{EDITED}

Warning: One long darn chapter.

<~Preston's P.O.V~>
"So, just like old times, what are we doing this time?" Vikk asked.

"So, just like old times, you're up against a professional," Shadow Viper replied, stepping out in enchanted leather armour.

"No. The answer is no. We aren't fighting you again Shadow. You are much stronger than Herobrine. This isn't fair," Lachlan stated.

"Would you rather have a Shadow Maze made for you?" Jason asked.

"NO!!" Lachlan screamed as Vikk violently shook his head no, being hugged from behind quite tightly by Lachlan, who was muttering about the 'evil creature of demons and all things evil that dare try to hurt anything so incredible and precious and innocent and adorable and beautiful'.

"That's not gonna happen," Mitch continued, squeezing Jerome, who was hyperventilating and panicking.

"I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you," Jerome repeated, kissing Mitch's cheek, paranoid out of his mind.

"I love you too Baby," Mitch whispered back, raising his arms around Jerome's neck as their lips connected in a passionate, much needed at the moment kiss.

"Preston can fend for himself now, so I wouldn't be that worried about him," Rob chuckled, hugging me from behind softly, as he nuzzled the back of my neck. Giggling softly, I put my hands on him while he rocked us gently.

"I love you, Robby," I murmured before Rob put his lips on my neck gently and smiling.

"And you already know what I'm about to say," he grinned, kissing the back of my ear. I nodded gladly as he muttered into my brunette hair, "I love you too Lava P,".

"Alright, fight the Vipe it is then!" Jason chuckled as Tyler cracked up uncontrollably. Shadow rolled her eyes as she twirled her customized knives with horrifying ease.

"Alright, enough nonsense. Let's battle!" Shadow smirked.

Lachlan sighed, holding his dual swords at the ready as Vikk pulled out his long sword. Mitch put a few more arrows in his quiver and nocked an arrow onto his bow while Jerome pulled Betty off of his back. Rob grabbed his own sword and shield and I chose a pair of twin daggers, keeping an eye on Shadow.

Shadow made the first move, swinging one of her daggers at Lachlan, who swiftly blocked, challenging Shadow's brute strength. Jerome charged at Elizabeth, who smirked and dodged, causing Jerome to turn with surprising agility and meet her diamond axe to diamond axe in battle. As Mitch ran to the other side of the room to grab at a better angle of an archer, Rob swung at Shadow, who couldn't dodge whatsoever.

I ran to help Jerome, who was swinging and swinging at Elizabeth, who kept up with his tempo, her headphones blasting 'What's Up Danger' into her head and letting her move her feet with slick rhythm. I noticed that Elizabeth's fighting style, much unlike Shadow Viper's, was to look for openings in the opponent's defence while blocking their strikes.

I also realized that whenever the fight sped up or slowed down, her headphones flashed a green for a second, searching for a different song so that Beth could match the tempo with her feet and her defensive movements, while Shadow, on the other hand, didn't wear headphones in battle ever, for she always uses her strengths to overwhelm her opponents, confusing or surprising them.

If Shadow's strategy doesn't work, her speed helps her overpower anyone, while Elizabeth's sneaky brain makes unexpected moves that put her enemy right where she wants them.

Vikk threw his sword at Shadow's foot, which moved out of the way at the last moment, before he dove in and snatched it back, causing Viper to jump over him in order to avoid being tripped, Lachlan's sword nearly catching her forearm, and if it weren't for Rob's quick reflexes, Vikk would be split in half. Cutting into Jerome and Elizabeth's fast pace battle, I tried to distract Elizabeth, who pulled out an iron sword and fought both Jerome and me at the same time.

Mitch, finally deciding on a position, let one of his dull, rubber tipped practice arrows fly towards Shadow, who countered by doing a backflip and smacking the arrow with one of her daggers, sending it flying towards Vikk, who dodged with ease. Swinging at Elizabeth's arm, I was kicked in the shin by the confident hybrid, but I merely flinched in response as to not show weakness to my sparring opponent. Rob dodged a blow from one of Shadow's twin weapons, which gave Lachlan an opening at Shadow's back, which was seemingly unguarded by any foe.

However, when Lachlan did attempt to defeat the merciless fighter, his sword was met with an obsidian wing that was armed with scales like bedrock. A red spike swept under the blond boy's feet, causing him to fall over, but before it could tap his chest, which would signal that he had 'died', Lachlan swung the flat of the diamond sword in his left hand in front of him as a defensive move, blocking Ender Shadow's tail from being able to pierce his heart.

