chronicles of Night Trials of fire and water

chronicle 6:Showdown in the sistine chapel

 I turn and walk towards him, Sharpening my steps. Now he sees me because he's smirking at me. "Ahh so soon my friend, welcome back to my presence"

He says, closing his eyes, and suddenly a massive wave of energy enters through me, and it gives me goosebumps-He just put up a veil, and now I know he's ready for a fight. He wants this to end properly and privately, but I won't play his game.

I swung a hard right hook at his jaw, and Gabriel blocked my punch easily, holding me and driving a kick into my chest. His hit drops me on my knees like a rock. I try to breathe, but I can't. he's knocked the wind from me. Gabriel then smiles, toying with me. "Wow, your fire is out like that? I was exaggerating when I said I could put you down faster than a match flame, didn't think it was true, I thought you were gonna teach me a lesson for making you look stupid Cale" I lift myself and growl at him as if that did anything, only talk so I'll have to back it up. "Your...not getting away that easily and don't call me that! '' I grabbed his skull forced him down and delivered a hard knee to his jaw. My skills are high but he's taking every one of my hits like I'm a fly. Gabriel catches my foot for the 3rd swing, he clearly was saying that he was done giving freebies and he swings me through the air, letting me go, effectively throwing me into one of the columns crashing me into it causing my shoulders and back of my neck, and back of my head to collide into the hard rock marble. 

Ouch, that wasn't the wisest move, and my vision blurs for a second, there's concussion number one, but I can't give up, so I'm going at him again. I got up and put my hands together, time to start a new approach. Charging electric energy into my hands, and opening them outwards forming a group of orbs and with the direction of my hand, I send it to him with an order of my mouth. "Tlov"

The orbs strike against him full force as tiny bolts of lightning as If I threw five fastballs, and as a precaution, I formed two slightly bigger crystals and spun them off me. they arced and spun as I sent him towards him and when they crashed near him the crystals had different effects these two were a red electric cages and ice prisons. I aimed to take him with these two, but Gabriel put his hands out and caught them easily despite getting blasted by the five, and with a forceful swing, he showed that he was able to play ball too. He sends an impact wave at me and returned the crystals back at me. I feel the lightning cage instantly like a visible punch to my gut. I cough, slightly stumble back, slip on the ice from the ice crystal, and hit the ground with a crash but recovered quickly. This is the game we play. We fire constantly at each other, searching for a weak point in shielding,doing as much damage as we can do to each other- Searching and throwing, and then getting hit or catching, being the first to find a weak point to bring each other down, but he's seasoned. 

I have to admit whoever trained him did an excellent job if it were Alexis Im going to be shocked when I fight her wait focus Ciaran. Still, I keep forming orb after orb at him. Fire after fire, I swing at him with crystals and spells- I throw fire, ice, lightning spells, and trap crystals. They fly in a formation of four at a time, and Gabriel is still taking them like a trooper and I can tell beating him by skill isn't gonna happen. To top it off, he's got some aces of his own. He formed an orb of ice around himself and yet surprisingly the strikes I was throwing were cracking his shield, I pointed my hand at him and again called "erif" which were fire spells they were like red balls of magma with black centers, and when the strike they explode in a burst of fire that melts anything around and the Spell "Tlov"-which were different colored lightning that would cause different effects, like red lightning was paralyzing lightning cages, purple lightning was poison lightning blue lightning was fire and lightning mixed, I only threw a few crystals to know this boy's a catcher probably played baseball..I need to work out another strategy than waste my crystals getting thrown back at me.

 As surprised as I am, thinking in real time, he either slipped or my attacks did more damage than I thought, but his recovery time is high. He then sends another impact wave, it's sharp this time, but this time I'm ready. I bring up my walls at the point it hits me. It hits me hard bounces off me, and discharges from me but not before I stumble- it was a heavy hit. I still need to remain focused, so I keep charging energy and throwing it at him, thus forming bigger orbs at him, followed by little ones, unsure if I'm even doing damage to him. I add a little more power each time- I throw three more spells two erifs spells and a purple lightning spell, I want to hurt him and the effects are damaging as he catches the lightning with his shield that bounces off and strikes the golden cage behind me, the erif spells strike him hard and impacts each time, the purple lightning I threw had a venomous effect-it eats at his shield, that's when I really hit him hard-he wasn't prepared for that. Five at a time at this point- This time adding bolts which were second level lightning strikes- Power strikes, and they are starting to crack his shield after the venom sinks into his shield. He knows his power is getting weak now that the effects are undeniable. I can tell he's getting desperate, this is the final part of the game-sudden death- 

it's a race of us throwing at each other, hoping to wear the other down. The loser is the one who gets drained and can't continue, and I won't be beaten, and it's now officially seen in his mind, he's gonna go down clawing at me so he starts to walk forward, and his orb starts to spin in an attempt to break me. Shit, he's good but he's also gonna take the building with him. Ice shards start flying. acting like a spinning chain mace head. The spikes are now firing at me, along with the bolts, and the orb. He's doing all he can to beat me, and this time the people are starting to watch, and that's not a good sign, Gabriel is starting to lose control of his veil and this is where I got him. He needs to focus on the veil or we're both expose- found out, plus the shield to keep my power from hitting him,and the artwork around us and at this point, I'm a shark smelling blood so my adrenaline is firing on all cylinders.-he has three things to focus on-the viel that ee the attacks from hitting the walls of art, the viel that keeps us from being seen, me whose bombarding him with spells...he's going own Gabriel is now getting antsy to end this as the lightning spell that I three earlier is freezing up his system. 

The wind is picking up, and I'm starting to ask if I can actually win this. So I went all in, charging all my energy into my arms. I was not gonna lose this, so I tried to mimic him. I form an energy aura around my body realizing what I could be doing to myself. Still, I focus all my power from my body; my arms, and my legs, and form two special orbs into my hands, probably the last of my energy-neutral void power. Gabriel by now has regained his veil but he's let up enough for me to put my moves into strategy. He's now firing full ice bullets at top speed, spikes, bolts, and orbs and I notice that holding these is allowing me to be vulnerable to his attacks because my shields are almost gone.

 Slashes carve me up from shoulder to toe, and with a chant of a single word"Kaerb diov!!!" I DIVE at him through the attacks that carve me up, by this point, he's blasting energy at me. This is going to end with me collapsing or taking him. He widens his eyes, as he's seeing that he's going full out and yet, it's doing little. As he finally sees what I'm up to, it's too late.. He then runs at me, full-on to stop me and we cross streams. Time seems to stop and there's a moment when sounds are just silence, and the world flashes. When my eyes stop blurring I see all his power is gone and so is mine. We just look at each other, a wave of energy passes over me as he releases the veil, and I grunt and start to grow sleepy, and weak, coughing blood slightly, and I know.. "No, how...I lost?" and I collapsed hard on my stomach, landing, burning hard and numb like I grabbed an electrical fence. I start to lose focus and at this point, I can no longer move my arms, I can't move anything at this point, I start to think and try to figure out what possessed me to go ahead and attack him full-on like that. I must have been out of my mind, I imagine the scene, the words I spoke, and the audacity to run at him he very well tore me shred or could have. "I must be mentally challenged to make THAT my game plan...cosa direbbero i miei dei? looks like I may...find out...soon..enough" which meant "what would my gods think?"

I wake up in a dimension of blackness, floating in an ocean of just darkness, thinking, and worrying, but the space is calming, healing, and soothing. I try to think back, feeling what I did wrong.

How about running into his source of power that could be one..I breathe in annoyance, and feel something waking in me,..and I open my eyes.