The situation was what Daphne had feared the most. That the one person who was to get in her way was Stanley, the right-hand man of Harvor, the man who could see everything.
Now he was what stood between her and Gary. The floor area was quite open, with a relative distance between the cage and where the viewers' seats had started. This was in case there were any interruptions from the crowd.
In a world of Altered, there needed to be those who could stop others from entering before they reached the arena. So the floor space was plentiful for a fight.
Stanley, looking at Daphne with his wings spread out, wasted no time. As he lifted his arms, ice shards started to appear just by his light blue wings, and they all hurled heading straight in the direction of where Daphne was.
Quickly reacting, she knelt down and banged the side of the boots she was wearing. They were thick and heavy on the outside with intricate details on them. The moment she had hit the boots, a clear ring where her ankle would be had lit up.
Quickly, she started to run, avoiding all of the ice shards that were aimed at her. They would hit the ground and nothing else. As she moved, Stanley moved along with her continually firing attacks at her.
When she saw an opening, she rushed right forward. Boosted speed with her special beast boots and threw a kick out right toward Stanley's head, but it was quickly blocked by his arm.
His wing extended out with more ice shards being formed in the air and started to attack her again, forcing her to back away.
"I'm sure your fancy little items would work most of the time against other Altered, but I'm not just any Altered," Stanley claimed as he continued to use his elemental powers to fire away at her.
He didn't care for beating her, which was why he hardly moved. He was just stopping her from getting anywhere near the ring.
"Although you are one of the Kings, you are not an Altered yourself. You perhaps are one of the only ones that has an inherited position rather than an earned one," Stanley claimed.
Daphne knew that Stanley was right. As a Bree, it was her gang and family's strength that reigned at the top. She hadn't brought anyone with her today, in order to not raise any suspicion, so she was on her own.
As she continued to avoid attacks, Daphne also continued to look around her. She skidded to the side and jumped back, kicking one of the large cameras. The crew had already run off along with most of the staff, to exit out of the arena.
The camera came toward Stanley but he just redirected his ice shards that hit the camera and caused it to drop on the floor encased in ice and also broken into bits before even reaching him.
"What are you looking for, for Altereds that can help you out, so you can use your powers on them?" Stanley replied. "Unfortunately, that won't be the case. We had a feeling you would come, and since I'm focusing on you, we won't make it easier for you. No Altereds will come near you, we don't want you using your strange powers."
"You think you have everything perfectly planned out?" Daphne said as she spun her body and kicked one of the ice attacks, shattering it completely. She then pushed forward and got right in front of Stanley once again, this time going for a knee.
He grabbed onto her knee blocking the attack, but he then saw Daphne's hand reaching out toward him. It was then that Stanley quickly moved out of the way avoiding being grabbed altogether.
The mystery of Daphne and the Bree family's power. Because even Stanley didn't know about it, or what it could do, he decided it was best to avoid it altogether. Not even wanting to get his hands dirty directly with it.
"Did you know that right now, the One Gang is losing every bit of territory that belongs to them?" Daphne asked. "Even though I'm here, my people are attacking every place that is owned by the One Gang including Inferno City, by the end of today, you will have nothing."
"That doesn't matter." Stanley said, pushing up his glasses onto his face. "We can always take them back, and besides, if we take out you, and have you, then doesn't it all just come back to us anyway."
Stretching out his hands. Stanley's arms were merging with the back of his wings. They were almost attached now like that of a bat. One of the key differences between a Wyvern and a Dragon were the wings weren't separated from one body.
Now together, Stanley's arms started to change colour the same as his wings, and she was wondering just what he was going to do.
"I'll just have to kill you, without letting you touch me!" Stanley had gotten in a crouching position and his hands along with his wings were condensed in. Blue aura was starting to surround him and the air.
Daphne didn't know what to do, to move now, to move as soon as he bolted, or would he just track her?
"Get down!" A voice shouted.
Daphne in the middle of her thoughts had listened to the voice, and knelt down on the ground. At the same time, Stanley had acted as well, bursting forward.
Right above her head, a golden yellow energy beam had come out. It was continuing to fire as it hit Stanley's entire body. Eventually the beam stopped, and so did all of the aura that had surrounded Stanley completely as he stood where he was.
His body was steaming, and Stanley looked partly drenched.
"An interruption… and by who?" Stanley asked.
Daphne soon saw a relatively old man stand by her side, and in his hand he had a sword. What she wasn't aware of was whether this man was a friend or foe.
"Don't worry, I'm on your side." The man said.
"My side, who even are you?" Daphne said as she got up from her position still staring at the strange sword. It wasn't an everyday item even in this era.
"Me… I'm Gary Dem's Father."
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