"SHIT!" Arxia turned into his dragon form, sending flames towards the intruders to torch them.
"Conversion arts: rancid flames!"
The fire turned into vapor as the man with salt-and-pepper hair took it in his mouth to release smoke. He had purple veins popping out of his neck.
"The lizard wants to play, cute!" he added, putting his cigar back into his mouth.
"There is something wrong with him!" Valeria shouted as she ran to help Arxia.
"He looks like he has some cursed aura in him!" Tessron replied, putting himself before an unconscious Viktor to shield him from the impact.
"Aren't you too clingy? its time for the kid to go back home!" the pink-haired girl said, walking towards the father-son duo with a hand on her hips.
"So, I have to face this bald extra, huh? Tch!" the guy with the black mask said, picking his earbuds out of his ears and putting them back in the case.
"I wanna have a go at the dragon, let's switch, Berez," he yelled at the guy with the cigar, casually throwing a rain of metal needles towards Rudwick, purple aura emanating from his neck.
"Solid Shield: Rock boulder!"
Rudwick channelled his aura to his fists and slammed his palm to the ground, a huge rock barrier rose to shield him.
"Mystic Arts: Spin reversal!"
The masked guy snapped his fingers, and the needles got covered with a purple aura and started to rotate at high speed.
SMASH!
The barrier smashed to bits, leaving no gap for another defense or escape. The needles pierced Rudwick all over his body, making him scream in pain and fall writhing in agony.
"Heh, that was quick-," An orange gust of wind swung him off his feet. He crashed into the water with a splash.
It was Valeria. She stopped mid-step, landing a clean strike before he could recover.
"Now THAT was quick," Valeria said, pushing her now-silver hair out of her face. She pulled out a small baton from her pouch, which hung from her waist. She gave it a shake with her orange aura, it transformed into a spear with blades on both ends.
The guy stood up with his mask crumbling, water dripping off of him, revealing his light brown hair and grey eyes, a tattoo on his neck, that of a serpent which had a head on its tail, twisting in an 8 shape, two heads facing each other.
"Finally! Someone who is not a waste of my time!" he spat the water in his mouth, got out of the water, taking out a baton, which transformed into a crossbow.
"Make it fast, Lian!" the pink-haired girl reminded him, moving towards Tessron. She made a 'V' with her fingers and placed it on her lips, aiming and launching the candy she had in her mouth.
"Velocity Bullet!" The candy got covered with a purple aura and turned invisible, zooming towards Tessron.
SWISH!
Tessron deflected it with a flipping hand motion, leaving her stunned.
"You will need more than that," Tessron added with a smile, adjusting his gloves. He placed an unconscious Viktor down in the water, resting his back on a boulder. He twitched upon the contact.
"I am sorry, but it's getting late!" Tessron placed his palms together, concentrating his aura and spreading it out in the entire waterfall to pull up all the water, twisting it with his air element affinity to form a water spiral.
"Wind Arts: Colossal Spiral!"
SMASH!
The spiral was around a hundred feet tall, whirling at high speed, destroying almost everything in its field of view. The trees were getting uprooted, and sand was clouding the girl's vision.
The pink-haired girl tried to escape, as she couldn't counter the attack with a strong enough defense.
"Aurelian! Stop this!" She sprinted as fast as she could and went to Lian.
Aurelian stood straight, dusting off the bits of the crumbled mask left on him. He took a deep breath and started to channel all his aura into his fists. His eyes turned gold, and his tattoo purple. A surge of power filled the air as the ground started trembling.
"Aurora Decipher: Ultimate defense!" He slammed his fist on the ground, raising waves of rocks tall enough to stop the spiral.
Tessron focused harder, his palms guiding the spiral's force toward the rising wall. The spiral started spinning the other direction, began destroying the rocks.
Waves of stone kept rising, crashing one after another, until the spiral began to lose its force
Tessron lost his calm smile. " This one is the real deal", he sighed and gathered more aura to launch an even bigger attack. He didn't think he'd have to empty his arsenal this fast.
"Ya got more, old man?" Aurelian smirked, pulling his sleeves up and stretching his arms.
"He is enjoying this!" Valeria thought as she went to Arxia, who was fighting Berez alone.
Valeria imbued her spear with her aura, pointing it towards Berez.
"Wind Arts: Infinity Vortex!" She threw her spear, and it split into two and formed two wind twisters, which looped together, and the speed increased with each spin.
" Conversion Arts: Nullify!" Berez took a deep breath and blew his aura out through his cigar; his naturally green aura turned purple mid-air, totally nullifying her attack.
"Damn these, cursed-aura freaks!" Valeria was losing her patience.
"Sacred Arts: Aura Connect!" Valeria pressed her palm to Arxia's scaled forehead, synchronizing their auras. Their aura turned to a dark shade of orange, making their eyes glow orange.
The sky darkened, thunder rolled, and droplets of rain poured.
Valeria met the eyes of her trusted companion, and at that moment, they knew.
"Sacred Arts: Volcanic Conflagration!" The air around them lost all its moisture, covered with their dense aura. Valeria emptied her aura reserves by combining her wing affinity with Arxia 's flames, releasing a humongous tide of lava.
SHHHHHHHHHH
The burning volcanic lava melted everything in its vicinity. Berez jumped back to avoid contact and gathered his aura, running.
"Conversion Arts: The Ultimate!" he took a deep breath, ready to absorb everything coming his way. He was exhausted from his previous attack, and he stood arms out, palms facing the raging wave of lava, ready to face death.
He started to absorb a little of the aura, but couldn't handle it, his knees gave out, the shadow came first, followed by the huge wave towering, ready to crash down.
"Aurora Decipher: Wall of invincibility!" A multi colored aura enveloped Berez and Aurelian, as the wave crashed over them
SHHHH!!! SPLASHHHHH!
"Five minutes! I can't leave you guys alone for FIVE damn minutes" Aurelian had stood there with a hand on his hair, both him and Berez unscathed.
Valeria stood there, exhausted, shock written in her often unexpressive face.