Miku vs Rowan [Tourney]

Right. Alright. Okay. She took a deep breath and looked up. When she finally had decided that this year she did want to sign up for the tournament, also because she herself had that choice, she had no idea that this would be the outcome for the first fight. Who would have thought that in the mids of all the second years who did sign up, it was her best friend that would be her opponent? They had trained since they arrived in England together, she had told her about England and now it was sort of biting her in the ass. Although it was not that bad it was just that she felt her heart being in this constriction. She did not want to win, but she also did not want to lose. The other thing was that she knew she was competitive and she already felt her blood boiling, she had to calm down. She took a deep breath and pulled on the belt of her hero outfit. She had two little bags on them, one on her left and one her right hip. The one contained glass marbles and one bouncy balls that she had found in a toy store close to the hotel, they were a few sizes bigger than the marbles, so that worked a little maybe. But that was before she knew her opponent.

She felt like she needed to vomit. Uptight, her muscles almost glued together as she walked into the arena. Stones, that helped for ducking away from her fire as well as the opposite. She took a deep breath and cringed a little when her friend blasted music. Seriously, why was that allowed? She clenched her fist, adjusted her hero outfit and heaved her chin a little in the air. She tried to find the eyes of her best friend but she decided to look away when she saw the look on Miku's face. Never mind then. She gritted her teeth and put the vizier of her hero outfit down, to help her avoid the issues with her own explosions.

This was going to be it, no matter what. She would just do the best she could do and she expected Miku to do the same. After all, it would be a shame if it would end quickly only because neither of them did dare to do something. But what if she burned Miku accidentally? She looked at her friend from the corner of her eyes and shivered a little. There were healers for that... or something alike.

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Maybe it would be easier to just forfeit. That would be the best way to not get any issues, to not bring back her fear and create a Lady 2.0. She worked so hard on getting better and now she was brought to the point where she was doing exactly that what she feared the most. She did want to think about what Tetsuko did, but Tetsuko wasn't here and she wasn't her opponent who just created an iron shield and let Rowan do whatever in a blizzard. This was not even iron.

She wasn't even ready for this but Miku seemed to be rather eager. Of course, why not. Wasn't she like far above her in the top ten of best students. Rowan still didn't agree with the list, she was in there but she could not even remember what she did, so how could she be there. She should not even go here, why did she show up again? Goddammit! She had to focus and not focus on her pity parade as the grass held her on her spot. What the heck? She had to focus, she thought about that seconds ago but her blood was already boiling so she started to heat up herself, her hands, her molecules started to fasten. This was fine, she would just work it out and she thus hunched down to burn the grass away from her feet. She could not stand still, she did not even look at Miku but as she threw her phone away and worked on another seed, it was time for Rowan to move as well. As she was already hunched down and Miku ran closer to her she simply jumped aside after getting her feet away. Ha, fire burned nicely. She shook her hands to at least cool it off a little, the prickly feeling was something to get used to. She wanted to say a bitch comment but she didn't. Right charging at her while strapping her down, she did not want to say it was a dirty technique but it felt that way. She leaned with her back against one of the pillars. Putting her hand softly against it before considering, Miku would probably charge really fast, that meant that Rowan had to be prepared. It was like a boxing lesson but she had no gloves. She took a marble in one hand and a bouncing ball in the other, but she could play that game too.

Putting her left foot in front of her right, creating a stable spot, she would stand and wait, dodge in case possible before trying to hit Miku too, if she was going to play the figher. Rowan had to keep her head cool and just do the same. She would make the quick two timer against her chest, she did not dare to go any further than that, quick jab with her right and followed by her left.

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She didn't like the feeling of her ankles, maybe the grass had been really tight but there was no time to check that out right now, her boots must have stopped most of the damage at first, it might just need blood there and that's why it helped to move. So she quickly leaned against one of the stones. There wasn't much to think about she had to prepare and not disappoint. She trained for this, well not exactly this, which was exactly the point she did not like. She would now work on it though, she made the quick jabs against her friend and tried to get Miku away from her again. She had to do this. She would try it again but she missed Miku's fist against her stomach and she felt herself bend over and hold her stomach. Right, so plan one failed but plan b would work and that's why she focused even though she felt like she had to throw up on the timer.

The stone exploded, with a burning power, a gab was created within it and the debris disappeared but became hot and warm towards the person who had stood there, Miku. Rowan would get bits and pieces as she was just there in front of her but because she hunched down, she tried to crawl away and spit on the ground to get rid of the feeling and she checked if she was still holding on to her ammunition. She got up and adjusted the glasses that she had. Bleh, this was already disgusting. She would have to get into action quickly after the explosion, as there was no real debris but just the burning fire and the power behind it, she would have to get into action, heating up her hands again to go and try the boxing match against Miku again, this time she had to be more focused on what her opponent did. She would try to focus on her right shoulder, two quick jabs again to try and hit her hard enough to make her not able to use her right shoulder or something. She had no idea how it worked but it was a try.

