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

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Academy Grounds; Underground

[i][b]Hottest Mixtapes Gone Wrong: Volume 13 [/b][/i][/center]

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...Speaking of rushing into things like a moron, she had to rush for a moment here to be careful. As the glacier's outer layers came off at first she was excited, pumping a bit more "gas" into her flames for a moment out of excitement. Somewhat of a mistake, as a seeming proverbial tidal wave of water rushed out of the glacier from a spot where apparently a lot of it was being contained underneath layers upon layers of frozen ice. As she saw the water first burst out, the German elementalist stopped using her flames, spinning on her heels and running as fast as her legs could take her. Adrenaline burned in her veins like molten magma, pushing her onward even as she was hit in the back by some of the water and ice and thrown hard towards her direction. This sent her flying, right towards the back wall. This was at least the opposite of being thrown into the crevasse by torrential forces, but was also not the optimal situation for her as well. 

CRACK!

The girl felt herself hit the wall, hard, the water and a few pieces of ice settling on the ground behind her as she collapsed to her knees in front of the wall. Her body, already soaked, was even more so drenched now than it had been before, not the best thing for the cold conditions. However, her hands and arms were shaking, latching onto the wall for dear life as soon as she had felt something to grab as the adrenaline had kicked into high overdrive at suddenly being engulfed by a wave of icy water and pieces of hard ice like that all suddenly. Her first "breath" was gagging up water that had gotten into her mouth and throat and spitting it onto the ground, before ragged, air-partaking breaths followed afterwards as she recovered. Her body was sore from that crap, but between the cold and the adrenaline on top of that she wasn't feeling the full effects of the sudden blow at the moment. 

However, her short fingernails were in a sense ruined, bleeding at the fingertips from just how hard they had gripped the ice as she had made contact with the wall. Likewise, as she pulled her head back from the wall, a small dribble of blood fell onto the icy ground before her. The German girl sat back on her knees, and as she did she looked at her pants, the knees area torn and knees bleeding visibly to her eyes. Further, drips of blood began to enter her vision, and with putting her hand to her face, and then forehead she finally felt a gash of sorts just below her hairline. Were she to look in a mirror, small streams of blood were falling down her face like small rivers. Albeit, not with enough volume to blind her with blood but enough to look horrendous to the naked eye. 

[color=red]"Shit....that...got me pretty good, eh?"[/color] the redhead said to herself, eyes and tone of voice glazed over a bit with a dazed sort of attribute. 

Come to think of it, this was the sort of thing she'd been about to follow up with earlier, right? After that jet of fire might've hit that princess' face or something....actually, how was Kris doing? The German girl grimaced as she thought of the idea, feeling an Ice or water use would have been far better suited to this last part than Fire, but her mind drifting to the wealthy-acting ice user. Usually she felt she was right to face people like that, but...hell she'd let her anger get the best of her, eh? Trying to burn a person's face off entirely, with serious intent at that, was not something to bat an eye at, but was something that as she pondered it more left a hot feeling of shame creeping into her mind and body. Though as the image of Kris' face came into her mind, her own heart seemed to skip a beat. 

A look of slight shock came to Diana's face as she felt that, putting a hand to her chest as she sat on her knees for a few minutes to recuperate...or at least see if she could stand after that wave hit her in this direction. And indeed, as she listened carefully with her right hand moving to her chest, a cut on the back of it bleeding as well, she felt her heart beating fast as she thought of the ice princess. Heh...well, she had meant the compliment earlier, that cute look on the other girl's face, the way her tantrums of pride even in small ways seemed to make her that much more adorable. She was skilled to, maybe had some hard work behind those skills from what she had said during their fight....a thing Diana actually admired. A hot heat came to Diana's cheeks in a way she hadn't felt in a long time, despite the bleeding her mind seemed to be unable to drift away from thinking about Kris. 

