Chapter Fifteen: The Smoke and the Tornado

Kazane's P.O.V.

I tried to blast Isek's smoke away from me with my wind as much as I could, but whenever I tried the smoke would just move around my wind and come right back. It was really annoying. I could tell in his mind that he thought he could win easily. He was a very patient person, unlike myself, and I couldn't keep that ball of air around me forever. My ball of wind kept his smoke about ten feet away from me, but I only had about an hour or so to continue using the ball. It would decrease more and more the more I used my wind. Wow that's a lot of mores. Anyways, thinking hard and strategizing wasn't really my strong suit. I usually just went with the flow, so I decided to keep doing just that.

I entered my Element Drive, still such a dope name, and became much swifter. I noticed Isek also entered his Element Drive, smoke emanating from every inch of his body, not to mention his body became so soft it was like hitting a cloud. That is, if clouds weren't just air and water. I aimed the top of my head at Isek, smirking playfully as I blasted myself to Isek, surrounded by a spiral of wind, like a drill. I was too fast for him to avoid and rammed right into him. He was so soft I kind of wanted to hug him and just fall asleep, but he was the enemy and I couldn't just do something like that.

We both flew through the cloud of smoke around us and I eventually slammed him through a mountain. Even if his body was soft, he could still feel pain, confirmed by the grunts and groans he emitted as I drilled him through the mountain. When we exited the other side of the mountain, I spun him around and slammed him into the ground. I stood over him, summoning several wind drills behind me quickly to try and frighten him. "Looks like I win! Surrender or face my wrath!"

Isek stared up at me. "Hard to take you seriously when I can see your underwear."

"Eh?!" I looked down. I was wearing shorts. "Fuck." He had totally fooled me. The second I wasn't looking, he swiped my legs. I caught myself and he tried to grab my face with his smokey hand, but I resummoned my ball of wind around myself and watched him get blown away quite satisfyingly.

I quickly chased after him, doing my best to do so before he could surround us both in smoke again, but he was already starting to work his magic. He began firing clouds of smoke at me, but I easily avoided and blew them away before they could expand much, and then Isek started firing pure streams of smoke at me from his palms, powerful ones at that. I spun around them , avoiding them quickly and making my way to him as he continued to fly away while releasing smoke from his body.

We both kept going back and forth, him running and firing streams of smoke at me while I chased him and fired blasts of air in return. Sometimes he'd get close to encasing me in smoke and sometimes I managed to land a hit or two on him when I got close enough, but neither of us was making much progress. He was really good at dodging and practically as slippery as Jinny in her Element Drive. Definitely the two most annoying people I've ever had the pleasure of fighting.

"Alright, enough playing around." Isek began releasing smoke from every part of his body, encasing himself in a small cloud of smoke instead of trying to do so to me. It surprised me, but I wouldn't let my guard down again. That wasn't the first time I'd fought with him after all. I did wonder why he never used any other gases against me. He could easily make me pass out or even seriously affect my health with some of the gases he could use.

"Maybe he's a chain smoker..." I gasped audibly as I thought of the possibility. "I'm a genius!"

Isek rolled his eyes as if he could read my mind. "I don't smoke if that's what you're thinking. Even if I did it wouldn't affect me in any way since I'm the Gas Elementia."

I blinked a few times, processing what he had said. "Oh yeah..." I giggled and stuck my tongue out, making him facepalm. We rushed at one another at the same time as we thought the other was distracted. He punched me with his smokey fist and I punched him with a drill of wind, blowing one another away. My punch had him reeling, and even though his punch didn't hurt very bad at all, it did make me dizzy.

"Crap... I must've inhaled some..." He had punched me right in the face, so of course I inhaled a little bit of his smoke. I was lucky he couldn't expand it or anything of the sort inside of me, or I'd have been done right then and there. I giggled, getting excited, and flew at him yet again, angel wings made of pure wind forming on my back. When I did this I could fly around much faster and it was easier to move around, so don't go thinking it was just so I could look cool or anything. But it totally does make me look like a total badass.

I flew toward Isek and he seemed to be preparing himself. I flapped my wings in front of me and fired a few feathers from my wings, each of them flying to Isek as fast as bullets. The feathers spun around like drills, forming little tornados of wind around them. Isek did his best to avoid them, putting up walls of thick smoke as well to defend himself as I continuously flapped my wings and fire dozens of my tiny feather tornados at him, the wall so thick they rarely went all the way through unless I put a lot of force in them. However, I wanted them to get trapped in his smoke wall because there was a new trick I wanted to try out. I snapped my fingers dramatically and each of the feathers stuck in Isek's wall of smoke exploded in bursts of wind, not only pushing Isek back and leaving him more than a little surprised, but also giving me an opening.

I propelled myself forward with a burst of wind from behind and headbutted Isek's gut, knocking the wind out of him. He gasped as he went flying straight down into the ground. I wasn't going to stop there though. I fired several bursts of winds at him as he was falling, making him crash even harder, and I fired several more gusts of wind afterward, just in case. I had let my guard down once before when I thought I had gotten him, then he knocked me out and went off. I waited for the cloud of dust to clear, seeing him smashed into the cracked ground and seemingly passed out, a bit of blood leaking from his forehead and lip. "Maybe I went a little overboard... Oops..." I smiled nervously.

I immediately landed and skipped over to him, checking not only if he was knocked out, but also if he was alright. He didn't seem to have any broken bones or anything, but he had a few bruises and such. I'm always so thankful in these moments our bodies are different from normal humans. After I saw that he was going to be fine, I stood up, pressing my foot against his chest and raising my fist in victory. "Huzzah! I am victorious! That's what you get for underest-"

He suddenly shot up and covered my mouth. "Yeah... I never underestimate my opponents little girl..." He coughed before releasing a ton of smoke from his hand. Of course I inhaled a butt load of it, passing out almost immediately afterward before I even had a chance to react.

Isek's P.O.V.

After the girl passed out, I gently set her down and pulled the smoke out of her body so it wouldn't have any long lasting effects on her. She'd wake up in a few minutes, if not less. Atiyama said he wanted at least one of the Elementia killed, but I most certainly wasn't gonna kill a girl almost half my age. I'm sure either Kristy or Attor could handle the task, considering Boris was too cocky, Angie was too kind, and the plasma boy was too new. There was no way they'd be able to pull off Atiyama's request, at least not yet anyway. I had a feeling there was more of a connection to the plasma boy and the Lightning Elementia than Atiyama was letting on, but he wouldn't say anything when I asked.

I simply shrugged off the thought and headed off to the mansion before the Kazane girl had a chance to wake up and actually break one of my bones. I flew off in a cloud of smoke, heading for the flashes of white and black in the sky in the distance.