With a snarl, Ezra's darkness burst out of him in the form of barbed spears, spearing through the falling ghosts.
They veered away, each one retreating from the tide of darkness.
Ezra paid them no mind, searching in his soul for ways to bypass the key's barriers but it was absolute. No ability could get in, only vitality.
He was stuck this way forever. The main ability of his soul bond, taken away from him.
He roared in anger as James dashed in and released his Domination Aura.
Instantly, the spikes of darkness covering Ezra shattered at the weight of the Aura and the ghosts disappeared.
He stumbled and reached instinctively inside of him and ignited his vitality, his own Domination Aura rushing out and balancing James' cancelling it out.
But the damage was done.
James had the upper hand, snarling as he tore into Ezra.
