A large shockwave thundered throughout the area as Kagura and Bluenote continued to do battle. The two met each other halfway with their attacks; Kagura with her sheathed blade, and Bluenote with his powerful punch. After a few seconds, the two had to jump back, creating a gap between the two once again, but Bluenote quickly took advantage of this, and held his arm out as a purple magic circle formed in front of him, releasing a quick burst of gravity that sent Kagura flying. Kagura let out a quick grunt of surprise and pain before flipping and landing on the side of a building. Kagura then shifted the momentum from her chest down to her feet, creating a crack in the building as she changed the gravity around her person in time with her jumping from the building, increasing her velocity as she lunged forwards Bluenote. "Perfect…!" Bluenote grinned; glad that Kagura wasn't going down as easily as the last people he fought.
Kagura was slightly annoyed by Bluenote's occasional comments about her strength; it didn't prevent her from focusing, per se, but she knew she could do without the side comments. Either way, Kagura did not use her blade this time, as she knew Bluenote would expect this; instead, she shifted her weight onto her leg, landing a devastating spin kick to Bluenote's side, causing the gravity mage to slide across the ground a few feet. After landing on her feet, Kagura continued the assault, entering her Strong Form once again as she brought her blade up, and brought it down on Bluenote, who managed to block it with his forearm, though he felt the power behind it, and the ground under him cracked into a few foot crater. Bluenote clenched his free hand, and then brought it upward with the force of gravity, slamming it into Kagura's gut, causing her eyes to widen as the hit was enough to knock the wind out of her. Seeing the opportunity rising, Bluenote repeated the action, but with much more force, knocking Kagura away as she rolled across the ground before coming to a stop, using the space she had to chance her breath. "D-Dammit…"
"It appears…" Bluenote said as he jumped into the air, aiming his foot out as the gravity around him increased to improve his momentum, thus making his hit that more devastating. "You can't fly at all…"
"Silver Make: Dome!" Melody shouted, just in time as a silver dome appeared around Kagura, taking the brunt of Bluenote's attack. The dome shattered, but Kagura was unharmed.
"Melody?" Kagura was a bit surprised at the sudden defense granted to her by the silver-haired girl.
"You leave Kagura-san alone…!" Melody shouted as she ran next to Kagura.
"A guild member of yours?" Bluenote asked as he took a few steps back.
"No…" Kagura replied. It was true; Melody was technically not apart of Mermaid Heel, though Kagura knew why Melody came to help her in the first place.
"Doesn't matter…You cannot fly…so you will fall instead…" Bluenote replied as he spread his arms out.
"Gravity God's Bellow!"
"What?" The sudden shout took Bluenote's attention as he turned, only to receive a heavy blast of gravity which nearly sent him flying, but he held his ground. "Who?!"
"Heh, well, well…" Cygnus said with a smirk as he wiped his mouth. "Didn't think I'd run into a gravity mage and THE gravity mage…" Cygnus said, referencing Bluenote as the stronger between him and Kagura.
"White Eclispe…" Kagura mumbled under her breath before standing up, shaking off the impact from earlier.
"You three think you can fly?" Bluenote asked as he eyed the three mages in a semi-circle around him.
"I don't mean to burst your bubble, Bluenote," Cygnus said as he took a step forward. "But I'm not just a normal gravity mage. I'm the Gravity GOD. So good luck tryin' to fly against me."
"So much confidence…I like your attitude…but I'll be the judge if you can fly or not…god…" Bluenote replied as he charged the three.
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"Requiem!" Skye shouted, causing a straight wide sword with a thick, sturdy blade and accentuated broad edge almost as tall as the five foot four girl. Skye took this large blade and swung it down towards Azuma immediately, but Azuma quickly jumped out of the way, causing the blade to slam into the ground, creating a large crater after.
"Hmm…" Azuma thought, somewhat impressed by the power of the blade. He then looked over to see Kairi charging at him as her appearance started to change. "Takeover…?"
Kairi's outfit changed into one into a white suit, almost that of a one-piece bathing suit, her sides and back revealed, along with accented diagonal stripes. Following this, her irises changed from their normal violent color to a golden sheen, and her long white hair became longer and waiver. To finish the outfit off, white boots that reached her thighs, matching wrist-length globes, decorated with a black trim and gold and silver beads appeared on her body. This was the first of Kairi's angel takeovers; Angel Soul. Kairi gathered magic into her palms, and then fired off a concentrated beam of light over to Azuma. "Light Beam!"
