As the cloaked woman observed Aethon, she noticed his eyes had no emotion in them, his movements were almost as if his individual limbs were moving of there own accord. The more she stared at his appearance and the way in which he was fighting, the more she began to realize that his body had been taken over by SANGUINAETHER. She then turned her attention to the ENTITY and stared at it. She noticed that the threads that binded it were stuck deep within the ground. After analyze the ENTITY, she shifted her attention back to Aethon, and has she did this, she saw Vaerion trying to attack him which didn't end well. She also saw that the SANGUINAETHER created 3 more plated shields of blood by absorbing the blood of the 3 dead soldiers to stop Vaerions blade from wounding Aethons chest.
As she stared at the 3 chested plates dissappear, Aethons view was focused on Vaerion. She knew she now had an opening. Has she slowly crouched her body in position, she enhanced her speed and strength with mana. Has she did this, Aethon then unleashed the blood threads, destroying the fields ground around him, whilst leaving his back wide open. She then propelled herself forward lunging towards Aethon.
As she dissappeared like a shadow in the night sky, the light from the moon betrayed her, showing that she was behind Aethon, she crouched down and pushed herself up with her left palm heading for Aethons neck and her right hand placed on her kitana incase he noticed her and tried to attack.
Without looking, the red lightning marks made of blood that surrounded the front area of his neck all gathered in a single spot on the back of his neck and within a second shot out a spike of blood that nearly went through her palm.
At seeing the spike of blood, the cloaked woman lifted her palm up which made the spike graze her wrist and shot through the space created by her encroaching arm. She then jumped back and used her right hand to unsheathe the kitana to parry the blood spike that hit the ground and shot up following her. She then jumped back one more time creating an even bigger distance between her and Aethons back. Her breathing was steady despite the sudden attack.
As the cloaked woman picked up her kitana to fight off the blood spike thread, Vaerion was getting ready to charge another direct attack on Aethon from the front. [Both of them were worn down and tired due to fighting 3 other ENTITIES and trying to round up the slaves that broke free during the chaos and used the ENTITIES destruction as cover to enter the capital].
The ground between Vaerion and Aethon was destroyed, the grass was gone, burnt away from the heat he was emitting earlier, to be more accurate, the ground between them was destroyed and smoldered. Aethons armor was slowly beginning to shift, the blood started writhing like it was alive, while the horns on his head was casting a jagged shadow due to the moonlight.
His threads shot upwards with force into the night sky before coming back down to earth like falling meteors, each one glowing with a crimson pulse.
Vaerion who saw the threads heading for him, gritted his teeth, and began charging towards the threads with his sword infront of him. As the threads and sword clashed against each other, Vaerion enhanced his legs and arms with mana to push forward and tried to slash the threads. Each clash sent embers scattering in the dark. Vaerion thought that he was making progress until he saw that the pieces that were flaking off were turning into little darts that were getting re-absorbed into the threads like water droplets falling into a river and dissappearing. As he saw this, he jumped back and lunged forward while swinging his sword into the air, making his sword into an ice blade that was changing his swords length from 3 meters to 8 meters. This left him open and he knew that, but he also knew that, this thing that took over Aethon is intelligent and had to either choose to strike him, attack his sword or retreat.
At seeing the giant ice sword been formed in the air infront of it, the SANGUINAETHER withdrew it's threads that were fighting the cloaked woman and made Aethons body jump to it's far left. It landed around 10 meters away.
At seeing Aethon run, Vaerion swung his sword with force down but before it hit the ground he made a scooping motion and swung the sword to his left side. As he did this he made the ice blade melt by using fire. As the sword swung back into the air, it emanated a bright yellowish color and the air around it got hot. Steam was then followed by the fire as the ice was melting away.
The cloaked woman then walked towards Vaerion and turned to face Aethon. Vaerion who was breathing heavy, shoved his sword into the ground infront of him.
In a loud voice while breathing heavily he said to the cloaked woman standing next to him, :"We can't keep on going on. We just spent the past 2 hours fighting 3 entities. We're exhausted." Vaerion then lifted his right hand up to his chest and made it into a fist and let out a sigh. He then looked at Aethon and continued to speak. "The best I can do is draw his attention. Do you have enough in the tank to knock him out." After saying this, the woman next to him took off her mask to reveal a set of blue eyes and a fair complexion. Her hair was the same as Aethons original color, silver. She removed her cloak to reveal a crescent moon sigil on her blazer that was black in color. Underneath the blazer she wore a white shirt that had dry blood on it. She wore a black formal pants that was missing some fabric around her right leg. And she wore black shoes. After taking out the cloak, she brushed back her hair with her right hand and said in a low voice to Vaerion, :"It's hard to say, but I should have enough for one attack. We rush him. Push him back. You draw him in and I'll ready the attack. Hopefully it knocks him out, if not... We're gonna have to beat him to a bloody pulp."
