While Xavier would have liked to have ran the woman through in the end such an outcome would be far from necessary. Xaviers once relaxed eyes began to pick up pace as the woman began to shift the position of her legs, jumping from the woman's sliding left leg to the bending of her knees and then to the shattering earth. As the tip of the stone tore through only empty air and the woman was leaping sideways there was a small twitch of Xaviers cheek as the surface of the red stone cone was suddenly littered by a series of thin cracks; plumes of dust erupting from within to leave a thin and harmless trail of dust as it passed Sarah. 

Meanwhile Xaviers eyes had not stopped tracking Sarah's movements and his muscles began to tense in preparation as she readied herself; her right hand flexing out. There was no signs of a weapon in her hand to be thrown and Xavier surmised that what was about to come next would be an energy attack of some sort.

The shattered stone cone would have been 6 feet behind Sarah when it's form suddenly broke entirely; separating itself into 6 individual red stone cones. These cones would separate in a nearly perfect outwards growing circle in which the spikes fell into a half-second gap of one another as they aligned themselves to Sarah's backside with tenacity as she began to thrust her hand. 

The red glow of Xaviers eyes intensified for a moment while his left hand tensed into a tighter fist as he began to feel the distortion coming forth from Sarah's hand and almost immediately he could feel that it was, passively, attempting to force his energy with the winds before it. Rather than fight this Xavier would allow his energy to ride upon the winds so that the energy which was in front of her would be pushed ahead of the pressurized air she released; the separate particles condensing together as they passed one another.

Impact was almost upon him when Xaviers fingers began to spread and released what would appear to be an incredible amount of red, black and purple sand that would lurch in front of his body. It was Dread Energy; a chaotic embodiment of Xaviers indomitable will power. In this dense form Dread Energy possessed an unnatural physical presence that is usually implemented through means of an attack.  Now though, the energy was condensed before him in a roiling sea of dense particles and would serve as a deflection for the oncoming gale.

The first of the stone fragments would have been upon Sarah now, utilizing the remainder of his energy behind her to align them properly despite them being of sight. Pinpoint accuracy was not currently possible but Xavier was guiding them towards the base of her spine and between each strike she would have only a half second to dodge the following strike that would be guided at her until the final 6th had passed this turn.

Xavier was smacked first by his own energy which billowed around his already massing shield to add itself to its rear supply for upon impact of her gales Xaviers energy began to spread apart from the force. It would be forced to the edge of his nearly physical barrier where it would be recycled back unto the mass of energy by circling to the center of the reverse side. In this manner it would force the winds to part around Xavier and allow him to begin a slow march towards Sarah; unimpeded by the forceful winds.

Was Sarah's manipulation going to sustain a constant torrent of pressure upon Xavier? Should her force recede in the slightest she would find Xaviers energy thrashing towards her like a cloud of locusts; expanding not to hit her with force but rather to mask the entire area in a thicker fog than before. Otherwise it would stand strong confront of him as he trudged onward.