Jenso smiled as he managed to strike Prisma. 'This is my chance...' He thought. Pij soared further away from the two attacking clones, turning to face the blasts again. It did it's best to weave through the blasts with it's increased distance.

As the clones ceased their attacks for a moment, the young bird soared right for Prisma's main body from above. As it flew downwards, it spun around rapidly, and united it's wings together while covering it's body. It flew straight downwards at Prisma's head like a small drill, aiming to drill right through his forehead.

A burst of white flames suddenly erupted from Jenso's heels, making him dash at top speeds behind Prisma's torso like a blur. 'Flame dash..' He thought, and took aim at the back of Prisma's head with his hands. He couldn't use this specific dash often during combat, as it took a lot of energy out of him. Jenso was sweating a lot now. He launched an omega saw at Prisma from behind, hoping Pij would be able to distract Prisma long enough so he would be able to strike the sphere within his head.

Bruce breathed, feeling his exhalation disseminate throughout the chamber in time with the earth. The rock his shoulder had turned into crumbled from around Vale's sword, and his hardened hand opened, letting the blade fall. With a thought, Bruce turned the ground beneath the blade into quicksand before it even touched the floor, threatening to swallow it down.
He was keenly aware that although his ki had spiked significantly, it currently ran more wild than before, unkempt and unpracticed in such a degree of strength as he was. He forced some of it back into the form of his blade, though it still sparked brightly and often.
"Now," he said, turning his eyes toward Vale again. The floor between him and Vale seemed to undulate. "Terraformation."
The floor of the chamber that lay between them began to roll up like a carpet toward Vale, shaking the temple with the force behind it.

Prisma reacted quickly, de-spawning his clones, and re-spawning them, surrounding him. As Pij approached him, the four clones extended their arms like rubbed, each clasping onto her wings, and allowing their arms to twist along with her attack. Within moments, she ground to a halt, and the clones, smashed the Phoenix's body against the wall. In the same moment, Jenso's omega saw expanded and cut through Prisma's head, but it revealed nothing to be sliced. Had the core moved to another part of his body? Prisma's legs bent forwards and reattached to his body in an instant, and the top of his head melted into a silvery goo, moving across the floor randomly, while he spun around and stared at Jenso with half of his head missing. He rose both hands and fired his arcane cannons at point blank, fusing the energy from his guns into one, explosive blast that launched him away, and dissipated all four of his clones. The ground shook, but not from Prisma's attack...

~

Vale grit his teeth into a ferocious smile, recomposing himself as the earth shifted violently below him, and gripping to the ground with his hands. He looked down at his hands, and began to flex the muscles in his wrists, elongating his finger-nails until they were at least an inch in length, roughly as hard as steel, if not harder. The Ki in his body released no signs of increasing, however. In fact, there was never any sign of a surge within Vale. His power grew and grew without reasoning... How was he doing it? Suddenly, the tips of his nails, and teeth, began to exude a purple aura, barely visible as a faint glow.

"I will show you, seven people, always less than the sum of my bonds where I leave my sanity to prowl, my darkness, my soul become corrupt. I will grant you a door into the world of the, dar, looming, without matter, presence, life, Void." Vale assured Bruce, suddenly jumping off of the ground, and towards one of the up-rooted pillars nearby. From there, he launched himself towards the stone-sage, with his claws at the ready. Surely that new form had reduced his speed somewhat... Or was Vale in for a surprise?

Jenso's eyes widened as the blast was aimed right at him. He was unsure why the ground shook, but he didn't have time to wonder why. 'Shit, I can't..!' Jenso thought, as the massive blast was about to strike him. 'No, I won't give up! It's now or never..!' He thought, crossing his arms as he channeled a lot of white flames around his body. The white flames took the shape of a giant white flame ball, which surrounded and focused powerfully around Jenso's body. As he did this, the temperature in the room rose even higher and higher, which would possibly evaporate the goo from the top of Prisma's head. "No!!! AAARRGHH!" Jenso cried out in false panic, attempting to fool Prisma.

Meanwhile, Pij managed to fly up again as the clones had dissapeared. The young bird soared around Prisma's blast in a semi-circle at great speed, aiming to smash it's right wing into Prisma's face from his side in order to knock him off-balance as he was flying.

A massive burst of white flames erupted from Jenso's feet, launching him straight at Prisma's attack with insane speeds, making him look like a giant white meteor. He hoped Prisma's own attack would block Prisma's view from what Jenso was doing.

"COMET CRASH!!!"

He roared, aiming to launch straight through Prisma's blast, to crash into Prisma, and slam his left shoulder powerfully into his stomach. At the same time, he told Pij to move out of the way of his attack, and turn itself into a drill in order to drill straight through Prisma's core if it became visible.

