[IC] Lightgivers - Volume 1: A Feeling

[Chevaleresse]

Haruki immediately flattened himself against the ground with a squawk, though it was more simple startlement than indignation or pain. "Hey, I didn't even do anything to you... yet~" He smiled with a fair degree of smug satisfaction, however, as he observed the girl that had previously honed in on him change targets from his position in the grass. He stuck one arm up into the air, frowning with his tongue peeking out of the side of his lips as he angled the lens, casting another glare into the eyes of the one that'd launched the ball of electricity at him.

[K_H]

Luckily - or unluckily - for the spectators, there was a tree right in Jev's trajectory, which he bounced off of.

After a few seconds to regain his bearings, Jev got up, and saw one of the two people from across the firing line running towards Leo. Deciding to take advantage of the young electromancer's back being turned, Jev sprinted at him, ready to whack him in the head with one of his batons once he got close enough.

Edited September 26, 2016 by K_H

[Amanojaku]

Leo let out a groan of vexation at the wasted opportunities, but quickly collected himself and started charging a powerful blast aimed at the ground, in order to give himself time to get away from the prideful girl - seeing as she didn't do anything yet other than approaching her targets, her Lumen was obviously short-ranged. However, a weak glare, whose intensity was reduced slightly since it was reflected by his glasses, caught the corner of his eye. Light manipulation. The young inventor could feel his skin crawl in indignation once he realized that not only he missed, but he also got his two targets to gang up on him.

However, a loud sound brought him back to his senses. He quickly realized who was the only person that could have made that noise and, remembering his assailant's current form, used his own metallokinesis to lift Jev up. Right before throwing him at Aria, though, Leo gave him a light tap on the shoulder, releasing an electric pulse into the shapeshifter's highly conductive body that was just strong enough to immobilize him for a minute or two.

Unfortunately for him, that convoluted maneuver was exhausting. The electromancer made a hasty escape to the southernmost part of the arena, where the other metallokinetic was standing at the beginning of the fight, while both his foes were distracted by each other.

Edited September 28, 2016 by Amanojaku

[Hiss13]

Much to her dismay, the one who had attacked her had decided to make the brilliant move of throwing a human cannonball at her. It was not necessarily a bad idea. It would mitigate the damage from him to someone else entirely considering that she was a wild card who had done nothing but walk and run. No matter what happened, someone would be taken out.

Unfortunately for Leo…Things won’t pan out as you hoped.

With a confident smile on her face, she stopped progressing. She did not even need more then three seconds to take care of the issue. The impending cool down would be relatively quick. Without hesitation, she intensified the gravity to 3g in an elliptical area of four meters in front of her, letting the major axis line up with the human cannonball’s path. In under a second it fell. In the next second, it ground to the halt as the increase in gravity multiplied the friction.

Without even giving a thought to the boy she knocked onto the floor, she let off the gravity looked to the side to see the boy she had been targeting before laying flat on the ground. She almost contemplated going to him and finishing him off there. Almost.

She turned back to face Leo who had been so impudent as to throw attacks like that. He would definitely get his comeuppance. That was something she was certain of. Without a second to lose, she ran, stepping on the cannonball’s body as her first step and kicking off as she directed herself towards Leo who had moved away.

[K_H]

Upon being tapped, Jev's metallic body absorbed the electrical charge, acting like a very large capacitor. Whatever he hit next would receive the shock, as he hadn't touched the ground yet.

Jev was starting to get annoyed with the metallokinetics tossing him around like he was nothing, so he decided to try to do something about that. As he flew through the air, he was just about to make his body mimic an extremely bouncy and stretchy rubber when he was slammed into the ground very suddenly, preventing him from shapeshifting thanks to the pain from suddenly being grounded releasing the electricity that had been stored in his body. To add insult to injury, as he laid there in pain, he was subsequently used as a stepping-stone. Now he was really annoyed, but held in his annoyance, just lying there to recover from his injuries and get some recon on his opponents to more accurately assess their potential, letting the pain slowly ebb away as he observed his opponents.

Edited September 28, 2016 by K_H

[Amanojaku]

Even though the prideful girl dodged the attack and lifting the shapeshifter meant he was too tired to pull out any complex stunts, the whole situation was somewhat beneficial to Leo. Jev was out of commission for a while and Aria had to reveal her Lumen: Some sort of telekinesis, though there had to be a limitation that forced her to attack at a close range. Knowing that wouldn't be enough to win, though: His foe was still approaching and that last attack almost burned him out completely, meaning that he was very lacking in options. Leo needed a good plan.

