There were several battles after Aiko's own.
The most interesting one was of course.
Bakugou vs Uraraka.
Aiko like everyone else was on the edge of her seat the whole match. Flinching Everytime Bakugou blasted Uraraka across the concrete.
She couldn't help but remember her match with Ojiro. How he would kick her around like a rag doll. She couldn't imagine how Uraraka felt on national television.
Aiko gasped when Uraraka suddenly collapsed, clearly exhausted from the fight. Bakugou just stared down at her from his spot. He clearly had been expecting her to fight for longer.
He didn't gloat or smirk in Victory when he was announced the winner. He just nodded in respect for his opponent and walked off the field as she was being taken to recovery girls office.
Aiko frantically fidgeted in her seat. That had been the last fight of the first round. Meaning there was only one more fight between her own.
She was more scared of this one than her match with Iida. She didn't know anything about Tris's quirk. Other than that it was ice related.
If only she knew how it worked. Then she could figure something out.
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Midoriya and Todoroki's fight was extremely intense.
They were absolutely destroying the arena that they were fighting in. Ice was built up and then melted as Todoroki activated her fire quirk for the first time. Reaching out his hand the extreme temperature change caused waves of power as he showed a great display of power.
Midoriya used what was probably his only unbroken limb to jump towards Todoroki.
And then large concrete walls built up as the teachers tried to stop them from literally killing each other. They slammed into the walls and they collapsed.
Aiko briefly wondered why the teachers thought that impact was safer than the continuing the fight.
In the end Todoroki won. Aiko panicked slightly. Theoretically, If Aiko beat Tris she's be fighting against him.
Todoroki was insanely over powered, and now he was using his fire.
Aiko was literally toast.
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'Oh god, oh God. Is it too late to back out?'
Aiko thought as she walked up into the concrete rectangle.
Tris walked up across from her, a intense, focused glare set across her features.
"Now this will be interesting! On the right is 1B's ice queen Tris Snow!!! And on the left is 1A's Aiko Zhu! The girl with a stormy quirk!
Both of these ladies ended their previous matches in seconds! Who knows how this will end!"
Aiko's heart pounded in her chest as adrenaline flowed through her veins. Her class and friends leaned to get and better look, as did Tris's own class. Monoma sweat dropped as the two girls he that hated him and each other (possibly because of him) faced off.
Mic's countdown was too quick for Aiko's comfort. Before she knew it the round had started.
Aiko quickly bent the air in Tris's direction. Hoping for another knockout.
Tris twisted her foot, ice wrapped around her legs and fastened her to the ground. She had already expected Aiko to use this move.
She lifted her hand and flinched her wrist just like she did with Denki.
Aiko dodged, using air to keep her in bounds.
But Tris didn't stop, relentlessly creating ice and throwing it at Aiko.
Aiko was forced into defense, staying light on her feet and trying to dodge her attacks. She used wind to deflect the ice spears.
This continued for a bit until Aiko slipped up. She was getting anxious and couldn't keep up with Tris. A thick piece of ice hit her in the ribs, throwing her back towards the edge of the arena.
She fell to the ground and rolled dangerously close to the white lines that signaled the bounds.
Ice spread over the ground and wrapped around Aiko as she tried to stand up. Keeping her locked in her knees. The cold embrace of Tris's ice swallowed her up, covering everything but her neck and up.
"Ugh!? Is this it?!"
Tris yelled in frustration.
"Really?! Give it your all Zhu! FIGHT ME!"
She yelled at Aiko fiercely.
Aiko blinked up at her as the ice started to spread up her neck slowly.
"Zhu can you move-"
Midnight was interrupted by Tris.
"NO! Come on do something!! What is up with you Zhu's and quitting!?"
Tris yelled and Aiko's eyes widened.
"YOU'RE SO PATHETIC!!! JUST LIKE TORA!"
Aiko's stare became hollow, empty at her words. There was a moment of silence.
Not many people could hear, Midnight could and just flinched. In there hero course stands there were several gasps.
"Oh no she fucking didn't!"
Mina yelled, standing up from her seat.
Kirishima grabbed her and held her back from throwing herself out of the stands and beating Tris herself.
There was a loud crackling above them.
