Grimm saw Sunz pointing the sword handle at him and mumbled some words.
"Well then, time to fight for real."
He pulled the baton out of his pocket, extended it with a swing, and pointed it at Sunz.
Sunz's sword handle started forming a mist around where the blade was, then he charged at Grimm with the left arm behind his back.
As Sunz gets closer to Grimm, his vision starts to flicker with a vision of something that is not there.
Grimm was just standing there, pointing the baton at Sunz, until he got within 2 feet of Grimm. The baton extended 2 ft more and transformed into a zweihander.
Sunz managed to dodge the attack after the vision got clearer, but it flickers again when Grimm retract the zweihander into the baton. Then it returned when Grimm struck the baton at Sunz and re-summoned the zweihander in the middle of the attack.
Grimm: Now, show me the fruit of your labor, kid!
As the heavy blade of the zweihander nearly struck Sunz's torso, the mist from Sunz's sword handle exploded, covering both of them from everyone's view for a few seconds.
Grimm felt his zweihander clashed with something that wasn't organic, and it was trying to push him back.
Once the mist clears up, it reveals Sunz clashed against Grimm with his sword handle and an ice blade.
Grimm: Well well, now that isn't normal.
Sunz: We are pulling all of our Aces after all.
Grimm seeing Sunz able to block and withstand his attack, does put a smile on his face.
Grimm: It seems you have grown some muscle.
Sunz: Not quite, just got thrown around a lot and got used to it.
(Holy! Sword did train my strength to get used to heavy weapons. I was wondering how his attacks keep getting heavier with the same weapon.)
But Sunz couldn't withstand it for too long, as the clash lasted longer than it should.
Grimm: Maybe, I complement you a bit soon.
Sunz: Like always, I was never a strength guy.
*Bang*
Grimm immediately felt an extreme force coming from Sunz, knocking him off balance, and created an opening for Sunz to strike him with the ice blade.
Quickly got back on his feet and retracted the zweihander into the baton, then the two clashed again but this time, Grimm's baton shattered the ice blade and followed up with a left hook at Sunz's face.
Lucky for Sunz, this time he has the upper hand in speed. When the ice blade shattered, all of the fragments flared up and burst into flame directly in front of Grimm.
Sunz's vision was blocked by the flame, resulting in him getting punched in the face and knocked back a few feet before stopping his movement with a shockwave.
Sunz took a nasty hit to his face and tried to recover his blurry vision, while at the same time, Grimm looked the same, without any noticeable burn on him.
Waiting for Sunz to recover.
Sunz (Fuck. Fire ain't working on him… He worked with metal and TRAIN a fire user. Of Course It Not Gonna Work.)
Grimm: Still flimsy as a stick you are. Better start dodging.
Sunz shout: I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING BUT THANK YOU. I WILL USE THESE FREE SECONDS TO RECOVER!
Grimm (I have nothing to say.) sees that Sunz starts blinking in one eye and then stops (It seems the concussion is over.)
Then he gestured for Sunz to come at him, with that Sunz sheath his handle and spread out both of his arms, challenging Grimm to attack him this time.
Grimm (you ask for it.) throws the baton at Sunz and it transforms in mid-air into the zweihander when it is within a few centimeters from Sunz.
Sunz didn't expect the baton to transform and was about to dodge the hit like normal, until the vision showed him the image of himself being cut in two.
Change of plan, Sunz's left hand immediately created a lighting sword that blasted a lighting bolt directly into the sky which pushed his whole body down onto the floor, and helped him dodge the zweihander.
A second after Sunz dropped to the ground, a loud crash occurred in the direction the zweihander flew to. Leaning his head back and rolling his eyes up, Sunz sees that the zweihander just fully encase in the wall of the viewing area.
The zweihander quickly zipped back the direction it was thrown, into Grimm's hand.
Sunz stood up and looked at Grimm (Still got more Aces.), in the middle of Sunz dodging the attack that could have killed him, Grimm put on a pair of black gloves.
Sunz dismissed the lightning sword and Grimm charged at him with the zweihander in his hand.
As Grimm quickly gets closer, Sunz draws the sheathed handle and reveals the darkness blade it holding, then he points the blade at Grimm. Immediately a darkness zone surrounded Grimm, blocking all light sources, rendering him blind.
