[IC] A Hero Tale {Complete}

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Mikey's bullet were too wide-spread to dodge entirely, but they struck with reduced power against Jenso's super heated skin, hissing as the water turned to vapor and left small welts in his skin. As Jenso tossed a square of the white marbled floor towards Mikey, he didn't move. The spinning white square struck the side of his bubble and dug pretty deep, though, before Mikey himself kicked it out of his defensive aura. He then began to fall from the sky slowly, like a balloon that was running out of air. As he fell, he launched another stream of water bullets towards Jenso, though, trying to keep him from getting too close.

[Jensoman]

Jenso glared at Mikey as he came down. He continued weaving left and right to avoid the incoming bullets and kept his body heated up, waiting for his foe to land. He kept dashing around the arena in random patterns, to make it difficult for Mikey to find a safe landing point.

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Mikey didn't have much control over where he would land, but his bullets kept hitting Jenso. He suddenly clenched his fist, but nothing happened. Mikey's eyes widened as he landed with a light 'blup' and bounced slightly in place. "He's been evaporating my bullets!' Mikey had planned to simply use his water in a single focused strike by coating Jenso in it, but the heat made it impossible to use such a cheap tactic. 'What a guy!'

The bullet that struck Jenso were relatively weak. Against a normal man, the sheer pain might've taken one to their knees, but not Jenso. After facing so many different enemies, the bullets were like slow moving pebbles to him! Sure, they might have hurt, but with his body heated up, they were nothing. Mikey smiled and jutted his knee forward, lashing out towards Jenso with a water whip from his bubble shield.

[Jensoman]

Jenso stared at Mikey as he attacked. 'Wow, his control over water is amazing..' He thought as the whip lashed at him. Jenso continued focusing his heat on his body, and moved further to the left as he feigned to dash at Mikey's right while stomping his foot on the ground. Rather then doing so however, he dashed towards the right in an attempt to avoid the incoming water whip and move at Mikey's left side.

A flame wave erupted from the spot Jenso struck earlier with his foot from Mikey's other side, which was intended to somewhat weaken the bubble and strike it while Jenso distracted Mikey as he came in from Mikey's left. A surge of power rushed through him as he aimed a quick punch at Mikey's shoulder, hoping the flame wave would be succesful. 'I need to win before I run out of energy..'

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The flame was rose, but did little to damage Mikey's bubble. The unfocused and chaotic flames simply wrapped around him and faded, his bubble merely moving slightly against the impact. As Jenso moved to punch, his fist was stopped short by the water that surrounded Mikey, and he was launched back by a sudden shock wave, similar to the one that launched him away when the bubble first formed. "Not going to work, Jenso!" Mikey taunted, spinning towards Jenso a moment after his attack. It was true that Mikey couldn't keep up with Jenso on his own, but his water was much quicker than him, and his control over it made it impossible to simply overpower with chaotic fire attacks. His shield was ultimate!

"My battle bubble disperses the power of chaotic attacks with ease! Its my only way of fighting guys like you, who rely on their intense power and speed over control. As long as I'm in here, you can't hurt me!"

[Jensoman]

Jenso staggered back and smiled. "Wow, you're really good!" He said, and slammed his hands into the ground. He pulled out another white square and threw it so it would fall into Mikey from above. A surge of power rushed through him as he began to dash around Mikey at top speeds in circles, trying to use his extreme heat to evaporate the water bubble while avoiding direct contact with it.

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Mikey looked up at the spinning square as it fell towards him like a disc, and noticed Jenso moving around him. Jenso wasn't on fire, but the heat from his body was starting to spin rapidly, and gather. Mikey couldn't follow Jenso, and his bubble began to thin out. Fortunately, the spinning debris that Jenso threw was light enough for Mikey to simply kick away. He jumped up, dispelled his bubble in its entirety with a loud Pop and kicked the white square towards Jenso with a backflip, before landing back on the ground, and coating himself in a thin layer of cold water. "Haha.. Hey, smart move," He whispered, waiting for his water to cool his body down before he moved again.

