Elijah and Lamar had a few distinctions. Elijah was taller than Lamar was. One wore a watch and one didn't. Both only wore a shirt with cargo pants.
Derrick shut Skylar's door and spread his right hand holding his blade out. With his left hand, he quickly went behind his back and pulled out a handgun. He aimed it at the two smoke sorcerers and pulled the trigger several times immediately. The bullets when through them and created a small trail of smoke from the cloud.
"Fucking body spells, I swear." He mumbled angrily
He slides his gun back to his Void Bag. He swung his left arm back, stretching it. Then he stretched his neck right and left. He took a deep breath. Closed his eyes and had his face headed up to the two sorcerers.
He disappeared out of sight and slashed through the smoke on the roof. He slashed Elijah in half. But he just cut through smoke. Then he turned around with his blade swinging along. He slashes Lamar. He just cut through smoke again. A knife then came from behind him. Heading to his nape. Derrick shifts his body to the side, dodging it. He then followed up with another slash from his blade. This time his blade was blocked by Elijah's knife. Thin and quite long. Lamar didn't hesitate to join in. Derrick quickly pulled out a tonfas with his left hand and blocked Lamar's blades. The tonfas was lined with iron. Giving it more weight and durability. He pushed the two back away.
He pressed a button on the tonfas and it released a small blade at the end of the tonfas. He faced Lamar and pointed his Solar Blade at Elijah. The tip of the blade pointing backwards and Derrick thrusts the blade a little. It released an explosion that obscured Elijah's vision. Derrick squeezed Lamar's knife with his tonfas and blade and threw him down to the ground. Off the roof.
Derrick drops to the ground. He slide his blade behind his back and pulled out a second tonfas. A twin to the other one he had. He pressed the button on it too. Releasing another small blade. About two inches long and an inch wide.
Lamar quickly got back up and pulled out a second blade. His left hand holding it with an ice-pick grip, the other a regular grip. Bouncing them back and forth by an inch. Derrick took a slight breath. Then he dashes forward with one of his tonfas flicked out. Then he started slashing and spinning his tonfasses at Lamar. Either parried by Lamar's blades or just went through his smoke body.
They kept trading blocked hits. It was pointless. Derrick thought. If he could actually hurt Lamar, he'd be dead by now. He knows what he has to do, but he just can't see how yet. Elijah then recovered and joined them on the ground.
From behind Lamar, screamed "repel!" The wave blew both smoke sorcerers away. Lamar's smoke went through Derrick's. Derrick tried slashing away but no use. He pressed the button he previously pressed on his tonfasses and it retracted the blades. He then slides them behind his back and they disappeared.
"That looks so weird from behind." Sam commented
"Hand me your blades." Derrick ordered
"What? No. These're mine."
"Just hand 'em to me. I'll give it back."
"Fine." Sam pouted as he hands the Twin Blades to Derrick. Derrick grips them tightly and faces the two smoke sorcerers who were just getting back on their feet. Derrick flips the blades around. Playing with them a bit. Then he clashed the blades together. Just like Sam did.
The repel force was at least a thousand times stronger than Sam's was. Elijah and Lamar were thrown away. All the way half across the town. Sam's jaw dropped. "What the hell?"
"Twin Blades are only as strong as the wielder, Sam. You've still got miles to go."
"How can I do that?"
"No short cuts. But what matters most is your speed of growth."
Nate and Vic then finally reached the two. "What's the situation?"
"They're here. And they're tough. I don't think they have destructive spells though."
"What do we do?"
"We need to give them a significant wound. A mortal wound would be better. At least a cut to the tendons or a big puncture wound."
"How do we do that?"
"The best fighters are the ones that can win no matter their situation."
"What does that mean?"
"We'll figure it out on the fly. Call out if you notice anything that can give you an advantage secretly."
"We should prolong this fight, right?"
"You could try. But they're assassins. Not regular sorcerers. Probably given the order to kill a sorcerer on sight. Now, here they come. Follow my lead. Trust each other. Got it?"
The three nodded in unison.
Smoke clouds started approaching the four. Fast. Vast.
"Sam, use your senses."
"My senses?"
Derrick controlled his breathing and loosened his shoulders. He stretched his arms. His hearing became sharper. His skin started to tingle. Then he pulled out his Solar Blade. He starts running at the cloud of smoke. Charging it with his blade drawn out. The three followed behind him.
The moment of contact. Derrick was about to swing his blade. Lamar and Elijah were about to start slashing as the two materialized back to regular people. With a big cloud of smoke coming off from behind him. The three then suddenly lost their footing. They were suddenly off the ground. Floating steadily. Derrick looked around. Rocks, fallen branches, trash, started to float at a steady pace.
"What?"
Elijah and Lamar grinned. They turned to smoke and engulfed and circled around Derrick. He was about ten feet in front of the other three. They hesitated to move. Derrick then was lifted off the ground by the two smoke sorcerers. Blood dripping from his legs and arms. They lifted him about a hundred feet off the ground and threw him across the village. Derrick crashed into a house and stopped moving as blood poured out of him.