The Alfador, I already try to get Young Negi chapters up and out the door in a week. Once, I shipped two chapters in one day! That was insane...As for your challenge, I'll take it, but I warn you, I'm doing other things too, so by the time you see this, It might be past two weeks, but I'll try for you. Taken on the fifteenth.
*Goes back to the manga to see the latest chapter * I'm sorry, but my Negi has such an attitude, it's hard to go back to the original. Heh. I haven't been reading recently. I only decided to catch up when I put that spoiler in my story recently.
You know, I only realized when I was about halfway finished with this challenge in one day...this is a doozy to try and attempt...6000 words probably the longest battle scene I've ever done! I expect to find myself repeating things, this battle may in fact, end up being boring in the end I think...I can only describe a battle so well without getting either to detailed or over using words...hmm.
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Beast Form
Negi looked about the barren landscape. Large spires of rock stuck up from the golden ground, breaking the monotonous mood the sand set. An wide empty space in which he would attempt to end it all. Here it would be.
My choice.
It was either he finally gained control of Magica Erebia, or it consumed him, his only two choices, in front of his eyes, two pathways to take, two doors in front of him, and her was blindfolded, he knew not which one he would walk through, he only knew it had to be now, away from anyone else.
To chase after him, to find him, to save this world...
If he lost control, he had no doubt Eva would be able to handle him, even if this was not actually her. This Eva had no mercy, no fond memories to draw upon for sympathy. Not that he doubted the actual Eva's continence, but there was no excuse here.
...Fulfill the duty a Magister Magi must.
Motivation for himself perhaps, to get this technique never made for human beings under his control. Motivation to either accept and win over his power, or die trying. The stage was set as the vampire approached him slowly, ready.
"You ready boya?"
Negi's twitched his mouth a bit, but his face was set. He needed to get this under control, Magica Erebia was a terrible thing in the end, it lent him great power, but at what price? His morals? His personality, his humanity...or maybe just his sanity?
Eva rushed at him, her hand outstretched, but Negi shot off to the side to land lightly on the ground, skipped almost in stopping. He drew upon his power. Deep drawing, he probed for the darkness he held inside, bringing it to bubble on the surface.
"Please Evangeline-san...please..."
His hands glowed before they darkened, taking on a shadow hue he knew all to well, his darkest feelings pooling up inside of him. He hated the feeling, but he let it come none the less.
"Please, let me activate it myself..."
He had never discussed how much he hated activating Magica Erebia, not to anyone. Not even to himself did he let the thought dwell. If he did, he would never activate the form ever again, and he needed it.
Such power could never be bought for free, I knew that the moment my hand unfurled that scroll...
To defeat Fate, to find his father, to shoulder the great burden this world was placing upon his young shoulders. A young prince who's duty was to serve the world, protect it, whether it be real or not, that wasn't his concern. People were people; they had lives and stories to tell.
Yet I had wanted the easy way out, no, not the easy way, the fast way. A one way crash course to power...and I had gotten it...
It was his job to make sure those stories were told out to the fullest.
All of his thoughts were brushed aside as the technique, the dreaded Magica Erebia, crawled up his hands and came upon his arms, the darkness making them shadows, absorbing all light that came their way.
...but at what cost?
Gluttony. Greed. Lust. Vanity. Envy. Sloth...Anger, Pride, Covet, Fear, Wrath...they all flooded him. His body was taken and wracked by them, the pain, the joy, the hurt, the fear, the very...pleasure of it all. It wrapped him in a cocoon, threw away all his outward mind, consumed him.
What reason was he fighting so hard for, living life so scantly for? To what did he owe anyone? Nothing his body told him. He had power, great power, power to take all for his own. The enemy was all he needed to see, destroy the enemy, and you destroy all your problems with them. They can never be forgiven, they have sinned, they are wrong!
You are wrong. I must see both the enemy and my friends, those who walk along with me, I am not alone. I owe them my friendship, my power, my sword.
