---( Stuart vs Raven )---
"Hey aren't you that boy that was talking to my brother earlier." Raven asked while curiously eyeing the boy. She didn't see his battle so she had no idea about his abilities.
"Yeah, your brother's not much of a talker though." Stuart said excitedly. "However I believe talking with battle instead of words is much more entertaining."
"I like your train of thinking." Raven said and and got into battle stance by lifting her dusty spiked mace onto her shoulder. Stuart grabbed a wooden bow-staff from out of the space in front of him and pointed it forward.
"Hmm are you a space user? Never mind I'll find out myself." Raven said more eager than ever to start the fighting and she got just what she hoped for.
They heard the referee say begin and raven immediately jumped high into the air with the help of the ground underneath her. Stuart thrusted his bow-staff forward as he broke the space in front of it as well.
It appeared in front of the falling raven.
Her forehead made quick contact with the staff causing her to start flipping into the ground. She managed to quickly stabilize her fall and land on her feet.
Stuart thrusted his staff forward again breaking the space in front of the middle of raven's chest. However she was ready, she grabbed the staff then slammed her foot on the ground.
stone pillars started ripping through the ground in front of her. They were about to hit Stuart but he reacted quickly by letting go of the staff and jumped backwards. Raven expected this and leaped forward with her spiked mace in front of her.
She ran through one stone pillar after another. Stuart decided it was time to go engage in close quarters combat. He punched forward and broke open space right in the path of raven as she broke throw another pillar.
As soon as she saw his fist she stopped and swung her spiked mace forward. It collided with Stuart's fist and caused him a lot of pain.
It didn't end there.
As he brought his bloodied fist out of the space fold, tiny rocks followed. a dozen pebbles pelted Stuart before he closed the space fold. He quickly decided to rush and grab his staff. Raven saw this and swung her spiked mace in his direction sending countless small stones blasting towards him.
He quickly started spinning his staff to deflect the pebbles. But that was only a diversion for Raven who appeared behind the pebbles and swung her mace with the force of a train.
It smashed into Stuart before he had time to react and send him flying out of the arena.
The battle ended and the winner was Raven.
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---( Ray vs Belle )---
Ray and Belle walked on to the stage at the same time.
Compared to last time Belle had a white staff in her had with a crystal Shining blue crystal in between two swirling gold rods that stemmed from the top of the staff. This was the staff the King gave her.
She stared at Ray with a murderous gaze. "If you think I'll let you take my spot then you are dead wrong. Last time you were lucky enough to surprise me since you were a little stronger than I expected but now that I know your element and your fighting style. THERE IS NO CHANCE IN HELL!" Belle shouted the last part after seeing Ray was completely unfazed by her words.
"Okay, princess I guess I'll show you a bit more of my power this time." Ray said casually as he stretched his arms.
The crowd was taken aback by his calm demeanor and they knew this was gonna be the fight of the century.
They heard the referee say begin and Ray walked forward with the solar energy around him gathering into his body. At the same time Belle slammed her stuff onto the ground and vines broke through the ground.
They kept growing as Ray calmly walked forward. They quickly surrounded him and enclosed him in a vine dome.
Belle trapped him inside of her sun dome which collects solar energy so she was confident that he couldn't escape and would run out of energy trying. While Ray on the other hand smiled as he saw hundreds of sun flowers appear on the walls around him.
He saw noticed the solar energy flow had stopped it was being absorbed by the vines before he had a chance to even control it. 'That staff really is something, but I'm something greater!' Ray thought to himself, then used the mana in his core to boost himself forward, and he sent a fist crashing into the wall of the dome.
The dome was pretty elastic and shock absorbent however he still managed to puncture it. However the dome was quickly being repaired as it wrapped around his arm. He tried to pull it out but it wouldn't budge.
He managed to pull it out after exerting extreme force. However the vines were ripping into his skin, so it took some skin off with it.
'This dome is really impressive. It's just what I needed to show off!' ray thought to himself as he began to release a barrage of punches at the dome he was using his full strength with each punch. And each punch ripped another hole into the dome.
He did damage faster than the dome could repair and through a hole Ray could see belle sweating and staring at him with anger and confusion.
'How is he breaking through, it should be impossible!' She screamed in her mind. Worry was also beginning to grow in her mind. Keeping the dome up and repairing was already strenuous enough and it still wasn't enough.
Ray on the other hand was drenched in sweat and his arms covered in cuts, however he was absorbing the solar energy from the vines and regenerating his lost strength. He poured energy into his legs and dashed forward breaking through the dome wall.
He didn't stop there, rushing forward he sent a kick at Belle's head hoping to knock her out but his kick was met by her staff. a red light suddenly came from above and shot through his lower leg.
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This went unnoticed by everyone except for the king, queen, and the rest of the branch leaders and of coarse Ray.
They looked over at the one who shot the light. It was the second prince, Renard.
Seeing all of them looking at him he tried to come up with an excuse. "I was so surprised my finger sl..." He was cut off by a sudden slap, that sent him flying into the wall.
It was the king who had moved with such speed and delivered the slap.
"You dare interrupt your sister's fight, A royal child's fight! Are you trying to tarnish our name?" The king said as he walked over to Renard with his aura released causing everyone in the room to lower their heads due to the pressure.
He picked Renard and shouted! "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO TARNISH A ROYAL'S FIGHT!" the king delivered another slap after each word but they were so fast they didn't interrupt his words. "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO DEFY MY ORDER! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO COME UP WITH SUCH A WRETCHED EXCUSE!" The Queen put her hand on his shoulder not wanting to watch her son get beat anymore. The king calmed down and returned to his seat to watch the rest but the match was already finished.
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Ray pushed through the pain and pulled his leg back then he sent a punch at her face which was knocked away by Belle spinning the staff. She hit him with the bottom of the staff sending him a few feet back with a sharp pain in his stomach.
Ray didn't let up and started his barrage of palm attacks. Belle managed to block them but each hit pushed her back some more and he attacked her from every side stopping her from escaping or fighting back.
This continued until she fell out!