Aayla's Secondary Magic Training [Private]

"A hunter..."

She said out loud before she could even catch her own words. She blinked in confusion at what she had said, but as the small girl attacked the mages, she could see the flash of those blue eyes... the hons she had seen in the image before were there now two, and in flashes, the image came clearer and clearer as she watched her younger self fight for her life.

"I... She's a Sea Serpent... she's so scared and angry that she's striking out at everyone who hurt her... but she's not evil though... no. She's a hunter of Dark Mages... she'll keep getting stronger so that she never lets something like that happen again..."
Once she finished her description she opened her eyes with a look of bewilderment, silent tears still trickling down the side of her face as the thoughts played over and over again in her mind.

"She's got blueish green scales, blue eyes and horns on her head, fins pushing her hair back to look like a mane... great big wings with claws at their tips and talons much sharper than mine..."
She could feel her throat clench as she gave the description, bringing her hand up to wipe the tears from her eyes as she took in another long and deep breath. How did she find the image of this Serpent? She still wasn't 100% sure... but she felt as if this was something she had seen before, something she had been before...

"That's it!" He was completely satisfied with the picture that she explained to him of the Sea Serpent. He wasn't in her thoughts, but he could picture it himself as if it were a painting in front of him. If she could describe it that clearly, then it must have been right before her eyes. "Keep your eyes closed for just a little bit longer." He took several step backs in front of her and took a deep breath himself. Here goes.

He stabbed the sheathed blade he carried in his hand into the sand because he didn't need it in order to do the next step. "Remember, keep your eyes closed and your thougts focused!" As he said that, five glowing magic circles appeared on different parts of his body. There was one at the bottom of his feet, one on his head, one on his waist, and two on each of his fingertips. All five magic circles moved up his body, with each of them ending at his neck, waist, head, and shoulders. After each of the magic circles moved, they all shattered like glass. What was left standing was the full body version of his Black Devil form.

He placed his hand on Aalya's forehead, which was made up of his scales and razor-sharp claws, so it must have felt completely different to her. "Now, you will enter the world in which this Sea Serpent lives in. You must tame it by defeating it." As he said this, his hand was focusing Magic Energy inside of her mind so that she would lose her awareness in reality and be transported to the world of the beast within her so she could fight it and tame it herself.

“Okay…”
She said lightly as she brought her hands back down to her knees and closed her eyes once more. She took in a deep breath as she had done earlier and this time, she could more easily the form of her younger self as this Sea Serpent, lashing out at the dark wizards that had destroyed her family. She listened to the man’s words, she could hear and smell the hum of magic being used, but she didn’t moved, she stayed seated until she heard him walking over to her. His hand was placed against her forehead and she smiled lightly. Although Hdrianna’s claws had been much much bigger, the sensation wasn’t strange to her, in fact, it was quite familiar and she seemed to relax even more as he began to focus his magic into her mind.
 
She suddenly felt very sleepy, her posture relaxing and even slouching slightly as her mind began to wander once more, returning to it’s most recent brought up memory, her fight against the Dark Wizards. It was strange, she was standing in her old village again, but this time was different… she could smell the fires burning down the small houses of the town, she could smell the putrid stench of the blood that stained the ground and leaked from her villagers bodies. There was smoke rising up from everywhere in town, people screaming, crying and fighting for their lives… there were even two dogs running about that looked as if their own flesh was decaying from their bodies.

She walked out from the alleyway she was in, peering out into the village square where a few dark wizards had gathered around the dingle fountain that stood there. There was the form of a water dragon in the middle of the  fountain which normally over flowed with beautiful sea water, but was now cracked, broken and seemed itself to be bleeding with the blood of the villagers.

“NO! MOMMY!”

She heard a small girl cry from the front of the fountain and her eyes instantly shifted to the small girls form. Her blue hair and blue eyes were  unmistakeable… for the second time today, she was playing through her memories of the past. She couldn’t see this without crying… every time she watched her parents die, she would begin to cry. One of the dark mages stepped forward, kicking her father in the face, causing him to crumple over before the dark mage plunged his spear across his neck. Ending his life…

"DADDY! NO NO NO NOOO"
This is where she saw her younger self lose control. She grabbed the spear imbedded into her mothers abdomen and was quick to put it through another mages chest, pulling it out quickly before trying to kill the next dark mage…
 
“S… Stop it… it won’t help you..!”

