Chapter 102-Ana vs Cloud
"WH-WHAT'S THIS?!" Ana frantically cries as she looks around, finding herself stuck in a maze of iron walls over thirty feet tall.
"This is one of Tungsten's spells," Cloud announces, dragging Ana's attention towards her, "All of your friends have been separated now. It's just you…and me…"
"So you've been separated from your friends, too," Ana cockily replies as she crouches down into her Charge Stance.
"It took two of you to defeat me last time," Cloud smirks as she draws her golden bo-staff, "What do you plan to do without that icy-girl?"
"I'm a whole different swordswoman from last time," Ana smirks as she draws her katana, then dashes towards Cloud.
"WIND CHARGE, LEVEL ONE: CRESCENT-MOON SLASH!" Ana shouts as she swings her katana outwards.
Cloud's eyes widen from the shock of Ana's speed as she brings her staff up to block.
Upon making contact with Cloud's staff, Ana's katana slashes straight through it with a loud metallic clang that echoes across the iron walls.
Cloud's eyes widen. "You…slashed through my staff…?"
Ana winks at Cloud. "As I told ya'!"
After slashing through Cloud's staff, Ana grabs the hilt of her katana with her second hand, before aiming her blade upwards and slashing it towards the sky.
"Cl-Cloud Charge, Level Four: Mist!" Cloud shouts, and as Ana's katana cuts up through her body, it passes straight through Cloud's misty form.
Cloud cackles as her cloudy body begins to spread outwards and engulf the entire battlefield in a haze of clouds.
"You only won last time since your ally was able to freeze me!" Cloud bellows, her voice echoing from all throughout the mist, "YOU weren't the one to defeat me!"
"Damn it, Cloud's right," Ana grunts as she looks around frantically, desperately searching for her opponent, "I'll have to think of a different way to defeat Cloud…"
Before Ana can think of a way to defeat her enemy, Ana notices the clouds out of the corner of her eye begin to stir.
"THERE!" Ana shouts as she spins around and whips her body towards the movement, where Ana sees a pair of arms jutting out of the mist.
Ana then slashes her katana below the arms, across the stomach of where Cloud SHOULD be, only to feel a disturbing lack of resistance as Ana's katana passes through…nothing. The force of Ana's slash causes the clouds around her slash to clear away, revealing nothing there.
Ana's eyes widen. "Only…her arms…?"
"Last time you fought me, I used my level four spell to engulf the battlefield in a cloud of mist," Cloud explains, "However…now I can turn into CLOUDS ITSELF!"
Cloud then begins to twirl her hands through the air. As she does so, the wind begins to howl, gray storm clouds roll in, thunder echoes through the sky, bolts of lightning flashes above, and rain begins to drizzle.
"Cloud Charge, Level One…CUMULONIMBUS!"
A GIANT bright bolt of lightning then crashes down from the sky above.
"SHIT!" Ana cries as she swiftly jumps back in order to dodge the attack.
But once Cloud's bolt of lightning smites the ground, bolts of lightning are sent spreading and crackling across the ground, eventually reaching and zapping Ana.
Ana grunts in pain as she's zapped by Cloud's spell, before dropping down to one knee once the lightning bolt lets up.
"How come I ALWAYS have to fight these lighting freaks?" Ana wines as she coughs out some black smoke.
"Still standing, eh?" Cloud asks.
"Are you kidding?" Ana smirks as she pushes herself off of her knee, "Your lightning…is NOTHING compared to what I've felt!"
While Ana can't see Cloud's smoke, she can tell that Cloud is SMOLDERING right about now.
"CLOUD CHARGE, LEVEL ONE: CUMULONIMBUS!" Cloud roars as her hands begin dancing through the air again, and a second bolt of lightning begins to crash down from the sky above.
But this time…Ana's wiser.
As the lightning bolt begins to fly through the air towards Ana, Ana lets out a battle cry, and then, with all of her might…Ana LAUNCHES her katana towards the mist before her.
"What's a sword gonna do against a cloud?!" Cloud cackles.
But then…as if attracted towards Ana's katana like a lightning rod, Cloud's bolt of lightning begins to follow Ana's katana as it flies through the air.
As Ana's katana pierces Cloud's mist, it drags Cloud's bolt of lightning alongside it.
Upon making contact with the clouds, Cloud's bolt of lightning crackles and spreads across the entire mist cloud, causing Cloud to SCREAM in pain as she's electrocuted by her own bolt of lightning.
"WHAT DID…YOU DO TO MEEE?!?!" Cloud screams over the buzz of crackling lightning.
"Water is an EXCELLENT conductor of electricity," Ana smirks, her face illuminated by the golden glow of lightning, "And it just so happens that clouds are FULL of it! The thing about the ability to turn into your element is that you're STILL WEAK to elements effective against yours! And it seems like unlike Tondra, YOU don't have any sort of lightning resistance."
Due to the powerful shock of her own bolt of lightning, Cloud is forced to re-materialize once her lightning bolt fizzles out, revealing Cloud's body, charred nearly completely black, smoldering, yet…still standing.
"Still standing, huh?" Ana smirks as her katana pierces the iron wall behind Cloud.
"You don't…have your sword now…" Cloud answers with a smirk and a weak cough.
"I don't need a sword," Ana replies as she chambers a fist.
And then…Ana LAUNCHES her fist forwards, SMASHING it into Cloud's jaw, causing Cloud's head to violently snap to the side as blood explodes from her nose and mouth.
The force of Ana's punch causes to be sent flying backwards, her back slamming into the iron wall behind her and completely shattering it.
At the same time, the iron wall behind Cloud begins to shatter from the other side, and Cloud's back SLAMS into Zippy.
Upon colidding, the back of Zippy's and Cloud's skulls smack together, knocking them out cold, and causing them to limply flop to the ground.
Ana and Gaia blink.
"Oh…hey, Gaia!" Ana exclaims as she waves at her Gaia, who is posed with his stone-plated fist outwards, after sending Zipoy flying backwards with a powerful punch.
"Oh…hi," Gaia replies.