His hands sparked with lightning magic, and his whole body was consumed by the darkness now, as those ever familiar symbols crept along his skin, crawled along him. He shook, what was left of himself shook. No! Such darkness he should never allow to control him! He would fight it!
It shoved him aside, and yet, as Eva approached, he stayed still.
"Good...good...it's almost there...you're controlling it well so far...oh? Perhaps I spoke to soon?"
What did she have that he didn't anyway?! Why was she the master and he just the student? What superiority did she have over him?! With his power, he could consume her, destroy her, take her power for his own. She was the queen of darkness...but he would be king!
No! I must fight, control it, rein it, it's almost over...once the transformation is full...I only have to maintain hold...slowly pull...
No, YOU are the one who is wrong, you who are weak. I shall make you strong, have made you strong. You must listen to me! You want to be whole? To have control? She is the one who has torn you apart! It is because of her that you go through this!
No! I chose this for myself...
Did you...? Or was it because that dead fool told you, you would not have enough power to chase after your father, the one she idolizes? Was it because that other fool told you he was still alive, the red headed sloth? Perhaps it was the very sin in front of you...
Wait...no. It was me who chose it all!
Perhaps it was she who took a simple boy who loved his father and made him pine for the man, an impossible dream, took him and made him "strong". Took you and drilled into you the need to chase after that irrelevant cloud. It was she who played with you, making you reach for power and then slamming the door in your face, the one who stems your growth right now! It is she who prevents you from seizing your dreams of greatness!
..I...I have no dreams of greatness!
He clenched his fist as his shoulders began to crawl with the symbols of Magica Erebia. Eva saw the sparks that were condensing and halted her advance, calling up her own magic. That was a mistake, a cautionary measure, but still, a grave, grave mistake...
You have no dreams of greatness? You lie! You dream of being a hero, like your father was, you dream of being strong to take all in your protective hold, conquer all your foes, save this world and take it under your care. You dream of being an ultimate! See now your foolishness!
No..no...I am not! I only seek to set this world free of it's bonds, to save it from destruction!
The enemy is in front of you, see, she has drawn her power, crush her, now! She will not be forgiven! Never forgiven, crushed under your might, before she takes her blade to your throat...take yours to hers!
She...wouldn't...do... that!
No?! She is now you fool, you are blind! Never forgive, never waver, fight, destroy all enemies, only the strong survive!
..No...NO!
"Destroy the enemy."
The statement was so simple, yet as his entire body exploded into darkness, the symbols visible on his chest even, the wraith of Eva took a step back, her magic condensing. Here, she had all the powers of her true self, along with a copy of her personality at the time...cruel and calculating, the type to put a hot iron to your open wound if that will seal it, and she cares to do it...and it was her duty to care here.
"Never...NeVER... Forgive...THE ENEMY!"
Negi rushed in, so quickly, Eva had to flip off to the side, her Executioner's sword coming to life, yet Negi was right there in the next instant, alive with electricity as his own blade was bared. She stared into his eyes, or what was left of them.
The grayish black shadows where his eyes once were looked like empty sockets up close, allowing her to peer into his very soul, and all she saw was darkness. This was her technique up close, this was her technique advanced to a point she had never taken it, this was...uncharted territory.
The boy removed his blade from hers and sliced to sever her head from body, but she ducked, stabbing out, but the boy caught her blade with a free hand, shadowy fingers closing upon the shaft and absorbing it...she had to pull away.
She lunged at his side, but he spun, parrying her slash and slipping his blade up for one of her eyes, yet she twisted away, breaking the close contact. She tried another angle, but he met her here too, almost cutting her arm off with his speed.
This was dangerous, he was. Like this, he was a terrible foe, she broke off from him, chanting.
"Lic Lac Li Lac, Lilac!"
