BEYOND THE BLAZE

The two fighters got started as Hiro attacked Olivia, thankfully for her skills, (Earth magic) she managed to block his attacks using rock shields.

The crowd eloped with cheers as they enjoyed the intense fight. Hiro focused on close combat as they were taught that it was mostly effective. As for Olivia, she prioritized on defense as her skills worked well in defending herself.

Hiro tried his best to get closer to Olivia as she closed all the openings. She put many rock barriers around her to block every up coming attacks. Her face glowed with a grin as she blocked all the attacks from Hiro.

"oh yeah! This fight is amazing brother!" Fiana grinned as she saw Olivia winning as she was rooting for Olivia.

"Don't get too cocky because the fight is not over yet."

"yeah yeah yeah, it's not over but it's clear. And let me predict?." Fiana said, with her index finger up, making a one.

"No , no predictions, I want to see the final results with my own two eyes without a spoiler."

Fiana excepted her brothers words in pain as she loudly sighed, with her eyes closed, her face bent down.

The fight got more intense as Olivia used both offense and defense. She used some pikes from the ground, giving Hiro a hard time to rest his feet as he kept on dodging.

Olivia smiled like a Cheshire cat with her heart filled with mischief as she saw Hiro sweating like a pig, since he wasn't able to to breathe with his foot on the ground.

The crowd continued cheering for the competitors as they continued their tiring fight.

"ohh dear, Hiro is jailed!" Akirion said with his eyes glued at the stage as he saw Hiro's situation.

" Why are you saying so?" Elina asked as her brow furrowed in astonishment, her eyes glued at Akirion's.

" it's simple, Hiro doesn't have a space to breath and he's really running out of energy." his hand held his chin as his mind raced, thinking of the outcome of the fight.

" maybe you are right, that skill can be a cheater."

Akirion's face grinned as he swallowed Elina's words.

"No!" his face changed as he said, his eyes narrowed, his two hands locked together holding his mouth. He continued saying, " it depends on the oponent, if he or she can pierce through the barriers. It only needs a lot of training, or a lot of practice in order to pierce that rock. And it looks like she's strong and her energy is still available. Only Hiro will be depleted anytime soon."

"Wow, you sound like you're familiar with it!" Elina said with curiosity flooding her mind, her ears craving Akirion's positive answer, unfortunately, he said, "No I'm not familiar with that, but just from my perspective, no, not only me, even a five year old can tell you that you can't pierce through a rock."

Both of her brows went up as she inhaled the honest words from Akirion.

Meanwhile in the stage; Hiro was tired as sweat geminated from his skin. His heart was racing as he was kept running like a trapped mouse. A slight idea flashed in his mind and that made his eyes to widen as he grasped the idea to be a good one ever. His heart pounded, but he had no choice, only to execute the plan.

A conversation was opened as Hiro grinned and spitted some words.

"hey …. Olivia?" Hiro said while he was jumping around like a frog.

"ohh, guess who decided to talk, never thought that you would be this open." a fierce grin eloped on Olivia's face as she replied Hiro.

His mind raced, as he thought of many things. 'wait, what does she mean by open, is it because I'm open for conversation or for fighting, meaning that I'm not good at fighting. Okay.' H

is face turned a bit red as his idea grew big. " I'm always open, and as for you, I thought maybe you were a non-verbal until I thought of experimenting and see the results. Guess what, the results came negative from my first thought and then my mind wrapped that up and linked that to my senses that a beautiful class C Olivia can talk."

Those words made a huge impact on Olivia's heart as it beat with bouncing rhythm. In a second her heart stopped for milliseconds and her eyes widened as the words melted her heart, and embarrassingly, her magic shields slowly melted. Her mind raced as her body relaxed, felt a bit weak, but her mind ran like a computer in background.

'is he…..? Did he just…. just call me beautiful?' a smile bloomed on her face as her lips stretched from ear to ear leaving her golden like white shiny teeth glowing.

Hiro got an opening as Olivia was lost in her thoughts, he shot a fire ball that sent her flying to the edge of the stage. Lucky for her she wasn't outside because being outside of the stage was another way of forfeiting.

Her eyes widely opened.

*Cough, Cough* she coughed out smoke as she hardly breathed. Her body craved some water but unfortunately, it wasn't allowed to go out of the stage and no one was allowed to go in during the event.

Her eyes flashed with rage as they blazed, with her face all red making the reddish ears an exhaust. She gritted her teeth as a bit of blood flowed through her teeth running to the lip. She wiped the blood off with her fingers, leaving some bloody lines on her face.

She slowly opened her mouth as she furiously asked Hiro who was running for a final blow.

"So that's the best trick that you pulled off your sleeves, Class B Hiro?" those words echoed in Hiro's mind as the audience grew completely quiet, listening to her blowing words.

The words rang forever in Hiro's mind as he stopped and looked at her.

"So what are you up to, Olivia?" his face was filled with rage as he drove himself into winning.

"ohh, you remembered my name?! I'm flattered." A glimpse of a smile blinked in Olivia's face as her anger took over her emotions getting her face fiercely grinning.

"Your name rang in my head from the time I heard it, and it never got off because it got printed and laminated in my brain."

"Oh wow, I love that line." Akirion said as a chuckle appeared in his face.

"Aowwwww, so sweet." Elina's eyes flowed with a sweetened tear that fell from her one eye.

Meanwhile, Olivia replied Hiro;

"tsk, it's not going to work now, you had your chance but you threw it in a trash cane, so now, it's time for your loss." Olivia's words echoed through the stage, terrifying everyone who had their ears on them and also disturbed some other's emotions as she declined the sweet words from Hiro.

"mhh, I ran out of ideas, which means, it's time to finish you." Hiro ran towards Olivia channeling his powers in one strike so that he finishes her, unfortunately, fate or bad luck didn't allow that. Olivia replaced her barriers as she shot Hiro with many stones.

Hiro had a hard time blocking Olivia's attacks as his knees softly thudded on the ground, his stomach followed, going down.

Suddenly, the crowd erupted with cheers as the announcer's voice boomed through the megaphone, helping the rumbling sound on the stage.

"we have our second winner, Olivia!" the cheers grew larger and larger as the thunderous noise was heard in the nearby houses.

"Wow, that was a very hidden trick," the prince exclaimed, flabbergasted, as he watched Olivia pull off her final trick, her last winning strike.

" I knew that she was going to win..", the princess's face bloomed with a smile as she celebrated.

"Impressive win, let's see the other two in the next round." the announcer's voice boomed as he energetically said.