SKY VS COLE (3)

When Avie and I had reclaimed our power, we both ran at Cole. Our mindsets were synched, even our internal thoughts following the same pattern.

To our right, a large building still stood above all else, the bridge was almost completely collapsed underneath us, and Cole was closing in on us.

I tracked The Retriever as it looped around, shooting back over to me at an insane speed. I wasn't even sure that The Eye of Providence could track it.

But I sure could.

The Retriever shot under my legs and I jumped, flipping my body, and grabbing onto the body. It cut up my head, severing all of my fingers and causing me to let go out of instinct. When I let go, Cole's hand impaled my stomach, and The Retriever cut off both of my arms.

"Come on, Sky, why don't you get flashy?" Cole asked me. I sucked in a ton of air, keeping it all to myself, and then quickly regenerated my limbs.

He stabbed his hand into my stomach, even surpassing Shike's ability to absorb kinetic energy.

[Lifespan Reduction: 8 Years]

The kinetic energy released itself, exploding into a flurry of strands that cut up Cole's face mercilessly. The strands briefly blinded him, and in that millisecond of time I had before he regenerated, I planted my foot into his stomach, sent shards of ice into all of his joints, and jumped off of it.

I was able to get enough footing to back flip off of him, deflecting The Retriever with my saber, and grabbing onto it again. I wrapped it around my body, whipped it into the ground, and dug up terrain deeper than ever before. Golden strands were coating my body, but the innards of my arms were glowing red. I was using all strands to their maximum capabilities, sending more ice at Cole while he was stunned by the impact on his joints.

[Lifespan Reduction: 8.15 Years]

Cole sucked in a breath as blood spurt from his nose, and he set everything around us on fire by pushing his arms outward as if he was trying to clear the area.

"There we go! Finally! Somewhat of a challenge!" He declared with a wicked smile. I clenched my teeth as the Incarnation of Wrath and the Adrenaline Surge shot off in my body, reactivating as I lost concentration to hold onto it.

My left arm shot off of my body and I dodged another strike that would've decapitated me as Cole pushed me back with an onslaught of attacks. More than forty weapons were shot in my direction all at once as Cole snapped his fingers.

Pieces of The Retriever were all coming at me at such an intense speed, all I could do was hand control over to Avie and watch her dodge them all seamlessly, as she always did.

When she dodged the attacks, the blades were stuck everywhere in the ground and in the portion of a large building beside Cole and me. I attached strands to every single weapon, locking myself in a clash with Cole.

He pulled out the pistol, and I put my gauntlet up to the barrel, blocking the shot, and pulling all weapons into his chest.

Over forty different entrance wounds and forty exit wounds followed, with Cole sitting stunned again, I cocked my fist back, slamming my bent wrist into his rib cage.

I felt it all crack, his spine snap, and half of his brain explode from the pressure as my own forearm snapped and burst into bone dust. Cole was sent to the top of the dome, and to my surprise, started to fly with newly regenerated wings.

His horns symbolized the ones on Dani, his teeth resembled the ones on Dani, and the claws on Dani were present on him. It only began to churn in my head that I've seen this man before... I've fought him before too.

The Entity that once possessed Dani was me, from 400 years ago.

Something snapped in my head, learning that even in my strongest state, I still couldn't protect my friends from the evil that I brought upon this world.

[DEITY MODE: ENGAGED]

I broke the sound barrier running at Cole next. I summoned the spear in my hands once more, and then let it morph between several variations of a weapon with a long stick.

Ullr's Warhammer popped into my hands and slammed down onto Cole's body as he went toward the ground with his wings. I swung it, and it collided with his claws, piercing the blunt edge of the hammer and snapping the stick into tiny bits.

From the tiny bits of the summoned weapon, I picked up two daggers, flipping my body in the way that Lia was so masterfully good at, and created sparks with the speed that I used them. By moving as fast as possible, he was unable to make a counterattack, or even use the abilities from The First Trial. Cole tried to stab or slash, but all for nothing in the end.

He caught the dagger after a while in his claws and snapped the one in my right hand. I added length to it and expanded the blade as far as possible, creating Dani's Rapier she once used against Moon. I slid against Cole, cutting a small portion of his cheek while thrusting forward.

Belle's ability shot out of his hands and I quickly retaliated by using Boo's to misplace the ice with fire and overwhelm Cole again.

One punch from the gauntlets in his arsenal and I absorbed the hit, reinforcing my ribs to a singular point of impact while combining Shike's ability to completely disregard the force and to launch it back at him.

[Lifespan Reduction: 8.23 Years]

We came to a stand still as Dani's Rapier shifted into a purple saber that created a noise loud enough to cause Cole to falter.

I slashed the claws off of his right hand, cut off his left hand, and curved my forearm around the back of his head, forcing his forehead into my knee.

I let the kinetic energy go, blasting his brain to bits and covering my face in pink remains of what was left, yet, Cole was still standing, regenerating everything before my foot even hit the ground to dodge his next attack.