The Craziest Plan

Shadya feels Klaus' aura become much scarier; she doesn't exactly understand what he did, but it made him much stronger than before.

She is concerned about how the battle is going, but she also has one more trump card and doesn't think twice about using it.

"Do you want to fight with everything we've got? Okay, let's do it." She tells Klaus while channeling the miasma around her body.

Klaus stops hugging Irina as he prepares to attack Shadya. "I have to kill her as soon as possible."

"I'll be fine." The fairy wants to fight alongside her beloved, but she knows she won't be of any help to him, so she flies away from the battle, preventing Shadya from using her to harm Klaus.

Klaus wants to attack Shadya quickly, but the miasma forms a dense vortex around the necromancer, leaving him concerned. [What are you planning??]

Inside that vortex, Shadya takes a tube with Klaus' blood out of her storage artifact and quickly drinks half of it.

The vampire's blood further increases her power, but that doesn't seem enough, so she orders the whole miasma to enter her body, consuming all the death energy she has got.

As that dark energy enters Shadya's mouth, Klaus begins to see her and has an idea of what is going on. He doesn't waste time and flaps his wings, flying toward her.

*WHOOSH*

She tries to dodge his attack, but Klaus is too fast, landing a brutal punch in the face.

*BAM*

Shadya is thrown several meters back and hits a sand dune; there are many of them in that place; in fact, everything looks like sand outside the Bronze Skull Sect's building.

Klaus prepares to attack again, but then that dune explodes, creating a huge sand cloud.

"Not in the face!" Shadya's voice sounds just a little bitter rather than really angry. "You don't want to leave permanent scars on your future wife's face, do you?"

"Irina is fine, don't worry." He can't help but provoke Shadya; just killing her doesn't seem like punishment enough for what she did to his lovely fairy.

His words have the expected effect, and Shadya emerges from the sand cloud, red-angry; she tries to hit him, but he dodges and counterattacks, kneeing her in the belly.

*BAM*

That blow lifts Shadya's body, making her lose her balance; Klaus takes advantage of that opening and punches her in the face, knocking her back again.

Without the protection of the miasma, Shadya takes damage from Klaus' attacks, despite her being much stronger and faster now.

"If you're not going to take this seriously, I'll kill you already." He comments, mocking her again.

*Whoosh*

Shadya dashes toward Klaus again, but this time even faster; yet, instead of trying to attack him, she tries to hold his arms.

Klaus reacts in time, but he only manages to hold one of her hands as she holds his other, leaving both of them at an impasse.

"Do you think it's easy for me to hurt the man I love??" She asks as she looks into his eyes.

"Bullshit!" He mocks. "You're not the kind of person who can love anyone but yourself."

Shadya tries to pull Klaus towards her, but he holds his ground. "Why do you think you understand my feelings?"

"Because I was kind of like that myself..." He answers honestly. "Except for my family, I've never loved anyone but myself... well, that was before I met Irina."

"Tsk!" Now it's Shadya who mocks. "Your feelings for the fairy are not real; they are just the result of the ritual's blood bond."

"Okay, you're right." Klaus smiles.

"???" Shadya gets surprised, and Klaus uses that moment to pull her towards him and knee her in the stomach again.

*BAM*

He lifts her body again and uses the opening to spin her around and slam her body against the ground.

*BOOM*

The fact that the floor is only sand doesn't help, and that move just raises another sand cloud.

Before Klaus can attack Shadya again, she creates black hands around him, forcing him to dodge them.

Now it's her turn to use the opening and attack him, but again, she tries to hold him instead of a direct hit.

Klaus reacts in time, but they again end up in a stalemate, holding each other back. That situation is just annoying for him.

"It's not fair for you to use my feelings to gain an advantage!" She pouts.

"Fair? You haven't shown me anything fair, so I'm just giving you back the shit you deserve." Klaus finishes talking and headbutts Shadya in the face.

*BAM*

Shadya is caught off guard again, and that blow pushes her back and even breaks her nose, causing her blood to splatter onto the sand.

"FUCK!!!" She curses as she quickly fixes her nose.

Klaus wastes no time and attacks again, but Shadya gets 'serious' and blocks his attacks with bone walls.

He breaks through several bone walls until he gets to her, but she is waiting for him with a hard layer of bones around her head, like a bone helmet.

*BAM*

This time it's Shadya who headbutts Klaus, breaking the bone helmet on his face.

He regains his balance, and they dash towards each other again; for every hit Klaus lands on Shadya, she lands one on him and vice versa.

Their bodies can regenerate quickly, but their clothing does not, and with each new brutal blow, fewer pieces of it remain covering their bodies.

Also, as the fight keeps frenetic, their bodies quickly consume the blood and energy that maintains those boosted states, leaving them increasingly weaker.

Shadya feels her victim's life energy coming to an end inside her body, while Klaus feels the sunlight hurt his body again.

Neither one wants to show fatigue, but the battle pace begins to slow considerably.

Yet, Shadya doesn't seem willing to give up, and the sun still shines at the highest point of the sky, making it clear that night is still a long way off.

[Damn...] Klaus knows he has a short time to defeat Shada, so he thinks of a crazy plan that could only work in that situation.

As the necromancer prepares for her next attack, he calls out to Irina, who is half a mile away. "Stay there, no matter what happens next!"

[Huh??] Shadya is confused and looks at Klaus with a curious expression. "Are you ready to give up?"

Shocking her, Klaus removes the rest of the rags covering his body, leaving himself naked in the sunlight; his whole body feels about to burn as the few remaining scales disappear.

"What the hell are you doing?!?" Shadya feels a mix of conflicting feelings.

Her body is very attracted to Klaus, her heart is beating faster, fearing that something bad will happen to him, and her mind is trying to understand his plan.

He just opens his arms to her. "Didn't you want it? So come and get it."