Chapter 20: Sparring Match Failure

Rose and Ryoma then looked at each and decided to do something exciting. They decided to spar. Rose flicked her hand and her water whip came into her hand. Ryoma flicked his wrists and out appeared two swords. His fire and ice sword were his most powerful swords and the ones he was most comfortable with.

The two went about 20 feet away from each other for the spar match they were about to have.

The regulars immediately sat up wanting to watch this. They wanted to see the two fight because they were great when working together, but what would happen if they fought against each other?

Ryoma made the first move by charging straight at Rose with his ice sword in front of him in his right hand, with his fire sword behind him in his left.

Rose quickly dodged to the left and then to the right when Ryoma swung his left hand at her right after he swung his ice sword. "Dragon wings, dragon tail, dragon claws. Appear now for the fight has just begun," Rose chanted. After she finished chanting, Rose had dragon armor just like Ryoma's but instead of being pure white, her armor was pure gold in color. Rose then made the next move by charging at Ryoma and at the last second jumping right into the sky twirling her body around and using her whip to take one of Ryoma's swords out of his hands.

Ryoma quickly used his other sword to knock Rose's water whip away from his fire sword by freezing it temporarily and making it shatter. He thought that she wouldn't be able to use the water whip for a while.

Rose just smirked at Ryoma. She had cut off the mental connection for the spar but knew what he was thinking when he broke her water whip. "Ryoma…there IS a reason why they call it a water whip," she said flicking her hand again. Another water whip appeared in her hand leaving Ryoma surprised. "The water whip needs to extract water from the area in order to form itself. And if you haven't noticed yet, we are right by the ocean," Rose said pointing at the incoming waves.

"Shoot. Forgot about that," Ryoma said raising an eyebrow in frustration.

While Ryoma was distracted, Rose had already gotten behind him and then whipped at his back.

Ryoma was knocked off his feet and then felt at the whip mark. He sighed in relief to find that Rose had not left any mark to scar but just hard enough to knock him over. He knew how ruthless she was in battle but knew that she would never do anything to seriously hurt him. He got back up and they started sparring again locking weapons every once in a while.

The regulars couldn't help but awe at the battle. There in front of them, stood the two freshmen regulars of the team and the dubbed 'Dragon Pair.' They couldn't help but wince and flinch every time Ryoma was knocked down to the ground. Whenever they saw Ryoma sigh in relief, they felt glad that Rose was not hurting him at all.

Rose was tired from using her water whip, dragon tail, dragon wings, and dragon claws in one battle whereas Ryoma was still as energetic as ever only using his fire and ice sword.

Since Rose had cut off the mental connection, Ryoma couldn't tell how tired she was and still kept at attacking her. He put a little too much force into his attack and when Rose blocked it with her whip, she was sent flying.

Ryoma's eyes, as well as the regulars, widened in fear as he saw Rose flying off from her position heading to the water. He could finally see how tired she was from the look in her eyes and dropped his weapons. He started rushing off towards Rose hoping to catch her because with the way she was flying, she was going to hit the water…head-first. Hitting the water head-first would surely be enough to knock her into a coma or worse, and Ryoma didn't want that to happen. He saw that he wasn't going to make it to her in time because she was going to fall 30 feet away from the shoreline. He did the only thing he could think of and summoned his air sword. He swung it in front of him and the sword released an air current going towards Rose.

The air current rushed towards Rose and then hit her wings. The force got her to turn around so that she hit the water feet-first instead of head-first.

Ryoma saw her splash right into the water and immediately rushed in after her. He ran past the shoreline and dove right into the water. He used his power that he got from the dragon pact to find her in the sea water. He swam towards the area where he sensed her presence and tried to get to her as fast as possible. He finally found her quickly sinking into the ocean depths. He was about to run out of breath but didn't care. He knew that this happened because of him, even if Rose said otherwise, and was going to help her. He finally got to her and tried to get them to the surface as fast as he could.

Rose was sinking quickly down to the sea bottom and knew that she was going to be in serious trouble. She felt something grab her arm and start to pull her up to the surface. She opened her eyes and saw Ryoma holding her arm, trying to get them to the surface. She re-established the mental connection and yelled 'What the hell do you think you're doing! You can't last under the sea for long!'

'I'm the one that knocked you into the sea in the first place and I'm going to help!'

'But you're already starting to run out of breath. Ryo just hurry and leave me! I'm a dragon, I'll be fine but you won't!'

'I'm not abandoning my partner!'

'Demo!'

'No buts Ro…I'm going…to get us…out of this…mess…'

'Ryoma!' Rose saw that he fell unconscious from not having enough air. They were already about 30 feet under the water surface and she had to act fast. She knew she couldn't move too fast because Ryoma wouldn't be able to handle the pressure. She did the only thing she could think of and transformed into her dragon form. She used to body to coil around Ryoma's and cover him from the seawater. She spanned out her wings which were now a mile wingspan and used them to push up and out of the water. She had to go fast but not too fast for Ryoma's sake. She used her last bit of strength to push them out of the water and into the air. She slowly uncoiled her body from around Ryoma and quickly flew under him to catch him. She started flying back to shore realizing that the current had pushed them even further out to sea. She saw the regulars frantically looking out at the sea looking for the two and saw their relieved faces when they saw her.

Rose finally reached the shore and slowly dropped to the ground and slid Ryoma off her back into the regulars' arms. She slowly got the seawater out of his system using her elemental ability and he woke up coughing up the remaining seawater. Rose stayed in her dragon form for the time being since she recovered faster in her true form than her human one.

Ryoma finally finished coughing up the remaining seawater in his system and looked over at Rose. He saw Rose coiling up like a snake and saw her chest rising up and down as she tried to catch her breath. He said, "Ok...next time we spar...make sure you say...that you are tired...before I knock you over…"

"Agreed..." Rose said exhausted.

The regulars were just glad that the two were ok and finally let a breath out. They picked up the two and carried them over to the towels so that they could rest from their battle and their little sparring match failure.