Calder McHail Versus Zypp Sunbeck!
Angella stares at the arena with a dumbfounded look. Jack is still making the same stoic face as usual.
“...Well…not exactly how I expected that match to go, but my class is still winning and that is all that matters.”
“...Still not a competition…” Jack dryly replies.
“Of course it’s not.” Angella replies with a small grin.
“Okay, now that the paramedics have taken Candi out of the ring and into their tent we can move on to the next match.” Zare announces.
Calder McHail and Zypp Sunbeck enter the arena.
Zypp blows a kiss towards Calder.
Calder furrows his eyebrows and rolls his eyes in response.
Zari holds up her megaphone “...Fight!”
Calder begins the match by sending a large wave of ice towards Zypp.
That smug smirk returns to Calder’s face.
‘There is no way that anyone could have dodged that. It seems like this battle was over as quickly as it started. Pathetic.’ Calder thought to himself.
Suddenly Calder feels someone tapping him on the shoulder.
He quickly turned around and realized that Zypp was right behind him.
‘What? That was fast. How is that possible?’
“Aww! You look cute when you get confused.” Zypp taunts.
“...Don’t worry, now that I know what your power is I’ll be able to defeat you easily.”
“Really now, then what is my power? I mean, since you are so smart after all.” Zypp sarcastically says with a smug expression.
Calder smiles confidently.
“You have the power to teleport.”
“...Hmm…nope, that’s not it.”
“...What? But if not that, what else can it possibly be?”
“Don’t worry. You aren’t completely wrong, big boy. You just aren’t exactly 100% right either.”
“...Whatever…It doesn’t matter.” Calder’s cold yet smug expression returns. “I’ll beat you anyways.”
“Oooh. So scary.” Zypp says with a hand over their face pretending to be intimidated.
Calder sends another wall of ice towards Zypp.
“Missed me again.”
Zypp is behind Calder again. Calder quickly turns his right arm into an icicle and turns around to stab them.
Zypp just does a backflip and dodges it easily.
“After all that talk I thought you’d be stronger than this.”
“Don’t worry, You haven’t seen anything yet.”
Calder starts to form a compressed ball of ice in between his hands. After charging it up for a little while he throws his arms upwards and launches the ball of ice into the sky.
Just before it reaches the roof of the gym it explodes into a cloud of mist that is quickly followed by a lot of icicles that fall down towards the arena.
Calder quickly looked towards where Zypp was standing to gloat about his impending victory, but all he saw was them putting a zipper onto the ground, unzipping it, and jumping down through it.
Calder snaps his head upwards to see Zypp quickly falling from the ceiling above all of the remaining icicles.
Calder quickly encases himself in a dome of ice and waits for the icicles to finish falling.
After a few seconds he gets rid of the dome and checks his surroundings.
He doesn’t see anyone in the arena.
“...Where the hell are…”
“Boo!” Zypp shouts behind Calder who jumps back in response.
“Shit! What is wrong with you?” Calder says while catching his breath.
“A lot of things. You’d have to be more specific.” Zypp says with their tongue sticking out.
“Alright, that’s it! I’ve had enough of this!”
“Really? I was just getting warmed up.”
Calder launches himself into the air using a column of ice. He then charges up another attack.
“Sub-zero freezer!” Calder yells as he quickly encases the entire floor of the arena in a thick layer of ice.
Afterwards he falls back down to the ground and slows his descent by shooting ice towards the ground until he eventually lands.
‘That had to be it! Right?’ Calder thinks to himself.
“If I knew there was going to be a rink I would have brought skates.” Zypp says behind Calder.
“Shut up!” Calder yells as he shoots a barrage of icicles towards Zypp.
Zypp just puts a zipper onto the air where the icicles are flying towards and opens it up. This makes another zipper portal open up on the other side of Zypp.
The icicles fly through the first portal and back out the second back towards Calder.
“Shit!” Calder yells out as he creates a shield of ice right in front of himself to block the attack.
