TRAILING SHADOWS

"The universe is mine to command. I am the master Energy!" She chanted, dashing into the air in a reckless collision with the whitish blaze of streaking energy lances.

As she did, she crossed two finger guns before her face, using them to draw a quick circle. 

Light shone from the circle. Her body split into several parts immediately, almost as if her movement was being rewound in other to see her various body movements as she jumped from ground to the air.

It was like she was being storyboarded, each action phase of her suddenly existing all at the same time.

She did not know the name of this technique. But with the flashing assurance from her eye and the large withdrawal of everything in her soul, she knew it was something huge. 

Her body arched and racked, her feet finding solid ground. She gasped, startled at this just as she saw herself...

Actually, saw many versions of herself leaping up into the air and taking all the hits of the spear. Elisa, having cleared out all the forms of Ibiyemi that kept jumping up into the air, gasped, just as she jumped down to the real Ibiyemi who was back on the ground.

She was confused...

Since when did Ibiyemi learn to pull off two techniques at once?

Ibiyemi, on the other hand, did not waste time as Elisa dashed for her, descending down, her body still phasing.

Her eye flashed once more as she ducked under Elisa's stomach. And immediately, Elisa's form solidified for the fraction of a second, Ibiyemi's weight lunged forward, her balled up fist slamming into Elisa's stomach.

"Umph!" Ibiyemi g.r.o.a.n.e.d, just was Elisa lost balance over her and fell to the ground.

It was effective, her eye had made her react so fast to land a hit to the volatile Elisa being that she was jumping, all exposed. However, the same sudden move had done more damage to her than it did to Elisa who gritted her teeth, trying to rise while Ibiyemi staggered to her fours, drained and panting.

"How come?" Elisa swiped the stray hairs from covering the front of the mask with her right hand. "You... You used the a movement technique to switch places while replacing Clones all over the path you took. Spatial Reversal and Temporal Stamp Replication were the techniques you used. Ah!" Elisa blinked, in surprise just as lightning arced around her, the streak-like wh.i.p.s hurling her into the air while Elias appeared, dashing forward to the direction of the lightning wh.i.p.s. 

"No?" Sunday spoke, suddenly, rising up up, his voice sounding more guttural. "She used three." Sunday counted with his left hands in the air as his body began to burn with first whitish energy. " Spatial Reversal, to return back to her origin point within the fraction of a time point. Temporal Stamp Replication, to pinpoint visually all the places where she had being in that time range. And Clone to give life to all her visual images, turning them into clones that were just about to jump up."

"Sunday?" Ibiyemi g.r.o.a.n.e.d as she tried to sit up on a knee. "How did you know all that?"

"No, this isn't Sunday. He calls me Bane, so Ibiyemi, Bane greets you but you are going to be out for a long while." Sunday growled, the yellowish hue on him begining to darken, slowly bringing around it, a prickly aura of darkness.

"Su-Sunday..." Ibiyemi stammered.

"You've done enough." Bane walked away, looking over his shoulders at her. "Rest!" 

BOOOOMMMMMMM!

He leapt up, dashing through the wind like a warhead projectile., darkening yellow energy burning off the legs of him.

"Ha!" Niniola huffed, punching through the shield guy again while her leg went up into the air, in a vertical sling, kicking off Tayo and his sword attack. She ducked over, avoiding athe combined slashes of the two swordsmen, her body outline blurring considerably.

Dust whirred int the air, her footsteps slamming heavily into the ground as she ducked over, letting several wh.i.p.s of lightning fry through tress and vegetations to electrocute the Assassins around. 

She had gotten used to the pattern of attack already, ever since she was knocked back by the combined attacks. 

Now, she was aware that the lightning guards only attacked those who dealt the most damages and the ones who were at the receiving end of the the high damages were often contained by lightning restricting cords.

The air shivered, heat and aura exploding about her. She slammed her hands, weaving a symbol of some new technique.

"Law of Aganju: Falling Boulders!" She yelled, pulling her hands into fists that she jerked into the air. 

And that same moment, several boulders began to rain down the ground. Everywhere and on everybody.

The huge, round boulders of black rocks slammed down, trailing down like heavy comets blazing against gravity. As they fell, Niniola floating in the air, the lightning guards all merged up, each of them swiping their lightning wh.i.p.s techniques up in a curve above their heads. As they did so, the wh.i.p.s connected, forming a static, charged up barrier of energy over them, obliterating any rocks that fell close or over to them.

The Assassins on the other, on the other hand, being at the receiving hand of the damage of the lightning wh.i.p.s, were unlucky as the rocks pounded into them.

Weakly, they tried to slash and shield their way through, Tayo cutting most of the rocks cleanly but as each rocks fell, it exploded, the debris and destructive concussion slamming the left to right.

Some of the debris slammed into Kalagar. And just as they did, his eyes squeezed together in anger. He raised his hands, growling as he lowered his upper torso down.

"I... Said... NOBODY TOUCHES MEE... GRRAAAAAAA!" He roared, jerking up with widespread hands. 

KRAKAKKAATTHOOOOOOMMMM!

And just as he did, gazillion bolts of lightining bursted out of him, like a flower hoping up it's petals, electrocuting and slamming into everyone and everything at once.