The atmosphere changed drastically. All the living creatures on the island started to flee as the sky above them turned crimson. The air was three times denser than before. A simple task such as breathing suddenly felt difficult and required a lot of focus. The Dragon truly demonstrated that her species was of a higher league. Dante flew above Alisa and waited. She remained at the same spot for over a minute before she asked "Aren't you going to attack? I'm giving you the first move".
Alisa was not sure how to deal damage to someone from so far away. Most of her abilities relies on her being able to touch the opponent. She stood there in awe. Before the fight even began, she felt stuck and couldn't do anything. "I can't reach you from up there. Is flying really necessary against me?" Alisa asks the Dragon politely. Dante nodded yes in reply.
" I may be a superior being but your gift will still work on me. Can't risk losing my life to a teenager" Dante stated.
Alisa doubted the Dragon's claim. Surely Dante has at least one ability that can counter her but just hiding it. The girl's athletic ability was nothing to brag about so jumping was out of the question for her and it goes without saying, flight is impossible. Dante became impatient and changed her mind about giving Alisa the first move. The Dragon's expression was filled with disappointment and rage. Never would she expect the user of life manipulation to be so useless.
"This has to be a joke. You're boring me to death already" Dante said harshly. Her kind nature suddenly vanished once the fight started. The only thing left was her urge and sensation to have a thrilling fight.
ZAP!!
From the crimson sky, five million bolts of lightning struck down on Alisa without warning. She got electrocuted from the head down. "AAAAAAAAAAH!"
The screams from Alisa did not make the situation any better. Dante zapped her with lightning again repeatedly.
ZAAAP!
ZAAAAPP!!
ZAP!!
After dozens of lightning bolts entering her body, Alisa became curious as to how her body wasn't shutting down. Instead, she was building an immunity to lightning with every bolt strike she took. Dante realized this fact after seeing that the girl stopped screaming. Dante smirked and said "You build an immunity way too fast. It took me years to finally be immune to lightning. Looks like you're not useless after all. You might be one of those prodigies in disguise".
.....
"Come on! If you want my potion then you gotta get my blood pumping. My heart racing and the fear of dying must fill my mind". Alisa understood now that the beast before her craves fighting. This Dragon Hunt was built to suit both Dante's and King Almon's desires. To fulfill Dante's desires of combat, death matches even. Alisa may have developed a strong resistance to lightning now but her left arm was numb. She could not feel it, for a moment she wondered if she even had a left arm. Dante swooped down careful not to let Alisa touch her. She flapped her gigantic wings in front of Alisa and created an unwanted sand storm. The wind around Alisa was so strong, she could not stay on the ground. As she was sent up in the air, Dante swinged her tail at the girl harshly. She sent her down, crashing into rocks and inevitable got her face slammed into a wall. Alisa's face, chest and legs started bleeding with her forehead looking a little swollen.
"Because I regained my memories, I seem to have remembered how crazy durable I was. I can survive these wounds. Real problem is how can I threaten the life of this monster?" Her question was left unanswered. Dante wasted no time zapping Alisa's surroundings with lightning. Before she knew it, the lightning swiftly changed shaped and formed a jail around Alisa. That was all she wrote. Alisa had no hope of getting close to Dante now in this cage.
As when she was about to lose hope, she heard a familiar voice in her head. It was a voice she had been waiting for since this fight began. " Let's switch for a while Alisa. I can feel your desire to not disappoint Dante. I'll do the heavy lifting" Lisa told her creator reassuringly. Alisa nodded in relief. With just a single blink, Alisa and Lisa swapped places. Dante saw the differences right away. The girl's red eye, her slightly muscular physique and her dull expression.
"Oh, you created a life form specially made for battles. I labelled that move forbidden. You shouldn't use it" Dante advised. The Dragon knew the severity of Alisa's actions and it's drawback. The severe drawback of creating life is that the user does not have an host to possess for themselves. That means they are just unwanted souls created by a human. These souls may one day want to try and take over a host they find possible to manipulate. Most times, it's their creator's host. "How long was this other person created?" Dante questioned. Lisa took a while before answering. "About a decade has passed".
