NILOY VS. LAQUET

“Our next matchup will be an interesting one. If a fighter catches the other slacking for even a moment, it’s all over. One hit from either could mean death. The first Fiend literally melted away her competition, The Famished Flesh-Eater Niloy. And the second, crumpled their opponent up like a paper ball, The Gravity Gunner, Laquet!”

“Damn, I was hoping to fight the other bastard with area manipulation powers,” Niloy was rather disappointed. “I owe that mawhger an acid bath.”

“Sorry to disappoint,” Laquet spat back. “You’re not my first choice of opponents either.”

“Well I wouldn’t want to face off against either of them,” Rallie laughed hesitantly, “So I’ll be getting off the stage with expedience. Let the fight begin!”

Both fighters drew their guns immediately. Laquet opened by shooting a gravity well immediately behind Niloy, trying to pull her off the stage. She’d been expecting this, so she pointed her two water pistols behind her and blasted forward to escape. The woman then flew up into the air, repeating her move from the previous fight, hoping to end things quickly. One drop would be all it took.

Laquet knew that too, so he implemented counter measures. The man shot a gravity well directly between them to soak up all the water, and it quickly became a swirling galaxy of liquid.

In under a minute, the fight had already become a war of attrition. The gravity well kept having to increase in size to account for all the water, putting more strain on Laquet. However, as the well grew, Niloy kept having to increase her output to keep her distance and avoid being sucked into it too. If her guns hit their limit before Laquet’s power did, she was finished.

But Niloy had the distinct advantage. “You should give up now!” she shouted at him. “The moment you let go of that well, you’ll be soaked. And I’ll make you wish you’d surrendered.”

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The well continued to grow, and Laquet was certainly suffering from the strain. He had to drop to one knee to keep pushing, dreading the giant water bomb above him. It really was a precarious predicament, one he wasn’t sure he could win. But then he heard an unexpected voice.

《Hickedy: Umm, so I just talk? Oh, okay! Uhh, you can do it Laquet, I believe in you!》

《Pox: Garuu garuu!》

Niloy’s face then dropped. “Huh, wait, Pox, are you rooting against me too?! Or was that on my side?! You’re so hard to understand sometimes!”

Hickedy’s words gave Laquet the needed strength to keep pushing. But it only bought him a few seconds more of time. Not long after, the gravity well dispersed, and the giant vortex of water plummeted all at once, filling the arena up to about waist height.

“Ah, don’t feel too bad!” Niloy smirked through her false pity. “You tried hard. I’ll just boil your skin off until you flee the stage!” She went to activate her Curse, but what she hadn’t noticed while the water fell was that Laquet had fired two more blank shots.

Small gravity wells appeared at either side of Niloy, right next to each hand. They were just strong enough to wrench the pistols from her grasp, prying them out of her fingers before they dispersed.

Niloy desperately tried to grab at her guns again, but they were perilously just out of reach. The woman then fell herself, but fortunately, she had a big cushion of water to soften the landing. However, she had to turn down the acidity that was currently eating at Laquet’s legs, not wanting to experience the same rough exfoliation.

After a big splash into the water, Niloy’s head popped back above the surface as she pushed herself up with her arms. But the barrel of Laquet’s revolver greeted her, an inch in front of her eyes. “I surrender,” she gave up immediately at that point. “Don’t want to become a beach ball, thanks.”

“Laquet wins!” Rallie announced, getting nowhere near the stage that was still retaining water. “And uhh, let’s get him a towel to cover himself with. It seems his pants and everything underneath are in bad shape.”

~Unfulfilled Wish~

Niloy: For my FYND line to be in every store, and to become the most popular celebrity on the internet!