Recently
on Fires of the sky, the El Monte students returned to Earth only to find it
still frozen. As they return to Arkon’s Magic, the six main students, Matt,
Yessenia, Jaime, Alex, Venus, and Winny all enter a bridge that leads them to
the Elemental Challenges! Without further delay, they were forced to attend as
the six members for the challenges, but are they ready? After finishing the first
match, the El Monte students find that they have humiliatingly lost against all
the other four schools. Even worse, one of the members of El Monte seemed to
have mysteriously run away with Benny, a member from Rosemead. Even after the
second match, El Monte placed last again! How are they going to win now?
Episode 226 – Clashing with Hair Magic, She Foretells
the Victory!
“Ah… what am I going to do now that
I’m stuck here…” Matt said to himself. He examined the whole prison. “How many
times have I been thrown to one because of these powers?” He began to think
about it carefully. He has gone into much trouble with higher authorities from
Olympia, Echoville, Luther’s tower… They were all simple to fix. Then, he
thought about the CORP soldiers in the West Bridge concentration camps… And
then he suddenly stopped once he thought about his promise to Wisteria which he
failed to keep. “I…” He suddenly remembered how easier it was to fix all of his
problems when Santi was around. Even further towards the Elemental Challenges,
Matt had already been opted out of the competition for unknown reasons. “Now
that Santi is gone, I have to do everything on my own. But ever since he left,
I… I have been a… failure…?”
~~~
Alex hurriedly reached his door
until he was struck by a boy with light blue hair. He is Matt’s middle school
friend, McLovin. “Yo!” The boy called for Alex.
“W-What is it now? Who are you?”
“Let’s make a deal.”
“Huh?”
“The trick to this challenge is to
either mess with each other’s door, or to break our own and reach the end
faster.” McLovin said. Alex began listening. “So, since it’s only the two of
us, I think we should work together and mind our own businesses.”
Alex smiled. “Really? Are you
serious? That sounds too easy.”
“I know, but this match expects us
to clash with each other. I don’t know where the other two are, but I think
it’s better for us to not bother each other. Can I trust you with that, friend
of Matt’s?”
“Oh, you know him too?”
“We’ve been friends even since
middle school. Although, I haven’t kept much in contact with him.”
“He had his fire powers right when
he entered high school, he told me. I’m sure he was too busy for reunions.”
“Oh, but we already had our reunion:
this Elemental Challenge. But in any case, we should hurry on with our own
doors.”
Alex shook his head. “If you say
so!” Alex began with an Aqua Strike to his door. He noticed McLovin was
deliberately attacking his door several times with extreme speed. Each second,
he could punch the door over ten times. “(That fast…?)”
A clump of hair appeared from the
ground below McLovin and Alex. Without further delay, these hair strands
grabbed onto both of the students’ legs and then they threw the students onto
the floor, face flat. “Ergfh…!!!” McLovin yelled.
“AUGH!! What the hell?!” Alex
shouted. “Did you do something?!”
McLovin shook his head. “Heck no.”
The hair strands extended and Alex had to smack it with his Aqua Blaze skill
while McLovin speedily ran to the other side of the room to check what was
going on. “So you’re one of the contestants!”
Alex followed McLovin’s voice to the
other side of the room to reveal Layla. She had the ability to extend her hair
and break through the ground towards any place she wished. “Hmhmhm!~ So you’ve
found me.” She created more hair strands and one of them caught Alex by the
arms. McLovin sped away from it.
Layla flipped her hair again and
then she called out, “Fire Fury!” The flames began to burn Alex’s leg.
“OUCH!!” He screamed. “That’s it!”
Alex casted an Aqua Tornado towards Layla. She had to avoid and retreat her
hair ability. Alex took a step back.
Layla giggled. “Heh, so I see not
all of you El Monte students are simpletons. Where did you learn how to use
skills with one hand?” Alex ignored her question as she went on, “However, you
still need some more practice. You practically missed me when you used that
tornado!” She casted more hair and then grabbed two strands on each hand.
“Conceal!”
All three large hair strands, one
from each hand and one from her own head began to fly with haste. McLovin was
able to avoid. He sped more closely towards Layla and then he tried to kick her
but Layla covered her face in hair. McLovin’s legs got caught into her hair and
then he was smacked onto the floor. “Don’t underestimate the power of South El
Monte’s mascot, the eagles! Oh hoh hoh hoh!”
