Fractured

Chapter 58: Weight

Left. Right. Above. Sweep. Forward palm.

Vesper's mind ran like clockwork as she used her senses to dodge the invisible force that Aria wielded. Sight wouldn't be enough in to help her to survive this.

She already had that beaten into her by Aria's powerful wind based attacks. All Vesper had to go off was the small changes in the air, the movement of dust particles, the light touch on her skin that indicate the change of directional wind.

However all that focus made it next to impossible for her to get a chance to strike. Any shots she did get off Aria was quick to dodge as she flowed through the wind, graceful yet powerful.

This ones a real pain.

Aria was dead focused on the fight at hand. Not one to really talk or boast while she fought instead just focused on getting the task done. That nature is what caused her to become frustrated with this very confrontation.

Vesper was dodging her attacks while also being a nuisance with her portals. As far as Aria was concerned this was all a waist of time.

"I'm tired of this." Aria surrounded herself in a twister of wind pulling Vesper in causing her to swirl round and round. A violent burst of wind sent Vesper flying back smacking against a bit of risen earth so hard she cracked it.

Vesper was briefly dazed by the impact as she felt the pain in his spine as it snapped back together. "Fuck that hurt."

Before she could even realised she was smashed by another gust of wind that sent her smashing through the earth that supported her. Her body rolled through the dirt skipping like a pebble on water. Only stopping herself by digging her claws into the ground.

Vesper was quick to look around using her senses to try and pick up on where Aria would attack from next but she felt nothing. The wind was still. So was she.

She noticed a leaf flow in front of her in the corner of her eye and in an instant her body moved as Aria suddenly swooshed in to plant her foot in her side. Vesper flopped over the attack aiming her bow at Aria who was under her.

Before she could even fire Aria spun her body as the wind spiralled out from her like blades. It was too late for Vesper to move as the wind blades sliced into her causing spurts of grey blood to spray from her body.

Aria spiralled to the side her feet not even touching the ground. She kicked a spiral of wind toward Vesper as she fell catching her in a twister. As Vesper was suspended Aria shot at her surrounding herself in invisible blades of wind as dashed from multiple angles. Nothing could be seen but blues as Vesper was slashed again and again and again until Aria finally stopped allowing the twister to drop her.

Vesper however despite being covered in large gashes and grey blood covering her. All of her wounds began to seal and seal up as she got back on her feet. Her half mask had been torn of her face revealing her taunting smile. "You think that's gonna do shit. I've fought far worse." Hang popped up in her head. It was true she had faced far worse beatings than this. So this barely fazed her.

Aria looked at her with a unimpressed expression as she sighed. "You have a pretty fast healing factor. Won't matter." She places her hand out as if grabbing onto the wind itself and pulling it back.

Vesper suddenly jerked forward as she clasped onto her throat as she felt the air from within her leave her body and flow to Aria's hand. As she felt her life slip as every bit of air continued to be sucked from her a memory came to her mind.
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You know you'll have to tell them?

The words from Astra when she was Awakening came back to Vesper in her sleep. The forgotten and repressed memories that had been shown to her had come flooding in at the same time. A tear strolled down her face out of nowhere as she felt each memory.