Shadow smirked as Rob knocked her custom dagger out of her left claw, dropping its counterpart and jumping up into the air. Mitch chose this moment to shoot at the Ender hybrid, causing the arrow to miss completely. While Jerome and I fought bitterly against Beth, the girl decided that is Ender Shadow was allowed to become her hybrid form, so was she, lightning striking the green-eyed warrior.

Elizabrine swept up into the air and chuckled, making the rest of us smirk, knowing that this is where the battle really began.

Soaring through the air, Ender Shadow was encountered by Rob's healthy green vines, which Vikk was climbing hastily. Elizabeth swept down to cut down the vines with her axe, but Mitch wasn't about to allow that to happen, his arrows flying millimetres away from the Brine's face, throwing off her balance.

Stumbling a few yards down, Beth caught herself before she was met with my sword against her own weapon. We fought until she roundhouse kicked me in my side with her dominant foot, her right foot, and back flipped right back into the air while Shadow faced Vikk in sword to sword combat and Mitch nocked another arrow.

I groaned for a second, recovering from my blow, as Lachlan threw one of his dual swords at Ender Shadow, sweating pretty hard. Shadow moved out of the way for the most part, but the sharp weapon was able to chip her shoulder, causing her to grunt and fall back a bit as Jerome jumped to catch the weapon before sending it back towards Lachlan, who caught it and ran towards the wall.

Elizabeth, seeing Lachlan's next move, flew to counter it, meeting Lachlan's weapon with her own after he had flipped off the wall. Rob, concentrating on making sure that Vikk wouldn't fall, was easily an open target for either of the two hybrids, so Mitch ran towards him to guard him as Jerome picked up a war hammer and threw it at Elizabeth, who tried to dodge, but she ended up damaging her right arm painfully.

Knowing that a war hammer would be to heavy for me to throw accurately, I picked up a spear and tossed it towards Shadow, who grabbed it, to my surprise and disappointment, and tried to use it to pin Vikk against one of Rob's vines, but Vikk teleported behind Shadow and grabbed her wings.

Shadow, screaming with competitive anger, reached back and clawed at Vikk's fingers, successfully drawing blood, which would most likely be cleaned up by Rob or a potion of healing, causing Vikk to shriek and release his ceasing grip on the Ender Princess, who wasn't able to catch her balance before she crashed into the training floor.

Robert, now able to move his vines without having to worry about Vikram, used his spiked plants to attack Ender Shadow like a wrecking ball. Shadow, ducking under the large sphere of thorns, roared in pain when one of them scraped her cheek, but she refused to fall.

Setting the wrecking ball on fire, I threw fireball after fireball at Elizabrine, who was trying to locate Lachlan, as said male dashed around in circles in a blur, easily confusing Elizabeth... and everyone else, but it was mostly confusing Beth. Mitch, now free of his responsibility of Rob, shot another arrow at my fireball, going through it and catching fire, and as it skimmed Elizabeth's pale cheek, Elizabeth screeched and dove to the ground, causing the floor around her to shake and jet up in jagged, uneven spikes.

Most of us were able to dodge the spikes, but Lachlan, moving to quickly to really see what was going on, ran right into a sharp obstacle, which cut into his face slightly.

"LACHLAN!!" Vikk screamed as Lachlan fell to the ground, grasping his face. The gash on Lachlan's face bleeding pretty badly, Jerome dragged Lachlan to sit out while Tyler called Seto over for some medical help, even though Lachlan would normally get up and continue fighting in normal battle circumstances.

"I'm alright! I'm good!" he replied, dropping his dual swords as Seto pulled him up to his feet.

"No you're not, but I will be in just a moment if you would hold still!" Seto growled.

"It stings mate! You try getting your face unexpectedly split in half by your friend who's basically a goddess!" Lachlan retorted.

"She's technically a hybrid, more specifically a fusion of different breeds and DNA functions, no matter how powerful she may be, but I really don't have time to go over the specifics with you," Seto corrected.

"Hey, it's not like I'm dumb!" Lachlan cried.

"So you're smart?" Seto asked as everyone ignored them.

Jumping from spike to spike, I changed my target, shooting fireball after ball at Ender Shadow, who was trying to cut through Rob's vines while dodging my attacks. Changing his opponent as well, Vikk ran towards Elizabrine, meeting her axe with his long sword, as Mitch threw his bow aside to load a crossbow and fire it at Shadow, who wrapped her tail around the weapon before it could embed itself in her armour, wings, or tail.

