One Last Effort

Feeling the grip on his leg loosen, XIlo finally stopped struggling watching the Undead's body crack and fall into pieces and plummet into the dark abyss below. "How deep is it?" Feeling himself fall and still not hearing any sounds of anybody hitting the bottom he knew that whatever thoughts he had about the deepness of the cavern was wrong. "What to do, what to do." He knew he wouldn't survive if he hit the bottom without stopping so he had to think of a way to somehow slow himself down. Feeling the wind pressure getting to him Xilo spread his Astral Energy out a little bit around him to protect himselfwhile looking around.

"I'm near the walls at least..." Looking at the walls he almost moved his hand out until he felt that same soft feeling in his hand again and remembered Xelfia was still in his arms. "Nevermind, Not like it was smart anyways." The thought of it not working and only resulting in him severely damaging his arm kept himself at bay. Xilo was pretty confident he didn't have enough strength to forcefully dig into the wall and stop his own movement so he would have to think of something else.

"Which leaves..." The only things left he could try was using his elements to help but how much that would help was to be determined. "But how could I use darkness to help?" The only use he had found for his darkness so far was hiding his blades from people's senses and using them in surprise attacks. That was afterall how he had been able to hit their attacker by surprise at first but that took too much time to constantly do and unfortunately that was the only use he could think of which wasn't much help at the moment either. "Maybe there's something else I can do." He didn't know how much time he had though so he couldn't take long.

Focusing he created some dark energy and made it float around him but whenever it touched his body or anything it would only pass through objects. His ice was already solid but it was too brittle at the moment to actually break his fall and the only thing breaking would be the ice everytime he hit it so instead he had to think of a way to use both of them together. "Maybe that way I can actually do something." But there were no guarantees.

So he started with the most prominent thought in his head. "Can I Make it touchable?" If right now his ice alone was to weak then could he double it up with something else and make it strong enough to break his fall. That he didn't know but there wasn't time to second guess himself here. The only thing he could do was try. Keeping his panic leveled he pushed away all his doubts and concentrated on the darkness.

"...."

But no matter what he did nothing worked no matter how hard he forced it. "FIgures..." Right now he was just too weak. Though that didn't mean it was completely pointless because he still felt something tugging in the back of his mind every time he tried but no matter how much he tried it never budged. "What if I try that..." Remembering back to that first feeling he felt during his fight with their attacker XIlo began to try something else. The first time around he didn't have enough time or willpower to spare but when he combined his ice and darkness he felt something off. Looking around in the air and seeing no end in sight still Xilo began his little experiment.

Combining the two together Xilo felt that faint feeling coming back to him once again like before but this time he didn't let it go but focused on it with his all as he tried to figure out what it was. Not feeling any changes at first Xilo kept going feeling less resistance then before as he kept trying. Slowly the ice and darkness combined more and more while he closed his eyes and focused. If before the ice was a pale fading blue then now it slowly began to take on a more azure colour as time went on with a couple specks of blackness showing up here and there and even faintly glowing brighter than before. But even after all that time it never progressed further then that.

"Haa..haa.." Breathing out Xilo felt incredibly exhausted as he took deep breaths and looked at the ice in front of him. Noticing the changes surprised flashed in his eyes but he didn't know what had actually changed still. Inspecting it further he converged a little of his Astral Energy and looked at it. "Interesting..." He could feel it's coldness had went up a little and even the strength of it had increased a little. "This could work." Feeling the toughness of it now he was, he was sure he could use it now to help him if used correctly.

*Crash*

Shocked out of his thoughts by that loud sound he looked around trying to know where that came from. "But nothing could make a sound down here....Unless.." Looking down his worst fears were confirmed in an instant. Xilo kept faintly hearing sounds over and over of something crashing and knew that the bottom was approaching and fast. "Fuck, Not now. Not so soon, I won't have enough time." He needed a lot of time to even set up a piece of ice already but he would still need a lot more if he wanted to pull it off but now it seemed impossible to pull it off before he hit the ground. Having his plan and effort going to waste he felt frustrated but now wasn't the time.

"It looks like this is my only choice now." Looking at the wall near him he tried to move himself closer only to catch a sharp light in the edge of his eyes just before he tried. "Ah! I forgot about these."Staring at his blades an idea came to mind as he remembered the sharpness of them. "This could work.." Turning himself as much as he could he forced his arm against the wall and dug his blades in and hoped for the best.

"..."

However even after some time had passed he didn't feel any resistance or himself slowing down. Turning to look at what was happening he saw multiple marks carved into the wall above him as he kept falling. Following it down to his arm he watched as his blade cut through the wall with ease and didn't stop him in the slightest. "Way to sharp...." The sharpness every time before had saved him but now it wasn't. Cursing he looked down at the approaching ground as he fell at the same speed as before. By now it was too late to do anything else.

"Is this really it I wonder?"

Watching the ground getting closer and closer Xilo silently watched on until he was right next to the ground. The second he was close enough to the ground he used every single ounce of his strength he had left and grabbed Xelfia and pushed his body against the floor. In the next second he felt himself passing out.

*BAM*