[h1][center][color=crimson] Diana Schwarzwald [/color][/center][/h1]

[center] [b][i]4:15 P.M.[/i][/b] 

Academy Grounds; Underground

[s]Playing her Mixtape[/s][/center]

[@Zelosse][@Kalleth][@Feisty-Pants][Any other professors who care to see/watch]
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As the headmaster announced that this test would be a maximum=use burst of their powers put to the test, rather than a more technical application of things, a hearty grin came onto the German girl's face. Ah, to be able to "let loose", as it were, and show off. Though considering that this was naught but the first part of a three-part test, overextending one's self was something Diana felt was perhaps silently discouraged. Unless someone here was a masochist who felt better to just go ham until they passed out, or if one of the professors here was a similar type who'd push a student until they gave out of exhaustion. Heh. Those little thoughts aside, it would be nice to let loose with her powers, to some extent at least to show off to the teachers and headmaster and others. 

Going down her own set of stairs, like the others would do, Diana walked to the middle of her own little secluded area for testing. However, unlike those who stood or made a grandstand of appeal, she instead sat on the ground with crossed legs. It was her usual stance for focusing whilst training after a morning swim or other swim during the day for that matter. Closing her eyes as she rested her hands on her crossed legs, Diana began to focus. 

[center][h3][i]Heat comes from the environment, but also from within....[/i][/h3][/center]

The German-originated elementalist began drawing on her core, within herself, pulling at the heat there, stoking the fire within that burned bright for ever living thing. The heat within her body began to rise, up and up, and she could feel the burning feeling of heat move into every part of her body, seeping into every pore, even muscle, every bone, every fiber of her being. Where most would have already begun to sweat or worse, her body remained untouched by sweat or burn, but even so the heat continued to swell and swell within her. 

[center][h3][i]....Let it burn, rise, reach into every extremity, every fingertip, like a puddle of water bit by bit growing and expanding into a lake.....[/i][/h3][/center]

Ripples of heat began to rise more and more from the fire-user's body from all parts, like watching a hot car on a scalding 100-degree day. The stone began to sizzle where moisture from the environment was exposed to intense heat, lapped at by the growing temperature in the room that at the moment was only showing minor but distinct signs that something was building, growing, emanating into the world around the fire user. 

[center][h3][i]....Then let it swell, build, begin to manifest itself, to reach the threshold and....[/i][/h3][/center]

Flame. Finally flames began to form more and more around the fire user, surrounding her on the ground, climbing, crawling to the walls and licking the stone with its intense aura. Some began to coat her form, surround her hair, sit upon her clothes, saturating the air around it with licking tongues of desperate wanting and desire for more. More, if it could get the chance to take it. However, this all did not seem to disturb the fire user herself, whose controlled breathing and focus was continuing to build whilst their effects continued to snowball the more time went on, eyes still closed. 

[center][h3][i]....then, when the time is right...let it come forth, burst towards its climactic peak, to go wild and reach towards the very heavens above with a great roar, and take off like a dragon in flight![/i][/h3][/center]

Suddenly, the flames would all expand greatly, roaring to life as if unleashed as they were let loose upon the world. A great and mighty pillar of fire, a mixture of reds and orange and yellow and blues, consumed the small room Diana was in without warning, shooting straight up towards the sky in a fervent rush as if seeking to challenge the very sun itself. A bright column indeed that glowed with a primal sort of might, though only briefly made it debut in all of its unrestrained glory, bursting onto the scene in a rampant and crackling chorus whose sound rang against the walls without challenge! 

And then as soon as it appeared, it lasted only long enough to take it in before fading once more, as if the valve to its fuel had been shut off all one once, suddenly, without warning. Scorched stone lined the floor and walls of Diana's room, the scorch and burn even reaching somewhat back up the steps Diana had taken down here as well to boot. Indeed, what the sudden blaze had lacked in any control save for avoiding burning herself, it made up for in a temporary buildup that peaked in a great and sudden inferno of power that was her spectacle to show.  

Rather than being under the belief that the best fire was something that erupted without warning or reason or rhyme, but rather fire to her was a thing that grew and grew, feeding, and swelling until it reached its "bursting" point where it hit its ultimate climax. This was perhaps much like how in life people and animals and plants needed to build up and grow in order to attain their "best", and indeed between the sun and such it could be said that fire was something interwoven with "life" in a sense. So Diana had simply taken the approach of allowing the power to build similarly in a manner simply focused on power, to allow it to grow naturally and then soar to its peak without exploding in her face, a similar vein to her personal practice albeit without focus on fine control in this situation. 

On closer inspection, it might be seen that certain bits of stone closest to Diana, a liquid shimmer or perhaps a molten glow was visible as a few small patches on the floor had actually begun to melt or become reduced to a liquid state under the heat Diana had produced only moments ago. Steam rose from these small puddles of molten stone as they began to cool, though unless another element was used to do so it would perhaps take some time for these things to cool again. However, the girl's clothes, for lack of a better word, had also seemingly been consumed in the flames of the fire, only her sworn red bikini swimsuit underneath still clad on her body along with her unburned fiery hair. 

That loss of attire, however, had not been intentional on her part. 

Opening her eyes once more, Diana stood up on the not-melted scalding-hot stone beneath her feet as if it was nothing, an excited grin coming onto her face as she looked up at the teachers. 

However, it took only a moment later and the first feeling as colder air tried to seep into the room amidst the scorching stone to notice that her clothes had been....well, burnt off save for her swimsuit underneath. That was when a look of sudden surprise came onto the girl's face, half from the shocked of not having made sure to avoid burning her clothes off in all that, and partly due to being thankful her swimsuit had not been scorched in the process too. 

[color=crimson]"Eh, could one of you bring me a new set of clothes before everyone else is done? Please?"[/color] the redhead said in a somewhat sheepish manner, a light blush contrasting her proud grin that came back even as she looked up and spoke to the teachers and Headmaster above without hesitation. 

Though for the record, even whilst just in a swimsuit, Diana herself had to admit she was actually....[u][i][b]pretty hot[/b][/i][/u], all things considered. This how, though? She didn't know she had it in her, to be frank.