Blood Curse - Red Queen Fan Fiction

Chapter 6

Here comes the fight scene ;-)

Mare POV

Spontaneity is quickly replaced by determination. I enter the ring in a fluid motion enabling me to set forth web lightning the moment I face Evangeline. Caught by surprise, it makes her stumble. Still uncannily elegant, she manages to stay upright, but her defense is weakened enough for me to strike a second time with a flash of sparks which grazes and burns her forhead.

Her reaction is quicker this time, as if out of reflex. Metal scraps fly at me, disorganized enough so I can create an electrical barrier to protect me. I dissolve it fast and the shards fall to the ground.

Evangeline grins at me. "Not really fair, Lightning Girl. I haven't consented to this duel yet."

I smirk back. "You've always been the fairer fighter of the two of us." If playing with me instead of outright killing me in the Bowl of Bones could be called thus. "Do you want to bail out now?"

She brushes off the taunt of her valor like a gentle breeze, flipping back her slightly disheveled braid. "Barrow, I've waited ages for a chance to re-match." To demonstrate her verve, the metal pieces around us move with a flick of her wrist. If she wants to scare me, I disappoint her. I crack my knuckles and give off sparks in reply.

"I've improved greatly myself, Samos." Current flows through my body like the frustration, rage, and nervousness I've felt all day and with a tap on the floor, I release another surprise attack from my feet. Fortunately I don't wear rubber soles.

Evangeline is prepared better now but the ring is too tight to allow much dodging of such a broad charge. She dances in her corner, evading some but not all electrical branches I've unleashed. She almost smiles when she faces me again, eye to eye with a well-aimed pulse lightning. She ducks while spinning but the lightning burns her relentlessly and she falls to her knees. I hear the air, the ground and her armour sizzling from the residues of my electricity. It buzzes in me as well. So far, I did a good job as I barely had to move though I still wish to run. Instead, I smile at Evangeline who's getting up, not defeated but bruised nonetheless. I keep grinning, walking backwards to keep my eyes on her. "Maybe Elane can lick your wounds?"

Evangeline only raises her chin, looking down her nose at me. "She does, and frequently. Jealous?"

Her tongue can be as sharp as her blades. My mistake. I used her messy love life as a taunt, forgetting I haven't drawn a better lot.

All because of him.

I grind my teeth to banish the thought of Cal and clench my fists which are crackling with voltage like ball lightning.

We circle each other. Evangeline scans the ring, her throat bobbing. My mouth twitches. I didn't emit such a broad web lighting only to attack her, but to shove away her metals as well. Certainly she's able to pull it back but she's too fair for that. Out of the ring, out of the game. Nut I know I can't rely on her fairness.

Despite my agitation, I'm the one baiting her now and she reponds accordingly. Several times, she feints an attack yet draws back again while her armour ripples and changes shape continously. It's supposed to be a menace but I don't intend to get closer to her anyway. Instead, she uses her armour to create new weapons, sharp and spiky things she hurls at me.

I dodge the most of them and she accelerates her frequency of charging at me until I'm surrounded and have to use lightning to block her blades. It's not easy. Although I gained new skills with the other electricons, I still fight mostly with brutal strength whereas Evangeline controls metal with a dangerous precision which she probalby has learned from making dresses and crowns as a hobby. I try to find a pattern, like when she formed splints into creatures, but she's subtler today, moving each piece on its own orbit. I increase my speed of both my body and my ability. Tipsing around, I feel the sweat on my skin. I have to risk an attack and I release strong web lighting in her direction and promptly, tiny knives enter through the hole in my defense and cut my arm. But my opponent doesn't fare better. My aim is perfect and enough of a surprise to strike true. Evangeline protect herself with her arms up and her armour changes into a shield floating in front of her.