Aayla ran towards her smaller figure, knowing her presence in her memory would change nothing, her words wouldn’t affect the young girls decision but she felt as if she had to do something. She watched as the young girls form began to change, magic circles appearing over her body as she delved deeply into her takeover magic.

“You have to stop this it wont…”
She stopped dead, staring at the form she had earlier described… she had performed a full body takeover, and the young girl turned Serpent’s blue eyes suddenly landed on her form, causing her eyes to go wide in surprise as her younger self turned to face the only mage standing in her way now… her.
 
“You can see me..?”
She asked in bewilderment, getting no answer from the young girl who launched herself from her position, spear still in hand as she cried out, and even roared at the Water Dragon Slayer.
 
“Wait… Stop! Aayla listen to me!”
Aayla protested but her younger self never did. She was going to kill every single dark mage that had caused her so much pain. She stabbed and stabbed and stabbed at Aayla, even turning herself around and using her tail to reach past Aayla’s defenses and hit her in the face.

“SHUT UP! IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT! JUST SHUT UP AND DIE”
The young girl cried out, giving Aayla no chance to react before she threw herself at the girl once more. Aayla had barely enough time to bring her hand up to her cheek where she had been hit, the physical damage not hurting her water body but she had felt it… what was happening… she could feel pain? She had to react… she had to beat this beast to claim it… but how could she cause her younger self any more suffering?

Tears continued to roll down her eyes as Aayla leaped backwards, placing enough distance between herself and her younger self before bringing her hands up to her mouth, a magic circle appearing there.
 
“Water Dragon’s Roar!”
She cried out, intending to intentionally miss her younger self by aiming just in front of her, to slow her attacks down. However, the young girl wasn’t paying any attention to any harm that might befall her, she ran right into the water Dragon’s roar which knocked her off her feet and caused her to slide all the way back to the fountain in the middle of town.
 
“Aayla please listen… I’m not a dark wizard! I’m y… I’m you’re friend Aayla!”
The young girl would never believe her if she told her the truth… she was in a blind rage, and she doubted anything she told her would get through to the young girl. Especially when the young girl opened her eyes and found the body of her dead mother right next to her once more, her body soaked in her blood, causing her to cry out in anguish once more. The young girl pushed herself up to her feet, extending her arms in front of her. With another cry, she swiped at the air, large blades of water were created and launched towards the Water Dragon Slayer.


Aayla didn’t even have to dodge the young girl’s attacks… she opened her mouth and ate the  blades of water that were aimed at her. She frowned at the small girl as Aayla ran towards her, eating blade after blade of water, even dodging a rock that was thrown at her by letting it pass through her water body.

“LEAVE ME ALONE! NO STOP GO AWAY! “
The young girl screamed at her but Aayla ran right up to her and grabbed on tightly to the front of her shirt. The young girl screamed in fright, clawing at Aayla’s water body, desperate to get the older girl away from her, fearing for her own life whenever Aayla brought the creature against her, wrapping her arms tightly around her younger self.

“Aayla… Aayla shh… I know this is hard…”
The dragon slayer stated, tears still rolling down her own eyes, her throat already hurting from trying not to sob herself. She held her younger self tightly as she muttered a new spell.
 
“Water Lock”
She said as a water bubble began to form around the pair of girls. The younger girl looked up to her elder in shock. She didn’t know what she was up too… but her attacks were completely useless. She tried and tried to cut her, to kill her… time and time again her tail pierced the girls body but she didn’t seem to feel it. Even now, the young girl tried to fly away, only to find herself and the older girl locked in the bubble of water.

“LET ME GO! YOU KILLED THEM! IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU’RE FAULT! I’LL KILL YOU ALL”
The creature continued to yell, even in the water. Aayla just continued to hug her tightly, her tears disappearing into the bubble of water.
 
“I know it is… I wasn’t strong enough to protect them…. Shh… it’s ok little Aayla… trust me… You’ll grow stronger… you’ll get to fight every last one of them… you’ll protect your friends and your new family… I promise… it will be ok…”
She told the young girl turned Serpent who shook her head angrily, crying out again as she bashed her head into Aaylas shoulder, clutching her tightly and digging her claws into the watery flesh.

