Hello and welcome back. I hope you all missed me. Everyone seemed to enjoy the last chapter, so I hope everyone enjoys this one also. Last chapter we saw Konori in a handicap match versus two espers and come out the victory after a hard fought battle.

Like I said, I know I went a bit Avatar: The Last Airbender with the two espers Konori fought considering that they used fire and earth abilities. But if you're going to stea—I mean borrow, you might as well borrow from the best.

So let's see what happens this chapter and I know everyone will enjoy it.

On to the Q & A

Guest: I don't really know. But I can see a fight between Accelerator and Acqua destroying a large portion of Academy city.

Guest (2): You guess is as good as mine. I assume they team up for fear of being arrested, but knowing that that message went out to a ton of people and seeing other girls fighting in the streets over him and looking at Konori's proportions…well, like I said, it's anyone's guess.

Whwsms: A win is a win. And remember that she is Judgement trained.

wildarms13: I try to update as often as I'm able to and as long as I have a good chapter in mind. Wouldn't want to bored anyone or upload a bad chapter.

Guest (3): Konori used her ability last chapter, but it wasn't really going to help her in this situation.

Poseidon of Sea: Yes it will be. I can only hope that Academy City survive that level of battle.

The Rupture: I try. Maybe I should quit my job so I can focus solely on this.

Rafael Da Silva: Has it already been a year? Wow time flies. Of course it's going somewhere. In fact we're reaching the finale fairly soon.

d3mystic: Women do curse a lot when around each other, especially when angry or mad. So I thought it would be appropriate to include of lot of it in the chapter. I'm thinking of doing all the fights in a mini chapter context so those can be solely focused on while story stuff happen in main chapters.

Oriana Thompson was in a bad spot. She had snuck into Academy City to try and find a certain boy. After having snuck into the city and before her search even really began, she had been confronted by a member of the city's security forces.

The person who had confronted her was a female, a few years younger than herself, who had a rather slim physique, long straight black hair, and black eyes. She wore a skin tight cat suit that seemed to be a uniform, which showed off her figure, but the girl didn't seem to care about that.

"Ma'am, I asked to see some ID. I need to check it against the allowed visitor list we have for people who come in from outside the city." spoke the dark haired girl as she moved into a position of readiness.

Oriana hesitated for a few moments, while thinking of what to do to get out of the current situation.

'I snuck into the city, so I wouldn't be on their list. And besides, I don't carry ID. I'm a expert at tracking as well as escaping. It would be bad if I was found after escaping because my ID fell out my pocket.' thought Oriana.

"Ok, let me just get that for you." smoothly spoke Oriana as she reached into the cleavage of her very well endowed chest.

Next thing Shutaura knew, there was the sound of paper ripping, a muffled bang, a flash of light, and a cloud of smoke.

Shutaura was confused and didn't know what was happening but she could infer one thing; *cough cough* "A smoke bomb!"

The smoke stung her eyes and filled her lungs, making it hard to breath and causing her to cough. A few seconds after the initial shock, Shutaura ran out of the smoke. Once she was clear of the smoke and the stinging in her eyes stopped, she saw that her target was now over fifty meters ahead of her.

This was a considerable lead, but being para-military and very athletic, this lead was easily something that she could overcome.

Dashing after her target, Shutaura was surprised at how quick the woman was as it was taking her longer then she expected to catch up to the blond hair woman.

"W-wow! She's really fast. It's taking me a lot longer than I thought it would to catch up to her."

Luckily, long distant running was one of Shutaura's specialties.

Shutaura continued chasing after the woman, with the woman zigging and zagging through people walking along the sidewalk and randomly cutting through alleys, all the while constantly looking over her shoulder to see if she was still being followed.

'Dammit! I can't lose her. I'm an expect at tracking and escaping so I had to train my body to be able to run long distance and build stamina, but this girl seem to have equal or maybe even greater stamina then me. I won't be able to outrun her and I can that she won't give up chasing me.' Oriana though to herself.

Oriana was coming to the exit of the alley she was currently being chased through. Oriana reached into her cleavage, where she keeps her ring of Short Hand spells for easy access. Quickly searching, she found the spell she wanted, and as she ran out the exit to the alley, she used her teeth to rip the small piece of paper from the ring of spells. There was a loud bang and ice began to form in the alleyway between the two buildings she had just ran through. The ice at first formed slowly, but within second, there was a four meter wall of ice covering the exit to the alley.

