Bitter Cold

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Your soul springs to life as you dash forward, swinging. 

Noelle shrieks and hides behind her arms, just barely avoiding your strike. Despite the miss, heat bubbles up inside of you, revving you up for combat.

Dipping smoothly out of hiding, Noelle sweeps her arm upward and blasts frosty air into your chin in a touchless uppercut. You stagger back, feeling miniscule shards of ice burn painfully and then melt into your skin.

You wish you had a weapon.

You lunge towards her once again, landing a hard hit on her shoulder. She squeaks in surprise as she's thrown backwards.

You hesitate as you hear her reaction, but she gives you a trembling smile.

"H-hey! Don't stop! I can take it!"

Spurred on, you dart forward with another strike planned, but instead you're met with a wall of ice. You can feel the skin of your knuckles tear as they smash into the ice. The wrappings do little to stop the pain, but they do keep the blood from dripping down your wrists.

"Fuck! That hurt!"

"Oh! I'm so sorry!" Noelle pauses and peers around the barrier of ice, eyes nothing but innocent worry. "I'm sorry, let me heal you-"

"Nah, you're in for it now!" You say, clenching your teeth and giving her a vicious grin. You swing right for her face, only barely missing. 

"H-hey!!" Noelle cries out as she ducks back behind the ice.

You can feel the heat of your soul mingling with the hot pain in your knuckles. It only encourages you to chase after Noelle- There's not a chance in hell that you let her get away with this.

You race to the other side of the wall, but you only see the tail end of Noelle's robes as she runs to where you started. As you once again move to follow her- this time from the other side, hoping to catch her off guard- you find that she's formed another wall in your path.

That cheeky nerd!

If she's not going to play nicely, then neither are you. 

Only taking a moment to judge the distance, you jump up and grab the top of the ice wall. It ends in spikes of ice, and they dig into your already injured hands, but you ignore it and clamber up. Without a moment's hesitation, you drop down on top of Noelle, catching her by surprise and plunging her to the tile below. 

Your first move is to pin her hands down. She wriggles and fights against you, but without full control of her magic, she can't stop you.

But as you raise your hand to punch her, she twists her hand just enough to grab your wrist. She shoots freezing ice on your wrist, almost instantly making your hand go numb with the sheer cold of it. You pull back reflexively, and she takes advantage of that to squirm out from under you and get away.

You push yourself up to your feet. You take a moment to breathe, just standing and watching Noelle. She does the same, panting heavily.

"Why- huff- are you holding back?" She frowns, frustrated.

"I'm not!" 

"But-"

You growl and dash forward once more. Noelle's eyes go to your fist, but instead of throwing a punch, you crouch and sweep your leg, knocking her off her feet once more.

She gasps as the wind is knocked out of her. She recovers quickly, though; The instant she knows what's happening, she places a hand on the ground and summons a spike of ice beneath it, which propels her up and away from you.

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