Chapter4: Lyss' Greatest Fear
The Stadium was louder than ever. Lyss walked into the ring, ready for business. Patria came to ring, but she wasn't walking, she was levitating! "Nice magic trick", said Lyss, but she was a little nervous. After seeing Dante' get cut up like that, she wasn't sure about this fight. "Shall we begin?" Lyss heard these words, but Patria wasn't moving her lips, she had used telepathy to talk to Lyss. "I know your one true fear", Patria "said" to Lyss. "Your Family, your afraid of losing them", she exclaimed. "I may not have the physical strength to kill you, but you'll beg for mercy when I'm done." With that, Patria closed her eyes and the ground began to shake.
"What's going… oh my God!" Lyss was confronted with her parents, staring at her. Then they began to back away, fading. They got darker and darker, until they disappeared. Lyss followed desperately and walked into a walked into a clean roundhouse kick by Patria. It didn't hurt much but it stunned Lyss for a second, enough for Patria to create another elusion. She was again facing her parents, who were smiling. A dark figured appeared behind them. It wrapped around their necks and began to strangle them. "Lyss tried to fight the figure, but it was too strong. "Let go!", she bellowed desperately, but her parents were gone. She fell to her knees, this elusion was far too real; she couldn't take it. She began to cry, her family kept dying in front of her face; it wouldn't stop.
"Lyss, you have to focus", it was Dante's voice this time. He had broken through Patria's elusion, and was talking to her telepathically. "It doesn't matter if you have telepathy or not, you can shatter this elusion if you try." Lyss closed her eyes and focused, she could see her parents getting destroyed by this dark figure. Then she saw that the dark figure was only Patria, surrounded by shadows of power. "That's it!" Lyss exclaimed. She saw an opening, and she took it. She ran at the figure, and through a powerful left hook. It went halfway through then hit something solid. Patria flew onto her back and wasn't moving. The match was over. The strain of having been hit while conjuring an elusion had killed her. Dante' and Lyss won the first round, Earth would live another day