As the doors on the battle room opened, emerged Storm whom presence was acknowledged by the set of students sitting at the back end of the room.
She did not stop the ongoing match but stayed just beside the door. She leaned on the wall as she continued to watch the fight, up closer than the monitor room.
"What is she doing here?!" Earth asks herself.
"Is she here to stop the fight? But why? Do they think I cannot beat this jerk?! Is that it?"
She felt anger in her heart, she stares angrily at Pyro who keeps on bursting out fire at her. Her sleeves are being burnt out. Wounds appearing on her arms but as it is being burnt, it heals at the same time as well.
For her this challenge was a complete waste of time. Pyro can spend all day long trying to burn her out but she will just heal herself.
She and all the teachers knows this well. But still, she cant find any good reason why Storm had to go down and meddle in between. Somehow, her ego was hurt.
"Do you think Im not good enough?! I came here for a reason. I... I will prove everyone of my existence!!" With these as her last thoughts, she inhaled deeply to make herself calm. And then provoked Pyro.
"You might be confident playing with your fire. But you've made the wrong opponent jerk."
"Hmp! Just because you can heal doesnt make you a big man."
"I didnt say it was because of my healing abilities."
"Ha. Then what are you boasting about?!"
Even with her hair covering her forehead and her left eye, everybody could notice that there's a devilish smile beginning to paint across her face. The teachers who watches them seem to be puzzled and Pyro just become more irritated than ever.
"You see, the moment you chose me as your opponent made you lose." After standing still since the beginning of the match, Earth now started to make her move. She raised her right arm, stretching it towards Pyro's direction. Her palms meeting the center coil of the fire thats burning her.
As she stares through it, the fire that is coming out from Pyro's direction started to dissipate. Its as if her palms vaccumed and extinguished all the blaze. She can hear the "wows", the "woahs" and the cheering of her classmates. She could see in her peripheral vision that Storm had widened her eyes, still standing beside the door while arms are crossed on her chest.
But she's still not done. She's taking this opportunity to shut down all of Pyro's antics on her, humiliating himself so to teach him a lesson and leave her alone.
As all the flames from Pyro gone, she started to explain on why she's much better than him.
"If its a fight between fire youre looking for; then youre no match for me."
As she said those words, a huge ball of fire formed from her palms and was sent toward Pyro's direction which made the young man stumble and fall to the floor as it was a huge fire. The ends of her hair turned white as fire continues to pop out from her hand. He tries to control it and send to other direction but even he concentrate so hard for it, it doesnt seem to follow his order.
"You cannot control it better. Youre just a manipulator Pyro. But I am a creator. I have absolute control over the fire."
Her attack reaches Pyro's body and his clothes started to ablaze. Pyro started crying for help as his pants began to set on fire. Logan is about to stop the match when suddenly Earth started to retract all the fire. She let down of her arms and looked towards their instructor.
"I think this should be over Logan. Pyro wont be able to defend using his powers if paired up with me."
It took about ten seconds before Logan could reply.
"Uhh yea. Alright kids, who's next?"
Earth started to walk back to the end row and sat again beside Rogue and Bobby.
Pyro was still at the front terrified from what he had just experience.
He stayed frightened there until the next pair comes up to front. Logan shooed him away.
"Care to clear the space Pyro? Or do ya need ta go to the medic?!"
Students started ro murmur and whisper to each other as they notice Puro's plight. As he noticed them, he tried to stand up terribly and went back to his sitting spot.
Earth felt triumphant for today. She mightve not show it externally, deep inside she's jumping for joy as she finally gave Pyro what he deserves. Her joy somehow faded when she saw Storm exited out of the room after havig a short conversation with Logan and a new match commences.