The blue skinned demon jumped in surprise as a large section of her cell wall exploded inwards toward her. Timidly, she separated her wings from in front of her to view the small battle between the wolf wraith and the rabbit girl.

“Akira, help me out here! I’ll get you loose after this thing falls!”

The shadowy creature took another powerful swing at the novice air user, who barely had time to jump out of the way. Akira gathered up her feeble determination and focused on helping her new friend. If she didn’t do something soon, Wisp might get seriously injured.

The winged demon flicked her right hand before her, firing five ice shards at the back of the scythe wielding shadow. The instant the projectiles struck, the wraith blurred and dissipated slightly, its skeletal face turning to grin at her wickedly as it disappeared completely. Akira’s eyes widened as she realized that the ice shards were now headed strait for Wisp. The demon yelped and clenched her fist tightly, barely in time to shatter the ice shards and instead spray her new friend with mist and snow.

The air elemental was caught off guard slightly by the unexpected attack from Akira, and that was all the shadowy creature (who Akira could now see at the far corner of Wisps cell) needed to take the initiative. The giant scythe struck the ground where the teal clad girl had been standing a second before, the shear force of the attack sending her strait into the far wall with a painful sounding thump.

The cat demon flinched and looked sadly at the ground knowing full well that she had been the cause for her friend’s pain. How could she do anything to help now, when it could just backfire again and make things even worse? Wisp winced in pain as she looked up suddenly, making a small sound of surprise as the shadowy creature moved in for another attack.

So it hindered your vision a bit. You can one up that, cant you?

Akira’s sapphire eyes snapped up and she extended her hands before her, instantly filling the entire area in a thick, silvery blue, cold mist. A massive gust of floating ice particles pushed the assailant away from the rabbit girl. The wolf wraith growled and swung its powerful weapon, obliterating the stone floor before itself. Its piercing eyes scanned the area around it, but it obviously couldn’t make heads or tails of its location. Akira, however, could see the creature perfectly, or rather, could feel him through the thick shroud of ice that hung in the air.

The demon girl stood to her full height and walked towards the blinded foe. The black creature took another random swing with its massive scythe, coming within inches of hitting the winged demon, but Akira barely flinched.

The skeletal wolf craned its head around, finally able to see a dim form in the surrounding mist. An ear-piercing howl escaped its black throat as it lifted its wicked scythe in the air. At the same instant, the blue skinned girl stretched out her hand, commanding all the mist around them to condensed and solidified under her hand and blanketed over the wolf wraith, creating a two-foot layer of shimmering ice over its entire body.

The novice air user blinked at the seen before her, surprised at what the ice demon had done. Cracking and popping sounded as the ice started to give way under the black creature’s strength. Webs of cracks formed over the icy shell and the monsters red eyes glowed clearly through its surface.

“Wisp, brake it!” Akira called as she placed her other hand on the icy surface, instantly causing the ice prison to shimmer as all the cracks disappeared.

“Right!” Wisp looked around for a split second before leaping to a specific section of her cell wall and slapped her hand against the stone surface, creating a massive black spire that struck strait through the wolfs skull, grazed Akira’s boot, and impaled the second link in her shackle. The winged girl jumped back as the ice prison shattered completely, along with the black creature inside. Ice and shards of bone skidded everywhere across the ground as a shrieking howl emanated from the entire room and an ethereal black spirit lifted up from the scattered bones and flew strait up through the ceiling.

Akira stared wide eyed at what was left of her cell, surprised at herself for what she had done. Her shock was interrupted as someone tugged on her arm.

“Akira, com’on. We have to get out of here.”

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