Aether - Castle Vaash

Siah smiled to himself. Mika was good, she had confidence... a primal fear but alot of confidence.

"Mika, there relly isn't much more I can throw at you, you need to know that sometimes there is something worth fighting for... sometimes something worth dying for."

A pillar of intense fire surrounded Siah as he levitated higher, now 9 feet above the sword.
From the flames shot multiple fireballs, each one moving much faster than the last. Some not even moving in straight lines but of their own accord.

mika watched as he moved higher fire shooting at her she twisted and turned dodging each one, but to her surprise the returned twisting around her but she was fast moving quickly she ran behind a stone block all that remained of a stone man as one hit two remind she glanced to the glove sitting on the sword but she resisted instead picking up two pieces of stone throwing them each hit the fireballs and she moved to the pillar of fire.

Siah saw the hesitancy in Mika's expression. She would not use armour, she would not use weapons. Perhaps she had a good reason for such. Whatever that reason... flesh was all too easily harmed by steel.

More fireballs, moving so fast that barely a streak of orange could be seen. From the last remains of the golems grew one more... one last golem. Siah pummeled the golem with fire and weakened it severely. But despite this, the golem was now alight! It was a flaming rock! And it moved in on Mika along with the fireballs Siah was hurling.

Mika felt the heat from the stone man, the fire in the air spinning around her, she could see no way out, running at the wall she used it, running up it , sending two fireballs crashing into it, the third she dodged only to have it return.Quickly she ran sliding once again between the man's legs the fire ball hitting it, but as she slid she felt the heat against her skin. Her face now glistening with sweat as she stood back up behind the stone fiery man , the stone man swept at her with his arm she ducked , she saw no way out and her eyes fell to the glove , no, she thought, she had to keep to what she knew, the stone man lumbered towards her, as she moved around the large room she picked up speed so did the stone man, then with a twist she ran again at the wall this time she jumped twisting to one side as he hit sending hot rocks every where, but she was not fast enough one large rock smashed into her side burning her and she fell to the ground.

Siah smiled, Mika was not hurt at all. Without so much as a movement he lowered himself to the ground.

"All those fireballs were illusions. " Siah laughed aloud, " the golems were instructed to touch your arms and legs, not harm you as you thought."

The last golem had given Siah pause but he had full control of it and no harm could've befallen Mika under any circumstance.

"Mika, you've got skill and some natural talent. Perhaps you'll survive on that alone. Or perhaps I'll be animating your corpse after the first battle of the war." Siah shrugged. And walked through the now open gate.

The sword and gauntlet remained in the centre of the arena.

mika became angry she had been used, she let out a loud wolf cry her anger now getting the better of her as she ran to the glove he so wanted her to use. for a moment she stood looking down at it her hand hesitating before she slipped it on, she looked at it, something felt different about it and her it felt like it was made for her, she thought of the lightning in the sky and there in her hand sat crackling the lightning, quickly she threw it at him then grabbing the sword she pulled it from the ground her anger giving her the strength to do so.

"Mika not be used!!!" she cried out running at him the sword held in front of her, she had changed , she was not a scared frightened little girl who hide from everyone now she was fighting .

Destiny had come out of the room, she found it hard to relax in a place she was unfamiliar with. She thought she would take a walk, try and see what was around the castle. She saw stone Golems all over the place.

Destiny thought it was a little mucky. She was now looking around for any sign of the others, well mostly Daniel or Mika.

She cam upon this room that had Armour laying on the tables. She ran her finger along one of the breast plates, they were as ugly as the swamps of Nobley, but that was because they were from Nobley.

She looked around at the others, but then turned back to the Armour from her kingdom, they were hard to come by, only the best soldiers in the castle had them. She wondered how Siah had come across them. Surely he couldn't have killed a man wearing them, the only men with them are those guarding the kingdom. Destiny made a mental note to ask him.

She slowly picked up the breast plate holding it to her chest, she couldn't help but let the tears fall. She hoped no one would see her. The Armour reminded her of her brother.

Siah paused and stiffened. Mika was levitated into the air by his power, the sword flailing helplessly. Siah turned and faced the Ookami. He approached her and pulled the sword from her grasp.

"So you're powerful? So you think you're strong? You attack a demon with his own weapon in his own land and castle surrounded by hundreds of his own golems!?!"

Siah chuckled and poked at the underside of Mika's feet with his sword. "So weak! My father enslaved Ookami after Ookami, he used you as slaves, as beasts of burden. You're pathetic! You're supposed to be the last of your race, the very last of the Ookami and you'll not live to see tomorrow!"

Siah was concerntrating his energy and held Mika's tongue in place with the same levitation. She would not speak until her fury took over her senses, until Siah saw the anger control her. "Do you want to kill me Mika? Do you honestly think that you... a slave race could take me on?"

He smirked, and walked around the Ookami a few times. "Do you want me to release you? Shall I allow you to speak? To fight? You're pathetic Ookami."

Siah looked intensly at the Ookami and saw the anger. "Good, now she's ready! Now to see her true abilities..."

Without any movement he sent Mika flying through the air to the centre of the arena. He held his sword ready in his right hand and a flaming ball of fire in his left....