"That ought to stop—" Oriana began to say, until she saw the girl vault over the top of the ice wall.

Shutaura had almost caught up the woman she was chasing. She had by now closed the gap from fifty meters to ten. But while Shutaura had been chasing her target, she heard a loud bang. Suddenly ice began to form at the exit to the alley. Slowly at first but within a few seconds there was a large wall of ice between her and her target.

Determined to catch her target, Shutaura never slowed down a step. Shutaura ran at the wall but when she was a meter away, she turned toward the one of the building's walls. Using her speed and agility, Shutaura ran a few steps up the wall and kicked off with one leg, pushing herself towards the opposite wall. When she reached the other wall, she used one leg and pushed off again, pushing herself back to the other wall. She did this two more times till she was at the top of the ice wall. Placing both hands on top of the ice wall, Shutaura vaulted over the ice with a front flip, landing cleanly in front of the former obstacle in a crouch.

Using the energy stored from her crouched position, Shutaura explosively launched herself forward towards the woman she was chasing.

Due to the shock of seeing the girl easily overcome her ice wall, Oriana was caught off guard when the girl launched herself at her. Oriana turned around a quickly began fleeing from the cat suit wearing girl. But the damage had been done. The gap between them had been closed from fifty meters to ten and now to just four.

'Dammit! She'll catch me at this rate.' thought Oriana.

Oriana then made a sharp turn left down another street and continued to flee. But this was a mistake. Oriana had run less than ten blocks before she came upon a open and empty field.

"F#%k!," she swore "There nowhere for me to hide and no people to even try and blend into." stated Oriana.

Knowing she had no choice, Oriana continued to run, crossing the field. Suddenly, Oriana felt an impact in her back and there was an explosion.

The explosion sent Oriana flying three meters, as she hit the ground and rolled for another meter and a half.

Oriana slowly got up to her feet. Her clothes were now singed and dirty and her body ached, and she was breathing hard due to the running and the impact to her body, but she had no real injuries.

The dark haired, cat suit wearing she was now standing a mere seven meters away, and was standing in a position of readiness with her hand placed behind her back.

"You're not going to let me go, are you?" Oriana asked the girl that had been formerly chasing her.

"No, I'm not. I don't know for sure, but I assume that you're here in Academy City illegally."

"So I'm not getting out of this without a fight."

"It would be better if you just surrendered without a fight"

The two stared each other down, neither one of them wanting to make the first move.

'I wonder if she's an esper and if she is, what kind of ability does she have. I still don't know what that explosion was, but I assume if she is an esper that it has something to do with her ability.'

'I still don't understand. I thought only Academy City had ability users. If that's true and she's from outside the city like I think she is, then how was she able to form that ice wall? Could she be one of those ability users developed outside the city I heard rumors about?'

The stare down continued between the girls for a few seconds longer, before both girls charged at each other like a starter's pistol had gone off in their heads.

Running at each other full speed, they reached each other in a matter of seconds. Oriana being a expert at escaping and Shutaura being para-military, both were adapt at hand to hand combat, as it was a fairly common occurrence in both of their lives.

Once the two girls reached each other in the center, Oriana threw a right cross while Shutaura threw a left hook. Both blows connected, hitting the face of the other girl, causing both of them to stagger. Both girls rubbed their cheek while staring intensely at the other.

"Let's try that again."

"Let's try that again."

Both girls went on the attack again.

Oriana performed a raising elbow, catching Shutaura in the chin, while Shutaura preformed a forward palm thrust, striking Oriana in the chest, causing her to slide back half a meter, still on her feet.

That's when Oriana got frustrated.

'This is pointless. We're too evenly matched. Well let's see how she handles this!' thought Oriana.

Oriana then reached into her cleavage and pulled out the ring with paper tags on them.

Seeing this action, Shutaura retreated back five more meters from the girl, not knowing what to expect.

There was the sound of paper ripping as Oriana used her teeth to rip one of the tags off.

Suddenly a wall of ice three meters high and four meters wide formed, but this wasn't like the pervious wall. This wall of ice was moving and rolling towards Shutaura like a wave.

'I knew she was an ice type esper.' Shutaura thought to herself.

