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Drake sidestepped a blast of lightning and prepped himself as another one flew towards him. He jumped into the air away from it, high above his opponent as well. Rina was on him before he even started descending, and launched more lightning at him. He was forced to twist his body in mid air to avoid them, and the motions caused his body to protest. He was in pain from the attack and he knew it, but he couldn't lose to Rina.
"You know," Rina said with a grin. "For someone who talks so much shit, you sure don't dish out the punishment as well as you like to think!" Drake landed and felt his right leg throb. It was absolutely killing him, but he had to keep moving or else he'd get pulverized by black lightning.
"And for someone who thinks so highly of herself, your aim is that of a three year old throwing his food." Drake countered, gathering poison in his hands and shooting scaled projectiles at Rina, who blasted them too pieces with lightning.
"I don't know why you're so hurt already, but it isn't going to stop me." Rina said with a smirk. "I'm still going to take you out, and then find Damien!"
"Like hell you are." Drake replied. "You haven't even hit me since the battle really started, how do you honestly think you'd fair against Damien? I told you already, he'd thrash you."
"Shut up!" Drake winced as the magical pressure from the girl increased. The angrier she got, the more she attacked. Drake had to watch himself. "You're nothing but a Dragon Slayer! And a disgraceful one at that! You think I'm nothing? What kind of pathetic element is poison?" Drake clenched his fists as Rina watched him.
"Granted is isn't as strong as fire or god forbid your lightning." He said, holding his head high. "But you'd better hope I don't get a few decent hits in our you'll be hitting the dirt faster than you can count to three."
"Oh yeah?" Rina asked, lowering her arms and beckoning Drake. "Come and prove that, huh? Show me why you're a worthy challenge!" Drake rolled his eyes, but obliged her. He ran forward as best he could with a wounded leg and swung his poison coated fists at her, but she easily dodged all of them.
An uppercut going right for...!
The fist connected before Drake had time to think it through. He flew high into the air, twirling as he went. Rina jumped up and landed another blow, causing him to fly into a nearby building and into someone's bedroom.
"What the...?" Drake asked as Rina laughed.
"Knew it." She said. "You're sound magic is something else. Sure gives you quite the edge in combat." Drake managed to look back out the hole of the house and down at Rina, who was smirking up at him. "But you're nothing if the attacker is too fast for you to react." Drake's eyes widened as Rina confirmed his fears. His hearing was fast, incredibly so, but in his wounded state and Rina's ability to strike quickly, his reaction time was not fast enough. Her thoughts would only just register with him before she struck him.
He couldn't rely on it.
And that was a problem.
"Good one." Drake said, pushing the anxiety down. "I'm not sure a lot of people have actually managed to get through my sound magic. Well, except for my old man." He jumped back down onto the street and stood back up. "So I'll give you that one Rina, you're fast."
"Thanks. So, shall I end this?"
"If you think you can." Drake replied, tensing. "But just because I can't rely on my sound magic doesn't mean..." Rina struck him in the stomach, and he slid backwards clutching it. He looked up just in time to see her tackle him, body coated with black lightning. He rolled through the street and jumped away just in time to avoid her blasting him to smithereens along with the street. He had no time to recover before she tackled him again, this time throwing him high into the air. He re-positioned himself to aim downwards, and took a deep breath,
"Poison Dragon Roar!" The spiral of dark red venom flew towards Rina, who had enough time to dodge it and take a deep breath of her own.
"Lightning God's Bellow!" The torrent of black lightning came for Drake, who was still flying through the open air. He gritted his teeth as the attack grew closer.
"Looks like we're blocking this the hard way..." he hissed, gathering as much magic in his hands as he could. As the roar reached him, it connected with Drake's fists, sending off an explosion of lightning and poison. Drake felt himself getting pushed by the attack, but it hadn't broken through yet. The roar started to fade, and Drake was allowed to relax a bit.
Until he laid eyes on Rina flying towards him immediately following her attack. He brought his hands together again and tried to attack her, but the girl easily moved out of the way and swung her foot into his back, accelerating his fall into the earth. He landed hard and struggled to stand as she landed gracefully behind him.
"I'm sure you feel really good about your decision to fight me now, huh?" Rina asked, walking up behind Drake as he coughed. She drove her foot into his back. "Get up. You wanted this, right? So get the hell up and show me why." Drake took his punishment as a moment to think. What was he supposed to do? It wasn't like he had much to use. Rina's speed was the key problem. If she was so fast that Drake didn't have time to block her attacks, he had a problem. There had to be a way. Drake groaned as Rina kicked his leg, the muscles twitching from the pain.
Muscles.
Drake grinned.
Now he knew what to do. It wasn't as solid a defensive plan, but it could sure as hell work out for him.
"Come on!" Rina shouted. "Get up! This isn't...!" Rina foot didn't reach him that time before he grabbed it.
"You want to see why?" Drake asked, his hand starting to glow. "Fine, we can do just that!" The poison exploded outward, forcing Rina to back up as it did. Drake stood and looked down at his leg as it refused to work. He clicked his teeth. "Piece of shit..." He looked up at Rina as she prepared to attack him again.
