Do It Again!
As Val flew off with the Metallium twins and Amethyst, Jol felt the oddest sensation of being in two places at once for the briefest of moments. Then he was just in one place again, and he recognized it. The village they had last seen Lina Inverse before leaving after Zangulus.
"Do it again!! Do it again!" Kyrie jumped up and down in front of Duofolger, radiating enough energy to make nitroglycerine seem stable. With her hairing bouncing and arms pumping at hyper intense speed, the little girl even made Tinuviel nervous.
"Maybe later," the mazoku said before slumping over, exhausted. Six hundred years locked in that sword form with most of his powers sealed had not been completely recovered simply because Sherra was now a werefox. The teleportation had really pushed him, it would be a while before he could do much more. He contented himself with dropping to the ground and lying next to Sherra's...torso. At least night would come sooner this far east. If only by a small amount.
"Want do it now!!!" Kyrie demanded, she started pounding ineffectually at the recovering mazoku. Between the pain virtually oozing from Sherra, this girl's temper-tantrum, and Jolrael's irritation Duofolger thought he'd be one hundred percent in another hour or so. And there was a comfortable chill developing in the air that reminded him of home.
"Hmm, this is interesting," Tinuviel said suddenly. Jolrael glanced at her cautiously. "Interesting" had a different meaning when spoken by Tinuviel.
"What's interesting," Jolrael asked. He relaxed when it appeared that Tinuviel seemed to be just looking up.
"Its snowing." Jolrael blinked and glanced around as he now noticed the drifting flakes, coming down out of the sky. Duofolger sat up, ignoring the child demanding that he teleport her again. He joined Jol in looking about the area, then hmphed in contempt.
"Minor mazoku," he said. "I'm not going to be taken by some half-wit demon." Duofolger moved to stand, a little unsteadily, and quickly found himself forced back down.
"I'm comparatively fresh," Jol reminded him. "Stay in reserve." ~Especially if that little display could bring even a weak mazoku down to the ground.~ "Tinu get back with them, its coming."
"You might have a point," the mazoku admittedly grudgingly. ~You'd almost think HE was the elf-lord if he didn't look so human. Damn arrogant elves.~
"What's happening?" Kyrie asked, finally noticing the tension, but still unafraid. The drifting flakes of snow increased in volume, rushing past the level of flurry, and quickly approaching blizzard levels. "Jol-oniisan! Its cold!!"
"Don't worry about it Kyrie-chan," Tinuviel said cheerily, shouting over the rising wind. "I'm sure Jolrael will fix it, now pay attention, this should be fun!"
Duofolger and Jolrael glanced at Tinuviel in confusion, even Sherra's comatose form seemed embarrased by that remark. Then the mazoku landed.
Jolrael turned to face a huge icey limbed humanoid as he drew his own sword. The mazoku's landing had elicited a breathe let up in the wind around him, and a small explosion of snow.
"Pitiful mortals," the thing's hissing voice, liking cracking ice, carried easily through the blizzard.
"Not all of us are mortals," Duofolger smirked, but much to his annoyance the other ice demon barely paid him mind.
"Of no consequence, rogue, drained," the creature didn't even bother to give a physical hint of his contempt.
"I'm game for a little fun." Jol smirked stepping forward, the supernatural storm retreating from around him. The mazoku glanced at him in the way a person would stare at an attacking mouse. Then the "mouse" lashed forward with telekinetically enhanced speed and power. The ice demon glanced in surprise at the stump of an arm where it had been too slow too dodge completely.
"Could be fun after all," the thing smirked, dodging another attack from Jol as its arm regrew, attracting the snowflakes for its mass. Duofolger watched, both sides of the battle and smirked, though it chilled him as well. The relationship between elves and humans was well known to mazoku. Humans were what the elves used to be in many ways, and the elves were what the humans were moving towards. Especially considering how long the two races had been mixing blood. Jolrael was a clear sign that the humans were close to reaching the next level being. This was moderately disturbing.
Jolrael was fighting physically and psychically, but the ice demon couldn't feel it yet. The young swordsman was being subtle, placing walls that kept the nourishing emotions in the air away from his foe. The ice demon was barely keeping up with Jol now, and its reserves of power were not being refilled at any rate, much less a normal one. The fight was a foregone conclusion.
The snow storm began to calm around them as the fight conitnued. The wind dropped, the snow settled, and the two fighters continued the battle, one obviously toying with the other. Until in the end the ice demon released a flood of cold black energy in a undirected magical attack at his opponent.
Jol smirked as the attack was deflected off a brilliant white light emanating from him. The mazoku's desperation attack shielded the swordsman from sight as he charged forward. The ice demon never saw the strike that clove it in twain. Jolrael's brilliant white aura flared once as the minor mazoku screamed in denial once and then dissipated into nothing.
"Definitely only a minor mazoku." Jolrael agreed as the storm just vanished around them, leaving them in a snow filled town void of people.
"I would have broken those walls instantly," Duofolger agreed wearily, falling back to the ground to continue resting.
Tinuviel watched as Jol walked over to them and sat down close to her. Jolrael had just demonstrated powers only an elf-lord should possess. She had known he was an empath, but had always thought everything else was just human magic. That, however, proved otherwise. She blinked at the young man she had watched grow up for the last seventeen years.
~This bears further investigation.~ She told herself.
"Jol-oniisan..."
"What is it, Kyrie?" Jol asked as he tried to catch his breath.
"I couldn't see with all the snow, can you do that again?" Tinu and Jol facefaulted, Duofolger just groaned.
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