Fighting Spirit (The Final Barrier)

Are You Mad At Me?

Sapphire stood firm and kept her icy glare on Teresa

"I will only ask once, whatever control you have over Kevin release it and I won't kill you as harshly as I want" Teresa cowered behind Kevin

"Baby, what's going on?" she asked. Sapphire's aura only raged harder when she heard how oblivious Teresa was acting

'Back away from him you bitch!" she barked, Kevin entered his awakening

"I'm warning you Sapphire" his transformation made the wind whip out aggressively towards her "Back off" he said. Sapphire took a step back I.....He's serious.....His colors are red and black. As Sapphire took another step back Sofia and Ramona put their hands on Sapphire's back giving her support.

"Don't worry Sapph, we're here for you" Ramona said, Sofia entered her ice fairy form

"All of us got your back" Sofia glanced at Gabriel "Ain't that right?" She asked him. Gabriel sighed

"Mannnnnnnnn, this is some bullshit!" He said entering his awakening "I guess I can see how much he's improved at the very least" Gabriel said. Sapphire smiled with relief

"Thanks guys" she looked at Teresa "Everyone knows you're controlling him you can stop playing your scared damsel act" she sneered. Teresa's face went from scared and uneasy to a seductive smile

"What a shame, I actually liked having a big strong man protect me for once; it felt so......Liberating" she said with a giggle. Teresa rubbed Kevin's body as she teasingly looked over at Sapphire "But...You had to ruin the fun for me" she shook her head "Jealousy isn't a good look for you ya know, it looks like I have to punish you for ruining my fun" Teresa got close to Kevin's ear "Sweetie, can you kill that girl for me?" she asked

"With pleasure" he said, with movement so fast only Sofia and Gabriel could see Kevin closed the distance between them in a single step. He grabbed his sword out of the blue realm and swung with all of his might preparing to decapitate the off-guard Sapphire. Gabriel summoned his sword and zoomed forward to block Kevin's swing, the ground cracked and began to crater under the pressure of Kevin's swing. Gabriel smirked a bit as he grunted

"I see she isn't making you pull any punches" Kevin's aura grew stronger as he applied more pressure, Gabriel's aura grew as well matching Kevin's intensity "I'll take the lightskin, you niggas kill her!" he yelled at Sapphire. He then kicked Kevin in the stomach sending him flying away as he jumped to follow. Teresa tapped her chin as she saw Sofia, Ramona, and Sapphire in front of her

"This just won't do, I didn't know that fire one was just as strong as Kevin....Nothing a little more power won't fix" Teresa flicked her finger and a purple aura surrounded Kevin. Gabriel landed a clean right hook to Kevin's jaw but slowly Kevin started turning his neck overpowering the punch.

"Well, shit" he said before Kevin kicked him in the stomach sending him flying into a dessert shop.

"Gabriel!" Sofia said running to his side. Teresa smirked as Kevin hovered down beside her

"That's more like it" she said "Now, keep them away from me sweetie" Kevin nodded and slowly began walking towards them. Gabriel groaned as he pushed a table off of him

"Bad news guys, that demon is feeding him energy; imma need some back up to hold him off" the girls nodded

"I can boost our speed and physical strength with this spell" Ramona said. Gabriel, Sofia, and Sapphire glowed green a second then felt a sense of rejuvenation. Sofia's ice fairy form glowed brightly as she felt the upgrade.

"Will we be enough to stop him now that he's all juiced up?" Ramona shrugged

"I don't know but, we gotta snap him out of it somehow" Sapphire twisted her face in anger

"SNAP OUT OF IT!" she yelled "YOU WOULDN'T HURT ME" she pleaded. Kevin gathered an orb of electricity in his hand and smiled

"Think again" he said before launching the orb at her. Sapphire and the others jumped out of the way, Sapphire had a shocked look on her face He actually tried to hurt me......he... Gabriel dashed forward to Kevin with his sword drawn. jumping back Kevin dodged the blow making a huge crater in the concrete. Gabriel regained himself and followed up with spin kick. Kevin once again dodged, flames nearly grazing his face. Sofia flew up above Gabriel.

"I'll add a few seconds to him directly, you guys should be able to attack him then!" she yelled, Kevin glanced up at Sofia and saw as she made a circle with her hand and looked through it. I can't let that one touch me He thought, Only one thing I can do

"State of Awakening One, Air" he said. Sofia had Kevin in her sights but suddenly he disappeared from view

"How the.." Sofia looked around but couldn't find him "Where....." Kevin grabbed Sofia by her arm and slung her at the nearest building, Gabriel zoomed out and caught her before she hit. "Thanks" Gabriel lowered unto the ground

"Don't mention it" He held his glance at Kevin floating in the air. "Do we have any plan for this nigga?" he asked. The group then felt a malicious energy manifest near them, turning their heads they saw a shadow materialize into a humanoid figure. The figure had both hands up showing it meant no harm, Everyone's blood ran cold when they saw it was Wayne. Gabriel frowned "Its you" he said walking Wayne's way angrily.

"Wait, I'm not here to fight" Gabriel stopped "At least not you guys" Wayne finished. Gabriel crossed his arms

"You've got 10 seconds to convince me not to make Kevin an only child" Wayne looked up at his brother floating above with a fiendish grin

"I assume my brother is being controlled and you three are trying to snap him out of this?" Sapphire nooded a bit confused

"How do you know that?" Wayne sighed

"Jiu is becoming untrustworthy, I need Kevin to bring our mother back" he said looking down "I feared he was going to try and eliminate Kevin before he can fulfill that wish" looking back up at Kevin he spoke "It looks like I was right, in the meantime I will help you all get my brother back to normal. Just tell me what I need to do" All of the spirits exchanged glances then sighed

"Fine" Gabriel said looking at Kevin again. "We need to overwhelm him with attacks so he won't be able to respond, if you can keep up the other will follow" Wayne nodded

"Right" Gabriel began the barrage with fireballs to which Kevin began to dodge, Gabriel then charged at him with a strong kick that was blocked. Kevin and Gabriel exchanged a few punches when Wayne came from behind with shadow tendrils wrapping themselves around Kevin's arms. Wayne jumped over him then swung with all of his might, Kevin was launched into the road at blinding speed causing more debris and smoke to rise upon impact. Teresa watched on from the roof of a building a few blocks away

"Hmmmm...Wayne is here, this just keeps getting difficult" she said, unbeknownst to her Sapphire was scaling the building to get payback for Kevin. I can't believe that mind control runs that deep, he actually tried to hurt me.....I wonder what's going on in his head Sapphire thought. In Kevin's mind he was in space surrounded by the beautiful stars, and planets; he felt so at ease. he could feel all of life flow through him but, he also felt a true love. Not like the love he felt for Sapphire, or even Teresa but, a love that felt older. A love that felt transcended lifetimes, off in the distance of space he saw a figure but; she had no characteristics. Though at the same time she was very familiar to him, her silhouette was all he could make out but; her body was like a galaxy itself filled with stars and other heavenly bodies. It became clear the figure was a woman upon her coming closer but still no characteristics other than the body. When she approached Kevin she held out her hand, as a mix of nostalgia, anger, sadness and betrayal hit Kevin a tear fell from his eye as he unknowingly scooted away in fear.