Phil Saber
(AKA Killer Sabre, deceased)

General Facts

Age: 30
Gender: M

Cause of Death

Accidentally frozen by an Ice Beam spell cast by Shauna Davidson while in midair and shattered when the ice block he was frozen in hit the ground in Super Battlers 5.

Occupation

Magic Criminal

Appearances

Regular Titles: Books 15, 22, 30–31, and 46
Super Battlers: Books 2, 3, and 5

Immediate Family

Unnamed Father (deceased)
Unnamed Mother (deceased)
Ike Saber (AKA Striker Sabre) (twin brother, deceased)

Character Summary

Phil Saber was a normal human until he and his twin brother, Ike, tried to take over the Quantico Magic Battle Arena from the Hill family. He and his brother failed and were then turned into two mutant tigers. So they changed the “e” and “r” in their name around to go from “Saber” to “Sabre.” They’re now known as Striker and Killer Sabre. And the first evil thing they did as tigers was kill the current Magic Team Captain of Quantico and eat his body. Their goal was to do the same thing to all the other members of the Hill family.

This was revealed when they first appeared on the first leg of Shauna, Diahandra, Derrick, and Jamal’s journey in Book 15. While battling Mike Hill for a Tree Orb, they attacked the MBA and tried to add Mike Hill to their list of killed members of the Hill family. The plan was thwarted when the kids stopped them.

Killer popped up again in Book 22 when he and Striker froze Jamal with a weapon they called a Freezooka and kidnapped him. The kids gave chase to them, but as soon as they caught up with them, all but Shauna were taken hostage, as well. Shauna gave them a taste of their own medecine and stopped them.

Later in that book, they attacked the Manassas MBA after getting released from jail (they bribed the police chief with all the fresh meat he could eat). They tried to freeze everyone with their Freezooka again, but it was foiled when Shauna and the other kids defeated them.

In Super Battlers 2, they appeared again and kidnapped the children of high-ranking BMPs — Bearers of Magic Powers. They kidnapped Derrick, too, when they figured out they were behind it. But Shauna, Diahandra, and Jamal rescued him using a well-thought-out plan and freed the children. And, as a reward, they won a free BOP — a Battle of Powers — with the MTC there — Mr. Andrew Watson.

 

Killer resurfaced with Striker in Book 30 when they tried to roast every person living in Denver with a weather machine that they stole from Pablo Peak’s MBA. They were found out by Shauna, Diahandra, Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia to be on top of a mountain using the machine. They fought to keep the machine when they were located. Unfortunately, they lost their fight and were thrown off the mountain.

 

In Book 31, Killer and Striker, along with Ursa Infernus and Teddy Volcanis, kidnapped Shauna and Diahandra and took them to their secret hiding place in the woods to eat them. They revealed that they’d met and made friends and decided to join forces to finally defeat Shauna and Diahandra. Their plans were nearly foiled when Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia showed up to rescue them and blew Killer, Striker, and Volcanis away, but Infernus managed to take Derrick and Felicia prisoner with a Seizing Spheres spell he learned at a villain’s convention in Chicago. (He kidnapped Shauna and Diahandra this way, too.) Jamal managed to defeat him, though, and freed his friends. So all four villains were left high and dry.

 

In Super Battlers 3, Killer and Striker came back to the canvas when a sorcerer named Bin Dare chose them to participate in a tournament on his island, Dare Island. They met the six male Battlers for the first time, as well as their ultimate enemies. They would get the chance to eat Shauna alive if they could beat her in a battle. And when she, Derrick, and Jamal wandered onto their jungle arena, they had their chance to battle them. Unfortunately, like every other time they’d gone up against the kids, they lost their fight. They didn’t knock a single one of them out. Shauna ended up freezing Killer and blowing both him and Striker away with her newly-learned Icy Doom spell.

 

Killer and Striker made another brief return in Book 46, in which they were defeated by Shauna, Diahandra, Derrick, Jamal, and Felicia once again after attempting to eat the Magic Animals raised on the Magic Farm of Jeremy Frost and his family, but nothing beats their final appearance in Super Battlers 5. After being tipped off by an anonymous source that Shauna would be in a Utah desert with new White Battler Richard Montgomery, they quickly followed them there to ambush them, which they did. They intended to kill and eat them both, but Richard and Shauna managed to freeze them with a joint combination of their own spells and escape. But they immediately broke free of their ice blocks and ambushed the two teens again, this time capturing them. Just as they were about to eat them, though, Striker instead opted to challenge Shauna to battle him and Killer in one fair fight that they were determined to make their final one. If Shauna won, she and Richard could go free, and they’d never bother them again (as it was a battle to the death, and the two tigers would be dead). If the Sabres won, on the other hand, then they’d eat the kids.

 

Through no choice of her own, Shauna accepted the Sabres’ challenge and fought them. She kept up with both of them pretty well, even managing to throw Killer up into the air at one point. It was then that his brother made a very big mistake. Seeing that Shauna was about to cast an ice spell on him, he quickly knocked her arm upward . . . and accidentally made her cast it on a still-airborne Killer, instead, encasing him in a huge block of ice. A huge block of ice that hit the ground hard and shattered, fatally shattering Killer with it! And that was the end of Killer Sabre. Striker quickly followed after Shauna, in an attempt to defend herself and Richard from his grief-fueled rage, cast an Icicle Illusion spell on him and impaled him on one of the icicle that came out of her Battler Subzero Scepter.

Killer was one of Shauna's two ultimate enemies. He was smart, but he only used his brains for mauling victims for food.

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