The arena at Quarter Bros was shining like a Coachella concert, Smash Zone existed as an arena fighter where home made avatars battle in the arena using a headset to control the characters, the blonde woman revealed to be Firestorm, a pro gamer had sent in her character, a swordswoman shining with a gold aura wielding a large sword sparking off fire, Popuri having never played the game was scrambling to make a character settling for a basic design resembling her real life build.
"Has she really never played this game? She aced Witch Hunt without trouble yet, that build is something a ten year old would make" the blonde girl confused as to how someone with such inhuman reactions could look so amateur.
Poppy was ready to go and the match began, Firestorm attacked but Poppy avoided the attacks, it took several attempts to even get a strike on her when Firestorm finally forced her back with her sword.
"Now it makes sense, this system picks up on athletic ability during the character build, she has good evasion and decent speed, she's also working out the game as she's playing, see if I can push her buttons" Firestorm immediately split her character into several clones and launched a storm of fire surrounding Poppy, Poppy's character finally got a lightning punch in which does heavy damage, Firestorm's body just glows more golden in response; in one slice of her brilliant sword she unleashed a shower of rose petals which all ignited and exploded which finally scored a heavy hit on Popuri.
Popuri struck Firestorm in several places but each time Firestorm glowed a more intense gold.
"She's so fast but she has no clue how I operate, guess I overestimated her ability" Firestorm prepared her sword with a large wave of fire and unleashed her attack on Popuri with one impressive swipe of her Golden Blade leading to an explosion of fire, when the dust settled Firestorm found that Popuri had catched her sword, Popuri's eyes opened and they were glowing yellow like a ferocious tiger. Popuri then thunder punched Firestorm so hard, she almost ringed out.
"Her eyes, so that's her secret, now it's fun!" Firestorm shined perfect gold as her eyes turned yellow like Popuri's, Popuri was shocked to see someone else with yellow eyes both characters disappeared into an epic speed battle neither one wanting to yield, the crowd were in awe of the battle and even the system was finding it hard to keep up with the two fighters.
"What's your name cat eyes?" Firestorm asked.
"Popuri Meadows" Poppy replied.
"The Olympic Marathon runner from Stardust Meadows, that gift of yours is powerful, I'm Dawn Shriners" Dawn spoke as both characters were KO'd, the crowd cheered the battle as they both got out the booth.
Dawn enthusiastically throws up Popuri's arm in triumph.
Popuri was exhausted, it was only her first day.