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Chapter 30
Era glared at Van-Gareth as she rubbed her soar neck. She knew her current dilemma with timing, but the only way to fix it was to concentrate harder and she already thought her mind was on its toes.
Her mother had once told her that as long as she believed in herself she could do anything. She had proven it thus far with her ability to fight Van-Gareth and live to fight again, even if it was five millennia's later, but she wondered how far belief in herself alone could carry her.
'There is nothing here that can aid you in defeating Van-Gareth dear child,' Eralasea had told her upon her arrival. 'At least there is nothing here yet.'
She hadn't a clue what her goddess had meant by those words and there had been no explanation of them to follow either, leaving her to ponder on something she hadn't the time to. What did Eralasea expect her do do? Fake an advanced power? That was out of the question she knew before she had even thought it, Van-Gareth would know is she was faking anything; they were too powerful for such useless deceptions.
All thought was cut short as Van-Gareth changed forms once again. He took the form of a tall humanoid like figure with long arms that fell to about knee level, his fingers long and sharp as claws. The body of this form was jet black, but did not flow like his normal shadowy body, and his eyes were the ever piercing red that could potentially haunt the dreams of lesser demons.
Era readied herself in her battle stance, water spiraling up her body to meet with her hands. She leaned her weight on and off her front leg giving the appearance of her swaying back and forth from her front leg to her back leg, it was a tact that many well trained fighters did to relieve their legs of tension that would slow them down in battle.
Van-Gareth cracked his neck loudly as he put his chin to his chest and rotated it in a circle. It was obvious by this act that both fighters had he had pains in his neck just as Era did, something that might hold them back in battle. Might.
Feeling it was her time to do something Era made a move fencers knew as a lung. Her arm was up as it should be had she a foil in her hand, but instead of the point of a blade hitting thin air, due to her large distance from her opponent, the water that had been curling around her hand eagerly awaiting a command was sent rocketing forward.
With a smirk Van-Gareth jumped into the air, evading the assault easily enough, only to meet the second swirl of water thrown at him after a change in position on the water maiden's part. The attack skinned his arm but missed impaling him due to his rotation in mid air.
"She got him," Touya said quietly. He would have smiled at his friends accomplishment, but he knew that a simple scratch could mean nothing in the over all result of the battle, especially when one takes heed of an issue demons in modern times paid little attention to any more; time.
It was amazing to feel little tension in the air. In fact the only tension the ice master felt was from himself and his comrades. He silently wondered why the gods or the many guardians that all paying close attention to the battle were not in the least bit worried. It was an ire feeling since he knew better than to think that they knew the outcome to a battle when not even the magical ceiling in the palace knew what is was.
Upon landing Van-Gareth ran towards his prey with such agility that easily surpassed that of Hiei's. His approach did not go without interference however as Era continued to unleash her attacks. As he came into arms reach she dropped herself into the ground, leaving only her watery image to be struck.
Van-Gareth understood this maneuver all too well by now and was quick to relocate the maiden. Before he struck the ground where his senses directed him however she jumped out and sent a large column of water at him, which he too evaded by entering his natural element, darted to a different location and reappeared within seconds.
Sensing danger not far behind herself Era whipped around in time to see and duck an assault that would have ripped five extremely deep gashes into her body. Her next move was a jump to evade another assault by the shadow beast's sharp claws.
The commencing attacks were all hand to hand instead of what they had been doing; spirit energy and elemental attacks. This created a slight problem for the water maiden as Van-Gareth's arms were longer in this form than normal, keeping her at a farther distance and leaving a much less chance of making an offensive maneuver of her own.
Getting a bit annoyed with being forced into the defensive she did something desperate. She grabbed hold of one of Van-Gareth arms as it flew past her, ducked to evade the other clawed hand, and sent a high kick strait into Van-Gareth's jaw.
Van-Gareth was sent high into the air due to the force of impact, but not before dealing a blow of his own. As he had been going up he freed his captured arm and lashed the back of his hand across her face hard enough to make her spin and fall to the ground.
Era was dealt three sharp cuts on her cheek as some of his fingers caught her, all being deep enough to cause blood to flow down every section of the wound. She pulled on her shirt sleeve to place the material over her wrist before she placed it on her cheek in hopes of easing the bleeding. She also focused water onto her cheek to both clean and slowly heal the wound.
Van-Gareth was in little better shape as Era's blow and broken his jaw. He growled through his teeth before he forcefully grabbed his jaw with his hand, which he had turned back to normal, and sharply popped it back in place without even a cringe. With his jaw back in place he turned back into natural form and focused his shadow abilities to seek out the remainder of the break and bind it back into place.
"Wait a second!" Yusuke proclaimed. "If they can both heal how are they going to be able to end this fight?"
"The trick," Eralasea began as she turned to look at him, "Is to cause an injury to great to heal in any hurry."
Is it just me or does Eralasea keep giving more and more bad news?
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