She didn't manage to get a spell out however, the boy appeared in her face, his lightning form setting her own skin reverberating against it, hair on the rise. She flipped away from him, incanting without opening her mouth as he rushed her again.
Sagitta Magica, Centum et Nonagita Novem, Spiritus Glaciales!
The arrows where shot at close range upon Negi's back, but he spun quickly, quick as lightning, and slashed every one through with his blade, still, this let her bore in on his back, yet the boy was ready for this too, as lightning condenses along his body before it exploded outwards in the form of arrows, making her diverge from her tactic.
He disengaged from slashing arrows to rush her. She jumped up in the air to distance herself from him, her hands coming together quickly.
Κενότητος ἀστράπσατω δὲ τεμέτω! Δίος τύκος!
The axe of lightning blasted down to strike the earth, and yet, it missed. It's charges flashing everywhere, but ignored, as Negi appeared right next to Eva, his dark fist glowing bright as he punched her out of the air, a magic arrow following her down.
Quick, calculating, a perfect beast.
She caught herself before landing, getting her feet under her before she jumped away from the very spot she had been, for Negi had slammed down there, kicking up dust. No rest came her way, for the boy exited the cloud almost instantly, rushing at her.
If it were not for the fact I were opposing him, I might want to leash him for a pet.
Eva dodged equally quickly, finally reaching his side to punch him in the gut, hard. A kick to the back sent him forwards, and she took to the sky again, reaching for her magic. She reached out to him, sending a blast of ice that caked the whole area in ice, but the boy simply canceled his barrier, and shattered the bubble about him with a powerful jump kick upwards, blasting apart the peaceful landscape as he came right back at her.
Impressive...but it's not enough, not to defeat me!
Dodging, the chibi vampire called up her executioner's sword slashing it right into his unprotected back, basting him back down towards the ground, where she dived to follow, yet when he slammed into the ground, shattering ice and kicking up powder, he rolled and shot back up, catching Eva in mid-flight with a powerful blow and sending her into the ground.
She ducked under a slash from his magical blade and had to roll away from a rake he sent her way with claws. He had grown claws for god's sakes! He gave her no rest, pushing her back, and back, making her duck and weave until she took to the sky again.
He snarled, and with no visible teeth, the look was more unsettling than anticipated, especially when his mouth seemed to swallow all the light about it.
"Why do you run? Isn't this what you like? A little bit of FUN?!"
To Sumbolaion Diakonētō Moi, hē Krustallinē Basileia! Epigenēthētō, Taiōnion Erebos, Haiōnie Krustalle! Pasais Zōais ton Ison Thanaton, hos Ataraxia! Kosmikē Katastrophē!
The long winded spell was quick in her mind, blasting down upon the ground and covering all in ice, building pillars of it all around... Negi was nowhere to be seen...until he appeared in-between two pillars, rushing at her.
A true beast! He takes no pause, keeps pressing the attack!
He broke pillars as he jumped off them, using them as leverage, making Eva entered the frozen world with him, using the terrain to lunge at him, to retreat, to attack from the shadows, the boy called up to the sky, hands glowing.
He spoke no words, but his mind felt his intent clearly as the world tilted.
Το σθμβολαιον διακονετο μοι, βασιλισκ οθρανιονον. Επιγενεντηετο απολεια κεραθνε ηοσ τιμεισ πτειρει. Ηεκατονκατισ και κηιλιακισ αστραπσατο. Κηιλιαρκοθ Αστραπε!"
All about, the lightning struck down, shattering ice, melting it with its extreme power, just as his incredible strength shattered it when he used it as leverage. He set the entire area into an electrocution zone, forcing Eva to take to the air, where he jumped up to meet her, kicking out at her.
Such a battle style sets me on fire, I pine to test him farther..
She caught his foot, but he leaned in, raking her with his dark hands, making her release. He punched her right back down into her own death zone, but once more, she sent a spell soaring up at him, an ice coffin, which caught him full on.
