3.6 Crying For Rain

Kali felt her breathing become heavier, she could tell it wasn't from the injury she suffered since Natsu's attacks never had an effect on her like this.

Kali widened her eyes in realization, she shook her head and told herself it was impossible. After all, this was the first time she's experienced this sensation, there was no way it was that.

Suddenly, she felt two strong presences coming behind her. Kali turned around and saw a girl with scarlet hair along with a girl with white hair.

"Ah, it's them." Kali muttered. She had doubts that she could win this battle, it felt like the air was being sucked out of her lungs.

"You, evil wizard, will pay the price for hurting our guild members." Erza said, instantly switching to her Heaven's Wheel Armor.

"Perhaps you'll suffer a punishment worse than death." Mira said, turning into her Satan Soul demon form.

Intense killing intent flared from the two, it made the pressure in the air even denser than before. Kali could feel her knees weakening against them.

'What a dangerous duo…' Kali thought. Despite being weakened by a mysterious power, she still had the strive to fight the monsters in front of her. 'I still have the pride of a SS-Rank wizard after all.'

With that thought, Kali released some of her own killing intent. The blood-red aura clashed against the scarlet and white aura. Sparks appeared in the air as a flash of lightning appeared.

"Well then," Kali said as she pulled out a custom-made katana. "Let's do this shall we?"

Kali was the first one to attack, with one hand finishing the spell, the other hand swung the katana at Mira. Instead of cutting through Mira's skin, it struck against Mira's hardened demon claw.

"Your hand is surprisingly tough, not even my blade can cut it." Kali said.

"Did you think a mere blade could cut through my Satan Soul? Keep dreaming. Now die. Demon Blast,"

The purple beam of magic formed and shot at her in an instant. Kali had to direct all of her attention to the attack in order to dodge it. Truly, the demon form Mira was a scary sight.

Suddenly, there was a hostile intent that hovered above her. Instinctively, Kali held her blade above her head horizontally and successfully blocked Erza's attack.

"Sneaky, but you were caught." Kali said with a smile. "Let's dance!"

Kali swung her blade diagonally at Erza who countered it with the same move, but that wasn't the end of it. Kali kept swinging it in different directions so Erza couldn't predict her.

Erza, who was countering Kali's attacks, couldn't find a single flaw in her opponent's attack. Despite her only using one hand, Erza still couldn't find a way to flip their positions.

Erza cursed under her breath and muttered a few words. A glint of light appeared before the swords that came with her armor flew at Kali.

Kali didn't expect Erza to use that ability since she was countering so well. She guessed Erza was growing frustrated since she couldn't find an opening, it was just like her.

When Kali prepared one of her stances to defend against the swords, there was suddenly a burning sensation and a sharp pain in her heart.

Due to that, her knee buckled slightly causing her entire stance to be off-balanced. Although she was able to knock a few swords away, she received fatal wounds from the swords.

"What's…what's happening to me?" Kali whispered under her breath. She felt her mana being depleted faster than normal, it wasn't because of the spell either.

"Give up," Erza said as she walked towards Kali. "You're becoming weaker and weaker. It's pointless to resist."

"It's as she says." Mira said. "Give up and perhaps you won't suffer a punishment as harsh."

When Kali heard this, she laughed.

"Surrender? To you? The two of you must be delusional if you think I'm going to give in that easily." Kali said as she canceled the spell. "The two of you are good, I was forced to cancel the spell. But that means I'm able to use both my hands now."

However, everything she was using was a bluff. Even though Kali canceled the spell, her mana remained the same, and nothing has changed. She was still feeling extremely weak.

Kali dashed at Mira, she swung the blade at Mira. Mira prepared to block the blade, but it never reached her. Mira was tricked, her opponent had acted like she was targeting her, but she had an entire different target.

Kali immediately threw her blade with all her strength at Erza when she saw Mira's blocking stance.

Erza, who didn't expect the blade, suffered a deep and sharp cut on her left arm causing her to drop the sword. Blood flowed down her arm and onto the wet ground.

"Erza!"

"Don't worry about me! I'm fine!"

Kali admired the friendship the two of them had, after all, they used to constantly fight each other in the past. Now, they were taking care of each other.

But there was a problem, she didn't have her blade anymore. This problem forced Kali to rely on her mana which has nearly been depleted.

"Darkness Stream."

A Magic Seal appeared underneath Kali, multitudes of large tendrils composed of dark energy formed, which surrounded and enveloped Kali.

Kali's vision turned dark, at this point, she knew she couldn't do anything against Mira's attack. She felt a cold energy wrap around her legs and arms until it reached her throat.

Electric shock circulated throughout her entire body. Unbearable pain could be felt.

Mira stared at the cocoon created with Dark Energy, she added water and lightning magic to make the attack far stronger than it was before.

With one last snap, she stopped attacking.

"That should be enough." Mira said as she let the cocoon down.

It revealed a bloody Kali who stood motionless, her eyes had an unreadable gaze.

Mira stared at the figure, she had no idea what her next move was. That's if she could even use magic.

"Surrender-"

Before Mira could finish her sentence, a flash of lightning appeared, and Kali's figure disappeared.

Kali always had a backup plan no matter what situation she was in, even if she had to suffer countless injuries, she would proceed with the plan.

Therefore, she used her part of her life-force as mana to use her ability.

With the blade in her hand, Kali reappeared in front of Mira, and swung the blade down. She was confident that this attack would land and would make her suffer fatally.

Mira had an incredible reaction time. When Kali appeared in front of her, Mira used her claw, and jabbed it towards an open spot. It was a matter of who's attack lands first. Mira's eyes widened, her opponent suddenly shifted the attack away.

Kali couldn't bring herself to hurt Mira, she would rather be killed by Mira.

Thus, Kali felt a sharp pain in her stomach. Mira widened her eyes at the sight.

"Why did you-"

The two didn't have enough energy to stay conscious any longer, the entire battle had sucked the mana out of them.

*THUD*

Two unconscious figures dropped to the ground as the rain started pouring as if it was crying.