Diana turned herself around to look at her handiwork with the flames, the small blood trails having already begun to hit the top of her wet shirt and such to leave her looking rather dreadful. The beating of her heart was echoing in her ears now, and a small two trails of blood fell out of her nostrils at the obvious nosebleed. Though even if she hadn't hit the wall, the thoughts of Kris would have done it anywho. Of that she was certain right now as a sort of realization came to her mind. Or rather, she already knew the answer in her bones and her mind was just getting the memo. She had...an idea of how feelings for someone were like. She'd...had them back home a few times, but had been pushed personally to keep her trap shut by her own mind. It wasn't..."normal" to some for a girl to like other girls, right? All those around her likes boys among her female siblings or friends or acquaintances, and she had felt embarrassed such about it that she had kept her trap shut. Fearful of what others would say. Fearful of what her family might react like if they knew.....it was perhaps one of the biggest fears she had kept hidden deep down, only becoming more lax here since it was safer on these grounds to be more of herself in that regard. But...but-

-the ice princess seemed to bring that fire in her like none other...was that part of why she was able to be so angry so fast? Attracted to that girl on sight and trying to hide the feelings bringing out even more anger that her frustration alone should've never resulted in all on its own? Diana's heart was pounding away in her chest and in her ears like a pair of speakers set up to a high volume in a car, but she began to stand up on her own two feet regardless. Gritting her teeth, the redhead, whose hair had fallen from its ponytail to hand down just past her shoulders by a couple inches, struggled and pushed her body to get up, to allow the dazed and sore and painful physical sensations to be let go of and flare up to keep her awake. And finally, she stood on her own two feet with a certain lightheadedness she did her best to shake off as she began to walk over to the edge of the crevasse again. 

In a seeming miracle, just a little lower down on the glacier was a tunnel. An open tunnel that seemed to lead up towards the top of the glacier and the exit hole was. A wide grin came to the german's face as she saw this little hidden passage that she had uncovered with her efforts. She had to finish this, to not let the ice princess there think she'd won. Then again....maybe she needed to talk to her as well...at least apologize for the earlier attempt to burn her face off without hesitation. Which as she thought about it was worse than she had initially felt it was. Maybe she'd even grab some of Kris' nice little ass-

Mentally Diana slapped herself back to reality. She needed to focus on the task, and her mind felt like it had gained a good bit of its focus back. Well enough to do what she would be doing next. Stepping back to the wall again, Diana simmered a heat under her skin to warm her body, letting the cold freeze the blood on the outside into place to avoid further bleeding out, which was perhaps worse than she gave it credit for right now. Even so, she channeled a hotter heat into her fingers, ignoring the pain that the tips of her fingers sent alarmingly to her brain. She had to get to that tunnel, and since it was lower...she could make her way down there if she got close to the glacier. 

Diana took a minute to control her breath, get a feeling for her body's shape, grimacing for a second, then nodding, before taking off at a running start and full speed towards the edge of the crevasse. As she leapt from the edge, she sent her body flinging at the glacier's exposed harder ice side with full force, and at the same time flaring heat into her fingers to make them small torches. The reason for this was, as she hit the side of the glacier, her fingers dug into the hard ice like a hot knife into butter initially. 

Though some pain hit her chest from the impact and roared into her brain for a moment, her focus was on then lowering the heat of the fingers just enough as soon as she could for the next part. Just enough that Diana began to carefully slide down the side of the glacier towards the tunnel entrance, her hot fingers that had been dug into the hard ice using intense heat =slipping down through the ice at a controlled pace as Diana adjusted their heat and held on with all her might and using her feet to stabilize the slowed descent. 

Within a short time, Diana would find herself descending to the entrance of the tunnel, swinging her legs and body in so she'd move forward and land in the tunnel's entrance just as her fingers passed into the empty space of the top of the tunnel. Albeit, she did fall flat on her back as a result of her maneuver, but she wasn't falling into the crevasse at all right now and that was a good thing in her mind. Slowly standing up once more, Diana look at the icy, slippery tunnel before her, the grin coming back onto her face. Time to get the hell out of here and to the top.