She landed hard on the ground, and his coffin fell and shattered into fine dust, of which the boy, freed from his prison, only grunted once in disorientation before bearing down upon her again.
The hell did this boy eat for breakfast this morning, diamonds...?
She was forced to call it out again, looking for a good time. She released it point blank when he rushed her and came too close.
"To Sumbolaion Diakonētō Moi, hē Krustallinē Basileia! Epigenēthētō, Taiōnion Erebos, Haiōnie Krustalle! Pasais Zōais ton Ison Thanaton, hos Ataraxia! Kosmikē Katastrophē!"
She wasted no time scrambling away and raising her hands, speaking out the final harsh word of the spell, shattering the ice and breaking Negi along with it into a million pieces...or so it was supposed to be. The boy still stood, cold to the core, but his darkness had provided his warmth.
His eyes glowered as he slowly moved, cracking ice along the surface of his body as he went. Still half frozen...he set his body alight with fire, he consumed himself with fire to burn away the ice before he rushed in, blasting Eva back with a powerful blow.
Veniant Spiritus Glaciales Obscurantes...Cum Obscuratione Flet Tempestas Nivalis! Nivis Tempestas Obscurans!
Even while flying backwards, Eva opened her hands towards Negi, letting loose her spell right in his face. He shundoed out of the way however, and then came back right at her, but she also began employing the famous shundo to gain distance and bore in close for attacks.
Negi caught her after getting hit twice and sent her into one of her remaining broken pillars of ice with a throw, shattering it and making the bits pierce her skin. His mind roared at him.
TAKE HER NOW, YOU SEE SHE IS WEAK, SHE IS YOURS TAKE HER, CONSUME HER.
No...stop!
The boy jumped up and ripped her with his claws, blasting her away with the blow. She landed hard on the ground, and she grimaced as she landed.
Hah...the boy is more powerful than I thought. In accessing his Magica Erebia, he's almost as powerful as Nagi, I think, or have I just gotten lazy? No matter...
She got up quickly, only to slip away when the boy's magical blade appeared where her eyes had been. He thrusted again, missing her middle. He thrusted again, but paused mid thrust to turn his thrust into a flat-blade slash, sending her backwards and off her feet with a blast of air.
Play time's over, boya...
He jumped on her downed form, raking her with claws until she blasted him away with magic, sending him soaring over fifteen meters into the air...it didn't faze him as he landed, but her hands were glowing darkly now.
One of them came up to wipe her mouth, spitting dirt. Her clothes had become ragged with his raking her eyes burned as she tossed disdainfully away the ground that stuck to her.
"You leave me no choice boya! Witness how it's really done, boy!"
Circling her, the darkness came, reaching up and quickly consuming her whole as the symbols wreaked havoc upon her skin, reaching up as high as her elbows. Inwardly, Negi cringed, but Magica Erebia bolstered him, prideful.
She's going to kill me now!
Kill you? Hah! Her control of this technique is but marginal to yours! She is the creator, but you are the teacher! Teach her, consume her, eat her alive! Destroy her, wipe all traces of her form this earth, you are strong, she is weak, you will prevail, the enemy is ahead, all enemies must die, you must kill her, kill her NOW!
I cannot!
Then let me save you the trouble!
Eva's speed was unimaginable, but so too was Negi's counter. She caught him by the throat and he caught her. they disengaged and they both lunged at each other, Negi slashed at her chest powerfully, drawing a cry from the dark form, but she raked his face, making him scream out.
Gah...
Yes, yes, yes! Feel the pain, you see, she has betrayed you!
No! She only seeks to stop you!
Is it not one and the same?
"... ... ... ..."
He lunged in, grabbing the arm and twisting it, she bit down had upon his neck, he let loose an animalistic howl before grabbing her head from his neck and wrenching it away slamming it into the ground, yet she broke free, kicking him in the head and dragging her claws along his back, oozing darkness escaped his wounds.