"You'd better not be all show." She threatened. Drake shrugged.
"Even if you do beat me, I will manage to slow you down for..."
He heard it.
Rina's leg muscles contracted and expanded. She was about to sprint at him.
And that she did. She ran right at him.
Her right arms moving upward at an angle of forty-five degrees...She's probably going for another uppercut.
And Drake responded accordingly. He bent his body backwards, and Rina's arm soared right in front of his face and into the open sky between them. Rina looked a little surprised.
"Huh?" She asked. Drake's ears twitched.
Other arm rearing back by the looks of it...Probably going for my face.
Drake bought both arms up to his face and sure enough, Rina's fist struck them. He quickly grabbed her by the arm and refused to let go. Rina growled.
"What are you...?"
"You think your mind is all that I can hear?" Drake asked, smirking. "Maybe I can't react to your thoughts fast enough, but your body is the key to your speed. So if I listen to your body instead of your mind..." Poison flowed from Drake's hands, leaving burn marks on Rina's forearms. "Then the playing field is even!" Using all of the strength in is upper body, Drake lifted Rina above his head and threw her into the open sky.
"Poison Dragon Fan Thrust!" The fangs launched from Drake's hands and latched onto Rina's midsection. Drake reared back and swung the poison like a whip and the ground, which threw Rina downwards at an incredible speed. She hit the dirt and caused debris to fly everywhere, and Drake watched for her to reemerge.
"What a strategy!" Ross shouted. "Drake listens to Rina's body instead of her thoughts! This could turn out to be quite the interesting battle!"
"He's doing quite well for being so injured." Kinana heard Natsu comment. "Even against Rina."
"He trained just as hard as everyone else." Gray said, turning to Kinana. "Right?" Kinana thought about it.
She recalled the nine to nine training. The one hit challenge. She grinned and looked back up at the lacrima vision as Rina climbed out of the hole she'd been thrown into.
"He's worked really hard." She said. "And now it's paying off."
"Damn, look at him go!" Erik stopped and looked over into the bridge of the airship, spotting everyone watching what appeared to be the Grand Magic Games. Jellal looked back and smiled.
"There you are." he said. "Come here, Erik. Drake's competing."
"And?" Erik asked, coming into the room regardless. "He's getting his ass beaten, ain't he?"
"Not really." Erik looked up and watched his son throw some green haired woman for a loop, making a crater as she hit the dirt.
"Damn, that looked like it hurt." Sorano commented.
"It is the strength of love!" Richard shouted, making Macbeth groan.
"How did you even draw that conclusion?" He demanded. Erik watched the green haired girl crawl out of the hole, and engage his son in combat. He was holding his own well enough, but he still sighed.
"That kid's technique is awful." he said. "You'd think my training was for nothing."
Even though his words were harsh, it took everything Erik had to not smile as he watched the battle progress.
Simon dodged the explosion of Territory and landed on a rooftop, watching Juno as she did the same. The two of them had gone back and forth trying to land a blow, but both dodged every chance the other got.
"You're good." He told her.
"So are you." She replied, her hands glowing once more. "But I'm not going to take it easy on you." Simon prepared himself and, as soon as the explosion started, darted away from it and soared towards Juno. He requipped into his Black Wing Armor and swung his blade her, but her used Territory and the sword was transported out of Simon's hands, forcing him to back up. He sent in back to his magical inventory and brought it forth again. This left them just staring at each other, waiting.
"Not going to try again?" Juno asked.
"Give me a minute." Simon replied. He took his time and thought up some form of strategy. Juno didn't seem to interested in going on the offensive, she was just holding him off. Was her hope he'd get winded instead of beating her? That was probably it.
But with a magic like Territory, Simon's attacks could constantly get redirected somewhere else, and that was not something he needed. He was lucky Juno had redirected these attacks to hit him in the back.
"You look terrible, by the way." Simon kept his eyes on Juno, but she quickly scanned him. "Seriously, who did that to you guys?"
"Don't know." He replied. "But you can bet as soon as I find out I'm going to teach them a lesson they won't soon forget." Simon shot forward and went after Juno, but she kept backing up using Territory and causing explosions around him, which kept forcing him away too. Simon dodged another explosion and soared high into the air, which gave him his first clear shot at Juno. He soared right for her, swinging his sword preemptively to strike her. Juno reacted quickly and used Territory on it again to displace it, but Simon was prepared for her this time. As soon as the sword left his hands, he quickly slowed his attack and opened his palms, heavenly light blasting out and towards Juno. The girl had unprepared for the second barrage, and took the blast head on. She slid backwards and raised a hand, and it glowed. An explosion went off on the ground at Simon's feet, throwing rocks up in his face. He shielded his eyes from the dirt, but his lack of mobility gave Juno the chance she was looking for the cause another explosion, this one hitting him dead on.