“I don’t want a new family! I don’t need friends…! I just… I want them back… Mommy… Daddy… Cirven… I want them all back…”
The girl wailed again and again as Aayla held her against her body, gently brushing the girls hair and keeping them both locked in the water as long as it took to calm the young Serpent down enough to stop her thrashing.

“You’re a strong hunter… you’re an amazing wizard Aayla… just… have faith in yourself… have faith in your friends… you’ll get there…”
She said as she continued to try and soothe the young Serpent, pulling a small trick out of Kiersa’s book and leaning back, kissing the Serpents forehead gently to help her calm down. This had never actually happened to her… and no, her memory soon continued to play itself out. A shorter mage with bleached white hair and a craze dlook on his face approached the pair, raising his hand towards the sky as he chanted his own spell.

“Lightning’s wrath!”
He cried out, a lightning bolt came crashing down from the dark sky, crashing directly into the water lock spell, causing both girls to scream out in pain as they held each other tighter. The water lock broke and both girls fell to the floor, both writhing in agony at the simple spell that coursed through both their bodies. Aayla refused to let the small girl though as the man continued to let loose lightning bolt after lightning bolt on them.
 
“What’s this crap? A little demon!? I didn’t know there was a demon here! OOOOH I bet the boss will LOVE having you as a pet! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE snakey snakey snakey!”
The crazed wizard called as he continued to shock them. Again and again the girls cried out, but Aayla refused to let her terror let her younger self get captured… as much as that was the reality of her past… she wouldn’t let her go…

In the ‘real world’ Aayla’s body shook and trembled lightly at the sensation of the lightning coursing through her body. Of course, it didn’t really hurt, but her mind was reacting to the events as if they were really happening to her.

Within her own mind, Aayla tried to focus on keeping her younger self safe from the attack, however, she soon found that the young girls eyes had narrowed dangerously into animal like slits,. The younger girl crawled her way out from underneath her protector, still kneeling down in front of her to stay out of the lightning’s reach as the young girl reached up and gently rested her claws against Aayla’s face, tears still streaming down her dangerous glaring eyes.

“Thank you… but… They’ll pay… I’ll h…hunt them all down… Thank you…”
She said, resting her scaley forehead again hers, feeling the waves of electricity course through her body now before she pushed away from Aayla and stood to her feet, charging from her spot towards the lightning mage.

The white haired Dark Mage scowled at the sight of this beast, redirecting his lightning attacks from the normal looking girl, to the scaly looking demon. Again and again he fired off lightning like lances, and every time the lightning hit her scales and danced off of her body. She could feel every strike radiating through her body, it hurt, but she didn’t care… it didn’t hurt as bad as it did before.

“G…Get away! Bloody Demon! Just die!”
He made a circular motion with his arms, a magic circle appearing before his chest as lightning began to gather into a condensed orb, powering up as it got ready to fire at the young girl. Little Aayla never stopped in the face of this new attack, running straight up to face the dark wizard, bringing her arm forward,  her claws speeding forward to pierce the man in the chest while her tail came up at a wicked speed to stab him in the gut.

The man’s eyes grew wide in shock as the spell stopped, the lightning simply disappearing into nothing as the white haired mage slumped forward against his young attacker, his eyes as white as his hair as he fell lifeless. The real Aayla knew this man’s face, and knew this wasn’t how this memory ended, however, a sense of pride coursed through her at the sight of her younger self killing one of the men she had feared most in her life. She also watched however as the young girl stepped away from the body, blood dripping down her scales as she looked down on the mage without an ounce of pity in her gaze. She watched him bleed out, and only stepped away from the man once she was satisfied. She walked back towards Aayla, and with every step she took, the sight of the village behind her began to disappear into a white abyss. Soon, the girl and the Sea Serpent found themselves alone in a completely white world.

