Ron saw Cormac sanknon his knees clutching his chest. The blade of air was gone now leaving behind a hole. He saw Isanna moves fast and he was sure that was for the best because they couldn't loose an opportunity like that, but something happened which made Isanna jump back. Ron couldn't see what it was but Isanna was looking somewhere to the left of Cormac, from the bushes stepped out a girl. She was much younger than Cormac, Ron's age rather. She had big and long furry white ears, she had big eyes like a cat but he had never seen a cat with that long front two teeth. As she transfromed into her hybrid state slowly she got much bigger than Rin ever did and much furrier almost like a lion.
"Freya, careful, watch your back, she has some sort of invisible blade trick up her sleeve, " Cormac growled and warned her.
"Is that how she got you?" Freya asked amused.
Ron knew now they were in trouble the others had started coming they must have heard all the noise, Cormac was down for now so Isanna still had to face one opponent but she had to keep an eye on him too.
Isanna was thinking the same and she wanted to finish this before others came so she didn't wait and attacked first. She knew now there was no point in going easy. So she let her mana flow using both air and light to move as fast as possible, but Freya dodged her sword everytime by a very small gap, smher cat eyes were too sharp, they were seeing everything, she was also moving very little, very efficiently using her great reflexes. Freya was smiling she felt like she was in control and like she had done with most of her other opponents she was waiting for Isanna to get more frustrated and make her first mistake. But Isanna was an experienced fighter, she had been trained by one of the bests and had many moves up her sleeve for opponents like Freya.
So when Freya overconfidently tried to attack Isanna after dodging her straight thrust of sword, she was hoping to catch her by surprise with her increased speed and attacking while her sword hand was away from her body. Isanna however instead of trying to bring her sword back because she knew it would be too late, she left her sword mid-air and grabbed Freya by the stomach with both hands very tightly. Freya was taken aback wondering what was happening, her instincts went berserk on having the enemy so close to her, her nails extended twice their size and she started transforming into her beast more and more. It was all happening very slowly, Isanna had just grabbed her a moment ago and she was going to sink her long nails in her back when she felt the world around her going past her. It took her brain sometime to realize that her body was in motion, she realized with horror that Isanna had started running very fast when she felt the pain as they crashed into a nearby thick tree very hard, Freya bite down on the pain to claw Isanna's back only to realize that she hadn't stopped and they were moving again. Freya held on until Isanna rammed her through two more trees and she finally couldn't take the pain anymore she stopped moving and fell unconscious. Isanna stopped and threw Freya down on the broken tree, she looked back at the trail of destruction through the forest she had created they had come a little ways away from where Cormac and Ron were. She felt the burn of claws on her back but nothing too serious.
Ron had seen with surprise and pride at Isanna's ingenuity of quickly recognizing her opponent's weaknesses and using them the best way possible. Cormac was too confident and hadn't watched his back, Freya was relying too much on her speed and agility and didn't have the toughness that Isanna had.
He was about to come out of his hiding place to look for Isanna when he suddenly saw two figures appear near Cormac. Cormac stood up slowly massaging his chest.
"What happened?" asked Thane.
"Nothing, she just caught me off guard, " said Cormac.
"Where's Freya?" asked Lysandra.
Cormac just pointed towards the trail of broken trees, it looked like a bull had gone through them. The three suddenly tensed up as Isanna approached. Ron realized with fear that her sword was lying in the middle and Isanna was unarmed.
Cormac growled ready to attack but Thane put a hand out. Ron could see that the new girl was a snake-type, he had seen a couple of them in the city before they were good fighters, the man didn't look anything special, he had black and brown fur and sharp claws and teeth. At best he was some sort of big cat or wolf. But now they were two against one, even three because Cormac looked completely fine just whincing and bending by the waste a little.
Ron hadn't expected it but the four moved all together at once. Isanna was on the defensive while trying to get to her sword, Thane was the first to attack fast and agile like Freya but with the stentgh of Cormac too, Ron could tell at an instant that he was a very good fighter with the efficiency and confidence he moved.
But Isanna didn't have just him to deal with, because from the other side, the snake girl was landing her pisionous attacks, it was dangerous getting cut by Thane's sharp claws but one kick from the snake-types pisionous fangs and Isanna would be done with.
Isanna had been charging a small ball of light near her foot and when it was big enough she slammed her foot in the ground releasing all the energy and the ground erupted upwards, Isanna used the chaos and surprise on the others part to land blows where she could and get past them towards her sword. She was almost there when Cormac's tail came out of nowhere and wrapped around the sword and pulled it away from her.
Cormac grinned at her, her sword in his tail behind him. The blast behind her settled and Thane and Lysandra stepped out still standing.
Isanna was surrounded now, Ron thought it was time he had to help her. He had seen the strength of these fighters and they could get to him in second and kill, so he had to land a blow. Cormac was the one closest with his back to him, and he had been once before taken off guard from behind. Ron stepped out a little to get a clear angle at Cormac's back.
He pulled his arrow back, in his mind he was already ready to control it's metal tip on case Cormac dodged or moved away.
On the other end, Thane and Lysandra attacked Isanna again, this time they stayed a little bit on the defense beware of her tricks, they attacked in a team one by one. Isanna used their distance and changed her fighting style using her legs a lot more, she had them covered in a thin layer of mana which turned them hard as a metal. But Lysandra wasn't in a mood to play around either, because when she transformed completely her body turned into a large serpent, over fifteen feet long, covered with hard green scales, and a poisonous breath that could lend a lot of damage. A snake is a very smart predator unlike other four-legged animals, it was much smarter and agile so she could let her beast take over without worrying about any stupid mistakes.
Ron stopped and changed her target to the large green snake that had just appeared out of nowhere. He knew he had made a mistake when his arrow sailed past the snake who swirled around to dodge it easily. All eyes turned on him sitting on a branch. He stopped in the sudden fear that gripped his heart.
"I'll take this one, " announced Thane and with a jump he landed near Cormac.
Isanna came to block them but Cormac and Lysandra were enough to keep her occupied.
Isanna looked at Thane slowly moving towards the tree where Ron was, she was pushing her hardest to get past the snake and Cormac but without her sword she couldn't do anything. She had to stay clear off the snakes fangs or she will be of no help to Ron, the kick she was landing weren't doing much damage to the snake's hard scales or Cormac.
"I know you want you sword, I can smell the desperation on you, are you worried about your friend, is it because he is young, I had faith in my young friend Freya, you should respect other fighter's spirit, if he has decided to take part in this fight then it's his choice, " said Cormac.
Isanna lunged for her sword as she saw Thane jump towards Ron.
Cormac jumped back laughing, he grabbed the sword from his tail and swirled it around and threw it in the sky.