An: The battle between Aly and Jade... 'nuff said enjoy and review please please review
What Aly was doing could have been considered stupid… actually it was stupid. Jade could… had kicked her ass while reading theology books. And that was Jade holding back… of course Jade always held back no matter she would only give as much energy that was required to win a fight, and through the massive amounts of energy Aly could tell Jade was holding back quite a bit… this wasn't Jade.
Aly gave a scream of pain as Jade's claws which were now searing hot, put a slash mark on her face castrating it. "That's for the scar that you gave me three years ago, we're even now. Of course I'm still going to have to kill you so we'll never be even… rookie." Jade picked Aly up by the neck and did a massive right hook into her stomach sending Aly flying, into a tree. "Of course that's all you've ever wanted isn't it rookie, to be my equal," Jade laughed at this. A vicious backhand from Jade sent Aly flying to the ground again.
Aly's hair cascaded into her face as the wind picked up, as stood up her back on Jade who raised an eyebrow, "SHUT-UP!" she roared as the wind speeds began picking up it was now stronger than a level 5 hurricane. But Jade just stood there her feet firmly planted on the ground. The winds died down a bit as Aly turned around her scarred face looking directly at Jade. Anger radiated in Aly's blue eyes.
"Are you done, because I have other people to kill," Jade said in a bored tone. Aly didn't hesitate as she rushed Jade, who sighed and ducked her foot smashing into Aly's face nearly snapping her neck at the force. Aly dropped like a rock and groaned clutching her face. "Get up."
Aly did as she was told chuckling, "I'm awake now and I'm not going to hold back this time. You seem to be truly into killing me."
"Duh… where have you been for the past five minutes," Jade said, taking her attack stance. Aly did the same an exact copy of Jades, as the two charged at each other. Two punches flew one from each of them, and both punches were blocked. The two stood there looking into each other's eyes. Jade grinned as she opened her mouth, preparing to blow Aly's head off. Aly saw it coming and broke of and dodged Jade's attack. But it was a mere ploy as Jade did a reverse handstand her foot smashing Aly's chin sending her flying.
Aly landed on her feet blood flying out of her mouth. Jade still on her hands face gave a small smirk at Aly. "Without Bloom, Dani, or anyone else to interfere things won't be so lucky for you. And I will say it once more…I will kill you." With that Jade shifted to her feet and used her fiery hands to smash the ground, which caused a mini earthquake.
Aly growled, "Bastard… I'll beat you back to your old self," with that she began to make a small ball of wind. And sent it flying towards the explosion the two powers smashed into each other creating a small explosion. The two titans created another blast this time more powerful than last one as they rushed against each other right hands meeting as each of the powers created an explosion of great magnitude one which Aly and Jade were stuck in the middle each trying to push each other back.
The two powers imploded creating a massive shockwave sending both fighters back. Years of experience and Jade landed on her feet, but Aly flew straight into a tree, but she straightened back up.
Jade cursed, "Dammit, a quarter powered blast only went that far… the rookie's improving. But not by much that was my weakest attack."
Aly glanced at Jade, "No doubt about it you're serious about killing me. But can you kill me calmly?"
Jade began to laugh, "You're improving, let me tell you a secret when two first classed warriors meet they can tell what there opponent is thinking by the touch of the fists… so Alianne… what am I thinking," Jade clicked her tongue and a huge ball of flame appeared from her mouth.
Aly jumped into the air trying to avoid the fire blast not noticing that Jade had used her speed to appear right beside Aly. Her fist smashing into Aly's face her foot connecting with Aly's lower jaw. The blow sent Aly flying back. "Jade I always knew you were a loner… in fact at the beginning I was relieved because I thought you were the same as me. I was glad and I had to talk to you straight away. But you treated me like a freak… you forgot my name you ignored me. You could do everything and you had everyone" Aly tried to doge the kick Jade delivered straight to her solar plexus. "But we were to different…regrettably I decide you would be my rival, I had to become better than you… but all I wanted…" Jade smashed her face with a massive left hook. "Was to be like you. I aspired to be like you and because of that when you first truly acknowledged me… I was glad." Jade picked up Aly by her throat with her left hand. "But now I don't get it… why would you want to kill us… I thought I… we were your friend…" Aly's hands began to smoke but Jade didn't notice as her pupils dilated.
"It's to late now Alianne." Jade snarled her hand was literally ablaze not noticing that Aly's pupils had constricted.
There was a horrible gushing sound and finally silence.
"After all I might have been the only one who thought wewere friends and because of that… Jade… I will not give up…No I cannot… I cannot give you up to Lilith.