She began to smack both of the boys
onto the floor one time after another, not giving them the chance to retaliate.
Even while doing so, she was still able to laugh without giving pity. “Ugh!”
Alex felt each pain add up.
“Hahahaha!” She laughed again.
McLovin’s glasses fell onto the ground. Layla made sure she crushed them with
the third strand of hair that she has. “This is great! I can easily win!” After
crushing McLovin’s glasses, she then used the same third strand to break
through her door. “Three hits at once!”
After a while, the door cracked open
and she was able to run through with no problem. She made her long strands of
hair disappear as she made her way through the door which the two other
students could not enter into. Alex could barely stand up. “She… she
humiliatingly beat us!”
McLovin punched the ground. “Damn
it!” What was even worse for him was that he could no longer see without his
glasses. “The only way now is to break through our doors and hope to make it in
next.”
Alex turned his head to his path
which still contained Sith and Dracula. “He made me go forward so I could win…”
He then thought about it for a second. “But, I shouldn’t be selfish.” Alex then
said to McLovin, “You stay right there.” He then ran to the other side and he
created larger spells such as Waterplosion and Steam Blower which were able to
attack his door and McLovin’s at the same time. Then, he used both hands and
created smaller spells from each so that he could take down each door at once.
McLovin crawled towards the doors
and Alex as well. “Why… are you breaking my
door?”
Alex shook his head. “Because, you
agreed that we have to help each other.”
“But I meant it as in: we don’t
interfere with each other…”
“No. Helping each other means
whenever something goes wrong for one of us, the other will have to take the
chance to substitute! And that is a prime example of this here.” He was getting
closer to breaking both the doors. Each made cracking noises.
McLovin sighed in grief. “You El
Monte people… you guys must be really sincere.” He began chuckling. Alex was
still too busy focusing, breaking both his door and McLovin’s.
~~~
In Yessenia’s path, Siyun made her
way to the center of the platform first, followed by the hooded man. Irene
eventually arrived a few seconds later while McLargo was next after several
minutes. Yessenia made her door explode after one last Cyclone. She was
sweating and was fully exhausted from the poison that just wore off. “I see it
wears off once I reach my lowest amount of energy… The only thing I can do now
is take my time to the end. By now, the other four should have made it to the
end.” She punched the wall in anger, cracking it a little. “Those bastards… It
is time I should become more serious. Apparently, it is not enough.”
~~~
Meanwhile, during Jaime’s path,
Johan had finished his door first due to the power of his machinegun. Tommy
became frustrated. “Damn it! I was going to mess with him just now.”
“This is bad. Our main goal was to
stop Johan.” Romeo said.
Jaime shrugged. “That sounds too
troublesome. Why couldn’t we just stop him all at once?”
Raven, the fifth student who finally
decided to speak, said to them, “He had mines.”
“He has such an ability?!” Romeo
shrieked.
“No, but yes.”
“Come again?” Tommy said with
confusion.
“He has the power to trickle down
his machinegun ability for a more advanced military technology, like mines and
grenades.”
“How did you know that?”
Raven summoned a wrecking ball
attached to a chain, “I tried to attack him but the ball hit the floor and it
exploded.” He said without emotion.
“Ergh. You knew this the whole time
and I could have used my shadow powers to attack him.” Jaime sighed. “Why
didn’t you tell me sooner?”
“No one asked.” Raven said as he
used his wrecking ball to break through everyone’s door. “I’ll be nice. Hope
you guys can catch up. Bye.” He suddenly rushed into his door.
Romeo and Tommy looked at each other
and then they suddenly ran. Jaime waved at them, “I don’t know what was up with
that guy, but he seemed friendly. See you guys later!” He walked to his door
and the other two hurried to the center as quickly as possible.
After a while, Tommy’s speed caught
up with Raven, and Jaime was too lazy to walk, so Romeo came in 4th
place in his star path.
~~~
Last was Winny’s path, however her
situation seemed worse than Jaime’s. She was still trying to chase down Pochi.
Sammy suddenly panicked. “What?!” She ran towards Ghoul and then she tried to
attack him. Ghoul threw his drones at all of his surroundings and then he made
way into his door which was just exploded by one of the drones. Smoke began to
excrete from the explosion.
