In a flash Jonah disappeared from Lars's sight. Suddenly the six foot 3 man who was slowly mping up exixtance had made his move.
"Where did he go?" Lars said looking around. He searched above and below, side to side, but could not find the slightest trace of his opponent.
"Looking around is pointless" Jonah said. "I'm right in front of you!"
"How!" Lars said hearing a voice right in front of him.
with a snap of his fingers, Jonah's right arm slowly began to appear out of nowhere. As more and more of his body began to become visible Lars finnaly figured out what had happened.
"Your powere!" Lars cried. "Is invisibility!"
"That's not all!" Jonah said.
In an instant, Lars felt a web of invisible fibers wrap aroun dhim suffocating him. He tried to free himself, but he was unable to figure out where they were coming from.
"I can also use invisible stands of ether! Don't you see? It's pointless to fight me... It's pointless to struggle here... it's pointless to-
"NO!" Lars cried Finding the ether strands above his head, he tore them open with his bare hands.
"You've gotten stronger" Jonah remarked.
"I've seen the visions and I don't know what they mean... but how can you call everything pointless!"
Lars looked around at his friends fighting their battles.
"My friends are risking their lives, even your comrades as we speak! They are putting their lives on the line for what they believe, are you telling me that their lives are all pointless?"
"Yes.." Jonah said coldly "That's exactly what I am saying"
"Damnit you!" Lars said running at Jonah
In an instant Jonah dissapeared once again
POW!
Jonah hit Lars with a blow tot he stomach causing him to hunch over.
Sweep!
Sweeping Lars of hsi feet with a kick, jonah dropped his heel onto Lars's stomach still invisible
Channeling his ether to water underground Lars unleashed a column of water exploding in front of Jonah.
"Useless" Jonah said avoiding the attack. "At this rate you have no chance of-"
For a moment Lars closed his eyes andf followed his senses, from the corner of his eye he felt a presence.
"THERE!" Lars said spinning around. "Water knuckle!"
BOOM!
Lars struck Jonah in the stomach sending him spiraling backwards. As he crashed into a wall, Reggie and the others took note of his attack.
"Yeh Ax! Show em whose boss!" Reggie creid.
As he fell back from the giant stone golems chasing him, he dodged one of their fist
"Go Ax!" 6 cried in the distance
"Not bad Baby blue" B thought as she exchanged blows with Kira.
"Well you sure know how to make alot of noise with your attacks, I'll give you that" Lance jived. His opponents heads still forced in the mud
"Impossible" Jonah said. "How can you sense me? Your just a Cadet... you shouldn't have that level of ether control yet"
"I can't see you..." Lars said. "But as long as I wet you with water my ether has touched I can tell where you are!"
"I see!" Jonah said. "I won't be foolish enough to get wet again! I'm not holding back from here on out!"
Rising out of his crater in the wall, Jonah cloaked himself and quickly approached Lars.
"Ok" Lars said "If I can't wet him... I'll just wet the ground!"
Soaking the ground around him, Lars created a network of ether on the ground.
"Wait!" Jonah thought as he approached. "The ground here is wet! So If I can't come to you!" He said throwing out a web of ether
"You come to me!"
Lars once again felt a hoard of invisible threads wrap around him.
"Shit!"
Yanking on the threads as heard as he could, Jonah brought Lars to him once again and slammed into the ground with a devestating kick.
"BELCH!"
As Lars recovered Jonah thrust him into the air again with invisible threads causing him to crash into the ceiling
"Your too far from your water to guard now! Lets see how you deal with an invisible sword!" Jonah cried
Channeling his either he created a massive blade that was completely invisible to the naked eye. Pointing his fingers towards Lars he caused it to home in on his position.
"SHIT!" LArs said. "I'm Screwed!"
"Translucent BLADE!" Jonah cried.
BOOOM!
The blade rammed into Lars's position causing the ceiling area where he was to collapse.
"AXEL!" 6 cried.
"I told him it was useless" Jonah said. "If only he had listened... then maybe I wouldn't have had to do this...."
Uncloaking himself, Jonah hung his head in sorrow.
Rumble Rumble
Lars stood up from the debris, covered in blood.
"AXEL!!" 6 cried
"Shit! He got hit!" Reggie said
"No!" LAnce said. "Look closely that's not his blood!"
As Lars stood up he raised the hand of a terramole. six of them stood together blocking the sword.
"You guys... protected me..." LArs said "But why?... Why would you risk your life for a human?"
As the terromole in front of him lost conciousness it pointed tot he Pandora.
"You guys aren't just creatures are you? You know these guys are up to no good! That's why you never killed me... you saw me as different from these other humans!"
As the teramole lost its strength, it's hand fell to into Lars's lap and became cold.
"I'm done screwing around" Lars said sahking his head as a tear came to his eye.
"Pointless" Jonah said. "That animal protecting you was pointless!"
BOOOM
BOOM
Five columns of water exploded all around Jonah in nearly an instant.
"Impossible... his power couldn't have grown so fast! Was he holding back against the Terramoles the whole time?"
(Flashback)
"OK!" LArs said wiping his forhead "I've finally got myself an ether crystal time to call it a...-"
"Grandma... Grandma..." A little boy said. "GEt some rest... I will find a crystal for you soon"
"My dear boy" THe old woman sighed. "THank you"
Walking over to the boy Lars handed him over the crystal.
"Thanks man... but who are you? I don't even know you I can't except this this must have taken up so much of your strength!"
"It did.." Lars said. "But thats Ok because the more strength I use the stronger I become"
"Thanks..." THe by said.
"So, do you happen to know anyone else who needs crystals? I won't stop until I have used up almost all my strength!"
(Back to present)
"Jonah!" Lars screamed. ""The only thing here that's pointless.." Lars said. "Was me trying to hold back!""