"Hm…" Azuma held his hand out, summoning a large tree root from the ground that protected him from the attack with relative ease, shocking Kairi slightly.
"Not too bad…" Azuma said, though he wasn't handing anyone any praise. He then looked up, seeing Skye coming down with Requiem once again. Instead of dodging, Azuma held his hand out. "Bleve…" Just before Skye could get close to Azuma with her large blade, the area in front of Azuma lit up in an explosion, which blew Skye away with a yelp of pain.
"Skye!" Kairi shouted as Skye flew back, though it was a mistake to take her eyes off Azuma, as Azuma summoned a massive clenched fist from a nearby tree, and it slammed into Kairi, the force hurtling her back into a different tree. Kairi let out a grunt of pain after as the hit left her disorientated, leaving her with no time to react to the fist coming in for another devastating hit.
"Claymore!" Skye shouted, rushing in quickly, and with a single swipe of her blade, she was able to cleave through the fist with no trouble, thus protecting Kairi from the attack. "Nii-chan, are you okay?"
"I'm fine…" Kairi replied after gaining her senses back. Kairi then jumped forward towards Azuma, throwing a combination of punches and kicks towards Azuma's body. To Kairi's surprise, Azuma was proficient in terms of close combat, as proven by his skill of deflecting all of her punches. Azuma caught one of Kairi's punches, and then slammed his fist into her face, causing her to fly back.
As Kairi flew back, Skye jumped forward with Claymore, aiming multiple, rapid slashes to Azuma, yet Azuma's agility proved superior to Skye's as he swayed out of the way of an incoming slash, then jumped back, swiping his hand across the air. "Folium Sica!" Azuma then summoned forth several massive funnels of sharp leaves that struck Skye, creating multiple cuts on her body.
Kairi recovered quickly from the push back earlier, and she now had her hands cupped to her sides, gathering light magic in the negative space. The light magic formed into a sphere that flashed a gold and silver color, and she then sent it hurtling towards Azuma. "Cosmic Explosion!"
"Tree Shield!" Azuma prompted several tree roots to form around him in a circle position, effectively shielding him from Kairi's attack as the devastating explosion that followed form the collision left Azuma unscathed, causing Kairi's eyes to widen.
"W-What is this guy!?" Kairi asked aloud, surprised that someone like Azuma could even exist.
Azuma had braches wrap around Kairi's limbs, thus restricting her movement, despite her objecting attempts to move. "Chain Burst!" He then generated a fast line of moving explosions along the roots, all of which struck Kairi, causing her to let out a yelp of pain.
Skye, unable to watch the sight of the continuing explosions, requipped two swords, and then ran towards the tree roots, cutting them all in half, thus releasing Kairi. The blades made not a sound as Skye slashed. Using her momentum, she rushed towards Azuma once again, slashing at him with two blades this time. Though Azuma had the superior agility, Skye proved that she was no slouch either as she landed a few slashes on Azuma's chest, forearm, and shoulder. "Those movements…" Azuma thought to himself as he avoided a slash, and landed a roundhouse to Skye's side, sending her tumbling away. "She's an assassin…" Azuma easily deduced this from Skye's movements, but he took his focus off the battle for one second, which was all Kairi needed to fire off yet another Cosmic Explosion; this one landing, as Azuma slid back across the ground.
"Meteor Blast!" Kairi shouted as a gold magic seal appeared in front of her, which unleashing several light meteors towards Azuma.
"Tree Shield!" Azuma shouted once again, causing the circular branch barrier to form around him again, protecting him from the attack flawlessly, though Kairi used his time to move in quickly, her fist pulled back as she swung it towards Azuma's face…who quickly caught it, then slammed his fist into Kairi's stomach, her eyes widening as she flew back slightly. Azuma then looked to his left, noticing Skye just recovering from the earlier hit. Azuma held his hands out, creating a thin shockwave line towards both Kairi and Skye, which shattered the ground beneath them; but that was the least of their worries. The real problem was the explosions that followed after, landing directly on the two girls as they let out screams of agony. When the smoke from the explosions cleared, both girls were heavily damaged, yet they refused to go down.
"He's strong…" Skye said while panting with one eye clenched shut. She then requipped from her silent blades two a thin, long, light weight Chinese sword. She made sure to take note of Azuma's agility, after it bested her twice in this battle, though something about Skye's demeanor in the battle was changing.
