Strength Comes In Many Different forms [3] - Unity Vs Void Walker

[Violet Sky Fall]

[Dimension Breaker]

Grabbing the fabric of space, The void walker pulled down with all the power she could muster. At the same time, it looked like the atmosphere had disappeared as a blanket of darkness covered the sky above the city.

In the same instant, the stars in the sky began to glow bright purple before something unbelievable happened.

'The stars...' Fatima's shell of a body looked up and thought with an amused voice.

"Are falling." It muttered before looking at the void walker and releasing a devastating attack.

A black mass of infinite darkness formed into the shape of a small sphere surrounded by 3 large raindrops that looked like they were tears in the fabric of space.

The black mass shot through the air as a pitch-black beam with small white lights that glowed like tiny stars.

The beam moved beyond the speed of light, but one did not need to move at the same speed to avoid an attack with a trajectory.

Using [Void Step] a split second before the attack, the void walker dodged the attack by a hair's breadth.

Blinking in and out of reality, the void walker performed several attacks that landed perfectly on the entity before it, yet before she could celebrate, she watched as an arm covered in dark energy sliced through the air and appeared before her neck in an instant.

[Void Swap]

Blinking out of reality once more, the void walker not only disappeared from where she stood but also seemed to have placed something there too.

Despite the entity's momentum, it stopped its hand right before hitting the object, but it was already too late.

Having swapped positions with one of the stars she had created, the void walker smiled as the winds moved in the spherical current around the star before an explosion engulfed the entity, making it disappear within its flames.

The explosion covered everything within a mile radius, but this did not deter the woman from flicking her wrist and homing the rest of the stars at the entity.

In the same instance, hundreds of thousands of stars possibly shot toward the massive explosion. Not even the void walker knew how many stars she had created, but she knew that [Violet Sky Fall] was a technique more than capable of wiping an entire continent off the face of a planet.

*BOOM*

However, right before the Void Walker could celebrate, she heard an explosion come from behind her, and as she looked back, her eyes widened, and her face turned pale.

The scene before her was horrifying, possibly even more frightening than the scene of the very sky falling.

A strong pull force made the void walker snap out of her reverie.

Seeing a dark mass swallow half of the destroyed city in an instant while growing in size, the woman snapped her fingers and instantly directed half of her falling stars toward it.

Thinking back, The void walked couldn't help but grimace for an instant as she thought back to the beam that was about to hit her.

'If that thing hit me, I would have been toast.' she thought with a frown.

As the stars started getting sucked in, they also began to orbit around the miniature black hole.

While the woman knew it wasn't a real black hole, since one of that size would have swallowed the planet hole, it replicated the features of a black hole.

As the stars surrounded it, the woman muttered-

[Reversal]

Hundreds of thousands of the small stars began to suck in everything in their vicinity before turning them into dust and absorbing them into themselves.

And since they were slowly moving towards the center of the 'black hole,' something unimaginable happened.

It happened in a split second, but if one were to slow down time, they would watch as the stars moved in random patterns as they affected each other.

The scene looked like a sun making millions of solar flares simultaneously, but then the black hole was torn apart in an instant before the stars also imploded.

Feeling relief, the void walker slapped herself and turned around as quickly as possible. She didn't have much mana due to [Voilet Sky Fall] and [Reversal].

'If I can't beat that thing within the next few minutes, I should just use my remaining mana to create a [Void Tunnel] as far away from here as possible.' She thought to herself. However, she was instantly snapped out of her thoughts when she saw her stars frozen mid-air.

'Crap.' She widened her eyes and tried to get away, but the instant she thought of doing so, she gritted her teeth and almost cried out in shock.

'I... I can't move a single muscle.' She inwardly screamed.

As the flames and smoke from the explosion disappeared, a little girl (by her standards) no older than 19 stood in the middle of the blast without a single scratch.

The black and white energy that had coated her before was nowhere to be seen, and in its stead, the girl released a powerful aura that encapsulated everything for several miles.

