Aiden & Oriel
Aiden was slightly surprised by the man’s lack of hiding, but quickly saw the lack of need for it as the man spoke. It was obvious he had some alternative plan for dealing with Ajax in order to make his escape, but Aiden wasn’t in the mood to find out. When he launched his sand attack, Aiden’s mind snapped into overdrive trying to think of what could be done to counter the maneuver.
If he switched into TDS mode, he could probably launch a large enough Water attack to disrupt it, but that would be showing his hand much too early. Unlike his battle with Ajax, their lives where on the line and it’s hardly ever to go at an enemy with your strongest moves right off the bat. Still, they couldn’t very well outrun the attack. . . but they might just be able to out maneuver it.
Thinking fast, Aiden picked up Oriel and used Water Dragon’s Flying Step to blast them into the air. He’d continued to do this until they were above the sand plume, looking down on their enemy from way up high. If Claudus made the sand launch at him, Aiden would be sure to maneuver out of the way.
“Oriel, glass the area with as much fire as you can without burning us to a crisp as well.”
Now with Aiden carrying her, Oriel smiled at the prospect of it. It was nice to be the one carried once in a while.... though, it was no time to be thinking that. Aiden gave out the directions for what he wanted her to do, and Oriel nodded at his instructions.
"Hey, don't you trust me? I am crazy, but not crazy enough to also burn you out." Oriel said to him, looking directly into his eyes. "Then, I'm outta here to beat the shit out of that guy." Oriel said, flashing another smile at Aiden and motioning with her hand as if to say goodbye. She let herself drop from his arms and dived towards the huge mass of sand that was threatening to swallow the both of them. She opened her arms and set her sights on it, narrowing her eyes and preparing herself for it. A huge blast, yeah, nothing to it. "Burn the hell up!" She snapped her fingers with both of her hands, and a huge flame was produced in the middle of the sand wave.
Oriel smiled. The heat was so intense the sand started turning into crystal soon enough. With that, she would be able to create some footing. "Now what, Aiden-chan?" She shouted at Aiden, not wanting to go on all by herself. Even she knew the guy was a bit too much for her to handle alone.
Aiden smirked at Oriel's comment, one that grew into a grin as she turned the plume of sand into a tower of glass. He then began charging magical energy as he fell towards the crystaline tower, a blue magic circle forming at his feet and a bluish white one forming over his right hand. After a few moments of free fall, in which the glow from the magic sigils grew extremely bright, Aiden took a breath as he tapped into his dragonic blood, drawing only a small amount of energy from it and thus preventing further change into his TDS mode.
"Get ready to move, Oriel," He shouted as his energy began to spike slightly, a pulse emanating from the blue sigil as he unleashed he initiated the magic.
"Water Dragon's Blitzing Charge!" With the shout came a roaring cascade as began to form violently around him, forming a type of elongate water fall around his body as it rocketed him around at high speed towards the side of the tower, his hand pulled back as he clawed his hands together to mold the water that formed around him into a small sphere which he pushed forward as he shouted his second spell.
"Ice Make: Fallen Crest of the Ice Dragon!" The sphere expanded just before he crashed into the construct, forming the head of a dragon with a large set of ram's horns, bursting through the upper half of the tower and causing a large amount of sharp glass debris to fall towards Claudus' position. But Aiden wasn't done yet as he used Water Dragon's Step to launch him out of the falling debris, suffering a few cuts on his way out.
"Oriel, light it up, Ice Dragon's Blizzarding Roar!" He took a deep breath before launching a devastating gale of frigid winds and long, razor sharp shards of ice towards the falling debris, mixing with and propelling the crystalline debris to rush forward at high speeds.
Oriel whistled at Aiden's ability to improvise so many moves in such a short time. She couldn't be done in by her partner. She herself smirked, while she turned around to shatter some of the crystal she had formed and use it as footing to move forward and not fall to the ground just yet. She'd be on Claudius' territory if that were to happen. It was obvious that the guy wasn't about to just stand there and receive their attacks as if they were a present, though.
Oriel followed up Aiden's instructions and snapped her fingers to light up the wind around his roar. "Just make damn sure it doesn't melt before we get to attack!" She shouted after she lit Aiden's attack.
Oriel then started shattering more and more of the crystals falling down to make more footing for herself. She started on moving from crystal to crystal until she finally was near enough the guy. She did make sure that Aiden's attacks had already reached their destination before going into close quarters against Claudius. "Your fucking luck just ran out, eye patch!"
Following with her next physical attack, Oriel spun around in the air while she lit up her leg. "Burning Leg!" After spinning around, Oriel aimed her kick at the guy's head. "Head Reaper!" Her kick approached the guy's head at a certainly dangerous speed, and she was fairly sure that she was taking him off guard, since Aiden just helped her create some window for that attack.