Barak pointed his sword in aster's direction, his feet planted but ever slowly moving forward towards Aster, 'I know I talked tough earlier, but Aster is just barely weaker than me, I have to look for an opening an be smart about it', Barak thought to himself.
Aster held his hammer at the ready, placing the head of the hammer to his back, while he held the handle firmly, his eyes were watched closely, taking the slightest movements from Barak into account, 'Right now barak has three ways to attack me, one, is to attack from the side opposite to where I'm holding my hammer, two, attack, from above with a strike to my head, three, attack from behind where I can't defend as easily but I will be able to react because he has to get behind first', Aster thought to himself visualizing each scenario, he smiled to himself, slightly relaxing his stance,
"I know how you're going to attack already, so lets get on with it", Aster said to Barak,
Barak smiled, turning his sword outwards and placing it at his side, "fine, I doesn't help either of us to drag this out any longer than it needs to be", Barak said, his weight shifting onto his backfoot.
Barak lunged forward, raising his sword and swinging downwards, Aster blocked barak's blade with his war hammer, lightning flared off of the black and blue katana as it stopped on the war hammer's handle, "so you did know how I would attack", Barak said,
"of course, you're confident you can beat me, so you would go for the attack that seemed the most direct to you", Aster said a wide grin on his face,
Aster pushed Barak off him and swung his hammer, he jumped backed and plunging the hammer down into the ground causing it to cave in, creating a crater, causing him and barak to fall into it,
Barak crouched down and sheathed his sword, as the ground sunk beneath his feet, lightning started to surge from the soles of his feet and into the ground, as he pushed off and launched himself high into the air with the lightning running through his legs and sprouting out from the bottom of his feet, he took aim at aster and drew his sword again and bolts of lightning, shot from his blade and struck where aster stood but aster had jumped back and was now spinning his war hammer behind his back, aster crouched down and rocketed himself into the air towards barak, aster spun around, swinging his hammer into the side of Barak's body,
But Barak blocked it with his blade, the force sent him flying into the sand creating another large crater, he stood up just as aster landed with a loud 'thud',
"ohh, I see someone's been training", barak said as he dusted the sand off of his shirt and pants,
"i actually felt that one", he continued, looking at his hand that trembled slightly from blocking Aster's last attack,
Aster rushed forward, feeling confident in his strength, about his chances of defeating Barak, raising his hammer above his head, he swung down on him with all his might, sand flew into air, and all around him from the force of the impact, but all aster felt was sand beneath his weapon, Barak had dodged the attack, Aster could see the black and blue blur approaching him from his side, he quickly let go of his hammer, jumping backwards to avoid Barak's attack,
"you would think you're actually trying to kill me", Aster said, holding his arm, as blood dropped onto the sand,
"I could say the same thing, I barely dodged you're last attack, and I think I need my head to be alive", Barak responded,
"really didn't realize your brain thought about anything other than fighting", Aster said, He spread his legs, dropping into a stance, as he raised both of his hands in fists, twisting his back leg, he dashed forward to barak, to fast for him to respond in time, landing a punch to his stomach, sending barak a few feet back, he dashed forward again, this time shaking the entire Castle as he did so, he aimed for Barak's ribs this time, but barak raised his sword blocking the punch in time, but this time he was sent flying a more than a few feet away, As his body bounced and tumbled through the sand his sword flew out of his hand, Barak stood up, his hand holding his side,
"my turn", he said,
Barak smiled as his hands began to glow blue, the lightning surging through his entire body as his eyes lit up, he dashed forward and punched aster in the face, then a left hook to the ribs, a right hook to the chin, then an uppercut making aster stumble back, he then gave him a side kick to his abdomen then a spinning back kick to his temple, each attack packed with the speed and power of lightning
Aster dropped to one knee, his face with cuts and bruises, as he just stared at barak,
"Look at you, on your knees before me and your suppose to bring me back to the clan, laughable", Barak said shaking his head,
Aster stood up and glared at barak, Barak jumped back as he sensed the incoming attack from aster,
"I guess its time to finish this" Barak said, with his Palm to his forehead and grinning
" I guess so" aster said spitting out blood from his mouth.
The ground beneath them began to rumble, As aster squatted down a, placed his hand on the sandy ground, Barak sensed his attack and jumped into the air, Lightning surging from his hand, intensifying each passing second, The air was filled with the sound of crackling electricity, with Barak's arm fully enveloped in a bright blue light,
" AERIAL DIVINITY: 3,000 VOLTS", lightning screamed down from the sky racing in a frenzy towards aster,
"oh shit", Aster said, realizing the attack that barak was about to perform, folded his hands into fist and slammed them into the ground and shouted "RASHOUMON: ROOM 3" and three gigantic pillars of earth on each side of him, and they covered over him, forming three layers of a semi-circular dome over him,
Multiple streaks of lightning shot off from Barak's arm, all aimed towards Aster, the deafening impact screamed out, making everyone on the castle wall cover their ears, As large chunks of rocks flew all around, Polaris stretched out his hand, as a thick layer of ice began sprawling outwards protecting that part of the wall that the children and the others were standing, Polaris looked down into the desert where Barak and Aster were was now covered in a plume of dust and smoke,
"damn, the two of them really need to hold back a little", polaris thought to himself,
The dust cleared and there stood Barak standing in front of aster,
"let's head back in for now", barak said walking off towards the wall entrance, Aster was slowly trailing behind, his face full of disappointment after what just happened, both walked back into barak's house with everyone as the battle had concluded,