Generating an electric current and storing it in two of his metal pins, he created a small-scale version of what he tried to do by throwing Jev at her. However, she'd dodge that easily, so he needed something else, something more eye-catching. His energy shots would do the trick. Aiming both gauntlets at her, he fired twice in a way that would be easy to avoid if Aria simply moved to either side. Then, controlling the electrified pins carefully, he fired them at each side of her, so that they'd hit her legs if she moved. That way, she wouldn't be able to redirect all attacks with her Lumen at once, since it appeared to require her to stand still. This time, he was sure that she wouldn't be saved by dumb luck.

Edited September 28, 2016 by Amanojaku

[Hiss13]

He was shooting even more electrical energy balls. Would his onslaught of the same type of attack ever stop? Aria could only wonder how tired he must have been getting firing shots off like this one after another. Unlike her, who had merely done the equivalent of swatting a fly, he had fired multiple large shots not the least of which included that human cannonball. Based on the speed of his attack, he was likely getting worn down. She could avoid this without much effort. She just needed to side step and propel herself into a run. After all, he was almost in her range. Just a little push would do it.

As planned, she side-stepped to the right and bent her knees as she readied to propel herself forward. Before her leg muscles could push her forward, however, she felt a piercing force on her left forearm followed by a stinging pain and the sensation of a warm liquid pouring down from the point of pain and onto her palm. She could feel her left eye unconsciously closing and her teeth gritting on the left side of her mouth.

Aria looked down at her hand and saw the red liquid trickling down and branching on her palm.

She was...bleeding. She was...injured.

She looked down at her hand. She tensed and defensed her muscles to make sure that the motor nerves were still undamaged.

Her brow furrowed as she let anger take dominance of her emotions to dilute the pain. With great force, she kicked off the ground into a sprint. She would simply ignore the pain with true adrenaline as she closed in and as she hit the five meter mark, she immediately cried out.

“CRUSH!”

The gravity in a one meter radius circle around Leo intensified immediately to 3g as Aria continued to press forward.

[Azeria]

Rafael scowled as he saw his ruined knife fall to ground, useless, but had to soon jump out of the way of the second coming of the bird of flame. "Tch, now I have to get another one of them." He muttered as he started walking towards Rame, having taken two more knives out before walking towards the white haired girl, flinching every few seconds because of the burn on his arm. After getting close enough, he felt it. That same feeling he did only a few minutes earlier. Rafael looked closely at his opponent, but couldn't exactly make out what it was from his current distance.

Deciding that waiting to find out wouldn't do him any good like this, Rafael started running forward. Seeing as long rage fighting didn't seem to be doing him any good. As soon as he got within 4 meters of her, he threw one of his knives at her leg before moving a bit to the side, ready to redirect the blade if she tried to burn it to a crisp, like she did the other knife.

[Sutoratosu]

The bird faded into embers as the boy ran forward. Rame stopped playing and let the whistle drop from her lips; if he was trying to close the distance it wouldn't do her any good to have her hands tied up. She started chanting yet again as he got near, steadily building up a swirling flame around her that danced and flickered with every change in tone. The moment he threw the second dagger, she again acted on reflex, dashing to the side as she prepared to focus the full brunt of the torrent upon him...

then she felt it. The stinging sensation of metal against flesh as the blade suddenly shifted course with a glint of silver. She could feel the raw heat pouring out of the wound and onto her skin, staining her pants leg a murky crimson and steaming against the far cooler air given her body temperature. She almost buckled, as the realization of how deep the blow had gone dawned on her, the sound of her own heartbeat thundering in her ears. Her vision seemed to narrow and blur around the edges, tunneling in on the boy.

But through the pain, something else pushed itself to the forefront of her mind. Subtle heat welled up in her gut, like an internal flame that beckoned her forward and demanded she refocus, force herself to remain standing and press onward. The incantation she muttered only grew faster, the fires fiercer as a raging determination to destroy him blossomed. One step forward, and then another, and another as she gritted her teeth both in pure malice and pain, edging her way closer. The light almost seemed to dance as the fires swirled about her, and for just the briefest of moments... Rafael's was longer the face waiting on the otherside of those flames. No... it was another one. A far more familiar one... a far more loathed one.

Raven hair, dark green eyes, that snarling scowl, the ugly little scar arcing across the bridge of the nose, hidden within that hood of dark fur...

