Chapter 10: Bjorn to Whip
Author's Note: In the German language, the letter j makes a "ee" sound. For example, "Bjorn" is pronounced "BeeORN", "ja" is pronounced "eeya (ya)", etc.
"Bjorn, sweetie, you're in way over your head. I can move the ground you stand on, and what can you do? Crack a whip?" Naomi smiled malevolently.
As her aura began to glow, so did a chunk of the ring next to her. She flung her arm forward as if the ground were under her command. The chunk of rocky arena flew out of its rocky disposition towards Bjorn. As it did so it broke into smaller pieces.
Bjorn was not at all shaken by this. As the boulders rushed toward him, he drew his weapon, a whip at the ready.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! In the blink of an eye, Bjorn had cracked his whip at all of the boulders, making dust of all of them. Naomi stood amazed. She had just sent enormous boulders, each weighing at least a ton, right for her opponent, and he turned them all into dust with a few cracks of his whip. It looked as though she was the one in over her head.
"Now, ah you ready to stat zis fight, or ah ve goink to continue zis nonsense?" Bjorn inquired in the most German accent Naomi had ever heard.
"If you even had to ask, then you're dumber than I thought." She answered. She followed this remark with another barrage of boulders, this time smaller and greater in number. Her logic was that Bjorn couldn't possibly destroy them all before they hit. She was wrong. In fact, Bjorn made even quicker work of this onslaught.
"You're no fun." She frowned at him in her sexy way.
"No fun! Zis tournament is not about vhat is fun!" he looked away. She had gotten to him with her sexiness. Naomi had an idea.
She approached Bjorn, walking just as sexy as she ever had, stopping in the center of the ring. She stuck out her arm and curled her index finger twice; the international "come here" signal.
A love struck Bjorn blinked a few times, followed by the traditional male response: "Me?"
She nodded. "Just a little closer," she thought as he approached "NOW!"
Without the lovesick German noticing, she used her Earth Apparition powers to rip a section of the ring up behind him. She then curled the front end of this rocky section around Bjorn, and wrapped him in it like a burrito so that only his head was showing.
"You are very clever. Do your vurst, I am defenseless." Bjorn conceded.
"Not my style, sugar. A simple 'I quit' will do, though." She answered.
"Due to the fact that Bjorn has gotten himself entangled in stone by a human-helping backstabber…" Midori announced
"What was that last bit? I didn't quite catch it." Naomi "inquired" as her eyes began to glow.
"Uhhh… Naomi wins?" Midori answered in fear.
From the sidelines, Team Mirushito was standing in awe and delight.
"Who woulda thought?" Kakome retorted.
"Yes, Naomi is a powerful master of all things stone and Bjorn is a sex-starved sucker. Inaryu agreed.
"Will the next fighter from Team Reichschtagg please enter the ring?" Midori announced.
A teenage girl incredibly short black hair and long, bleach-blonde bangs and blue eyes wearing a white, long-sleeved collared top and plaid skirt above her knees entered the ring.
"Well, folks, it looks like the next match will be between Team Mirushito's Naomi and Team Reichschtagg's Eike! Ready? Fight!"