The onslaught continued, ice cracking in the air around her as she continued to dodge the whip being used by Katarina. A smirk briefly formed on the woman’s lips as the iceling claimed that her partner was bluffing. Valarie continued to stay light on her feet, but she wasn’t going to be able to keep up this speed much longer.

The huntress did her best to anticipate her opponent’s attacks. This helped to a point. Still it wasn’t enough as the woman dodged the whip yet again. Unfortunately Valarie wasn’t quick enough to dodge all of the blades of ice that were sent her way. The first three had been easy enough, but the next three not so much. The fourth sliced her left arm, the fifth cutting her left side and the sixth lodging itself into shoulder. She hissed in pain as she stumbled, taking cover behind a tree. The rest of the blades hitting the other side of the tree.

Panting she gritted her teeth, pulling the shard of ice from her shoulder. “Damn it!” From this point on her left arm wasn’t going to be much use to her. It was time to change weapons. Pulling out her chakram she peeked around the tree. While she bided her time behind the tree she glanced in the direction of where Galven battled Malik. It seemed he wasn’t fairing much better.

The woman chuckled to herself. They really screwed up this time. Taking a few slow breaths Valarie prepared herself for her next attack. Moving from behind the tree she ran, throwing the chakram at ice elemental. Again she ducked behind a tree. Come on hurry up.

The loud metallic thud drew her attention back into the direction of the other battle. Galven, he was being reckless. It seemed that he knew what she did in the back of her mind. This was probably going to be their last battle.

Just as the huntress had started to resign herself to this being the end a familiar voice caught her attention. The others they had finally made it. It seemed that Brock, Takumi and Alana where taking their pick on which battle to join. The boys chose to help Galven. One turning their attention to the storm elemental who had thrown a knife at their friend. The other moved to help their friend. As for Alana she quickly came to her aid. “You look awful.”

Quickly Valarie was told that the guys planned to lead the others away from here. The original target Setsutarou was spotted running off. It was him that would lead them to the darkness pair they had been tracking up until now. They would lead them that way in hopes that the elementals might take each other out once they realized that Setsutarou was using them to get the hunters off the darkness pair’s trail.