Chapter 255 Close Catch

Jasmine was trying her best to calm Ella down but it didn't seem to be working as the lightning mage's hair began to float up as she elevated more.

Maya had a horrid look on her face now as she formed a shield out of ice and began to move back slowly.

'Ella listen to me, you have to calm down.' Jasmine said but her words still didn't seem to be getting through to her.

"It's as though something possesses her to enter this form," Monica said looking at her dead-looking white eyes.

"Yeah," Luis said, focusing his gaze on the same area as Monica.

She had entered this form in her last fight and she would have done something really horrible to Steve if Lieutenant Kate had not intervened.

Ella had gotten to her normal point of elevation as she formed her normal lightning whips in her hands.

"I think it would be even if you bled too." Just like last time, it seemed like two other people were speaking through her. "Hah, you won't have to because these whips are going to drain your blood."

"That girl has serious anger issues," Presley said.

Pearl had a horrid look on her face as she watched the fight from where she was standing.

'How can a level four first-year student have this level of lighting ability?' She thought.

She wasn't alone as Tammy was also watching the fight with the same line of thoughts.

Ella flung both of her whips at the second-year student at once and Maya, knowing that there was no way she was going to dodge the whips, raised her ice shield to block the attack.

The whips smashed through the shield shattering it into many pieces as the second-year student was sent flying and crashed into the wall.

"I'm not done yet," Ella said as she floated closer to her.

Maya quickly got up from the floor, formed an ice spear, and threw it toward Ella.

The ice spear couldn't even get to her as it melted on the way as the water making up the ice poured on the floor.

"Didn't you learn anything from the other guy?" Ella said as she flung the whip in her right hand towards Maya.

Maya quickly created an ice slide on the floor which she used to slide away as the lightning whip hit the wall.

Orah had entered the arena now and without even looking at the screen rushed to Luis.

"Luis." He called as his eyes slowly turned to the screen.

Neither Luis nor Monica seemed to have noticed him as they had all their attention on the screen and he had joined them as soon as he had seen what was going on.

Ella, having missed that attack, quickly turned her whips into a large lightning bolt and threw it toward Maya.

Maya didn't get lucky this time as the lightning hit the ground beside her and part of the lightning was sent through her body sending her flying backward before she fell on both knees.

Her face was messed up now as little smoke was coming out from it and her face didn't look good either.

"Now it's time to drain that blood," Ella said, moving closer to her.

Lieutenant Kate folded her hands as she got ready to stop things from getting out of hand.

Ella formed her lightning whips again and was about to fling them towards Maya when the second-year student quickly raised her head and threw a blade made out of ice towards the lightning mage.

That attack was out of desperation because she knew it was going to melt on the way while the whips hit her but things had turned out differently.

The lightning surrounding Ella had slowly died down as her lightning whips had vanished just before they could hit Maya.

With her lightning gone, Maya's ice blade had gone straight to her without melting and had stabbed into the same shoulder through which she had lost a lot of blood.

"Arghhhh!!" She groaned as she was about to hit the ground now.

Hitting the floor like that was going to make her condition worse and Luis knew that but he doubted that he would be able to make it down there on time and catch her without his wings.

He was right he wasn't fast enough to make it down there on time to catch her without his wings but there was someone who could do it without wings.

Orah quickly dived into the arena and with a slide got to Ella and caught her before she could hit the ground.

"Orah," Ella said with a fading voice and weak eyes before eventually passing out.

"Orah?" Monica said as she was really surprised to see the same Orah she had been looking for in the ring now.

'I didn't know he was that first.' Luis thought trying to compare what he had just seen now with Orah's speed when he had sparred with him.

'What?' Silvia was in awe.

'When did first-year students become that strong and fast?' Presley thought as he was still finding it hard to comprehend that level of speed but he wasn't the only one with a similar line of thoughts.

'This Luis' friends are strangely strong for first-year students.' Tammy thought.

"Wasn't that the kid that was knocked out by that explosion?" A third-year student asked.

"Yeah, that's him."

Orah slowly pulled out the earth blade before tearing part of his sleeves and using it to cover up the wound on her shoulder.

She had already lost a lot of blood but that was going to stop her from losing more.

The medical personnels quickly rushed into the arena with their stretcher and Orah had slowly dropped Ella on it as they quickly carried her out.

"That was quite dramatic but I think I'm glad she doesn't get to fight again." Lieutenant Kate said.

Orah turned to his right after getting up to see Maya who still had her knees on the ground and her head bowed.

"Are you okay?"

The second-year student was still trying to catch her breath after everything when she heard Orah's voice and slowly raised her head to look at him.

"Are you okay?" Orah asked again, offering him a hand this time.

"I just survived getting electrocuted but yeah," Maya said in between her pants before taking his hand for him to pull her up. "Thanks."

"You're welcome," Orah said.

"I meant thanks for catching her," Maya said.

Orah responded with a nod as he walked back to where he had jumped down from and Lieutenant Kate raised him up with an earth pillar.

Monica quickly walked to her trying to ask her questions but he had pushed her off as he turned his gaze to Luis.

"We need to talk." He said.

Monica felt insulted but she didn't react as she stood behind the young Demon trying to figure out what was wrong with him.

"What do you need to talk to him about?" Sonia asked.

"It's none of your business," Orah said, turning to her with a stern look that sent her crawling back into her shell.

"What do we need to talk about Orah?" Luis asked.

"I can't tell you here but it's really urgent," Orah said.

"Urgent?" Luis said.

He was racking his mind now thinking what could be so urgent to make Orah start acting like this? He couldn't wait for the competition to come to an end first.

'I just hope this isn't what I think it is.' The Angel thought.

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