A Clash Between Fire and Ice

Hatoshi who now appeared as Sparror, had awaited his next opponent's presence in the same arena where he fought Southern Shield. A confident stare surveyed around the whole arena to fill his time. Even a golden statue became part of his survey with a curious look's appeared.

"I..guess that golden statue had some kind of meaning related to fighting and maybe willpower." Sparror commented through his mind, "I am not sure with that."

A freezing wind began to clouding the arena as Sparror quickly switched his attention towards the whereabouts. Blue Winter with his completed ice shell form emerged as the next challenger for The Flaming Hero to face.

From the dark spectator side, as always Southern Shield irritatingly crossed his arm and gave an arrogant smug to the combatants. While Mistress Foreseen who stood beside him beamed a hopeful glance right at Blue Winter.

"I bet the new hero would not have a single chance to beat Blue Winter." Southern Shield bickered.

"And I bet you were still pissed off at yesterday's defeat." Mistress Foreseen argued with a smirk.

Southern Shield chuckled before closed his eyes in deniability towards his fellow friends. Mistress Foreseen shook her head in bothersome as The Arrogant Shield was ready to spread out his annoying argument.

"The new hero wins because of luck, not his own skill!" Southern Shield shouted, "I knew my golden technique wasn't perfect, but it should be capable of beating him."

"Southern Shield, when will you accept that your new way of fighting is not effective for you." Mistress Foreseen said in tiresome.

Thus, Southern Shield gritted his teeth in deep furious mannerism the more he eyed at his fellow Shaolin. Luckily, Mistress Foreseen sighed to release the burden of tiredness with The Arrogant Shaolin before she sharply glanced at Blue Winter once more.

"I hope this fight will bring Blue Winter to his old self." Mistress Foreseen mumbled and attracted the sour Southern Shield attention who raised his shocking eyebrows.

Meanwhile, on the sandy arena, Blue Winter and Sparror shared their eagle eyes to each other with both of them clenched their armory fist. A calm wind passed through the combatants that encouraged them to call forth their battle stances. The Frozen Warrior extended his leg and pressed his knee also a frozen knuckled that act as a guardian for his sight, while The Flaming Hero raised his molten fist up before he let out a sigh.

"Well...I think that form is some kind of a metaphor for his current state." Sparror emphatically assumed within his mind, "And I guess this is the peak of his guilt trip."

Sparror scanned once again towards The Frozen Warrior who remained calm and stood in his battle stance like an icy sculpture. Moreover, Blue Winter also locked onto The Flaming Hero as he eagerly shook his iceberg fist.

"Sparror, are you ready for this fight?" Blue Winter pursued with an chilling voice, went inside The Flaming Hero hearing.

"Yes, I am ready." Sparror said in a firm tone.

"Good then."

As a result, Blue Winter channeled out a bluish freezing aura for the preparation of his first move. Sparror anticipatingly witnessed The Frozen Warrior attack with him heating up more the molten fist till it's similar to somebody who recently punched through lava.

A last glance for both combatants was initiated with Blue Winter threw a snowball-shaped projectile towards the aware Sparror. Hence, The Flaming Hero swiftly dashed to the left in safety from the projectile by leaving a flaming clone similar to Hollow.

Moreover, the flaming clone soon became a tribute for the snowy projectile as a nice icy statue before Sparror clenched his molten fist, summoning a dragon fang construct that swallowed half of his hand as a hand cannon. Afterward, The dragon cannon summoned a meteorite ball right at Blue Winter's direction.

Furthermore, The Frozen Warrior greeted the flaming ball with another snowball projectile and this time, he blasted a blizzard originated from a bare hand who sent him flying in the process. An anticipation stare was spotted through Sparror's yellow eyes as he repositioned the dragon arm for an upcoming attack.

A straight icy blast was launched from Blue Winter's bare hand that counterattacked scorching laser-like blast that was recently being released by the dragon hand. Therefore, both of the blasts furiously clashed with one another, fighting for their dominance.

Sparror could feel his dragon fang hand unstably shaking as he saw that icy blast slowly brought down the blast. While Blue Winter slowly retrieved his blasting hand due to it became tremblingly the more it holds the dragon blast.

Therefore, The Frozen Warrior gave another hard push that caused the icy blast to be enhanced, became more aggressive at the same time while hovered down the flaming blast. Moreover, the flaming blast was completely annihilated by the swarming icy blast in instance and was ready to make an impact towards Sparror.

Luckily, The Flaming Hero evaded the attack when it almost touched his armor due to a quick rescue by swallowing twister. While. Blue Winter smoothly landed on the ground before noticed that Sparror's presence went missing. An enthusiasm indeed went up through the coldish eyes when he scolded around to find his opponent.

Unbeknownst to The Frozen Warrior, Sparror respawned with the help of the flaming twister from far behind and immediately launched the dragon fang construct away from his hand. Blue Winter swiftly turned around before he gazed upon the dragon fang that suddenly became big as a truck.

