It was two days later when Vivio found herself facing Einhart yet again. "Are you ready then?" Einhart asked Vivio as the two stood facing each other.
Vivio nodded as she held up Sacred Heart. "Yep. Let's go, Chris! Set up!" She was engulfed in light as she began to transform.
"Tio." Einhart said as she held up Asteion, "Set up!"
"MRAAWW!" Tio let out a yell as Einhart was engulfed in similar light and began to transform as well.
Not too far away, Arashi looked at the others who had shown up. "Ixy..."
Ixpellia twitched and glared at the boy. "It's Ixpellia."
"Ah, right," he smiled and rubbed the back of his neck. "Were you kidnapped to watch too?" He could understand Nove, Rio and Corona being there. Rio and Corona went practically everywhere with Vivio and Nove was involved with both girls and their martial arts.
Ixpellia shook her head. "No, I was merely out walking when I saw Nove and Einhart, so I followed them here." Well, that and Nove had explained what was going on. She was mostly curious about this 'adult mode' that Nove had mentioned.
Arashi nodded and looked back at the battle field. His and Ixpellia's eyes widened as they saw Einhart's adult mode. Vivio hadn't made any effort to hide her adult mode, so they both knew about it, but Einhart's adult mode...
"Pretty..." Arashi muttered as he watched both Vivio and Einhart take a stance across from each other. "Can you do that?"
"Never tried to." Ixpellia muttered, wondering what she'd look like as an adult. It was somewhat justified as she was over a thousand years old, even if she had the body of a young girl. Then again, she wasn't sure if she could, she hadn't bothered to use much magic since she had gotten free from being forced to produce Mariages and she wasn't sure if she wanted to use magic again. Even if she had been told by the doctors and others that her magic could be used for other things, Ixpellia still worried about accidentally creating Mariages again.
After all, she didn't trust Karma to not screw her over again.
Vivio made the first move in the contest as she rushed forward to punch at Einhart's head. Einhart moved her head to the side to avoid the punch and then grabbed Vivio's arm, spun around, placed her body against Vivio's and with a push of her legs, send the blonde flying over her shoulder with a throw. "Blue Hado." Einhart snapped her arm forward as a spiraling energy blast rushed out towards Vivio. Einhart almost had a grin on her face as the energy connected with Vivio's back, sending her tumbling through the air.
Grimacing, Vivio slammed her left hand onto the ground to stop her tumbling and allow her to spin and face Einhart while she slid a few feet back. Looking up from her three point stance, she grinned and stood up, spreading her arms wide. "Oh, Einhart, how about we up the ante?"
Einhart nodded and closed her eyes. If this was going to be an energy attack, she could handle it.
Unseen to Einhart, Nove's eyes widened as she looked at the stance Vivio was in. "Oh, don't tell me that she knows mom's technique." It was one thing to know Quint's best technique, Nove, Ginga and Subaru all knew it, none of them could actually pull the technique off even if they had two gauntlets covering their fists, but if Vivio could do the technique, well, that just wouldn't be fair.
Nove let out a sigh of relief when all Vivio did was form balls of magical energy in her hands and then threw them forward. Though, Nove found it interesting when the balls of energy suddenly shattered into smaller balls of energy that flew around the two of them in a dazzling display of light and energy. "What is that girl up..." Nove's eyes widened as she realized what was going on.
As she watched the balls of energy fly around, Einhart had a sensation of unease in her stomach. That sensation only increased as the balls of energy suddenly stopped moving around them and shot at Einhart at varying speeds from all different angles. Grunting, Einhart spun and batted a few balls away, ducked under some that were heading right for her head from behind and kicked a few others out of their path and into other balls.
Vivio watched, amazed. She never saw anyone fight like that against her version of her mother's Axel Shooter before. Most people tried to dodge until the shots were all in front of them and then use a barrier to block them before counter-attacking. "Too bad you didn't guard, Einhart." Vivio whispered as she pulled her hands back, more multi-colored energy forming in them before she punched forward, letting the large balls fly before they shattered and converged on Einhart's body faster than she could dodge or parry them.
There was a massive explosion as the energy converged on Einhart. "Got you." Vivio had to admit, she was a little disappointed that it was over so easily. Her eyes widened as the dust cleared, revealing Einhart still standing, one hand holding up a blue-green triangular barrier while her other hand had a large amount of energy in it. "What?"
"I don't always parry." Einhart said before throwing the large energy at Vivio so fast that the blonde had no way of reacting as it slammed into her with enough force to send her flying backwards. Einhart tensed her legs and flew after her a moment later. "Nor do I always wait for my opponent to attack."
Arashi winced as Einhart caught up to Vivio and drove a knee into Vivio's back with enough force that the crack could be heard across the training field. "Ouch."
