As Darian opened his eyes, he found his body floating in a weird white room. His body was normal again, but he was floating, and around him there was only white. "Where am I?" asked Darian, scared, but no one answered him yet. He looked over his hand.
"Am I still alive?" asked him, trying to remember what happened before coming here. Suddenly he heard a voice, "I still need you," said this voice. Darian felt weird after hearing this voice, it was like the first time he heard it, but at the same time, he felt like he had spoken with this voice for so long.
As he got his head up, he found Snowy floating right in front of him, a bit higher than him, but he was looking directly at him. "Snowy? What do you mean?" asked Darian in panic, slowly about to lose consciousness.
Snowy didn't answer, he simply remained still and looked directly at Darian as his eyes closed. Suddenly Darian found himself again in reality, Octavia still in front of him, about to shoot a really powerful fireball at his head. "Your body will be completely charred… you two have lost!" shouted her. Darian got his head up, and his eyes met Octavia's.
Octavia felt a shiver running down her spine, "Howw??" yelled Octavia, mad. She immediately threw the huge fireball toward Darian, who moved his hand from below, creating many shards that all hit Octavia and made her lose balance.
The fireball didn't hit Darian's face; thanks to the fact that she became unstable, the spell only hit Darian's hair, not even burning them.
Octavia fell behind, removing the fire walls behind her, looking directly at Darian, wondering how he could move like that now. "It can't be…" whispered her as she kept moving back. Darian silently got up and looked around the place where Snowy's tail came out.
'How is this possible… Snowy, what did you do?' thought Darian in his mind, but no one answered him. 'I clearly remember that he spoke to me… but what the hell was that?' Darian looked confused at his arm. He tried to touch the tail, but he didn't feel it.
It was like this tail was just a projection of one of Snowy's tails. As he moved his hand through it, his body part simply passed through it. "What even is this…" whispered Darian to himself. Octavia looked at him with madness in her eyes.
"Don't you dare ignore me!!" shouted Octavia. As fire appeared under her feet, she used her arm on the ground to push her whole body and threw herself like a missile directly toward Darian's stomach.
"Ouchh." As Octavia's feet hit Darian, he was pushed back, falling on one knee. As he dragged his feet and knee on the ground, the floor beneath him became colder, almost as if it was about to become ice.
"Let's end this now…" murmured Octavia as she slowly got up. "I don't have much soul left," added her. She knew her soul was around 40%; keeping on fighting would just be worse for her. 'How the hell was he able to regain back all the strength…' thought her with a mad look on her face.
'And especially… his magic was created… wasn't it weak to high temperature?' observed Octavia. She didn't attack; she remained still. Darian got up and waited for the next move.
"How were you able to do that…" phrased Octavia as she looked directly at Darian. "What are you even saying?" answered Darian as they started to walk in circles. Now Darian was a few steps in front of Vane's unconscious body.
"I'm saying how you were able to cast your spell!!! Wasn't that weak to the fire like 3 seconds before?!!" yelled Octavia, mad. Many people now looked outside their windows, wondering what happened that they weren't fighting anymore.
"I don't know…" responded Darian honestly, looking at his arm again, trying to scratch the place where Snowy entered. Darian felt just a small annoyance in some part of his body.
"Don't make fun of meeee!!!!" yelled Octavia, mad. Knowing that Darian might have done something, unable to think rationally, she launched herself toward her enemy, swinging her leg to hit him.
"Ice armor." Darian created the armor on his body, and the impact was so strong that the shards exploded immediately. Most of them went all around the battlefield, some even hitting Vane and creating some scratches.
Octavia immediately jumped back right before the shards were about to hit her, leaving a path of fire that disappeared almost instantly. "ARGHHHHH!" yelled Octavia in complete madness. She threw herself once again toward Darian, who didn't attack her.
Darian simply dodged every single one of her attacks. Darian walked behind her, eluding all of her strikes. Some of the flames were getting closer to Vane too. 'I can't let him get injured,' thought Darian as he created a block of ice that defended Vane's body.
"FOCUS ON MEEE!" shouted her, even more angry than before. Darian jumped right above her; as he moved his hand to Octavia's shoulder, she felt that body part literally freezing to death, even if just for a moment. Darian landed behind her.
