Chapter 3: Episode 3
Class 2-C walked into the classroom with Carmen leading the group of students. Everyone took their designated seats as normal while waiting for Mrs. Yuki's instructions. Then there was a knock on the door, but before anybody answered it burst open. A tall man with a muscular build stood in the doorway. He looked very upset for some reason. "Oh, uh hello, and who are you?" Mrs. Yuki asked.
"I thought you of all people would recognize me, Mrs. Yuki. I am the principal, you know your boss" said the Principle.
"Oh! Forgive me sir today has been rather stressful with a recent turn of events" said Mrs. Yuki
"It's fine. No worries" the principle looked around the room "I can already tell this class is going to be a headache...nevertheless I am here to assign dorm rooms. They're on the west wing of the school. The roommates will be: Akaze and Karma, Riku and Raiden, lastly Lotus and Carmen" said the Principle.
"Sir we'll try our best to be less of a headache" Riku said respectfully.
"Yeah we'll try our best to get along" said Lotus giving a big grin with a thumbs up.
"That goes for me as well I'll try to keep them all in live" said Mrs. Yuki with a smile.
"I trust that you will all keep your word. Very well. That is all I have high expectations for this class" said the Principle with a light smile on his face as he headed towards the door.
"Kiss ass" Carmen said as the Principle was out of the room.
"your more annoying than a fly but even that knows when to buzz off" Riku said.
This caused Mrs. Yuki to glare daggers at Riku and Carmen which didn't really faze either of them. Instead Carmen and Riku just stared each other down, and most of the other students in the room could feel the tension in the air.
"are we going to fight or what?" asked Carmen.
"Do we even have time for sparring?" asked Akaze.
"we have one hour left before the bell rings," said Riku.
"How about we put it to a class vote" Mrs. Yuki then turned to the other students in the room "all those in favor of sparring today say I" said Mrs. Yuki.
"I" Said Akaze.
"I" Said Carmen.
"I" said Riku.
"I" said Lotus.
"I" said Raiden
Karma stayed quiet not wanting any kind of participation with the sparring match. Once he realized he was out voted he sighed fuck my life... Karma thought. Mrs. Yuki had a mischievous smirk on her face as she looked at Karma.
"Looks like we're sparring today, go on and get ready students" said Mrs. Yuki.
Lotus, Raiden, Carmen, Riku, and Akaze went to their lockers changing from their school uniforms into their combat outfits. The first of the group out was Lotus, she wore a bodysuit with tiger patterns with a hole in the back allowing her tiger tail to stick out.
Raiden wore a white hoodie with black crows on it, and on the back was a crow with its wings open sending a volley of feathery spears at whoever looked at it; his pants were standard combat pants, and black high-top shoes.
Carmen wore a black skin tight suit with a fire decal that stretched from her chest to her legs. Carmen was the first and maybe only student to stretch, and lumber up among her classmates.
Riku came out wearing a gray long sleeve t-shirt with a white and black dragon doing a Yin-Yang symbol, he wore sweatpants, and low top shoes.
Akaze came out in a white tank top and blue shorts. Unlike the other students, Karma was the only one that didn't change clothes. Instead stayed in his school uniform with his hands in his pockets as he watched his peers.
"So, who's fighting first?" asked Akaze.
"The first fight will be Akaze against Karma, next will be Riku vs Lotus, and Raiden vs Carmen" said Mrs. Yuki looking at her clipboard.
"I forfeit," said Karma without a hint of care in his tone of voice.
"H-huh?...That's a cruddy way to win," Akaze said, disappointed.
"What's the issue, disappointed you won't get to show off for the Tiger?" asked Karma.
"W-what? pfft n-nah I just wanted to see who our class strongest would be" said Akaze with a small hue on his face from Karma's question.
"Either way I don't care about fighting I didn't come to this school to do so" Karma huffed.
"Tch..." Carmen clicked her tongue.
"Well it's important that you learn some combat, so when the time comes and a corrupted mage tries to kill you, you will at least have a fighting chance" said Mrs. Yuki
Raiden simply rolled his eyes at Carmen's attitude; it was almost as if the two couldn't possibly stand each other. Carmen didn't pay any mind to Raiden and just kept stretching.
