Jenso took some deep breaths, looking upon the shattered orbs on the ground. He looked at Dacer and smiled, raising his arm into the sky. "YEAH!! I DID IT!!" He screamed, causing his voice to echo through the room. He was glad to see his friends again. "Good to see you guys again! What about the meteors, man?" Jenso asked Dacer, with some slight concern in his tone of voice. He hoped that defeating the elementals would have deactivated them, but he wanted to be completely sure. There were a lot of lives at stake, so he took the situation quite seriously.

"About that..." Dacer turned and pointed to the earth's display. Suddenly, all four of the meteors in the world were glowing yet again, but purple this time, like something was still trying to trigger them. "This doesn't make any sense, you destroyed the elementals but the meteors are still charging! What's worse is that they've got some weird goopy energy around them now, I aint got a clue as to whats going on! This wasn't in the Gaian Texts.." Dacer turned around again and scratched his head. "This is-"

Before he could finish his sentence, a flash of black smoke appeared above him, and the black-haired lady from before grabbed him, and pushed him into the ground, where he disappeared from sight along with the girl. Tiger roared in a panic, but black smoke appeared beneath him as well, and he was torn out of sight.

"My my my, you didn't think it would be that easy, did you?" A woman's voice echoed inside of Jenso's skull. "Thought I would just disappear and let you ruin my fun? Think again you little brat!" It was Adarine's voice, the masked woman from before. They'd returned so soon! But where was she? Suddenly, the doors that opened moments earlier turned purple and slammed shut, trapping Jenso back inside the wet room. A figure appeared near the edge of the massive domed area and glared at him through a set of piercing purple eyes.

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"I've grown rather tired of this game, anyhow!" Ada groaned, lazily flipping her wrist towards Jenso, "So I've adapted the Vane in my body to trigger those silly meteor myself! Though, with my magic behind them, they won't just kill everyone, hahaha.."

"Guys!" Jenso screamed, as his friends vanished in a flash of black smoke. He tried to dash towards them in an attempt to help, but he was stopped by the door that slammed shut in front of him. He turned around to face Adarine and clenched his fists. "You again!! What do you mean by that? Are you going to control them like you did with Dacer?" He asked in an angry tone, and got in a combat stance.

It seemed that beating the elementals was pointless after all, which only fueled Jenso's anger. "I'm pretty tired of this myself, let's finish this!" He shouted afterwards, and dashed towards Adarine without waiting for a response. He made a motion as if he was about to punch at her with his left fist, but he was simply waiting to see how she would respond. He knew that he couldn't be careless, not against someone like this.

"Please!" Ada shouted, raising both her hands. Suddenly, 15 purple figured jutted up from the ground on either side of her. They were all mounted on stumps, but had very simple designs. The 8 in front were simply spheres mounted atop cylindrical bases, lined up with another figure behind each one, including Ada herself near the middle. In the back corners, there were two large cylinders that had no real form, but towered over the rest of the pieces with twice as much height. Beside them, were Horse-like figures, and further in were pointed spikes with a small slit in their centers. At Ada's side stood an exact copy of her, but without detailed features. Every piece was a reflective purple, mirroring their surrounding ever so slightly.

Of course, one of the mounted-spheres was now between Jenso and Ada. It projected a purple barrier that would have easily intercepted his fist. It was like a thing film of purple transparent plastic, and disappeared after he hit it.

"I didn't say we couldn't play another game while we waited!"

Jenso gave Ada a confused look. "You..you know this is a battle, right?" He couldn't help but mutter, and got in a combat stance. He overlooked the figures, which all seemed to resemble the pieces that one would find on a chess board. He thrusted his left fist at one of the mounted spheres.

Jenso's fist was blocked by a thin layer of purple light, and pushed back slowly as the piece in front of him moved forward.

"Pawn to F4!" Ada squeaked, raising a hand. Suddenly, the protected pawn shot forward several feet, attempting to not only push Jenso away, but knock him right off his feet. "You can't cheat, golden boy!"

Jenso attempted to jump out of the way of the incoming pawn, and tried to aim a kick with his left foot at the sphere on top. 'Dacer and so many people are in danger, and I'm wasting my time doing this...but it looks like I have no choice.' He thought.

Jenso's foot was not met with resistance this time. It struck the pawn's orb and shattered it with ease, and the entire thing came crumbling down. "Good move! Ah, a righteous strike! But.." Ada rose her hand, and the purple clone of her body darted forward, between the gap in her defenses, and right at Jenso. As it got near, it moved like an assassin and whipped its heeled foot clockwise towards Jenso's throat.

Jenso's eyes widened as the clone dashed forward and kicked at him. He attempted to duck under the incoming foot, and aimed a punch at the clone's stomach with his left fist.

And yet again, Jenso's fist was blocked by an energy barrier, knocking him further away from the Queen.

"Tsk tsk tsk! Wait your turn you silly buffoon!" Ada teases, waggling her finger and shaking her head mockingly, "Have you never played a game before? You're being very rude!" The clone that attacked Jenso then stood up straight and went idle again. Ada waited patiently for Jenso to make his move. He didn't have as many pieces as her though, how was he supposed to win?

Jenso glared at Ada as she spoke. He might have enjoyed the chess game, if there weren't so many lives at stake. He took a step forward and aimed another punch at the clone before him. 'Darn, how am I going to get close to her?' He thought, waiting to see what would happen.

This time the clone dodged and jumped several meters behind Jenso, turning to face him front the other side of the room. Two of the orb-pawns then moved forward to either of Jenso's sides and began to spark with purple electricity.

"I should note that this is not a normal game of chess! I would tell you the rules... But oh, what fun would that be? Hahaha!"

Jenso threw a quick glance over his shoulder to memorise just how far the clone was from himself, and glared at the two orb-pawns that moved to his sides. He was considering to jump back to avoid whichever attack the orb-pawns were about to do, but it was possible that the clone would strike him in the back if he did so. He dashed forward in order to avoid the attack, to stop at the spot where the first pawn stood that he had destroyed earlier.

When Jenso moved, purple electricity crackled between the two pawns, and the clone dashed to where he was before, kicking at the air.

"Oh, marvelous!" Ada shrieked, raising her hands. Two more pawns moved forwards, the ones at the furthest edges of the room, at each of Jenso's sides, while one of the pyramid looking statues with a slit in its center spun to face Jenso from behind a pawn.

Jenso glared at the incoming pawns and kept an eye on the pyramid statue. Whichever it was about to do, he knew that he needed to move. He leaped at the pawn on his left side and aimed a kick at the sphere in hopes of destroying it and to land further to the left, to avoid being in the line of sight of the pyramid looking statue.

Jenso's kick tore through the pawn just before it could release a stream of electricity, and it crumbled to nothingness. The pyramid from earlier though, released a stream of purple energy in the form of a laser, sweeping across half of the field, and stopping several yards before hitting Jenso. Ada frowned beneath her mask and raised an arm.

Suddenly, the cylinder in front of Jenso moved towards him like a steam engine, barreling across the room in an attempt to crush him outright.

Jenso jumped to the right in order to avoid the incoming tower, waiting for his turn to attack.

The Tower passed him completely, but fell onto its side behind him, covered at least 4 spaces. The pieces then all halted and Ada glared at Jenso impatiently. "Hurry up! Or your little friends are going to suffer a fate worse than death!"

Jenso glared at Ada and clenched his fists. He could try to go in and be reckless, but it seemed unwise. He ignored Ada's comment, and jumped at the pawn that was one space on his right now, aiming a quick punch at it's sphere.