[03] Prisoners vs. Magnus!

[Mr. Zhu]

As the misty shroud began to expand in the already dark room, Zhu realized this was a perfect chance to use the sheet of mist to cover for his next attack. A killing attack. While the others held Magnus busy for the time being, the Chinese was busy channelling his ki awaiting for a game breaker. Within seconds Zhu was completely unseen from the battlefield and disappeared in the mist.

The ice woman and Xenia battled on with Magnus, accompanied by the swift lizard woman; the kid was still weak to his knees, sitting aside the battlefield watching on intently. It triggered some of his saiyan instincts, but he was still reluctant to join the battle, and since his age backed him on the argument, no one seemed to complain about his absence during the exchange.

Magnus soon jammed another right hand, this time into Alura mid-section and propelled the lizard woman straight into one of the walls of the enclosed battlefield, impacting the hard surface with a loud thud. Sage caught on to Magnus within the cloud and delivered a jab cross combo to the medi area of the hacker's nose. It did not sit well with Magnus. Grabbing on to Sages neck, he turned a full one eighty and released his grip with all his might.

By now everyone on the battlefield expected a loud boom, but it didn't happen. The young saiyan had finally summed up the courage within him, and with the saiyan blood inside of him jumped up and dragged Sage from splashing her brains all over the dark walls of the battlefield. Although his drag could not have saved Sage entirely by itself, the ice woman used the pull as a pivot, and turned to have her feet come in contact with the surface not her head. It gave her an extra push, propelling off her legs and she dived straight into combat again.

"Thanks," she managed to whisper right before she spearheaded into battle again.

A maniacal laughter rumbled in the cloud, before Xenia was spit out from the mist and landed with a crash on the floor. Falling on her rear-end, she looked up inflamed by this monster. He had stolen Sage's abilities and was using them, and using them well against Xenia. On another level, it was almost as if Xenia was being beat by her sister's ability, or worse her sister.

"That's it?" Magnus challenged the six, "That's quite disappointing, I was hoping for a better showing than this."

The purple warrior knew that staying in the cloud would be an advantage for Sage, but it proved disadvantageous in the form of a team fight in there, because the rest were afflicted by the effect. Sage realized this also, and with Magnus's powerful grasp on ability theft, it was easy for Magnus to secure the upper hand within the cloud, they had to draw him out of it now.

Before the five completed the thought, Magnus descended from the mist and crossed his arm over his chest. "Fine, I'll do it your way. You guys don't want to fight in the mist? Don't create it in the first place."

All this time, Zhu had been looking for a chance to sneak up on Magnus and fatally wound the hacker when he was off guard. As the monster descended from the shroud, he knew it was a perfect chance to inflict some big damage on their adversary. Jumping out of Hidden Dragon Stance, Zhu stealthily descended from the air, and aimed for the back of Magnus, charging his fingers up. He had to somehow plunge it into one of Magnus's limbs and disable him.

"ARGH!!!!!!!" Magnus cried in pain, as Zhu's fingers dug deep into Magnus's shoulder and plunged deep in the muscle tissue. However, Magnus tightened up his muscles and trapped his assassin within attacking range of him, so the eunuch couldn't run away. Seeing Zhu, the enraged hacker delivered a back kick and nailed Zhu in the mid-section and sent him flying headfirst into a nearby wall. Though he the kick proved to be powerful and knocked Zhu out of consciousness, the critical damage has been done. One of his arms has been temporarily paralyzed.