[Jensoman]

Jenso smiled as Mikey backed away and tried to dash out of the way of the incoming white square. 'It worked, but he's still avoiding most of my attacks..' He thought, dashing at Mikey at top speeds while keeping his body heated. He aimed a quick punch at Mikey's stomach.

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Mikey looked up and jumped aside, running away from Jenso after using his superior agility to avoid taking a brutal strike from the hefty hitter. After a few seconds, the water around his body expanded again, and he bounced himself high into the air a second time, floating in place yet again.

"Phew!"

Mikey looked down at Jenso and aimed his handed forward. From the front of his newly formed bubble, a torrent of water launched towards Jenso in a more beam-like shape, even faster and stronger than before. Mikey was straining himself at this point, but he was focused on trying to take Jenso down as quickly as possible.

[Jensoman]

Jenso grit his teeth as the beam of water headed for him, while keeping his body heated up. 'Shit..! If I get hit by that..' He thought, as a surge of power rushed through him. He dashed to the left and dove to the ground at great speed in order to slide out of the way of the beam, and ripped another square out of the ground. He threw it at Mikey, and began to dash around the arena again in random patterns.

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The square spun towards him, but Mikey was prepared this time. With a slight movement of his hand, he slapped it out of the air with a lash of water, sending it towards the ground. The razor-sharp square impaled the ground of the arena nearby, and Mikey was unharmed, and seemed to stay floating. Now Mikey was keeping an eye on Jenso. He was running around and exhausting a lot of energy, but Mikey was safe up in the sky if he kept his wits about him. Those Squares were easy to deflect with his water whips, and Jenso was too far away to evaporate his shield with a heat aura. He just sat up in the air, and waited for his energy to stabilize.

[Jensoman]

Jenso stopped as his attack failed. He stared up at Mikey and frowned as he took deep breaths. He gathered flames in his hands. He created one flame ball in each hand, and threw them into the ground near him in order to create a smoke screen in an attempt to block out Mikey's vision on him. Jenso slammed his fist into the ground to crack it and threw a square at Mikey, and ripped out a second piece.

A surge of power rushed through him as he jumped out of the smoke screen at top speeds while still holding the second piece, and used the first piece as a stepping stone to launch himself off of it immediately afterwards in hopes to catch Mikey off-guard, and in order to front-flip right over Mikey's bubble. He held the piece that he was still holding in both hands now, and attempted to stab the second square's sharp corner into the bubble from behind.

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Mikey wasn't letting any of this shenanigans go down.

As Jenso soared through the air, Mikey did the unthinkable. He simply dispelled his bubble and fell towards the ground, Dodging Jenso's strike before re-summoning his bubble as he crashing into the ground, only to bounce back up yet again. Jenso's continued attacks were becoming predictable now, especially from below. Mikey may have been relatively immobile while he was in the air, but if Jenso was up there two, then neither of them could hit each other! Not if Mikey didn't allow it. However, Mikey got back into the air a lot fast than Jenso was able to fall, like a bouncing ball, and immediate launched a torrent of water towards Jenso, leading him slightly for a sure-fire hit.

[Jensoman]

Jenso frowned as Mikey evaded his attack and came at him from below. He began to heat up his body to an extremely high degree again, still holding the white square in his hands as he heated it up as well. He tried to spin his body around in mid-air in order to evade some of the torrents while holding the square in front of his body as a shield. 'If he dispelled his bubble to avoid that, then he must have a hard time moving around with that bubble..' He thought, as a surge of power rushed through him as he braced for the impact of the attack.

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Mikey's torrent of water smashed right through the white tile and struck Jenso head on like a beam of energy. It pushed and pushed, at which point Mikey tried to keep the stream up, in an attempt to knock Jenso right out of the arena with one strong attack.

