Round 3: Leo Herman vs. Mason 'Magic' Stein

Another annoying shield. Mason couldn't attack him close up, he couldn't attack him from far away. God this was pissing him off. Deciding it was better if he was close Mason raced forward, riding sound waves yet again. He was just doing a repeat of earlier this time though, he punched the shield with a lot of force, and sound enhancement behind it. He wanted to shatter the shield. If he could shatter the shield then he could easily get to Leo.

Leo knew his shield would hold up against Mason's attack. However, he wasn't sure that this was the way he wanted to fight. Aka, against the wall. So he came up with a plan. With one hand out, he kept the shield up, while the other slipped down to grip his trench knife. With the weapon in hand, he willed the shield to change into a pointed dome shape. The way he was heading was pointed in order to allow movement forward. Suddenly, Leo charged forward towards Mason, only flattering a bit when he put weight on his leg. Once he was close enough, the blond boy let the shield disappear. As soon as the light yellow object faded he sent a holy powered punch with the trench knives toward Mason's chest. A reckless move, but hopefully beneficial for Leo.

Right when Leo drew his hand back to punch Mason, Magic opened his mouth releasing sound that ended up pushing him backwards away from danger, and probably shoving Leo back as well. Mason needed to end this and fast. He could feel himself getting a bit tired. Mason let out more sound but like at the beginning this sound was at 19 hertz, but Mason made it louder. At this volume Leo should have trouble breathing, of course he wouldn't be able to hear it. What Mason didn't notice was the deep cut the he received across his chest from the slight delay from getting away from Leo.

Leo slid back a few feet however he was in a good stance, so he wasn't sent flying back again. A weird feeling in Leo's chest suddenly appeared, causing a bit of confusion in the blond. Was this fear? Why would he be afraid now? His breath became harder and harder to keep, causing his blue eyes to widen. Was this Mason's doing? The other student's mouth was open, so he assumed that Mason was trying something. He couldn't hear it though. Wait. At that thought. Could he hear anything in general? Eyes widening even more, Leo put a hand up to his ear. How had he not noticed that before? His heart began beating in his chest so hard he could feel it. Leo lifted his empty hand to clutch at his chest. Terrified.

At that moment, Leo felt something stir within himself. It didn't seem to brush away fear, but it did make him feel strong. 'I need to focus' He thought to himself, pushing away the distracting beating of his heart the blond focused on the stirring within himself. Was that...holy energy? Eyes narrowing, he once again put up another shield, much like the latest once. Thus pushing away the vibrations and soothing his fear that he felt a small amount. It was still there, but enough to were he could fight.

Magic closed his mouth. What was he to do now? Leo hadn't reacted the way he thought he would. It almost seemed like Leo was being fueled by something else. He should have had a really hard time breathing by the point he put his shield up. Why wasn't it working? It seemed like Leo was discovering he couldn't hear at all or something. Not like it would help. He couldn't exactly hear low frequencies anyway. Leo kept cowering behind his shield. Mason didn't have a shield. He kept having to block or dodge with his own body not hide behind some shield.  It was past time to end this stupid battle. Mason glanced up at the ceiling. He could try it..  Mason create an ultra sonic sound that was right next the the ceiling above Leo. This could be his chance to win. Leo couldn't notice the sound being created, and he had his eyes on Mason there was no way he could block in time. Mason opened his mouth to make it seem like he was going to try another attack to distract Leo, all while sound worked on the ceiling. After a moment a chuck of the old castle's ceiling fell heading straight for Leo's head.

Leo stared at Mason's mouth, eye brows scrunched together in concentration. As soon as his opponent's mouth closed, whatever fear and heaving breaths he had, vanished. Sucking in air as the dark haired student looked up, blue eyes narrowed. He was doing something, however he seemed distracted. 'Here's my chance!' The Angel boy thought, and pushed forward, dropping his shield to swipe at Mason repeatedly with both trench knives.

What Leo failed to notice, was the large chunk of the ceiling that narrowly missed him. He couldn't hear it crash to the ground, and only attributed the gust of wind to something Mason may be trying to do. Which was a correct assessment, but not in the way he would think. He, much like Mason wanted to end this battle. It has been going on far longer than normal. But to him, and this energy floating in him that he had sort of 'unlocked' per say was keeping him going.

Once his swipes at Mason were over, he flew backwards much more than he wanted to, as he didn't seem too excited to take a blast to the face. What Leo did realize, was that his wings were bigger, much like the previous battle. 'What is with my wings and growing bigger? I've never had this outside of battle. And I always seem to go too far or too short in distance for my liking. What the heck?"The angel boy landed semi-smoothly at the ground, however landing on his injured leg. The sharp pain of lost skin filled the side of his leg, the fabric of his pants were torn in a jagged fashion. His blue eyes sent an icy glare at the large wings. One that said something along the lines of 'you are of no use to me'.

Mason was beyond pissed off. He thought his distraction would have worked and Leo would have kept behind his shield.  God. It was easy to see the Leo had charged him for he wasn't distracted, he just glanced up at the ceiling for a second. Mason used his sound to back up out of the way of Leo's attack. It was just to easy to notice. This would be the third attempt Mason would make at ended the battle. Mason opened his mouth and let out a yell that was meant to have destructive damage. Honestly is was just a distraction.  Mason created sound through the entire ceiling causing it to rumble. Shortly after the entire ceiling collapsed sending dangerous chunks down at them both. Out of fear of his own destruction his own power reacted and created a standing wave which caught the rubble from falling on Mason.

It was only when he saw the first few fall a few feet away from him, did Leo spot the rocks falling from the sky. He was too slow putting up the shield, and a baseball sized ceiling rock struck his left wing, causing Leo to flatter a bit, before putting his white wings away, and creating a shield before the debris wouldn't hit something vital. Such as his head. The shield above his head wasn't like his other ones, it was much larger. The rocks began tumbling to the ground, and Leo thanked his past self for lifting weights. He couldn't imagine how Mason was holding up. At the thought of the opponent, he looked over at him. And through the falling rocks, he could see Mason looking up, mouth open. Was he doing a sound wave at the rocks? Wouldn't he run out of breath? Leo didn't have time to ponder, as he held up the shield. The amount of weight on it, brought the hovering object to touch Leo's hands. Which he was fine with. Because the shield took up the majority of the weight. Now, he assumed. It was a waiting game.