Dylan surrendering before the fight even started wasn't a surprise to most of them that were in the room but there was one person who was quite disappointed at him for not even trying.
"You didn't even try," Monica said after walking up to him.
"There was no point trying," Dylan said, putting his hands in his pockets and turning away from her.
"Yeah because you think you're going to get anywhere in life by surrendering," Monica said. "Sometimes the toughest battles are not won by the strongest."
"Alright, that was less entertaining," Michael said, bringing his tablet to his view. "Luis and Orah you're up and I hope none of you surrenders."
The two stepped in the middle spot for the spar that would determine who would be facing Silvia in the final round.
Luis really wanted to face Silvia to see how much he had improved and whether he would be able to beat her but he also wanted to know how a fight between Orah and her would turn out.
'You're planning to lose?' Lena said.
'Yeah.'
Michael gave them the green light as they began to walk around their axis.
"You know that thing you did against Ella isn't going to work on me," Luis said.
"I know but I'll try," Orah said.
The Angel was the first to start the attack as he quickly closed up on the demon and sent a punch down his gut which sent him staggering a few feet back.
'His punch got stronger.' Orah thought, recalling their last fight.
Orah didn't waste time returning with his own punch but Luis sensed it on time as he blocked it with his hands and sent a punch directly into the demon's face.
'Did he get faster?' Orah thought as he cleaned the little blood on his nose.
'I feel like he's not trying hard enough.' Luis thought.
"I think it's time to take things a little seriously," Orah said as he got in his fighting pose.
"Ok," Luis said.
The demon charged in and once he got closer to the Angel he began to attack using all the martial arts moves Michael had taught them.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtLuis was doing quite a good job defending all the attacks but it didn't take long before he began to get overwhelmed.
Orah faked a punch towards his face as he raised his hand to block it but the punch never came as Orah used all his fingers to punch him five times on his stomach and with a stumping kick sent him flying backward.
Luis was still conscious but he had pretended to have passed out as he lay on the ground motionless.
Michael looked at the Angel on the floor with a wave of his head.
"Good job Orah," Michael said.
'You know he's still conscious right?' Jasmine asked.
'What?'
'The Angel is conscious and very much okay.' Jasmine said.
'You're saying he lost on purpose?' Ella asked.
'Yeah.' Jasmine said.
Orah lifted Luis on his shoulder and began to walk toward the bench.
"Come with me please." He said before walking past Ella.
Ella followed him as he walked to the bench and dropped Luis there.
"Can you help me watch him?" He asked.
"You didn't need to ask," Ella said, sitting on the bench with a feigned smile.
"Thank you," Orah said before walking back for the final fight.
As soon as he had walked a little distance away from her, Ella turned to Luis and tapped him on his head.
"Get up Luis, I know you're okay." She said,
"What?" Luis said slowly, opening his eyes.
"Drop the act I know you lost on purpose," Ella said.
"You know?" Luis asked. He was really surprised.
"Yeah, why did you lose on purpose?" Ella asked.
"To see that happen," Luis said, looking ahead.
"What?"
"Orah versus Silvia, I wanted to see who would win between the both of them," Luis said.
"Or, you're just afraid of facing Silvia," Ella said.
"I am not afraid of facing her," Luis said, sounding a little annoyed.
'You know if I couldn't hear your thoughts I would say the same.' Lena said.
The final fight for Michael's assessment was set as Silvia and Orah stood opposite each other.
'She's a good fighter but dealing with her speed is going to be the real problem.' Orah thought as he moved along his axis.
Silvia wasn't moving as she kept her gaze on Orah while standing on the same spot. She was waiting for the right moment for Orah to get close to her and as soon as Orah had gotten a little close to her she zoomed toward him.
She was so fast that the rest of them who were watching were only able to see blue blurs as she moved.
She sent a powerful kick down the demon's thigh and expected him to be quickly sent back but just as her body settled, she was surprised to see that he had blocked her kick with his hands and before she could react he had pushed her off.
Silvia lost balance and had almost fallen but luckily for her, she managed to regain her balance before that happened.
Judging by the look on her face now you could tell she was shocked by the fact that Orah had read her movements to be able to block a kick that fast.
"Let's see if you will be two times lucky," Silvia said as she zoomed in again and with vibrating hands and legs began to attack the demon with kicks and punches.
Orah was blocking some of them but was getting hit by most of them. A final spinning kick from Silvia was enough to send him flying and crashing to the floor.
"It's like she's taking this fight way too seriously." Orah groaned as he slowly got up from the floor.
He looked at his hands as an idea popped into his head but he quickly shook it off.
'That's too risky.' He thought.
Silvia closed in on him again and sent a powerful punch towards his face but this one wasn't as fast as the other ones as Orah was able to block it by forming an X with his hands.
"You know you're trying a little too hard to win a friendly fight," Orah said with gritted teeth.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"Weren't you trying too hard when you pushed Ella to that wall?" Silvia said, nodding towards the wall.
Orah looked back to see that the little dent on the wall was still there and that was when an idea popped into his head.
"I guess I tried too hard there," Orah said as he quickly pushed her back.
Unlike Ella, Silvia didn't fly backward but had stretched her leg back to catch herself before she could fall.
Orah used the opportunity to turn the aggressor as he closed in on the wonder warrior planning to take her out with one powerful punch but his plans didn't go as planned as Silvia was also saving a punch for him.
Both hands collided as the fight quickly shifted to a battle of strength, it was clear to everyone who was going to win as Orah was pushing the wonder warrior down with his hands but just as he was about to pin her to the floor blue sparks began to appear around her hands.
It felt like her hands had received some kind of boost as she began to push herself up.
"I thought she needed to rub her hands together to produce those sparks," Monica said.
"Me too," Ella said.
'I think I made the right decision.' Luis thought as he watched the scene playing out in front of him.
Silvia was using her boost to try and suppress the demon but he wasn't giving in.
The wonder warrior slowly raised her other hand and tried to punch him with that but he caught it before it could get to his face.
Silvia was beginning to moan now as the tension on both of her hands was getting too much for her and it didn't take long before her moans turned to loud growls.
Acting in response to her growls the blue sparks appeared on both of her hands and before Orah could figure out what was about to happen he was blasted back by a blue explosion as everywhere got covered by bright blue light.
"Get down!" Michael said as he used his wind ability to prevent the explosion from getting to them.
It didn't take long before everything cleared up and when they looked in the middle the wonder warrior and demon weren't there but it didn't take them long to spot them on the walls at each end and they didn't seem to be in good condition.
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