"Why are you stopping me?! We have to help them!" Drake screamed while flailing as Tony restrained him. Everyone present had already moved away from them and was watching with amusement.
' who did I offend? ' Tony thought. Although he was a master of sensing emotions, he had very low EQ. It was almost non-existent. This was what Drake misunderstood. Although Tony could not blame him as Drake himself was a muscle head obsessed with strength.
"Y-you! Let go of me! I knew it! You were leading us to our death, motherfucker!"
Tony flinched.
"Just stop!" Tony said through gritted teeth.
' he's so strong! ' Drake thought. All he could do was basically flail his legs as Tony locked his arms in a firm grip. Then he suddenly stopped as the army of fireflies swallowed up his team, plus the annoying invisible whore.
"NOO!" he screeched."You bastard. Let me go!!" he said as tears welled up in his eyes.
But something wierd happened.
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A few years ago...
"Failure..." a man with fiery red hair said as he spat on the blue haired pre teen kneeling on the ground. A similarly hair colored woman shook her head, with tears in her eyes as she followed her husband, back inside the luxurious mansion. Before he entered he turned around and said: "You're the worst. Imagine what will happen, me the head of the Fler family which is second only to the Sunborns, gave birth to a water ability user. We are supposed to be the strongest! I should have killed you the moment you were born, when I noticed your sickly blue hair" his wife dragged him inside before he could say anymore. And they left a haggard looking Iris on the porch. If not for the maid that took pity on her and sent her to her sister in another planet, she would have died all alone.
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Present...
"EXPLODE!" Explodio screamed.
Everyone waited with breaths held. It was as if they all forgot to breathe.
But all they heard was a muffled explosion. It was as if the explosion itself went off underwater. Then after that was a sizzling sound, as if flames were being estinguished by water.
"Huh?"
For a moment, nobody could see anything. The whole battle arena was covered in steam. It was a smoke screen. But everyone could clearly sense the permeating cold. Not even the arrays could completely stop it. With teeth clattering, and breath held, the audience waited. Explodio and Flexo were struck dumb. They weren't dead? They couldn't use their noses to breathe as it was too cold. White steam floated out of their mouths as they breathed. The steam cleared and everyone gasped.
The whole arena was covered in frost, and a mini blizzard was blowing. But that wasn't the most eye-catching thing. What was eye-catchin was Iris.
She held a magnificent ice sword that had water veins running through it. On her back what something like a cape made of water. Her head bore a shimmering crown made of ice, and her blue eyes were very bright. Behind her was the faint and giant figure of a woman standing with a similar sword and cape but a firm crown. Both of iris's and the figure's capes were fluttering in the cold wind. Everyone instantly felt cold. But because of the array, the effects were minimised. No one had it worse than Explodio and Flexo. Their bones were frozen stiff. Even their thoughts seeemed to slow down...
"T-true descendant!" someone from the crowd screamed with his teeth clattering.
"N-no way!"
"A True Descendant is a very rare occurence!"
"No wonder they were so confident"
A True Descendant was a descendant of one of the Originals. Originals were the ones to first of all cultivate ablities. To some extent, they were gods. Why everyone was so surprised was because a True Descendant had power that was almost equal to that of an Original. And becoming a True Descendant was not child's play. One had to be blessed with a body that was very similar to that of the Original. Then train it to be able to house the power of the Original. In short, being a True Descendant was not even up to a 1% chance for ordinary people.
The truth was the figure behind Iris was the Original known as the Mystic Ice Queen. She was the first Ice ability user over a millenia ago. Out of love, she married the first fire ability user, Hell God. That was how the second strongest flame family, the Flers came about. Because of the Ice Queen's faint genes, their offspring were mostly fire ability users. Who would've though the trash of the Fler family was a True Descendant!
"I AM NOT A FAILURE!" Iris roared as she waved her sword. The faint figure behind her mimicked her movements. Instantly, a cold pressure descended on the duo. Even Felix, the unconscious Natasha, and the passed out Stele were not spared. But luckily, Felix had an inbuilt thermal system. He sneakily released some heat to warm himself and the two women.
With teeth clattering, Explodio raised his hands. Thousands upon thousands of fireflies emerged."Sacred burst; EXPLODE!"
The insects all gathered around Iris and formed a hand that made to grab her. Iris, along with the appariton of her anscestor waved her sword once more, her water cape fluttered in the air. A cold gale flowed, freezing all the insects, the moment the were about to explode, causing ice particles to fall all around. From the audience's point of view, it was very beautiful.
"AHH!" Iris began to charge towards Explodio. Flexo had already fallen to his knees, signifying surrender.
Explodio immediately went into a frenzy, releasing thousands of fireflies. But Iris just waved her sword as if she was swatting away flies, and they all froze up.
"Fierce ice storm!" Iris said as she brandished her weapon. Thousand ice shards darted towards Explodio. One moment, Explodio was there, trying desperately to save his life, and the next moment, he was shrieking as he became a pin board full of holes as the ice shards. He became a bloodied corpse full of holes as he fell on the ice floor with a sickening thud. An A rank mercenary had died just like that.
Iris stood there,momentarily, proud and victorious. She fell down, slowly, with the grace of a feather. The ice domain slowly melted away, and the Mystic Ice Queen's figure disappeared. Fainted.
"W-WINNER. TEAM 15!!"
The crowd broke into an immediate uproar. Every single one of them lost their bets as they put all their stakes on Team 2. But they weren't really upset. They got to see a True Descendant in action. It was practically a once in a lifetime occurence.
Back in the stands, Ruby had a mischevious smile on her face.
"Interesting..."