Diane's Power

Anna, Sasha and Rheya had arrived seconds after Jake but they were still yet to see what was continuously moving fast enough to break the sound barrier.

"That's a six-tailed wert!" Jake said. He had not seen the six-tailed wert, Maron, that had destroyed the world penitentiary so he did not know how relatively strong it would be but Anna and Sasha did.

Maron had killed a lot of soldiers and most of the ones that were saved was because of Zeke. His magic, necromancy, was able to protect the soldiers while the monarch fought against Maron alone. He had won eventually but Maron had succeeded in his mission. The world penitentiary was no more.

"That's not good." Anna said.

"How do we fight something that's moving that fast?" Jake asked. More soldiers kept falling to the ground, dead and the wert had not stayed still for more than a second. Other werts that were fighting had used the arrival of the six-tailed wert to push back against the soldiers and were now on the winning side.

Kyle and Sky had arrived just before Smith, Kevin, Diane and Nikki. Sky could have used his energy to run faster but he wanted to reserve it for when he starts fighting.

An idea had come to Jake but to do it, he needed to take care of the other werts that were fighting. That way he would at least save some lives of the soldiers and hopefully reinforcements were on the way.

Jake moved forward and lifted both of his hands. He moved his fingers for a while then suddenly curled them up into fists. Over half of all the werts that were fighting became immobilized and were unable to move.

Jake stretched his fingers out, just like what Nine had done to Smith except this time a limb from all the werts that were under Jake's control was severed from their bodies. The other werts had been surprised when some stopped moving but after looking around, they had seen what was causing it and they had all immediately flown right towards Jake.

"They can't get to Jake!" Anna shouted when she saw the werts heading in their direction. She shapeshifted into a beast which had a mane around its head just like a lion but it was far larger and it had the stature of a bear but with red fur.

As the werts got closer, the beast Anna had shapeshifted into jumped from its position and used its extremely long claws to cut down a two-tailed wert in the air. The beast went to the wert on the floor and cut its head into bits before attacking the next wert.

Sky had also charged forward. He had removed the black blade from the holster and exposed it to sunlight. There were pieces of metal used to make the sword so Sky was able to control it around with his magic. His magic had become incredibly more powerful ever since it fused with his energy and now he was using it in ways he had never used it before.

There were at least a hundred werts that were attacking them and they included dozens of four-tailed werts. Jake was now behind Anna, Sky, Sasha, Rheya, Diane, Kyle, Smith, Kevin and Nikki and was focused on killing the werts he had control of with the blood magic.

He was trying to severe their heads from the rest of their bodies but it was harder than he thought and the werts naturally had high endurance. The werts all had severed limbs but nothing serious enough to kill them and some were pushing back against Jake, making it harder for him to kill them.

He kept moving the blood in their bodies and the scales on the werts were now visibly slightly rising up and down. A little squelching sound could be heard as their blood pushed up against their skin with increasing speed and intensity. The increasing kinetic energy of the blood increased the build up of heat in the bodies of the werts and soon enough, each wert Jake was controlling began to burst open.

Their bodies burst open, killing the werts on the spot, pieces of their bodies and organs flying everywhere.

Diane had been fighting the werts that came at her with the attachable and extendable claws that she had worn on her knuckles. The magic she had acquired was colour magic. Most people would think it's a useless magical ability but she had been training it, making it stronger and honing her skills to prove anyone who thought so wrong.

She had yet to use her magic so far because she was waiting for more werts to be in her range. Now they were. Her eyes had a permanent combination of colours swirling in them ever since she got her magic. Some thought it beautiful and rare while others thought it weird. She couldn't care less.

She looked up at the sky, stretched her hands out to her sides and let the werts come towards her. The colour in the environment began to literally evaporate and move towards her. The particles of colour that evaporated moved towards her outstretched hands and slowly made its way into her eyes.

Her eyes shined bright like a small bulb projecting multiple colours all at once and the environment began to slowly fade into a darkness of black and white. The werts that had been flying towards her stopped as the colours in their own vision evaporated out of their eyes and joined the particles that was moving towards Diane.

Whatever Diane was doing was affecting everyone, not just the werts and every body had stopped fighting and looked to see what was happening. Diane was now hovering in the air as she kept absorbing the colour in the environment and the colour moved through her whole body, empowering her, increasing her strength and speed, fortifying her body.

"Whoa." Sky said. He had stopped a couple of werts in time but he could see the particles of colour moving out of their eyes and heading towards Diane. "Never knew she was capable of that."

"No one did." Smith said, starstruck by what he was witnessing as he stared in wonder and amazement.

Although they were seeing everything in black and white, the colour was only leaving the werts' vision and their strength was also slowly seeping out of them, entering Diane.

She seemed to be getting stronger as she absorbed more colour and hovered in the air, being the only thing shining brightly in a place that was dark.

The others soon noticed the werts looking weak and somewhat thinner and realized what was happening.

"Is she stealing their strength?" Kevin asked, shocked. "Why didn't she do this ages ago?"

They began killing the werts with ease and the soldiers that were still alive also took advantage and killed off the remaining werts.

The six-tailed wert had been unbothered by the whole situation and had continued killing soldiers in seconds but now, seeing the soldiers killing werts and seeing his fellow werts looking strangely weak as they were killed with little effort, it enraged him.

He locked his sight on the person causing the death of the werts and spread his wings in the air then broke the sound barrier again and appeared directly above Diane in an instant, its face contorted with anger.