Frozen.
The stillness, suffocating. Beneath Delimon's imposing shadow, Khalid stood, intimidated, breath caught in his chest, not daring to make a noise. The crushing weight of the abominations presence pressed down on his conscious, making it as though his limbs are immovable large boulders, locking him in place.
Frozen.
Not by choice, but from the sheer chilling terror of what was to come. His heart going a million miles per hour, thumping, pounding, stomping in his ears, louder than all other sounds. His eyes, focused on the creature, that seemed to violate everything he has learned about the physics of Earth, the ability to not make a single sound is literally impossible, yet he has seen it, felt it, heard it.
Cold sweat carved a path down his cheeks, each drop burning its way down to his chin and collected to form an abnormally large drop, which detached from his body, and fell with a deceivingly slow speed. Its baffling how the faintest plink broke the unwritten rule, perhaps even respect for one and other they had. The Delimon for this child's bravery, and Khalid for this creatures patience. But this sound, it echoed for a moment too long. Shattering the stillness, the Delimon lunged at Khalid with its violently twisting maw, a blured shadow of malice.
Then, something in Khalid took over him, those polished instincts from the struggles of poverty.
Without the need to think, without the need to hesitate, Khalid let them take over, after all, they never betrayed him before, but also, what choice did he have? A preoccupied mind, with one mission - 'kill' - isn't of much help to him.
Reacting to this attack, he dove as far to the side as he could, and yet, that blow brushed past him a whisper away.
The battle has finally begun.
The adrenaline is finally being used.
But upon Khalid it was again, no break, no time to catch his breath. But not giving in, Khalid uses the wakizashi - which has a hilt and is longer, therefore, much more equipped for defence - to block the chillingly quick attack, and notices that the Delimon can choose where its teeth go, making them great for attacking, and a nightmare for him to defend against.
Now, both stuck in an equilibrium, Khalid pushing Delimon back with all his might, whilst the Delimon seemed to be enjoying toying with Khalid, its large grinning maw, missing a few teeth though, looked to be mocking Khalid.
And for its taunt he fell, using the dagger to slash its head, the sharp edge goes straight through its neck, throwing Khalid in a state of confusion. Backing up as far as he could, he looked at the slender shadow, but this time, he was being mocked from the floor, well, head on the floor, body standing.
Did I win? Its dead? No, ill keep my guard up and slash it a few more times.
And that's what he did, ducking to his right, he dashed with both weapons in hand, wakizashi close to his face for defence and his trusty dagger for attack.
But then, completely nonchalantly, the abomination grabbed its head and reattached it, now grinning even more, it lunged once again, this time completely bypassing Khalid's defence as it threw a feint frontal attack, only to kick Khalid on his left shoulder, on the shoulder where he held the wakizashi, his only good defence.
Bleeding from his shoulder, Khalid stumbled back, forcing himself to re-evaluate his monstrous opponent.
Now it visibly laughing, Khalid could endure no more, he lunged forward, the wakizashi a long piece of steel in his hands, the only layer of defence in his disposal, was completely avoided by the shadowy limbs which twisted and turned in unfathomable manners. For a fraction of a moment, its eyes spun more wildly than what he has managed to analyse so far, and at a point, they merged.
And, it stopped moving completely, only for a fraction of a second, but clearly stopped.
Yet even though it stopped, the attack that followed after was the most dangerous yet. Or was it?
No, Khalid was feeding himself delusions. Every dangerous attack seemed to have a delay before it was performed.
But for what purpose? Its not like this monster needed time to think before attacking Khalid, the sheer difference in power was enough to account for the need of thinking.
Once again, it froze, immobile, Khalid moved, it attacked, Khalid dogged by a whispers length.
Froze, move, attack, almost die. This kept repeating.
Why the F*ck would it freeze? Why do those eyes merge? Do they gain some type of ability? What would it be?
In a state of panic, Khalid begun to think every possibility.
No, it can't be... There is no chance that's true.
A wild theory clawed its way into Khalid's mind — reckless, desperate, but maybe right.
In the next moment, Delimon froze for his millionth time, but this time, Khalid chose to stand still. Both hand by his sides, completely lowered his guard.
And sure enough, the Delimon was taken aback, it hesitated its next attack and its grin lowered into a intimidated look, spliting its eyes to take a good look at Khalid, it realised that khalid was alredy upon him, and slashed his chest.
Which ofcourse didnt have any effect on the Delimon, but it still looked scared.
I was right. This bastard can see the future when his eyes merge. Im roughly estimating 2 seconds, as that how long it woul bee if we multiply the time he is frozen by 10, furthermore, if i dont move for those 2 seconds, then he wont have anything to see, giving me an advantage. I also speculate that he cant use the merged eyes whist moving as everything may look distorted.
'Hear me b*tch? I understand how you work now.'
Shouted Khalid whilst pointing his dagger to his glabella.
'Im going to stall enough time and make sure you die, you b*tch'
And after saying all this, Delimons Future Vision timer stopped, to which Khalid responded by jumping into an attack, slicing both its arms and its head.
I cant keep cutting it forever, I need Elena to finish whatever she is doing, and finish quick.
And back into attack he went.