"Vivio!" Rio and Corona cried out at the same time as Einhart dropped Vivio to the ground and jumped upwards in what looked like a move to finish her off in one strike. Both of them sighed as Vivio swung her leg upwards and drove it into Einhart's stomach, knocking the breath out of the older girl and forcing her to back off.
Einhart grabbed her stomach as she took a defensive stance while Vivio flipped up to her feet. "Just as strong as my memories say you are."
Vivio shook her head. "No, you're better than I am, I might win the fight, but you're a better fighter than I am." Vivio knew that she wasn't a bad fighter, having sparred with all her parents at different times over the past four years, but in her heart, she wanted to be something more than just a clone of the Saint Kaiser, which was probably why she tried out as much as possible to find something new to do.
Einhart took a deep breath as she stood back in her combat stance. Vivio was probably right with her assessment, even if she was a natural at fighting, Einhart had been training as long as she could remember. Sure, her memories gave her a leg up, but she really did have to make her body work to get the techniques, moves and skills down. Not to mention that she had to work to get her body strong enough to be able to fight without tearing her muscles apart when she tried a complex maneuver. "False humility is an annoyance." She rushed in and prepared to knee Vivio in the stomach. Her eyes widened as Vivio took the knee to the stomach and grabbed Einhart's shirt right between her breasts and lifted her up.
"You can be annoying too." Vivio said as her hand suddenly glowed with power. "Explosion!"
True to what Vivio said, there was an eruption of magical energy that sent Einhart flying away from Vivio at high speeds.
Grimacing at the pain she was feeling from her chest, Einhart opened an eye as she soared across the battlefield. "Nnngh..." Biting her lip, she flipped over in mid-air and slid back several feet before coming to a complete stop. "That hurt." She muttered and rushed forward as she saw Vivio rushing towards her as well.
As he watched Einhart rush back, Arashi couldn't help but blush as he watched her fly away. "...Black..."
Nove just groaned and slapped her forehead. She told Einhart to fix that problem when they sparred two days ago.
As she got closer to Vivio, Einhart slid to a stop and slowly pulled her right arm back while balling her hand into a fist, energy swirling around her as she prepared to end this fight in the next attack. She held her arm up in a defensive posture as Vivio came in with a high kick, causing Einhart to tilt her head to the side while moving her arm up to divert Vivio's attack and leave the blonde open. "Hao..." She started to punch forward and Vivio's eyes widened as that fist came in fast and hard towards her stomach. "Dan... Ku... KEN!"
There was an explosion of energy that erupted from Einhart's fist and sent Vivio flying away from her, bouncing and tumbling along the ground as she suffered the effects of Einhart's attack.
As she watched Vivio bounce away, Einhart had to fight the urge to shake her hand in pain. She didn't know how, but Vivio had apparently managed to boost her defense around her stomach at the last moment and Einhart could have sworn she was hitting something harder than flesh. 'Sheesh, Claus, is this what you went through when you fought Olivie?'
As she watched Vivio slide to a stop, Einhart let out a soft sigh. "It's over." It had to be, taking that attack was hard on anyone. Even if they had some really... Her thoughts trailed off as Vivio struggled and pushed herself up slowly. "...What?" She could see that Vivio was in pain and trembling hard as she tried to get back to her feet. "Vivio, come on, you don't..." She took a step back as she saw Vivio getting to her feet, her face pained. "...What?"
"That... Hurt." Vivio grimaced as she fought the urge to throw up right then and there. Her stomach was injured, her ribs bruised from that attack, her shoulders and legs felt like they just went through the meat grinder from the after affects of that attack, but still...
Einhart took a deep breath and was about to offer Vivio the chance to surrender when she found her arms bound to her sides with several binds around her body, legs and even between her arms, legs and chest. "...Vivio, what is..." She tried to squirm out of the way, but it was a little hard when the binds were holding her tightly.
"Divine... BUSTER!" Vivio screamed out as a multi-colored energy beam erupted from her palms and slammed into Einhart, knocking her over. The blonde jumped into the air and flames erupted from her hands. "FLAME BUSTER!"
Einhart couldn't help but let out a cry of pain as flames engulfed her body.
When the attack ended, Vivio fell to the ground, landing hard on all fours and panting as she looked at Einhart's twitching form. "You... Give?"
Einhart nodded and twitched as Vivio smiled and fell forward. "...Hey! Undo these binds, hey!" Her face was turning red as Ixpellia, Nove, Rio, Corona and Arashi ran out to make sure that they were okay.
She didn't know why, but when Arashi got to her first, she felt like she wanted to shrink down to ten inches and hide in the ground for a long time, since she was still in that weird binding that Vivio put her in. 'This sucks.' She thought to herself as Nove looked at her, smirking.
Einhart had a feeling she wasn't going to live this one down for a long while.