Bruce felt an awesome calm take hold of him. The quicksand Vale's blade was sinking into swallowed it down. He crouched, one foot on his toes ready to charge.
Rather than sprinting, the ground seems to ebb and flow beneath him. He glided at a streaking speed across the ground's surface, leaping up to meet the wall and ricocheting off it. In seconds he was in midair and had taken Vale's back, his blade hefted over his shoulder. He slashed downward with it, aiming to sever one of his arms at the shoulder blade.

Prisma saw Pij coming from a mile away, and prepared his bladed hand. He feet lowered and met the ground, slowing his body and giving him the proper footing to target Pij direct. His blade coated itself in a chaotic energy, a darker blue shade, and with a single slice, Pij was torn in half. The Phoenix dissipated into an array of energy, and flowed back into Jenso's body to repair herself, unable to be truly destroyed like a true Gaian familiar. Prisma came to a stop and smiled. He begun to cackle, readying his newly formed blade for Jenso's approach.

"Bye bye, little birdie! Just like all your friends! Your family, and-" Prisma was cut short, relishing the result of his attack, but as Jenso came rocketing out of the cascade of dust and energy, his expression shattered, and his blade, which has been lowered in pure arrogance, was not raised quick enough to react.

Prisma's left hand twiched, and four of his clones spawned in front of him, conga-lining with their hands already in the form of dual blades. They all cross-slashed as Jenso came at them, aiming perfectly, and striking their target with ease.

But one after another, despite their aim, found themselves melted into a puddle by the heat of Jenso's attack. Jenso left behind rows of legs, tearing through their bodies like dominoes. Prisma rose his blade, ready to slash Jenso in half..

In a flash of white light, Jenso rammed Prisma against the wall, melting away most of his body. Prisma's blade had un-formed, and he had both hands clasping to Jenso's back, trying to peel him off. His eyes flickered erratically, one half-closed as he struggled. Eventually though, he tore Jenso off of him, and threw him half-way across the room. Prisma Lurched forward, his body barely able to keep its shape. Visible, peeking just barely out of his chest, was his pure black core, with a single, hairline crack running along its side. That was it? That's all the damage Jenso managed to inflict?.. No, it affected him. It was significant enough to hurt him. Prisma's entire being probably revolved around that core of his.

"Heh.. HeH hEh heH hHH...Hhh$%^#!^%@.." Prisma's voice began to distort and his body retook its form, with small sections still melted off. "No% to#ay y(* Wor)(-less li^^le r@n$! Flames.. Lit^&e Fl@&s.." Prisma's head began to twitch violently, along with the rest of his body. But it wasn't long before he composed himself, and rose his hands high above his head. Suddenly, his clones appeared next to him in the identical pose, each with different amounts of damage. He looked at Jenso, and his mask began to melt away, revealing a metallic face with an inhumanly wide smile, lined with white light. His head cracked to the side and he hissed a static-infused hiss.



Vale's eyes registered the movements perfectly. He reacted, perfectly. But the speed that Bruce had retained was far beyond his imagination. He didn't account for it in his initial movement. With a violent twist of his hip, Vale turned himself in midair, and crashed against the ground, tumbling until he was able to re-orient himself. He looked at Bruce dead on. With one arm, he pointed behind him, towards the innermost sections of the temple.

"I will not waste my life to prove a point to the ignorant, unrefined and clinging to a useless prospect. Now, I take my leave!" Vale announced, slowly clasping the stump that remained of his left arm. "There is no shame in defeat"

Suddenly, the entire temple began to rumble. A massive surge of arcane energy thumped and pulsated from the center of the temple, where Jenso was fighting Prisma. Blocks and pillars began to fall, and Vale cackled, backing away from Bruce, towards the blocked off exit.

"He's awake!"

Prisma's clones morphed into pure arcane energy, and flooded into his body from both sides. His injuries healed immediately. With a roarous cackle, his body began to grow rapidly. It took a few seconds for his back to press up against the roof of the temple, and a few more for him to push it right off its foundation. His voice echoed through the entire clearing between the mountains, and within a very brief period of time, his feet almost took of the entirety of the room.

Luke awoke in a panic, unaware of the ongoings. But he did see Jenso, coated in flames. He reached out for him and shouted. "Jenso!" Barely audible, and unable to move his body.

Prisma continued to grow, crushing the walls of the temple's foundation. Massive blocks fell as the entire mountain that it was built on lost its form. Prisma lifted one of his feet out of the room, and placed it in the jungle clearing outside of the massive temple, crashing through the room that Bruce was in. Vale immediately took this opportunity to escape, jumping through the first opening that Prisma created, and darting across the forested area as fast as he could.

