As they stood there in front of this other reaper they knew he was sent by Reign. Blood, the nickname for the leader of Reign, wanted them dead but also to suffer. So they didn't believe he was here to kill them but he was definitely there to hurt them. They had no idea what his Grim's ability could be, but Emily knew exactly what his soul ability was. As she walked closer to Jakub, she didn't take her eyes off of the man. Once side by side she told Jakub exactly what his ability was.
Jakub nodded to her acknowledging that he understood. With their Grim's summoned Emily figured she may as well try it. "Hollow Zone." She said to Swoopy. Swoopy then cast a decent sized bubble around the area covering everything within, for a moment everything appeared black and gray then turned normal. Making it clear that a zone had been established. On the outside of this bubble it appears to everyone else as the normal area. A hollow zone separates the caster and anyone they want in the zone, from reality. They become able to fight freely without having to worry about pedestrians in the process.
"It worked!" Emily cheered.
"Oh this is cool." Jakub said.
"Hey buddy now that we can chat and fight freely why don't you tell us who you are." Jakub instigated.
The man laughed. "They call me Trigger. I'm here to… cause a little hurt for you, Mr.Velk and Ms.Herth. I'm an enforcer for Reign but I assume you knew that's who sent me."
Emily clicked her tongue claiming she was annoyed by this man. "Phoenix." She called upon her wings this time they came out twice the size they normally would.
"Oh wow." Jakub was impressed. "Must be linked to emotion cause she's mad and the wings are bigger gotta be tied together right?" He looked toward Trigger, smiling and scratching his head. As he turned he saw a fuse flying toward him and burning he stuck his left hand out toward it pulling the fuse into himself. It ran through his body as everything else had and appeared rotating in his right hand. "Yeah, I'm a little broken." Jakub said jokingly.
"Now I wonder…" Jakub thought out loud.
Trigger went to throw another fuse toward them and it exploded in his own face launching him backward.
"So I can detonate your fuses also. Oh man I hope your Grim is powerful because without those you're done." Said Jakub as he laughed at him.
"Okay now that may be a little broken." Emily also laughed.
Trigger stood there stunned by the fact that Jakub was making his own fuses blow up on him. He now knew that he was going to have to use his Grim. He had never seen anyone do what Jakub had done to him. "Leap." He called out as his Grim appeared on his shoulder.
"Ah so he hasn't used his Grim often eit-" as Emily was finishing her sentence Leap hopped off his shoulder and grew to about the size of a silverback gorilla. The Grim looked like a big ball of muscle with huge legs. And that's when Leap vanished from Emily's sight, she turned to look at Jakub who was looking in the air.
"He went up there." Jakub said pointing into the sky.
"Is he flying?" Emily asked.
"No, I'm pretty sure he jumped up there and is now speeding toward the ground to cause some sort of crashing force." He replied. "It's like in a video game when your character has a super jump and the only way down is to slam into the ground. I believe that was the ability his Grim gave him but now they can fight separately so Leap is doing it himself."
Emily began to panic, she started to remember how Nicole was teaching her how to fly. Telling her to feel the wings and imagine flapping her back muscles like wings. She closed her eyes, took in a deep breath and exhaled. She could feel the wind flowing between the flames on her wings, she felt muscles between her shoulder blades sliding inward and then out. She opened her eyes to her now hovering higher than she had ever been. She was above one of the buildings but lower than skyscrapers. She could still easily see everyone below her as she began descending, Leap went speeding toward the ground past her. "He's coming Jakub!"
"I see him!" Jakub said as he sped out of the way with the help of Zip.
Leap slammed into the ground forming a crater where he landed. Launching parked cars into the buildings along the street. Luckily there was no harm done due to the Hollow Zone's effects.
Enraged by the missed slam, Leap was air bound once again. Emily began to fire flame arrows toward Trigger down below her. One of them hit piercing through his left arm. Leap let out a scream from in the air as if he felt the pain also and came spiraling out of the sky and landed on his back.
Emily noticed that it seemed like Leap felt the pain more substantially than Trigger had. She figured now that Grim's are a part of their true feelings. Not only for emotions but apparently pain receptors too because Trigger had little to no reaction about being hit by the arrow but Leap felt significant pain.
Jakub noticed it too, he stood getting ready to fight hand to hand with Trigger when he saw a golden flash and felt a significant boost of energy. He looked toward the flipped car he made it out of. Light leaned up against a wall with Nicole leaned on her. Light was pointing toward Jakub and that was when he realized she used the adrenaline boost from her Twilight on him.
Jakub sped toward Trigger, throwing any punch or kick he knew how at him. Deflecting almost all of them and taking little to no damage from it, Trigger laughed.
"You're fast but you have no idea what you're doing." Trigger uppercut Jakub launching him backward, he fell to the ground but quickly worked his way to his feet.
"Emms fire please!" Jakub called out to Emily.
Surprised by him calling that in the moment she had to brush it aside. "Right!" She then threw several fire arrows toward Jakub which he absorbed. Jakub charged toward Trigger once again releasing flames burst after burst toward him as he continued trying to hit him. He dodged the next punch Trigger tried to throw toward him. Jakub grabbed Trigger's wrist and began draining the soul mana from him. Trigger felt that he was getting weaker and tore his arm away but not after feeling much weaker.
Leap had to return into Trigger's body, he had become too weak to be on his own. Once Leap returned, Trigger finally felt the pain of the hole in his arm and his arm went useless. He couldn't move his left arm anymore and the rotating fuses in that arm stopped. He went into a panic trying to use his fuses to attack Jakub but Jakub had absorbed his soul mana again and blew up the fuses as they launched. Jakub dashed behind him as Emily fired her arrows once again. Jakub reached his left hand up behind Trigger's head absorbing the incoming flame arrows. The arrows pierced through Trigger's head and went into Jakub's hand.
Trigger collapsed to the ground and turned to ash. A red soul gem dropped to the ground in the ash. Emily landed next to Jakub and picked up the gem off the ground. They remembered how to break the gem open from what they did last time. They both held it and the gem burst, knocking them down like last time. They both had the fuses around their hands but Jakub's was just temporary like before. Emily now had a red soul absorbed, and had the ability to use the same fuses Trigger had.
The two ran over to Light and Nicole to make sure they were alright. Nicole had finally woken up and healed Light's wounds. Jakub and Emily sat next to the two of them. Zip and Swoopy returned to them and the hollow zone came down. All the destruction was gone aside from the flipped car. People stopped and asked if everything was okay.
"We'll be fine now thanks for asking." Emily said as she leaned her head into Jakub's shoulder.