Victory Star

"Razz!" I shout out to him as we get to him

Razz deflects an attack and jumps back to regrouped with us.

"Watch Seph" I tell him

"Wait, what's happening?" he asks

"Something interesting is about to happen" I reply back

Ifri appears right in front of us about to slash. Suddenly, he gets hurled with flames coming from behind us. For a second I thought it's another appearance for our dragon boy Pfyre, so I turned back and saw that it was just Seph, Ravenna disappeared. Ifri swats the fire off of him.

"I thought the two girls were just bystanders.. I guess I'll take all five of you then" Ifri says

Ifri teleports again, this teleportation ability of his is getting pretty annoying. I expected he'd appear behind me again, as I've almost landed a hit at him last time. I turn back and there he is, not at me, but behind Domotraus. Another fire is hurled from Seph and it hits Ifri. Ifri teleports away as soon as he gets hit by the flames and appears keeping distance from us.

"How do you like my fire?" Seph mockingly asks

"So you've seen through me?" Ifri replies "Let's see how far can you go"

Ifri teleports again. I need to help Seph one way or another, she can't just be the one landing the attacks. I turn back to Seph expecting Ifri would appear behind her. She surrounded herself in a shield of flames and Ifri moved back as soon as he appeared behind her.

"Tsk, there's no point in this futile resistance you human" Ifri says

Seph moves her hair revealing her ears.

"Half-elf actually" she replies

"I guess I'll have to switch my attacks then" Ifri says

Ifri's hand glow dark, and he extends his arm at Seph

"Not a chance!" Ravenna shouts from a distance

There would be multiple blades around her, and with her magic she controls the blades to fly towards Ifri. She summoned more blades and keeps shooting at him. Ifri's glowing dark hand disappears and faces turning Ravenna. He lifts his arm, and the blades disappear the moment they make contact with him. Domotraus sneaks up from behind while Ifri is distracted with the blades being thrown at him. The blades stop and one dagger passes through his magical barrier, and strikes his arm.

"Argh!" he yelps

He pulls the dagger out and throws it on the floor.

"It seems you were right Seph!" Ravenna shouts

I move up to Seph as soon as the fire shield disappears.

"I don't get it" I say

"He uses his teleportation to get around, usually behind us to get a good clean hit and because our backs are our blind spots. If he stops using that strategy, he's more likely to switch to magical attacks aimed at me, so I had Ravenna prepare her spell and to mix it with an attack that isn't magical to catch him off guard. Now we know Ifri has a spell to counter magic" Seph replies

"So now he's seen this, what's the game plan?" I ask

"We have to keep throwing out gimmicks to lure him. Then we counter with attacks once he's been lured" Seph says

Domotraus had sneaked behind and grabbed Ifri's sword.

"Now!" he shouts

Razz from a distance made his magic battleaxe into a short bow and had it ready. He shot out a magic arrow from it. Ifri extended his hand about to cancel out its magic, I threw my last dagger that I had kept hidden to mix it with the attack. He immediately placed his hand down and disappeared.

"Razz! Get out!" Seph shouts

Seph shoots out another fire, but this time she makes a wall of fire in the direction of Razz. Razz sees this and immediately dodge rolls out of the fire. By the time he does, Ifri had appeared behind him and he gets burned by the wall of flame he appeared in. Domotraus didn't get teleported with him, which is a relief. Domotraus joins up with me and Seph.

"I'd be done for if I was brought as well" Domotraus says

"It was a gamble I was willing to take to burn that thing down. Besides, you have exceptional reflexes so I'm sure that you would be able to dodge that fire the moment you saw it" Seph replies

Ifri uses his magic spell again to make the wall of flame disappear. He would have burn marks all over him and his skin would crack as if he was wearing a shell of armor. He gets into a fighting stance with his sword.

"Enough magic, I'm taking you all down with this blade" he says

"All according to plan.." Seph mumbles smirking

I ready my short sword in case he runs towards us. I already thought out of how this would go, he'd appear lightning speed right in front of me and I'd have slashed before he appeared, predicting he would go for me. Another possibility that I thought of is that, he'd continue to use his magic and appear behind us since Seph can't use her fire magic knowing that he'd take the flames and leave with one of us getting hurt by it since our chances of dodging something we're not expecting is quite low.

"On guard!" Ifri shouts

He begins to walk towards us slowly approaching with his sword ready. Light wind would start blowing from the opposite of the wall making this battle feel even more intense than usual.

"Dom, Razz!" I shout

"On Guard, Demon!" Razz shouts

Razz got his gauntlets ready and blades appeared, Domotraus readied his long sword on the hand that isn't infected with the curse. The three of us slowly approach him ready to attack. We soon got close enough after a few minutes of slow approach all of a sudden the wind got stronger. It started surrounding the four of us.

"You didn't have to trap us in. We came here to kill you anyway" I say

"Fools! Trapping me here won't do anything, but if you can't escape then this should be fine by me" Ifri says

"Huh? We're not trapping you here, you're trapping yourself with us" Razz says back

Razz runs towards him and throws a punch. The blades on the gauntlet couldn't pierce through the shell he's wearing so he immediately backs off. Ifri slashes the moment he saw the failed attack, but Razz was able to block it with both of his hidden blades. Domotraus came in to assist, he slashed towards Ifri, which he easily blocked with his own sword. They continue clashing with their swords. My sword glows and I shoot out waves of beams at him again. He does a powerful smash at Domotraus, which forced Dom to dodge the attack instead of blocking it head on. Then Ifri smashes his sword on the ground, which made the sand go up creating some sort of sand wall. It blocked the waves of beam that I made to attack him, but also destroyed the wall of sand he created from the smash. Our vision outside the heavy wind begins to get obscured with the sand being brought along with the wind.

"Sure you wanna keep this up? It's three on one. We have a guaranteed win" I say

"You're gonna see how wrong you are.." Ifri says laughing menacingly.

A bright light starts to shine above us. I look up and it was a start burning bright despite the sandstorm obscuring our vision.