Joseph saw the net that was coming toward him, so rapidly changed direction and jumped to the left, but changing directions at that speed made him lose and tumble over in the ground landing on his left shoulder and damaging it even more. He quickly lifted his face to spot Jess and got up to his feet with his dagger in his right hand.

Jess was surprised he was able to change direction so qickly, but nevertheless exchanged her net gun for her pair of tonfa.... She rushed towards Joseph, aiming to disarm him and then get him in a neckhold if the disarm attempt worked... If not she'd try knocking him in the head... Just hard enough to knock him out, nothing more.

Joseph quickly got on his back, put his dagger in its holdster, put his knees to the chest, chanted a quick spell that lifted the ground beneath his head just a bit. He then put his hands on the lifted ground in his head and used is arm strength to jump toward Jess who was rushing at him, feet first.

Jess quickly grabbed at him, deciding to try using the typical 'bear squeeze' the try and suffocate him... She wasn't putting up with this much logner, it seemed she'd met someone as persistent as herself... But unlike her duel with William she wasn't going to forfeit... If she was going out she wanted it to be with a bang.

Joseph was caught in a bearhug and knew he was in trouble. He knew there was only one thing he could do and that this was his last shot. He chanted "Rumpus orbis terrarum subter supter nostrum pluma". The ground beneath them split open in a hole 15 feet deep. With the loss of balance he got loose of the bearhug and put his feet in Jess chest to drive her to the bottom of the hole.

Jess hadn't been expecting this at all... She tried to control her fall but the distance was too short... She landed on her head. "Ow..." She screamd as the rest of her body hit the ground and her eyes started to close... "You... Win... Joseph." She managed to say, clearly in pain, before her tensed arms and legs relaxed and she fell unconscious... Nana rushed over to her teacher, or would have if that hole wasn't preventing the 7-year-old from getting to her teacher... The rest of Jess's students merely looked on in shock.... This guy had just beaten their teacher, and they'd never seen her lose a battle.

"SIGH" Joseph falls to the ground. "I'll admit it was fun, and you're the toughest competitor I've fought with." With what little energy he had left he chanted a spell that lifted the ground slowly so the students could help their teacher. When they reach ground level Joseph falls unconscious as he see's the little girl called Nana be the first one to get to her teacher worried.

Shinji quickly examined the two, being the medical expert... "All they need is some rest." He concluded... Nana gave a sigh of relief, though the fact that Joseph was the first to defeat Jess without her frofeiting herself still weighed heavy in their mind.

"Might as well get them someplace they can get that rest then." Alice said, using her telekinetic magic to pick up Joseph by the feet. "Someone help me, I still can't do this on my own."

At that Roy came over the young fire specialist, and lifted Joseph's head up...

The rest had to deal with Jess, who was quite a heavy load. They brought the two to the shrine Jess had constructed some weeks ago in the beachside cliff...

Nana and Shinji decided they wanted to stay with the two, and while the rest left they lit the candles which produced purple flames.

[Should we end it here or timeskip to when the two wake up? Your choice!]

[Officially terminated... Decided to continue in another thread.]

Rewards

Jessica: 1 SP, 1 MP and 50,000 Drachma
Joseph: 1 SP, 1 MP and 50,000 Drachma