"Faster..." she thought. Yes, faster... the wait was agonizing at this pace...faster... fire was fast, it consumed and destroyed in the blink of an eye, left annihilation in it's wake and never looked back upon the carnage. So too did the internal flame she felt within her desire to be. So too was the harm it wished to inflict in retaliation, just as it had back on that fatal day.

She wove her words at break neck pace, and the fires congealed about her lithe form; conscious thought took a back seat and the inferno of swirling, driving emotion took over as whatever in the seven hells she had been chanting rose and finally became loud enough to rival a shout, though one that was near immediately drowned out by the roaring cacophony as a jet of flame bloomed beneath the girl's feet and propelled her towards Rafael, far faster than anything she could've managed with her wounded gait.

fire danced around her fist and took on solid form as she lashed out with all the built up brunt of her momentum, aiming directly for his face...though the worst the boy would honestly get from the heat was a second-degree burn at worst; the majority of the hottest flames she wove were being used to jet her own body forward... the actual impact itself though, was another story. With the force of her propulsion along her own body weight riding behind the blow, the blow would easily be far more than enough to knock the fool out cold if it connected solidly...

[Code: PIRULUK]

"How uncouth..."

Valor frowned as he rested on his cane, standing among the audience. The battlefield in front of him was swirling with hostile intent, creating a cacophony of violence.

One of them - a girl - had some kind of control over fire, that much he could tell. It was hard to mistake the distinct shift in ambient temperature. It seemed to coincide with some sort of song, as well. Interesting.

One of them had suddenly become far denser and heavier - some sort of physical reinforcement?

At least three of them had some form of telekinesis - he had felt spikes of hostility, followed by sudden displacement of seemingly unrelated individuals or objects. One of them had... something that tingled in the air as well. It was reminiscent of the current he felt from electric devices. An electrokinetic, perhaps? It would certainly account for that person's seeming telekinesis, as well.

There was one figure - the smallest, a boy. Valor could not place his power. Had he not used it? Valor had not felt anything besides brief flashes of intent...

As Valor mulled over these thoughts, his face expressionless, a sudden eruption of hostility and negative emotion caused him to wince as the fire girl unleashed a maelstrom of emotion. He shook his head and spoke softly.

"Truly uncouth..."

Edited October 1, 2016 by Code: PIRULUK

[Amanojaku]

The metal pin hit its target precisely, but it did very little to slow her down. Leo's plan didn't go completely off the rails, though: Aria was getting angry. She would just charge ahead carelessly, giving him a chance to counterattack. Since her weird telekinetic Lumen appeared to be able to weigh things down, given that she used it to stop Jev but didn't attack anyone else, he disassembled his gauntlets, keeping each individual piece floating around him. They were pretty heavy, after all, and the whole strategy would fall apart if he was pinned to the ground by his own hands.

As soon as Aria shouted, Leo fell to his knees, weighed down by the intense gravity. He closed his eyes and raised his left hand with difficulty, charging another electric pulse. However, his attack wasn't a precise, controlled energy shot. He needed his gauntlets to do that, they were tools he used to overcome his Lumen's biggest shortcoming: Its instability. Static charges leap from an object with high potential to one with low potential, so he couldn't just aim them on his own. However, there was an object with low potential right where he wanted it: The electrified pin stuck in Aria's arm.

With a bright flash of light, a small-scale lightning bolt formed in Leo's hand and moved towards his foe's left forearm. There was hardly any need to aim, it would hit the target on its own. As soon as it was over, Leo opened his eyes and winced, feeling some light burns on his left hand.

Edited October 1, 2016 by Amanojaku

[Hiss13]

Aria watched the boy being brought to his knees by her gravity as she moved ever closer. She was surprised the boy had not fractured the bones in his legs when he had prevented himself from falling completely to the floor. Though, perhaps she was just unable to tell whether or not he had because he was not moving his legs in the slightest. As she was a meter away, she noticed him struggling to raise his arm. In response, she readied her staff. Once she was right outside of her own gravity field, she immediately slammed down, aiming to hit the boy’s back with the gem portion. She would knock him down to the ground and the force would knock him out.

As she was following through her attack, she felt a sharp pain in her left side. A stream of electricity coursed into the pin on her left forearm. In retrospect, she should have had the foresight to pull the pin out of her arm. Worrying about the blood loss that would occur if she removed it may have been a bad idea. But, it was too late for that. The left side of Aria’s body began to convulse, her knees began to weaken, and burns began to form. But, the attack would not stop. Her staff continued en route to collide with Leo’s back.

