[ONGOING]Crimson Heroes (Ikarishipping)

CHAPTER 19

Chapter 19

"Shadow shift: Athena's Spear!" Karen launched her own shadow transforming it into a spear targeting the girl standing by the elevator. She responded by cart-wheeling aside gracefully. Karen's shadow missed and wheezed past leaving scraped markings on the elevator doors.

"Heh." The girl scoffed after evading the attack flawlessly.

Karen only replied with a smirk. "If you're taunting me, then you obviously don't know who I am."

"Really? That was honestly too slo-" The girl paused. She felt her thighs and noticed a slit a few inches long cut through her maroon sweatpants, she could feel her blood dampening the cloth of her garment. The cut was somehow deep. "Hmm.." She tried processing what had happened  thinking  that she missed something.

Karen retracted back her shadow and launched a series of attacks in quick successions. "I honestly don't know how you manage to move inside my Kronos' sphere, but I'll make you regret that decision! Athena's spear!"

The girl kept on evading, spinning and jumping from tables to chairs barely even touching the laboratory apparatus carefully laid out and assembled. "Woops, can't have myself making a huge mess of this place." Her short and slender body, acrobatically outmaneuvering Karen's attack like it was one big child's play.

Karen maintained her composure, kept her eyes sharp and her concentration at its peak. She was never the type to easily let her emotions get the better of her especially in combat. Going for a different approach, she sent her shadow forward branching into three separate attacks.

"Shadow shift: Poseidon's Trident!"

Even with the dim fluorescent lighting of the laboratory, the girl was still able to outmaneuver Karen's three-pronged attack. Karen was honestly impressed. She admitted to herself that the girl was one experienced fighter. But everything was still going according to Karen's plan, she's just mainly buying time so she could include Zoey's body and the half-blood's body into her ethereal form and escape.

"How long do you intend on dodging?" Karen questioned. "You'll just end up dead." The girl stood up slouching, her thighs and arms now full of scratches. Even her sweatpants and sleeveless shirt was riddled with slashes. "Come attack-"

"Now I get it." She interrupted Karen.

"Really?" Karen replied almost amused, her lips curving up a little.

"Evading your shadow attacks isn't enough. There's more to them you sneaky lizard." She then stretched her shoulders and cracked her knuckles. "Time to test it out." Her body outline started emitting a bluish light. She charged at Karen hurdling through laboratory tables and apparatus.

Karen jumped further back, alarmed by the girl's much more agile and faster movements suddenly. "Shadow shift." She regrouped her shadows back again into one elongated large spear "Athena's spear!" She sent the attack that made the girl spin acrobatically sideways grabbing an empty beaker and throwing it at the fluorescent light above her immediately turning it off.

"What?" Karen blurted out.

With barely enough time to respond from shock, the girl finally managed to close the distance and propelled a spinning round house kick, her leg emitting a bluish green aura.

"Impale of Anubis!"

Karen didn't know why her body suddenly froze. She swore that she was just moving fine a few minutes ago despite carrying two bodies. Karen was left no choice but to turn to the side and let the girl hit her in the back. Karen gritted her teeth as the impact from the kick released an azure wave strong enough to break all the nearby glassware. She staggered a bit.