"I'm aware. I know how to fight just fine" said Karma standing on the sideline. Carmen, Akaze, and Raiden watched the two closely.
Riku, and Lotus stood across from each other taking a fighting stance. Riku had his hands at his sides as he got low like Naruto when he entered six paths sage mode against Sasuke. Lotus on the other hand had taken a stance similar to Grimmjow from Bleach. The two ran at each other taking off at high speeds. Lotus did a flip over Riku attempting to strike his back on the way down, but Riku expected this rolled forward as she came down.
"Oh boy..." Akaze said.
Lotus's attacks were fierce, and fast; upon landing she immediately charged towards Riku going for a right hook. Riku predicted this attack and spun, grabbing her arm and flipping her over like Deku did to Bakugou during their training exercise. Riku then backed off and created swords made of Darkness, sending them right at Lotus. Lotus dodged the swords that were sent at her is this how Dante feels when he fights Vergil? Iruma thought to herself. One of the swords had hit her arm cutting her but not too deep. Riku put his hands out in front of him "Flash Bang!" said Riku as a flash of blinding light appeared. Lotus quickly closed her eyes, but within that split second Riku had rushed her.
Lotus opened her eyes only to see Riku was right in front of her, and thanks to her beast magic giving her enhanced reflexes. Lotus ducked under the attack and countered by giving Riku an uppercut. Riku went with the uppercut doing a back flip to put some distance between them. He then coated his arm in Darkness and came down creating a crater where Lotus once stood. Once the dust had settled and Riku noticed she was missing from where she stood. Lotus appeared behind Riku and was about to strike, but felt something restraining her.
"What the hell?!?!" Lotus shouted.
"I took into account you would move before I could land the final blow, and creep up behind me to get the attack" said Riku.
"I'm so screwed..." said Akaze with a groan.
"I see..." Carmen said.
"Alright...well you win" said Lotus as Riku let her go. The two then went back to the others as Carmen and Raiden stood across from each other. The intensity was in the air and could be felt by everybody.
"Best of luck fire cracker" said Raiden with his hands in his pockets.
"Best of luck, Lightning bolt" said Carmen as she was a bit shocked that her opponent was wishing her luck.
Raiden took a stance while taking in a deep breath not one of nervousness, but rather one of excitement. He had to steel his nerves not let his opponent know what he was thinking or doing for each move. When it came to combat Raiden thought of it like a simple game of chess, and the one with the best strategy came out on top.
Carmen took a stance with a deadly look in her eye as if she enjoyed the thrill of the fight, or toying with her prey. Although Carmen was of a higher class than the other students there was something about her that made the high class demeanor almost questionable. Sure her attitude and character gave off that of a higher class. Her combat demeanor was more barbaric, and has the ferocity of a honey badger.
"Begin!" Said Mrs. Yuki.
Raiden was the first to make his move making a bow of lightning and firing the arrow that formed within it. He released the electrical arrow and made it split into three smaller arrows creating a volley. Carmen countered the arrows by bursting into flames then sending out three fireballs to counter the lightning arrows. She's using offense as a defense...Raiden thought to himself and quickly began forming a plan. Carmen created a large fireball and shot it at Raiden, but Raiden was quick as the fireball had struck where he stood forming a dust cloud. Carmen rushed to Raiden's direction while still being covered in fire.
Once the dust cleared Raiden stood where Carmen had stood at the start of the beginning of the match. He didn't attack Carmen instead he just examined her while calculating his next move. I can't strike if she has her flame guard up, Raiden thought. Carmen clicked her tongue and snapped her fingers making her flame guard go out, but that wasn't the only thing she did. She snapped her fingers and sent a fire bolt at Raiden. As the fire bolt came hurling at Raiden, but instead of running from the attack instead he charged at it and jumped over the firebolt.
Carmen saw an opportunity and smirked, sending a large fireball in Raiden's direction. This caused Raiden to smile as if he were expecting her to perform that attack. Don't get so cocky so quickly Raiden thought as he like lightning disappeared then reappeared beside Carmen. Raiden made a stuff of lightning and swung at her side. All that was heard from Carmen was a gasp as she took the hit from the attack. She slid back a few feet from him but kept herself composed.
