The Great

Savian Yelenta: Run, run, run, run.

“Running around at the speed of sound!” Was all I could hear in my head as I desperately tried to get through Oden’s defenses. Those words were the first verse to a song Emmy always sang when I used to carry her around at super-speed. No matter how intense things got, when I remembered that song, things always felt a little better. Everytime I hit him it felt like my fist hit some invisible force field which pushed my hand back. I rammed into his body at maximum speed as the ground tore up at my feet. A sonic boom reverberated through the arena as I targeted Oden’s back. He simply disappeared and I flew into the opposite wall. Oden appeared to be heavily damaged as his chest was bleeding profusely. Evay must have got him pretty good.. I quickly regained my footing as I ran along the stadium’s wall and went into overdrive. I kept running in circles around, and around, and around as I kept building momentum for myself. Oden kept a cool eye on me as he stood in the center of the arena, ready to defend another attack. Everytime I attacked he would use his ability right before the point of impact but his powers were simple enough–he either pulled me in or blasted me back…But I felt he was hiding his trump card somewhere. Can’t account for that now.. I gritted my teeth as I ran one final lap then jumped. I hurled my body towards Oden at maximum speed as I felt the entirety of the stadium floor lift up in my wake. A huge, flat floor of marble reaching all the way towards the sky flew up towards me and I blasted right through it. Oden repelled the giant marble pieces flying towards him as he himself leapt gracefully through the air. He seemingly repelled off of the ground as he dodged the cascade of falling marble boulders. I ran along the falling slabs of marble as my eyes hyper focused on him. A huge, falling shower of marble separated us as Oden kept retreating back.

There was no space below me to run. We were hundreds of meters in the air, and Geon wasn’t there for aerial support…. Ah, screw it. I kicked it up a notch and blasted into a full sprint. I ran upside down on the falling slab of marble as I felt my feet touch the giant, falling marble floor for impossibly short amounts of time. I ran through falling meteor showers, jumped across cracks forming in the falling slabs, and finally broke through…Oden’s perfect face filled with shock as I leapt off of the giant marble floor–shattering it completely. I closed the gap between us in an instant, and put on my best bloody, beaten, and bruised smile. Oden instinctively prepared to push me back as he held out his hands for one very last push. I clenched my teeth and felt my body buzz with lightning. Electrical red lighting adorned my body as knight-like armor, made from bolts of energy, coated my arms and legs. Electricity danced along my very nerves and I felt my body transcend. I had used this armor against Geon and it had worked….. If this could work against Geon it had to work against this motherfucker…. I could see everything, anything, I felt so free. Everything around me froze as I took a good look at Oden’s face. It was filled with something that could be described as a repressed panic. His eyes were hyper focused as he slowly started to put his hands together. I opened my eyes. In this form, my opponent’s close future, their next immediate actions, were like my current present. I existed in a different plane of time–I was so fast that I skipped time. It was comparable to being a comic book character, and getting placed two panels ahead of the rest of the story. I could see all the possible actions Oden was going to take. Every single one played through my eyes as I saw multiple scenes of me and Oden’s battle. I let out a little chuckle. “You’re a tough son of bitch.” I leapt over him and hit him square in the back with a punch as everything unfroze. Oden’s blast hit nothing as my strike connected with his spine.

I heard a loud crunch as Oden was fired into the ground at incredible speeds. I flew towards the ground as I felt all the strength sap out of my body. That form of mine was a one time thing–my mind and body couldn’t handle it. I hit the ground with a loud thud as I felt some of my ribs instantly crack on impact. I slid to a halt as a piece of cold rubble stopped me. I heard the shouts of Aurora in the distance as I started to close my eyes. I sighed. I miss when winning was easy….now I have to kill myself to win… I let out a painful laugh as I heard Aurora shout some more. I looked up and realized that Aurora wasn’t in the distance–she was right here. I looked up at her as she tried to shake me awake. “Savain! Savian! Hey, wake up! Lila’s down and Geon is going crazy, we need you!” I got up and instantly felt a hard pang in my ribs. Aurora noticed and she cringed. “Broken ribs, back, probably a torn something somewhere…How has your screen not shattered?”

I smiled. “Because I’m like your little boyfriend, I somehow always find a way to not die.” She grabbed me and pulled me up.

“Shut up before I break another one of your ribs.” She dragged me across the battlefield as we saw Geon standing over two of the other Melville warriors.The idiot had taken out two people, and had fully finished one. Aurora smiled wildly as she rushed me and him towards Geon. “GEON! YOU BEAUTIFUL IDIOT! YES! As far as we know it’s a four on two! Yes! Yes! Ye—“

Geon’s face filled with horror as he looked us in the eyes.

“GET BACK! GE—“ A huge roar erupted in my ears as an impossible amount of water erupted at my feet.