'How did he do that… IT CAN'T BE POSSIBLEEEE,' thought her, mad. Not turning back to face Darian, she looked at the block of ice and smiled creepily. "So you chose the death of your frienddd," whispered Octavia. Darian understood she was able to calm herself and decided that now he would do anything to fight back. 'I can't dodge anymore… if she's able to think rationally I must fight back,' thought him as he got ready to shoot multiple shards.
Suddenly, as fire appeared under Octavia's feet, she started to hit the block of ice. As the fire made contact with the ice… nothing happened. She looked confused, thinking she would be able to destroy it, but it didn't happen—not even a single scratch on the ice.
"Huh?" Octavia looked confused. She gave more kicks, but the ice remained solid, not even a sign of it melting down. "How…" said Octavia as she closed her fist. Darian got ready, thinking something might happen.
"I'll kill you first and then your animal friend will do the sameeeee!" yelled her as she immediately rotated her body and swung her leg to hit Darian. But as the leg was about to hit him, Darian blocked it with his left arm.
Darian, noticing that Octavia was now blocked because of the shock, moved his right arm and created a powerful single shard that hit Octavia right in her body. Octavia, understanding the danger, jumped back, but it was already too late. The shard almost hit her body; as she jumped, she made it hit only her side.
The shard, after hitting her side, wandered until it met the ceiling of the cave. The object was then destroyed because of the impact.
'That was so much more powerful… it felt like the first time,' thought Darian as he looked at his hand, remembering the first time Snowy fused with him.
The shard was so powerful that it went directly toward the sky. Now the shards weren't even comparable in strength, but it was the most powerful one he had thrown since he came back to Earth.
Now Octavia was breathing heavily, her side had a small hole, and blood was dripping from it. "I suggest you stop… I don't want to kill anyone," said Darian calmly, but Octavia was everything except calm.
She shouted in panic, "If I surrend… he will turn me into a statue… I can't let this happeeeennnn!" Octavia kept yelling, now stronger than before. But a big problem appeared. She hadn't noticed it yet, but her body was becoming transparent. If she kept using her soul, something really bad could happen to her body.
"We will defend you! Come with us, we won't hurt you!" shouted Darian back, but Octavia didn't listen to him. She kept throwing powerful kicks toward Darian, who defended himself by creating a wall of ice.
The wall completely blocked the kick. Darian heard Octavia screaming once again. With a powerful jump she went directly on top of the wall, then jumped with so much fire under her feet directly on top of him. "Ice armor!" Darian protected himself with the armor.
Octavia was now more transparent than before—just a few more spells and it would be over for her. Darian wasn't expert enough to tell her to stop; he had never seen the use of soul reach this level, and Octavia couldn't think straight.
"I don't know how much soul you have used… but stop, you don't have to do all of this," said Darian, but Octavia wasn't listening. In fact, she was getting ready for another powerful kick, now more than ever.
"I don't care how much soul I've used… this will be the last one that will finish this fightttt!" shouted her. All the people around only heard the screaming of that weird human. She couldn't stop screaming; she was really in a panic.
Octavia was too fast, she didn't even give Darian time to react. The kick was so powerful that Darian was thrown away about 10 inches back; his whole body dragged and smashed into the ground.
As he stopped, he coughed up some blood, which was different. This transformation changed Darian's blood and made it turn blue, but now the blood was different… it was a darker blue. Darian hadn't noticed it. He directly looked at Octavia, who remained still.
"Eh?" said her. Suddenly her whole body, completely transparent, started to crack. "NO NO THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING TO MEEEE!" shouted her in tears. Her legs already became ash; she couldn't move anymore.
Darian remained still, not knowing what to do. "Help me please…" These were the last words of Octavia before she completely disappeared. After that the battlefield became silent… then Darian looked confused.
"Eh? What was I doing here…" Darian focused on remembering why he was here, but nothing came to his mind. He then removed the block of ice. Vane was still unconscious. He got closer to the body of his friend.
"I remember that we had to fight… yeah we went searching for the base of the one who attacked the city… but it doesn't feel like I was able to find any of the two of them," said him as he looked over his body. "Why am I transformed?" asked Darian. "I remember that I actually fought… but I can't remember with who…" whispered to himself.
Snowy then went out from his body. Darian immediately fell to his knee coughing up blood. "Eh? Why am I spitting blood?" Darian thought about it, but as he noticed the color of the blood he felt scared. It was blue, like every time he was transformed.
Darian felt a shiver of cold running down his body. He was literally trembling of cold. "Too much cold…" whispered Darian before falling unconscious. Snowy next to him lost consciousness too.