[Chevaleresse]

Haruki just sort of casually stood up after a while, his attempts at irritating the others in the fight going largely unnoticed. He put his hands together behind his back and leaned forward slightly as he watched the battle, staying in his corner while the rest beat each other up. After a moment or two of this, he had an idea. He began focusing on the air around him, tinkering with how light was passing through it. He stuck his tongue out of the side of his mouth again as he concentrated. The space around him shimmered a bit for a moment, and it seemed like the boy was growing closer - or larger - without actually moving, at least from the perspective of the people on the field.

[Felicity]

Had she blinked? Cindy forced herself to blink and look away from the fight for a moment. She didn't understand what she saw, the individual powers and skills. She didn't understand why she saw students so eager to beat each other to a pulp so readily either. For that matter, the how was a large-scale mystery- Wait. No it wasn't, how could she forget the basics of how they were given Lumen? Regardless there was one thing Cindy was thankful for and in the moment after something else far more terrifying slipped into her thoughts.

At least these were people on her side.

They were also novices.

[Amanojaku]

The satisfaction of landing a hit on his target was quickly replaced by worry as Leo realized that the battle wasn't quite over yet. Aria's flail-like weapon rapidly approached his back and, due to her telekinetic powers, he couldn't move out of its way. He could try to redirect it with a magnetic field, but that wouldn't be easy to pull off, especially given how tired he was. Any option would result in his defeat. However, getting completely pinned to the ground would be quite embarrassing for someone as prideful as him, so he chose to go down swinging.

Leo formed a repulsive magnetic field around himself to keep the chain suspended in mid-air. It slowly lost momentum, stopping right before the gem portion hit his back. He let out a sigh of relief once he realized that it was no longer moving, although he knew that, by this point, the battle was already over for him. He was too tired to keep fighting, so he might as well have been knocked out.

Edited October 5, 2016 by Amanojaku

[Hiss13]

It seemed even Aria’s final stand against Leo was ground to a halt. The force and momentum of the staff had just been erased right before it would have hit him. She could feel her left side trembling and screaming as the pain from the quick burst of electricity burning the muscles and skin on her left side had caught up to her.

Aria started to pant as she realized that she was pretty much stuck in place at this point. While her Lumen was holding, so was his. In other words…

“A stalemate…” She muttered, assessing the situation. In the end, she would likely stay in this position until the time ran out. She could no longer move and her attack had been nullified.

It was an infuriating situation—something she would make absolute certain she would have Leo pay back a hundred-fold. After all, there was nobody who took shots at this prideful girl and got away unscathed. This boy would be no different.

[Azeria]

"Aaaand she's pissed. Oh boy." Rafael's eye twitched once more as he looked at the very rapidly approaching girl he'd just stabbed, rapidly approaching and on fire too. That was actually pretty cool, if very dangerous... Seeing very few other options, he attempted to jump to the side, only for the fist to graze his arm and his jacket quickly caught on fire and Rafael quickly took it off and threw it to the side.

Something caught his eye as she went past him however, a sheathed weapon, most likely the thing he kept sensing the pull from. Though with his current amount of Lumen and his quite rapidly depleting stamina, he wasn't sure if he could pull anything with it like he'd done with the guy that'd turned himself into metal for some reason. Either way, he didn't want see what would get put on fire next.

"Well, that's another thing that's been ruined in the last few minutes. Hope you don't mind if I just call it quits. I'd rather nothing else get burnt or melted..." Rafael said while he grabbed his arm as the burns on it started acting up once again. They didn't stop him from doing much but now that he wasn't focused on getting the hell out of the way of whatever flaming abomination that came flying his way, they were a lot more annoying. Thank the lords above he didn't get hit by that last one...

[Sutoratosu]

"Shit..." She gritted her teeth as the boy moved at the very last second, managing to save himself from the brunt of her flaming lunge. The flares died down around her as she passed him by, sending Rame stumbling from her brief flight and landing in the dirt as her leg again buckled beneath her weight. Even as she tried to push herself back up again, the incantation began all over again, this wasn't over just because she missed... the fucker who'd put her into a damn hobble would pay for it...unlike earlier though, some part of it was actually audible...

"Zadade se oblåk témen

Otkum gora, ot Bålkana

Eh, moy dyado, tejko vre-"

"Well, that's another thing that's been ruined in the last few minutes. Hope you don't mind if I just call it quits. I'd rather nothing else get burnt or melted..."

