At first Cassiel had been worried that the water would become superheated so quickly that it would boil around him before the fireball dissipated. That had been the reason he'd made sure to channel the water around him, but not over him. He shuddered at the near miss as his hair stood on end from its proximity to such a powerful electric charge.

Still, the fireball was coming, and he was out of water. He flew as fast as he could, dodging toward Kage. He could sense the dragon controlling the fireball, so he knew that he couldn't trick it into hitting something else, but he could force the encounter, using the biggest fire-resistant object at hand.

As he passed by, well over head of Kage, he dropped lower. As he did, he grabbed the dragon's curled wings, yanked them violently open, and thrust them up to snap closed on the fireball like a giant Venus' fly trap.

Daria's cat like eyes widened in shock as she was sent flyingback. Her sweater was ripped to shreds by the air.. She thought fast as she was nearing the ground and teleported herself next to Cass. She let the tattered remains of her garment fall to the roof on which they stood. And then she smiled at the new arrival. "Good to see you," she mumbled to him never taking her eyes off of the dragon. "let's handle this."

"With pleasure," Mike growled, probing the ground below with his telekinesis. Finding what he was looking for, he smiled. "Turn about's fair play, after all."

A beachball-sized garden boulder shot up from among ths shrubs below, flying straight at the dragon's head.

Daria grinned at the attack Cass was making. His assistance would be needed since she was new at fighting outside the realm of taekwondo She worried that somehow the creature might be able to dodge the boulder and decided to contribute. Knowing the boulder was supported by Cassius' telekenisis and that she wouldn't weight it down or change it's speed Daria teleported to it and perched on it. she drew back her claws which could penetrate any surface. the dragon had tough scales but Daria would make a scratch that was the full length of her nail- two inches she just didn't know how thick the dragons skin was-perhaps two inches would be a minor scratch. No problem she had other tricks.
The boulder was moving so fast Daria had used her tail to keep her balance. It wasn't a struggle though and she soon locked her senses onto the target, bracing for impact.

Kage opened his wings, and saw that the boulder was coming at him. He smirked. " I don't need my powers to stop that. " He said as he put his arms up infront of him, his elbows bent, his hands closing into fists, causing his knuckles to crack. He straightened his back, cracking it at the same time. His right leg began to move up and down, stomping into the ground. He was in his Muay Thai stance. He put his tail against the ground, and leaned back on it, closing his wings to his back, allowing him to move faster so that he was not slowed down by the wind against his wings.
Kage stomped his right foot into the ground, and pushed off using his tail as a spring. He let out a thunderous battle cry as he raised his powerful knee, slamming it into the boulder with tremendous precision, sending cracks all throughout it. It soon shattered, and he still had his free hands. He generated heat energy into his clawed hands, setting them ablaze. He threw a left forearm towards Daria's chin.

Cassiel waved a hand, sending Kage into a midair spin, keeping his forearm blow well clear of Daria. For good measure, he gave him momentum on all axes, making him tumble wildly for the moment.

"And thank you, that looked much easier than it would have been for me to shatter it," Mike added. The shards of the boulder, still in his telekinetic grasp, began pelting in at Kage, orienting so that their sharpest edges were forward. They struck mostly at his head and chest, with a few stragglers hitting limbs occasionally. The rocks darted in to strike, then darted back to repeat the motion.

Daria was greatful for Cass's interuption of the blow. She took advantage of his attack and followed it up, teleporting closer and aiming her claws for Kage's ears and eyes the only things not covered in scales.

Kage laughed as he stopped himself from spinning, using his control of the air. He landed back on the ground. He rolled his eyes back into his head as he put his forearms infront of him, creating a powerful fire-field around his body. This did not stop the rocks, but, what Kage was doing with his right hand would. He used his power of the air to send the rocks off course, and at Daria.
Meanwhile, Kage was up to something sinister. His left hand had remained open, but he was starting to close it slowly, removing the oxygen from the air around Cassiel. It would soon become very hard for him to breathe, and he would either have to retreat, or pass out from lack of air. And if he stayed longer, then......

Daria saw the blocks comeing and knew she couldnt take a blow from them and remain concious. It was almost nearly impossible to fight this dragon but Daria remembered she wasn't alone. She had Cass and perhaps they could work together. She tekeported beside him, avoided the rocks and noticed that the air tasted odd here. She didn't recognize the smell or the taste but her feline instincts to ld her it was dangerous. She turned to Cass. "we have to get out of this area. Let me teleport you..." she pleaded.

The wind blast caught Mike by surprise, but he redoubled his efforts, retaking control of the shards and sending them flying one by one in at Kage's head in a long string.

He then thrust his mind into Kage's with two purposes. First, as he invaded, a mental 'white noise' spread through the dragon's mind, making concentration difficult. He'd been tentative with his first attempt, releasing fear into the mind of the dragon, but now he was brutal. His power drove a psychic lance filled with soul-curdling guilt into Kage's mind, striking from the conscious mind all the way through to its most primal parts.

His breath was coming more raggedly now, so he nodded to Daria, then nodded to the empty area on the other side of the dragon.

*tricity swerved the car onto the lawn and stepped out, looking over at the roof. there was a great deal of damage and a lot of the kids had come from the house and to the other side of the yard to watch the fight. she ran toward the mansion seeing johnathon and the docprof ushering the children further away. as tricity ran past them all, she heard the docprof give a warning about using her powers while she was under such a delicate stage. she stopped in front of the fight, trying to see what was happening. before tricity could really control what was happening, the sky cracked and three bolts of lightning hit the ground around her in a flash of white light. her body was surging with electricity as she had enough in her to float up to the roof. her eyes were completely black now and she was totally pissed off as she stepped on the roof and glared at the fighters.*
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"

"Ask the monster who started trying to burn down the school what's going on," Mike shot back, only having time to favor Tricity with a very brief annoyed look, "We've been too busy trying to stay alive to have much of a conversation with him."

" Hmp. I was responding to being threatened. You started it. " Kage said, pointing to Daria. " I was about to take off into the sky, when she challenged me. I did not want to fight anyone, but I also am not going to leave myself open to an attack as I'm taking to the air. As for my fireball attacks, I was trying to create a distraction so I could fly away. Next thing I know, he is trying to attack my weaker personality, as if he could reach it. " Kage said, turning his back, and spreading his wings to their full wing span. " Now that they have stopped attacking me, I can leave. The other one thanks you for taking us in. " Kage said, prepairing to take flight.

Cassiel promptly takes hold of Kage's wings again, giving them the effect of being pinned up against the air. "You tried to kill us, and we're supposed to let you go?" His eyes are, again, blazing a brilliant blue, but he looks to Tricity. "Your call."

"Kage, just leave for now. I'll talk to you later..."
*she demanded as the normally blue ora that surrounded her when she used an enormous amount of electricity was now white because of the lightning source. she turned to mike and daria.*
"I'll talk to you two separately."