A Traitorous House on Traitorous Earth: Shattered Past Book 3

The Kishari

"Okay Nova, I want you to come at me with everything you've got," James stated to his apprentice. Nova was taken in by James after her father died, she felt relatively happy after she'd mourned for a few days. It had been about six months since Charon died, and she didn't feel comfortable with calling James dad quite yet. Their relationship was a relatively happy one.

"Okay James," She replied pulling out her father's sword. This was their first real sparring match in a few days. James typically trained with her during the week like her dad did, afterward, he either made her lunch afterwards or they went out. Sometimes Cameron would train her with James or by herself. Cameron's skills were interesting to practice and learn, especially since she taught her the most powerful skills available to her. She could do a fist of havoc just as good as any titan could and use a ward of dawn just as well.

James pulled out his sword to meet his stepdaughter's, and the pair began to clash swords. "So when are you gonna ask her James?" She asked him.

"What?" He replied, and Nova attempted to disarm him ineffectively. James used a void clone to get to the other side of her. His blade met the other side of her hip, just barely touching the armor. "You know, asking me about when I'm going to ask my girlfriend to marry me as a distraction is kind of dishonorable," James remarked pulling the sword away from her hip.

"You know, using a nova shadow is also cheating James," Nova replied taking her sword and putting it in her scabbard around her hip.

James smiled slightly. "Well, why don't I teach you how to create a nova shadow?"

"Really!?" She replied excitedly.

"Yep, why don't we get started now, and once we're done we head down to Vintagi's for lunch?"

"Sounds fantastic! Where do we begin?"

"Well, why don't we start with getting the shadow created in the first place?" James replied placing the hilt of his sword around his hip. "So the first step in creating a nova shadow is deciding where you want to be after you've created it," James stated to her pointing behind her. "So for practice just focus the void particles in an area directly in front of you, like you're going to blink."

"Alright, sounds easy."

"It's way simpler than you'd think," James replied. "It's one of the rare occasions in which the thing is easier done than said."

"That's not a saying James," Nova replied focusing on an area less than a meter ahead of her. Her eyes were glowing the purple they usually did to indicate she was using her void vision.

"Okay, so now what you need to do next is start creating a void energy field around your body, one that perfectly encompasses your figure."

Nova began to create a void field around her, except for one problem, it was a sphere rather than a person. "You're getting there, try to make it as close to your body as possible. It needs to be mirror perfect," James said to her.

"That's a bit more challenging than it sounds," She said continuing to concentrate on the void field. The hemisphere of energy began to take a more defined shape, James could make out the figure of his stepdaughter out of the void.

"That's it, Nova, stay with it." He whispered not to break her concentration.

Nova continued focusing on the field around her as it became more defined by the second. She could almost feel the void brace her skin; it was cold. When it finally felt as if it had encompassed all of her Nova blinked to the area only a half meter away. She faced the odd void figure that met her. "Wow, it's almost like I'm looking in a mirror, you know if the mirror was just a shade of purple." She chuckled to herself. She stroked the chin of the odd thing that was in front of her. This being was a copy of her, but it couldn't feel, it couldn't move.