Winny and Pochi fell down by
surprise. Because of the area-of-effect spell that Ghoul had, Keith’s door was
open as well. Sammy jumped back. “Ergh! I knew my predictions were telling me
to stop you sooner.”
Ghoul yawned. “Mwah, it seems you
malfunctioned then. Catch you later!” He ran into his door and Keith slowly
decided to do the same.
Winny frowned. “Oh dang it… I think
we’re last.”
Pochi pointed at her, “It’s all your
fault! I’m supposed to win!!”
Sammy said to the two of them,
“Can’t you two take the challenges seriously?! Ghoul just made his way in and
he could be first place!”
Winny stood up. “I’m purposely doing
nothing.”
“E-Excuse me?” Sammy said with
attitude. They then heard a siren. “That must be the signal that everyone else
is done!”
Winny said casually, “Why are you
worrying?”
“Because we’re about to lose, duh!!”
Sammy clenched her fists
“And what does your foretelling
powers say? If you have them, then you should know who is winning.” Winny
claimed as Sammy made an extremely surprised gasp.
Pochi jumped. “Oh! I get it!”
Winny grabbed Pochi and then she
started hugging him. “That’s right, little frog. You finally understand.”
“No, get off of me! I mean I
understand what is up with Sammy!”
“I don’t see where you are going
with this.” Sammy said in a hurry.
Winny crossed her arms as she began
to put the puzzles together. “Tell me, if we assume that South El Monte’s
points are so high that they will win for sure, why aren’t you taking advantage
of your foretelling powers so that you can alter who wins? Out of all of us in
the challenges, you have one of the biggest influences on who gets to win, yet
I remember that after match #2, you are tied with Arroyo.”
“B-Because, my foretelling powers
tell me that by match six, we will have the highest points. Did you take into
consideration of the end result?!”
“Yes. However, I also realized you
are not an omniscient point-of-view foreteller; nobody is.” Winny began to
explain, “What I am trying to say is, you know you will be first place by the
end of the challenges, but you don’t know who is responsible in helping you get
there. For example, how would you know that Ghoul being in first or last place
in this round will lead your school
to being first in the end? In that
case, you would have tried harder to stop him from the beginning, yet you only
put effort in stopping him when he was close to breaking his door.”
Pochi was amazed at her
intelligence. Sammy yelled at her, “But I-…!”
“I am not done yet, Sammy.” Winny
interrupted her. “You only tried to stop him at the end of this round because
you didn’t know whether he was going to break the door first or not – since you
can’t predict who’s door would break open first. Even if you predicted that
Ghoul’s door would open first, his drones would alter the winner in the end by
creating smoke. You wouldn’t be able to see where you are going.”
“You are one confusing woman, but I
give you credit for figuring out that I didn’t follow my foretelling powers to
its fullest.” Sammy said. “But, at least now I get to predict who reaches the
end next!” She ran away and Winny still stood in one spot.
Pochi tried to chase after her. “No!
Stop her from winning third place!”
Winny shrugged. “It’s okay. She will
be the one to alter who wins no matter which one of us will get to the end
first. She’s not after stopping South El Monte.” Winny said to Pochi.
Pochi hopped towards her. “You’re
weird… What are you getting at with this theory of yours?”
Winny was in her serious
personality. “It seems to me, that Sammy is altering the challenges with her
foretelling powers. She’s not stopping South El Monte from winning.” She glared
at the door that Sammy went through. “It’s the total opposite.”
~~~
-NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW-
Matt:
On the next episode of Fires of the Sky…
Alex:
The fourth match is already starting! Why do I have to stay in here? I want to
stop with the fighting already.
Jaime: That’s
just the way things go. Who knows, you could be the last one! Aha!
Alex:
That’s not funny!
Yessenia: I am starting to get the idea that we will lose for sure.
Our three matches were all placed in last.
Shirley:
Wouldn’t that mean we have to depend on other schools to stop South El Monte?
Yessenia: Yes, but the issue at least in this match is that other
schools are still attacking us.
Winny: Do they not see the main picture
here?
Sammy: Take them down!
Jaime: And that damn girl is one of them!
Alex: I hate this match. None of us can
even drive this thing!!
Matt:
What happens now that we are losing?! Next time on episode 227, Thirteen
Contestants, the Coaster Challenge!
Yessenia: There is still one school that did not show up yet…
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