"Hmm, she knew how to create life since she was a child" Dante said doubtfully. A child performing an act like that was too unthinkable. It is hard to imagine that Alisa does not have a god complex with her power. Never had Dante been more intrigued in a human since Bianca. She took the liberty of browsing through Alisa's memories. The first thing the Dragon realized while doing so was that her headspace was all over the place. Within a second or two, Dante understood the type of person Alisa and Lisa were. And she did not like it.
Lisa punched the lightning jail and broke several bars in result. That did not surprise Dante but It did surprise the audience watching. Aoi in particular. If she had known about Alisa's existence before this tournament. Who knows what she would have done?
"Ronald, you're a piece of shit"
Lisa walked out of the jail and immediately leaped into the air. Suddenly, she was above Dante and grabbed onto her left wing. Dante could have easily shook her off but curiosity got the better of her. "How strong is she? What can she do to me while in midair? She's not Alisa so she can't tap into her life manipulation gift unless she switches back. Her game is?"
While in the middle of thought, Dante got swung around in circles multiple times before getting hurled into the ground. Dante was massive, she could rival a skyscraper in size but this girl still threw her around with no footing whatsoever. Before Dante could stand up, Alisa kneed her in her right eye then landed on Dante's shadow rendering her immobile. "I heard you possess all the gifts this world has to offer. When are you going to use them all?" Alisa asks the Dragon. Dante answered feeling excited "Getting full of yourself are we! The rules of this competition dictates that I must only utilize three gifts. I already used two against you"
"Flight and Lighting eh"
Dante vanished out of sight. It caught everyone by surprise except Lisa. She already expected Dante to escape her paralysis in no time. Lisa felt something pulling her collar but could not see what it was. She was brought up in the air only to get tossed higher. The moment Lisa began to fall down Dante showed herself with a wide grin. Lisa prepared herself to kick Dante on contact but her left leg suddenly disappeared. She could no longer see her leg but she felt that it was still there. It simply turned invisible in an attempt to throw Lisa off her game. Her leg turning invisible didn't halt her progression though. Just when she was about to kick Dante, the dragon disappeared. Lisa ended up kicking the air with no idea of where Dante currently was.
ZAAAAAAAPPP!!!
Countless bolts of lightning charged at Lisa relentlessly. The lightning struck continuously as if it never wanted to stop. In the end, the lightning stunned her for a moment. In that moment Dante appeared above Lisa and whipped up a storm using her wings. Lisa was sent ten meters into the ground by the wind pressure alone. So much dust entered her eye that she had to rub it briefly. Lisa was puzzled by Dante's gift. Lisa stared at her leg and noticed it was visible again. "When my leg turned invisible I could still feel it. But whenever Dante turns invisible I can't seem to touch her. There should be a reason" the girl wondered. Unlike when the match started, Dante was no longer disappointed with her opponent. She had a satisfying smile ever since Lisa showed herself.
ZAAAAAAAPPP!
Lisa tried her best to dodge but couldn't escape the lightning jail in time. She threw a casual punch in attempt to break out of the jail but it didn't budge. The instant Lisa's hand touched the jail it turned invisible.
"Huh?"
Lisa punched the jail again and now both her hands disappeared. Dante grinned and stared at Lisa's left leg. Now that part of her body disappeared as well. Although they can't be seen, her body parts were still with Lisa active. "What's the point of this?" she asks the Dragon. Dante did not answer. She just kept that same smile she always had. Lisa's whole chest turned invisible immediately after.
Lisa continuously kicked the jail until she broke out. Sadly, that lightning jail was nothing like before. "When you have multiple gifts, you can also combine them to do amazing things ya know. It's impossible to exit that jail now. Or is it?" Dante said provokingly. Dante herself can think of dozens of ways break out of the jail without using her trump cards. A veteran fighter like her who has fought for centuries thought of several ways to break out of her new lightning jail mixed with her invisibility power. She made sure to out herself in Alisa's shoes with that one gift in mind while she was at it. "What will she do? I can't wait to see" Dante grinned. She couldn't hide how curious she was to see Lisa tackle the situation. Especially since Lisa doesn't look too worried in the slightest. "Even when you can't see so many of your body parts, you still keep a calm demeanor. Sweet" Dante said overjoyed.