Of course you'd say that right now...you sound just as utterly spineless as you looked while you were taking potshots at me, why am I not surprised? "You fucking coward, it's your own damn fault for starting something you couldn't finish," Her eye's flashed with the radiance of embers as she muttered the words, more than loud enough for the boy to easily catch it. The fires reluctantly receded as she finally pushed herself back up... as much as she wanted nothing more in the world than to turn him into a pile of kindling, the shit she knew she'd get for going after him any further wasn't worth it. She'd already been kicked out once, no point fucking this up too. She did not deny the tumultuous inferno she felt within her core though, only tapered it's wrath, but she could feel it resist more and more with every second, "but fine... if this is how easily you back down when things get tough, then you aren't worth my damn time anyway..."

With that said, she took a moment to actually survey the rest of the field, ignoring the throbbing pain shooting up and down her leg and into her groan. A tendon had definitely been hit... on the bright side though, it was probably only a partial sever...and most of the bleeding had clotted under the heat of her lumen. Could've been worse, it could've left her unable to stand at all.

From what she could see, It seemed two of the others were locked in some sort of stand off with no real victor, and the annoying kid with diarrhea of the god damn mouth seemed to have wrecked the idiot who'd come flying at her. As interesting as it was that he'd managed to do jack shit to anyone though, not even he seemed like he intended to do much else beyond just standing around now. Figures... it was over already. Sure as hell hadn't feel like five minutes. Already, she could feel it flaring up again as she took in the pitiful scene...

"Pathetic," she snarled across the field, irises still alight as she glared from one fallen fighter to the next. Embers flickered about her form with every venom-laced word "all that bravado and ego I saw from some of you while you walked over here, and yet the only ones actually left standing now are me and this little pink haired shit?" her sight finally settled on none other than Haruki, seeming to almost stare through him, "I'm surprised you could actually shut your damn mouth long enough to raise your fists... let alone take down someone twice your size. Hell, it would almost be impressive, if you weren't so damn annoying."

[Ragnar]

Roy

Roy can't help but snort out a chuckle after witnessing the other participants winced in pain and getting hurt during this rigorous tryouts. Perhaps he's a sociopath in the making or he's just simply entertained by the innovative ways the participants are displaying to hurt one another with their lumen. Either way, he does find this whole situation somehow amusing especially that competitive flame girl who's really putting quite an effort in this mock battle. Well, this is turning to be quite a lovely show, if I know any better, i say they're all trying to make a name for themselves, trying to make the cut in Mrs.Sylva's A-team. Well can't blame them for doing that, gotta establish some dominance if you want to make it big in this so-called school of the gifted, the way I see, it's every man for himself around here, just like in Aquilo. and I wouldn't have it any other way. Roy snorted once more, looking grouchy as ever.

[Chevaleresse]

Haruki rocked back and forth on his heels a few times, watching the various competitors down themselves as if he were relaxing in a couch, observing via a TV. Which he supposed was somewhat accurate; the androgynous was quite literally viewing the battle through a sort of lens he'd created in the air. . . that was where the similarities ended but the androgynous boy didn't particularly care. Until the fire girl came at him, that was. "Hehe, you seem mad or something, did someone beat you up or something?" Haruki asked the question innocuously, though as usual didn't give any time to actually, well, respond. "You know, it's really mean to call people names and stuff when you don't know them, plus what if you're annoying to them or something? It's just lame, and besides your insults aren't even all that creative, like, what if you called me uh, what did that one guy say one time? I was too busy giggling to actually get upset..." While he spoke, he angled the circles of glass in each hand just so, one flashing to perfectly reflect its surroundings in a blur and the other zooming and distorting anything viewed through it. A spot of light appeared on his opponent's clothing, soon replaced by a small blaze not of her making. . .

[Sutoratosu]

She detected the unmistakable change in temperature almost immediately; she didn't bother to look down at the fire beginning to steadily spread across her overcloak. Her right eye twitched involuntarily as she continued staring at the boy, teeth bared like a wolf's, slowly limping closer and closer to him.

"Oh you think that's funny, huh, you little spaz?" She snarled. By now, the flames had totally engulfed her upper body, destroying her clothes, leaving the girl standing there half-nude before them all... and the fires only grew ever the more violent and frenzied as she'd opened her malice-filled mouth; even from where he stood, Haruki and the others could doubtlessly begin to feel the raw heat radiating off the amplified blaze. And see the foul glint looming in those eyes, "...say hi to my sister in hell."

