Daewi Pov
Xioachen has always been a strange person. Even before I joined the Six, there was always massive propaganda across the World Government about her past sins. Sometimes it even feels like she's from a different world, sometimes with her grand gestures.
Yet I don't think running away from the person she swore her life to was a part of her normal behavior. Usually, I would simply ignore it, but I couldn't get her off my mind after that night. So if she was going to play this cat and mouse game, I intend to win. Removing my bandages around my eyes, the power of the King's wisdom flared into a red glow, thus forcing one of the four fundamental forces to fall to my command. Today, I chose gravity, quickly levitating and gearing up for flight before saying to Peach.
"Place the egg on the bed, Peach, and have a nice day. I'll get here to eat it before it gets cold," I said before zooming off at blurring speed.
While her borrowed power was sealed by Suijin Lee a while back, Xioachen still has remained my Bishop for a reason. Her physical strength still made her a formidable opponent as she blitzed past the large corridors of the Nox base with enough speed to cause hurricanes. Which told me one thing, she was far from being sick. Still, I had remained faster, rapidly gaining pace with her until we were face to face.
"Can you stop, please? I want to talk to you about last night," I said in a deadpan tone.
Instead of following my command, though, Xioachen got even more heated, increasing her speed further while employing Kyoshin Karate. Finally, the Kick of the Red Phoenix Xiaochen made the entire building shake and bend from the sheer force. So much so I had to use gravity once again to divert the energy, which is probably precisely what Xiaochen wanted as she launched herself out of the building in my distraction.
Dozens of pounds of concrete, glass, wood, and insulation got thrown to the wayside, forcing me to unleash my borrowed power to protect the people in the way. One that has quickly become the shining mascot of Nox, the holy animal of Orgeauk: Haetea. The small blue dog-like dragon appeared by my side, excitedly awaiting orders with a simple thought.
There was a time where I thought I'd never see him again, but the Sage's Wisdom has its perks. I didn't even need to say a word for him to respond, though. All at once, the rubble got caught by large bubbles of water. With that, I activated gravity once again to almost telekinetically repair the damage. Still, the action cost me a lot of time as I had lost track of her. Though that didn't matter as Haetea and Xioachen had a close relationship.
Meaning he could freely sniff out her location, quickly pointing towards the sky above. Realizing that, I cranked up the speed further, forcing me to cast Inertia on myself combined with repulsive forces. Multiple sound barriers instantly got broken, sailing me through the air until I was high above the clouds where Xioachen was. Realizing that she was sailing with the momentum of an f15 fighter jet, I tried my best to be gentle, slowing her course using gradual Gravitokinesis. Eventually, I captured her in a small water bubble when she slowed enough. When I finally caught up with her, I decided to have a conversation with her fifty thousand feet in the air on top of a grown Hatea.
"Do you finally want to talk now," I said calmly?
Combined with the strong air this high up and the bubble's thickness, all I saw were glimmers of muffled conversation. That combined with her obvious panicked movements, it was clear this would get us nowhere. Realizing this, I decided to enter the bubble with her. Something strange happened when I did, though.
Once again, by sheer accident, it seems that we had entered our private world where we didn't have to think about anyone else. I only found a feeling with Xioachen, which I couldn't help but get drawn towards. So without even getting wet, I entered the bubble to see a now patient, Xioachen. However, before I could restate my offer, she finally answered.
"No," she said frankly.
In one triumphant motion, she unfurled my own Kyoshin Karate right at my face, striking the bubble with a ground-level fist of the black turtle. Then, another powerful shockwave took place, ripping the bubble part while forcing her into a powerful descent. My casual nature grew actual concern at that point, realizing the fall could do some damage. However, those thoughts quickly vanished when I realized what we were above.
At first, it was a small blur, but closer inspection made it a large city, meaning we were probably on the outskirts of a New Korean city. Hoping to make this a small incident, I repeated the same process, again trying to capture her in Hatea's mystical bubbles. She countered back through sheer physical strength using either Kick of Red Phoniex or Fist of the Black Turtle. Since she time her strikes specifically so said bubbles would
Nevertheless, this dance of ours created a slow in descent, giving her all the time she needed to leap off of the surrounding skyscrapers. Thus granting her enough momentum to once again sail towards the city outskirts; now that we were in a more lush forest-like area, I could exercise my powers a little more carefully. Seeing as the gentle approach didn't work, I got more creative, and it was a little harsher.
"Gravity times ten," I said with my right eye blazing and my wounds starting to ache.
Instantly Xiaochen dropped like a stone, still executing a graceful roll into the trees. Knowing this was a half measure at best, as I increased the pressure ever so slightly.
"Times twenty, thirty, fourth, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred," I said with increasing intensity.
For the sky god of the Greek Pantheon Zeus, increasing gravity a thousand times couldn't fall him when he got serious. For the Bishop that's been working hard every single day to surpass him, her limit still wasn't on that level yet. Thus I found that two hundred and fifty times Earth's normal gravity. Frankly, the sight was abjectly terrifying. For our struggle was like an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object.
Trees shattered under their added weight, blades of grass got utterly crushed into clumps, and medium-sized rocks instantly got pulverized into dust. The air around started to feel denser than ozone as multiple animals scurried in fear on sight. Soon enough, even the ground couldn't handle the sheer density creating a steep crater of dirt several feet deep. Yet despite this literal godly might, the defiant Xioachen still managed to persist, albeit slowly.
Her movements had now slowed to a snail's crawl, making it seem as though she was doing a full-on spring in slow motion. I swear I could feel her muscles ache harder than my injured ones for a while as sweat ran down her face. Then, finally, I casually slid down the giant crater and walked towards the servant that's given me so much trouble.
"Xioachen, please let's just talk," I said sincerely while sitting right next to her shaking body,
Up close, I could see how deep her determination ran through body language alone, which only made me dig in my resolve all the more. Our iron wills irritated off each other, vehemently clashing harder than any fist we could make. The staredown lasted for what seemed like forever. The winner was made. Whether it be through finally giving up or following my orders, Xioachen finally relented. Thus with no one else around, the two of us escaped the fringes of Nox and talked without any barriers or labels to tie us down.