“Thank you… for finally finding me… for helping me face this past that has haunted me for so long… However. Aayla. I won't let you have me that easily. I have the soul of a proud Sea Serpent, one of the Ocean’s most feared hunters. If you want my soul…you will have to earn in.”
The little girl turned Serpent began to change before her very eyes, her small form growing and growing until the Sea Serpents body seemed to match her own (with a lot more bulk of course). The creatures earlier scrawny features filled out,  her scales becoming much more prominent, her tail got much much longer, her arms and legs looked much more muscular now, looking as if this creature had trained them her whole life. Her wings grew as well, and as she snapped them open to flex them, you could see the beautiful, water like detail on them. The thing that caught her attention the most however, was the hunters eyes… They remained slid as they had been when young Aayla had grown angry… they were animalistic… primal, and terrifying. However, Aayla couldn’t help but smile at the creature and extend her hand to the Serpent Hunter.

“Alright. If I have to earn it, I’ll show you everything I can do, and I wont hold back.”
She stated calmly, the Serpent smirking and taking Aayla’s hand as she shook it before stepping backwards away from the girl.  The scene around them changed once more, the white quickly turning to blues and greens, the sun re-appearing in the sky high above. Soon, Aayla felt herself become weightless as the two found themselves in her memory of the ocean. A fitting battleground between  the Sea Serpent Hunter, and the Water Dragon Slayer.

Neither waited for the scene to fill out before attacking the other, Aayla bringing her hands forward and casting her Water Dragon’s Roar,  and The Serpent bringing her own hands forward, launching scales from her own body at the girl. Both attacks met one another between the two combatants, the scales so small and agile that they sailed straight through the Dragon’s roar. Likewise, the roar was so big and powerful, it wasn’t stopped by such a small attack and sailed straight into the Hunter, while the scales shot straight into Aayla’s chest.

They both winced as they reeled from the attack, Aayla struggling to pick the scales out of her body as the Hunter didn’t waste time before charging towards the young girl much in the same way she had charged the memory of the dark Wizard.

Having only managed to remove one of the scales, Aayla had to leave the other two be as she noted her opponent charging at her. Once more, she put her hands before her before calling onto her next Spell.

“Water Lock!”
Against a Sea Serpent, this spell wouldn’t do half the damage it normally would, but it would immobilize the Serpent long enough for Aayla to begin changing the Temperature of the water within the bubble. The hunter was a Reptile, and therefore loved the heat, and hated the cold… and so, Aayla quickly put her hands on the water lock and began to drop the temperature of the contained water.  Quickly cooling down the water lock. She could visibly see the Serpent slow down, but it didn’t look like the Hunter was about to let herself be beaten there. The Hunter curled into herself, a green tinted water forming about her body. When she finally opened up her body, spreading her arms and legs wide, the green water shot forward at the bubble containing her, shattering the cage and releasing the freezing water into the ocean, where the sun began to regulate the Temperature back to normal.

“Water Dragon’s claws”
Aayla intoned as the water created claws and talons of her own. She charged forward at the Sea Serpent, and began to use her new found claws to hack and slash at the Hunter. The Hunter only smirked, and she followed in kind, using her own claws and talons to turn this into a fist fight. Aayla was easily at a disadvantage however, as the Hunter had protective scales to keep her from feeling the full damage of the claws… and therefore, with every strike Aayla attempted to find weak spots in the Sea Serpents scaled armor.

The blue water around them quickly started to turn red as their claws scraped into each others skin, Aayla starting to strike upwards to get under the Serpents scales, while the Serpent didn’t have to try so hard to make her opponent bleed.

Aayla finally landed another hit to the Hunters chest, bringing her feet up and kicking off against her stomach to push herself away from her opponent before extending her arms to either side of her body.

“Water Dragon’s Typhoon”
She intoned next, water began to swirl around her hands, gathering into two glowing bubbles of water that she brought up above her head. The Hunter however didn’t plan on giving her enough time to cast her spell. She burst forward at an incredible speed towards Aayla, her claws at the ready to strike into the girls chest.  The Hunters claws sank deeply into Aayla’s chest, moments before Aayla could bring down her arms and cast her spell.

Aayla gasped, swallowing hard as her eyes locked onto the Hunters. It felt absolutely awful to have someone’s hand in your body, however, she didn’t stop. She brought her hands forward directly into the hunters face and released the Typhoon of water at close range. The pressure pushed Aayla backwards away from the Hunter, while the wave and sharp blades of the Typhoon tore into the Serpents face, knocking her far away from Aayla.