She floated in the air, yet she didn't do it like others who had the ability to fly. While most would float with an almost heroic pose as the wind fluttered their clothes, allowing them to give out a majestic aura like no other, she floated like a hanged girl, with the entire weight of her body seemingly supported by only her neck.

She had no shoes on, and her legs pointed at the ground as if they were completely limp while her arms hung by her side, moving side to side as if the rope around her neck hadn't lost the momentum from when she first kicked away the chair from below her feet.

The aura around her made the void walker feel one thing and one thing only.

Dread.

An insurmountable amount of dread that would have made the sanest of people go mad.

While her clothes also rocked back and forth with her arms, the strong winds didn't seem to affect her arms or clothes in the least, making her seem eerily still despite her chaotic environment.

As the void walker tried to regain her sanity, the girl's figure suddenly disappeared in a flicker before appearing before the woman.

Looking into the girl's eyes, the woman noted that the whites of her eyes were almost pitch-black alongside her pupils. On the other hand, her iris was a light grey that slowly became lighter and lighter as it reached the pupil.

The girl's hair was also a perfect wavy jet-black that draped down her shoulders and reached her waist in length.

Despite having worn basic overalls during the death of her parents, she now wore a snow-white victorian dress that reached her knees.

'What the hell are you?!' The void walker thought while calculating ways to escape her current situation.

"Hmm? How cute." The girl muttered with a smile before cupping the void walker's face with her hand.

The girl wore white gloves that felt soft to the touch, yet the void walker knew better than to relax in a situation like that. The girl before her, while seeming petite and small, was a monster in disguise... A monster capable of ripping her to shreds with a single flick of her wrist.

Smiling at the void walker, the girl got uncomfortably close to the woman as her hand carried its way down to her neck while caressing every inch of skin on the way down.

The void walker felt a powerful chill go down her spine. A chill that traversed both time and space, unknowingly sending a version of her outside this world into a worried frenzy.

Before the girl could do anything, she knitted and brows and moved away from the void walker while putting her hands on her hips.

Looking up, the girl's frown deepened before a smile broke out on her lips that were once pursed in curiosity.

"Hahahahahahahhahaha!" The girl laughed maniacally, which only made the void walker even paler.

Feeling that the girl's tight control over her body had weakened, she snapped out of her trance and used all the power she could muster to get out of her hold.

At the same time, she used most of her mana to move the stars once again, yet just as she was about to throw all of them at the little girl, pain engulfed her before the void walker let out a shrill blood-curdling scream.

She watched as her torn arms flew above her line of sight. Of course, no blood came out since she was a void walker, but the scene of her arms being cut off instantly caused her blood to freeze... Metaphorically, of course.

"You stupid child!" The girl laughed before snapping her fingers and turning the small stars into glitter.

"You don't even realize what is happening around you. I guess you were programed that way, but still." The girl laughed further while clutching her belly.

A few minutes passed, yet those minutes felt like days to the void walker.

Wiping her eyes, the girl's laugh finally ceased, allowing her to look up and stare into the frightened eyes of the void walker that had killed her vessel's parents.

"To answer your previous question-" The girl pinched two sides of her dress and slowly lifted it while lowering her body into a humble curtsy. Yet, unlike how people usually curtsied, the girl kept looking into the void walker's eyes with a smile that extended from ear to ear.

"My name is Unity." She announced with a joyful voice as she got out of her curtsy.

"And I will be your killer!" She let out an almost demonic laugh as her aura flared even further than before.

Before the void walker could show her confusion, Unity simply tapped her temple and stated-

"I know you didn't ask for my name, but you thought of asking, didn't you?" She smiled.

"Oh well. It doesn't matter anyway since you're just a simulation. However, I do sense something on the outside world. I think I might have a new born brother. Oh well." Unity shrugged and pointed two fingers at the void walker.

"Since the real you had the gall to attack the parents of my vessel, I'm going too have to punish her a little." Unity smiled.

[Forbidden Technique]

*Thump Thump*

Before the woman could understand any of the words coming out of Unity's mouth, she felt her mana core pulse twice before something seemingly engraved itself into it.