Our blood is so interestingly dark, don't you see what you truely are? What you are meant to be? Stop fighting me, let us crush this being between her own overbloated, undeserving power!
Flipping around, Negi threw her off and rushed her, grabbing her face and plunging his claws into her chest, right where the heart was, but she disengaged and kicked him in the middle and knocked him off of his feet to tear at him again.
The boy blasted her off with some powerful lightning magic. The two stood, darkness to darkness, both of them dripping with dark wounds open. Eva rushed in and the boy shot to the side, shouldered her in the chest, sending her skidding, he rushed in, his Executioner's sword coming to life as she slashed out.
No! I will overcome you!
She met his with hers, creating a shockwave the both ignored as once sought to overpower the other. Negi's symbols glowed as he strained against her power, so did hers. Two forces, struggling for supremacy.
You see, she aims to behead you! Dismember you, but we shall do so to her, then you shall see!
The symbols upon Negi's body grew brighter, and began to expand...Magica Erebia was diving deeper into him, taking more control, and Eva began to feel her strength against him wane. No! She could not let him win...she could not...let... the weakling overcome her!
Eva sent him flying backwards with a hard kick to his chest and he saw her symbols had exploded outwards, taking up her entire body, coating arms, legs, everywhere. Her mastery...her creation. Magica Erebia answered, her, the one who had a body stronger than that of a simple human.
Blasting him away with a sheet of ice, she set him shivering. No rest. She rushed in and plunged her clawed hands into his chest this time. No parry. She dug deeper, searching for the heart and finding none as he kicked her off. No mercy. Deep in Eva went and slammed her elbow into his neck, making him cough, gag even.
It was Eva now who rushed Negi now, pushing him further and further back, making him use all of his skill and speed to dodge. She was the creator of this technique, what made him think he could best her in it?!
Anger. It came now, strong, filling hatred that gave him strength, strength to reach out past her guard and kick Eva into a boulder, pulverizing it with her form.
Stop this madness!
ME! IT SHOULD BE ME! I AM THE ONE, THE POWER...I will consume all! Nothing will stop me, not even YOU! You, who cannot see your own destiny, be gone!
Darnit..I'm losing what little control I have! Gaaah!
Electricity coursed around him, pulsed, threatened to consume the boy in its strength. It melded with him until he could only be called lightning himself. He had merged with a force of nature, activated Taisou Two.
He flew at Eva in the air and struck her once, twice, even a hundred times, more as she, in her own form, strove to avoid him. At one point, he dodged her when she held out her hand to absorb his strength, striking her from behind and giving him an opening to pummel her.
Only the strong survive, the weak will perish. You ruled in your time, now it is my time to rule!
The first hit...will weaken you, slow you, increase the chance of getting hit again...and the second will increase the chance of a third, the third increased the chance for the forth...She may be the one whose body could handle the effects of it, but he was the master now. Taisou Two was only a supplement.
I am the one.
He sent her skidding away with a strike to her middle, flying even. He rushed in, arm reared back, but she managed to skitter away, still, before she went far, his hand slapped against her chest, pumping magical arrows into her, blasting her off course. He bore in her, his hand coming out to dig into her heart, like she had done to him.
Shot through the heart, I am victorious!
Two animals, they battled back and forth, gaining ground, losing it, scaring the earth with their power. Eva summoned an incredible sword of light, sending it forth, but Negi wreathed arrows into a beam of lightning shooting it through, shattering it.
He shot at her, raking her again. She elbowed his chin upwards, punching him in the gut with another fist, knocking air out of him, yet the boy grabber her throat with his free hand, squeezing.
No! You will not! I will...defeat...you!
SHUT UP YOU FOOL! I KNOW THE TRUTH NOW, YOU ARE ALL WEAK! WEAK, UNWORHTY, YOU EVEN, NOT WORTHY OF THE POWER I HAVE GIVEN YOU, NOT WORTHY OF YOURSELF, YOUR OWN DESTINY! IF YOU WON'T TAKE IT, I WILL!