Lisa began stretching inside the jail. "I failed Alisa big time in the previous round. I got annihilated by Victor. Because Ronald and King Almon were watching I played it safe by suppressing my strength. Now's the time to let loose" she told the Dragon. Dante and even Lisa herself was delighted to hear those words. Dante has yet to experience the life throbbing fight where she does not know the outcome. "Ever since my fellow species left me. There hasn't been a single being who can match me. Do you know how boring that was?"
"No" Lisa replied. After stretching for a bit, Lisa inhaled deeply. " It's useless. You can't escape this lightning jail" said Dante. Lisa could feel both her arms for a while now. What will she plan to do with them?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM! Lisa head-butted the jail breaking through very easily. It surprised Dante for a second but she quickly realized what really happened. It was more than just headbutting the jail bars. All the life energy that runs throughout her body was suddenly moved to a single point, her head. A normal person does not have enough life energy to produce the force to break Dante's lightning jail but Lisa is an exception.
Her creator, Alisa Matar can absorb life energy from her surroundings giving her a large supply to work with. Lisa's head-but was packed with dozens of humans worth of life force. Dante could hear her heart beating loudly. To her, that was a good sign
"Brilliant! Come here Lisa!" Dante shouted. Dante swooped down to attack Lisa head on. Lisa waited and while she wait, her neck also turned invisible. Dante went invisible herself. Little did Dante knew, Lisa now has all the powers Alisa possess and can wield them even greater. Lisa could sense Dante approaching from above. Lisa tried hitting Dante but she did not feel a thing. "How can I beat her if I can't land a proper hit?" sighed Lisa.
Dante opened her mouth wide and bit Lisa where she was bleeding. She sinked her jaw in Lisa's skin and began electrocuting her insides, frying them to a crisp. "Shiiit!" Lisa said loudly. While getting bit, Lisa smiled at the fact that she could now feel Dante.
BLOW!!
Lisa gave Dante the upper cut of a lifetime. She was locked over on her back. Lisa took out a dagger and said " Time to let you bleed". She did not waste the moment to hurt Dante. However Lisa suffered insane injuries as usual. She accepted the fact that she'll survive them but it sometimes worries her. "As long as life energy is around me. I just can't die it seems" Lisa said staring at the trees around her. Her mind flashed on the animals on the island. "I hope I haven't killed any of them" Lisa hoped. Dante turned herself over and took the skies. Lisa jumped high until she landed on Dante's back.
STAB! STAB! STAB!
Lisa mercilessly stabbed Dante's back causing her to lose flight. The jump Lisa took to arrive on Dante's back was at least fifty meters. Her physical prowess was nothing to laugh at. While the fight continued, King Almon was having the time of his life. Seeing Alisa's gift in action inspired him to hurry and take it from her. "To absorb the life around you and enhance your attacks. To be able to survive such wounds. From the tales I've read, Alisa should be able to do more" he said softly. Aoi overhead him though.
Dante and Lisa clashed with each other over and over. Slowly but surely, Dante began to suffer from injuries too. No matter what happens Dante made sure to stick with three gifts. Flight, lightning/thunder and invisibility. Dante tossed Lisa into the nearby river and started electrocuting her in the water. Lisa was resistance to most of the pain but she still got stunned. Dante slapped the girl out of her tail and smacked her once again. Sending her in the water of electricity. Lisa ran out of the water and stood behind a tree. Lisa strengthened her arms and lifted the tree out of the ground with its roots intact. She swung the tree at Dante so fast she couldn't dodge. But that didn't mean she had to get hurt. Dante turned invisible and the tree hit nothing. After seeing that skill multiple times, Lisa fully understood it's capabilities.
"Her invisibility is more than just turning things and herself invisible. Whatever she makes invisible can also become intajible when she inhales" thought Lisa. She tested her theory by inhaling then stabbing her chest with the danger. The dagger went right through her invisible chest like she thought. She inhaled in the nick of time. Dante saw that Lisa saw through her trick. Why do such a dangerous trick? There were other ways to test her theory. Simply put, Lisa just wanted to impress Dante by showing her resolve. "Never cease to amaze me girl. I like you" Dante said enjoying the time she's having.
