A minute later, they all were at a battlefield arena. Jesse stared through the window, "It's been a while since I had something like this, almost 1095 days to be exact.", she admitted. She turned around and lining up with Petra, Lukas, Axel, and Olivia, her in the middle. "Yes, I would advise not to fight Jesse. She's actually the strongest and toughest one, even defeated me in a similar duel once.", Ivor warned, "Yeah, fighting her was intimidating. I got stronger, but she was balanced and seemingly got even stronger just looking at me.", Aiden agreed, "Don't worry, guys. I got this. ...Well, maybe.", Radar stated, "Jesse, should we really do this? We're stronger than he is, and you're even stronger than we are.", Lukas said, "I know what I said, I have faith in him.", Jesse responded, "Well, Radar. Just choose your opponent.", she continued. Radar was to allowed fight any one of the Order. they were more experienced than him on the battlefield, but he learned from the best too. Still, he had to think about his decision. And he knew backing out of this test wasn't an option.
Mages are so much physically stronger than they look, especially earth mages, and Axel looks pretty strong to start with. Then there was Olivia, she's smart and fire melts ice. Ice versus air could go either way, but Petra was skilled with a sword if weapons were involved. His ice could freeze the water, although Lukas is pretty clever and crafty himself so he'd still find a way to win. The only other option was Jesse, the leader. Ice can be destroyed by lightning and she is smart too, but Radar knew a few tricks. Obvious choice was obvious. Radar took a breath, "Okay, I choose... Jesse.", he said quickly pointing at Jesse, everyone stayed quiet for a moment, "Oh, Radar, no.", Maya squeaked, "And don't go easy on me, either.", Radar demanded, "Oh, big mistake.", Gill muttered, Jesse smiled, "Very well, this is YOUR choose.", she said. Radar knew he was being doubted, but he felt like he could beat her without Admin God powers. He knew it was an emergency weapon, anyhow. The two contestants went across from each other on the huge rectangular white wool field, Jesse on the right and Radar on the left. They both pulled out their weapons of choice, Jesse with a diamond sword and Radar with his shield. They both traded off determined looks, the others were sitting in the stands. Nell, knowing sphinxes used to announce tournaments, decided to start it off. "Let the battle BEGIN!", the sphinx girl declared, Jesse and Radar listened. And with that, the battle begun.
The two mages charged at each other, Jesse then slashed at Radar twice and he blocked it with the shield both times. Jesse strengthened her sword with electricity, Radar did the same by coating his shield in ice. As they collided their weapons together once again, they were launched back half way and the weapons broke and disappeared. Jesse charged up a powerful electric bolt and shot it at Radar, who brought up a thick and hardened nine-block-big ice wall. After the bolt hit it, there was a giant hole in the ice wall. Radar brought the wall down and used his 'Sound Breaker' ability to dodge the smaller bolts Jesse kept launching at him and he circled behind her. He kept trying to hit her while dodging her fists and feet, she did the same thing landing a couple hit before leaping backwards. Jesse smirked, "This here is my special ability, 'Sleeping Powder'!", she said. A sparkling lilac colored smoke emitted from her hands went towards Radar, slowly but surely starting to completely cover him. Radar started feeling drowsy and fell to his hands and knees, but not without seeing Jesse charge up another super strong bolt. With the last of his energy, he remained awake long enough to cover himself with ice. Being an ice mage, it's a way for him to get his energy back. As Jesse launched her attack at Radar, he used his recovering energy to create a resilient icy mist to block out the attack, causing a short and small explosion which blew away the lilac smoke and revealed Radar covered in ice. He stood up and shook the ice off, everyone except him gasped. Radar confidently smiled, "Nothing like unpleasant coldness to wake you up!", he said smugly. Jesse started to shoot smaller attacks at him, but he leaped up and created an ice pillar to land. She destroyed it, but he kept leaping and making more pillars. When Jesse destroyed the third pillar, Radar jetted himself up with ice with one hand and froze her feet to the ground with the other. He landed on his feet and used his super speed to run up to Jesse and land a few hits on her, knocking her all the way back and breaking her free. Radar leaped all the way back before Jesse got back up, then the two charged at each other once more. Jesse tried to hit Radar with one more punch, but he dodged it before freezing the ground beneath her and punch her one more time, causing her to slip and tumble. Jesse groaned as she was unable to keep fighting, meaning Radar had won.
Everyone was slack-jawed in awe, then Aiden, Gill, and Maya grinned at each other. Nell was smiling next, "And the winner... is... RADAR!", she shouted. Everyone else smiled and cheered at Radar. "I knew you could beat me.", Jesse said, Ivor threw Splash Potions of Healing at them, "Thanks, Ivor.", Jesse continued. Jesse stood up and smiled at Radar, the kid never felt so happy before. "That was spectacular, if I do say so myself!", Ivor admitted, "Yeah!", Petra agreed, "Way to win the battle, dude!", Axel beamed, "You go!", Olivia cheered, "I can't believe it, you won! Amazing!", Lukas said, "Thanks, you guys. I can't believe I'm being praised by the Order!", Radar responded to all of them, "You're not bad yourself, Jesse.", he continued, "Thanks, Radar. Good fight.", Jesse replied and shook hands with Radar, "Now, let's see about being my intern.", she continued as she and Radar walked away. Aiden, Gill, and Maya stopped smiling and turned to Nell, they walked up to her. "Hey, Nell. Look, I'm sorry I called you weird. I see why it's hurtful. Then Jesse told us what you went through when you came here, and it made me feel worse.", Aiden apologized, "It's okay, dude. I'm over it now. You just met Radar, right?", Nell forgave him and asked him, "Um, yeah.", Aiden answered, "Well I wanna say, he gets the kitty a-purring~.", Nell responded and purred, Gill and Maya got uncomfortable and Aiden facepalmed, "Oy vey.", Aiden said.
Everyone decided to do something else, "We should tell the townspeople about Radar's power, and his birthday.", Petra decreed, "Ha, they won't believe us.", Ivor responded, "Let's just see.", Lukas argued. They told the town about an ice mage who defeated Jesse in a duel and that it was his birthday. To Ivor's surprise, they took their word for it. And soon, Radar was greeted politely by people and everyone who saw him said 'Happy birthday' and he responded with 'Thank you'. Jesse facepalmed a couple times after they found out that the word was spread.
This is so great...
