Vivi popped her neck as she glared viciously at Ren "Sooo, Ren. I haven't seen you in battle before, up for a quick match?" she challenged the small boy.
Ren grinned. "You're just in time! I'm still a little fired up!"
Miki sighed, walking back the way they came to sit in the stands and not intervene in their fight. "Master just fought me... he shouldn't strain himself..."
Val sighs and sits next to him.
Vivi looked to her left with a big grin, nodding her head as she let the white fox run with her in to the arena. The fox quickly took its position in the stands, staying away from Miki as Vivi got into the preperation room. "I'll be right out!"
"Got it!" Ren called, taking his position.
This time, he was breaking through his limits.
The firing hammers fell one by one.
His hair sparked into life, a white light shining from it to match his eyes.
Power, Exinessence, mana...
Laws of physics and magic were flying about as his body began to accommodate the excess energy.
The Nekomata quickly changed outfits, this time favoring to wear one of her baggy jackets just in case of a quick need for defense. She pulled out one apple and a cup of orange juice from one of her enlarged pens, sighing as she sat down and leaned against the wall to calm and eat a bit. Just to get the blood pumping.
Ren's eyes were closed once she came out, as if he was meditating standing up.
He opened them just as she showed herself, waving to her as she entered.
"Are you ready?" he called.
"Fuck yeah, I'm ready!" she jumped up. "BRING IT BITTCCHEEES! WOOOOOOHOOOO!" she cheered while flexing and flipping around.
"W-well..." he said quietly, "a-after you...?"
Vivi shrugged. "Do whatever the fuck you want, I'm just looking at this beauty here." She stated boredly as she looked around the arena and around Ren, along with his position.
"Well, then... I'll begin," he said. "Excuse me."
Several beams of light shot towards the Nekomata, searing the very air it passed through as they fired towards her.
The Nekomata fell back, quickly jumping back up and using her axe to dig into the floor and keep her from moving back further. With a smirk, she threw out 2 smoke bombs and 4 runic bombs on all sides of Ren, running forward with a blunt attack with her axe in a motion for an overhead strike. What she smeared on her axe while gripping it was a bit of paint on a small stun grenade that would explode on impact with anything.
Ren immediately reacted, watching her actions carefully.
Instead of attacking again, he took evasive action.
In an instant, he entirely vanished, fading into the dust of the Coliseum.
Invisible, he began rushing around as he carefully navigated through the bombs, flanking his opponent as he did so and preparing his next attack.
Vivi scanned around the arena, growling to herself at the invisible dumbass. "What? Too fucking chicken now!? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST." she used a wind platform and smeared slime on it, jumping up high into the air and landing on top of a column, finally away from the large dust cloud.
Ren was silent. His stealth was too useful to waste now.
That said, this was a chance too useful to waste in itself.
He fired another laser at the column, aiming to either melt or shatter it.
Which didn't matter. The aim was to knock her down onto his own turf.
It didn't fall. The laser simply burned a hole through it. Ordinarily that would have been fine, had the hole been big enough.
It wasn't.
No matter. He could fix that.
Vivi took to putting her axe away and go for a more defensive type of strategy now, using 2 more plates with goop to jump to the other side of the arena quietly and smoothly. Turning into a cat, she used her small stature to hide behind a pillar, looking around more for any signs of Ren being somewhere while invisible.
Meanwhile, Ren had an idea.
Aiming carefully, he tossed a fireball towards the grenades she'd laid down earlier, detonating the smoke bombs from earlier in an attempt to distract his foe.
Vivi gave another grin as she pounced around obviously in the center of the arena, turning human and doing chicken movements. "BAHK BOK BOK BAHHHK BUH-BOK." she screamed as she took out her axe and knocked down the pillars nearest, dropping 2 bombs and hiding in the dust clouds to turn into a cat and run behind one, digging to the side of it to make a burrow.
Ren didn't see much of her movements, but he saw enough to make an educated guess as to where his prey had run off to. Spawning a triad of enormous lasers, he fired on the area around the two fallen pillars, decimating the ground in a single instant.
Vivi turned human and shivered slightly at the feeling of the lasers. "Oh god that was worse than being forced to take a bath by Kheire's pets..." she shivered once more before using wind platforms to bring herself up to still standing pillars, forcing her runic grenades to finally explode, hopefully damaging wherever Ren might be.
Ren's reaction time was fast, enough so to avoid the majority of the blast, with only burning shrapnel grazing his bare torso.
The invisibility was ruptured by the wound, dissolving it almost entirely as his cut glowed a faint white.
He shook his head, holding his hand out and preparing to fire another laser.
The Nekomata took this as her chance, pulling out her battle axe and positioning it below her for an uppercut technique, not bothering to stop her full speed ahead towards Ren.
Seeing her coming, Ren immediately took his chance. A double-palm strike against her abdomen shifted into another attack entirely.
From each fingertip, a laser exploded out.
From each hand split a phantasmal image, as if in a mirror.
With a final blow, Vivi shifted her axe to where the flat part of the blade faced the incoming lasers, but not all of them. During the attack, she took the other 5 lasers and knocked out.
The others, before Ren realized what was happening, had pierced right through him.
Gritted teeth caged a scream of agony, but the boy latched onto it. It was the only thing keeping him conscious, after all.
He kept his balance, panting furiously, staring down at the Nekomata with bewilderment.
With that, the match had ended by a close one, the Nekomata losing and the white boy victorious.