"I'm going to give Dante permission to use a fourth gift. That ok?" King Almon asked the rest of Golden Circle.
"No, that would be too unfair for the poor girl" said Miya. Aoi and the others agreed.
Finally, the rest of the other participants began to wake up inside the cage. First Isaac, then Cj, Lethal got up immediately after. FEI and Terry woke up simultaneously while Joey was still asleep. They witnessed the fight between Dante and Lisa. Some were shocked to see Dante the Dragon for the first time while others were impressed by Lisa's performance. "That's my girl. I call dibs" FEI told everyone. "Naturally, the rest of us here are adults" said Cj.
"Dont talk like you're that much older than Alisa and me. You're only 19. That's two years ahead" said Fei.
All good things must come to an end. Dante was in the middle of pushing Lisa off the edge of the waterfall. Lisa held her ground, standing firm with a stern look on her face. She wasn't about to get pushed off. The two fighters went all out. Pushing with all their mights.
Lisa grabbed one of Dante's horns and from that grip. She used one hand to throw her in the river below the waterfall. Lisa's arm was beyond tired by then. Dante flew out of the river almost out of breath. Lisa on the other hand was dizzy and found it hard to move. Her legs gave out on her. Dante saw this and became worried. She didn't want her fight to be over just yet.
"Stand up!"
ZAAAAAAAPPP!!!
Lisa dodged the lightning bolt and fell into the river. She slowly walked out with her legs trembling. "This is my limit. I'm exhausted" Lisa yawned. Dante did not accept those words. She charged at Lisa hoping to continue their battle. Sadly, Lisa got swapped with Alisa. Her eye changed from red to blue. Dante saw this and halted her advance.
"Lisa, call her back!" Dante demanded.
Alisa sat on the ground and replied "She is too worn out I'm afraid. I give up".
"Huh? What about you Alisa? You haven't done anything remarkable in.this fight. Face me in Lisa's stead" Dante told her. "I can't perform like Lisa can. Sorry" Alisa replied. Dante's expression changed into a cold and staggering one. She read her memories earlier before the fight really began and her life itself enraged the Dragon.
"Your birth was for someone else's plot. Not for your own desires. Most of your life you obeyed your father and remained locked up like a slave or criminal. Even after being free you still let your dad manipulate you. Even when you are now free from your dad's clutches, you're still living the life he wants you to live. Not what you want. In every dangerous situation, you yourself barely lived through it because Lisa always came to do your work"
"My dear, you haven't lived your life. Even now you still haven't truly live your life. Make a choice. Fight me and strive to be better or continue on the path filled with chains and puppetry". Dante's words hit right at home. Alisa wanted to do so many things but still haven't done most of them. She was too entangled with the task of vengeance her father left her. Forgetting that he's been ruling her life while he was alive. "I always locked myself in my room for some reason. Why is that?" Alisa asked the Dragon. Deep down she knew the answer but she still wanted to hear it from someone else. To confirm how pathetic she was.
"You lock yourself up because you don't know what to do when you have free time. You never used to have the freedom to do anything. Not to mention your memory is a huge mess. Putting it simply, you're pathetic and not strong enough to confront anything. Lisa told you things filled with contradictions but you never questioned her about them. You're a coward" Dante said on and on. She hated that fact that Lisa went away leaving her this hot mess.
"We're done here. Way to ruin my fun" Dante said upsettingly. Alisa smiled at the Dragon and thanked her. "That was a much needed wake up call. Live my own life. Got it. I won't be avenging my father because he begged me to. I'll do it for my own sanity. The thought of leaving the person who killed my father alone is vexing. Before that, I have other things I should be doing"
"Like what?" asked Dante.
"Beat you up for calling me pathetic." Alisa answered her. A smile crept up on the Dragon's face. "Hahahaha, alright bring it" Dante laughed. Each could feel the determination radiating from each other. There fight is not over yet.