WAOA Arena

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Looking after the trail of fire, Dala saw Erica peak around the corner after her fire had hit. This way, she was able to avoid the unaimed stream with her heightened reflexes. The rest was absorbed by the fire surrounding Dala.

Now quick to counterattack, Dala breathed another Dragon's Breath, not as hot this time, burning at a mere 1700 degrees, but aimed diagonally and directly at Erica, so it would be a lot harder to avoid by just dodging.

 

[Chungus]

Casting quick glances down the hallway once she peeked around the corner, Erica saw some of her lightning being absorbed by Dala's fire aura, and took note of this. When Dala breathed another fire jet, Erica stopped the lightning stream, and moved behind the corner, backpadeling from there. While had had avoided direct exposure to the fire this way, one side of her skin was still slightly scorched from the heat.

Erica squeezed momentarily her eyes shut, and let out a pained groan, then pushed through the pain. Taking a breath, Erica threw up a ward, then strafed from behind the corner. Doing this, Erica shot out another lightning stream. She still did this unaimed, initially, but then guided the stream towards Dala with quick motions.

 

[Silence]

Dala tried to dodge, but was less successful this time. Parts of the lightning were absorbed by the fire shield, other parts however came through, getting her a medium electric shock and, indeed, a sap of her manapool.

This however was immediately negated by another fire under her feet, which embers were absorbed by her feet.

Dala stepped to the side, leaving blackened stone behind. She shortly closed her eyes, then breathed another fire - another green one, which homed in and tried to worm its way around the magic ward.

 

[Chungus]

As Dala breathed the first jet of fire, Erica kept the lightning stream trained on Dala, wating to poke at her defence as much as she could to see how much it could take. Her ward blocked some of the fire during this time, but once Erica felt the ward weakening, pulled back, moving back around the corner, where she lowered the ward.

When the green fire was breathed out and raced towards her, Erica raised the ward again, but couldn't prevent it from snaking around her defence. Hitting her in the side, Erica let out a short scream. Although the enchanted fabrics of the robe offered some protection and didn't ignite, Erica was still burned.

Gritting her teeth, Erica switched out the ward spell for a frost spell, and her storm spell for a higher-tiered one. Charging and casting the frost spell, Erica was surrounded by a cloud of swirling, icy cold winds that extended some two metres from her. With this in place, Erica charged the storm spell, and stepped back out of the corner. She took a brief moment to look for Dala, then cast the spell, sending out a lightning bolt that also travelled near-instantaneously, but was fired with limited accuracy. After firing, Erica moved back around the corner, and further down the corridor.

The lightning bolt Erica fired had more power than the stream she used earlier, giving a target a near-lethal shock, and electrical burn. With Dala's defence, Erica expected the bolt wouldn't do quite as much damage, if it would hit.

 

[Silence]

As the new lightning bolt was again prone to miss, about half of it did not hit at all, while a quarter was absorbed by Dala's fire shield. The rest had a similar effect as before, shocking Dala for a second, but causing no lasting damage.

While Erica was sending out the lightning bolt, Dala did see the icy clouds swirling around Erica as well. Now, she did not keep standing on the same place, but instead ran towards Erica, around the corner. Seeing her move further down the corridor, Dala spew another flame.

The flame took the form of a fire ball, and had a magenta colour. It was aimed directly at Erica.

This type of fire was only 1000 degrees Celsius hot. It was, however, completely unaffected by the ice swirling around Erica.

 

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A new combatant entered an empty arena. He wore a plain dark-grey hoodie, jeans, and simple sneakers. Entirely inconspicuous... except that he had bird-like features and was covered in feathers.

Spoiler: Reference pic

Kinda like this, but without the red around the eyes, a rounder head shape, and a different outfit.

With his hands in his jacket pockets, he looked around the empty room. He began whistling as he waited for an opponent.

 

[Chungus]

Walking around the corner, Dala triggered the trap Erica had placed, earlier. The runed circle on the wall exploded in a burst of lightning, about as powerful as the bolt she had fired before falling back, but with a blast radius of some three metres, had a lot more volume to it.

