Chapter 157 - 157: The Ice Empress.

[Thunder Manipulation... Wrath] 

Another loud thunderclap resounded across the area as a bolt of lightning crashed down on him. 

From where the man had been, a different figure could be seen hiding behind the a smoke cloud created. 

As the smoke subsided, the two's eyes widened. 

It was the same person, but his figure itself had completely changed. 

Long flowing dark blue hair with slit pupiled orange eyes. 

His legs and arms were covered in a glowing electric blue scalar looking armour. 

A long glowing electric tail had extended out of his back , swinging itself around, and a glowing blue mask shaped like a dragon's head rested over his. 

His forms had changed. 

He stretched out his hand, pointing it towards the two before muttering a few words. 

They were too far to hear it, but regardless of what it meant, they could tell an attack was coming. 

[Telekinesis] 

His figure which had been under Violet's grasp was suddenly dashed towards a nearby building at full speed. 

*CRASH!* 

*Shatter!* 

The few remaining glass windows shadowed from the collision's impact. His figure disappeared into the inside having crashed into the wall. 

The two looked at each and nodded. 

They both knew they had retreat and look for a different way to fight him and such was the plan. 

With telekinesis, Violet propelled both her and Aurora away, allowing them to regroup as they descended down the city. 

"What do we do now? That thing looks like it gave him a power up." Violet asked. 

"...We set up a-" 

Aurora was interrupted, her pupils dilated as the man suddenly appeared behind Violet with a kick in motion. 

A shield of ice manifested behind Violet to block it. 

But it was too slow- 

*Shatter!* 

*CRASH!* 

Violet's figure crashed in the building behind Aurora as the kick connected. 

"VIOLET!" 

Violet's grasp over Aurora, instantly faded causing her to start falling from up-high but she barely had the opportunity to experience it, as he had already made his next attack. 

*WHAM!* 

A crashed into Aurora's back from above, sending her plunging towards the ground like never before. 

A fall from that height would without a doubt kill her and if it didn't the zombies would. 

While falling, she slammed both hands together and shut her eyes. 

Crystals were propelled down reaching the ground before she did. They expanded in that very same instant, creating a large long pillar of ice itself towards Aurora. 

*Shatter!* 

Aurora's body crashed into the ice pillar from above and dug it's way down through it at high speeds, bruising her body repeatedly before coming to a stop completely just of then meters above the ground. 

That hurt a lot more than she thought it would. 

Still, she slowly got up, her body trembling as she tried to get a grip over her body. 

*Swoosh!* 

Her heart sank, through the corner of her eyes, there he was again, kicking towards her with ultra-fast speeds. 

She couldn't even react- 

*WHAM!* 

His leg rammed into the side of her shoulder blasting her straight towards the building beside her. 

*CRASH!* 

Aurora's body crashed through the wall, rolling over repeatedly only before coming to a stop inside. She was covered in bruises. 

As she struggled to get up once more, there it was again. 

A flash of blue light, almost like lightning itself as it appeared above her. 

*BASH!* 

She was kicked right in the middle of her stomach, blasting her up towards the ceiling in the process. 

She crashed up through two floors, each one rattling her brain and knocking her consciousness further away. 

By the time she had come to a stop, she could no longer get up. 

Blood spilled out of her mouth as she coughed it out. 

Instead she stood there, her hair in disarray and lightly bloody as it covered her face. 

*Flash!* 

The figure appeared once more, right beside her. 

He was crouched down and his hand was closed and clenched into a fist. 

"Die." He said thrusting the arm down at her head. 

*Thump* 

Aurora's heart skipped a beat. 

Her survival instincts overtook her mind. 

It was a moment of life and death. 

*Crack!* 

His eyes widened, his hand which was curled into a fist had suddenly stopped. 

It felt as if he had hit against a protective barrier of some sorts in the air. Before he could even tell what had happened, ice ran up that very same hand. 

It happened in an instant. 

He instantly retreated, leaping away from her before watching her figure struggle to rise up. 

Her hair was glowing a bright blue, a colour completely different from her original light pink. Her eyes were being covered by said her, making him unable to tell what sort of expression she was making. 

He wasn't sure what was happening... 

But there was one thing he knew for sure. 

The air around her was freezing. 

[Ice Manipulation: Ice Empress.]

Whilst staggering, Aurora took a step in his direction, and from that one single step, a trail of ice was directed towards him at high speeds. 

With his abnormal speed, he avoided it moving to the side, leaving behind a trail of electricity behind as he ricocheted off the wall towards her with a kick in motion. 

*Crackle* *Crackle* 

The frozen air stopped him again, as he attacked at her, but it wasn't impossible to deal with. 

From just that one attack, he could see gaps in it's formation. 

*Crackle* *Crackle* 

His figure blurred out, all which could be seen was a trace of light, zooming around Aurora at high speeds chipping away at her defences. 

A barrage of attacks from every direction rained down on her. 

But still she didn't seem bothered. 

*SHATTER!* 

He broke through, his figure had successfully shattered her defence. 

Before she could freeze, anything else he retreated back onto the wall, and began to rotate around once more, moving at speeds impossible for the regular eye to capture before leaping off one corner right through the breach in her defence. 

With his feet appearing in her blind-spot just behind her head, a cold smile appeared on Aurora's face. 

*Ram!*