>>5314428“Heh, finally realized that your invisibility won't save you?” you ask, turning fully to face the last one. Yet despite your confident demeanor, you suddenly feel even MORE worried that this one's chosen to reveal itself. And, as you stare it down, you can't help but feel like this is where the real challenge begins.
“I am First Blade Mrata 'Nagam of the Silent Shadow.” the metal Sangheili says, drawing out his fighting energy blade. But you immediately notice this one's different, it glowing a deep, blood-red hue instead of the usual paler, more muter blue. Well, if this isn't a real boss fight, you don't know what is. “And by divine decree, I am to strike you down, here and now.”
“Oh yeah? We'll see about that.” you say, holding your right hand out towards the door. More specifically, towards your ancient sword you'd left there by the door. Grabbing it by telekinesis, you pull the ancient sword into your outstretched hand, it slamming into your open hand as you raise it over your head. Grabbing the weapon in both hands you take the Djem So fighting stance your Daddy'd taught you. Holding the sword overhead you crouch, spreading your feet with your right back, left pointed directly at your enemy as you find your perfect balance. “Bring it on.”
“Ice Nine.” the Sangheili says in a sonorous voice while taking the same stance as that Sangheili you'd fought before, reminding you very much so of the one who'd tried to assassinate you in your own arena. But as he doesn't say anything else or try to attack, you decide to go on the offensive first.
“Watch this chat.” you say with a smirk, and try lunging forward to cut him down in a single strike. But as you go, your charge is immediately stopped! “Huh?”
And looking down you see that, somehow, your boots are FROZEN to the ground! Then as you look back up, you see the Sangheili assassin has already closed the distance, thrusting his blood-colored sword directly for your sternum.
“SHIT!” you seethe, twisting your upper body to narrowly dodge the piercing thrust. The edge of his lower blade gives you a shallow cut across your abs, just under your shirt as you barely avoid taking a lethal blow. “HAAAA!!”
Tearing your left foot free of the probably-magic ice with sheer force, you drive your knee up into the Sangheili's right side and send him flying. Focusing on your right foot you tear it free as well, just as you hear the splitjaw crash into the wall you'd kicked him at. Before he can do any more funny business you take to the air, hovering more than a foot off the ground as you turn to face him. The warrior rises back up despite the massive dent in what would be his right floating ribs, an injury no-doubt fatal for a non-machine. But it looks like you'll have to hit it even harder than that to end this.
