Her lips peeled back further, a menacing grin spreading across her features, now she didn’t look as pretty as she once had, now she looked scary. The man fumbled about and quickly drew his axe up from his shoulder, eyes narrowed against the wind still pulsing from her being, hovering just above the ground. Then it abruptly stopped and she flew right at him. Clawed fingers grasped at the mans face and he yelled in surprise, as the fingers turned white hot and scarred across his skin and sent him reeling backwards in pain. He was dimly aware of someone arriving on the scene, but had no time to wonder who, because the girl was on top of him, and with a fist covered in glowing white flames she smashed into his face.

He yelled a word and the snakes shot up from his armour and wrapped about her legs and up towards her throat again. She fell back off him, pulling at them and that gave him enough time to get to his feet, blood streaming down his face from a broken nose. Ave was moved and sent straight at her, it cut deep into her thigh, and he swung it around in a circle before meeting her across her bare stomach with the blade. The young girl stopped for a second, before the wounds began to give out a soft light and before his eyes, the cuts healed. Then she grabbed both the snakes by the head and fire pulsed down her arms and they burst into flames. She then lifted both arms in ceremony, palms facing downwards.

The earth underneath her shifted, and as her hands lifted, water flowed up from the grass and plants around her, collecting in small moving particles, and then the drops started to solidify, and they turned into perfectly pointed shards of ice. Then with a flick of her hand the shot straight at him. The man was pierced by several, but merely grunted, another pair of snakes materialising behind him. He saw her move her hands to the side, and then he blinked as two assassin swords seemed to materialise in the sky from the direction of the village and flew into her hands it breakneck speed, Then her hands grasped around the hilts of the double swords and she took up a defensive stance almost immediately, swords held across her as she stalked closer to the man. The two circled one another, and as he moved into her with his axe swinging up, her left sword came up, caught the falling axe, whilst the other silver blade sliced through the armour on his legs and a shower of blood flew out as the sword drew back and she jumped away.

The man cursed and started a haling spell up, before running at her, then he felt the ground underneath him started to crumble and then fell down into a churning mass of rocks and mud. She approached him and then grabbed the man by the back of the neck, leering down at him before dragging him out and throwing him headlong into a tree. As she advanced on him, the two snakes grabbed her legs, and she holed like a caged animal as she tried to pull them off, the man, who should be dead, got up again, his eyes burning as he watched the struggling woman. he then gulped down his pain, rolling his head around and then he pushed off from the ground before sprinting straight t her, she stopped moving as she saw him and then drew up her swords, and sliced through the snakes before running at him, as they stopped short of one another, axe and sword met flesh, free hand extended and then pushed up against his armour before the man froze. He realised then that he was the one who couldn’t move.

Serra’s body contorted backwards as she flipped back on herself, out of the reach of the frozen axe, she smiled at the man, and spun the swords around twice before sliding them into the underskirt belt so they held, these were the Elven swords shed talked about before, and couldn’t use, but this new being who had awoken within her, seemed particularly adept at using. Now the girl lifted both hands, twisting them till the palms faced the man and then she clenched her fists tightly, and watched in satisfaction as his armour was pressed in on him, after all it was metal, and therefore a property of nature, and her powers. The man screamed in pain as the metal dug into his skin, as the air was pushed from his lungs and still he couldn’t get away or defend himself.

And slowly his eye sight dimmed and he could just see the outline of the girl coming closer to him, steps slow and her right arm drew back, hand streamlined and facing him vertically like a knife. Then she stopped a few inches away before the hand pierced straight through his shattered armour, skin and then touched to his just beating heart, as soon as it did a huge vault of lightning from her finger tips made him shake violently several times before the last breath of air parted his lips. Then as the hand withdrew form the man and he fell to the floor, blood flowing out from the hole in his chest, Serra unexpectedly wobbled on her feet having very little time to comprehend with anything, just catching sight of Hisas a little way off before toppling over onto her side, unconscious.