This chapter is dedicated to ..thunder. See? I deliberately trashed Claire a bit, just for you :D
The blonde girl was already entering the dome when Massie called out.
"A special request, Principal Burns."
"Yes?"
"A rocky landscape in the dome, please."
The dome suddenly trembled, and flashed through a blur of shapes and colours, before the craggy landscape of gigantic rocks finally formed.
With a self-satisfied smirk at the shock on the blonde girl's face, Massie climbed the stairs.
"Claire Lyons – physical, elemental. Creation and manipulation of Ice. Massie Block – mental. Telepathy, extreme focus."
The screen began the inevitable countdown.
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Massie didn't appear to have moved, but suddenly a large boulder slipped off the sheer cliff face behind Claire, smashing into smithereens and giving Claire a dozen sharp cuts along her legs, all bleeding profusely. Claire retaliated with a volley of icy flakes, all sharp as flint and sent straight at Massie.
Maybe I'll be the first to scar that pretty little face.
The girls wrestled over the tiny chips of ice, scraping the rocks and occasionally sending little showers onto both of them, and soon, they were covered in dripping wounds and bruises the size of baseballs.
I need another plan. This obviously isn't working, and she can control the ice just as well as I can.
Summoning a huge blast of wind, Claire blew a shower of sharp pebbles onto Massie, but with a contemptuous wave of her hand she swept them away. She then froze a large section of rock, and with a resounding crack, it began to fall towards Massie.
"Is that all you've got?" Massie smiled and the icy rock hung suspended in midair for a brief second, then hurled itself at her, almost knocking her over.
I can't fight this! She's too strong! She can handle everything physical better than me, even my own element. Physical element…that's it! I'll fight with her mentally.
Fueled by a sudden burst of energy, Claire stared at Massie, and a large flurry of white snowflakes began to settle on her, freezing Massie solid. Claire could feel the sudden wave of dizziness as a result of using up too much energy. Massie was struggling violently, but being surrounded by a foreign element was sapping her strength too. With her last dregs of energy, Claire slammed a large slab of ice into the frozen figure, before both girls collapsed with sheer exhaustion.
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