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He smiled at me and all I saw was a dark blur before I was grabbed by my corset and thrown.

I twisted my body to grab Aurelius' outstretched arm and put all the momentum in yanking on his arm so I didn't move and landed on my feet as he got slammed in the ground.

I jerked my head and a spike of earth shot up up through his mouth and back of his head before curb stomping it, knowing this was nothing to him.

The spike turned to dust under my foot and smashed his face into the ground before a strong gust of wind sent me back, tumbling as I couldn't catch myself and land on my ass.

I pulled my body in a spin on my back to end up on my hands, creating a fire vortex around me before I put my feet down as the momentum was gone.

I waved my arms in a circle, water pulled from the air into a spinning loop around me, flexing my hand at ready.

I punched the air, the part of the water in front of my fist freezing over and turning into an ice shard that shot out, doing this several time as he ran at me, dogging most before I shot the rest of the water our in a white mess to blind him.... Snow?

Well it is made of water so....

I send myself backwards as he hit the ground and it cracked just where I was standing, emerging from the snow cloud I made.

I landed and planted my feet firmly and with a fluid motion of my left arm whipped the nearby sand from a training patch at him, flicking my wrist to melt it and splashing him with glass but I couldn't control that anymore, I am not that advanced in wild magic.

I punched at the air, sending rock hard chunks of sand he tried to deflect only to have his arm wave through it and hit his body, reacting like water and earth would as one element depending on the density.

But I gave up when he bent the elements back at me and I needed to somersault through the air to avoid shard of glass being chucked at me and frozen them to the ground.

Fire danced on my skin as I ran at him, putting my hands on and step vaulting my feet over the huge chuck on ice that was sent my way before rolling to avoid another, leg kept straight as I rolled to hit him in the chest and standing up with the roll, reeling my fist back and punching him, flames erupting from my hand.

I crossed my arms in front of me as he produced black lightning, sending me flying off him from its strength even if I deflected as much of it as I could in the second I had before I was hit.

Rolling on the ground added to my scraps and bruises but nothing as bad as my side was but even with all these I could still move, I nodded to still move.

I looked at the red lightning burns on my forearms and my smoking body, trying to control the tremble this attack caused before I felt a kick to my unhurt side, picking me off the ground enough so I fell on my back.

I spanned my head to the side milliseconds before his foot slammed down and dug my head half way into the ground forcing me to close my eye to not get dirt into it, saving my nose from a bad and potentially fatal break.

I swung up at him but my fist got caught and twisted.

I screamed at the crack I heard and pain I felt, snaking my other arm around his leg to blast his face with whatever element that came first which this time was water.

I pulled myself from the dirt and looked at my hand, my wrist was messed up but it just looked misplaced, muscles pulled and bones shifted around but not snapped or broken.

I jumped up by exploding the ground underneath me to avoid his ice, and with a wave of my good right hand sent the ice flying at him.

I landed and held out both arms, flexing my good one, palm facing the ground before snapping it around so it was facing the sky and let out a smaller cry of pain as I had expected it to hurt as my wrist was set back in place, I thought so, I somehow controlled my blood outside my body so inside should be even easier since it is not free flowing, I just straightened all the veins in my wrist and hand and got all to pop back into place.... I will have a huge bruise.

"Enough games." I gaped as he started to float but it wasn't that surprising, the air is filled with wild magic and he is pure magic so he can do that. "Lets find that purple freak so your little world will have no more hope."

"I said keep her out of this!" I sent myself up, calling up pieces of rocks I could jump on to reach his height.

It was hard to catch him as I needed to catch myself on pieces of rocks instead of just floating like he was but my whips of flames caught him and the strikes of redirected lightning did too.

But I got smacked out the the air by a block of dirt that crushed me against the ground until I didn't send it tumbling off me.

"get here you monster!" I ran towards him, he was trying to get me to loose him by flying towards the castle to pass over it.

I blasted myself up as far as I could, almost hitting the stone wall of the building but saw I couldn't go up far enough so I put my hand against the wall as I stalled in the air and froze it to it before yanking myself up with a battle cry and melting the ice to blast fire from my hand and sending me up spinning parallel to the ground. (sorry to break the mood but it is while imagining this scene that I realized Mystery has a lot of upper body strength as she threw herself upwards with one arm and then a small fire blast.)

I could imagine his eyes going wide as I spun past him and slammed my heel down on the top of his head, sending him and I crashing down as I couldn't avoid being grabbed.

I took the brunt of the hit as he used my body to cushion the hit.

My whole body was wracked with pain and my vision was double from my head hitting the ground the first, how it didn't split open? I wouldn't know but Audrey would say I am hardheaded.

He took off into the air again as I flipped over.

"Dammit!" I breathed, fire bursting out of my body and solidifying into a silvery wings beast before I raised my head and took off after him.

"Damned brat!!" He yelled, hands holding my upper jaw and feet propping my lower jaw out so I couldn't bite him in half, so I just breathed fire at him.

"You want to play dragons?! We can play!!" And he turned into one too.... No he was the shadow of one, featureless like his human looking body with just a gaping maw, trying to match me with the help of his magic.

I rammed my head into his, scales against scales actually clinging like metal blades shocking against each other.

He breathed flames at me which was met with my own as I dove through it and griped his wing before letting my body drop from the skies and dragging him down.

I flapped wings to let him be the only one to crash land and break the wing bones in this form.

I breathed fire at him and the dragon body was gone as fast as it came out, much less stable then his human body.

My concentration also failed so I was back as a human, dropping out of the sky.

My feet both slammed into his chest before I let flames leave through them, scorching not only him but everything, the silver of them turning into purple as I blasted his face from a third source which was from my hands as his monstrous screeching echoed around.

I realized how hard I was panting when I stopped and stepped off him, my skin sweaty and dirty in addition to a few bloody scratched, bruises and burns.

He wasn't moving.

I took a few steps back before hoping forth and kicking his head, or what was left of it, to see if his would react.

I waved my hand as I stepped away to make lightning from the clouds fall down on his body to make sure he died.

I took a deep breath, tears of relief falling down my face.

I did it, I was strong enough.

I turned away after a last fire blast and looked at where the fallen tree laid.

"I did it." I said with a sad smile to the old dead elm. "I did i--" I screamed in pain.

My eyes were wide and I looked down and a black hand was sticking out of my stomach, struck from the back.

"Have you finished messing around?" I looked back in horror at the perfectly fine Aurelius standing behind me with his sinister smile. "Because I was getting quite bored."

"Mystery!!" No!!

"Oh look who came to join us~." He said in a suave voice as I coughed up blood, I think his arm through me gazed my lungs or something...

"Audrey get out of here!!" I yelled, how did she get up here this fast?!

It wasn't supposed to happen.

This wasn't supposed to happen.