Familiar wars

Training day

          I was woke up harshly as my bed was tossed through the air, and both me and spirit crashed into the floor of the arena, we looked up stunned to find a very angry looking Claire.  " alright no easy games anymore, you have done ok since you got here and got lucky with an opponent who was predictable and lower leveled,"   Niya gave her a look but let the comment go this time, " time to step it up, you and your familiar need to be more in sync, now power up."     I go to focus my energy when the handle of Claire's blade slams into my head, and throwing me to the floor, followed by Niya setting off a pyro trap underneath me.   I get up hazily, and brace myself as Claire brings her swords out almost in an instance, Niya as well with her daggers, I may not get a chance to power up, but I can still grab a weapon.   I jump back from the arena, and grab one of the staffs, only to have Claire destroy it, " you won't always have one near bye, now bring out your weapon, she raised her swords and went to bring them down, spirit slammed into her side and pushed her away.     " Niya you were supposed to block him,"   Niya was frozen in an inverted energy burst, it was keeping her in place.   Claire looked pissed off as she moved her attacks towards spirit, she almost seemed a little to determined to win this.   She slammed the hilt into his forehead and while he was stunned, tried to swing her dual bladed sword at him, I jumped and pushed spirit out of the way of them, but it wasn't just a push, there was this glow and a rush of energy that I didn't know where came from, but somehow felt familiar.   My arm phased into spirit, or more of his light, I hadn't tried to power up but our glow was all that could be seen of us, and as I moved through him, our light mixed.   I blinked and looked around for spirit, but as if by a different instinct, I had looked for me, it took a few moments to bring the thoughts together, but we had both been thinking them, we hadn't just phase through, we fused.    I stumbled for a moment trying to catch my breathe and process what happened, I was expecting to get attacked by Claire but only looked up to find she had her blades pointed down, and looked at me in shock.   " can someone tell me...... He....... Us, what's going on."  Claire walked over and popped out little trap from around Niya, she had the same shocked look on her face.   " so this is your battle form, not what I had expected." Claire walked around me almost as if inspecting me, Niya just sat there staring," what!!!,"   " those are all twitchy,"    I was confused till I saw she was looking above me, I lifted a hand to feel what she was talking about, two things were noticeably unusual, first my hand had sharpened nails at the end, and right at the sides of my head, there was two ears, pointed and moving.   " hey you okay, come back to us," I blinked and groggily opened my eyes, I was looking up at the two of them from the ground, " what happened?" I ha barley managed to say as I tried to get up.  " oh nothing much, you felt you new ears and fainted," I got a quick reminder in my head of what just happened,"why do I have ears up here?" I ha practically screamed out at the two of them, when Niya giggled and pointed at me, " if you thin that's bad look at that," I followed her point to my side, I noticed something move, I turned and looked behind me, and upon seeing a tail I hit the floor again, but before everything went hazy I could hear Niya laughing saying she knew she could get me to faint again.  

          I opened my eyes to find myself laying on the living room couch, for a moment I had sat up and tryed to figure out what happened, then remembering I quickly felt my he's to find no ears an looked to find no tail, at this point it was probably a dream.   " oh hey the princess is awake,"   I turn to Niya with a scowl as she walks in, " feel any better now that y'all split," I looked over to the carpet floor of the sitting room, spirit was lauded down talking to jewel.   " so that really happened,"    " yep and it happened twice may I add."       
     I got up and walked back to the arena, Claire was practicing her attacks in a wooden dummy, but halted when I entered.

" you ready to train for real now?" She had asked with a slight smile, but seemed more scary then pleasant. I nodded and she reset the arena to just a plain battleground," I'm not holding back, she said as she powered up, but this time into her battle form, Sophie jumped and shifted into a trail of fire that engulfed Claire, when it was sweated away, she had a full suit of chain mail and was wielding her double bladed sword and this time they had been curved back to make a crescent moon shape, and her attitude had changed, she wasn't as fired up, she was almost calm, it was enough to freak me out. " no fair y'all can't fight without me," a very swiftly moving Niya bounced into the arena followed by a cloud of shadows, it swirled around her and enveloped her, only after a second did it release with a sudden burst of energy. Niya had been dressed in pajamas before, but now she stood in a dark gear, it had long blacks leaves and a hood that draped down into a tattered cloak, she had silver played boots and leggings that were dark, but the most noticeable thing was her hands, she didn't have her daggers or even the smaller throw knives, she was wearing these metallic gloves, they extended down into claws, with these glowing purple stones on the wrist, and they radiated a dark energy. Spirit shifted into a stream of the multicolored light, and the full spectrum of color wrapped around me like a tornado of energy, Claire and Niya seemed in phased by it, but everything in the arena was being spun and tossed around, during this me and spirit fused together, but on top of having the ears and tail, I had grown claws, and my teeth sharpened up almost cutting my lip, a staff appeared in grit of me and the moment I grabbed it, it transformed, it's wooden length became slightly thinner and seemed harder then before, the spot in the middle had a kind of handle on it, and it pulsed with energy, there were little gemstones of different colors on both ends, and even something else, it had a feeling of something being hidden within it, but I couldn't tell what it was.

As I landed I had Niya with her claws and what seemed like a shard of fire from Claire's side less then a few inches away, as if by instinct I dropped down, and twisted the staff into Niya, I slammed the other into the ground and a small wave of light blast at Claire, my powers were almost complete, today we fight and train, but as if right now, I don't really know what I'm fighting for.