[Transdimensional Curse - Hellscape]

Without prior warning, the Void Walker's eyes suddenly became white as she seemed to lose consciousness.

"A curse that puts the victim into a 1-year sleep that feels like a hundred years. Worse of all, they are sent to a hell of their own making, where they are forced to survive for over a hundred years. They can't even die, so its just torture. What a worthy curse for a deserving victim." Unity laughed.

She knew that this affected all versions of the void walker, no matter the universe they came from.

However, after laughing for a bit, she could not help but halt her laughter and look down at her body.

'This body isn't ready yet.' She sighed.

She could see several cracks on her vessel's skin, and while she could heal them right before hybernating and letting Fatima take over, she had a feeling that the wounds would open up the moment she stops being the primary consciousness.

"I should get her to the real world. No one will pester her out there since those higher-ups have no way of looking into this pocket dimension. However, she didn't complete the primary function of the trial, so I can't really leave without creating my own portal. The primary objective was never to kill the void walker, but to realize that it wasn't her fault that her parents died. It's a little sad that she hadn't come to terms with it here, but maybe in the future." Unity sighed.

In this 'simulation,' anything was possible from fighting the void walker to killing herself. It was a memory fragment after all. Calling it a trial of courage was a blatant lie. The trial didn't test their courage, it tested their will power. It was made with the intention of taking someone to a past traumatizing memory, and forcing them to deal with it. Of course, anyone who actually passed the trial would come out of the other side stronger than ever, but anyone who didn't would leave it worse than before.

It was cruel, but trial room almost never appeared, and when it did, it only appeared to those the higher ups thought had enormous potential.

A light bulb appeared above Unity's head as her eyes glowed with an idea.

Staring into the fabric of this world, she saw that it didn't extend past the moons around the planet. However, she understood one thing after looking further into the code of the universe.

'It doesn't seem to have a protocol against the destruction of this planet, so...'

With a bright childish smile on her face, Unity extended her hand toward one of the three moons in the sky before pulling with a loud "Humph."

She wasn't even close to her peak, so it took her quite a bit of effort, but after a few seconds of pulling, the moon crumbled right before her eyes and slowly moved toward the planet.

Unity had used too much power in this pocket dimension and it would most likely show on Fatima's life force and body when she leaves the trial and Unity's powers are locked once more.

However, Unity hoped that the trial would do its best in fixing Fatima up before kicking her out since she wouldn't be able to interfere once they left the memory fragment.

With the same smile plastered on her face, she pulled upon the other two moons, crumbling them and moving them toward the planet.

Within a few seconds, the terrifying scene of the moon crumbling and coming closer to the planet quickly turned into a scene of beautiful carnage.

The moon's pieces turned bright red as they warmed up and pushed through the atmosphere.

The symphony of screams entered Unity's ears and made her close her eyes in joy.

'That boy...' She thought to herself as the image of a violet-eyed boy entered her mind from Fatima's memories.

'I have a feeling that we're going to become very close... Mr. Void Walker.' Her smile widened while she opened her arms as if trying to embrace the incoming chaos into a warm hug.

She felt as the planet below reached temperatures that boiled the very ground and caused everything to either melt into a puddle of what it once was or sink to the depth of the lava below it.

Cars seemed to turn into hunks of whatever metal they were made of, while buildings sunk into the grounds and were engulfed in flames.

And then, the moons finally struck the ground.

...

Looking at the planet while sitting on a piece of one of the moons that she suspended in space with her telekinetic powers, she grew more worried as the portal out of this realm didn't appear yet.

She was contemplating creating her own portal before the vessel got too injured, but doing so would have only further injured Fatima.

However, after a few seconds of waiting, she finally felt something happening, and in the blink of an eye, she felt as if she was being encapsulated within a white void was the world around her finally disappeared, and a portal appeared before her.

Without thinking twice, she stepped through and let go of the primary consciousness, and despite her dreadful aura still lingering around her for a few moments as she went through, the moment the body lost consciousness, the aura disappeared, and Fatima was quickly surrounded by several teammates.

{Thank you Carlos_Bg for your generous gifts}