"Hey guys"Aviva grabbed a seat beside Liana opposite Jude.
"Hey"they replied in unison.
"What are you talking about"she asked.
"We were saying that since we all won our matches,how about we train till the finals since it's obviously going to be tough"Evette answered.
Aviva nodded.
"So we were proposing we have a raffle draw to know who would be training against who"Liana explained.
"that sounds nice"
"without further ado"Liana shook the raffle.
"so we have Ciara against Evette,Jude against Kyle and Aviva against myself is that okay"
They nodded.
"Okay so Ciara,Evette, the floor is yours"Liana looked at the two girls who nodded before making their way to the middle of the field.
"Give it your all Ci" Evette smiled.
Ciara nodded"You too"
"You guys can start"Liana told them and immediately Evette sent a ray of fire to Ciara who put it off by sending a stream of water towards it.
Evette smiled and blew a flame breath towards her but she created a water dome,the fire turned to steam upon contact.
She held her hand up and a water dome covered her and Evette,she tightened her hands and multiple ice shards started raining down on Evette who created a spiral flame that covered her and the ice shards melted before they could touch her.
Ciara sent multiple ice blades towards Evette but she created huge flame wings and folded them in front of herself preventing the ice blades from touching her, when it was over the wings stretched back as she flew towards Ciara.
She threw a punch at her but Ciara crossed her hands in front of her blocking it. She threw a flame kick towards her but Ciara flipped back avoiding it,she placed her hands on the floor and an ice golem came out came towards Evette who flew back to avoid the golem.
The ice golem ran towards her at incredible speed to punch her,she flew backwards to avoid the punch.
"I'll just melt it" Evette took a deep breath and stared at the ice golem,within seconds the whole floor was ablaze with flames.
Ciara protected herself by creating a dome of water while Kyle rose an earth wall in front of the others making sure that the flame didn't touch them.
The ice golem melted eventually and the flame subsided as it did so. Ciara put down the dome and looked at Evette,she sent a stream of water towards her but Evette dodged it.
"I'll stick to water after all she can melt ice,I think I'll try to use mist" Ciara created blades from water and shot them at her, Evette raised a wall of fire to shield her.
She created a fire whip and swung it at Ciara but she used an ice shield to defend herself.
She surrounded herself with a stream of water whereas Evette coated her hands with fire,she held out her hands and a halo with ancient writings in it appeared in front of her.
She ran towards Ciara and shot it at her but the figure she thought was Ciara disappeared, she was surprised"mist clone"she turned around to see that there were so many clones of Ciara.
She took a deep breath, held out her palm and little flames rained down ceaselessly taking the clones out.
When she saw the real Ciara she sent balls of flame towards her but Ciara extinguished it. She sent a water arrow to Evette but she sent an arrow of fire,the two arrows collided taking each other out.
Evette was about to send another attack but Ciara created a water hand that held Evette tight.
She struggled to release herself but it was futile"okay you win Ci"
Ciara released her then made her way to the rest,Evette following suit.
"Aviva,come on"Liana went to the middle of the field.
Aviva nodded and followed her. She looked at Liana then Evette signalling that she was ready.
"Start"Evette spoke and Liana ran towards Aviva as she brought out a sword from her inventory,she didn't get close though as a Aviva sent a gust of wind that send her back.
She stabled herself and with incredible speed rushed to deliver a sneak attack to Aviva.
Aviva noticed this and dodged at insane speed."Damn, she's fast"Liana looked at Aviva as she stood at another place on the floor.
She kept the sword and brought out a bow and arrows, holding the bow horizontally,she shot four arrows at her.
The arrows were incredibly fast,Aviva had to give her that one,she sent a wind blade,the arrows broke in halves.
Liana shot multiple blades towards Aviva but she countered by sending wind blades of her own stopping them.
It was at this point that Liana realized that the nature of their abilities made Aviva superior because she wasn't allowing her attacks to go near her.
She stood still and looked at her before she could run towards her,she was held by a palm,she held out her hands in defeat.
Aviva smiled as that meant she had won. She released her.
Liana looked at Jude and Kyle signalling them that they could come over.
They made their way to the floor readying their stance."You ready"Kyle looked at Jude"because I won't take it easy on you"
Jude nodded.
Kyle created rocks from earth sending them towards Jude at a fast speed,he dodged them with speed,he thought of allowing Mila take over but he brushed the idea off, he had to master the power itself.
He couldn't dodge the rock that sent him flying backwards. He propped himself up,he slowly closed his eyes allowing himself to focus on the image of blades forming from shadows.
He opened his eyes and found out he had successfully created the blades,he sent them in Kyle's direction,their speed surprised him.
Kyle rose up a wall blocking the blades,he brought down the wall and immediately Jude sent fast arrows, Kyle was caught unawares but he still dodged them though some were successful in hitting him.
Kyle rose up a wall again sending it to Jude.
Jude watched as the earth wall rushed towards him with incredible speed,he didn't know how to create what would stop it so he closed his eyes and braced himself for the impact.
Seconds passed but nothing happened,he opened his eyes only to find out that the wall had paused,not only had the wall paused, everything within the floor had paused.
He was surprised,he went closer to Kyle and waved a hand in front of him but he didn't get a reaction.
He looked at the sky,a passing bird had paused also,it's wings stationary but it didn't fall,he went over to his phone and looked at it,counted sixty seconds and after some seconds,he checked his phone again,the time was still the same.
"Shit,this can't be happening"he ran a hand pushing the dark locks of hair that fell over his eyes aside, making sure he was seeing correctly and he was,the time on his phone was still the same.
"Okay,you can start moving again"he knew he sounded dumb and desperate but he also knew he couldn't be thinking about that at this point.
"You really have a lot to learn"he saw Ezra standing behind him,his messy white hair with blue tinted tips flowing with the wind and from the look in his blue eyes,he looked amused at the whole situation.
"I know I do,I need time to start moving to do that,so now that you're here what do I do"it took all he had to make sure his words didn't come off rude.
"Don't do anything,you paused it without knowing all you have to do is think of everything moving again although it seems hard,after some time it'll work."
"Can't you just do it?"Jude raised a brow.
"How would you learn then?"
The words seemed to sink into his head as he nodded then closed his eyes in an attempt to concentrate.
Ezra smiled at this because he knew he could do it and he did, although after some time.
"I think I'm done training"Jude looked at Kyle after time had started moving.
The rest were surprised but still nodded.
"We'll get an announcement when the ten people who would commence the finals are gotten, we're already six so just remaining four"Liana said.
"Do you think they'll show us the pairings this time"Aviva asked.
"I doubt, during the whole matches that had taken place prior,they never tell you who you're up against till the announcer calls them out"Evette answered her.
"The whole point of that is to avoid research on one's opponent before time"Kyle continued and the rest nodded.
"It's getting dark, I'm heading off,see you guys tomorrow"Liana headed out and one by one the rest dispersed to their respective rooms.