Zadade se oblåk témen

Otkum gora, ot Bålkana

Eh, moy dyado, tejko vreme...

The combustion responded nigh immediately to her internal blaze, siphoning it's presence away from her body and into a barely contained swirling storm of heat and light around herself, only growing brighter as the speed of her chant increased and she poured every last bit of usable lumen she had left into it. Every. Last. Bit; FUCKING ALL OF IT.

The cloak was gone, most of her shirt was burned away to reveal her midrift and the lower reaches of her bust, complexion so pale it was nearly translucent... and there, partially visible beneath the exposed flesh pulsated a light all too similar to the radiance in her eyes, bright scarlet and swelling with each second. The chaotic storm broke free of it's confines in the next moment, as searing flames deviated from their revolution around the girl and mingled into an explosive blast of combustive force, surging straight for the boy with pink hair. Some of the other combatants, like those two locked in a stalemate, were probably in the way as well, but in all honestly, as that infernal drive of retribution and destruction took over yet again, Rame found herself fresh out of fucks to give and continued the incantation.

She had one target, so long as he burned, any collateral damage would be acceptable. To hell with any consequences, to hell with whether it was 'right'; this little jackass across the way had seen fit to fuck with fire, treat it like it was a mere toy and disrespect it, just like that bitch had for so many years... it was only fitting he pay the same price she had.

[Code: PIRULUK]

Valor's eyebrow twitched as he felt the storm of murderous intent grow in intensity. How ugly. Bloodlust was an ugly emotion, and he would rather have stayed by and allowed it to run its course. However, he was not about to stand idly by as another person was murdered over a trivial reason. At least not in such an unsightly way.

He moved forward to stop the battle, but took no more than three steps before freezing on the spot.

Why should he step in? There was no merit in him lending his assistance. What if, on the off chance, he got killed here, without accomplishing anything? How would he answer to his parents? How would he answer to his sister?

Gripping his cane tightly, he did not allow himself to move. As much as his soul railed against such a vulgar showing, he did not allow himself to intervene. His purpose in coming here was certainly not to participate in these petty squabbles of the unenlightened. He grit his teeth and withstood the rage of bloodlust that bombarded his mind. It was so, so, ugly.

Edited October 20, 2016 by Code: PIRULUK

[K_H]

Jev had half-recovered from the shock that had been applied to him at this point, and was going to let himself recover normally from his condition when he saw Rame walk towards the guy with the lenses and then launch off a firestorm, and he was directly in the path of the inferno. experiencing an adrenaline rush as his survival instincts kicked in and he panicked, he shouted out.

"NO!"

As he shouted, he imagined himself shapeshifting into something that could have some agency over his situation. almost immediately, the pain had subsided thanks to how the signals had been stopped whilst he was transforming as part of it, allowing him to stand up, but having consumed much more lumen than a single transformation would have as a result, causing him to have too little lumen for shapeshifting into anything that would have a significant effect on the fight. He also noticed that he was now in his normal human form. Acting on instinct, he dove out of the way of the blast, the soles of his shoes getting singed as he just barely managed to escape death. Seeing how violent the girl had been, he decided to play it safe and stay out of the way of the others. Until he regenerated enough Lumen to shapeshift again, he'd have to let the others wear themselves down before engaging them.

Edited October 23, 2016 by K_H

[Ragnar]

Roy

Roy's eyes widen and immediately turns into a squint after seeing the bright dangerous flames the girl is emitting from her side of the field. He was near ringside when the fire girl decided to turn her lumen up to 11 in an attempt to intentionally incinerate the pink haired boy or the whole competition for that matter with her amplified firestorm. The ponytailed boy was speechless. Roy promptly places his right hand at the hilt of his katana, silently gathering traces of the wind around his area, preparing to redirect this firestorm with his own lumen just in case the flames got near him from where he is standing.

As long this spitfire girl's flames doesn't get to me, it's not my fucking problem. Roy snorted, showing his lack of empathy to those who are on the field and continues to watch the whole thing unfold.

[Felicity]

Cindy was now outright terrified, the flames seemed so furious, they were so like the girl using them. Why was she so angry, wasn't this just sparring? If she was so easily set off, what is there to say she wouldn't lose it again and burn Cindy to a crisp?

Cindy saw Valor start to approach then pause and she thought she understood some of what he was thinking when he paused. A madman would approach those flames. Speaking of, Cindy reached out to her hands, keeping them nearby. She could make more but she refused to interfere and risk drawing Rame's ire.