This alerting Erica, she switched out her frost spell for her ward, and held it out behind her. If Dala managed to power through the lightning blast produced by the trap, and still breathe out the fireball, it would be blocked by the ward.

Either way, shortly after the trap went off, Erica spun around to face Dala, and shot out another lightning bolt at her, whole walking backwards at a moderate pace.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

The bird man in the empty arena was joined by a slightly short woman with magenta hair and eyes, a backless t shirt with a shawl, and a skirt worn over striped leggings. She stretched as she entered, bouncing on the spot slightly.

 

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The arena shifted into a street in a large city, with a few cars parked along the sidewalk but otherwise empty. The street seemed to go on endlessly in both directions. The buildings lining the street were all six stories tall, and the windows were filled with brick, but the fire escapes and window ledges would allow for fights on the side. If the fight reached the rooftops, the buildings were just as wide as the road, and identical streets ran parallel.

Spoiler: Reference pic

But endless and stuff.

The bird man, Kieran Aberdeen, nodded at Ada. "'Sup?"

 

[Silence]

Being surprised by the trap, Dala was harmed by about as much as the less powerful spell would have done without any protection, as she still had her fire shield active. Jumping back, not powering through it and breathing a fireball, as her natural instincts set in, she fell on her back, barely managing not to hit her head.

Only a second after, she breathed out a portal to her side, rolling through it, and landing at exactly the spot where she had entered the arena, again. Having escaped, she let the portal vanish immediately, causing the next lightning bolt to miss completely.

She seemed to absorb a lot of fire rising from the ground, as she slowly got back up.

[color=e50000]And which dirty trick should I use now?[/color] she thought, wondering if it was allowed to travel through worlds during a fight.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"Hi!" the woman waved back, smiling. She looked around. "Hmm... I'm willing to get that any moment now, there's gonna be an announcer or somethi-"
Kieran Aberdeen versus Ada Akira! Get ready...
"See, just like that!" Ada got into a fighting stance, her hands gaining a slight magenta glow.
FIGHT!

Spoiler: Stage music

 

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Kieran took his hands out of his pockets, holding a double-bladed karambit in his right hand. He flipped the switch to extend the blades, each curved forwards and about three inches long, and very sharp. He dropped into a fighting stance with his left side forward, and waited to see what Ada would do.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Ada saw the blade, and decided to try and stay away from Kieran for now. She cupped her hands as the glow around them grew, pulled them back, then put the together and thrust them forward. With a flash and a shout of "HADOUKEN!" , a ball of magenta energy flew out of her hands towards the bird man.

 

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Kieran quickly stepped forward and to the right, reaching into his left pocket for a kunai, which he threw at Ada's abdomen. "I can throw stuff too!"

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Ada jumped into the air, dodging the kunai, a pair of batlike wings erupting from her back at the peak of her jump and holding her aloft. "Mine are cooler though!" she retorted, the flapped her wings and went surging forward for a divekick to the face.

 

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Kieran tossed his blade straight up into the air, and suddenly both his arms shifted to large avian wings, tearing right through his sleeves. Just before Ada reached him, he combined a powerful jump with a fast flap of his wings to reach almost 10 feet in the air. "I have better wings!" He taunted. He shifted his arms back, caught his knife in midair, and dove down knife-first to where Ada had landed.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Ada decided to skip the taunt this time, instead throwing both hands upwards and firing a beam of energy at the diving falcon. It wouldn't force him back, and she'd probably get stabbed in the hand, but it would hurt.

 

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Despite the pain of the laser, Kieran stayed focused on his landing and rolled away from Ada, though he did leave his knife in her hand. "Fucking cheap ass magic.." He grumbled, a pained expression on his face. He got back in a combat stance and kicked off his shoes.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Ada pulled the knife out of her hand, coming very close to screaming in pain, then took off her shawl and wrapped it around the wound. She jumped forward, spinning as she did so for a roundhouse kick to the chest.

 

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Kieran ducked under the kick, and retaliated with a side kick at Ada's stomach. In the middle of the kick, he shifted his foot into a falcon's, and aimed to tear her flesh with the sharp talons in addition to pushing her back.