Twin Shadows

Simultaneously as Alin was dealing with Camellia Pieris, the kids had their problems to deal with.

"The light is green! Let's go! Quick let's run! Leo! Uriel!" Hari shouted with joy as she started running up the stairs.

Leo and Uriel swiftly followed her.

As they were nearing the peak Uriel felt something strange. The three siblings were almost halfway into the platform as they felt an extreme heat heading towards them but just as they felt it they felt an extreme chill immediately after.

People could be heard shouting and running away.

Uriel turned around and saw a large spiky wall of ice that a raging wall of fire was trying to break past.

As Uriel was staring behind them, twin shadows started flying towards Uriel and Hari.

"Uriel!" Leo called out to him but unfortunately too late.

One of the shadows had kicked Uriel in the stomach sending him flying towards the wall of ice.

As he hit the wall he coughed up a handful of blood. The impact caused the part of the wall Uriel hit to crack in a spiderweb pattern.

Uriel slowly got up, Leo was about to run up to him but Uriel put his hand up and stopped him.

"Help Hari. I will take care of this guy" Uriel's blue eyes briefly looked to have some red start mixing in as if someone was mixing paint but they swiftly returned to normal.

He dusted himself off and swung his right arm to the side. As he did that a black sword with a straight blade materialized in his hand.

Leo looked uneasy but he nodded and started running towards Hari who was valiantly dodging the barrage of attacks at the time.

Every time Hari dodged it looked as if her opponent was getting more and more precise and swift.

Uriel frowned in anger but he did his best to keep calm and not give in to his rage.

He gripped his sword and pointed it at one of the unknown figures.

The figure was dressed in pure black. They had no faces or facial features in general and looked as if they were beings of pure darkness.

Seeing that Uriel had taken out a weapon the figure decided to no longer be polite and kicked off towards Uriel.

Uriel did the same and dashed towards the figure before clashing with each other shortly after.

They exchanged a series of blows but Uriel felt as if he couldn't scratch his opponent.

His opponent was using his wrists and arms to block each swing of Uriel's sword.

Uriel saw an opening and kicked the back of his opponent's left knee forcing him down on one knee and eye level towards Uriel.

He swung his sword at his enemies head but just as it was about to be blocked Uriel kicked his enemy in the chin as hard as he could.

Unfortunately for Uriel, he underestimated his opponent's physical strength. While the kick did rattle his head slightly it did not do any real damage and barely moved him.

The shadow looked back up and started standing up. It looked as if smoke was coming out from where his mouth should be.

Weird black shadowy tentacles started growing from the assailant.

"Noir!" The shadow spoke in a horrifying blood-chilling voice.

The tentacles grew in size and started flying towards Uriel.

He started jumping backwards and narrowly managed to dodge the shadow tentacles.

Every time he just barely managed to dodge the attacks as the shadows stabbed into the platform sending chunks of the floor up.

The entire platform was soon after riddled with holes.

Uriel wanted to swiftly finish his fight and help Hari and Leo but he wasn't too sure how to do it.

He wanted to at the very least check out the situation they were in however anytime he tried to divert his attention to his siblings 'Noir' as he decided to call him in his head, attacked in a way that blocked his sight as if he was trying to make him nervous and cause him to panic due to lack of information.

As he continued dodging and blocking Uriel had realized that this could not go on. He soon would run out of energy and at that point, it would be all over.

He had to make his enemy drop his guard but he couldn't think of a way to do it that won't result in his death.

Uriel started to think of how Noir was attacking in hopes of finding a pattern.

As he started to pay attention Uriel grasped the fact that Noir was not aiming at any of his vitals.

That's when Uriel understood. Earlier he must have infuriated Noir, however despite that he was only aiming at Uriel's non-vital points.

With that thought, Uriel registered the fact that whoever they were, they wanted them alive.

'This could prove advantageous' he thought. He was going to shout the information at Hari and Leo in hopes that it could potentially help them.

But as he was about to call out to his siblings but then he had another thought. 'If they don't want to kill us I could use that to my advantage.'

His eyes shined with determination as a plan of action formed within his head. His only thought was to swiftly deal with Noir in order to help his siblings.

Currently nothing but the safety of Hari and Leo was more important to Uriel.

Uriel's breathing became uneven while sweat rolled down his head. Noir could see the fatigue and weariness on Uriel's face.

The attacks started to become more intense mainly focusing on points like Uriel's shoulders or legs to incapacitate him.

Each strike came closer and closer to connecting.

Uriel dodged downwards and as Noir moved up closer he dropped his sword and sprung up with his head trying to headbutt Noir square on his chin.

Noir dodged backwards once again and twisted his body sending Uriel flying once again with a kick this time to the side of the head.

Uriel hit the Ice wall once again. He managed to turn himself from his side and sit up against the wall.

His breathing was now extremely heavy and his whole face looked exhausted. It was as if soon he was going to get paid a visit from the sandman.

Noir leisurely strolled towards Uriel. He ducked down in front of Uriel and lifted his right arm and brandished it like a sword.

His fingers were extended in preparation to pierce Uriel's shoulders and legs to completely immobilize him.

He started stabbing forwards.

Uriel smirked, he moved his left arm to lessen the damage to his shoulder while simultaneously the sword he had dropped started to disappear and reappear in his hand.

He swung upwards towards noir's exposed neck and as he connected and could hear the sound of flesh being cut and noir starting to choke and drown on his blood but also another series of sounds could be heard.

Uriel felt his flesh being pierced as something shattered and fell towards the ground with a deafening metallic clank.

He saw his arm and shoulder were pierced and blood was flowing wildly causing his eyes to turn red as a blinding flash of light spread across the building

"URIEL!"

The word echoed and as the light vanished the teleportation hall was left with no signs of life other than the intense battle that raged atop the teleportation platform.