Mary left Quint where he was, standing there unconscious. She floated into the air and flew towards Simone.
Simone was already sitting down in the sand, meditating. She was visualizing the life force of everything surrounding her. She could sense the animals, insects, and plant life, but she could barely sense her friends' lives. At the same time, she was focusing on compressing her power.
Mary descended in front of her and said "It's too late to hide your power, sweetheart. Now get up and show be what you've learned!"
"I don't know how to fight though," said Simone as she opened her eyes and stood up.
"I know that you don't and I'll teach you how, but use what you know," replied Mary.
"Ummmmmm..... Ok." said Simone nervously.
Pink energy surrounded Simone's hands and a tree was pulled from the ground and launched at Mary. Mary pulled her sword out and cut the tree in half. She then rushed Simone with her sword drawn. Simone instinctively put up a psychic barrier around her. Mary's sword collided with the barrier, but it didn't break.
"This barrier is tougher than the one you had a month ago!" started Mary.
"I made the barrier more dense by putting a second layer of my energy over it. Pretty neat, right?" boasted Simone.
"Don't get cocky!" shouted Mary.
Mary imbued her sword with electricity and sliced right through the barrier. Simone immediately closed it back up.
"I was hoping that the barrier would shatter. This is why I hate fighting Psychics!" thought Mary.
Simone raised four boulders and threw them at Mary using her Telekinesis! Mary rolled out of the way of the boulders and countered by firing a stream of electricity. The attack hit the barrier and cracked it. Simone repaired it and fired the boulders at Mary again, this time faster than normal. Mary cut right through the boulders.
"Damn! Those attacks are becoming faster. I actually had to boost my speed a little. I'm going to have to finish this fight now," said Mary aloud.
Simone floated into the air used her psychic energy to push Mary into the forest, causing get to go crashing through several trees. Simone's eyes turned purple.
"Hahahahaha! I'm back in control!" shouted the Being.
Mary flickered in front of her and said, "Now I can speak with you! You will submit to Simone's will! Until then, I will keep you in check!"
The Being smiled and said, "If only I was restored to full power, I would make you eat those words! The girl is mine to control until I've gotten my full strength. Now begone!"
The Being then loosed a huge psychic wave at Mary. Mary countered the attack with a stream of electricity from her sword. The two attacks colliding created a massive explosion, causing the two be pushed back from the force of the blast.
The Being charged at Mary, engaging in hand to hand combat. Mary was surprised at the Being charging at her. She was almost hit by the assault, but evaded all strikes and hit the Being with several hard punches!
"I didn't think that you would be this powerful in this amount of time," said Mary.
"The stronger the girl gets, the stronger I become. It's a wonderful thing! I'm even more impressed that you are a human and yet so strong. I will be seeing you again! Hahahaa" said the Being.
Simone's eyes returned to normal.
"What happened?! I wasn't angry or hungry! How did it take over?" asked Simone.
"I don't know, but we will discuss it later. For now, let's go check on the others. Hopefully I didn't knock them out for too long," answered Mary.
Mary and Simone flew around and gathered Quint, Shay, and Lucas. They were up, but still hurt from their encounters with Mary.
"Did you really have to be so rough, Mom?" asked Quint while rubbing his shoulder, still feeling intense pain.
"You all needed a lesson. I wanted you know just how powerful your opponents can be at any time. Plus, you're the one who wouldn't go down without hitting me. So, I had to be extra rough on you," answered Mary.
"How did we do?" asked Shay.
"You all have improved. With another month of training, you can go off and be competent Demon Hunters. For the next month, you will continue your laps. After you finish that, I will teach you how to cultivate your spirit energy. Once you do that, you'll have total control of your spirit energy output, which will make you more effective in battle," explained Mary.
"Even I will be stronger? I mean, better at control this thing inside of me?" questioned Simone.
"Of course, I've got some special things cooked up for you. We'll get control of that Being and make it work in our favor," replied Mary.
"Huh?!" said Lucas, Shay, Quint, and Simone simultaneously.
"That's right. We're going to make it work for us! I'll explain the details later," said Mary.
"Well, you atleast sound confident about it," commented Lucas.
"I can already tell that this next phase of training will be very difficult. Just imagine how many times we're going to be shocked if we mess up," said Shay.
"Trust me, this training will be the hardest thing you will ever do up until now! Now go and get some rest and enjoy the last little bit of free time you have because you'll barely get a wink of sleep in the next month," said Mary as she flew off.
"Shit! I completely forgot to ask mom how she learned to fly! It looks so cool!" thought Quint as he laid down.
Simone, Shay, and Lucas all went to sleep.
Mary had arrived to the place where she had been training. She descended and let out a big sigh of relief.
"Whew! This flying thing is exhausting and fighting them didn't help either. I'll have to keep practicing, there's no telling when I might have a challenging opponent," thought Mary as she began meditating.