Aayla brought her hand up to her chest, placing her hand over the wound with a groan. She had exhausted most of her magic energy in that attack, and now felt even worse with such a critical injury. She gulped before opening her mouth as she began to eat the ocean’s water around her, bit by bit restoring her magic energy until she once more had enough energy to feel better. 

As her magic restored, she kept her eyes on the hunter who had completely stopped moving. She was floating on her back, her arms and legs limp as she slowly began to sink deeper and deeper into the Ocean.

With a pained groan, Aayla swam forward as best she could, catching the Serpents falling body and holding her so that she didn’t continue to sink. Those blue slit eyes slowly turned to look at the girl that had caught her, a small laugh escaping her lips as she remained motionless.

“You…win…”
The Serpent groaned softly, closing her wild blue eyes as once more, everything around them began to fade.

As the world around Aayla began to fade, both her and Deniel were slowly drawn back into reality. The entire time he had to make sure that his hand stayed on her forehead so she would stay within her own world and defeat her inner beast. The only thing he could do was hope she was successful. The fact that he could now open his eyes and see her sitting there before him meant that he was right. He was still in his black scaled demon form, since her training still wasn't over yet. With a growl, he removed his hand from her forehead. "Wake up, Aayla!" His voice was much more fierce and and full of rage while he was in the form. "The next part of your training begins now. Now, let me explain the next part and a bit of background behind it. Watch." He dropped down to his knees and used the claws on his hand to draw some pictures in the sand. One picture was a stick figure, and then there were two lines coming from it going in the same direction. Then, the two lines spit off to go separate ways, there they ended in circles. In one circle, Deniel labeled it, "Magic." "I'm sure your aware that all mages have a limited power of magic that takes time to be restored. If they use it up too quickly, their bodies will suffer for it. However, when it comes to Take Over, we use a separate energy source than our magic power."

His finger drew the words "Take Over Energy" in the second circle that came off of the person's body. And then, he connected the two circles with one line. "This is the energy we use to transform our bodies into the creatures that lie within us. However, it is our Magic Power that lets use harness the magic in these creatures. The next part of the training is to awaken that Take Over Energy within you. However, since you probably didn't know it existed, it will be hard to track it down. That is why I ask you to do this," he quickly erased the circle of magic power in the drawing of the sand and then stood up. He took several paces away from her, and then held both of his arms out wide. "Drain every last drop of your Magic Power on me. Don't be afraid to hold back, I'll be fine. This form can take a lot of punishment. Make sure you have absolutely not magic power left. Then, I'll explain everything else from there. Now do it!"

She felt a sudden jolt course through her body as Decayuss removed his hand from her forehead. Her yes snapped open and she  she gasped slightly at the sensation. She blinked quickly several times to get her bearings, the sound of the ocean rocking against the shore slowly started bringing her thoughts back to what was happening here and now.

Aayla looked up to Decayuss in his new form and had to admit she was caught off guard. The scales she had felt, the claws... they didn't lead her to imagine this. For a moment, she grew slightly afraid of what she saw, but then shook her head and leaned forward to watch what he was drawing in the sand. She couldn't be afraid of him, she was aiming to be a little bit more like him after-all.

She listened intently to his explanation, nodding every now and then as he pointed out the difference between magic, and this secondary magic. It wasn't totally strange to her, as Hydrianna had attempt to teach her a similar concept to attain dragon force.

"I think I get it... wait... y...you want me to attack you..."
She paused as she looked up to him questioningly, watching as he stepped a fair distance away from her and readied himself for her onslaught. She gulped nervously before pushing herself up to her feet and taking a few steps back. She knew of one quick, sure fire way to deplete her magic energy... this spell always really took it out of her until she could find a source of water to replenish herself... that was going to be another issue, with such a huge body of water nearby, how could the young dragon slayer not subconsciously try to bring her magic power back.

"Alright... here I go..."
She took a deep breath to keep her thoughts focused on the here and now. Trying not to think of all the what ifs, or things she could do to bring her magic power back up... she had to let it deplete on it's own.

She spread her arms to both sides of her body, closing her eyes just as water began to form around her hands.  The water spun and crashed around her hands in a circle, creating two bubbles that looked like raging rapids. She kept her eyes closed as she focused more and more energy into the swirling balls of water. She had to put as much magic energy into it as she could, bring her magic energy to the barest minimum. She concentrated, and pushed more and more magic energy into the attack before bringing boh hands up above her head.

