Chapter 119-Khione vs Sparky, Part Four

Before Khione's stars explode, Sparky resumes her Charge Stance.

"Spark Charge, Level One: Explosion!" Sparky shouts as she swipes her wand upwards, causing one of Khione's stars to explode, sendings chunks of purple crystal flying everywhere.

"REPEAT!" Sparky then chants, causing a second explosion to reverpates from her first, destroying all of Khione's stars.

Sparky then resumes her Charge Stance, before crouching down into a sprinter's stance.

"Spark Charge, Level Three: Suicide Bomb!"

Using her Devil Eye, Sparky causes her own shoes to explode, sending Sparky rocketing towards Khione.

Khione's eyes widen as she resumes her Charge Stance.

"So fast! St-Star Charge-!"

But before Khione can finish chanting her spell, Sparky shoots a hand up and palms Khione by the face.

"YOU'RE DONE NOW! IGNITE!"

Electric yellow sparks of energy BURST from Sparky's body, but…nothing happens.

Sparky's eyes widen.

Khione raises an eyebrow at her opponent as she pushes Sparky's hand out of her face.

"Was…that supposed to do something…?"

"N-no way…" Sparky stammers, "Because of your Star Charge, you…you must have some sort of natural resistance to explosions! You were supposed to die, right there! I was going to explode your face!"

Khione raises both of her eyebrows at Sparky.

"Oh, um…really?" Khione asks.

"CURSES!" Sparky grunts, "All E-Chargers USUALLY have some resistance to their own element. So the instability of Khione's Star Charge grants Khione mild immunity to MY explosions!"

"Now…are you done rambling?!" Khione exclaims as she jabs a spiked ice gauntlet covered fist into Sparky's gut, while the Spark Charger is distracted.

"Ice Charge, Level Four: Murder Vambrace!" Khione shouts as Sparky vomits up a glob of blood.

But as Sparky's sent flying backwards due to the force of Khione's spell, she smirks.

"Youuuu touuuched meeee!"

Khione's eyes widen once she notices that her ice gauntlet has begun to glow electric yellow.

"SHI-!" Khione begins to cry.

But before she can deactivate her spell, Sparky chants: "IGNITE!"

And then…Khione's ice gauntlet explodes in a flash of electric yellow light.

Once the light has faded…only a lonely bleeding arm flying through the air remains of Khione's body…

***

A few days ago, on one of the lower layers of a frozen, snowing mountain…

"Carbon, what are you doing here?!"

Carbon looks away and blushes.

"I'm training."

"In a frozen wasteland?"

"Uh-huh."

"Why?"

"Lay off, okay?!" Carbon snaps, causing Khione to giggle.

"No way, don't tell me, are you…wandering around the Land of Water looking for E-Charging 'cause I mentioned how no one from the Team Noah Support Association is doing so?"

"I SAID LAY OFF!" Carbon snaps, causing Khione to laugh.

"So how about you?" Carbon then asks, "How's your training doing?"

Khione looks away and sighs.

"Not good. Between my Ice Charge and my Star Charge, I just can't figure out what my AWAKENING would look like."

Carbon raises an eye at Khione.

"Eh?!" Carbon snaps, "You're doing it all wrong!"

"Wh-what do you mean?" Khione stammers.

"You're treating your Ice and Star Charges like two different entities-" Carbon begins to say as he holds up two fingers. As he speaks, Carbon slowly brings his fingers together, "-When in reality, they're the same weapon."

"The same…weapon…?"

Khione's expression then brightens.

"Carbon, PLEASE!" Khione exclaims as she bows to the man, causing Carbon to recoil, "PLEASE STY IN THE LAND OF WATER AND TEACH ME HOW TO COMBINE MY ELEMENTS!"

Carbon turns away and blushes.

"S-sure, but you better learn quickly! This cold isn't good for my mental joints!"

***

Sparky smirks as she watches Khione's severed arm fly through the air, leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Nothing else but ash remains of Khione.

"So long…Khione…"

But Sparky's eyes then widen as Khione's severed arm begins to turn into a white powder then falls to the ground, like snow.

"Why are you saying goodbye already?"

Sparky then spins around to where she heard a voice, seeing a mound of snow piled up behind her.

The mound of snow then begins to take the form of Khione, both arms and all.

"H-have you-?" Sparky stammers, but she's cut off when Khione resumes her Charge Stance, and Khione's aura takes the form of a cawing eagle, wings spread out like an angel.

"Sp-Spark Charge, Level Two: Machine Gun!" Sparky stammers as she flicks her wand towards Khione, firing off an electric yellow fireball.

The fireball explodes in a burst of flames and smoke upon making contact with Khione, which sends snow FLYING into the air.

As the smoke and flames settle, the snow begins to fall back into the ground and reform into Khione.

"Snow Charge-" Khione smirks, "Level One: Snow Clone."

Sparky's eyes widen.

"For a long time I was torn between my two elements as to what my awakening would look like," Khione monologues, "But after speaking with Carbon, I learned that my elements aren't two separate abilities, but the SAME. And so…by combining the frostiness of Ice Charge with the instability of Star Charge, you get…Snow Charge!"

"D-die!" Sparky cries as she thrusts her wand towards Khione again, "Spark Charge, Level Two: Machine Gun!"

But no matter how many exploding fireballs Sparky hurls Khione's way, they're powerless to do anything as Khione's snowy body reshapes itself.

"Now…to finish you off…" Khione says as she resumes her Charge Stance, "In order to awaken, I had to envision a stronger version of myself, a stronger version that could NEVER lose!"

"And that vision, is you…master!"

"Snow Charge, Level Two…"

"-BULLET HAIL!"

Swiftly, Khione swipes both hands outwards, summoning an indoor snowfall of a bullet sharp chunks of hail, which cause Sparky to scream in pain as she's blasted and slashed by the hail.

"Now…to summon all THREE of my elements…" Khione whispers as she resumes her Charge Stance one more time, "Snow Charge, Level Three…"

"-PERMAFROST!"

With a roar, Khione swings both hands outwards, freezing the air around Sparky and encasing her in ice.

Khione waits a moment, but…nothing happens.

"The heat of the lava will melt my ice eventually," Khione begins to say as she turns away from her opponent and begins walking down the corridor.

Khione then turns and peers over her shoulder at Sparky with a menacing glare.

"Where or not you're alive by the time it melts…is a different question."