reach the bottom of my feet.

"SKY! WAIT! You don't want to do this! You're a nice guy! You're not going to kill somebody by drowning them! You wouldn't do that to somebody! Not after what happened to Red!" Cole shouted out to me.

I turned to him with the Golden Eyes, tilting my head.

"Who?" I asked him. Cole's look started to grow even worse, and then he smiled with an anxious gaze.

"You... you're everything they said you would be... please... let me go... you'll never see me again..." Cole pleaded to me. I kept a straight face, slowly taking steps back while keeping my Gaze of Wrath fixated on Cole.

"Nobody will ever see you again, not at the bottom of the ocean," I told Cole.

Rocks started to fall into the ocean from above us. Large boulders from the caved-in mountainside beside us were collapsing into the new bay that I created, and Cole started to grow nervous as the water met his ankles.

"COME ON! DON'T LET ME DROWN! LET ME SEE FICO AGAIN! LET ME CONFESS TO HER! YOU'RE A MAN WHO BELIEVES IN LOVE, AREN'T YOU?!" Cole shouted out again. I kept a straight face. His words weren't passing through to me.

Every time I looked at him, I saw Avie... he shouldn't get to live.

"You are afraid," I told Cole. He looked at me confused, then back toward the flowing water, then back toward me, viciously nodding.

"Yes! I'm terrified of drowning!" Cole told me. I nodded.

"Then I'll kill you before you drown," I told him. I took four steps closer to him, and he started to cower, covering his face with his hands.

"You are afraid," I said again. Cole paused for a moment, slowly looking around at the water that stopped flowing.

"What the hell?" He asked out loud, looking all around at the ocean water that began to turn black, "What is this? Why... has it stopped?" Cole asked.

"Because I told it to," I explained. With a snap of my fingers, the water turned blue, and started to flow once again, reaching the middle of his calves.

"You... can control water...? That wasn't in your list of abilities... what's going on?" Cole asked, still fearing the worst.

The Gaze of Wrath was still solidified, staying perfectly onto his body, and stopping him from moving.

"When Avie hit you in the face the day we met, you died. You didn't regenerate your head... which meant you're vulnerable. You have a weakness... and I found it, Cole," I told him. The tears kept flowing as I said Avie's name, and Cole started to shake nervously as the Gaze of Wrath intensified.

"It's the same reason Eirikr summoned you to fight me, to take my body... because your weakness is your fear. We turn what we need into abilities, so we don't fall the same way we did in the past. I gained The Incarnation of Wrath because it was Wrath that ended my life four hundred years ago. You gained the Healing Incarnation because you were so afraid of dying like you did four hundred years ago. It prevented you from dying... that's what happens with us who are Reincarnated," I told Cole.

I didn't realize it until after I struck him in the chest for the first time. I didn't realize that Cole's weakness this entire time was his fear... and it was his weakness that would give life back to the person he got killed.

When I struck Cole with my fist, I had replenished some of my lifespan with a light hit. I could use the Incarnation of Transfer against Cole when I hit him to restore the lifespan to my left arm... to Avie Asterio. The person who deserved life more than me.

When Cole turned his back to me, still suffering the effects from the Gaze of Wrath, I charged my fist back, and punched him directly in the spine.

I hit him so hard and so fast that reality stopped and time froze all around me. Things became blue, and I tucked my head right over Cole's shoulder.

"There, now you don't have to drown. You should've known... you should've known about us. You should've been afraid... I guess if you ever come back, you'll now know..." I paused smiling as the Gaze of Wrath turned off.

"You fucked with the wrong Arkians," I whispered.

Time resumed, my fist was planted through Cole's spine, and the text in my eye alerted me of something.

[LIFESPAN REDUCTION: TRANSFERRED]

[INCARNATION OF TRANSFER]

It said.

Cole's body froze in place as the hole solidified from the center of his stomach, and his body turned to dust as strands flew into my arm at exponentially increasing rates.

[INCARNATION OF HEALING: TRANSFERRED]

Just as I stole Talion's Incarnation in the beginning, I stole Cole's Incarnation with a solid hit. Before, I couldn't do it because Cole preemptively healed the damage I dealt to him. After killing him with a hit so fast he couldn't perceive, just as Avie had done, I stole his Incarnation before it was too late, and prevented him from healing.

Cole fell face-first into the crater as water covered his body.

His wide-open mouth was taking in water and his body slowly bloated as I began to walk away, limping while trying to keep my head clear and conscious.

When the water went over Cole, it felt like I had drowned my regret, my guilt, and everything else evil in my life. I climbed up the crater, with each step getting harder and harder.