Anger was a foreign emotion to Aiko. She had rarely felt it extremely. But now she could fell pure rage crackle through her veins like electricity.
"The fuck did you just say!?"
Aiko yelled, Air blowing around them.
The clouds above started to twist, crackling with unreleased lightening. The wind picked up and Tris had to reinforce the ice around her legs. Air beat around Aiko, swarming in a circle. It chipped off loose pieces of ice and flung them back around. Piece by piece the ice around Aiko broke apart.
"Yeah! Come on! Fight me!"
Tris threw her ice at Aiko again but the wind was getting too strong. It pulled the ice away from where Tris wanted it to go and held it in it's tornado-like grasp.
Twisting it in a circle and finally breaking it against Tris's body.
This happened with every shot she took. None of the got close to Aiko. Tris had to frantically keep the ice around her legs, otherwise she would be pulled into the Tornado and end up who knows where.
Any loose items around the stadium were picked up in her wind and used as weapons and thrown into Tris and her ice.
Over and over again Aiko battered Tris with random projectiles. Hitting her over and over again, forming large bruises all on her right side.
But she still wasn't budging.
The wind slowed down and suddenly the crowd parted. Tris gasped from the sudden relief but then her eyes widened as she noticed something.
"Yo, is it just me or is it getting really hot? I didn't know it was gonna be this hot today."
Denki said, pulling off his over shirt.
"Don't be an idiot Duracell."
Bakugou scoffed.
"You're forgetting her quirk. It's not just storms, it's weather."
"And one key element in weather is temperature."
Momo Yayorozu gasped.
"Woah!! You guys feel that heat wave?! Or thermostats are saying that temperatures in that arena are reaching the high nineties and steadily rising! Not to mention the fact that the humidity has dropped by forty percent!"
Present Mic explained to the crowd.
The clouds quickly parted and the sun beat down on Tris. Aiko breathed in and out carefully as she watched Tris and waited to see what she would do.
Tris gaspedas sweat beaded on her forehead, she wiped it away and gathered it. The small amount crystalized in her plan but then quickly melted in the sun.
Not only was it hot, but it was also extremely dry. Aiko sucked the humidity from the air, knowing Tris needed water molecules to create ice.
Tris grunted and adjusted her footing, she still had the ice around her feet, but it was steadily melting. It took all of her focus to keep it up. Aiko built up wind and tried to blast Tris down.
The ice melted under the heat of the sharp dry wind. But it held up, barely.
Aiko needed more heat to take Tris down.
She walked forward to try and engage her in combat, but Tris could just move her ice. Sizzling against the hot concrete as she moved away from Aiko.
Aiko glared at Tris as the blue haired girl desperately tried to keep her distance.
Aiko looked around for a second, her quirk relied on her manipulating her environment, she couldn't just create elements like some quirks could.
She stretched her hand out to her left, gesturing over the dry grass out of bounds.
Clouds formed, temporarily covering the hot sun and giving Tris slight relief from the heat.
But that didn't last long.
Dry heat lightning crackled in the clouds and a small bolt of it twisted down, lightning up the grass with a boom. Tris flinched back and covered her eyes to shield them from the light.
The dry air and the lightening made the perfect environment to light up the dry grass around them. Lighting up to a fire that quickly spreading around the grass seeking fuel desperately.
Tris coughed as she looked around. The fire was the final element Aiko needed.
She worked up a strong wind that was mixed with fire and directly blasted the ice around Tris's feet. Tris covered her face with her hands and once the wind hit she was finally blown back.
The moment she was out of bounds Aiko ran forward. Dropping the temperature and using wind to quickly put out all of the fires. The dry burnt grass was immediately put out before Tris could even touch it.
Aiko watched nervously as the blue haired girl stood up from the hot grass and glared at Aiko.
"AND AIKO ZHU IS THE WINNER!!! DEFEATING MISS SNOW IN AN EPIC FINAL FIERY BLAST!!"
Mic yelled over the speakers
The crowd went wild. It roared louder than they did for Aiko's last victory.
They stood up and clapped their hands together over and over again while screaming loudly.
Aiko looked around nervously and then awkwardly made her way back into the tunnel. She was sweating bullets because of the heat. She took off her jacket and searched for a water fountain, desperately drinking the cold water from it to help recover from that heat.