he noticed how Levy was fighting which was passive aggressive especially when it came to her fire. "they all have no respect for each other it seems, thinking they could easily kill and defeat whoever they are facing." spade added to his thoughts.
"well, it seems we can really get to work freely now. I plan to make this quick now that I don't have to worry about being disqualified." Levy says to copper.
"like wise." he responded as the red rings on his arm sword pulsed. Levy suddenly felt the light bleeding increase from her wounds as she realized what was happening.
"is he, can he also control my blood loss to some degree. these wounds aren't normal and my body has great healing properties but for some reason my body is off." she thought.
she then felt stinging within the wounds again but this time much stronger.
"this is where you fall." copper yells dashing in with one of his arms as a sword and one as a shield with red rings . Levy's eyes flashed gold as her arms became covered in snow white fur with her hands turning into paws that ejected thick sharp gold claws that became covered in blue flames.
her face changed as large canines grew along with a set of sharp teeth. copper pushed his shield forward while Levy swiped across knocking him back. her mouth opened wide as swirling blue fire could be seen gathering inside. she released a stream of fire that pushed copper's entire body back. the heat was 10 times stronger than before along with the pressure but copper pushed back with his shield out in front.
"her flames are now blue,and by the looks of it these flames aren't acting like a solid like the white ones but the heat, it's far more stronger." copper thought to himself.
while holding out his arm shield.
even though his arm shield was part of his body the heat was being battled back with the red rings that pulsed on his shield. without the red rings intense heat would usually put him at a disadvantage because natural copper would melt when introduced to enough heat but his ability wasn't natural by any means and even though the blue fire Levy was now using was much hotter it wasn't hot enough to melt his defenses.
The stream of fire soon stopped and once copper removed his shield from his view Levy was nowhere to be seen as a puddle of blood was where she once stood. copper glanced around for a minute when he realized his connection with levy's wounds had been severed.
"did she figure it out already. she's smarter than I originally thought." he spoke to himself.
Levy had hid in one of the destroyed homes and began observing her wounds. the blood she was losing continued to increase as time went by and she felt she had to get a hold of the situation before it got out of hand. she saw the puncture wounds and the scratches on her had gotten deeper so she did the next best thing to close the wounds by burning them and searing her flesh and outer skin shut stopping the bleeding.
Mongrels had great natural healing but if not skilled enough it came with a price which was a great portion of their energy.
copper's ability was indeed unique especially with his blood loss tricks but they could be trumped if the wound he made on an opponent was to be forced closed.
copper still wasn't worried, he had more tricks up his sleeve and hadn't pulled out his full arsenal yet. but all of that changed the second he felt a power surge behind him inside a building to his right.
Stepping out of the rubble of the building was an all white lioness brimming with power. its eyes were gold in color with a shine that dimmed down seconds after stepping out. it's slim muscular frame flexed with each step. Levy was now in her full beast form as she walked without making a sound. looking at her new form copper felt a surge of excitement.
"so this is what your race can do,I must admit I'm jealous. and maybe I'm just weird but man she looks beautiful in her beast form as well." copper said in his head.
Levy claws ignited blue flames as she let out a loud roar.
"well, it's time we pull out all the stops boy."
Jumping out of his fro was ichor his soul beast. its body turned to liquid copper and molded itself into copper's trump card. grabbing ichor copper was now holding on to two small red colored kuni blades that were double sided with o rings at the ends. copper flipped and turned them on his fingers as liquid copper seeped beneath his feet into a puddle as a wavy red aura surrounded him.
Levy let out another roar as she moved in with agile movements at full speed. copper took a fighting stance as his eyes rippled with anticipation and his grip tightened on his weapon. Levy slung her arm forward as blue flames were released while copper twirled the kuni's releasing multiple condensed energy waves taking the form of small boomerangs.
"hmph,I was honest about my power not having long range attacks, however my soul beast does to a degree." he thinks to himself with a grin.
the two powers clashed generating a ball of power that mixed and exploded scattering energy everywhere.
Ding! The third ring has begun to move.
Jolly was still on bronco riding through the forest when it suddenly turned into a volcanic mountain area. the ground was black with red rivers of lava and active small mounds that would burst with hot pressurized steam.
