Chapter 4: Sibling Rivalry, Part 3
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Amidst the planet's rumbling and the rise of blazing flames stretching far across its surface. The two originals, Isaiah & Mugen, were still interlocked in an intense sparring battle; the planet was collapsing and quickly at that. However, even as the core roared with great intensity, the two siblings fought without care or loss of momentum.
The two jumped between sheets of molten rocks & debris floating outward into the vastness of space.
Both of them landed on a piece of broken rock, shooting into space as they rapidly exchanged blows, causing more chunks of the foundation to crumble; Isaiah swung his shining silver staff, Kirin, behind his back, sending hundreds of thousands of arching bolts of powerful lightning towards Mugen.
Mugen swung her practice blade upwards with immense cutting force, cleaving through a large boulder flying in front of her face as she gestured with two fingers pointing to a tattoo running along her arm; it activated, emitting a glowing light of luminous, true hollow energy.
"Sword contract: event duplicate."
Mugen drops into a defensive stance, raising her practice blade to block her chest & shoulder blade. Under the blinding heat of a star that's nearby, Isaiah's bolts of lightning collided into a trap of over 2,000 blades manifested behind Mugen's back.
The storm of blades activated by her ability, Event-Duplicate, acted as large-scale lightning rods to minimize damage taken & keep pressure off Mugen as she continued the fight against her brother, Isaiah.
Isaiah tapped his staff on the ground, sending out sparks of lightning that formed a cage around himself & Mugen instantly. He propelled himself forward with Burst Flow, swinging his weapon directly at his sister's blade to break it, taking her weapon and winning the duel between siblings.
However, before he could reach to break it, Mugen swiftly shifted her footwork, bouncing on the balls of her feet once more. She transitioned into a battle-style dance, reminiscent of a waltz. With a swift flip, she kicked debris from the ground, momentarily obscuring Isaiah's vision. Mugen landed, planting her feet firmly on the ground. She aligned her body from the top of her shoulders down to the stance she held. Then, she thrust forward with her practice blade, striking her brother four times in the chest and launching him into the cage he had formed around them.
Despite being pushed back multiple times and seemingly unable to catch his sister off guard due to her instincts, Isaiah remained determined. Shaking his head to dispel the pain in his chest, he pushed himself off the cage, bouncing himself in between the different directions of the formed cage to build up speed and momentum. He yelled out, "Come on, Mugen! Don't tell me you've tapped out already. I'm afraid I'll break that blade and snatch this win from your hands like before."
Mugen chuckled to herself, moving around the battlefield as if she were in a deep dance. "Little brother, I've shown you many tricks. But… not this one."
"Falling haze."
Mugen, with her masked face slightly shifted, rested her confident hand on the blade. Immediately, she swung it from all angles, unleashing powerful slashes compressed with hollow energy. Isaiah launched himself
at Mugen as hundreds of cuts riddled his body.
On the opposite side, Mugen bent both of her legs and launched herself towards her brother; the two originals fell into another string of deadly clashes, neither Mugen nor Isaiah letting the other have a second to rest or make a mistake.
Each blow struck from either Isaiah mighty silver staff Kirin or the skill of his sibling Mugen swordsmanship prowess was not only powerful but also had aftereffects that sent shockwaves across the solar system, causing nearby stars to burst into flames of oblivion.
The sheer raw physical strength these two possess was both astounding & terrifying.
In the next moment, Isaiah staff shot forward. aiming to strike Mugen directly into the chest.
Mugen shifted her stance, placing her right foot forward and letting her shoulders hang low. The staff struck her once more with immense force, propelling her backward. However, she skillfully used the staff's momentum to grab it and pull Isaiah in.
Twack ! Twack ! Twack!
Mugen landed three more consecutive hits, after pulling in her brother to close distance. she striked at his face, forearm, and right hand which laid comfortably on his silver-staff Kirin.
Mugen quickly threw up two fingers, pointing them towards her brother. The swords she'd maintained in the enclosed cage, acting as lightning rods, turned to him and fired at an immense speed.
Isaiah grunted in pain from the blows dealt, then jumped back into continuous somersaults, avoiding the blades with skilled movements and precise levels of agility.
Shortly after, the blades slammed into the spot Isaiah was originally at moments ago.
On the heels of that, Mugen follows up with her attacks, dashing towards her brother.
Isaiah senses the surge in her output. Almost instantly, he halts his movements, gazes at the cage he formed, and extends his arms. As his flesh & body reconstruct themselves into pure electromagnetic energy, large bolts of silver lightning bounce between the various currents flowing through the electric cage.
As mugen dashed into center of the cage, all of the bolts collided into a single silver-white arrow that arced electric energy all around.
Instanly Isaiah pulled the arrow back and fired at Mugen hitting her head on as he blasted a thousand bolts of lightning all around the cage causing major quakes & explosions to occur.
On the other side of the attack, Mugen, despite being struck by numerous bolts of lightning, managed to use her practice blade as a deterrent. She raised it upwards, taking the brunt of Isaiah's move away. By absorbing a significant amount of his hollow energy output with the blade, it rapidly heated up due to the pressure it absorbed.
Following this, Mugen stepped forward, shifting into a battle stance one last time. She positioned herself into the iai draw, holding her blade in a reverse sword grip motion. She angled her blade at the right moment, ready to strike when her brother manifested his body and attacked with his weapon.
The heat of her blade sizzled quietly and before the next step was made she released her strike performing a quick-draw frontal attack combining it with burst flow to swing faster then the lighting Isaiah created.
In the same instant, Isaiah emerged from above the cage, intending to catch his sister off guard with a return stroke to secure the match victory. However, before he could fully react, he felt the searing heat of Mugen's heated blade strike, slicing through his forearm and ascending his chest to the shoulder blade. Simultaneously, the single silver bolt he had summoned descended upon Mugen and her blade, causing it to shatter and the ground beneath to shake.
The large platform they stood upon after countless blows between both fighters finally cracked open and split apart into two pieces sending both siblings in opposite directions.