Firefall || Fairy Tail

64 : s c a r l e t . d e s p a i r . a n d . d a y b r e a k e r

    Forcing more fire out of her feet, she curled her body around the top of the blast, using the cover to get above the Scarlet Despair. Folding her wings, she flipped through the air with gravity's help, flaming kick first. "Phoenix Talon!"

    A ring of fire popped from the impact, reminiscent of how she and the Mythics had fought against Atlas Flame barely more than a year ago. But this wasn't Atlas Flame.

    "I had been hoping you would have put up a better fight than this."

    Kia's eyes widened as she clearly saw Irene casually holding her hand up, her own foot resting calmly in the Spriggan's palm. She should have at least scorched her hand from that attack, but for her to come off unscathed...

    Irene let go of her staff, but it didn't fall, seeming to balance itself with just the tip touching the ground. Directing her free hand in Kia's direction, "It's rather disappointing."

    Taking in a half shocked breath, Kia had no time to dodge the blast. She tumbled back through the air, having taken the full force of the attack square in the chest. Her body ached as she forced her wings open to stop herself from falling from the sky. Her eyes locked again with her opponent's, trying to get her breath back. She wiped the trickle of blood near the corner of her mouth away while letting the ends of her hair blacken.

    "Oh," Irene almost seemed pleased, "are you getting serious now?"

    Kia clenched her fists as her mind finished processing what her nose had picked up when she had been closer to her enemy, "Your smell..."

    "Oh. I wasn't aware if anyone would have picked up on that beyond another Dragon Slayer."

    Kia's mind was reeling, remembering bits and pieces from one of the lessons Anna had given the kids on the history of Dragon Slayer magic over 400 years ago. "...was created as a way for humans to fight alongside their dragon allies...... allowing them the power to fight dragons......It was brought to be by a queen named Irene..."

    The fire that flickered around her wrists began blazing with both red and black flames. "You're much older than you look, aren't you?"

    "Now, now." Irene raised her hand again, "With your own circumstance, you should know better than to ask a lady her age."

    And magic was flying through the air again. Kia tucked and rolled around or over every blast that was fired in her direction. Irene's spells progressively grew bigger and bigger until just dodging no longer became an option, but Kia had started on a plan.

    "Phoenix Tornado!"

    The two spells collided, exploding. Taking her chance, the Phoenix Slayer closed her wings and dropped far below the other's line of sight. With fire coming from her heels and her wings freshly snapped open, Kia climbed back into the air right along the face of the cliff. Her fingers brushed against the rough surface as she let her seal open a little more. The black crawled further up her hair, taking over the bottom half as more of her flames flickered black.

    Above red and black flaming chains were erupting from the ground, creating a full assault against the Scarlet Despair. Irene lifted her hands toward each attack, her palms simmering with enchants to deflect each attempt to damage her. But she quickly found that there was an issue with her idea: the black flames were not deterred.

    This created a wave of delight for the redhead as she was forced to actually dodge each approaching attack, though with ease. And that was when Kia crested the cliff, immediately bringing her foot up behind and over her head, her multicolors fire encasing the kick.