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Texas grimaced as Mirai continually dodged his attacks. It didn't seem like he was even making her try. He ramped up his power, dangerously close to maximum as he jumped up in the air, dodging blast after blast. He whirled around in a circle, spraying waves of flame in every direction. This was more than just a random attempt to hit Mirai; it was heating up the air itself, causing every breath Mirai would take to feel like her lungs were on fire. He wasn't affected by this; not that he would mind if he was. He was immune to damage from his own fire. Several of the blasts hit him as he landed and he shrugged them off despite the damage they caused him, fighting through the pain.

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Texas caught Mirai's kick but was still slammed into the ground by it, feeling rocks give way beneath him due to the force of the impact. Instead of letting go, he hung on tightly to Mirai's legs, holding onto one with each hand. His eyes glowed orange as he grinned fiercely up at her. He focused his power and sent flames shooting across her body through his hands in an attempt to burn her all over.

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Texas felt Mirai teleport out of his grasp and looked up to see flames coming towards him. At the last moment they moved backwards and then rushed towards him again. He ramped up his soul wavelength once again. Now he was at about 90% of his strength. He pointed his flamethrower arm upwards and released a massive blast of flames, countering Mirai's own. He burned through them after several minutes and quickly fired shot after shot of fire towards her, aiming at random in an attempt to thwart any dodging.

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Texas felt the telekinetic blast and couldn't stop the barrier from slamming into him, falling over on his back. But in several moments he was back on his feet. "Here we go!" He yelled. "FULL POWER!" His soul wavelength jumped to full strength. Suddenly the flames that surrounded him became a bright crimson red. The very air and rocks themselves caught fire around him. Even where Mirai was the air would become scorchingly hot. He exploded forward, spraying a truly massive wave of flames towards Mirai as he attempted to come close to her for hand-to-hand combat.

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Texas jumped up towards where Mirai was in the air. He saw the blast coming and turned slightly, taking it to the shoulder as he forced himself onwards and to her barrier. He turned both his arms into flameswords as he began to slash into it, trying to get to her. "Come out and fight!" He yelled, overtaken by his lust for battle. Crimson flames swirled around the barrier, blocking out any view of the outside. Even the brightness of the stars couldn't puncture the roaring flames that pressed in on the barrier. The super-heated air would be extremely painful to breathe if the barrier was breached or Mirai dropped it.

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Texas dodged left and right, missing most of Mirai's spikes. Several of them hit him though and he fell backwards, regaining his balance after several moments. He quickly launched himself back into the air, rocketing towards Mirai and her barrier. He slammed into it as hard as he could, causing cracks to form all across it as he landed blow after blow. Crimson fire began to seep through the cracks he had created. The air in Mirai's barrier was getting warmer.

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Texas shot back down to earth, slamming into the ground as Mirai's attack hit him for massive damage. After several moments he came walking (barely) out of the smoke to look up at where Mirai had teleported to. The crimson flames still swirled around him as he looked up at her. His clothes were torn and burned and he was bleeding from his mouth, but he was still good for one more attack. He was gonna give this one everything he had. He focused for a moment before once again launching himself off the ground in an explosion of flames. He turned one hand into a flamethrower and the other into a sword as he came at her. He fired massive blasts of crimson flames towards her, stronger than any of the previous attacks. And when he got close enough he did one gigantic swing of his flame sword that extended a good twelve feet from its base towards Mirai in an attempt to cause as much damage as possible in his final attack.

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As Texas's final attack burned out, he was blasted with Mirai's golden orb of resonance force. Once again he fell back down to earth, but this time he didn't get up. He lay on the ground, blood coming out of multiple wounds. His clothes were torn and his skin was burned but as he lay staring up at the sky, he had a grin on his face. "That's more like it," he said to no one in particular in a quiet but confident tone. He could do it. He could fight. And eventually he could win. Texas had gotten his confidence back.

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