บท 20: Sports Festival 7

The next few matches were alright, nothing as jaw dropping as the first round ones.

Yui ended up being put out by Kirishima. She tried the shoes thing again but it wasn't anywhere near enough to put him down. Kirishima's hardening held out against the weight of one of those zero-pointers so it was no trouble at all to tank a hit from an enlarged shoe.

Bakugo's match against Tokoyami ended in disappointment for the dark shadow user. Turns out Tokoyami's quirk dark shadow is weak to light, extremely so and Bakugo's explosions created plenty of it. Every time Dark Shadow tried to get an attack in, it ended up having to retreat becuase of the explosion light. Therefore without much trouble Bakugo passed into the next round.

The current bracket looks like this:

Shoto Todoroki vs Benimaru Shinmon

Eijiro Kirishima vs Katsuki Bakugo

After the second round matchups ended me and Todoroki were called down to the field.

"Give it your all you two!" Toru exclaimed while waving her invisible arms around.

"Yea give us a good show, though try and not destroy the arena while your at it. Cementoss has had enough work for one day" Kaminari said.

"Make sure to keep it manly down there" Kirishima told us as he smacked his hardened knuckles against one another.

After everyone said their piece, me and Todoroki made our way down to the main stage. Todoroki looked to be struggling with something from the expression on his face, curious as to why I ask "What's up, I know your not a smiler but a blind person could've noticed something's up with you"

"Well... I just don't know if I made the right decision using my left side against Midoriya" He replied while rubbing that nasty scar on his face.

"Why? it's just fire no need to put a ban on using it" I said.

"But that's exactly what I done. I never wanted to use 'his' quirk against anyone, I don't know what came over me during that last fight... It just felt right to use it at that moment".

So it does have something to do with his father. Must be some bad blood between them, and I can't say the number 2 hero strikes me as a good parent.

Trust me, I'd know.

"I don't know why your so hung up over it, but if it's about your old man giving you grief. I'd say just ignore him and do whatever you want." I shrugged.

"I'll... need to think about it more, before I can understand what I understand what I really want. Still I thank you for your input." Todoroki said, even though his troubles weren't gone he's noticeably lightened up.

We eventually split up and moved to our respective sides. On opposing side of the battlefield, we stared each other down as Present Mic hyped the crowd up. Once they were up and buzzing again Midnight got ready to start us off.

"Are both of you ready?" the two of us nodded "Well then... You may begin!"

Todoroki started off with his ice half, slamming his foot against the ground and raising his hand to the sky, the massive ice spear began to form. The ice spread thick across the arena as Todoroki's creation engulfed me

As I was swallowed by the huge wave of ice, I surrounded my body in flames, ones that were hot enough to melt the ice but cool enough not to cause an explosion. At a moderate pace I burrowed my way through, the only thing showing the audience my position was the glow coming from inside the ice.

The ice began to look clearer as I approached the outside world. As the ice entrapping me melted away revealing the beautiful blue skies I never had much time to appreciate it before a second, much smaller pillar of ice began rushing towards me.

Raising my palm I release a messy blast of fire that drowned the entire creation, melting it before it could reach me.

I don't normally used fire in that fashion, but widespread untamed bursts of flames are just what I need to melt Todoroki's sculptures.

With a flamethrower on steroids being released form my hand, Todoroki's mountain of ice never held out for long, returning the field to it's original state only a lot wetter.

Todoroki wasn't looking so hot anymore, patches of skin and hair were frozen in sheets of ice and his movements were looking stiff. He could fix it by using that fire of his but it doesn't look that way.

If he's not going to attack anymore I will.

'Iai Hand-Sword: First Form - Fire Moon'

The crescent shaped blade of fire slashed towards Todoroki who quickly made a pillar to push him above and out of range. Even though he managed to avoid the attack, his ice never. My move crashed into the ice pillar he was standing on, sending splinters of ice far everywhere and bringing Todoroki back down to ground level.

As Todoroki rolled to his feet, I could see the frozen parts of his body rapidly evaporating, covering his right side in a misty sheet. At the same time his left side began to heat up with small flames flickering on his arms.

When the flames began to really pour out Todoroki's left half, the perpetual frown that seemed glued to my expression rose to form a barely noticeable smile.

Big mistake.

Forming a fist with my open palm the fire that was mean to be used against me imploded in on itself. Todoroki never knew what hit him and was launched out of bounds from the resulting force.

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{Toru POV}

Watching Todoroki and Shinmon is amazing, both their quirks are so powerful. Honestly seeing them wield so much power makes me nervous about my decision to become a hero, just imagining what a villain could do with quirk like that fills me with dread.

Especially with a quirk like mine, If I was against any of the two I wouldn't even last a second. I mean the only thing my quirk's good for is sneaking around, but like Shinmon said, with all the training we'll get I'm sure I'll find different ways to use my quirk.

It looks like Shinmon's gaining the upper hand, Todoroki's beginning to freeze up, I guess making glaciers isn't as easy as it looks.

Just when we though it was over for Todoroki, he began to use that fire half of his which brought his body back to peak condition. We all though he was going to do the same attack he used against Midoriya, which made me worry for Shinmon.

But then something happened that shocked everyone, Todoroki's flames seemed to stop listening to him, as soon as they got too big the fire exploded. Todoroki was pushed off the stage while everyone who was watching tried to understand what just happened.

"W-what just happened" Midoriya stuttered dropping his note book

"Seriously, is something wrong with Todoroki's quirk, he was using it fine in the the last round" Kirishima wondered.

While everyone tried to figure out what happened, Ojiro spoke up "Guys, I think I know what happened" which got everyone's immediate attention.

"Back at the USJ, me and Shinmon were teleported to the fire zone. While we were fighting Villains I seen Shinmon used the fire burning on the buildings to attack. My guess is that Shinmon took control of Todoroki's flames and that's why they exploded."

This caused a series of gasps from the 1-A crowd, now understanding that Benimaru's quirk allowed him to control all fire, not just his own.

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