Unfortunately, Sabrina was faster and within seconds was on Katie’s heels again. Katie ran as fast as she could. Something else hit her head but Katie kept her balance this time.
Katie leaped over large chunks of boulders that had collapsed from one of the buildings. She nearly lost her footing when she landed but managed to keep at a quick pace. Sabrina lunged over the rocks as well, though she flew through the air precisely and lightly touched on the ground with her feet and kept chasing after Katie.
While she ran, dashing between houses and trees, Katie splashed into several puddles of mud and struck back the water towards Sabrina. Along with dodging the jets of fire that flew towards her, Katie had hoped that something would hit Sabrina, but Sabrina was too good for that.
Katie turned a corner and before she could skid to a stop, she physically ran into three of Nayara’s soldiers. Katie shrieked as she felt her weight slam into their muscled bodies. The soldiers threw Katie back to the ground. Katie tried scrambling up while the soldiers drew nearer.
“Leave her, she’s mine!” commanded Sabrina. The soldiers looked up and stopped dead, almost petrified at the sight of Sabrina. She glared at them. Though inaudible, Katie was sure the soldiers were saying words of obedience as they walked away.
Katie felt Sabrina’s foot slam into her cheek and she hit the ground, face first. Sabrina placed her foot against Katie’s face, pinning her between her foot and the ground. Katie knew that this was it. Sabrina had won.
Blindly and as a last resort, Katie threw her hands into the air quite suddenly, willing for something to happen. She heard Sabrina’s screams and felt the pressure of her foot disappear before looking up to see.
Ropes of crystal-clear water were binding themselves around Sabrina like an anaconda readying to devour its prey. Sabrina thrashed about, trying to free herself but to no avail. Sabrina released thin rapiers made from her nails but couldn’t control them and they shattered to the ground.
Sabrina screamed in frustration and pain.
Katie looked at her hands and back at Sabrina. She didn’t know how she did it, or how she was controlling it, but she was thankful for the timing. Katie left Sabrina there and ran through the city towards the river.
Tyson and Koran heard someone behind them, but before they could turn around they felt their collars yanked back and were thrown to the ground. Koran rolled onto his back and looked up to see a young man with dark hair.
Tyson got to his feet. He saw the man walking towards Koran, who was on the ground, slowly crawling backward. He made a motion to strike the man in the head, but the man was too fast and without warning, Tyson was punched in the jaw.
Koran got to his feet and attempted to kick the man in his ribs but one again the dark-haired guy was too quick and deflected Koran’s move.
At that moment, Koran got a good look at the man. He knew who it was. It was Ariah. Koran howled in anger and shot his hands into the air. Wispy shadows soared in the air, creating a wind of about twenty miles per hour. Leaves billowed in the air and struck at Ariah.
Ariah swept his hands to block them, but the leaves were razor-sharp and sliced through his palms. Tyson moved beside Koran. The leaves died away, along with the wind.
Looking pissed off, Ariah held out his arms and cannons of water blasted towards Tyson and Koran. Instead of blasting them back, when the water made contact, it instantly froze, freezing most of their bodies. Ariah stepped closer to them, eyes narrowed.
Koran closed his eyes and breathed in deeply. Fire flared out of his hands while steam poured out of his body. The ice melted quickly, freeing not only him but Tyson as well.
Ariah ran at them and swung a punch at Koran who ducked and busted Ariah in the head. Koran punched Ariah again, this time in the stomach. Ariah flinched and grunted for a second, in which Koran landed an uppercut on his chin.
Roaring in pain, Ariah blindly swung a punch at Koran but missed. Koran retaliated, but shards of rock flew up into his face. Koran stumbled back and put his hands up to cover his eyes.
Tyson aimed a kick at Ariah, but Ariah caught his foot and threw Tyson into a bush with prickly leaves.
While Koran shielded his face from the rock shards, Ariah grabbed his hands and punched every part of Koran that he could find.
Wildly, Koran swung out his arms, trying to defend himself. Even with the occasional contact, Koran failed to land a proper blow and Ariah relentlessly pummeled Koran.
Tyson flailed, screaming in pain as the thorns cut countless parts of his body. His shirt became torn. When Tyson managed to free himself from the bush, he had blood oozing through the multitude of wounds across his torso.
Katie ran as fast as she could to put as much distance as possible between herself and Sabrina before she could manage to break free. She knew she didn’t have much time when she heard Sabrina shout “bitch!” and could feel her rush towards her.
She kept running. Nothing stopped her. Katie knew that she had bought herself more time, even if it was just a few seconds. While she tore through the city, Katie could see the destruction that Nayara had caused. Nearly all the structures had collapsed, fires still raged on and the few citizens that were left desperately tried to hide from Nayara’s army.
Katie cut around the debris of buildings. She leaped