Grimm also immediately stopped his movement when darkness formed (cheap tactic I see). Then he hears a loud *bang* and a tingling feeling on his body.
(Let's hope you're not using guerilla tactics and shooting me from the side, because that is so cheap.)
Grimm hears another loud *bang* then immediately swings his zweihander in a cone shape. Didn't feel like he hit anything but received another tingling feeling on his body. Then another *bang*, but this time it was louder and he felt the tingling in his leg.
(You sneaky rat. Miss my shot.)
Outside of the darkness, Sunz is sweating profusely.
(That was fucking scary. If I didn't stop there, my head would have been chopped off. Ok, plan… knocking that zweihander out of his hand and keep attacking.)
Sunz dashed at Grimm then retracted the darkness to his left hand, turning it into a sword and striking Grimm in the torso. Grimm was caught by surprise as the darkness around him disappeared at the same time he got hit and didn't prepare for that attack.
But the darkness sword didn't do any damage to Grimm except going through his torso and start wrapping around him. At the same time when Grimm got a glimpse of Sunz in his vicinity, he struck the zweihander at him and then noticed Sunz's handle was pointing in the direction of his swing.
Then a *bang* immediately being felt on the hand that was wielding the zweihander, knocking the weapon away from both of them. Within a second of the weapon flying out of Grimm's hand, his entire body was hit by a powerful surge of electricity.
Sunz (if I can hold this, I might not need to create a combo.)
Grimm still continues to attack with the hand that wielded the zweihander, by turning it into a fist and punching Sunz. Another loud *bang* was created and it was on Grimm's fist, stopping the attack movement.
Sunz (ok, just need to keep an eye on those hands and I'm good.)
Grimm (smart move kid, smart move.) still being fried by high voltage decided to lean back and punch Sunz with his left hand but once again, another loud *bang* nullified that attack.
Grimm (Great!) uses the force of the *bang* to transfer all of that force into his right leg and kick Sunz right in the side of his stomach.
Too focused on Grimm's hands and only noticed at the last second, Sunz was able to shift the handle and summon an ice barrier on his side before the impact… but that wasn't enough.
The barrier was immediately shattered on impact and Sunz immediately dismissed the darkness blade to do a quick switch. Launching the handle from his right hand with shockwave then catching it with his left and immediately summoned another ice barrier to block Grimm's kick.
…
All that, was only successful in minimizing the amount of damage Grimm's kick did. Sunz got knocked back a few feet but still able to maintain his balance. For Grimm, he took a lot of damage from Sunz's electric attack but still able to move his limbs like nothing happened.
Sunz (Fuck! Did nothing work on him? There must be other wa-)
"AAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Sunz on his knee, squeezing his head while letting out a terrifying shriek that shocks everyone watching.
Grace panicked inside her head while squeezing the alligator
(no no no no no no, not again not again. Come on, I not gonna always be able to save you!)
Sunz
(DAMIT! There are no other ways. I can't exert much more.)
(Fire is useless, Water is still an option, Lighting is good, Darkness and Light are support, Ice is good defense, Shockwave is physical.)
Grimm (A few seconds is all it takes. A few seconds of hope.) starts approaching Sunz while stretching his arms and neck.
Sunz seeing Grimm getting closer to him, which only starts making his thinking worse.
(Think think, come on combine your arsenal!)
*Footstep getting closer … and stop*
Grimm windup his left leg (Game Over!) and kicks Sunz right in his face. Knocking him only a bit farther from the first kick.
(Again, really?) Grimm realized that he heard another shatter before his kick came in direct contact with Sunz's face.
Sunz was able to stand up despite taking a nasty hit to his face, and created an Ice blade for his handle and an Ice sword for his left hand.
(Can't believe Love is saving my ass again… ok, no one else except her in my mind.)
Both Sunz and Grimm dashed at each other and attacking fiercely.
Grimm was throwing punches and kicks while Sunz was blocking with his ice barrier from the sword and tried to score hits with the other sword.
Sunz used the millisecond the barrier provided to move and score a hit on Grimm. For some attacks, they required Sunz to create a second barrier to get into a safer position.