An intercepting frozen claw prevented the dragon fang from getting closer to Blue Winter with a single grip. Moreover, He could feel the intense heat or forces that giant construct brought onto him as he was sluggishly being pushed away. Therefore, The Frozen warrior cast out an icy swarm from his palm, but failed to corrupt the flaming essence due to the scorching force that burned every incoming swarm into ash in less than a second could reach.

The Flaming Hero in hurried squished his molten hand till the dragon fang overwhelmed Blue Winter and transformed into a fiery explosion like a time bomb. Moreover, the blinding explosion caught The Frozen Warrior eyes by surprise. It also bounced him far away from Sparrror distance until he landed on the sandy ground with his body became hefty to create a single motion.

Although his body remained fine from the explosion, he still experienced the same pain of a bomb explosion as a shard of ice on the frozen armor crumbled down. Hence, Blue Winter tapped the ground for casting an ice blast that regained his standing position back.

A single line of crack slashed through his unbreakable skin, leaving a large scar mark on his face. The Frozen Warrior slowly grasped the thrill of the battle against a strong opponent once again after spending most of the previous time with a long guilt trip.

Afterward, he created an X shape arm that went down onto the sandy ground direction. While Sparror eagle eyes detected a cautiousness as he responded by engulfing a flaming ball from the molten palm. Moreover, The Flaming Hero threw the flaming ball in Blue Winter's direction and squeezed his hand immediately when it got closer to the opponent.

A flame ball in a miracle morphed into a giant flaming dragon that had a snake-like body and a beard. The dragon opened widely its bursting jaw, causing Blue Winter to split his X arm. Therefore, he released a double waterfall-like blast to slow down the dragon from ever touching his presence.

The dragon construct was step by step almost transformed into a magnificent icy sculpture as the force of the blast was getting stronger. The last straw for the dragon life finished by Blue Winter hopped onto the dragon before he sluggishly pushing the dragon body like a three-story building with bare hands.

A swarming iceberg unavoidably spread on the whole dragon for instance as a touch of his hands landed. The dragon was powerless to stop the tremendous forces. At last, it became a qualified icy sculpture for a museum display. While Blue Winter sighed in relief before he scanned around his surroundings.

A shocked breath was blown away from Blue Winter as Sparror was nowhere to be seen in a physical way. Furthermore, The Frozen Warrior calmly closed his glowing eyes, creating a deep silence where any surrounding sounds were muted.

As Blue Winter sensed a halcyon silence within the arena until a sudden igniting flame twister emerged from his back. Which was Sparror leaped off from the twister that soon vanished from thin air.

Hence, The Flaming Hero summoned a scorching dragon fang as his gauntlet and channeled a flaming ball inside the vicious open mouth. In heating anticipation, Blue Winter pushed the dragon sculpture that promptly transformed into a bluish, circular projectile who he carried like a floating ball.

A soaring blast was let loose from the dragon fang inside who caused Blue Winter to raise his bluish eyes in shock. The Frozen Warrior in hurry threw the projectile that clashed with the bursting blast.

The projectile gloriously took down the flaming blast presence as it unstoppably spreading the icy swarm. Thus, The Flaming Hero slammed down the dragon gauntlet for an effort of prevention. However, it was proven to be a failure as the icy projectile still headed in his direction in a flawless way.

Unfortunately, Sparror twister arrived too late as the icy projectile hit his armor and exploded into a humid, icy bomb. The Flaming Hero shared the same condition as the dragon construct before, transformed into a high-quality sculpture due to the detail of his body still remaining as it was.

Blue Winter sighed in relief after constantly blasted an ice projectile towards Sparror. Furthermore, he gazed upon the frosting hands and pondered towards The Flaming Hero's icy sculpture.

Southern Shield who still kept his arrogant smugness as a spectator of the ongoing battle frowned in annoyance. Moreover, he gritted his teeth in heated irritation the longer he witnessed Sparror who in his eyes had already lost the match.

"See, Mistress Foreseen". Southern Shield remarked, "He already lost this match."

Mistress Foreseen replied with a snigger while she glared at Sparror before shook her head in enthusiasm. Southern Shield was indeed shocked in disbelief towards his fellow Shaolin friends.

The Frozen Warrior nodded down and grasped the discontent of the seemingly defeated opponent. Therefore, Blue Winter sighed in disappointment with a pessimistic thought of Sparror wasn't the right person to embrace his old self again.

Sparror may have his body frozen, but his yellow eyes still regained their vision. Even though the vision wasn't crystal clear, he caught his opponent silently self-doubting himself. Especially with The Frozen Warrior clenched his claw hand tightly like a.

"I think I know the way to restore Blue Winter's old self," Sparror spoke within his mind in an energetic tone the longer he saw his dissatisfied opponent.

Thus, a molten light shone inside the frozen stasis of Sparror, step by step burst out like a volcano. Blue Winter swiftly washed away his disappointment before he raised his full attention to his opponent.