As Calder was preoccupied blocking his own attack Zypp teleports behind him and kicks him right into his own shield.
“Ouch! That hurt, you bitch!” Calder curses.
“Wow, What a temper. Maybe some ice will help you cool off.” Zypp says as they roundhouse kick Calder into the ice hard enough to crack through it and send him flying backwards.
Calder struggles to get back up with a furious expression on his face.
“God Dammit!” He screams as he slams his fist against the ground. “I will not be beaten! Especially not by someone like you!”
For the first time for the entire match Zypp’s suggestive expression is replaced by a slight scowl.
“What does that mean?” Zypp responds with anger bubbling up at the back of their throat.
“Wouldn’t you like to know?” Calder says with his smug expression slowly returning. Now that Zypp is angry he thinks that he might be able to get the upper hand now.
Calder hops back onto his feet and starts to make a path made out of ice.
The path starts to spiral around the edges of the arena as he slowly starts to ascend. To keep up with the speed at which he is creating this ice he has given himself skates made out of ice.
Before he reaches the ceiling of the gym he stops the path which ends right on top of the center of the arena. He then jumps off of it and encases both of his fists in blocks of ice.
“Let’s see if you can dodge this, you freak!” Calder yells out.
Zypp takes a deep breath and looks up at Calder who is falling right towards them. He has one fist pulled back. It seems like he will try to finish this fight with a punch.
Just before Calder lands the blow Zypp creates a zipper portal on the floor right where he was falling and quickly dodges him. Right before Calder falls into the portal Zypp grabs the hoodie and jumps down with him through the portal.
The portal brought them to the top of Calder’s ice structure. Zypp lets go of Calder and punches him hard across the face. As he slides all the way to the bottom Zypp creates a zipper portal and beats him there.
Right before Calder reached the bottom of the slope Zypp creates another portal. As Calder reaches the floor of the arena again Zypp quickly grabs him, punches him in the face again, and throws him through the new portal.
The portal was about ten feet above the bleachers and Calder fell right onto the bottom of them with a loud clang.
Zypp dust off their hands and slowly walks towards the bleachers.
Calder seems to be out cold.
“Hopefully that will teach him a lesson.” Zypp said as they turned towards Zari expectantly.
“The winner of the third match is…Zypp Sunbeck.” Zari says into the microphone.
Zypp walks back towards the bleachers and takes a seat.
‘What a jerk.’ They mutter to themselves.
Lev turns towards Violet.
“...That got heated near the end…What do you think that was about?” Lev asks anxiously.
“Honestly I am not sure, but now I have a bad feeling…” With a serious tone and her arms crossed.
“...About what?”
“About Calder. I don’t trust him.”
“...Why…why not?”
“Someone who doesn’t talk that much must have something to hide. It’s…just trust me on this, okay?”
“...I don’t talk much either…Does that…make me untrustworthy to you?”
“No. You’re obviously quite introverted and really shy. I don’t get the same feelings from him.”
Lev just nods his head. He will probably keep a closer look on Calder from here on out.
“Alright, who is ready to start the next match?” Zari says as she turns around towards the bleachers.
Shiro raises her hand.
“What’s up?” Zari responds.
“What about the arena? We can’t fight if it is still covered in all of that ice, right?”
“Don’t worry about that.” Zari says as she puts her megaphone down onto her chair and walks towards the ring.
She walks towards the center of it and cracks her knuckles.
“Let’s do this!” Zari yells out as she sends her arm backwards in preparation for a punch.
She quickly punches the grounds with a force that is strong enough to instantly shatter all of the remaining ice in the arena.
Zari puts her hands behind her head and walks back towards the bleachers.
“...That was…awesome!” Maka yells.
“Nah. That was nothing.” Zari says as she picks up her megaphone. “I didn’t even break a sweat out there.”
“So cool!” Shiro yells out with stars in her eyes.
“Alright. Let’s get back on track.” Zari says as she picks up her megaphone. “The next match will be between…Violet Newton and Takeru Takao!”