Bruce turned slowly toward the innermost section of the temple, his eyes glancing up, hyper aware of every part of the temple affected by the sudden surge in energy.
Refusing to spare the vampire another thought, he sprinted toward the innermost sanctum, weaving around the pillars that were falling, already focused on destroying the wall between himself and Jenso.

Jenso stared up at the massive giant, breathing heavily as he rested his hands on his knees to avoid falling over. 'You...you can't be serious...' He thought, feeling Pij enter his chest. He could tell that it attempted to heal itself. The attack that he had used took a lot of energy out of him, and his companion was now injured. Despite that he still managed to hurt Prisma, the situation didn't look good for him. He turned to Luke as he spoke his name. "Dad..." Jenso muttered. "Please...escape from here. I'll...I'll do my best...to beat him." Jenso said. Luke could tell by the way he talked and his tone of voice that Jenso was getting exhausted.

'One final charge...' Jenso thought, as flames erupted from his feet. He landed on one of the remaining walls, glaring up at Prisma. He began to focus more of his energy into Pij's healing. 'I'll need Pij if I want to even have the slightest chance to get up there...'

As he thought how to deal with the situation, he sensed Bruce's presence below him. He hopped off the wall and landed beside him. "Bruce..." He muttered, relieved that his friend was still alive. Bruce could clearly see that he was exhausted, but still had some energy left. "What happened with Vale..? And...how do we..deal with this?" He asked. "The weak point is the small black sphere that used to be in his head, but finding that within that giant body of his will be difficult...he can move it around at will."

Luke stood up as fast as he could, and nodded to Jenso. In a mad dash, Luke headed for the exit of the room, but not before snatching the core of hit rifle from its debris.

Prisma rose his foot from the inner-most sanctum, stepping out into the wide open space of the mountainous clearing, until he was entirely outside of the temple. He flexed his hands for a little, getting used to his new forme. His booming laughter echoed through the sky, but he still had his back turned to the temple, not in any rush to finish things up.

Bruce took a moment to digest the gigantic being that towered above them. He considered Jenso's current state and his advice regarding the imminent battle.
"Vale fled." he answered simply, sparing the vampire no further comment.
"Every opponent, no matter how powerful, has a tell," he said, manipulating the walls around them and reforming the landscape where the giant stood. "If we pay attention, we can determine the best place and time to strike."
The walls of the temple became viscous and thick, transforming into a massive avalanche of mud.
"Terraformation."
Bruce tilted the very ground they on which they stood downward toward the creature, and the mud bore down toward one of the giant's feet in a huge mudslide, intending to disturb its footing. At the same time, Bruce shifted the earth directly beneath them into a platform that shot up with them and flew toward their target, its connection to the ground always shifting yet never breaking.

Jenso stared in awe as Bruce moved the ground with extreme force. "Holy shit...Bruce, this is amazing!" Jenso complimented to Bruce's display of extreme power, as he stared up at the massive giant. He began to form another omega saw in his hands. Rather than firing it however, he rose his left hand and it hovered above his palm. He created a white flame whip in his other hand, and rammed the end of it into the center of the flame saw. The cutting edges didn't seem to affect him as he did so. After doing this, he grabbed ahold of the whip and spun it's end around above his head, with the Omega Saw attached to it.



He whispered, trying to avoid Prisma from noticing them.

Prisma's figure stood upright as he felt something graze the back of his feet. His laughter paused, and he turned around, his left foot moving slightly forwards. He picked up up and slammed it into the muddy avalanche, barely affected, and turned to face both of them, shaking the earth with each of his mighty steps.

Prisma roared, aiming the palm of one of his hands at the platform that Jenso and Bruce stood atop. Prisma barely moved, keeping his legs sturdy. The sheer weight of his body had him sinking ever so slightly into the mud, up to his ankles. A sheer insane amount of raw arcane energy began to build in his right hand, sucking in the very presence of the atmosphere, and mixing it with Prisma's own energy source, the latter of which felt practically infinite. The energy gathered at a frightening pace, but Prisma didn't seem too intent on firing it straight away.

Bruce briefly sheathed his blade of ki, freeing up both his hands to concentrate on manipulating his element. The platform he and Jenso stood on split into two, still connected like a branch to a tree, but Jenso's shot upward above the giant's hand while Bruce's swerved beneath it. New platforms and branching pathways continued to branch off of Jenso's, occasionally his would swing in either direction while the new platform shot straight ahead, but his path took him the quickest into the air. As he ascended, the superfluous pathways behind him began to crumble and the material fell, but it rejoined Bruce below and became a part of his platform, though it still rippled with versatility.
Once Bruce came up to one of the giant's legs, he unsheathed his sparking sword in a flash, aiming to cut through the metal material, if only somewhat, and leave behind a few millions particles of dirt within any wound he could make to upset the creature's ability to reform itself.