Shards of ice crumbled down from Sparror and each of the falling pieces, shattered into uncountable ashes. Even Blue Winter's ice shell extended the crack that appeared right at his stomach. More expansion of cracking lines wildly moved to his hands and even lower parts.

The lava-like light finally broke free into a flaming explosion that disintegrated the icy shards or statue of Sparror into a million dust of nothingness. At the same time freed The Flaming Hero to presume his fight.

At first, a tiny chuckle was out from Blue Winter's echoing voice as he witnessed Sparror back again to face him. Then, an enthusiastic laugh from The Frozen Warrior shouted out loudly with his opponent's return.

The Flaming Hero furrowed in half before a clear understanding outshone through his yellow eyes. Sparror slowly grasped a realization that Blue Winter's ice shell cracking lines had gotten wider from before.

"I...guess you're cracked symbolize that you slowly regained your old self." Sparror guessed in confidence.

"Indeed." Blue Winter enthusiastically replied.

"Okay then, let's continue this match."

Sparror raised his molten palm with a confident stare that he nailed right at his icy foe. A firing excitement burned onto Blue Winter that caused his heart to beat faster with the frozen clawed hand slowly felt the pounding.

"I know what can truly bring, Blue Winter old self." Sparror exclaimed within his mind as he glanced upon his molten hand, "An opponent that had almost limitless stamina like me."

And I am about to go all out….in the safest way, of course." Sparror added to his thoughts.

A flashy flaming ball popped out above his molten hand and Sparror sharpened his yellow eyes like an eagle that was about to catch a rabbit from above. Not only Sparror, even Blue Winter locked his fiery thrilling eyes towards his flaming foe that recently awakened from his icy trap in the most healthy state.

Another round commenced, Blue Winter hurled a freezing ice volley that moved like an incoming missile, and Sparror allowed his flaming ball to fly freely that morphed into a small hammer. Both of the projectiles clashed competitively and created a shockwave wind

Blue Winter's ice shell cracked harder than before when the wind came, even tiny icy shards started to raindrop to the ground, revealing a glimpse of his human skin. As the two blasts on the brink of destruction, Sparror upraised his molten hand and unleashed an armory hand within his hammer. The hand summoned a giant sword with dragon tooth spikes from all over the blade.

A flaming armory feet stoop down the ice volley until it shattered into uncountable pieces, touching the sandy ground as a result. Another flaming leg was smoothly spawned but had a scally surface and its feet resembled a dragon.

An enlarged, armory hand popped out like a lizard tail and a bulky armor with a dragon in the middle connected all the spawning limbs. A flaming twister appeared on the above part momentarily before it was replaced by a dragon head who gloriously roared. Lastly, a flaming wave went down, calling forth a cape that had a surface similar to dragon skin.

The Dragon Knight was born ready to extend this almost endless match between these two fighters. From the spectator side, Southern Shield enviously gritted his teeth while witnessing this. While Mistress Foreseen smirked in gladness when she centered her attention on Blue Winter.

"After 5 years, I am going to see him again with my...very own eyes." Mistress Foreseen sheepishly mumbled within her mind.

Blue Winter released a sky-high laugh of excitement with the pitch getting higher and higher in every second. His cracking lines spread much worse than the previous one especially on the face part that showed a glimpse of the human jaw.

The dragon knight held its sword in a swinging position and readied his boots to flee away. As Sparror squeezed his molten hand tightly that commanded the living constructs flung away like a person that lost a sense of gravity towards Blue Winter.

The Frozen Warrior extended his freezing palm in the straight-line position as a windy icy aura rounded up his palms. Soon, a freezing blast from both hands was wildly released for an intercepting attempt.

Sparror swiped his molten left to the left that it brought his living construct to the safe zone with a sudden return of flaming twister devoured its flaming body in less than a second. Moreover. The dragon knight respawned directly beside its desired target. The flaming sword started to omit a burning light that could scorch a naked eye and Blue Winter swiftly noticed the next attack that would come to him.

As a blinding explosion was ready to make another debut, The Dragon Knight felt an unanticipated push on the stomach. The construct may not be destroyed or transformed into nothing with a push, but it sent the construct away from Blue Winter and left a spider web-shape, shattered mark.

Southern Shield from the spectator side, shockingly raised his ice brows with sweats rapidly dropped by. Furthermore, The Arrogant Shaolin was frozen in fear as what his eyes witnessed on the ongoing match.

He saw Blue Winter finished pushing away his opponent with fingers that were shaped similar to a pyramid top and a yellowish aura circled around on his frozen arms. It started to shatter into pieces like when a glass window was thrown by a large object, revealing his muscular human skin.

A mouth part of the icy mask was torn apart into shattering icy shards that fell down to the sandy ground like shattering glass. The Frozen Warrior grinned in glorious excitement as if he slowly turned into an old self that he abandoned five years ago.

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