"Tch...that's all you got?" Carmen asked.
"You're too tense...you need to relax yourself, let your body react on its own" said Raiden.
Carmen rolled her eyes and lit herself on fire charging at Raiden, and as Carmen did so Raiden knelt down and touched the ground. The ground that surrounded Raiden had made an electrical field, and anyone that stepped or came around would be electrocuted. This caused Carmen to send a barrage of fire balls at Raiden to make him stop touching the ground. Raiden dodged a majority of the fireballs, but was caught off guard by the last one that hit him. This in turn caused Carmen to grind her teeth and send more towards the lightning boy. Raiden looked at the amount of fireballs coming in his general direction, but instead of running from the fire that was coming his way he decided to charge at them.
Raiden charged directly at Carmen with little to no care for his own safety. Carmen sent more fireballs at Raiden hoping to slow or at least make him back off, but instead he kept charging directly at her. Carmen exploded with fire and it began to spew from her body. This caused Raiden to stop in his tracks and analyze the current situation. While he did this Carmen ran directly at Raiden, but he quickly caught on to her plan. This caused him to make a barrier of lightning to put a bit of distance so he could form a proper plan of attack. Unfortunately that's not how that was gonna go down instead Carmen did something Raiden hadn't predicted. Carmen jumped through the barrier of lightning and struck Raiden thus sending him back a few feet away. The lightning did do some damage, but not anything to her body. Rather her clothes had small tears and a few holes in them after jumping through the barrier.
After her initial attack Carmen, followed up by sending another fireball at Raiden this one was much larger than any of the other previous fireballs she launched at him before. The fireball caused Raiden to sigh while he made a lightning bolt about the same size as the fireball that was coming directly at him. The two projectile's clashed, but emerging from that clash was Carmen, her fist was covered in fire as she tried to hit Raiden. Raiden used his lightning to heighten his reflexes, once she attempted to punch him he stepped back, grabbed her wrist and attempted to throw her on her back. Carmen swung around and swung her leg to kick Raiden in the face, however Raiden leaned back narrowly avoiding the kick. Though he could feel the heat from the fire around her foot causing him to sweat a little bit.
Carmen was free of Raiden's grasp so she jumped back and took a fighting stance.
"what's the matter? realized you used too much mana? Or are you just looking for another opening to take another strike?" Raiden questioned her.
"And you aren't using mana up either?" Carmen asked, rolling her eyes at his statement.
"Not really, see I haven't been using all magic based attacks since this fight began..." Raiden placed his hands in his pockets "However, you've sent 2 fire ball barrages, and attempted to strike me by coating your hands in fire as well as your feet for kick based attacks as well as coat yourself in fire for more attacks" Raiden smirked as he tallied up her attacks "Unless you have a rather hefty mana pool, but you already knew that...your becoming sluggish in your movements" said Raiden.
"So that's what you think?" Carmen laughed.
"You're fighting to kill, but hesitate is what I think," said Raiden as he shrugged.
"I'm not trying to kill you, dumbass. You really think I would throw all my power at you right off the bat?" asked Carmen.
"If you don't come to a fight with the intention to kill then you've already lost" said Raiden.
"The teacher literally said 'don't kill each other' are you brain dead or something?" said Carmen.
"Yeah I heard what she said, but having the intention to kill and actually killing are two separate things...if you don't fight like your life depends on it then you're already dead" said Raiden.
"You're only half right...I have knowledge but the dumbass part falls on you" said Raiden as a lightning bolt came down on Carmen's position leaving her with either take the hit or hopefully move out of its range.
Carmen let out a gasp as she tried to move but was hit by the lightning bolt.
"You're an exceptional fighter, but lack the judgement, and show off too much" said Raiden as the lightning stunned her while he walked over to her and put his hand out.
Mrs. Yuki gasped, not expecting the fight to end the way that it did. Carmen clicked her tongue and reluctantly took his head standing up.
"good fight or whatever" Carmen waved her hand and walked off.
"Alright class it's time for lunch, go get changed back into your uniforms and head to the cafeteria' said Mrs. Yuki.
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