Vs Crescendo

The moment I yelled ready, she started playing a violin. I had found it strange how she only had instruments with her but now I knew why.

I was immediately caught in an illusion, the sound seemed to be able to move magic particles.

The one thing I had on her was the fact that I could see the movement of magical particles, so I knew what was an illusion and what was ... THAT HURT!

While I was having an inner monologue about my advantage she punched me and I hadn't seen it coming, I could hear her music but I couldn't see anything except the illusion.

How is that even possible? Because I couldn't sense her attack, I made sure she couldn't hit me by coating myself in void, then she punched me again.

Why can't I do it. I tried to use my magic to coat myself and again it didn't work.

"The fuck is happening?" I did the only thing I could do to dodge, I closed my eyes.

I was too distracted by the sights to be able to concentrate.

The only problem about that was, I could still see the illusion, of course, it's sound, not eyes.

I put in earplugs that came with every suit. What? You do know that sound based powers aren't uncommon right? It's usefull.

Not being able to hear her song was a little better but still made me see the movement of magic, since it did that because of the sound, not because I could hear it.

I had recieved multiple punches from her but I mean, she's a mage, not someone like me who's main focus is physical strength.

I closed my eyes again, this time, I saw nothing, now, I started focusing on the feeling on air rushing towards my face.

I could feel a punch coming, and it wasn't for me face, it was coming for my balls, I quickly caught the hand I tried to follow the arm to it's owner but it just dissapeared.

So it isn't just and illusion the she creates, she can also do other things, goddammit, there's no conceivable way to actually find her without something to go off of.

Unless of course she hasn't moved from her spot which would actually make sense since most performers stand still during performances.

I moved towards were she had begun, running with my eyes closed while dodging fist, and then the fists stopped coming.

She was moving, I quickly opened my eyes, seeing her move to another position, running towards her I tried to punch her in the back of the head.

She noticed and quickly dodged, putting away the violin and taking out a small flute. Shit, she picked an instrument that she probably uses to move around.

She started playing and it looked like I was going to be drowned in rats, why was the illusion so vivid when I couldn't hear it, I didn't even see the movement of magic.

Wait a minute, those are real rats. I started running for my life, making sure not to get bitten.

"Shit, shit, shit shit shit."

Yes, I was cursing, you try to run away from a literal sea of rats without cursing, what the fuck is this girl, illusions, rats, is she crazy?

Ok, think calmly, this isn't an illusion meaning that you can see her and listen to her music.

I took out my earbuds and the song seemed to be a kids song.

I was familiar with it because my sisters liked it, it was about this story with a rat infestation and a guy who leads them away by playing flute music, yeah, this makes sense.

Wait a minute, I've been struggling because there's music, which is sound, why don't I just create a dome that blocks out sound on the inside.

I started to work on the symbols above the arena, I didn't know how to go small so I'd go big to make sure it covers everything. I used void to make sure that it would be strong enough.

When I was done, the rats scurried away and Crescendo was standing there with a look that just screamed, fuck.

I ran towards her and punched her unconscious. Dillon came out of his booth.

"Cress, are you alright? Cress?"

I quickly healed her and helped her up.

"You alright?" She seemed to be close to Dillon and I sure as hell didn't want to piss off that guy.

"Yeah, yeah, I'll be fine, you throw a mean punch you know."

"Sorry about that. Your magic is incredible btw, music magic or magic music, one of the two?"

We started talking a bit and Maura came down too, we had apparently been done really fast so we watched the others fight.

Thea's yellow lightning was reminiscent of the thunder on some murals and it got her through quite fast.

Nora and the kids were having a preliminary round of their own.

Finally, everybody was ready and we got on to the next round.