“Eh?” Are the first words to come out of Sky’s mouth once he sees the elephant. Its body reminds

  Sky of a brand name candy known as a twizzler. The elephants body also reminded him of distant

  pavement on a hot day, warping almost like it was trying to fold in on itself.

  The loud trumpet like sound could be heard across the room as the elephant lifted its trunk. The

  ground quaked as the elephant made is way over to Sky. Shadow was stunned be the size of the

  creature, rather than its appearance. The elephants stomping as it moved nearly caused Shadow

  to tip over.

  Shadow dug into the earth with his claws, changing to his new from when he realized he had

  dug into a small pool of lava. Shadow came to the conclusions that flinging a bit of lava towards

  the elephant would be a good first attack. As caught small droplets of lava between his claws, he

  then lifts them and later shakes them when they are higher in the air. The lava goes flying in the

  direction of the elephant, Shadow feeling confident the attack will come into contact with the

  other animal.

  Red splats of warm liquid are traveling to the elephant at a fast rate. The elephant simply stands

  still as the liquid comes into contact with and area of its body. The lava goes through a warping

  bend on the elephant and Shadow feels a strong wave of disappointment wash over himself.

  The elephant begins heading to the one who has sent that red liquid to its location. The whole

  stadium vibrates including the spectators seats and every inch of the waiting room from the

  Weight and speed of the elephants movements. Both Sky and Shadow can see the large twisting

  tusks of the elephant as it lets out another trumpet like cry.

  Now that the elephant has made its way to Shadow the creature begins is assault. Rather than

  wrapping its trunk around Shadow, the elephant wraps its hard tusks around him instead. Shadow

  can feel the pain of being squeezed by the flexible rock like tusk attached to the elephant.

  All of Shadow’s bones snap from the pressure, and the hard tusk is unaffected by the searing heat

  let out by Shadow’s current form. Shadow feels a sense of relief as the elephant drops him to the

  ground, then soon feels horror as he clues in to the action the dropping is leading to. The elephant

  stomps down on Shadow with it right foot, since Shadow’s bones are broken there is nothing he

  can do to stop this cruel act. The elephant then kicks him to its left foot, stomping down again.

  The elephant just keeps on passing Shadow back and forth between its to feet and stomping

  down each time.

  (What do I do? I have to heal Shadow and fast, but I do not want to end up in the same situation!)

  Sky was panicking, he did have a skill to heal Shadow, but he need a way to get him out of that

  tough spot. (If only I could multiple like a slime!) Sky begins to fill his whole body with mana

  right down to the cellular structure. (Copy, divide, separate.) Sky instructs both his cells and

  mana. Sky feels a weird sense of being in to places at once, and then boom, there are now to

  Skys but one mind shared between them.

  One Sky leaps into the air, while the other slides under the elephants foot pushing Shadow

  forwards with a combination attack. The second Shadow is out from under the foot of the

  elephant the second Sky lands on top of its back. The second Sky begins to combined wind

  and his combination attack. It was not enough to create a skill, but it did not matter, the gust

  of wind dealt some damage, while the combo attack just went through one of the twisting bends

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  on the elephant.

  The first Sky begins to gather psi to heal shadow. Shadow could feel his bones being mended,

  also the soothing warmth of his body being healed. Shadow could now stand up freely. A look

  of puzzlement spread across his face at the sight of two Skys. (Why have I never meet Sky’s

  sibling before? When did he arrive here?) These thoughts of confusion continuing to fill the

  wolf’s mind.

  The second Sky was running low on mp from the continued use of his wind skills. (Okay looks

  like it is time to get off this thing.) following this thought pattern the second Sky leaps off of the

  elephant onto the warm ground. The second Sky continues on with combination attacks, none

  hitting the elephant.

  The ground shakes as the elephant tries to stomp down on the man in front of itself. The elephant

  becomes annoyed when it can not land a single hit on the agile young man. It even goes as far as

  slamming its trunk in the center, yet the man just ends up doing a backflip to avoid its trunk.

  Anger sweeps over the elephant as another one of its attacks have now missed.

  The second Sky felt how close of a call that had been. If he had not noticed in time the force of

  the swing from the trunk would have sent him flying and in all likely hood he would have landed

  in a pool of lava.

  Shivers ran down the first Sky’s back at the thought. Sure there were two of him, however they

  shared one mind, so if the second Sky had ended up in the pool of lava he would have felt the

  pain and in all likely hood would have been stunned from shock.

  Shadow allowed the first Sky to mount himself. Both the first Sky and Shadow now floated in

  midair from the levitation skill the first Sky was using. Shadow tried to calm the flames around

  himself so that the first Sky would not get injured from them.

  The first Sky was deep in thought, while still focusing on the other fight with the clone body.

