Nel nodded as Dzi vanished, his words echoing in her mind: "Make sure you watch Cyr." She looked over to him and saw him killing off the enemy left and right in a blind rage. "All right, plan B! I need a better weapon..." she said to herself. Almost as if by magic, Nel heard the sound of running behind her, and turned around to find a berzerked fire user rushing straight at her, with a longsword at his side. "That'll do!" she smirked as she readied her dagger, "Fire versus ice, huh? This should be fun..."
The two met in combat; Nel, being shorter and having a much smaller weapon than her opponent, used speed to her advantage. She focused primarily on avoiding blows rather than attacking straight out, knowing her ice based attacks would prove almost useless against fire. The fire user rushed at her, sword ablaze, and jabbed it out in an attempt to impale her, though she quickly dodged to the side, she wasn't quick enough to avoid the whole attack, and cringed as the burning metal left a slash on her left arm.
"Hmm...Looks like he's too focused on attacking with a sword than anything else...Bet I could use that to beat him." Nel said to herself. Just then, she came up with a brilliant plan: She'd confuse her oppoent and attack from behind. Once more she ran her wounded arm over her dagger, turning the blade an icy blue color, then focused her energy into her free hand (left, she fights with her right), and in one motion, waved across the air in front of her, instantly turning it into an icey wall.
Nel's opponent, too enraged to think of anything other than killing her, rushed headfirst into the wall of ice, shattering it instantly, as well as disorienting him for a second. When he came to his senses, he scanned the area in front of him, but couldn't find Nel anywhere. Nel had been hiding behind a stray pillar the whole time, and though she regretted what she was about to do, she knew it had to be done. She whispered one single word, loud enough for her opponent to hear, "Checkmate." then quickly appeared behind the fire user, and jammed her dagger into his heart, and the magic she embued it with instantly froze anything it came in contact with.
The fire user fell over and died instantly. Nel looked down at the fallen student and muttered a quick "I'm sorry..." before picking up his fallen weapon and heading back to the rest of the group.
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