They both dashed forward at great speed. calvus was leaving an afterimage trail behind him as steel's energy also trailed behind him as well. calvus swung his hammer while steel swung both swords as they clashed generating waves of energy that turned the desert sand white.
Following a stone path within another section of the forest copper ran upon a small town. the buildings were brown and yellow in color and most of the houses and buildings were destroyed and looked to be that way for a very long time.
copper could tell the small town had been this way for a long time from the overgrown vegetation all over the walls and high grass that were literally inside buildings that had been broken in half or with huge chunks of them missing and scattered on the ground.
he was looking at many stones that were half buried within the ground as he noticed someone sitting down on top of one of the rugged buildings holding a staff.
"so, it was you I sensed coming this way." a feminine and somewhat familiar voice says.
"ahhhh yes, Levy, correct." copper asked her name calmly while turning both of his index fingers into small copper daggers and keeping his hands by his side hiding them.
"hmph." Levy stands up performing a front flip with a twist landing on the ground twirling a white seven foot staff as she walked closer to copper. she was wearing white metal armor that had sky blue trimmings on the sides with metal breastplates and a armored skirt matching her armour top color. her boots were also white with a blue bottom and had what looked like a lions face engraved on the side in blue as well.
unlike before her hair color had changed to a white all around the faded sides and sky blue at the top. before it was pink with a pixie style at the top which was still the same but now just blue.
"I like the new colors,looks great on you." copper says
"are we gonna complement each other or fight." she responded.
"hmph,after you." he responded with a little smirk.
Levy stepped forward with a wide swing missing copper by a few inches. She stepped forward two more times rotating the staff swinging from the side and jumped in the air to his other side stabbing down at cooper's foot which stopped his back peddling pinning his foot down. in that moment she pulled herself up the staff putting her entire body weight on copper's foot and performed a drop kick to his chest that turned into a backflip.
Copper hit the ground and rolled backwards using his falling momentum back to his feet and launched forward. the copper daggers grew longer with his advancement.
"shoo, shoo."
his copper daggers cut through the air nearly grazing her neck as he pushed in more. Levy then moved from side to side swiftly moving her staff precisely while keeping a part of her body behind it and kicked the bottom of her staff while keeping one hand near the top of it which slung the bottom half upwards nearly uppercutting copper who had managed to act in time turning one of his arms into a small shield.
his body was still lifted off the ground and pushed back a little bit even with his arm shield absorbing most of the power from the hit.
"hiyaaaa" Levy thrusted her staff hitting copper in the chest five times. taking advantage of her last blow that had knocked him off balance. her arm speed was so quick it only looked as if she hit him twice with the staff and the way she moved, she was able to cover a lot of ground fast once close up.
"she isn't faster than me, she's just more skilled with that weapon. I got this." copper assures himself while gathering his footing.
he then turned his arms into long copper blades that had red rings inscribed on them. while the sharp edges of them glowed red as well.
copper dashed forward swinging his arm blade clashing with levy's staff. once they made contact he bent down sliding on his knees and pushed up coming up with an uppercut and twisted as he came up which made his momentum greater pushing her back. after breaking her guard he made several slashes that cutting between her armor gaps. the red glowing parts of his arm blades were condensed and looked like a simple line.
out of all the slashes he made that cut through her armor gaps only three resulted in cutting her. she then shrugged off the small cuts and proceeded to return attacks of her own.
Levy ran forward a few steps as white flames covered her feet and dug the staff in the ground catapulting herself over copper but before she fully covered the distance over him she kicked his shoulder and he instantly felt heat from the white flames. after landing she swung her staff as flames surged Within it releasing a wave of fire.
copper instinctively slashed at the flames while moving to the side and to his surprise the flames broke into pieces upon contact with his sword like it was solid instead of going straight through like regular fire. the flames scattered everywhere landing on him and the ground.
upon hitting the ground the small flames vanished while the flames on copper looked to be attached in the areas they fell. two were on his lower leg while four on his arm. a light burning sensation was felt as the leather armor he wore began to pop and curl because of the heat.
one of his arms turned back to normal as he patted the other trying to put it out. but instead the small flame grew and part of it jumped from his arm to the hand he used to try and put it out with. Levy performed multiple backflips separating them from each other. she was now twenty meters away and swung the staff as it lit up with white flames again. the flames came at copper in a wave formation as he stopped trying to deal with the flames that were currently on him.
Fighting the increasingly burning pain he took a quick stance as the red rings on his sword pulsed and a copper colored frog with red rings on its back that was hidden in his fro body began to flash red as parts of his body with flames on him became liquid copper flowing like thick water. he then sliced off his leg and other arm and as quickly as he did more liquid copper materialized within the fraction of a second and his regular limbs were back minus the small white flames.
Levy smiled seeing this. "looks like this will be a great match." she said in her head watching her waves of fire surge forward.
"hmph,I may not have long range attacks like many but my power is unique in its own way." copper whispers to himself with his eyes fixated on levy's attack that was now almost upon him.
copper's entire body became liquid at the last moment and dropped to the ground as the flames shot passed him. the copper liquid shot back up as it began shaping back into his original self. copper wasted no time closing the distance between them.
"his speed increased." Levy thought preparing to dodge, but realized it was too late and went for a block instead. she blocked his straight forward attack but then felt something break through her armor and stab into her leg. she then felt something stab her other leg.
she manages to push back creating space with her staff when a stinging pain in her legs and from the three small cuts slowed her down. copper turned his arm into a sludge hammer chasing after her attempting to slam it into her chest when Levy braced the attack by grabbing both sides of her staff blocking the attack just in time.
arrrg!
they both gritted their teeth as copper pushed down while Levy pushed up until coppers feet became consumed by white flames. this time the burning pain from the flames were stronger than before which gave Levy the opportunity she needed.
copper stepped back instinctively and was hit with a knee to his stomach. Levy stumbled back after her own attack because of the pain in her legs. copper then repeated the same steps he did earlier turning his legs and feet to liquid copper and severing one foot after another to get the flames off of him.
Levy looked at him coldly after seeing two pencil sized holes in her armor and leg. she also felt and saw blood running down her leg. "when did he, just how did he wound me so easily. my skin is not so easily broken but he did with ease it seems." she thought to herself.
"that fire is unbelievably annoying, I can't keep departing my limbs like this, it takes a good amount of energy. her flames acts as if it's a solid and plasma at the same time while moving as if it has its own conciouness. I'm sure I haven't seen all that her ability can do. if this was a battle to the death I know it would be even more difficult." copper thinks to himself while locking eyes with Levy.
Shield was spectating everyone's battle when he felt he had made a mistake.