Jolly's shoulder was better as it was just knocked out of place and not broken. he pushed it back in place and luckily he had already made it to the 3rd safe area without knowing it and continued to ride until an unnatural explosion occurred several feet behind him.
looking back he saw vora walking from behind a mound of rock that was spewing out steam.
"I could have easily taken you out several times,but I want a fair fight,no games,no tricks. I'll beat you without fail this time." vora confidently says walking up.
vora was back in her human form but kept certain features of her beast form, which was her wolf ears. Mongrels could change any part of their body to their beast form without changing their entire body.
using her beast ears she heard and knew someone was near and once she saw jolly she hid and followed moving fast through the steam and using the mounds of rock for cover.
"is that so,well you probably should have taken me out when you had the element of surprise."
vora smiled with a light chuckle while pushing her feet into the ground with a running stance. jolly formed two vine whips as vines crawled from bronco and waved in the air behind him.
Boom!
vora blasted off like a rocket surging forward. she used her own power to blast herself right at jolly. using her own explosive ability from her feet gave her great speed and surprised jolly as she was now in front of him with a raised fist. luckily bronco launched his vines forward whipping them at vora throwing off her punch. jolly was still mounted on bronco with this occuring.
her fist was now positioned on the side of his face as she missed and jolly was in swinging motion as well with a counter hit until vora smiled. as her arm retracted she opened her tightly closed fist revealing a small purple orb.
Seeing it through his peripherals he immediately flinched while moving his head. broncos vines twisted making a small wall beside Jolly's face right before it flashed silver and exploded.
arrrrg!
it blew him off Bronco but before he crashed to the ground he stretched out his vine whip which wrapped around vora's arm. the red thorns dug into her skin as jolly pulled on it tight yanking her back towards bronco who attempted to ram his horns straight into her but missed because vora parried his movement with her arm that was free. using his head bronco was still able to sling her to the side.
they both hit the ground and jumped back up. vora cut the whip turning her hand to claws and slicing in between thorns but the part wrapped around her forearm didn't budge as it dug deeper like a chainsaw. while jolly was riding bronco escaping the ring he had come up with ideas on how he could improve a few of his attacks and at times would gallop slowly on bronco testing a few things out. what was happening to vora was one of his attacks coming to fruition.
he called it, vine saw. He could perform it with any of his vines that he produced with red thorns on them. the only thing was it was difficult for him to turn it like a real saw so it actually just cut gradually and it took a great bit of focus to keep it going.
the good thing was it sapped energy while doing damage to his opponent.
Jolly had injured vora but nowhere near the degree he was injured by her with that explosion in his face. the side of his face was charred with an open wound from the bottom of his jaw leading under his chin.
his ears were ringing and his left eye was throbbing.
"one attack did this to me. is my power that weak or is she that strong. my body isn't this weak it can't be. I'm not this weak I'm not damn it." jolly said in his head as he touched his face with trembling fingers.
images of his charred body from his fight with Taylen flashed in his head as he gritted his teeth. at this same time the energy he was stealing from vora was slowly building in his body which helped him ignore the pain he was feeling at the moment.
"no my power isn't weak, and her power isn't that strong. it's my body that's weak." jolly says glancing at his status seeing he only had 15 points for vitality.
"vitality is both mental and physical. if I want a chance at beating her or anybody that's tough then my body needs to be able to take hits. he assessed his status while keeping his eyes on vora.
during his short thoughts vora had attempted to take the vine saw off her arm twice but every time she tried it dug deeper rotating piercing her skin and outer flesh. it wasn't deep to the point of her losing a lot of blood but it was uncomfortable for her.
"clever attack but it won't do." vora shouted blasting off again but this time instead of going straight at jolly her feet touched the ground a quarter of the way towards him and she blasted herself straight up in the air. four purple balls formed in certain areas around jolly pushing him in one direction as he created vines spears pulling himself away from them instantly regretting his decision.
vora blasted down out the air heading in the direction jolly was pulling himself in with a purple glowing fist. soon as jolly got out the way she was there to meet him with a punch to his stomach that sent him flying with an explosion that crashed jolly into a mound of rock.
bronco attempted to charge at her just before she landed but with vora's literal explosive speed he wasn't fast enough.