Star Sun Cave

Ch. 38 | Fierce Warrior

"Oh, my, she missed," Rongie commented.

"I think she's incompetent," Sneak added, and Hexia slapped her.

"Don't doubt your sister!" Hexia yelled out, before eagerly looking down, almost falling off the island. "I'm sure it was a ploy and she'll stand up just fine! Elena's a cruel fighter, that's for sure!"

Elena breathed in and out, barely standing straight, as if she desperately tried going against Hexia's words. She let out a high-pitched scream and ran at Anna, swinging her legs back and forth.

Anna took one step to the left, and Elena hit a rock that stood behind her. "Didn't you see? There was a boulder."

"Pff!" Elena spat out some of the tiny rubble in her mouth, and her gaze immediately averted to Anna, each second passing fueling her with even more anger, which opposed the calm and ridiculous smile on Anna's face, a sight rarely seen.

Morio desperately moved his eyes, which only met the edge of the island. Without being able to quench his curiosity, his gaze instead shifted to Ambrosia back again, noticing that the part of their Guardian Demon still rested in the palm of their clenched fist, even though it was frozen and unresponsive.

A small spark travelled through the linen, tinting it a fiery, faint, red shade, then, it sneaked in through the thousands of possibilities and dimly lit up the small orb that waited at its end.

Elena kept screaming, and Anna kept moving, sometimes her steps were slower, and at other times she even had to jump up and above the struggling fairy, who couldn't land a single hit.

At one point, when Elena crashed into yet another boulder, Anna started clapping her hands and pursing her lips, which further ignited the flame that kept bursting out from beneath her eye sockets. Yet, that never brought anything to the flipped table.

"She is incompetent." Rongie nodded, whispering.

"Sisters." Hexia stood up. "Keep watch of the candles." she extended her hand, the same sharp nails appearing at the end of her fingers, now glowing with a sparkling, dark blue aura.

"Told ya," Sneak muttered, and it now was Supra who slapped the two fairies. Hexia jumped down into the fight, and the three kept curiously watching, opening their mouths in shock at the same time, while Ambrosia's weapon kept gleaming.

Anna finally found an unfortunate opportunity to bring the Rhapsody Rope into the battle, pulling on the stalactite from above, right as Hexia ran forward. With one swift move, it crashed down, stopping her movements, and further demotivating the fairy from striking. Yet, Elena was already embarrassed enough that she wasn't going to stop at simple obstacles.

The woman jumped up, and Elena followed, as the two chased each other around the boulders of the cave. The birthday girl seldom tripped, before she decided to float instead of running, but that didn't stop her from crashing into the formations dripping down from above.

Hexia moved in from the side, sneakily extending both arms, as a piercing, shining, green crystal shot out from both palms, followed by a yell.

Anna leapt, her foot resting on the edge of the grandeur formation that Hexia created, and her smile immediately met the fairy's shocked eyes.

"Thanks!" she uttered, and Hexia groaned, letting go.

The crystals crashed on the ground, but that gave Anna enough momentum to jump up, swing up with her rope, and use her legs to kick Hexia's face in.

The Paladian-Morian stood in the middle of the two creatures, placing the long rope on her shoulder and glancing at both, from time to time.

"Fairies," Anna repeated. "You always appear so smart and devious, so sly and crafty. Some people even have respect for the only things that manage to fool humans into thinking that witches blessed them with their presence in the harshest of moments. But that doesn't happen." Anna waddled over to Elena, who lay on the ground, barely moving her limbs. She raised her head, furrowed brows clashing against the fainting yellow of her eyes. Her tongue was stuck to the rocky ground.