.Elementals.

-96-

I walked up the road to the castle, all the undead stepping out of my way, almost inviting me into what was once my home and is now a corpse of it.

The grassy fields of the castle grounds were no more then yellow blackening grass, life sucked out of it.

"And to think you were their's." His angering voice greeted me.

"Seems you can't finish the job in eradicating the world of silver dragons can you?" I spat back, the dark clouds above rumbling.

The staff fell off my back and I discarded my sword quickly, both of us already knowing if I were to come at him with those I wouldn't go far.

"I will not fail a second time."

"We'll see about that 'uncle'."

Lightning struck from the sky and I reached my hand to catch it and guide it through me to direct it straight at him, the elements naturally generated at stronger then if I did so this lightning was stronger and not the one I made from my magic.

"Feisty.... Love it.... Finally someone I'll enjoy crushing under my feet!" Even if he was an eyeless figure with just a mouth I could see the insane gaze blazing in his missing gaze, having took the blow straight to his chest, the darkness making his body up bubbling angrily where he was hurt.

Now that I think about it.... I would have fought him at the end of the trial in his disguise.... So that fight stands too.... If I win I get to have Audrey but if I lose there is no reason to hope anymore... How amusing.

"Not if I take you out first!" I threw my left hand out behind me and did a half turn on one leg to whip it out to the front, the ground breaking into chunks and being chucked at him.

He simply punched through them.

I glared, keeping the position up.

"This will be fun!"

Like many times before now, with a blast of air under my heel I sent myself forwards, arm sent in a huge right hook.

My forearm collided with his so the fire spewed over his shoulder without touching him.

His fist rammed into my stomach before my feet had the chance of touching the ground again and was shoved back by a big explosion of flames.

My feet cut two deep laceration in the earth as I tried to stop myself and when I did I fell into a crouch with a hand against the ground.

The front of my undershirt was burnt away and my skin shone with the silver scales that replaced it from my protection.

"Where is your little purple eyed freak friend? Too scared to face lil' ol' me~?"

"Keep her out of this!" I stomped my foot and the ground cracked up and as I threw my hands up, fiery molten rock spewed up in the air, I smashed my fists into the ground and the molten rock splashed onto what was once a man.

With another hit to the ground a blast, fire this time, sent me up into a familiar spin, snapping my legs down and sending two flame slashes at the molten blob, making an explosion as they hit.

"Strong but how strong?" Aurelius smirked as he caught my foot and spun, throwing me through the air.

My back hit brick before I was grabbed again and flipped over his shoulder and slammed into the ground, the ground broke from the impact but I think something inside my body did too as the pain in my side was too much to be normal.

I quickly snapped my arms up so his foot met with my crossed forearms and not my face as I pushed on my feet and swung one up with a whip of water following, hitting his face and freezing to it.

I kicked my other leg up too, kicking him away from me in the process of getting on my legs and throwing myself into a roll to put some distance between us.

I summoned another lightning strike that I caught and directed at Aurelius, I didn't trust my aim if I didn't do that, hitting his head as the ice melted from the blue flames he was making.

I brought my hands at my sides and reached out with one, the dead grass flashing a healthy green as it grew into huge vine-like monsters and grabbed him before I threw my other arm out and yanked them horizontally out by my body, the grass vines mangling the magical body before burst of pure magic turned them to dust and forced me to put up a shield of my own pure magic, now a silver instead of the previous red it has been.

His body turned back into the solid black flawless shape it was, this will be a long fight.

"I see you've learnt many things but you are far inferior to me."

My legs slipped into a solid but not lowered stance and my arms were up, the burning in my side ignored in favor of the fight.

"I'd say you are to blind to realize today is your end." I hissed out.

"It's you that are too blind to see this the end."

"Yeah it IS the end.... Yours!" I did a half turn, leg in the air and kicked out horizontally, sending a half circle of flames before hopping in the air and when landing on both my feet a trail of earth spikes shot up at his own feet, he trusts his magic to much to really defend himself in anyway so if I can chip away at it slowly, it will weaken him.

"You think too much." A sinister voice said behind me before my legs got kicked in the back and buckled before a knee to the back send me sliding across the ground on my front.

I pushed myself up on my knees and with a quick burst of fire made me slid further as his foot smashed through the first layer of earth where I was a second ago.

I kept a hand and a foot on the ground as I spun and caught the side of his head with my other foot and let fire escape my hand when both feet were on the ground, sacrificing safety for this move as my back was to him, my elbow coming to crash into his face and letting the momentum continue to spin me and lifting my leg off the ground and slam my knee into his back.

I used air to blast myself away from him as he swung a clawed ice arm my way.

"Lets get serious." He smirked at me as I just turned diagonally to him and raised my arms, ready to go again.