  (This may be a bad idea but I will try it anyways.) The first Sky focuses on the bond he shares

  with Shadow. Sky connects his mind with the young wolf.

  Shadow could feel a telepathic tug as Sky was about to merge with him. This would be his second

  time becoming the werewolf form and the first time in his new wolf phoenix form. Sky’s ideas

  begin to fill Shadow’s.

  The second Sky could feel his mind begin to diverge from the original Sky. The two would have

  separate thoughts once the original became a werewolf. (What will happen once he is no longer

  in werewolf form? Would it be like trying to fill your head with some other person’s thoughts?)

  These where the types of questions on the second Sky’s mind as they became to different people.

  The original Sky felt a wall go up around his mind once he became one with Shadow. Trying to

  adjust to the constant fire floating around the wolf man’s new body, Sky gathers it to his claws.

  Sky then brings wind to the other claw. One claw is covered in an intense fire, while the other

  has a wind current circling around and between each finger.

  The second Sky begins to fight harder so that the elephant does not notice the werewolf above.

  His kicks and punches collide with the elephant’s feet and trunk, each time the force of the

  collision pushing him backwards. There are a few times he misses due to the twisting and

  bending nature of the elephant, when this would happen he would have to doge the elephant’s

  counter attacks. The damage dealt by these attacks seemed like they were no more than scratches

  to the elephant.

  In their werewolf form Sky and Shadow unleashed their combined elemental attack at the

  elephant. Blades of wind and streams of fire came into contact with the elephant, each one

  at a different end as to not cause an explosion. The reason for not wanting to create an explosion

  was simple, neither Sky nor Shadow wanted to cause harm to Sky’s clone.

  The second Sky avoided the attacks which were being let loose by the werewolf from above.

  He instead focused his attention on distracting the elephant. This was not an easy task with the

  other version of himself dealing a large portion of damage to the elephants health.

  (Again?) The elephant thought to itself, looking around to spot the cause, yet never getting the

  chance to find out where it was coming from. The man in front was much like a bug who would

  not die no matter how many times you tried to squash it under your feet.

  The second Sky’s mp had recovered after only using basic attacks which only used up stamina.

  Stamina had increased from the constant traveling, so basic attacks felt like they had an unlimited

  supply of it. This was not the case in reality, but it would take a long time for stamina to run low

  just from these type of attacks.

  The second Sky begins to use advanced wind on the elephant, carefully avoiding any spot that

  fire was being launched at. The wind was capable of stopping the elephants feet from stomping

  down on the second Sky at this level, meaning it was not just for offense, but a form of defense

  as well for the second Sky.

  The elephant begins to panic as its health lowers faster and faster. The elephant begins to spin its

  body, at a moment that is catastrophic for everyone else. Both wind attacks collide with the fire.

  The second Sky and the werewolf merged being all go flying from the pressure created from the

  explosion.

  The second Sky can not help but worry, that is until he remembers he to can use the levitation

  skill. (Man that really hurt! Lucky I used the levitation skill in time or that could have hurt a lot

  more than just the impact from the blast.) The second Sky looking down at the lava pool below

  while thinking these things.

  Sky and Shadow dig their claws into the ground as they try to slow down the continued

  momentum. (Well Shadow that hurt! No kidding right?) They could hear one another laughing

  in their head. Two different thoughts in the same head giving them a mild headache with how

  loud that laughter seemed to the two of them.

  Shadow and Sky used the advanced wind to pick up some lava from behind them. The second

  Sky seeing what they are doing does the same. Both use their wind to create a cloud of lava

  above the elephant.

  The elephant can feel warmth from above but pays it no mind. (Where did they both go? I must

  kill them and destroy their bodies afterwards!) If anyone could read the twisting elephant’s mind

  they would be shocked at what it was thinking.

  Almost like a count down clock had hit one, both Sky’s stop their wind skill. The heavy cloud of

  lava pours down onto the searching elephant. The lava trickles down to the elephants eyes which

  causes them to melt and become a soft liquid. Then the tough hide of the elephant melts away.

  Finally the tusks attached to the elephant melt along with its bones.

  The three could hear the announcement being made. “And the second winner of the semifinals is

  Sky Soar-high!” Sky and Shadow return to normal, and once they do the two Skys are hit with a

  wave of nausea from the sudden collision of diverging memories. The two Skys merge back as

  one and head into the waiting room.

  Willow pass by on the way to her round and tells Sky. “You know I watched your whole match,

  and I got to say having two of you around could be a lot of fun!” Chills run down Sky’s back as

  Willow winks while finishing her sentence. Sky did not know if Willow meant that in a subjective

  way or if she meant it in a way that she wanted to dissect him while he was cloned. That girl often

  brings him to a state of terror.