Gah!
Finally, Negi fell silent as Eva reached outwards, sinking claws into his shoulder, ripping to tear his arm form its socket, and the beast he had become roared. He sent Eva flying away and tossed Negi's mind away to, the final piece to the puzzle consumed. The form roared symbols glowing bright before it rushed at Eva, faster than ever before, no longer held back by simple human emotions.
Shit, he's lost all control!
Its punch sent her into the ground, impacting underneath her, creating a crater. He kicked her up and blasted her skyward with a dozen arrows, jumping up after her to elbow her right back down into the earth, shockwaves racking the ground.
He landed on top of her, blasting air from her form, his hands grabbed her, tossed her skyward to blast her with more arrows before darkness shot from his palms, wrapping around her and yanking her to the ground, into his claws.
No mercy, no remorse. He slammed her into the ground, sinking his nails deeper into her before kicking her off disdainfully to land at least thirty meters away.
Such speed, cunning...and power...all in one package!
Her Magica Erebia fell from her, leaving her broken and bruised. She couldn't believe a wraith, an illusion, a degraded copy, could feel such abuse, such pain. Negi slowly approached, and she forced herself up, shakily...
"The...hell?! This can't...be happening!"
A powerful whack on the head almost compacted her body into the ground, shattering bone. Negi had just treated her head like a whack-a-mole game, and his fist had been the hammer. He grabbed her and tossed her up in the air, jumping after her to send her careening downwards with another punch.
God... What have I created?! I don't call upon you often you know, so you better answer me!
Of course, no answer came to the scarred vampiress, and she got up again, painfully. Negi was there again and sent her skidding with a foot to her gut. She only stopped when her head hit against a rock.
"Stay down! Dying peacefully is your only saving grace, your final salvation."
He was talking about salvation?! Yet, even as he approached her, his hands came up, clutching his head. Screaming, writhing in pain.
Leave her! You've done enough damage! I'M TAKING CONTROL NOW! You've ignored me for far too long! That was your mistake! I am not weak, I am stronger than you, and I will defeat you!
NO! WEAK FOOL, KILL HER NOW, WHILE SHE IS DOWN, WHILE SHE IS HELPLESS, SLAUGHTER THE WEAK, KILL THE ENEMY, NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE, THE ENEMY!
The very purpose of a Magister Magi is to protect those less able than you, to heal, help, unite. Killing all enemies will not do that. I will not let you continue your rampage. I am in control I am strong, you are weak, and I will seal you, I will control you, I will succeed you!
NAY! YOU ARE WEAK! WEAK, WEAK,WEAK! MY TIME TO SHINE, MINE!
A child begging for attention, your logic is flawed. I will defeat my enemies, with honor and dignity, I will spare them their final breaths, let them live in peace unless such a fate is impossible! I will follow my father's noble deeds, I will protect, I will serve. You are over stepping your boundaries!
He almost had control, almost. Yet it slipped and the other attacked him, breaking his hold further. The darkness ripped at his mentality, shattering the careful web he had lain out and shoving him aside once more.
No again, Gahh! THIS IS MY BODY, I MAKE THE DECISIONS HERE! Uwahh!
Weakling! ...hmm?
"Kosmikē Katastrophē!"
"...Oh."
Negi was once more encased in ice, yet the spell lasted only a few precious seconds before it shattered, not from Eva's bidding, but from the boy's, whose body was afire with a dark aura. The ice shattering all around, throwing deadly missiles up in the air. Negi grabbed a shard and slashed with it, catching Eva and flinging her away.
Damn! Not even that will work! To Sumbolaion Diakonētō Moi,hē Krustallinē Basileia! Epigenēthētō...