Sunz managed to not get hit in his body directly once and score a few hits on Grimm, but he can feel his body start getting weaker and weaker the longer he fight.
Grimm knew that he could wear Sunz out if he continued with this brawl-fighting style.
But Grimm has set Sunz up in the position he wanted and immediately recalls his zweihander, which is right behind where Sunz is standing.
Sunz's vision also notices the zweihander is zooming back to cut him in half. Grimm has one hand recalling the zweihander behind his back while the other hand and legs keeping Sunz from moving too far away.
As the zweihander prepared to cut Sunz in half, he instinctively stabbed both of his Ice swords behind his back, creating a barrier that stopped the zweihander on impact and it didn't shatter the barrier but still applying a lot of force.
Grimm seeing his chance, immediately goes in for a killing blow with his hand and Sunz immediately shatters his barrier, turning all of the fragments into snow to cover Grimm's vision. The force from the zweihander pushing through Sunz's barrier was strong enough to launch Sunz over Grimm's head.
When flying past Grimm's head, Sunz stabbed the Ice sword at the perfect spot in mid-air to create a platform to launch him back to the ground, and stabbed Grimm in the back with both of his Ice blades, then shattered them to encase Grimm in Ice.
Over-exerting himself, Sunz wasn't able to hold onto his handle and it just fell off his hand. Standing in silence, with his mind going crazy waiting to see if Grimm will break out and punch him in the face.
After minutes go by and nothing, until.
"The Winner of this round is SUNZ!"
Sunz after hearing that, just felt all of the pressure got lifted off his body.
Sunz (G-… I did it. I won. Let go, time for a good nap after this.)
Sogae was easily able to free Grimm from the Ice prison.
Sogae: Well, he did it. Kinda sad that you didn't go all the way. Your body is still full of energy.
Grimm: No, I did go all the way. There was no way he could endure this longer than me. Using different tactics was his only chance and he could have died at any moment. I saw it in his eyes.
Sogae: If you say so. I think it is time for you and him to part ways.
Grimm: Well, thank you for everything you did for everyone.
Sogae: It's my job after all.
"TODAY'S MATCH IS OVER THANK YOU FOR COMING AND ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR STAY AT OUR HOTEL!"
She then proceeded to take Grimm and Sunz out of the arena.
Grimm: You did well kid, but still not good enough to beat an A-rank hero.
Sunz: If they aren't resilient like you then I think I can… by the way how was your weapon able to fly back to you.
Grimm: Special magnet engineering… and I think you drop this.
*stab the handle back into the sheath*
Sunz: Oh yeah, I forgot I dropped it… Did you purposely make me a sword just to destroy it?
Grimm: Of course, what other way to put you in a desperate situation?
Sunz: I guess I have a good handle now, lighter than ever… You were able to break metal and ice with your bare hands or gloves. How strong are you?
Grimm: The gloves mostly are weapon support and to protect myself from myself. I can break ice not metal.
Sunz: But I saw you broke my sword.
Grimm: I rusted it then broke it. I have the ability "Rust" which only affects metal. Only able to use it once in the fight and nowhere else… except for collapsing build I guess.
Sunz: And I here I thought you were a normal human.
Grimm: If your ability isn't useful for everyday use then you are a normal human. Plus with this kind of strength, I don't think we are normal humans anymore.
Sunz: So what is your next plan?
Grimm: Leaving this planet, I guess.
Suddenly a glitchy figure appeared in front of the three of them.
Glitchy figure: Hello Grimm, ready to start your journey?
Grimm: I have nothing here, so yes Merchant.
Merchant: Well, it will be amusing seeing what you can do. And Sunz, congratulate on winning. I have a special gift for you after this is over.
Sunz: I look forward to it, I guess. You should really stop appearing at such strange time.
Merchant: Strange to you but normal to me. Now Grimm, let's go.
Grimm separates himself from Sunz and Sogae to join up with Merchant.
"If anyone asks, just tell them I leave because of personal life reasons."
After that, Grimm and Merchant disappear into the darkness.
Sogae: Well, let's get you back to your friend. Do you need to go into the infirmary?
Sunz: I think I'm find.