The water bubbles connected, the raging water crashing against itself angrily as they merged, creating one large, menacing looking torrent of water.

"Water Dragon's Typhoon!"
She cried out finally as she threw her hands down in front of her. Even on the way down, the water continued to grow more and more until it reached the size of a 2m wave. The wave went crashing towards her teacher, breaking off into 3 large blades of water, each reaching 3m in length.

After fuelling that attack with so much energy, Aayla felt completely exhausted, however, she could still stand, she could still feel her magic energy slowly returning to her thanks to her guild crest. She took another deep breath, and immediately pushed into another, final attack, putting as much pwoer as she could into her most classic spell.

"Water Dragon's ROAR"
Her hands moved up in front of her mouth now, a magic circle appearing there as she released a large, powerful jet of water that would go crashing towards the Nephalem from behind her earlier spell.

At this point, she was panting very heavily, having to crouch down onto one knee and resting her arm against it as she attempted to catch her breath.

"Heheheheheheh." His sharp fangs created a smile, but much more of an evil smirk across his face. He held his head low, and kept both of his arms out. With his head down, he still looked up from the very top of his eyes to see what she was doing. Upon seeing her charge up a spell, the wings on his back reacted with their natural reflex. The strip of scales over them lifted itself up, and the beetle-like wings started to rattle and flap themselves. Every time his body was in danger of harm, they would always do that. "I hate bugs-." Right when he finished his statement, he was hit with a torrent and wave of water. He could feel it stinging the scales on himself, but it wasn't nearly enough to make him flinch, or even move from his spot. He stood absolutely still where he was standing, not budging an inch. Not even the blades were enough to make him give away. While he was in his demon form, he had a huge tolerance to pain. And this, was nothing. Not only that, but pain also fueled him and gave him strength. "COME ON! MORE!" Shortly after the first spell, he got exactly what he was asking for. More water came at him, this time in a very powerful jet that covered up his hole body. Even then, it still didn't have enough strength to move him.

Once her two spells were over, he was still standing strong. His body stung and hurt in certain places. He could still sense some magic energy within her. It wasn't enough, she had to drain it all. "Keep going!" He lowered his arms and spoke much harsher and demanding than he did before. It wasn't just his demon form affecting his emotions, he really meant it. "You're not done yet! You still have some magic in you. DRAIN! EVERY! LAST! DROP! HIT ME AGAIN!" He raised his arms out once again and looked straight at her this time. He no longer had the amused smirk on his face, it was now more like he was completely pissed off at her.

She listened to him yell at her, wincing as he did so, her eyes quickly darting to the ground in front of her. How could sh muster up any more magic energy to attack him? The water Dragon Typhoon alone took a lot of magic energy out of he, then followed by a water dragon's roar was more than strenuous. She continued to pant heavily, licking her lips lightly as she forced herself to look away from the water splashing up against the shore and looking up to the man standing before her. How strong was he really..? He could take those two attacks without even flinching, the only thing that seemed to move were his wings, and that was even before she attacked.

From her kneeling position, Aayla clenched her small hand into a fist while the other pushed up against her knee, forcing the girl shakily back up to her feet. One deep breath after another to steady herself, Aayla could once more hear the wave splashing against the shore, and the sound did give her an idea...

She did have a spell she could use with such limited magic power available... She extended her hands to both sides of her body once more.  Deep Breaths.... and began to channel her remaining magic energy into the spell. She closed her eyes as she did channel the attack, listening to the sounds of the ocean waves beat against the sandy beach, and listening to the memory of her mothers voice instruct her in the ways of the dragon slayer. She would go against most of her mothers teaching by pushing herself this far, by not eating the water that was so abundantly available.

"Water Dragon's..."
Her right hand swiped over in front of her, seeming to drag a very large wave out of the ocean itself to come crashing into her teacher.

"WAVE"
She finished chanting as her left hand then followed her right, creating a secondary wave that came slamming into the opposit side of the Nephalem standing before her.

Deep breath

Both hands went to the side of her body, and with a determined cry, she cast the spell a second time, barraging the demonic looking figure with wave after wave of the water dragon's wave. Casting it another two times before Aayla sank down into the sand once more. This time, she fell down on both knees, panting heavily as her arms hung limply at her side. She had to push herself up and do it one more time... he wanted everthing, he wanted her left with nothing...