His quick reactions made him able to rush in after her, stabbing out with that same shard of ice and catching her dead center, making her fly even further to shatter a lone pillar of ice. Now, Negi rose his head to the heavens, calling out.
Taiōnion Erebos, Haiōnie Krustalle! Pasais Zōais ton Ison Thanaton, hos Ataraxia! Kosmikē Katastrophē! Sagita Magica, Centum et Nonagita Novem, Spiritus Glaciales!
"Κενότητος ἀστράπσατω δὲ τεμέτω! Δίοςτύκος!"
Veniant Spiritus Glaciales! Extentantur Aeri! Tundram et Glaciem, Loci Noctis Albae! Crystallizatio Tellustris!
Rushing in, axe glowing, he swung and caught her skull making her crumple. Yet still, she managed to think some last things, and speak out one last spell, hands outstretched towards him.
Locos Umbrae Regnans Scáthach! In Manum Meum Dedo Iaculum Daemonium Cum Spinis Triginta! Iaculatio Frigerans!
"Sagitta Magica, Centum et Nonagita Novem, Spiritus Glaciales!"
Four spells, and incredible amount of ice bearing down, freezing the earth, arching at him, encasing him in a tomb, it was all around, exploding, multiplying, until the two of them were literally in a castle of it, a tomb of ice that encased them both, Negi especially, who was once again frozen solid...and yet, the ice cracked, and an aghast Eva watched as once again, the boy broke free, a hand reaching out to close upon her throat once more.
God, how much more of this can I take? What happens if I fail? Will I come then, and will he kill me for real this time?!
Τοσθμβολαιονδιακονετομοι, βασιλισκοθρανιονον. Επιγενεντηετο, απολειακεραθνεηοστιμεισπτειρει. Ηεκατονκατισκαικηιλιακισαστραπσατο. ΚηιλιαρκοθΑστραπε!
"Τοσθμβολαιονδιακονετομοι, βασιλισκοθρανιονον. Επιγενεντηετο, απολειακεραθνεηοστιμεισπτειρει. Ηεκατονκατισκαικηιλιακισαστραπσατο. ΚηιλιαρκοθΑστραπε!"
All around, even as the boy himself was still aglow with lightning, his Taisou downgraded to one, the lightning broke their cage, and Eva kicked him hard in the chest, making him disengage. She wasn't done yet, not by a long shot, she took to the sky upon an exhausted wind.
My time isn't over just yet boy!
Rearing upwards, higher, higher the air grew colder, the wind ripped through her, playing upon her very skin, ragged, bruised, scratched and torn, she recited again, more ice, more power, her magic coming obediently, yet, even she could feel there wasn't much left.
There was enough however, for a few final big blasts.
To Sumbolaion Diakonētō Moi, hē Krustallinē Basileia! Epigenēthētō, Taiōnion Erebos, Haiōnie Krustalle! Pasais Zōais ton Ison Thanaton, hos Ataraxia! Kosmikē Katastrophē,
"Veniant Spiritus Glaciales! Extentantur Aeri! Tundram et Glaciem, Loci Noctis Albae! Crystallizatio Tellustris, Sagitta Magica Centum et Centum, et Centum et Centum!"
She rushed back down, a frozen spear form the heavens, to strike righteous justice upon Negi, but the boy, the beast, just laughed, laughed and held out his hands. He had been waiting for this, and Eva had fallen into it, forgetting her own techniques.
The power barreled forth, and she couldn't stop him from ever so simply extending his hands and absorbing it all, all of it as it came his way, silent laughter apparent in socket like eyes. He was mocking her as it came all upon him, bolstering him, boosting him.
He shot at her, and planted his open hand upon her middle, letting it all rip through her, her own power, taken and turned against her, plus his own in the form of the titan slayer, created right in her body to explode outward, skewering her and planting itself firmly on the ground, brilliantly glowing.
Still, she was alive. Petrified with the power of the electricity maybe, but still powerful enough for a blast...she only had to gather her power together as the boy approached...and blast him to kingdom come!
