93 Back in the game (2/2)
[Of course... Still... how do you plan on leading him towards Marcus??]
[I have a plan.]
[What kind of plan??]
[Ah, he's coming over here!! I have to go! Give me the location of Marcus as fast as you can!! Please!!]
[Ash...?? Ash!!!]
[...]
”I can't reach her...”
”Evlin let's not panic... First, we should- ”
Before Gustav could finish his thought, Evlin increased the power on her legs with healing magic and the boost from the silver metal and leaped towards the sky like a super-hero.
Gustav could only watch as the girl continued to rise towards the heavens with an absurd speed.
”Evlin!!! What are you doing??”
Evlin didn't have any time to waste. Her sister had just announced that she was going to try and trick the demon leader himself by leading him into Marcus, which meant she needed to find the weapon-kid and fast.
If she messed that up her sister could actually die this time. This was a risk that Evlin was not willing to take.
As she began to fall from her jump she saw the ground slowly starting to approach. But at this moment, she tried using an ability that she unlocked by remembering past experiences.
During the night when Marcus attacked, she managed to escape alongside with Ria through a wind-scar by turning both their bodies into a pair of rockets using raw magic to blast them into the portal and run away safely.
Evlin then realized that she had not been using her basic power, the raw magic, as well as she should.
She considered what would happen if she could control the power output more properly and tried to use it to boost herself into a flying motion. She changed the greaves on her legs into wooden boots and began to release bursts of raw magic from the bottom of it. It looked as if she had a fireplace coming out of the back of her feet, but instead of fire, it was pure magic energy.
Her body stopped falling from the sky and before she noticed, the burst of raw magic was making her fly in midair, giving her a good view of the whole kingdom.
”Whoa...”
As soon as she realized she didn't need to worry about her worst enemy, miss gravity, she started to remember the nice sensation she felt when she was flying blindfolded while being guided by Gustav, a small nice feeling of freedom as if the whole sky was her playground.
For the first time in her life, Evlin was not afraid of falling from someplace high. She was simply enjoying the cold breeze of the air as well as the scenery below thanks to her newfound flying ability.
”I did it... I did it!!! I finally did it!!!”
[Evlin!! You're flying!!??]
[Gus!!??]
[How are you doing this??]
[I'm releasing raw magic beneath my feet to burst me into the air... I was going to use this to help me conquer my fear so I could finally fly with Sphinx...]
[This is amazing!!]
[Hehe... Thanks!]
Evlin wanted to keep enjoying her new power, but she then remembered the reason she jumped in the air in the first place. She gazed briefly upon the kingdom and spotted what she was looking for. A small girl with twin ponytails and carrying with her a pair of silver katanas.
”There you are!!”
She didn't saw Marcus anywhere but she knew Mia never left his side. She deduced that these katanas were the boy in his weapon form.
[Evlin...?]
[Gustav... Tell Ashley that I've found Mia and Marcus...]
[What!? You did??]
[Yeah! I'm going to send their locati- Huh...!?]
[Evlin...? What's wrong?]
As Evlin continued to observe the small girl, she noticed that the katanas were starting to vanish and that her whole body was starting to combine with them.
[Gustav something is wrong with Mia... She's... All covered in silver energy or something...]
[... What did you say!!??]
[Wait a minute... Are those... Are those Auren and Ria??]
She saw that her two friends were right in front of the little girl and that she was approaching the two with a psychotic smile on her face.
[Gustav, Ria and Auren are in danger!! I gotta go! Sorry!]
[Wait!! Evlin!!]
Evlin gathered more power and released even more raw energy from her boots, bursting herself towards Mia's location.
Part 2
”Tell mom and dad and the rest of our sisters that I love them when you reach the afterlife!”
Mia pointed her blade arm towards Ria and Auren who were on the snow with barely any energy left.
But as soon as the silver girl rushed towards the two with her weapon-hand, Ria raised her hand in one final desperate move and opened a wind-scar, which caught Mia by surprise.
”What the...??”
”Say goodbye little sis!”
Mia was one step away from jumping into the portal and desperately began to try and stop herself. However, since she was in a fused state with Marcus, her speed was much greater than before, and simply stopping was much harder than it looked.
Her whole body had entered the portal and she suddenly found herself in some kind of beach in the middle of nowhere. Auren couldn't believe that they actually managed to get rid of Ria and Marcus.
”Ria!! You did it!!”
”... Did I...?”
Ria tried to hurry and close the scar but she soon panicked when she realizes some kind of silver claw was coming out of the portal and latching onto the snow on her side from Mia's back as some kind of third arm.
As soon as the portal stated to close, the claw started to shrink in size pulling Mia's body from the other side of the scar and bringing her back to the demon kingdom.
The scar finally closed off while Mia landed on the snowy terrain and rejoined with Ria and Auren again.
”Nice try big sis...”
”Dang it!!!”
”How many scars does that make? Two? That means you only have one left for the rest of the day huh!? You going to try and run away again?”
”...”
Mia once again formed her metallic blade arms and pointed at her sister and Auren.
”Any last tricks?”
None. Ria was completely out of energy to make any more shields and even wind-scars proved completely useless as her sister was just way too fast, small and agile to be stuck so easily into one. They needed another plan, and soon.
At least, that's what Ria was thinking until she saw some kind of object approaching from the sky behind Mia.
”... Huh!?”
”What's wrong big sis? Can't even talk anymore?”
”... You might wanna look behind you...”
”...?”
Mia wasn't sure on what she meant but she assumed she might as well follow her advice since she clearly had the advantage over the situation.
”What in the world...?”
”Taaaaaaaaaag!!!”
But as she did so, she was met by some kind of wooden boot coming right towards her face.
”Kuuuuaaaahhhh!!!”
She was drop-kicked in the head from the boot with immense force and was sent flying into a building, completely destroying the outer wall.
”You're it!”
The owner of the boot was grinning from ear to ear for finally getting payback from having her birthday interrupted by the twin-ponytail girl.
”Maaaaaaan... That felt good... Hey guys!”
Ria was looking at the one who just fell from the sky and kicked her sister right in the face. The leader of her team and one of her closest friends.
”Evlin...!!!”
Auren approached as well, hardly believing that their leader had finally woken up from her sleep.
”You're back to normal!! And... Were you flying just now??”
”Well...”
She started to explain her new ability but Auren and Ria simply jumped on her and hugged the poor girl with all their strength as if they couldn't believe she was really there.
”It's you!! It's really you!!!”
”Evlin!! We missed you so much!!! Please don't ever leave us alone like this again!!”
”Can't... Breath... Need... Air!!!”
”Sorry...” x 2
The two finally released the crossbow girl, who despite being happy for how much they missed her, still had unfinished business to take care of.
”Time to switch positions guys... You two reunite with Gus and come up with a plan on how to deal with the current state of this battle.”
”But... What about you...?”
Evlin looked at the building she had kicked Mia into and saw the little girl drenched in silver bursting out of the rubble while screaming in rage.
”Wraaaaaaaaghhhhh!!!!!”
”Looks like I'm going to be babysitting two troublesome kids for a bit...”