"That advice sucked! Eat this!" Blaze yelled as she finally began to unleash her charged spell. The idiot went straight for the roar, leaping and throwing her leg at it. The flames that surrounded her in an aura suddenly left her and rushed forward in the form of a large claw that pushed against the barrage of iron. Blaze landed on two feet and immediately started to back away from the clashing magics, puffed out and unable to cast magic again any time soon. The talon of flames began to waver, letting a few shards of metal slip through and slice along her skin or dig deep into her body.

"...Well, not the way I envisioned going out..." The girl laughed nervously, lifting her arm to see it dripping with blood. Still, Torie was in reserve - and not knowing that made Blaze think this is where she would meet an untimely end as a human cutting board. The pain made her tear up; she didn't seem to give much of a damn about the whole 'dying' side of things. There was still time to move, right? So why sit there...?

[I]Oh god damn it, if I meet Iggy in heaven or hell some day I'll never hear the end of this...[/I]

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The moment Reaver saw the flaming blade coming down on him, he summoned a large wave of raw darkness magic to make contact with it, using his free hand. As the Fire Dragon and the Darkness Adept clashed it made the whole castle shake. Then came the sword's explosive property, ending the clash and sending Reaver sliding back across the floor. The deranged young man looked at his burned hand and tilted his head curiously, before he began to approach Igneel again. He was torn between disappointment and astonishment. How could someone with so much power just... ignore it?! The boy could have anything he wanted, yet here he was spouting the usual nonsense that Guild Mages spouted.

"Naive, pathetic, blinded, ...yet not weak. You are an odd existence to me, Dragon Slayer," Reaver murmured across the hall as the second band of smoke disappeared. He quite simply gathered a sphere of darkness magic in his free hand and fired it at his opponent. It wasn't very strong, but then it wasn't made to impact. As the sphere got within range, it would leap after Iggy in the form of a snake. If it did catch him, it was going to constrict him. All the while, the Dark Mage continued slowly stepping forwards.