Jade looked at where Aly's hand had tried to deflect her arm from passing through her heart, "You prevented me from hitting your heart… however that was pointless. Because now I've impaled your right lung." Jade removed her right arm from Aly's body. Blood dripped from Jade's hands; "You cannot use your right arm now. And it is getting difficult to breathe… and you can't manipulate your magic in your current state…" Jade stopped talking as Aly grabbed her left wrist nearly crushing the bones. Jade dropped Aly her eyes slightly wide, as the wind once again picked up pushing Jade back. 'Wha… What the hell her energy levels are increasing exponentially. Where did she get all that power.'
Aly stood there, her head down blood dripping out of the gaping hole in her chest, her own blood dripping down her arms. The wind whipping around began to take a shape that caused Jade to take an involuntary step back. A massive griffin had taken shape behind Aly's body.
"Wha… where… no way," Jade took another step back as she stared into Aly's narrowed irises. The gaping hole closed in Aly's chest as she stared at Jade whose mouth nearly dropped. "No way… her wound healed as quickly as one of my injuries would… impossible the griffin has no healing properties this can't be happening."
Aly's face was unnaturally hard as she took an attack position, "Jade! Lilith will not control you anymore… Even if I have to break your arms and your legs, let it be said now that I will stop you!" She hadn't wanted to lose… and that ardent had awoken her own beast inside of her.
Jade quickly snapped back to attention her eyes narrowed and the markings of the Beast began to recede into where the bite-mark. The old Jade had began to resurface struggling to regain control as her left turned back to it's original colour only for the irises to split turning into the phoenix's. "Lilith can't control my body or the way I think. I only fight for causes that I truly believe in Alianne, and I refuse to fight for a tyrant."
"Don't lie to yourself whether you believe it or not doesn't matter anymore Lilith's found away to infiltrate your mind even if you did truly believe the bull that Lilith's been spouting to you wouldn't be trying to kill your friends."
"You mean the same ones that are only using me for there own gain, Dani because she wants to prove to her family that she's not a loser, Bloom only wants me to fight because she needs Sky, has anyone stopped to think that maybe I don't want to spend the rest of my life fighting for my life against some insanely strong opponent just because I have to. At least Lilith hasn't tried to manipulate me…" Jade was blown back by the huge amounts of wind Aly had heard enough. "No way she blew me back with just wind alone…." A blur caught Jade's eyes, "Damn her she's to fast."
Aly was using her wind to move at an accelerated speed her punches actually snapping bones in Jade's body before she actually hit the ground. Aly landed on top of her arm placed on Jade's neck making it hard for Jade to breath. "Wake up already Jade. We're not using you we're your friends and if you were in there situation we'd do the same thing that's what friends do and yes she did manipulate you she turned you against us. If you're still not sure who to believe then I'll break like a stick and drag you back immobile."
Jade stared at Aly through her daze as her bones began to snap back into place healing themselves. And for a split second Aly thought she had finally gotten through to her that was before Jade started to snigger… "Shut the hell up. What do you know about me? You grew up with a family who despite there lack of warmth that you needed loved you especially your father who drank simply because he felt guilty for not providing you with the proper essentials that you needed in life. And don't give me the bull that I had friends… all the time I was travelling I was alone… and when I was with them I couldn't trust them as far as I could throw them as I look back it wasn't till we were older till I could finally trust them enough for us to actually go out with each other but that was just out of convenience to me strong allies and all that. But you had something to begin with whereas I had nothing. So tell me WHAT DO WE HAVE IN COMMON. Your parents are still alive and so is your… our sister… but I've lost so much even when I had nothing… and all that suffering is what made me stronger… You don't know the real meaning of the word loss." With that Jade's leg pushed Aly of her fists smashing Aly's already scarred face.
Both faeries got up Jade clutching her side, Aly holding her jaw. "Is it anything like losing a friend, cause maybe just maybe that's enough, for me to win."
Jade said nothing her eyes not betraying any emotions, but the marks of the Beast were gone. She fell into her fighting stance. She gave a simple nod to Aly who rushed her. Jade timed it perfectly as she dodged the wind attack and used the momentum to swing her foot connecting, which connected with Aly's neck.
Stars exploded in Aly's vision as she dropped to the ground. Jade walked up to Aly and placed her foot on Aly's neck cutting of her air supply. "You've got a way's to go if you ever want to be even half as strong as I am… rookie." Jade extended her claws. "It must suck to be you, after all the day that your wind breaks…" Fire now covered Jade's hand "Is the day that you die." Jade attempted to finish the battle with her flame-covered hands only to be met by some invisible barrier. Set invisible barrier forced Jade back leaving Aly panting for air.
"I have no intention of dying… not now anyway," Aly pushed herself off and Jade frowned at this.
