Sky VS Providia (1)

--Sky's Perspective--

This was my test... I'm not sure what she's talking about with my old memories, but she was going to come at me with killing intent, and Providia didn't seem like the type to hold back.

I had always felt weak, especially compared to my parents... but have I needed a reason to try? My life has never felt in danger until now until I looked at Providia. I was afraid of what she was capable of, but even so, I reinforced my body and summoned my purple sabers.

The fight began with Providia launching toward me with a ton of speed. She didn't walk and floated over to me with a speed that rivaled Mom.

I clashed with her sabers and slid backward about fifty feet from the impact, unaware of just how powerful she truly was.

Providia, with a ton of unnoticed strength, flipped me on my slide and swung her saber at my stomach. It barely grazed me, but if it went even a centimeter further, I could've been cut in half with her trajectory.

I slid against the water violently, bouncing, and eventually came back up to look at Providia and take a breather.

Her speed... her strength... she was leagues above me. I really have to try here!

I charged in with both of my sabers, opening my assault of attacks by swinging downward. Providia slightly stepped to the left and widely swung her set of golden sabers at my body. I deflected her strike with one of my sabers and stabbed at her face with the remaining one.

She dodged, swung upward, and cut the fingers off of my right hand.

From that point, she weirdly flipped her body, kicked me in the side of my throat, and sent me to the ground again.

"If this is the power you have accumulated, you need to be sent back to the beginning, because I'm going easy on you." She told me as she walked over to me.

"You'll see..." I muttered while pushing my body back up.

I charged at her again with the same attack, except this time, I incorporated some of my own flips into it. I swung at her, jumped above her while swinging down at her head, and landed on the ground.

Right as I landed, I slammed my saber into the ground, threw my other one at her, and then charged in, grabbing the saber stuck in the ground to swing widely overhead and hit her.

I anticipated retaliation, so I attached a strand to the end of my saber and swung it wide, just as I learned from Death.

I cut off Providia's right arm and punched her in the stomach, but she absorbed it like it was nothing, picked me up by my legs, and body-slammed me into the ground. I lost the air in my lungs but knew that if I stopped here, she would kill me.

I pushed myself backward just as a saber came barreling down toward my head, digging up the ground in its path.

I panted heavily, wiping sweat from my forehead as Providia regenerated her arm.

"Very good. A lot better, at least. I hope you have more for me." Providia told me.

She wasn't anything like a Rubeki. She was way more intelligent, way more powerful... and way more threatening. Providia was, what I assume, to be like Providence. She had so much strength that I couldn't see the bounds of what she was capable of.

I decided that I had enough thinking and ran in again, jumped over her next stab, slashing up her left arm while twisting my body, and throwing my sabers at her with strands attached.

I swung them all around, spinning and slamming them into the ground. The sabers easily went through the water underneath us, but the water itself was starting to disperse from the sheer amount of speed and shockwaves Providia was creating with each of her dodges.

She created another shockwave and stabbed me in the stomach with her saber.

I tightened my muscles around the wound, grabbed onto her wrist and neck, and threw her to the ground, before summoning a saber in my wrist and pulling it back to her neck.

I decapitated Providia.

At least, that's what I thought.

Her hand grabbed both sides of my head and twisted me. If I hadn't reinforced my head at that moment with every strand I had available, she would've decapitated me instead. Just by placing her hands on my head, and ripping it off.

It was a close-quarters fight, and I wasn't built for that. I was good at medium range... or was that my friends? What was I good at?

Just as I was being thrown by Providia, I recalled a distant saber I created with a strand, caught it, and then threw it at Providia with a slight spin. It horizontally spun like a boomerang would, and I was lucky enough to close my left hand and summoned a second saber coming out of the same handle on the opposite side.

It dug itself into Providia's chest and she closed the distance before I could process the wound I just gave her. With a drawn-back fist, she was getting ready to punch my head off.

I knew that couldn't slide... but what could I do?!

I put up my forearms and blocked her strike, feeling the bone individually snap and shatter into each shard inside of my arms, and feeling the impact of the ground and a wall behind me. I coughed up blood and fell to the ground while holding my arms.

Right as I looked up, Providia grabbed me by my collar and lifted me off of my feet, above her, and looked at me with her latent eyes again.

"I didn't even have to use my Eye of Providence. You didn't throw anything at me threatening enough to even initiate it. Not when you thought you killed me twice, not now. You are not suitable for your position as the Deity of Wrath, and you must restart The First Trial. I'm sorry Sky." Providia told me.

Time paused as I looked down toward her, watching a curtain of blood cover my vision.