"Shit..." Simon's sword arm was killing him. After this was over, he was going to train with a sword in his left arm. Even if it killed him, he was going to learn to use both arms. He tested the arms movement capabilities, and determined a few too many explosions and he wouldn't be able to use it for the fight. Drawing another blade from his inventory, Simon weighed it against the pain and deemed it usable, at least for the time being. He went towards Juno again, but just like before he was kept at a distant due to the Territory explosions.
Well, if she was going to play that way.
Simon backed up and went in towards her again He could see the Territory forming, and that it was, of course, directly blocking his flight course towards the girl.
And he went right through it.
The magic exploded as per usual, but Simon only just felt it as he soared right through it and kept going for Juno. The girl looked surprised and raised a few more to try and stop him, but they didn't. He felt them certainly, but he needed to stop trying to avoid them. It was only allowing Juno to increase the gap between them. He flew right through the last one, and raised his sword, preparing to bring it down.
And he brought it down all right.
The forces of the universe made it weigh a few hundred pounds.
Simon shouted in surprise, his arm immediately demanding he drop the blade, so he did.
And it created a crater.
"Um.." Juno said. "Why did it...?" Simon stared down at the sword in shock, before his eyes widened.
"Oh no.." he said, looking up. "We're not...!"
Both him and Juno collapsed to the ground, creating their own craters.
"What...?" Juno asked weakly as she tried to get up, but she was kept down. "What is this?"
"Gravity Change.." Simon hissed, managing to prop himself up on one arm. "Which means she found us." As if on cue, the woman in question giggled from somewhere above Simon.
"It's so kind of you to recognize me by magic, Simon." Nami Mikazuchi said. "Although I wasn't expecting to find Juno here as well, I suppose it works. Ten points instead of just five!"
Nashi felt like she was too alone for her own good. She could hear battles starting all around her, but she herself had yet to actually get in one.
"Man, where is everyone?" She asked, looking around. "I'm getting so lonely."
"Ask and you shall receive, Nashi." Nashi jumped and turned, following the sound the voice to the source. Blake was standing up on a high ledge, watching her. She tensed as she remembered his thrashing of Grace.
"Blake." She said. Blake jumped down to her level and watched her with his hands in his pockets.
"I've heard a lot about you." He said. "Probably more than you think."
"What does that mean? How much do you know?" Blake laughed, but the sound was hollow.
"Probably more than you, weirdly enough." he replied. This made Nashi feel...well, violated. "Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not a weirdo."
"Right..." Nashi said, backing up a bit. "Good idea trying to convince me of that after you said something like that."
"Think whatever you want, it makes no difference to me." He looked up and watched her. "We still have to fight." Nashi nodded and took the best offensive stance that she could given the pain she was in. Blake, like with Grace, seemed calm.
Nashi decided she was going to test the waters.
Nashi brought her hands together and shot a fireball at Blake, and watched him wait for it. The fireball exploded against him, and Nashi waited as the smoke billowed around. As soon as it faded, the effect was made obvious as Blake was still standing still, hands in his pockets, watching her. His body was outlined with bright bluish green.
"Hm, that kinda burned." Blake said, brushing himself off as the glow faded. "Good one." Nashi frowned as Blake watched her. "I suppose it's my turn to test you out?" Blake brought his hands together, and a bright blue glow came from between his fingers. He slowly raised and lowered his hands, and a sphere of plasma was floating in his palm. Blake simply reared back and tossed it lightly, as if he was doing nothing more than tossing a ball.
The effect, however, was much more devastating than a ball bouncing across the ground.
The sphere of plasma flew towards Nashi, and she jumped out of the way of it and it went right past her. Nashi grinned.
"Nice try, but you mis...!"
BOOM!
Nashi felt the explosion against her back, and she felt no need to finish her sentence. She slowly turned and looked at the devastation. The buildings it hit were torn apart, and debris was falling all around the ruins. Hell, Nashi could tell from the size of the debris most of building has been pulverized.
All that from lightly tossing a small sphere.
"Jeez..." Nashi said, turning back around. "What the hell is that magic?"
"Plasma magic." Blake said, forming another sphere. "Let's see how you fair." He tossed this, and it went right for Nashi's feet. There was nowhere she could go to avoid the explosion, so she took it dead on. Nashi rolled back away from it only for another one to go off right next to her, and then another. She flew back and tried to stand as best she could, but her wounded body was already having trouble getting up.
"Already down?" Blake asked. "Maybe I should've used a smaller explosive, hm?"
What?"
"W-Wait a minute..." Nashi said, sitting up a bit. "Smaller explosive?" Blake grinned darkly and raised a hand to his lips.
"Oops, did I say that out loud? My bad." he laughed. "I don't think I was supposed to tell you I'm to blame for why you guys are so hurt."
...
Nashi felt her rage building. He was at fault for that?
"..You're going to pay." Nashi hissed, slowly trying to stand. "I'm going to make you pay for that."
"Are you now?" Blake raised a hand and beckoned for her to come at him. "Then come make me."
Michael slowly slid down the wall of the building as Blake's words echoed in his head.
He did that...He hurt them. How much do the Games mean to him?
He looked back at the two as they began to fight, and felt his rage building up.
How could he...Why would he...
...
He's not getting away with this.
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