Shutaura then reach behind herself and into the small pack that was position behind her back and attached to her waist by a belt. Grabbing three small orbs, she pushed a button on top of them and threw them at the incoming wall of ice. A second later, while still in the air headed toward the wall of ice, the orbs expanded into disc shapes. When the discs were about a meter from the rolling wall of ice, Shutaura threw out her arm, sending out wires towards the two discs. Once the wire made contact with the disc, they exploded, just centimeters from the incoming ice wall.

The explosion caused the rolling ice wall to be blown apart into pieces and scatter about the open field the two were fighting in.

Shutaura then quickly reached behind herself again and pulled out two of the small orbs. Pressing the button on top of them, she threw them at Oriana. A few seconds later, they expanded. Shutaura then sent her wires towards the disc that were heading towards her enemy, but before the wires could connect, there was the soft sound of paper ripping, and suddenly there was a stream of fire engulfing the two disc.

The discs were incinerated before the wires could reach them, ending the threat of explosion.

"H-how? She's an ice type esper, so how was she able to use a fire attack? I thought it was impossible to have more than one ability? Could whatever facility outside of Academy that developed her have found a way to create a Duel Skill user?"

Seeing that the girl was in a state of shock, Oriana took the moment to go on the attack. Using her teeth, Oriana ripped another tag off the ring she was carrying. This caused numerous daggers made of fire to appear around Oriana. The daggers then launched themselves at Shutaura.

While she made have been momentarily shocked by her enemy using multiple abilities, she was still a trained fighter. As the daggers came at her in a barrage, slightly staggered, meaning that while they were all coming at her at the same time, they all wouldn't all reach her at the same time. She managed to dodge left to avoid the first two and then duck to dodge three more. Seeing another dagger coming at her, she bent her upper body all the way back, just barely avoiding the dagger as it zoomed just centimeters over the top of her bent body. The last two daggers were now coming at her, so Shutaura jumped into the air, made her body horizontal and twisted in the air, avoiding the last two dagger as they flew past her. She then landed on her feet, but suddenly felt a intense hot burning, searing pain in both her left shoulder and right calf and she dropped to one knee.

When she looked she saw a four centimeter hole in her shoulder and her calf.

"W-what? How? I know I dodged all of those attacks."

"You did," spoke Oriana out loud to the girl "But while you were dodging the last two daggers, you didn't notice that it split into two more daggers that slightly trailed behind them.

Shutaura shakenly got back to her feet. The pain in her shoulder and leg was intense, but she could fight through it. Shutaura then did something that Oriana wasn't expecting. She charged at the girl.

"Ahhhhhh!" yelled Shutaura as she approached her enemy.

'What is she up to? Is she stupid? Charging at me in her state is suicide.' thought Oriana to herself.

When Shutaura was about a meter away, she surprised Oriana by jumping and performing a flip over the girl's head and landing behind her.

Oriana had turned around to face the girl when numerous explosions went off all around her. The force of the explosion launched Oriana into the air and caused her to land four meters away. Oriana landed on her left side on the grassy ground of the field. Oriana was unable to move for a few seconds before she managed to get back onto her feet, albeit unsteadily.

There were bruises and burns all over and her body ached greatly. Her clothing was torn, ripped and dirty. She was holding her left arm, which she had landed on when she came down.

"H-how? I didn't see you launch any of those discs you use."

"My power uses a special material to create the explosions as long as I make physical contact with the material via my body or my wires. While I normally use disc of this material, I don't have to. We found a way to condense this material into tiny orbs four centimeters in circumference so I can carry around as much of the material as I need to in the pouch behind me. I usually use disc because a larger target is easier to hit, but I'm more then skilled enough to connect to the material while it's still in its orb shape. I dropped the orbs in front of you before I jumped over your head.

Now both girls were injured. Neither of their injuries was life threatening, so neither were willing to pull out of the fight.

The two girls were now seven meters away and staring each other down.

'This is a problem. I wasn't expecting a real fight when I came to this city. I'm underprepared.

While Oriana had a healing spell on her ring, it was the only one she had as she didn't really expect to run into real trouble. And if she used it now, she wouldn't have it if she needed it later. She also didn't bring all of the Short Hand spells that she could of, not expecting that she would need them. At this time she only had a fourth of what she normally kept on her while she was working, including the one healing spell that she had.

