Tsao was interested in the sudden change in Gong Gong's demeanor after the two of them exchanged looks, despite how Tsao was looking into the book that harbored the actual textual format of the events taking place and not actually up at Gong Gong. Reading carefully the dragon's movements, as well as an open mind to receive each passing wave that he came across, Tsao would pick up not only the words of the dragon but also where he would strike next. "Hatcha~!!!" he cried out, whipping his hand out from under his garb and matching the whip of Gong Gong's lightning tail with a lightning trail streaming from Tsao's fingertips with the same amount of whiplash. The colliding polarities should have counteracted and neutralized each other, yet left Tsao's hand tense, crisp and charged for more. "... Who are YOU telling...?" This dragon seemed like he could be nice conversation, actually, which, even with an opponent, Tsao was not opposed to engaging in. "... I've Been Waiting For A Long Time For Things To Get Good, Too..."

"... Good," Gong Gong growled lightly, keeping his bulging eyes affixed on the little one at the end of his tail. Having it knocked away by an electrical shock powerful enough to keep it at bay, the dragon's tail would then be swirled about the general area of Tsao, the clouds and latent electricity in the flowing tail coagulating and creating a powerful electrical disturbance that would block off Tsao's senses from within the tail's spin. Likewise, with a snap of his neck, Gong Gong's mustache and eyebrow would whip from the sky and strike down as swiftly as a bolt of lightning where Tsao stood, then back up to the clouds in one swift motion. In the next instance, the other side would be hurled down at him whilst the first pair recharged. In every moment of every second after the first bolt struck, Gong Gong would lob another lash of his brow and stache back down upon Tsao, sometimes even splitting the individual strands of his hair apart to create branches of lightning that covered a large radius. "Let Us See If Your Standards Of 'Good' Match Up To Mine." It was clear that Gong Gong had been humbled severely since this last encounter with a human or any human-like entity, and would not take this one so lightly simply because of his size nor the years of his flesh. There was something that the dragon needed to see about his standards. Those of the elders were of a higher quality than any child, simply from having more wisdom about what is expected, and having already done enough to know that doing too little would serve no purpose in even sustaining a life anymore. Gong Gong had indeed known this passionless life for too long, himself, doing nothing for so long as an attachment to Orochi and had grown bored with hundreds of years of mundane existence. Anything that actually gave him a reason to be thrilled or to have a greater sense of living again was exactly what he was looking for, even more than a new territory to claim.

"A scientist is always ready for a test!" Tsao responded quickly whilst waving his hand across the air as if wiping a smooth surface. At his palm, a dark cloud would form, and the circular motions of his hand would suddenly begin to match the movement of Gong Gong's tail swirling around him. "Rolling Darkness," he said softly, letting the dark cloud puff up and encircle him before expanding outward into the whirling cloudy tail. The darkness spread first up the tail through the very vacuum of the wind it created sucking it up and into the top of the tail, where it would continue on up Gong Gong's body, rapidly expanding. Likewise, it would be pushed outward across the surface of the ground, coating it with the cloud-like blackness that masked the entirety of whatever was inside from even being sensed. It would wrap around Gong Gong's legs and the base of the tower after a moment or two, quickly climbing each, and whatever was within the darkness would no longer have any sensory response. Thus, whatever part of Gong Gong the 'Rolling Darkness' touched, he would not be able to feel, see, trace or hear whilst it was within. Tsao was completely hidden to the point of being not only unable to be seen, but also heard, felt or traced, as well. Anywhere there was this black cloud, Tsao could have been. Each shot of lighting aimed at him would be complete shots in the dark, but would spread the cloud out from the area of impact before it folded in on itself and reformed again.

Bolt after bolt being hurled from Gong Gong's face found themselves no target every time they struck down, merely their strikes spreading a strange black cloud and clearing the ground for a moment or two to see where Tsao had gone. The dragon had already seen what was happening to his tail and as it suddenly lost feeling, Gong Gong was aware not to allow anymore to touch him. Yet, even then, the clouds folded back over themselves and covered his tracks as they covered the ground. "You Are Skilled," Gong Gong said, raising his legs from the ground to prevent this strange cloud from touching him, "To Force A Dragon Into The Sky." His body, wrapped around the tower, would slither from it quickly, yet delicately, using the torque of his coiled body to whip whatever darkness had touched his tail away from him as he took off into the sky. If there was anymore on him beyond his tail, Gong Gong would twist his long body as he shot upward, then quickly unwind in the opposite direction, creating a powerful force that would knock everything touching him off with a powerful burst before hurdling up into the clouds yet again, hidden by their thickness.

