Anaya was smiling still holding her two scimitars, both with light energy on it. Celia reacted very quickly, even before the light energy vanished from the scimitars, and Anaya dropped them to the ground, she had already called upon the wind element to envelop Anaya and prevent her from falling head first.
Liam rushed forward but without Celia's help he wasn't sure he would have been able to get Anaya back in time, he took her in his arms and laid her down on the ground.
He didn't have time to ask her how she was going that Celia was already there.
Anaya tried to speak but she choked and spat blood, Celia was very angry with her and also super worried, she asked Liam : "Hold her on the ground no matter how she will choking or coughing up blood, keep her on the ground I'll fix it right away."
Liam had paled at the severity of the injuries he simply replied : "Do what you have to do I'll hold her, don't worry."
Celia nodded and said : "Here we go ! Sorry my beloved baby wife i have no choice, it's gonna hurt like hell."
Celia pulled out three green papers of light energy, and said in a trembling voice "Disperse", what she was going to do had nothing to do with sending energy into Anaya's chakra flame and spreading it through her meridian channels, no, what she was going to do was introduce light energy into each of Anaya's open wounds.
The light energy would first burn her skin to stop the bleeding and then it will start to reconstitute the flesh, the bones, and whatever had been damaged in Anaya's body.
It was a radical and optimal healing treatment but the price to pay for it was the pain.
Not only would Anaya suffer burns to stop the bleeding, but then to reconstitute the parts of her body that had been damaged it will be like molten lava flowing over her wounds.
Celia was concentrated a maximum, she had to be very precise to prevent Anaya from suffering unnecessarily, she gradually released the light energy and took care of an injury by an injury, but Anaya ended up asking her : "It is okay my love, finish this as soon as possible, i can take the pain don't worry i was prepared for it."
Celia had tears that had started to run down her cheeks, she got angry and screamed : "You were prepared for it, my ass if you were prepared for it, look how you are, I should give you a magic pill instead and letting you recover for a month that will be a better punishment."
Anaya grimaced at the threat from her wife, this time she had really pissed her off, she said to her to try to coax her : "My love, don't cry, it's only a passing pain nothing more, healed me and I'll be on my feet right away, or else you'll spend a month worrying about me."
Celia wiped her tears with the back of her hand and said after inhaling and exhaling to calm herself : "Alright you're ready because this time you're going to feel it badly."
Celia released all the light energy she had left and treated all of Anaya's wounds at the same time.
Anaya screamed in pain, despite the promise she had just made to her wife, the pain was just too intense, her body was struggling on its own against this overwhelming pain.
Luckily Liam was there to hold her down and Celia tried to do it as quickly as possible.
It took her a whole ten minutes for Anaya's body to be normal again, with no apparent injuries, Celia had not only treated the external injuries, she had also taken care of the internal bleeding.
Anaya was in good health now, but they were both morally exhausted, Celia for focusing so much on such a long time, and Anaya for the pain she had felt in the healing process.
Anaya stood up and helped Celia to do the same, she took her wife in her arms and said to her, trying to cuddle her : "My love, you did well, thank you very much, you are the best of all wives, I will let you choose later if you want me to take care of you or if you prefer to lead tonight ..."
Celia laughed and kissed her, she placed her legs on either side of Anaya's waist, and Anaya was holding her by her buttocks, pressing her against her body, Celia said : "My baby wife, good try, but you won't get away so easy with this, never do this again or I will never let you compete again, never again, understood ?"
Liam coughed to get their attention, and it was only then that they realized that a dead silence had settled in the arena.
...
Tal, when he had seen Celia's serious gaze and all-white face, had already started to make preparations to put everyone into a dreamless sleep again, he hoped that this time a slight distortion of the truth would be enough to deceive everybody.
When he saw the screen displayed in bright green letters WIN, he smiled, decidedly Anaya was getting stronger and stronger, with only a level six, their empress the golden dragon had just beaten a level twelve grade four fighter, her power was truly extraordinary.
He saw Celia's behavior changed right away, even before Anaya appeared he knew something was wrong, he was ready to act so when he saw in what kind of state Anaya appeared in he knew that Celia would surely use unorthodox means to heal her wife.
He immediately plunged the whole arena into a dreamless sleep and as he had hoped, all he had to do was send the illusion that Anaya was not covered with her own blood but the one of her opponent and that Celia and Liam had just gone to find her to celebrate.
He felt Onyx's arm encircle his waist to support him in case he will feel bad again, and when he looked at him to tell him that he was okay and that he didn't have to worry, he saw that Onyx's gaze was directed to the combat ring and his eyes were wide open completely shocked at what he was seeing.
Tal looked too, curious to see what could shock this boy he loved so much and who was usually so hard to surprise.
When he looked, he immediately understood, Celia had not withdrawn her wings made of spiritual energy, they were moving slightly and were revealing its bluish and golden reflections, Celia really looked like an angel like that, she was not only beautiful she was magnificent.
An unusual aura of power was emanating from her and he could see golden light coming out of the green papers that were above Anaya.
They all started to hear Anaya's howls of pain as the golden light completely covered her like a halo of sunlight, how something so beautiful could be so painful.
It was the first time he had seen Celia use the light energy in this way, but apparently for her it wasn't a first, she seemed to be in control of what she was doing, after ten minutes the screaming from Anaya was gone as was the golden halo that surrounded her.
He saw her up as if nothing had happened and hugged Celia to kiss her.
Onyx ended up asking what everyone wanted to know : "How she did it, clearly Anaya was seriously injured, she was even coughing up blood, so her internal organs were affected, even with a level ten or eleven magic pill it would have taken her a month to recover ... Wow Celia is really the best, she really looked like an angel."
Tal flicked him on the forehead and said to him jokinly : "If you want to be the next on Anaya's list, I suggest you to keep drooling over her wife."
Everyone burst out laughing and Onyx rubbed his forehead looking at him and said : "Ah, you don't have to be so jealous, who is the one with his arm around you right now, um ?"
Tal withdrew Onyx's hand from his forehead and gave him a kiss where he had hit him, then he grabbed his chin and slowly moved closer to him to give him time to step back if he didn't feel like it, but to his surprise it was Onxy who grabbed the back of his neck and crushed his lips to his.
Even in his wildest dreams, Tal hadn't dared expect Onyx to return his feelings to him. It had been a while since he had confessed his feelings to him, but Onyx had always gently pushed him away, telling him that he sould better wait until he find his soul mate before committing to a relationship.
He didn't know what had made him change his mind but he wasn't going to let his chance pass, he put his hand on his cheek and responded eagerly to the kisses of the man of his dreams.