Shutaura was standing with her hand behind her back, waiting to make her move. That's when the girl opposite from her used her teeth to rip one of those strange paper tags from the ring she had them on. Shutaura had at that point already reached into her pouch and pulled out a number of the small orbs of rare earth that she used in her attack. But before she could even get her arm from behind herself, the earth suddenly began to move. There was an explosion of earth and the ground beneath her feet exploded upward towards her in a hand like shape with five fingers, all wrapping around and grabbing her. The hand shaped construct made of earth constricted her entire body and pined her arms to her side and the arm part of the construct lifted her five meters into the air.

"This fight is over. Give up!" called Oriana's voice from below.

"Never, you bitch!" replied Shutaura.

"Well, if that's the case…"

"AAaahhhhhhhhhh!" came a scream from Shutaura as the hand of earth wrapped around her body began to squeeze on her.

"Give up or I'll squeeze the life out of you!"

"Bitch!"

'That's a lie. I won't kill her. He wouldn't like it. But she doesn't know that.' thought Oriana

But Shutaura was in trouble and confused.

'I thought she was an ice or water ability user, but then she used fire. So I assumed that whoever developed her had achieved the impossible and created a duel ability user. But now she's using earth. How is that possible? But I have notice that every time she did something with whatever her strange power is, she ripped a tab from that ring she keeps. Could that be the key to activating her powers? Can she use her power without that ring?' Shutaura asked herself.

The hand of earth once again began tightening and squeezing on her.

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" came another scream as the binding hand squeezed even tighter than before.

Shutaura was starting to worry that her bones would soon to break and she could feel herself beginning to lose consciousness from the pain. She had to find a way out of her situation.

"I don't have the time or the patience to stand here and watch you be squeezed into unconsciousness." spoke Oriana, as she turned to walk away as the sounds of her enemy screaming continued.

Suddenly there was a loud explosion and a moment later, a dull thud.

Oriana turned back around and saw the hand and arm made of earth was gone and the girl that it had been binding was on the ground, lying on her side but slowly trying to get to her feet.

Shutaura was now on her feet. Her cat suit style uniform was torn and burnt in places and there were purple bruises all over her body. Blood was coming from down her face from her forehead and lip, and one of her eyes was nearly swollen shut.

"How did you get out of that?"

"Easy. I simply dropped the orbs I already had in my hand and used my wires to activate them, causing the explosion that blew your structure made of earth away. The only problem is, that I'm not immune to my own power and therefore took some of damage in the process. And the five meter drop didn't really help either."

The two women were just ten meters away from each other. Both were injured, battered and bruised, only Shutaura more so. But she planned to even the playing field. Shutaura approached within seven meters of her enemy, while the other woman went on guard. Shutaura reached behind her, and grabbed more of the orbs. Pushing the button of top, she threw two of them at Oriana, which turned into disc as they flew through the air while she also ran to the side.

Oriana was of course expecting this. She took her ring and used her teeth to rip one of the tabs off. This action caused a multi-color barrier to appear before her as the flying discs were now less than a meter away.

'Those disc and resulting explosions will never get through this barrier.' thought Oriana.

But Oriana was surprised when the two discs didn't explode. Suddenly there was a large explosion behind her that stuck her in the back, sending her flying forward.

"What the…"

Oriana landed on the ground two meters away and rolled another meter before stopping.

"You were so distracted by the two discs coming at you from the front that you didn't see me also throw two of the small orbs behind you and use my wires to activate them when I ran to the side."

Oriana shakily got to her feet. Standing there, she could just that she was in just as bad a shape as the other woman, maybe worst. She could feel that the back of her shirt was gone and her back was burnt. Her body was bruised and and ached more then it even had. She did have that one healing spell, and she figured that this was the best time to use it. Once she did she would be back at full or nearly full health and then the fight would be over as the other girl wouldn't be able to stand up to her.

Oriana slowly brought the ring up to her teeth. As her body was injured and ached so much she couldn't move her arm any faster. When she just about had the ring to her teeth, she felt a pain in her hand and the Short Hand ring flew two meters out of her hand.

There was a lash on her hand as if from a whip and she saw her enemy standing there with one of her wires extended out.