Jenso glared at Prisma's right hand, smirking at Bruce below for an instant. He was truly an ally that he could count on. He continued to build up the heat around himself and around the omega saw while still spinning it rapidly above his head in circles. He threw his Razor Yoyo at Prisma's right wrist at insane speeds, aiming to cut right through his wrist. He leaped onto a platform further to the right afterwards, and yanked the whip twice as it was extending. The whip reeled back in towards Jenso at great speeds, intending to pull it straight through Prisma's wrist once more for yet another clean cut as the Razor Yo-yo returned back towards him.

Prisma's right leg buckled for a moment, but any sign of damage was immediately revoked. The part of his leg that was momentarily cut loose, darkened slightly, before regaining its bright sheen, however. Prisma moved his large thigh towards Bruce, cutting off the path of his platforms. Suddenly, his entire leg was coated in hundreds of blue streams of electricity, from the ankle to the waist, thrashing through the earth like an electrified baton.

Meanwhile, Prisma's arm seemed like it was about to be struck. But his white eyes followed his movements carefully. In a flash, Prisma moved his arm up, clenched his open hand shut, and then dodged the Yo-Yo on its way back as well, aiming his hand directly at Jenso. His fingers widened, and in an astonishing flash, the restrained energy was released. From Bruce's perspective, the flash from the resulting laser was far too bright to even see Jenso anymore. The laser tore across the entire plain, and struck one of the mountains on the other end, sending a massive chunk of it falling down, in an avalanche. Prisma's mouth widened into a smile as the energy dissipated.

Bruce allowed his blade of ki to dissipate, refocusing it into the chains he'd used earlier, wrapped several times around his body. Rather than reform the earth material that crumbled as a result of Prisma's electricity, he leapt off into the air from it, using the chain to wrap around the leg that wasn't crackling with energy to swing himself through the giant's thighs and around one side. The chains only shot out from around his body, leaving his hands free again.
Using one, he gathered the massive amount of material that had formed the network of platforms behind him, sending it up directly over Prisma's head and body into a huge mass of earth and rock.
With the other hand, Bruce hardened the mud around Prisma's ankles until it had the consistency and density of cement, hoping to prevent the giant from moving to avoid the combination assault he was planning. Meanwhile, he continued shooting out lengths of chain, anticipating the need to swing from another part of the giant's body.

Jenso's eyes widened as the massive laser headed for him. He swung the razor Yoyo of his in front of his body in circles rapidly, creating a focused shield of Arki in order to protect him from the massive arcane blast. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGHHH!!!" Jenso cried out, attempting to fool Prisma that the attack had been enough to obliterate him.

He took note of what Bruce was doing, as a massive burst of white flames erupted from his feet. He moved at insane speeds, and he kept keeping the shield up in front of his body in order to move through the arcane and reach the huge mass of earth and rock. He touched the rocks with his body and the sheer heat that emitted from him, in order to make the material super hot. He hoped Prisma's massive attack would have prevented him from seeing what Jenso was doing, and make him believe that he truly had died.

Unfortunately, to Jenso's disadvantage, jumping against Arcano Ultima resulted in a less than fortunate outcome. Jenso was carried through the air, pushed back by the stream of energy, across the entire clearing. His shield provided minimal defence, but it served to curve him right out of the laser's path halfway past the forest below. He ended up far away from the fight, with his body heavily damaged from head to toe and Prisma looming in the distance. Prisma's head lowered as he chuckled lightly, convinced that Jenso was completely eradicated in the blast. Looking down, he noted Bruce climbing his legs, and attempted to move. But his foot wouldn't budge immediately. The ground around it cracked and tore, stopping his mobility.

Prisma looked around his body, spotting Bruce swinging around his lower torso and thighs. With his left hand, he aimed towards Bruce, all his fingers side by side, launching 5 concentrated beams of arcane energy towards him, severing his chain, and aiming to slice Bruce out of the air.

Jenso slowly got back onto his feet as he glared at the giant in the distance. 'Shit...' He thought, as he felt his overheat form dissipating. He still had energy left, but he didn't have much of it. Pij reappeared out of his chest suddenly, and chirped at him. "Heh...look who's back..." Jenso muttered in a happy tone. "I'm sick of these Order of Chaos members and all of their destruction...Let's take him down once and for all!" Jenso stated. The bird nodded and Jenso rose his hands. The bird landed on his palms.

"ONE WITH NATURE!!!

Jenso called out as he fused together with Pij. He soared up into the sky immediately, while using the Phoenix's regeneration abilities to heal his more serious wounds. He flew towards Prisma, but made sure to fly up towards his head from the back in order to avoid him from seeing him. He aimed to reach the mass of rocks yet again, as he and Pij unfused. He attempted to do what he did last time, aiming to super heat the rocks that were still above Prisma's head as he coated his body in white flames, using his Overheat form again.