She tried to stand up once more, only to end up landing face first in the sand.

She was taking a long time to get up, but he wasn't surprised at all about it. His wings, no longer sensing danger to his body, stopped rattling themselves and stood still just like they were before. The pieces of his scales had also lowered themselves along with the wings. All he was doing was holding his arms out to her, awaiting her next move. He watched her stand, slowly but surely. His clawed fingers clenched themselves and moved in regular patterns. He wanted to keep his arms out open to her to show he was capable of taking whatever she threw at him. Moments after she got to her feet, he could tell by the way her body moved and the rise in her magical energy she was channeling something. The smirk showing his fangs appeared on his face once again. His body was ready for her next attack, no matter what it was. And judging by her condition, it probably wasn't going to be that strong anyway. In a few moments, he judgment was proven to be correct. One after another, several waves had come crashing straight into him from both directions. He was built for durability, made to tolerate pain, and this didn't even make him close to breaking.

He got a hunch that this was the most she could do. It wasn't bad, in fact he was somewhat impressed she was still able to go by his request and do more spells. Upon seeing the last wave, he lowered his arms, and walked straight through it. He walked through it as if it weren't even there, to show just how much it didn't faze him. I pray for your safety, Aalya. If you don't pass this part, you'll die. Of course he didn't say that aloud to her. She needed to figure this last part out, her life depended on it. He approached her, laying face-down in the ground. With a sudden movement, he grabbed on to her by the hair and lifted her up at eye-level view. Everything that came out his mouth next was a lie, but it was for the best: "You should know better to trust a stranger. You trusted your whole life in my hands, and that will be the last mistake you will make. Without your magic, you can't even move. And now you pay the ultimate price: Death!"

He tensed up his fingers to sharpen up his claws a bit, and then started to smack her face repeatedly with his hands. Not only was he smacking her, but every time he did, his claws would scratch a portion of her face.

Aayla was trying to breathe properly without inhaling the sand in which she lay in now. It was difficult, even just to move her head in such a way to get her face out of the sand. She had never felt so exhausted in her life… even during her encounter with the king of black dragons,  Zargan. Aayla had never ever felt so drained… helpless yes… but never this physically and mentally tired.

It wasn’t until her teacher grabbed a fist full of her long, beautiful blue hair that her thoughts returned to what was happening and shifted her thoughts away from her exhaustion. What was he doing? Surely there was a better way to get her attention than to be so rough with her. It wasn’t until her head was pulled up enough to see his face, did fear cross her heart and her face.


She had made a huge mistake… one that he was gracious enough to point out. She had trusted a complete stranger, someone who easily could have been out to kill her, much like the dark mages that hunted her. As he spoke, she quickly began to assume he was one of them, the demonic look of his smile, his teeth and even just his body, caused her to grit her teeth and attempt to shift away from him.

Small tears began to form in her eyes as she opened her mouth to speak, only for her face to be greeted by a clawed hand slashing across her face. Only a single claw managed to pass through her water body, the rest clawing at her flesh, and easily drawing blood.
 
She had no magical energy to maintain her own water body… he would seriously be able to tear her apart! Another slash of his claws came swiping across her face, causing the young girl to cry out in pain, closing her eyes as she reached up weakly to the hair he was holding onto.  She attempted to struggle against him, to try and pull his hand off of her but it did little more than weakly press against his scales, her knees barely able to get any traction in the sand to push herself away.
 
Why had she been so stupid… why had she trusted him! She had absolutely no reason to believe anything he said other than the simple fact that she wanted to believe him… she wanted to believe what he told her… wanted to believe that someone could show her enough kindness to help her become strong and that not everyone outside her own guild was cruel and filled with hate…
 

She finally opened her panicked eyes again, gritting her teeth as she glared up at Deniel. She even growled as she continued to will strength into her weak little hands to pull him hands away from her.

“H…How c…could you… I tr…trusted you… you…”
Another swipe came down onto her face, causing another cy of pain to escape her lips as blood poured down from every wound, dripping down onto the beautiful white sand in between them.  The blood even began to pour down into her eyes, blurring her vision until all she could see was red.
 