"Not this time. I've noticed that you need to use that ring of those tabs of paper to activate whatever your power is," stated Shutaura. "As long as I keep you from the ring, you can't use your powers. So give up."

Oriana just stared at the girl before sprinting toward her ring. Shutaura, expecting this, threw one of the small orbs in front of the girl and activated it. The explosion caused earth and rock to kick up into Oriana's face and body as well as blow the Short Hand ring further away.

"Dammit!" yelled Oriana as she took more damage from the girl's attack.

Her Short Hand was twelve meters behind her and to the right. She had to get to it.

"She's never going to let my get close to my Short Hand. I need to figure out a way…"

Oriana suddenly ran towards Shutaura at full speed. Or at least at the full speed she could go considering her injuries.

'I don't know what she's up to, but I won't let her get away with it.' thought Shutaura.

Shutaura grabbed two of the small orbs from her pouch, pushed the button on top and threw them directly at Oriana. The two orbs turned into discs and when they were a meter away from their target, she suddenly stopped and ran away.

The discs, chasing and closing in on her were now less than a a third of a meter away. That's when Shutaura sent out her wires to activate the explosion.

That's when Oriana suddenly turned slightly to the right and jumped forward, just as the explosion activated.

The blast caught her in the back and sent her flying forward. But to Shutaura's horror, the blast sent her flying directly at the ring that she needed to use her ability.

"Sh%t! She played me. This was her plan all along."

Oriana rolled on the ground after landing and stopped just centimeters aways from her Short Hand. Picking it up, she got back to feet but she was now in a much worst condition then the other woman she was fighting.

The two girl stared and slowly began to approach each other. Both of the girls were hurt, bruised, battered, dirty, bloody, and barely able to walk without almost falling over. Once they were a mere five meters from each other, they both nodded at each other. They both knew that this would be their final attack and that whatever happen, this was the end of their fight.

Oriana went on the attack first. She ran at the girl and using her teeth, Oriana ripped another tag off the ring she was carrying. This caused a torrent of water to shoot at the girl, hitting her dead in the face and knocking her down. As the girl stood up, staggering and stunned, Oriana ran up to the girl and delivered a punch to her stomach. As the girl doubled over, she followed with a knee lift to the face, causing the girl's upper body to straighten. She finished up with a elbow strike to the chin, lifting Shutaura off her feet a few centimeters before she landed on the ground.

As Shutaura laid on the ground three meters away, there was an explosion all around Oriana. The explosion caused dirt and rocks to kick up and strike Oriana all over her body. And the force of the explosion lifted Oriana a meter and a half into the air and caused her to land several meters away.

What happen was simple. As Oriana was delivering her strikes, Shutaura dropped the most of her orbs on the ground around herself. When the final strike sent her flying several meters away, and while on the ground, she sent out her wires and caused the orbs to explode.

Both woman were now lying on the ground completely spent. Neither had any fight left in them.

"Ahhhh, dammit." groaned Oriana as she managed to lift her bloodied and beaten body off the ground.

Now on her feet, but still several meters away from Shutaura, Oriana looked down at the girl.

Hearing sirens, Shutaura was worried that the other woman would attack, with herself in a state unable to defend herself before help could arrive.

But that didn't happen. Holding her left arm, the other girl merely stumbled away from the battlefield, not wanting and completely unable to deal with the backup and extra trouble now coming her way, almost falling over several times before she disappeared from Shutaura's sight.

"F%ck. I-I let her get away." said Shutaura in a very pained voice as she tried to get herself up but couldn't manage it.

Shutaura decided to just lay there as she heard the sirens get closer and closer.

"F%ck!"

And that's it for this mini chapter. I hope everyone enjoyed it. I know I enjoyed writing it.

I think this fight went down pretty well and pretty fairly. Neither had too much of a advantage or the other and both had to give their all to win. And in the end neither won and it was a draw. In fact, up until this point only Konori has actually won her fight cleanly. Although technically, you could say that Oriana won since she was able to actually walk away, but I'll call it a draw.

Now I know that Short Hand should have gave Oriana a HUGE advantage, but that wouldn't be any fun so I wrote her as if she wasn't planning on running into any real trouble and so only brought a minimum of her spells with her, just in case. That way the fight would be much more even.

I still haven't decided if next chapter will be a fight or more story related so let me know who you would like to see fight next.

And as always please rate and review.

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