Time Magic

"That was a difficult fight." Commander Lucy said, standing at the side and looking at Krain's headless body. She had cut his head off with one fell swoop and though she had won the fight, it was not without suffering damage.

She had cuts on her body gotten from the claws of Krain and there were two cuts which were more serious than the others.

Taking a syringe out of the dimensional bracelet on her wrist, Commander Lucy injected the liquid into her body and she suddenly began to feel her strength and stamina coming back to her.

Finally able to take a breather, Commander Lucy jumped out of the crater and looked around. She had been so focused on her fight against Krain that she had been oblivious to what was going on in her environment.

The soldiers were still fighting against the werts and from the looks of it, they were winning. There were a lot of corpses on the ground, both humans and werts, but the soldiers had killed more of the werts.

While Commander Lucy was fighting Krain, Jake, who was still in the form of a three-tailed wert, had flown and landed in front of a four-tailed wert.

Jake, Sky and Sasha initially had been surrounded by the werts but after the arrival of the soldiers, the werts had new targets and had scattered, going to attack the soldiers.

Some werts had still attacked them but they were easy to kill and now, Jake was standing in front of the four-tailed wert that had punched him earlier when he got to the base.

'It's a good thing I marked him by punching a hole in one of its wings.' Jake thought, looking at the fist-sized hole in the left wing of the four-tailed wert.

"What are you doing looking at me like that?" the four-tailed wert asked Jake. "Go and fight."

"Sorry." Jake said, shapeshifting back into his real form. "Remember me?"

Immediately after seeing the three-tailed wert in front of him change into the human that had attacked the base first, the four-tailed wert flew towards Jake and was about to punch him when he suddenly stopped moving.

The four-tailed wert had stopped moving and it was stationary in the air, a few feet above the ground, with its wings still spread and its hand thrown out, aiming to deliver a punch.

With a wide grin on his face and his hand stretched forward, Jake was looking at the four-tailed wert which he had stopped in the air using the magic he had mimicked from Sky.

After spending a month in the uncharted territory of planet Soran, Jake could now use magic he mimicked even without being taught how to use it.

With there being a lot of beasts on planet Soran and all of them having magic, Jake had ample time to practice and get better. All he had to do was mimic the magic of the beast and figure out how to use it on his own, and he found out that when under pressure, magic seems to manifest faster and stronger than usual.

Due to the magical strength of Sky and Anna's magic being joined together, Jake was able to use Sky's magic to stop the time of a four-tailed wert, which is something Sky will not be able to do anytime soon.

Now using Sky's magic to stop the time of the four-tailed wert in front of him, Jake went closer to the four-tailed wert and began to repeatedly punch the head.

"I don't know how long it will take before you can break out of this, but you'll be dead before that." Jake said as he kept punching the head of the wert until he got exp and stat points, indicating the wert was dead.

Other werts had tried to attack Jake while he was hitting the four-tailed wert but he had been controlling the weapons of the dead soldiers and was using it to kill the werts that tried to attack him.

A two-tailed wert was able to get past the weapons and stab Jake twice in the back but Jake didn't care about that. After he killed the four-tailed wert, he turned around and punched the two-tailed wert which sent it flying away for miles.

Controlling up to thirty weapons of the dead soldiers, which had metal mixed in with the materials it was made with, Jake continued killing werts while moving and looking for another four-tailed wert.

Seeing another four-tailed wert, Jake ran towards it and was about to stop time for it with his mimicked magic before being hit on the head by a three-tailed wert.

Skidding a few feet to the side after being hit, Jake looked at the three-tailed wert that had hit him and before it could fly away to attack a soldier, he grabbed one of its tails and dragged the wert to himself.

Being way stronger than the three-tailed wert, Jake held the wert by its neck with one hand and, ignoring all the werts attempts to release itself from his strong grip, with his other hand he used all his strength to tear out a wing from the back of the wert.

After tearing out the wing by the right, Jake did the same thing to the other wing then finally killed the wert by stomping on its head with his leg.

Searching for the four-tailed wert he had seen before, Jake stopped time for six one-tailed werts that were around him and controlling some weapons, he slashed and cut them all until they were dead.

Seeing another four-tailed wert, Jake jumped to meet it and stopped time for it as it was about to land on the ground. He controlled a spear to his hand and was about to stab the four-tailed wert but it suddenly moved and hit the spear out of Jake's hands.

"Okay," Jake said, jumping back to create space between him and the wert. "Note to self, four-tailed werts aren't equal in strength. Some are stronger than others."

When using the time magic to stop the time of objects and creatures, it created a kind of time barrier around the creature making time non-existent for the creature. And with time being non-existent for the creature, it was unable to move.

The four-tailed wert had just broken out of the time barrier and stopped Jake from stabbing it with the spear.

Running towards the wert, Jake threw out a fist and though the wert dodged it, Jake already expected that and tried to use the spear to stab it in the stomach but the spear wouldn't go through. It was not strong enough to pierce the thick skin of the wert.

"I should have known." Jake said right before he felt the claw of the four-tailed wert make a diagonal slash across his face and send him skidding back.

Jake knew his health points will be used to heal the slash that was now pouring out blood but it still hurt a lot. "Time to improvise."

Jumping to the wert, Jake saw the tails of the wert move towards him and he used his magic to stop the time of only the tails then before the four-tailed wert could break the influence of the magic, Jake dragged the tails, thereby dragging the four-tailed wert, and slammed it into the ground and stomped on its head.

Knowing the four-tailed wert wouldn't die from that only, Jake began hitting the head of the wert. He could use the shapeshifting magic to an extent but compared to Anna, who spent most of her life using the magic, he still wasn't good.

Jake could fully shapeshift into another creature but partial shapeshifting; changing a part of his body into something else, was a lot harder.

Somewhere on the battlefield, not too far from where Jake was, another tail could be seen coming out from the body of a wert. Just like the other tails, it was not long but was very thick and black, making it have the appearance of a short but sturdy branch.

Now small flames of fire could be seen burning at the tip of each tail of the wert and a horn could be seen tearing through the skin at the middle of its head.

Letting out a loud roar filled with power, strength, and flames which emanated from its mouth, the large five-tailed wert stood facing the pink sky.