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The nastiest part about Rowan her quirk was the painful firepower that was behind it. Not only did you get this sort of a stone slap in the face, but no the burning also made quite a serious burn to the skin tissue. Now Miku might not notice how her hot face also got wounded but Rowan knew it. That made her almost gag for another time. Put it aside, put it aside. We can think about it later. She had not meant to hit her friend in the face, heck that's why her boxing manoeuvres kept being pushed to her chest and her shoulder. She did not want to hurt Miku in the face and yet she did. She had not thought of the blast of her timer but that was already too late. The red spots would open, hurt Miku even more and Rowan felt her stomach turn. No, she had to focus which was why she made the move to come in with a boxing move. Right, she could do this, another quick jab but it was blocked. She had no idea what Miku was doing again as she tried to move forward and use the same jab on the same right shoulder. That's when she heard a sound and looked behind her, great... two opponents. But she had an idea, if she was in the middle of those two. She stood quickly still, moving her left hand to Miku, her right to the other side, to the little dragon and let the balls in her hand heat up and throw them so they exploded, she would make it a quick movement but boy two explosions at a time and not so long after the timer, she felt like there was sweat on her brow and she needed to breath quicker. This was going to be a long thing if she had to keep fighting so much.

Would Miku be able to instruct her summon to move at the same time as herself? Rowan wasn't sure.

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You are underestimated soon. You can't do anything, can you? She is your best friend and you just burned her face.

It was like the temptation of darkness was there, swirling around her making her hearing things that no one said. Making her brain throw things at her and pretending to be Lady. Lady wasn't there, she was gone, Rowan had seen it with her own two eyes so it was up to her to believe if this was the truth or not if she would be bombarded by the darkness again that was simply inside her. She did not want to believe that, she wasn't even sure if she wanted to win anymore. She should forfeit, for her own safety and for Miku's. But would Miku forgive her if she did not give her all? Or maybe...



She watched, she did not do anything, thank god the dragon was only made of plants, that worked. Thank god Miku dodged, that worked as well. Her hands quickly grabbing new ammunition from the purses on her belt. She simply watched, was she that scary or was it just the way Miku thought? Was this her best strategy.



It wasn't actually the plan, Rowan would not mind getting a moment to breathe, although she should be wary, after all, she was still on the ground where Miku was the strongest and she wouldn't be surprised if she could throw a seed from there and manipulate it. What had they all shown during the training? She felt her skin was warm, but not yet completely burning and not hurting her yet, but she had to be careful for sure, she had used her powers three times now, how many more times before she would not be able to shut off the fire in her hands. But without much further thinking, Rowan threw again the bouncing ball that she had in her right hand towards the dragon. Aiming for a spot where Miku wasn't or her leg that is, it was kind of difficult but with a bit of luck, she would only hit the dragon.

If she did, Rowan realized her other error... Miku was still in the air and if the dragon would fall or hurt its wings, what would happen to her friend? Did she have a plushy flower to fall on?!

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As she had made a strategy that had one disastrous result, she had her focus on Miku. She was falling because Rowan stopped the wood dragon from leaving her, eh what to do now? She felt a smack against her hip and cried out as that surely did hurt, it was like making a scrap on her skin that burned and wait what? She wanted to pull her left hand away but now looked at it as the vine wrapped around it. God no, she had to catch Miku! She looked up and would too late try to burn it off again as her right hand was taken too but she could still move them up as Miku was close to her and take a few steps forward to eventually catch her. This did buckle her legs and she hit her knees on the grassy surface below her but she caught Miku and she felt the strain in her arms and legs and her hands were burning hot. Yay for an after effect for your quirk, she had to take a breather and calm down and take them off but at the moment she could not do that without burning and if she continued to do so her arms would burn, her legs, her whole body. With that scary thought in mind she quickly put Miku on the ground and tried to move as far away from her as she could.

The vines were in her hands so she could work with that, they weren't around her wrists only and she heated herself again, quickening the molecules in her body and burn the vines again away from her touch but she felt tired, she was scared alright. She did not want to think about the voices, about the solutions or strategy, she wanted this to be over. She felt so nauseous it was almost nothing compared with the hit Miku gave her in her stomach, though that still did not sit well either what to do now? She moved a little further away from Miku, let there be about five meters between them now, could she quickly jump behind some of the stones, move away without Miku seeing her so she could catch her breath and cool off her hands? That was the plan so she hid and leaned against a stone before quickly moving to another and hoping Miku had not seen that move to her left.

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It felt like her stomach made a summersault while she sat there, lowering herself so she could potentially puke between her legs. It would also make her feel a little bit more steady and with her hands on the ground, she only scorched little pieces of the grass. It is fine, it would be fine, she had a plan but she did not want to use that plan, not against her friend. She put her back against the stone eventually and heaved her head, ready. She had to get up, she could not fail this fight, the thing was that the only reason why it felt more difficult to do this one was because she was her friend. She had heard her thanking Rowan but the fire one just brushed it off. She could not lose her focus, which already drifted to something else and she looked at the flowers that peeked around the big stone she was hiding behind. She took a step back, not realizing they were also on the other side of the stone and she gaged. Ew. What was that?

She put her hand in front of her mouth and leaned again against the stone, that was disgusting. She tried to swallow, she was already nauseous but this did not help and now her strategy fell apart, she tapped on the stone, she had no idea what to do and her hot hands did not help either, it felt like she almost scorched herself, luckily she had some resistance and this wasn't really activating her quirk yet, or was it, as she activated it oh so slightly. She would have to burn the flowers away, wouldn't she?

She spit again, to her left to get the feeling of too much spit, too much food in her gone, she must have burned enough calories, there wasn't any food left. Bleh.

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