Has the silver haired lady was speaking to Vaerion, Aethon was staring at them. He stood still for 5 seconds and starting walking towards them while creating thick blood threads.
Has the two of them saw this, they both got ready. Vaerion pulled his sword that he had planted into the ground out, and the silver haired woman unsheathed her now properly visible long kitana[it was around 2 meters long]. They began running with there blades infront of them.
Has they approached the threads, the silver haired woman dissappeared behind Vaerion who swung his sword and dug it into the ground, lifting up alot of the soil and throwing it into the direction that the blood threads were coming from. As he did this, Aethon took a step back as he was suprised by this and was trying to see where they had dissappeared to.
As this was happening, the moon began to dissappear behind a set of clouds and what replaced it was a man with blonde hair who was emanating a bright blue light around the sillouhette of his body.
It was Vaerion. He shot 3 huge ice balls at Aethon. He used whatever mana he had left to enhance the strength of his arms and shot the huge ice balls at Aethon.
As Aethon saw this, he wasn't able to react fast enough. His facial expression changed from been expressionless like a brick wall full of hate and anger. His eyes didn't change.
Before he could make blood weapons to slash the 3 huge stone balls, they smashed into him, burying him into the ground.
As Vaerion landed back onto solid ground he could hear a cracking sound. Again and again and again. The next second Aethon shot out the ice ball, jumping into the air and landing ontop of it with long crimson blood blades. Aethon stared at Vaerion. He launched himself forward, swinging his left arm with a blood blade in his hand at Vaerion who parried it with his long sword. Vaerion then shifted Aethon in his stomach, but he was protected by armor.
Has Vaerion hit Aethons stomach he swung with everything he had, making Aethon fly 10 meters meters into the night sky.
Has Aethon was flying upwards into the night sky, his focus was on Vaerion who had a smile on his face.
Then about 3 meters behind Vaerion a light begun to shine in the depths of the darkness.
As Aethon stared at the light that was getting brighter and brighter behind Vaerion, he noticed that the woman he was fighting dissappeard. But by the time he had realised what was about to happen, a single phrase emerged from the light that shone in the darkness, it was loud and clear.
"DANCE OF THE FROST MOON".
The light vanished in an instant and then reappeared only a few cm away from Aethon.
As Vaerion stared at Aethon, he saw a crescent of silver that cut through the crimson glow. Her form weaved arcs of steel in a pattern that left Vaerion staring in awe. Each slash that was made rang like a tolling of a bell, and the silver crescent carved through Aethons blood armor as if it was made of paper.
As Aethon was slashed, he was sent flying into a tree. He flew through 3 trees to be more accurate. When the silver haired girl landed the final slash, she slashed him with power but also in a direction that he could use something to break his fall.
As he smashed through the 3 trees and created a mini crater into the ground, Vaerion walked over to the ENTITY that was frozen in place not moving. After putting the mana dampening chains on it, it's flame changed once again, this time from dark blue to a black color. The same as when it was in RIVIRIA. After that, Vaerion walked over to Aethon. Has he stared at him, he noticed he was still the same. And within a second later he got up and shot an armada of blood threads and blood needles in every direction.
Vaerion jumped back, using his sword as a shield. After about 8 seconds later, everything stopped. As he poked his head out from behind his long sword, he saw Aethon standing up. The blood armor was seeping into his skin. The horns retracted back into his head. The hair changed back to silver. His eyes slowly changed, and the wound across his chest was been healed. It wasn't deep, it was long, going from his left shoulder to his bottom right waist. It was healing, and fast. Vaerion stared. Speechless as to what was happening infront of him. He had never seen an ability like this before.
Aethon then fell to the ground, face flat. As Vaerion stared at him, the silver haired woman was making her way to where Vaerion was. As she approached, Vaerion said without turning to face her, :"Your brother is really something."
The silver haired woman stared at Aethon and said, :"It's a good thing he can't use this ability properly. It probably took over his body when he absorbed all the entity's mana, along with his rage, he lost control and the Sanguinaether took control of his body and used his memory to form attacks and fight. We should be lucky he doesn't have alot of experience fighting and using this ability."