[Jensoman]

Jenso's eyes widened as Jenso was knocked further away and was about to get knocked out of the arena. 'Shit, how am I going to dodge now? Come on...if only I could move out of the way somehow..' He thought, glaring at Mikey. He remembered how Mikey bounced himself up with the bubble, and looked at his feet. 'What if..' He thought, pointing his feet into the sky. He focused his flame powers into his feet as a burst of flames erupted from them, in order to launch him out of the path of the water torrent and back towards the ground.

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Mikey released the hold on his torrent of water and huffed heavily inside of his bubble, scanning the field for any sign of Jenso. He spotted him right afterwards, bursting through the air like a rocket towards the ground. What in the world? Using fire magic to propel himself? Was he crazy? Mikey knew fire was far too powerful to control with precision. Jenso wouldn't be able to land properly, but Mikey wasn't quick enough, and was a little exhausted after that last torrent. Next time he used that rocket jump though, Mikey would be ready to finish it with a pin-point focused torrent.

Mikey stopped attacking for a moment and breathed deeply, waiting for his energy to return to him. It was strange. Usually, magic users, once drained, couldn't use magic anymore. How was Mikey restoring his energy pool so easily after so many strong attacks, all while keeping that bubble up?

[Jensoman]

Jenso's eyes widened as he flew down towards the ground while flailing aimlessly and grit his teeth. 'Shit..! It worked, but..' He thought. It was the first time that he used this technique, and tried to spin his body around. He was unable to keep up with the high speed that he was moving at and crashed into the ground, crossing his arms in front of his head in order to brace for the impact of the crash. As he crashed, he screeched over the ground and eventually skidded to a halt with several cuts at the front side of his body.

He glared at Mikey and took deep breaths as he got back up. 'That shield...it's water, but..' He thought, channeling flames into his hands. He launched a flame ball at Mikey and focused on the flame ball. 'Focus...focus...' He thought, remembering his battle with Ross and how a piercing attack would have been useful. He spun his hand around, and the flame ball suddenly took the shape of a flame saw, increasing in power and speed as it moved at Mikey with great speed.

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Mikey saw the fire ball, but wasn't worried in the slightest as it approached. Closer.. Closer.. What was he doing? With a flick of his knee, he summoned a whip of water and tried to swat the flame ball away, and weaken it so that his shield would absorb the brunt of the attack with ease, but as his water whipe lashed out, the evaporated before it was even able to touch the flames. Mikey's eyes widened as it spun faster and faster mere second before it struck his bubble, and grinded against its surface with orange-hot spinning flames. His bubble shield immediately split open, and Mikey spun himself around, trying to avoid taking the attack head on.

Moments after, his shield popped entirely, and the flame saw cut right through his left arm, leaving a two inch gash that was immediately cauterized in his shoulder. His arm went limp and he fell towards the ground, but just before he landed, his bubble reappeared, softening his fall, and putting him back on his feet. He stood in place, keeping his barrier up, utterly surprised by what had just happened. 'He was able to channel more arcane energy in the ball after launching it? And change its shape after it left his body?' That was high level magic! He already knew that Jenso was capable of his flame dragon punch, which he wasn't worried about at all, but this focused attack, despite being less powerful, wasn't something that Mikey could deal with using his Battle bubble.

Mikey's bubble disappeared again and he grabbed his arm, covering the wound in a thin layer of water. In moments, his skin was fused back together, but he still couldn't move his arm. It was a temporary healing technique, far too weak for him to actually restore functionality in his limb, but strong enough to keep his skin from ripping any further.

"What was that?" Mikey asked with a smile. The fact that this guy could solidify fire... Just who the hell was he?

[Jensoman]

Jenso took deep breaths as he faced Mikey, and smirked. "Just an idea I had after I fought Ross...I realised that I needed a good piercing technique, and I managed to make one now!" Jenso shouted excitedly, with a wide grin on his face. His body was hurting and the battle was tiring him out. On top of that, the flame burst and flame saw that he had used took more energy then he realised it would. The flame saw in particular. However, he still had some energy left. "Heh...I think I'll call it flame saw...and the one I used to propell myself rocket jump." Jenso stated, looking at Mikey's arm. "Wow, you can heal yourself? That's impressive!"