The darkness on Gong Gong's body may have faded, but all the while it was on him, Tsao was hidden within it, scaling the dragon's long body carefully. Tsao remained attached to Gong Gong even with the powerful force of his flailing body by magnetizing his own body to the polarities of the dragon's and binding himself to one of Gong Gong's massive scales. When Tsao was revealed, he was casually lying down with his leg kicked up over the other and hands behind his head, crackling with a great deal of electricity. "Do I get points for riding the dragon, too?" Being the most flashy of the Seven, Tsao was king of showing off and enjoyed doing so anytime he felt like he could, usually to his success. Though it sometimes didn't yield the most productive results, sacrificing the best method of handling a situation for the most showy, he was still able to not only make quick work of what he was doing, but also quickly tie up any loose ends that got away from him during his performance.

Now that they were in the sky, above the clouds, this could get a little more interesting. As soon as they were above the border of clouds, his body levitated from the back of the dragon, spinning forward in one swift motion and shooting straight up the body as a giant lightning bolt. Still charged to the polarity of Gong Gong, the bolt of lightning should have arced around every curve of the dragon's body as though it were part of the dragon, itself, and not have been lost no matter how much the dragon moved, flailed or thrashed about, as he had done with the Rolling Darkness. Instead, the lightning would match his movements as it shot up beside him and coil around his body in an attempt to bind him. To ensure that the dragon was bound, as the bolt of lightning that was Tsao coiled around the dragon's body, the electromagnetic force it produced intensified greatly in order to subdue the dragon's own and completely paralyze his body whilst it wrapped around him.

Gong Gong's eyes narrowed, feeling the electrical charge of something other than himself upon his back. "Clever..." he grumbled, passing up above the clouds only once, "... But Do Not Be So Brazen." Immediately, Gong Gong arced bac down, once his head rose above the clouds, sinking back into them as Tsao shot up his body as a powerful lightning bolt. Gong Gong loosed as much latent electricity within his body as was possible, sending a charge out into the clouds, and what should have also been Tsao's current, as well. Though this would disperse his electricity into the sea of cloud, it would have diffused all such electricity among the cloud bed, leaving Gong Gong free to rise up above them once again and gaze down at the electrically charged sheet of fluff. "To Think So Highly Of Oneself Masks How High One's Opponent May Be In Relation And Distorts The Vision Of Capability, Hindering The Likelihood Of Victory Through Overestimation And Underestimation." Gong Gong hadn't even revealed his true nature as a water god yet, despite his command over electricity, which used water as a conduit.

When Gong Gong had the upper hand, he would squint his eyes and condense the clouds wherever they were within his eyesight, causing the entire expanse across the sky to become liquid rather than vapor. A great flood would fall upon the whole land, charged with electricity now, which should have instantly killed everything that was washed over by the great flood of clouds falling from the sky.

Gong Gong's reversal shocked Tsao, as he had not been paying attention to the fact that whilst they were within the clouds, the clouds could conduct the electrical current of both parties and leave Gong Gong untouched by the electricity of Tsao. Even so, with an area advantage, Tsao held the entirety of the clouds at his disposal, yet Gong Gong revealing his true command over water and not lightning actually made Tsao's life a little more difficult. "Hoooo!! That escalated quickly!" he'd say as the vapor compacted into a sky of pure water, and the electrical current that was Tsao surging through it. He had to think up something quickly that would keep all of this water from drenching the Delta and pretty much electrocuting and killing everyone. This dragon was good.

"Diganto Zerannus!!"

A massive flash of lightning burst throughout the entire falling sea, illuminating it brightly overhead before changing it all back to vapor from the intensity of the heat and the electrical charge stabilizing the molecules in the air at a steady distance from each other, as what a 'Gas' would be at. Each molecule, now completely charged with electricity and having a polarity that kept each other molecule away, would return the water back to clouds before it fell too far from the sky, yet linger much closer to the ground now, making it seem as though the sky had become smaller. Unfortunately, whatever was in the air at the time should have died.

"... This is getting out of hand," Tsao noted, electricity rising up from within the depths of the clouds and suddenly condensing at a single point, which would shape his body once again standing atop the expanse. He was significantly larger than before, this time about Gong Gong's size, and with his lower torso seamlessly flowing into the entirety of the cloudy range. "I can't let you do something like that again, you know." As reckless as Tsao was at times for the sake of his flashiness, he was still very dedicated to his protection of the Veritas, and when he was serious, his major weakness of sacrificing practicality for showiness was thrown out the window for the greater good. With Tsao's body as part of the entire cloud range, Gong Gong wouldn't be able to go down into the land of the Veritas any longer, and was now confined to the sky, looking Tsao in the eye yet again. If he were to attempt to dive into the clouds again, he would be swiftly met with the full extent of Tsao's might. He crossed his arms and said again, "Rolling Darkness..." and all the clouds in the sky below them would become pitch black.