I do not own Sky High. I only own Eliana.

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A smirk appeared on my face as I watched the two annoying guys try to fight off the swarm of fire bugs bothering them. The little yelps of pain made up for them being rude earlier. I walked down the hallway towards my next class while they were distracted.

"Just my luck," I thought walking into my next classroom, which was where I spotted a smirking Warren. I sighed before setting my bag amongst the bags of other students. Coach Boomer was standing in the center of the gym. "Time for combat class, goody," I thought before glaring when I saw Coach Boomer smirking at me as well.

"Rockwood, Peace, up here, now," he ordered from a raised part of the floor.

"Oh this should be good," I heard a random student mutter before a glare from Warren silenced the gossip.

"You two control fire, right?" Boomer asked and took our not amused stares as the answer he wanted. "Let's see what fire does against fire," he yelled before ordering all the other students behind some walls that were set up in the gym. I guessed that they were fireproof.

"Fire against fire, so spooky," one student muttered and Warren took that moment to light his hands and arms on fire. A slightly reddish gold hue appeared in his eyes.

The sight of his eyes made my own eyes glow their bright blue color. Heat traveled through my veins as he made the fire on his arms grow. "Somebody is trying to show off," I thought as I allowed the heat to travel to my own hands. A smirk from me made him give a small glare. His glare intensified when I made a few butterflies appear in my hands. The students behind the glass laughed as I mentally commanded the butterflies to fly from my hands.

"Quit messing around," Warren yelled and shot a blast of fire from one hand towards me. I rolled out of the way and almost smiled when my idea worked. One of the blue butterflies got in the way of his fire blast and before anybody could say a word, the butterfly absorbed the normal colored flames into it. The butterfly became a large blue ball of fire. The combined force of Warren's fire and the butterfly formed a larger amount of fire under my control.

I heard gasps of surprise from the students behind the protective glass walls. Warren was surprised before dodging when the two remaining butterflies flew towards his face. I used this moment of distraction to form the large ball of blue flame into a boomerang. The boomerang came to my hands as I saw Warren shooting flames at the butterflies and dodging them at the same time.

I made the butterflies disappear in front of Warren's face and soon he was staring at me. the large boomerang floating close to my hands. "How did you do that?" he yelled surprised and I shrugged.

"I have never fought with another fire bender, but when I mess around with fire at home my own fire absorbs the regular flames," I answered before grabbing the boomerang.

"That's creepy," a student said to another.

"Dangerous, she's dangerous," the student replied to the first.

"Oh the familiar sounds of judgment. It is just like my old high school, except here I can actually use my powers," I said with a roll of my eyes before dodging flame attacks from Warren.

"Fight me, not listen to them," Warren yelled and I glared at him again.

"So far this has not been much of a fight," I yelled back and I felt the heat increase around him before the flames grew around him. The sight of the more powerful flames made my eyes glow more and my own hands started glowing blue. I threw the boomerang at him, which he dodged before throwing another fire blast towards me. He gave a growl when the boomerang almost hit him when it returned. I caught it and jumped over another one of his attacks.

I tossed the boomerang straight at him and I smirked when the blasts directly hit the boomerang. The boomerang absorbed the flames again and becomes a large ball again. I kept the ball above the two of us as I ran towards him and tried to attack him with hand-to-hand combat. I kept the flames on my hands and made flames appear on my arms so I would be harmed by his own firepower. I kept up with him as well as I could while we fought hand-to-hand. I had fought many bullies growing up so I was not defenseless if I could not use my flames.

I was surprised when I felt the heat increase in Warren's body and on his hands and arms. The glow in his eyes was also more pronounced. The heat was not just fire, but I could sense strong anger in the flame. I had a temper myself but this seemed more like fury. He was starting to become furious with the fight and my ability actually to match him fist-to-fist or flame to flame. I had stopped worrying about the whispers from the other students, but I tried to listen to them as I stared down an enraged Warren.

"They are going to kill each other or us," a student yelled.

"Somebody, stop the freaks," another yelled.

"He'll be just like his dad and she'll probably be another psycho villain too," a student griped as he backed away from the glass. Warren's eyes flashed towards the student that just said that and I saw the cruel intent in his eyes towards the student.

"He needs to focus back on this fight or Sky High will be missing a student," I thought before increasing the heat of my flames. Warren's eyes snapped towards me quickly and I felt the walls around my heart crumble for a minute. I could see the same pain that I had held in my own eyes for most of my life whenever I was around anybody else by my grandmother. I did not want to see him have those eyes for some reason. I did not know if it was because our flames had been in contact too long, but I felt a connection other than fire towards Warren.

"Don't listen to them," I said quickly and he gave me a slight wide-eyed look before glaring at me more. "They're scared and do not understand. Do not listen to them," I said again hoping maybe to calm him down some.

"What would you know?" he yelled before shoving me away from him. I directed the large blue ball from earlier to block the flame attacks that were thrown at me. "Don't act like you know about me or what I've been through," he yelled and threw another large blast at me. I was shocked as I watched the blue ball grow larger and larger. I had no other way of dissipating his flame attacks without the gym burning down or somebody burning to a crisp.

A shiver of fear went through me at the hate filled stare he was giving me. I could see his angry reddish gold eyes glaring at me. "I may not know what you've been through but I've grown up being hated too," I yelled over the roar of the large floating ball of blue flames.

"You could never understand," he roared before throwing an even larger attack of fire towards me. The ball absorbed that too and I was becoming dizzy. The large amount of fire absorbed amongst my own was becoming difficult for me to control.

"Coach Boomer, stop them," a student yelled fearfully as the students cowered behind the glass walls. They were in shock at the view in front of them.

"Peace, Rockwood, stop, enough," Coach Boomer said and he had sweat of worry slide down the side of his face. There was no way he could use his voice to blow the flame ball away without it hitting the gym door, hurting a student, or exploding everywhere. He did not even know if Principal Powers could destroy the ball of flame without people getting hurt or dying in the aftermath.

"I'm not trying to understand, you idiot. I'm trying to calm you down before I cannot control this anymore," I screamed as I slowly stood up on swaying feet. I was running out of options fast when I saw Warren send another blast of fire towards my shield and possible destruction. I held my breath as I saw the ball absorb the blast as well. The ball shook and I raised my hands to try to control it more.