"I am way out of your league… so why do you keep on fighting?" Jade asked suddenly, her hands once again igniting.
"For a friend. And because someone wise once said that when you fight to protect the ones you truly care about then you will become as strong as you need to be. And that's why I'll fight on… so I won't lose my friend."
And the claws receded, and again Jade struggled for control as distant memories surfaced.
And then, she remembered.
Her friends…
Her last remaining family member…
Her father standing against all odds…
Jade's eyes opened again.
And Yusuke's expression of utter agony as Darcy forced him to harm her…
"GO TO HELL! GO TO HELL! GO TO HELL!"
And her eyes shone bright green.
"YOU FIRST!"
And Jade thrust her arms out, and her blast returned, doubled, tripled, quadrupled, overwhelming Darcy's dark fire blast like it was nothing and scattering it to the winds as Darcy suddenly found her power gone and her vision filling with gold.
Jade shook these thoughts away… and once again the beast resurfaced as she once again, she smiled dangerously at Aly before clicking her tongue and sending a huge breath of fire that smashed against Aly's body. Jade eyes widened, "Damn it she's creating a shield to protect herself…" Jade let the fire recede only to notice that Aly had made an attacking motion. "Can't touch me from over there," another mistake as Aly's wind took the shape of a punch, which smashed Jade across the face, sending her flying into a tree. The markings of the beast sprang back out of the bite mark once again covering of half of Jade's face.
Aly didn't hesitate as she once again used her powers over wind to form a huge hand… one which gripped Jade's body and sent dragged her at a huge speed towards Aly whose hand had once again become magically enhanced with her powers over wind as she smashed Jade in the face once again.
And again she went flying except this time into a huge boulder that had somehow managed to remain unscathed in the battle. Aly stared at Jade praying that she would stay down, her heart falling as she heard Jade's chuckling. The dust cleared and Aly stared at Jade who had gotten up. "That didn't hurt… Alianne. And let it be said now that you were special, but… I will always be more special than you! And I have no intention of losing." With that being said Jade let the power of the curse fully wash over her body absorbing huge amounts of it. Her hands once again turning into claws but instead of an all out flame like last time her hands sparked with a black energy. Jade looked at her hands and touched the boulder standing behind her. It exploded with impact causing Jade to smirk, one, which quickly turned into a look of pain as Jade, coughed up some blood.
"It looks like your body is finally reaching it's limit and…" Aly glanced down at her right hand, "I can't move my right hand."
Jade smirked again, "Did you honestly think that your power up wouldn't have any consequences." She was quiet before standing up straight her body unusually relaxed, "This is it… the time for talk is finally over… this battle is finally ending." That being said Jade drew back into a ready position, her hand lighting up with her once again flames the black energy swirling around it dangerously.
Aly's left hand soon held the equivalent of such a powerful attack in her element the two staring at each other daring each other to make the first move.
The two opponents looked in each other's eyes reading each others movements. And as one, they rushed each other their left hands outstretched. And the magic that the two were letting off collided.
The two blasts created a dome around the two combatants causing nearly everyone within the nearby vicinity or anyone who was watching this battle to stop everything that they were doing and turn to there direction.
Even Lilith was worried, "That energy… it's terrible the power of the beast and the power of the griffin… so much power…"
The black dome began to grow destroying anything that it touched sending things flying off in different directions. But on closer inspection of the dome a glowing yellow light appeared growing bigger and bigger until finally the dome broke and through the light you could see the shadows of the combatants. And if you completely zoomed in on the scene you could see that both combatants tired faces as the light overwhelmed them. But it was there hands that was the kicker no longer trying to kill each other in fact it was almost like the scene out of E.T. but not quite two fingers; the middle and the pointer finger were now wrapped around each other as if in some sorta of handshake. This wasof coursebefore the power blew them apart.
And Jade stood over Aly's body looking down at her peaceful features in silent for a moment watching her steady rhythmic breathing. Before raising up her right hand claws fully extended, her face once again betraying no emotion as she began to lower her claws…
And this time there was no more struggling the old Jade resurfaced. Holding her hand as she continued to stare into Aly's face… "Oh… God… Aly… I…" and she looked up staring at the sky as it began to rain. The rain gently washed away all the blood on Jade's body as she slowly began to back away. Jade looked at her hands in horror and at the damage she had done as memories of the past half an hour came flooding back to her and she dropped to her knees as the emotion guilt overwhelmed her… "Oh God… please no…"
Aly woke up nearly half an hour later, her body nearly completely recharged, sitting up she glanced around for any signs of Jade… there were none she was gone… and soon so was Aly heading at a breakneck speed towards where the others were fighting. Praying and hoping that Jade hadn't killed them all.