She continued to panic as she struggled, her thoughts far away from what the two had done together to find the spirit of the Sea Serpent inside her.  She was frightened out of her mind, she was absolutely helpless without magic… It seemed even Zinnath would do nothing to help her.

The large Sea Serpent seemed to be hissing angrily at Deniel, however she didn’t move to oppose him… She spread out her large wings to either side of her body, rearing her head back only preparing herself to scoop up her friend and fly off if this training exercise turned out to really be bad…
 
“Z…Zinn…inny…”
Aayla said through blood and tears as she tried to escape. As she called to her friend however, she began to pause. Her faint struggles again Deniel slowly came to a stop as a sudden realization crossed her mind. Zinnath! The Sea Serpent! What would her hunters spirit do in this situation? For the moment she wasn’t the hunter, she was the hunted… and a sudden burning desire to have that change rose inside of her.
 

She didn't really realize what she was doing at this point, as she continued to will strength into her hands to free herself, that will, the channeling of strength soon seemed to start working! Scales began to appear on her arms, covering them up to her elbows, her hands and fingers began to shift and change, elongating into scaly claws. She was quick to try and sig those claws into her attackers hands, attempting to pierce his own scales and cause just enough pain to get herself free from his grip.

After the first blow struck to her face, Deniel only raised his hand to strike her again. He watched the blood pour from her face, only to strike her again. He wasn't putting too much effort into his attacks, since if he put all of his effort in, he would most likely severely damage her. What he was doing was enough.

“H…How c…could you… I tr…trusted you… you…”

The words struck him like lightning, and he felt a rush of guilt come through him. What he was doing was cruel, and anyone who would have done it would be hated by him. He didn't want to do this, but it was the only way to get her Take Over to awaken. It never just happened, it had to be triggered by danger and emotion, just like his was. So instead of stopping, he kept his act up. "Because you're nothing more than a foolish little girl, who won't live long enough to learn what true wisdom and power are."

He raised his claw and struck her face once again. He was really starting to hope she would actually do something about this. Just a few more blows, and he could do something that would scar her for life, or even worse, kill her. After he raised his claw to strike her once again, he felt something around his arm. He looked down to see that his plan was actually working! Her arms were turning into scales, similar to one that would resemble a sea serpent. Still, it was only her arms. She needed to active more. She needed to do a Full Body Take Over. And in order to do that, he was going to need to put her into even more danger.

As a last resort, he lowered his claw hand and put her in the most danger possible. He placed his hand right on her chest, and slowly made his claws dig into her flesh: I'l rip your heart from your chest!"

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She felt the resistance of his scales hit her claws and was surprised to find that the pressure was much different than if she had been pressing down with her bare fingers. She glanced up just in time to see the scales running up her arms before a sudden pain in her chest distracted her, causing her to focus once more on Deniel. She looked at him with anger in her blood stained eyes as she gripped onto his hands tighter, using the sudden strength she had to use him as a steady support point. 

She was suddenly able to plant her knees firmly into the sand, giving her a decent sense of balance before letting go of the hand holding her hair, and attempting to dig her claws into the hand attempting to tear out her heart.

“No… I…w…won’t… won’t lose… I’m a… a Dragon slayer… with the heart... o...of a Serpent H...Hunter..."
She grit her teeth tightly  as she attempted to pull him away from her, at least long enough to stop, whatever was happening to her, to finish up. The outfit she had been wearing seemed to suddenly vanish in a brilliant blue light, leaving behind scaled armor to cover up her more sensitive areas. Jagged armor seemed to expand fron her elbows, shoulders and legs, quickly changing her young human body, to that of an angry, full grown Sea Serpent. Her transformation didn't stop with that however, as her life was still faced with a dangerous end. From her tail bone, a long scailed tail appeared in a secondary flash of light, and a third flash revealed two long, bony wings spread out widely behind her.

With her eyes still narrowed angrily on Deniel, she attempted to move the new masses she could feel and flung her tail towards his head, aiming to cut right into his neck with the pointed talons that adorned the end of it.

"Maybe... maybe this was a ... a trick... but you... you helped me... helped me see who and what I was..."
She cried out, hoping that her sudden strike would have enough power to get her away from him.

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