We made our way to the café again without Stacey and Logan. Marco was back at the table. So were Sabine and Jozeey.

"There is a lot of stuff going on right now, so I think we should all go into a group free-for-all battle right now this instant," I said as quickly as I could. I grabbed Dania's arm and pulled her away from the table. I did the same to Sabine and Jozeey.

"I want to stay here," Marco resisted.

"No, you don't," I contradicted him, "You really don't because..."

"Hey, Marco," Grady stepped up to him and touched his forehead with her hand, "You seem..."

He passed out.

"What happened to him?" Sabine looked scared.

"I overloaded him. He'll be fine. Carlos, just kinda levitate him out of here and into the Prep Room with you," Grady explained.

"Good job," I said as I did so.

"What's happening?" Noah asked.

"Marco is kinda a violent pyrokinetic and I don't want anyone to get hurt, so we're going to battle so that he stays away from Logan and Stacey."

We were all moving to the Prep Room teleport pods.

"Hey, you guys!" I heard Stacey call out.

I went in with Marco and shut it behind me before Stacey could reach us.

Marco woke up slowly in the Prep Room. Everyone else was taking a while to press their buttons, but at least Marco didn't put up much of a fight against me. We didn't talk, of course, but he understood what happened.

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Our arena was a steep, snowy mountainside. We all appeared in a circle formation half a mile away from the person next to us.

I counted ten people in total. Apart from Noah, Stacey and Logan were also here.

"Oh no," I mumbled under my breath.

The free-for-all began.

Dania quickly blew up a snowstorm vortex and knocked Noah clean off his feet. I stood firm and summoned my aura to warm me up. Grady did the same, and that's when things got intense. Marco's wings burst from the holes in his shirt and he flew straight through the vortex at Logan. He caught on fire halfway through and landed a punch just before colliding into him.

Without warning, I felt a burning in my side. Grady was launching blobs of her auric energy straight at me, but only one had hit me so far.

I spread my arms out and formed a shield from my own aura. Her energy was completely absorbed by mine. When I was ready, I sent our a barrage of smaller bursts at her. Several of them impacted her and she hit the ground.

Then a whole bunch of shadowy bullets came at me. I flipped the shield and did my best to absorb Daniela's assault. Towards the center of the field, up the mountain, I could see Sabine and Jozeey fighting in darkness and cosmos golem suits, just like Logan had done with his ice.

As a matter of fact, Logan and Marco were rolling around in the snow fistfighting.

I couldn't keep track of everyone, so I decided to amplify Dania's whirlwind. I let go of my shield and passed the curving wind straight through Daniela. I followed Dania's circular motions and I added a small dance to it.

Visibility reached zero because of the second vortex, and I didn't realize that Stacey was plotting to end the whole thing.

Dania changed the direction of the wind to counteract the force of Stacey's avalanche. I added my power to it and the result was a gale wind screaming up the mountain and a flurry of snow.

I saw Noah's body flung high up into the air and then he digitized.

"Sorry, Noah!" I yelled.

She laid in the snow face up and swung her arm at me. She caught on fire and digitized.

Sabine and Jozeey were still full on golem combat mode. Now they were in the air, completely unaffected by the weather.

Stacey moved to a different tactic. Daniela did, too. Stacey began shooting out ice spikes from the ground. Daniela shot her shadows at Dania. Dania digitized and disappeared.

An icicle spiked Jozeey's golem diagonally through back, and he managed to fling a blob of radioactive starstuff at Stacey. They both disappeared.

I began launching damage spells at Daniela. She formed shadowy limbs on her arms and attempted to swipe at me from far away. I formed aura limbs, grabbed hers, and flung her straight at Sabine, who punched her in the air. She disappeared.

Then Sabine exploded herself and I got caught in the blast. I reappeared in the lobby beside her.

"I got bored," she frowned, "I was having fun fighting Jozeey."

I pulled up the Statusin to watch what Logan and Marco were doing. By now they had gotten on their feet. Marco was launching fireballs at Logan, but he was in his natural habitat. With endless amounts of snow, Logan put up a constantly regenerating shield.

Logan surprised me when he shot his shield out and formed it into an icicle in midair. It lodged itself into Marco's gut , but he didn't quit out of the match.

"What is he doing?" Sabine asked.

"Who the hell knows, but it can only really mean trouble in the long run."

We were still standing in the lobby and people had begun to appear around us as they lost matches as well.

Marco went up in flames, and I could see the gap in his abdomen close. He surged forward at Logan and force-palmed him in the chest.

Logan digitized but not before we saw his chest cave in.

He appeared next to us and rubbed his chest as if it still hurt.

Marco won a lot of points and we got out of there as quickly as we could.