"Hm…?" Azuma turned to Skye after seeing Kairi was still catching her breath. Before Azuma could decide on what to do next, Skye rushed him once more, his agility increased due to the Chinese blade. Azuma was slight caught off guard due to this, so Skye actually managed to land multiple slashes on his body despite his dodging. Azuma threw a kick to Skye's side once again, but Skye dodged it, and brought her blade upward, aiming for an upward slash on Azuma, but Azuma's amazing reflexes kicked into motion, and he bent his body back, the blade grazing his skin, creating thin cut; nothing as bad if it were a direct hit. Azuma then extended his arms, shouting "Tower burst!" Just then, a large tower of flames erupted from his immediate vicinity, which only included Skye, and she let out an ear-piercing scream of pain as the tower of flames raged on. Her body eventually hit the ground, steam flowing off of it as it went entirely limp.
"S-SKYE!" Kairi's eyes widened as she made her way to her feet, now feeling a sense of rage towards Azuma. Though in the back of her mind she knew she wouldn't be able to defeat such a powerful opponent on her own, but she was certainly going to try.
"I do not think you are strong enough to defeat me, but I will acknowledge your strength, Angel," Azuma said. "I search for the strong, but I will spare the weak, so they may become strong later, and hopefully give me a challenge later."
"I don't need your pity…" Kairi replied as she cut her eyes to the tree mage. "Zetzu!" Kairi fired off multiple void blasts at Azuma, which quickly exploded around him before he had the chance to react, though Azuma reacted quickly after the hit, slamming his knee into Kairi's stomach, then raised his fist, slamming them down on Kairi's head, bringing the girl down to the ground in a half conscious state.
"Do not say I didn't give you the chance…" Azuma replied.
"N-Necrosis…" The brunette stood up slowly, her burned body literally shaking as a large scythe appeared in her arms; but this was no normal scythe. From the tip of the scythe's blade, a deadly poison started to drip onto the ground, causing the eyes of Azuma and Kairi to widen considerably.
"Sk-Skye…!?" Kairi started, fighting to stay conscious for the most part as she observed Skye and the weapon she held. "W-What is that…!?"
"I-I don't know…" Skye replied. "But…for some reason it feels right…" Skye carefully placed one foot on the ground, attempting to calm the shaking her body was doing before she lunged forward, aiming Necrosis at Azuma.
"That poison…!" Azuma knew in an instant that the poison dripping from Necrosis was deadly, and one slash of that would finish him no problem, so as a quick defense, he summoned three thick tree roots to block the attack. Skye managed to cut through two of the tree roots, and third once just barely managed to defend Azuma as he stared with widened eyes. Skye pulled Necrosis from the root, and then swung at Azuma once again, repeating her action until she landed a hit. Something else was driving Syke, but she didn't know what it was, all she knew is that it felt right for her.
"Skye…" Kairi had no idea what was going on, but she placed her hand on the ground, pushing herself up slowly, though she found it difficult as her arms were shaking more than jelly; in fact, she couldn't even feel them at this point, but she knew if she could create an opening for Skye, the battle would be over. "Light Beam…" Kairi aimed her hands forward, firing a relatively weak beam of light towards Azuma.
The weak beam of light was effective, as Azuma froze for just a second after the beam hit his back…and that was all Skye needed to swing a devastating slash across Azuma's chest...If Azuma didn't recover immediately after, and shifted his body to the side, casing Syke to miss. But, Skye quickly recovered, and pointed her hand out, unleashing a blue, paralytic lightning that struck Azuma's body, freezing it in place. Syke then swiped her scythe across Azuma's chest once again, creating a large gash, causing his eyes to widen as the poison seeped into his body, though Skye didn't utter a single word…but she did fall over in pure exhaustion, panting heavily. "…."
Azuma uttered not a word as his skin began to pale, his veins showing as he started to stumble back with no control of his body. He opened his mouth to speak, but the poison got to him, and he continued to stumble around before he took a wrong step, and his body ended up falling into the depths of the forest as he fell off a cliff.
"S-Skye!" Kairi scrambled to her feet as she ran over to Syke, who showed signs of being relatively okay.
Skye's normal demeanor returned as she looked up at Kairi. "D-Did we get him…?" Kairi looked over to where Azuma's body fell, in shock as she realized he was most likely dead, but she nodded slowly nonetheless.