He came slowly, agonizingly slowly as he jumped up to grab the hilt of his blade. Up, up, up...Eva freed herself as he canceled the blade, kicking out to catch the beast in its middle, knocking it back.
She rushed at him no, desperate. A flurry of movement she became, moving as quickly as her current form allowed, pushing all of her speed into punching and kicking every available area she could reach of Negi, and the other boy just as quickly blocking her blows, with his hands, eyes calculating a proper opening, and when it came, he sent his foot forward to pound upon her chest.
He stood there, waiting. Calm now, still as she came back at him, he sent her away again with a punch to the nose. He was the still pillar now that she was recklessly tossing herself at. She stood up after the blow to the nose.
He rushed forward so quickly, she barely had time to throw up her arms, and with a sharp uppercut, sent her sprawling away. Eva landed on her bottom this time, but spun up, reaching out with a tendril of magic, a string to wrap around his wrist and pull him forwards. He snapped it where he stood, prompting her to call many up at once and try to lock in him in place, yet he pumped more energy into his Taisou, obliterating them. Still, she caught hold and pulled him towards her, sending him skyward with a one two punch, magic arrow and fist, warily taking to the sky to follow.
Negi landed on his feet and shundoed into the air, appearing in her face to punch her with an incredible might, straight up into an unforgiving sky. The air was ripped from her lungs upon the ascent, and was blasted back into it with such force she thought they may burst on her way back.
No energy to stop her decent, she slammed home onto the ground next to Negi, who was just standing there, his dark tendrils scouring around him. He still had energy, not much, but it was enough to keep Magica Erebia activated, enough for the darkness to coat his body.
Eva was still as he approached again. Still as death, and as pale as it too as he grabbed her limp form and hoisted her up, claws digging into a body that barely responded with a groan.
Weak. Weaklings die. You will die now. Thank you for entertaining me.
She moved, a pointless jerk in the air, yet it prompted the boy to drop her again, clamping his mouth shut to prevent an unearthly howl from exiting his mouth hands came up to cover his eyes.
The light, it burns! Where does it come from?! Why are you doing this?!?
You mean to tell me you've never felt it? This is me, this is my power, coming to bear on you. I own this body, me, and you will not interfere with me. I am the master, you are just a shadow in the night, one that forgot to scamper away from the sun! There will only be one thing consumed today, and that thing is YOU!
GAH! No...I am in control, I am the one, I am the strong! Wah, no! Who are you?! Weakling! Darkness, your pain, your desire, it is too strong for you, I shall consume you! Conquest shall be mine!
Nay! You are nothing but a draft, and I'm shutting the window, NOW!
Another pierce of pain racked the beast and he stabbed out, forming the Executioner's sword, which he used to slice right through the body of the wraith Eva, dissipating it into the magic it was made up of, and yet, at the same time...
Those shadowy holes to be eyes of the beast calmed, cleared, until one could see them once more as eyes instead of holes. He flexed a hand, fingers obeyed him. He rose his head, and it obeyed him.
The darkness was still there, the hate was still there, the pain was still there, but no longer was it shaped into a beast with a mind of its own, one that sought to consume and control him, no, now it only did what it was supposed to, make him look ahead.
Negi looked down at the sword in his hands and canceled it, exhausted as Magica Erebia fell from him. He dropped to his knees. He was glad, suddenly, that he had not been really fighting Eva. If she was anything to go by, he could have killed her had she really stood in front of him, and that would have been...
Incredible and horrifying at the same time. Negi's face hit the hard packed earth, the area's soft dust long blown away from their battle, craters and broken ice, shattered rock and scarred land was all that he saw before he blacked out, peaceful, consuming sleep.
Sleep would be the only enemy Negi would ever let swallow him whole in the end.
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There we go. Boring maybe, or maybe not, but it is done. Word count: 6035, ehh. You decide.