Rob's vines, being hacked away by Shadow's wings and claws, wrapped themselves around Shadow's tail and tried to drag her down, but Ender Shad's tail was somehow strong enough to break through the vines right before she hit the floor while Elizabeth swung at my side, my arms instinctively moving my sword to block the hit, Lachlan complaining about how the healing potion stung his eyes and Seto quietly walking away.

As Brice opened the door for his boyfriend, Elizabeth swung her axe so hard that the handle broke, causing her to groan and mumble something incoherent and violent. Grabbing Jerome's battle axe, Elizabeth threw his weapon to the side, though she would normally throw at someone else or chuck it at the opponent in front of her this is a sparring match.

Throwing a kick at his gut, Elizabeth knocked Jerome back several meters, his supreme strength allowing the brunette to hold his ground and keep his feet steady long enough to consider his options of attack and strategy before Elizabeth was right in front of him again.

This time, Jerome caught the blow coming at him and threw the punch right back at the girl, a war of martial arts forming between them, while Vikk, his fingers still bleeding painfully, kicked Shadow in the gut. Before Shadow went to punch him the face, Mitch picked up Jerome's axe and used the flat of the weapon as a shield to defend the short Brit, who, in turn, elbowed Shadow in the chest and stepped on her stomach, knocking the wind out of her.

Ripping the dangerous blade out of Mitchell's hands, Ender Shadow punched Mitch in the gut and picked him up before she threw him towards a wall where he was caught by Jerome as Rob wrapped a vine around the princess and threw her at another wall, Shadow catching herself before she could crash.

Jerome, throwing punches and kicks at Elizabeth, finally landed a hit to her shin, causing her to hesitate with her next move, but she was able to send a punch to Jerome's shoulder, causing him to stumble backwards and groan before catching a hook to his head just in time.

Meeting Rob in hand to hand combat, Shadow used her wings and tail to defend herself from Mitch's rubber arrows, her concentration taking a lot of energy from her, as I threw one of Shadow's custom daggers that she had dropped earlier as Elizabeth's head, which was securely protected by her powerfully enchanted, impiercible helmet.

Elizabeth, seeing the rubber projectile, struck it with a bolt of shocking blue electricity,somehow breaking the insulator of a weapon in half, forcing Mitch to jump out of the way, as Jerome was kicked hard in the side, severely throwing off the tall boy's balance in the swift and violent process.

Teetering to the right, Jerome was quickly pinned by the female brine hybrid with the strength of a goddess and, even though he had the strength of a god, his position made it challenging enough for his movements to be restricted to nothing but struggling.

With Jerome unable to move, Elizabeth put one hand on Jerome's neck, choking him until he tapped out and went to sit on the side next to Lachlan, while Rob sent an uppercut to Shadow's chest, but his attack was unsuccessful once Shadow, still defending herself from Mitch's pestering yet laborious arrows with her large, menacing, black wings, had caught his fist and twisted his arm, causing him to grunt and make sure that his feet were steady.

Tiring from his current inelegant body structure, Rob strategically used the stability of Ender Shadow's arm, which still held his own arm locked in place, to cleverly support his weight as he jumped up to kick Shadow in the side of her already busy head, knocking her down to the floor and successfully causing her to release her formerly sturdy grip on his forearm, but, though he managed to force Shadow to fall, his foot just nearly missed one of Mitch's rubber arrows, which were soaring at the speed of light towards their desired target. Shadow, not yet prepared to give up on this fight, tripped Robert, with her scaled black tail, causing him to yelp, while Mitch shot an arrow towards her and another at Elizabeth, who was in the middle of battling Vikk and I, who were teaming up on her.

Teleporting around the kind child of our sworn enemy, Vikk motioned for me to jump in as he kicked Elizabeth in the chest, so, running towards my two friends, I armed myself with a fourteen inch bladed boomerang, treating it like a spear.

Juking our attacks, Elizabrine punched me in the chest and failed to sweep Vikk off of his feet, for he teleported out of the way just in time to avoid the female warrior's attack.

Coughing as a side effect from the hit, I blocked a skillfully crafted and summoned diamond sword with my own blades while Mitch continued to shoot arrows at both opponents, effectively dividing the concentration of the two incredibly trained fighters, and Lachlan and Jerome made light conversation on the side, talking about work and everyday life.

