SKY VS COLE (4)

"I still wonder why you fight... knowing that we can regenerate everything. You keep attacking me, and I keep coming back. Do you even plan to kill me with that strategy?!" Cole asked me. I smiled, looking back at the text in my left eye.

[Lifespan Reduction: 8.23 Years]

"You think I plan to kill you?" I asked him.

Cole ran over to me with a large saber in his hand. It protruded in multiple directions so it would hit me, and I jumped into action.

I rose my white stone up and let the saber collide. The two hit each other, shrieked out in power, and exploded against each other.

The left side of my face was torn to shreds, completely surprising me with the fact that the attack just thrown at me was more powerful than the entire Isle being sent at me.

I was stunned, and with that, Cole picked me up, flew to the top of the dome, and split me in half, holding the top half of my body by my throat and picking me up toward the top.

"I can't believe you're so powerless... how do you even hope to win?" Cole asked me again.

In my time of desperation, I held onto his forearm, placing a searing mark on it while pushing golden strands all throughout my body. There was one more trick up my sleeve... Avie knows it, just as well as I do... but I just thought of something else.

Abilities from The First Trial...

From the top of the dome, gelatinous spikes shot out, impaling Cole through the top of his right shoulder, down straight through his body.

I changed the flow of gravity in an area around me, forcing us to float up so he couldn't escape the gelatinous spikes.

Now that I know what the stakes are, I know that I'm fully capable of using all abilities in that world.

Providence's Strange Abilities and Mom's Abilities all belonged to me, and I would use them in this fight as well.

[Lifespan Reduction: 11 Years]

As the spikes let loose from the ceiling, Cole was warped in confusion as he couldn't regenerate anything. That must've been what Providence was trying to do to me.

I attached a strand to his leg and slammed him into the ground, hitting it so hard that his knees exploded and he bounced almost ten feet in the air.

I perfectly landed on his spine, cracking it, splitting him in half, and freezing his body with Belle's ability once more. He coughed up blood, and got back onto his feet, only to be punched by me again with the same intensity. I cracked the ground beside us and Cole went parallel with the ground flying backward.

Avie used her ability after taking over, appearing above him, and kicking him into the ground once more, pushing the ground all around us down by ten feet in total before coming to a standstill.

[Lifespan Reduction: 11.4 Years]

I panted heavily, reading the text in my eyes once more.

At this point, even if I lived my full, three-hundred-year life... I would still die before everybody else... and I'm barely even damaging Cole.

He regenerated everything after a second, reclaiming the holes in his body with replenished flesh and turning his weapons back to normal against me. I held my left arm, panting heavily as I began to come to terms with what I was actually doing to myself.

"It's too bad Sky Asterio was never born with an Incarnation like this. He would've been at least a fun opponent, instead of one so annoying," Cole mentioned. His claws regenerated once more, with his horns growing in length.

"I don't need an Incarnation... like that..." I told Cole. I summoned Red's Spear in my hands and held it, ready for combat.

"The weapons of your old comrades... aw, isn't that cute?" Cole asked me.

With a burst of speed, I turned my body into an illusion yet again and had Cole strike right through my head with his claws. He was met with surprise when the copy of me turned to smoke.

The glimmer of the sun through the spear blade blinded his left eye, and I stuck the spear into his right eye, straight into the center of his head.

Cole took it out, and threw it at the ground, only for the spear to come right back at him on repeat. It happened six times before he had enough, grabbing the spear, and cracking it under the weight of his powerful kicks.

"What else?!" He shouted out. Cole was met with an axe coming from the ground up, Carl's new weapon and I launched him into the air as it tore apart the front of his face, launching his nose and teeth everywhere. He was stunned, staring up into the sky, only to be met with the gaze of my eyes. My eyes were red with rage, but the tunnel vision was missing...

I charged my fist back, summoning a combination of everybody's weapons I had previously summoned. The location at which each one broke came from Cole underneath him, piercing his body as I launched, cracking the sound barrier with ease, and pushing him into the ground.

The entire Earth shook with the power of the attack and I landed straight underneath my old position on my stomach. I lost the air in my lungs and panted heavily while staring forward.

[CURRENT HEART RATE: 301]

[WARNING: CURRENT EXERTION WILL REDUCE LIFESPAN]

Again, I pushed my body back up while looking forward. Cole was regenerated, and blood was leaking out of my mouth.

"Figures, you're still weaker than me," Cole said, kicking up his mace head and walking toward me.

"All that time you spent, diving into abilities that don't belong to you... weakening the vessel I'm supposed to be preparing for The Asterio. You're really going to keep going? Even as weak as you are? Don't make this hurt any more than it needs to. You'll fight for nothing this entire time... it'll be for nothing," Cole told me.

Even in my terrible position, I rose my fists, looking forward with an unbreakable focus.

"For all of my friends who've died for my future... I WILL BECOME THE ARKIAN WHO SURPASSED THEM ALL!" I screamed out.

Black strands wrapped all around me, enhancing my body

[CURRENT HEART RATE: 60]