The Knotted Forest

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Cernia huddled behind a thickly-leaved branch in the tree, watching Atlas tunnel underground before keeping her eyes on the clearing for an intruder.

Let's see who you are, mortal. Cernia thought with a calculating gaze, watching the clearing below with malice in her eyes.
 
Lightning Rider arrived at the location of where he heard the voices. He looked around, to see if he could spot them. "You better come on out! I know you're out there! So let's do this the easy way and show your faces!" Lightning Rider shouted.
 
Atlas pops his arms out of the ground to try grabbing his legs.

"Can we help you?" he asks.
 
Lightning noticed the arms popping out of the ground and jumped few feet back. 

"Nice try." Lightning Rider said as he landed. "So, you're the demons I heard about." Rider gives out a sinister smile. "Do me a favor and die for me, will ya? It will make this little task so much easier to impress my boss that way."
 
Stupid humans, always so over their heads. Cernia thought with a grimace. Hmph, think we're some game fowl to hunt for a prize? Absurd!

Although she kept herself hidden in the tree, a smirk of glee formed on her face. Too bad a place like this is just right for us. 

The demon let frost cover her hands and forearms. If only Atlas could get the wretched thing to back up towards her. But there's no harm in playing a little bit. Cernia remained in her spot, if only rising farther up into the tree to watch. Lots of possibilities to choose from, but for now it was essential to stay hidden. It didn't matter if he knew both of them were present. As long as she kept out of sight long enough, it would be Atlas's job to bait him.

From her spot, frost slowly began to accumulate and spread to the top of the branches. As she concentrated on guiding the ice, she would glance back down to the clearing.
 
"If things can't be easy for me, why should I make them easy for you?" Atlas shrugs, smiling.

He does a series of short hops and flings some mud at his aggressor, laughing.

"I like to fight dirty." XD
 
Lightning Rider took a few feet back as he held out both of his arms in front of his face to protect himself from the flinging mud. He lost his sinister smile, frowning from the answer he was given.

"As I expected. You demons always want to make things difficult, eh?" Rider closed his eyes for a moment. "Well, let's get.." When Rider re-opened his eyes, it was beaming with electricity and bore his smile once again. "Started!"

His body burst out high intensity of electricity, sending out multiple flares a few miles away from him in several directions of the forest. He then took a stance, as energy forming around the palms of his right hand. 

"I hope you're ready to be sent back to the Under World where you belong, Demon!" Rider shouted as he proceeds to rush towards him, aiming to slam the electric balls towards his stomach.
 
Random sparks hit Atlas from Rider powering up to no effect.

"Oh, you're a lightning user? I thought this was gonna be fun." Atlas laments.

Atlas allows his opponent to come close before shifting the land beneath them to either side.

"I'll return there when I'm good and ready. We've been up here too long as it is."
 
He's as good as a sitting duck with Atlas now. Cernia thought, a bored expression on her face as she raised herself to the top of one of the branches, raising her iced-up arms and thrusting them down, one folded over the other. Too bad.

Flung from her arms came a multitude of ice shards, aimed straight for the man now that Atlas gave her a clear shot after separating the land. She bore a sneer on her face.
 
Rider nearly lost his balance when Atlas shifted the land. 

"Whoa, nearly lost my balance there for a second." Rider noticed Atlas and himself had switched places, as he attempts to stand up. At first, he was confused about the point of this; however, he turned his head to the right to see what was coming behind his back. He let out a smile and turned back to Atlas.

"Trying to make this fun for me? I'm flattered, but I'm enjoying this way too much already." Rider said, with the energy in his hands still forming. 

In a split second, a beam of light straight shot the ice shards--resulting in a small explosion. The beam of light continued to fly through the sky before heading towards the demon, hidden the trees. A energy-like being, bearing resemblance to Lightning Rider, appeared in front of the demon and grabbed her by the arm.  

"You should never attack someone from the back, you know." The energy-like figure said.
 
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