Vikk, attempting to kick Elizabeth in the gut, had his foot blocked by Elizabeth's knee, which then proceeded to push him backwards, would've fallen forcefully onto his back if it were not for his teleporting abilities while Rob stumbled back up to his feet and jumped onto Ender Shadow, the two of them wrestling violently until one of them tired out.

Eventually trapping Elizabeth in a headlock, I sent my knee into her back, causing her to screech and teleport away from me, surprising me, as Shadow was nearly able to get Robert out of the game by swinging her incredibly sharp claws down towards his chest, which was swiftly defended by Rob's shining blue blade.

Kicking at Shadow's legs, Rob eventually knocked Shadow down, but she was able to get back up an almost a second, punching the tall boy in the chest, effectively pushing him to the ground. Elizabeth, blocking her pain from her mind like a truly well trained warrior, ran towards Vikk, who was catching his breath and evaluating his current situation and position, from behind him and attempted to punch him in the back of the head, which would have cleanly knocked him out, but I jumped in the way to catch her fist and throw to the side while she was in the middle of jumping to hit the short Brit, somehow either underestimating her strength or overestimating my own.

Unfortunately unable to toss Elizabrine's attack away from it's target, I was electrocuted by the brine, who had been forced to float in midair after her jump as to not fall awkwardly, and I ended up being thrown to the side with Lachlan and Jerome, who were watching the battles of their corresponding partner quite intently, groaning as I slowly sat up straight to watch Robert and Ender Shadow's intense battle closely.

Aiming at Shadow once more, Mitchell shot another rubber arrow towards the black and red hybrid, who flew up to dodge the incoming non-lethal projectile, only to have her arms captured by vines, which were powerfully controlled by an extremely concentrated yet handsome male in a blue hoodie.

Mitch, now receiving a well deserved clear shot, fired yet another training arrow, which was blocked by Shadow's majestic and unpierceable wings, before Vikk teleported up to her to hold his sword to her neck, but he was swiftly sent to the floor by Shadow's long, bold tail, knocking him out of consciousness.

Lachlan, slightly panicked by even the thought of small Vikk getting hurt, dove at amazing speed to catch his lover before the blond Australian easily dashed out and cuddled his boyfriend close, much more interested in fondly running his hand through Vikk's soft raven black hair than the scrimmage at all to literally no one's surprise.

Incredibly easily breaking out of the thick vines, Shadow Viper swooped down towards Rob to attack him again, but Mitch jumped in the way while shooting an arrow at a rather tired Elizabeth, who either couldn't react fast enough to the incoming edge, or had senses that were too tired out to alert her of the weapon.

Either way, the girl looked up and accepted her fate as the arrow hit her on the forehead and she passed out on the spot, so I guess that she really didn't need to get hit. She would've just 'died'. Beth knows her place.

She barely even stirred when Lucky walked in and dragged her over to us, giving us a small nod of the head as a 'hello' before he sat down to cuddle his resting girlfriend, as Shadow rammed into Mitch and Robert, who caught the boy in front of him and helped him stand up straight afterwards. Shadow, growling at the two, flew high up into the air before she formed a large plasma blast in between her hands, much like Jerome would produce a bundle of shadows, and shot it at the two male teenagers, who both scrambled to rush out of the path of the deadly purple sphere.

The attack came into contact with the ground, the force of the aftermath, an explosion, sending both boys flying through the air, and both male structured fighters were forced into a spin in order to correctly finish their landing unscathed.

Diving towards Rob, the female ender hybrid slammed into the boys chest, knocking him backwards and onto the floor, unconscious, causing my eyes to widen, before I jogged over to my lover and pulled him to the side.

At this, he began to wake up, making me smile lightly, before he blinked a few times to adjust to the light around him, smiling at me a little. After he sat up fully, Rob kissed me softly on the tips of my nose, causing me to pull back, blush, and giggle a little bit.

We turned our attention back to the battle in front of us after I was pulled onto my lover's familiar lap and had my hair nuzzled thoroughly while Vikk began to groan from his spot in Lachlan's arms.

Mitch, panicking because he did not have a close range weapon with him at this moment, looked around and picked up an iron sword, probably figuring that when a better, more suitable weapon wanted to show up, he'd take that one.

Knowing that Mitch really was not the best with close combat yet was certainly a master of the bow and arrow, Ender Shadow flew directly at the boy in the checkered hoodie, his eyes widening before he rolled out of the way as to avoid the quickly approaching attack.

However, the benja's menovers didn't last very long against the almighty Ender Shadow, Warrior Princess of the Ender Kingdom, and he was quickly knocked into Elizabeth right after she sat up.

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