A single finger, his pointer finger, extended itself straight to her face with a small black bb of energy formed. His eyes stretched not more than a second later and quickly he launched back through the air, the bb firing as he did. It blew apart into a concentrated stream of Dark Energy that shot right passed Elise, while he flew back via a small sphere of Light Energy. His flight made itself short as the sphere quickly faded, leading to him skidding across the ground on his feet.

His face dropped, eyes onto his gut and then back up to Elise, “You can form spheres around you without a focus point like a hand or foot? Heh, you really are something; although your efforts are wasted again. Allow me to show you just how much darkness I hold.”

A wave of black spread out from the edges of his body immediately, a shadow amassing behind said edges that quickly radiated outwards. All light behind and around Leon faded as the tendrils of eternity crept along the ground. Her own eyes quivered and she stumbled back a pace. While the size of the darkness did not increase, more and more of it appeared to pool out.

“I have enough dark power within me to consume even light if I release enough of it. Impressive, no? Hmm?”

All at once she dropped to her knees, Sephiroth clanging aside as both hands hit the ground. Leon’s eyes perked as she shook, a paling white washing over her face, her breath quickening.

“Elise what happened?” Sephiroth called out in her head.

“Th-this, this weight- this can’t be real, there’s so much!”

“What?” Leon grumbled with sharpening eyes.

Through her own eyes, blackness surrounded everything, waves and waves splashing through an endless void. Her own body was struck wave after wave. Her limbs shook as her body floated along. A distortion appeared beneath as she gazed down, wave after wave immediately slamming into her own back as a frosty breath flowed from her lips and nostrils. Around her, before Leon’s eyes, not a thing had changed as the light still radiated.

“Th-this darkness, this cold, this weight! There’s no way!” she spat, eyes drifting ahead.

Wave after wave of firey black drove itself out of Leon and into the air, again- in her eyes. Winds twirled round and the energy rocketed upwards with flares of dark purple, red, and blue. It violently twisted before her; but again before Leon’s eyes and even Sephiroth’s own vision, nothing but the small shadow of darkness that had protruded itself, which now lay shrinking.

“She’s so affected by my power when I’m not even casting it directly over her. Is she just that weak? No- even powerless Earthlings wouldn’t grovel like this… a sensory type? No, that’s not it. Is she just sensitive to my power? Could that mean that-”

Chips of rock dropped from above, crumbling onto Leon’s left shoulder. His head shifted slightly and his eyes followed, glancing up a moment later in slow.

“Huh?”

Cracks spread immediately as he looked up, followed by the entire ceiling shattering apart. Large chunks of rock flew out while a figure of blackness came flying right down at Leon.

“What?!”

CRACKLE

A black boot connected directly to Leon’s right face, the force behind it instantaneously throwing Leon back through his own shadow and straight into the rock wall behind. Hairline fractures spread as rock crumbled off and onto Leon. A single figure stepped down in place as Leon dropped onto the ground on one knee, both hands down.

“Hrrh- what the hell?”

Standing right where he had stood, a single figure of black cloak, black hair, and black boots with blue pants. No shirt, green eyes, and darker skin.

“V-Vulper,” Elise murmured, eyes growing wider.

“Sorry I’m late… but better late than never.”