The Crystals

'Lightning burst!' Zohaifa turned the vines into ashes.

IV regained his composure and recreated the vine shield.

"I will have to be careful of that attack. I will finish this for good."

'Suffocating Vine Lump!'

Vines arose around Zohaifa from all sides.

'Lightning Velocity.'

Zohaifa easily escaped through a gap. 'Lightning Punch'

Another hit at IV's gut through the shield. IV could neither dodge nor block it. But he could contract his abs in time due to the delay created by the shield.

Zohaifa followed with an uppercut the same way. Then shot plasma blasts behind him expecting vines to arise. But there weren't any vines behind but rather front.

When he turned back towards IV, 'Suffocating Vine Lump.'

"Yes!" Luna shouted as she jumped up in excitement. "Ahem," she sat down again politely.

IV extended the vine lump above ground and was driving it towards the end of the platform. That is when a part of the vine lump began to glow.

A rain of Plasma blasts got out penetrating the vines and towards the direction where IV stood. IV tried to dodge as much as he could but still got hit about 20 times.

Zohaifa got out of the vine lump like a butterfly out of a cocoon. He charged towards IV but was whipped by a vine. He stopped in his tracks, bleeding from the cheek, where the vine hit. Vines arose circling him.

'Vine whips!'

All the vine started to whip Zohaifa at once.

'Lightning Shield.'

The vine whips were useless but bought time for IV to recover. His body is a mess now.

Zohaifa started to charge up to shift the Lightning Shield into Lightning Pillars.

"Yes!" Lazuli exclaimed. "Ahem," she changed to a polite tone again.

But IV created vines like the vines of 'Suffocating Vine Lump.' But this time all it did was cover Zohiafa's shield and also on the ground like a carpet. The layer of Vine was huge.

After a few moments, the vines on the ground turned to ashes. But the vine lump was still intact. Multiple plasma blasts penetrated through it. Zohaifa jumped out and landed with a downward kick but IV dodged it and returned with a straight palm strike. Zohaifa was pushed backward.

"It seems you are have used too much aura using all these moves," said IV, "I created enough vine that the Lightning Pillar will eliminate it and get nullified. But it seems u had to depend on Plasma."

"I can say the same to you," said Zohaifa, "You are physically drained taking all those hits, aren't you? I thought I will be done for if I took that Palm strike. But it didn't hurt much."

Suddenly it started raining with thunder.

"It seems the weather favors me. My vines will be more stimulated with all this water," said IV

Zohaifa widened his stance, his arms beside his waist. Golden light glowed from it.

"It's the golden punch!" exclaimed Red-1, "But will it be effective in a fight with no support from a team."

IV whipped Zohaifa with his vines again. Zohaifa endured it.

"Wait a minute," he thought.

He whipped Zohaifa three more times.

"He can't move while using this!"

A wide smirk appeared on his face.