Before Reading Notes: There is A LOT.
Ienzo- 10- 4th grade
Sora- 15- Sophomore
Riku- 16- Sophomore
Kairi- 15- Sophomore
Naminé -15- Sophomore
Roxas- 15- Sophomore
Hayner- 16- Sophomore
Pence- 16- Sophomore
Olette- 15- Sophomore
Xion- 15- Sophomore
Lea- 17- Junior
Isa- 17- Junior
Ventus- 16- Junior
Zexion- 17- Junior
Vanitus- 16- Junior
Demyx- 17- Junior
Marluxia- 18- Junior
Larxene- 17- Junior
Terra- 18- Senior
Aqua- 17- Senior
Lexaeus- 18- Senior
Axel- 18- Senior
Saix- 18- Senior
Xemnas- 35- Teacher of History
Xigbar- 40- Teacher of P.E.
Braig- 38- Teacher of Weight Training
Xaldin- 29- Teacher of Nutrition and Wellness (Cooking)
Dilan- 27- Teacher of Nutrition and Wellness Teacher 2 (Cooking)
Vexen- 40- Teacher of Science
Even- 39- Teacher of English
Luxord- 27- Teacher of Math
Eraquas- 44- Terra's Daddy :3
Xehanort- 30- Principal
Aeleus- 37- Lexaeus's Dad
It was the big day. The struggle qualification rounds had finally come. Everyone had been working hard and it had been the nonstop talk of the town. Axel made his way to a dark alley between two buildings.
"Axel, today's the day. Are you ready?" Larxene asked him with an evil smile.
"As ready as I'll ever be. Are you sure we have to do it this way? There are other ways we could do this." Axel frowned.
"It's too late for that now." Marluxia said as he came out of the alley's shadows. "Besides, you said you were in. What's wrong? Scared?"
"No. I just don't wanna hurt Roxas." Axel sighed.
"How do you even know if we'll even have to face him?" Larxene asked.
"I don't, not yet at least. But if you do face him or Xion, go easy on them."
"Oh Axel!" Marluxia frowned. "You honestly are getting weak! You've grown a soft spot for those kids!"
"Shut up Marluxia!" Axel said angrily.
"Axel!" Called Roxas from somewhere away from the alley.
"Axel!" Xion's voice followed.
"I'll see you all later." Axel sighed. He left the alley and found Roxas and Xion looking around the area for him.
"Axel!" Roxas smiled as he and Xion ran over to him. "Hey you ready for this?"
"Please, I was born ready!" Axel said cockily.
"Everyone is waiting for us!" Xion said. The three headed over to where their group of friends were waiting.
"Hey Zexion." Axel said, approaching him and Lexaeus. "Are you two entering?"
"Lexaeus is." Zexion replied. Axel nodded and looked over to where Isa, Lea and Ienzo were standing.
"Is Ienzo?" Axel asked Zexion.
"No, he's too young. He wanted to cheer on his friends." Zexion said, looking over to his younger brother.
"I'm sure he could take on everyone here. No offence Lexaeus." Axel smiled. Lexaeus just shook his head and looked over to Ienzo.
"He's very strong." Lexaeus commented. Axel nodded again.
"I've seen him practice with Lea and Isa. That kid could take the trophy if he wanted."
"Hey, Axel!" Called Demyx. Axel looked over and gave a small wave.
"Well I'll be see'en ya. Good luck Lexaeus." Axel said.
"Axel," Zexion called as the older teen took a few steps away. Axel turned and looked at the silver haired teen. "Thank you." Axel gave a small smile and made his way over to Demyx.
"Axel!" Demyx exclaimed. "Did you hear?"
"Hear what?"
"Vanitus!"
"Oh how he threw those French fries at work the other day? Yeah, that was freaking funny!"
"No! He broke his arm!"
"What?"
"Yeah! He was chasing Sora and Roxas and he fell down the stairs and broke his arm!"
"Damn! Is he still in the contest?"
"No but he's pissed about it! He tried to check in with the final registry but they wouldn't let him. They said his broken arm would interfere, which in all reality it would!"
"Where is he?"
"He's freaking out over there." Demyx pointed over to where Vanitas was. Ventus, Aqua, Roxas, Sora and Terra were all trying to calm him down as he kicked the ground. He punched the wall next to him and yelled. Aqua panicked and grabbed his hand as Terra just smacked his palm against his forehead.
"Man, hope they don't kick him out completely." Axel mumbled.
"Alright everyone!" Boomed a voice from over the intercom above head. "We'll be starting the Struggle Qualification Rounds in about twenty minutes so to everyone who hasn't done their final check in, please come over to the final registration check in and be marked off! I repeat…"
"Hey, have you signed in yet?" Demyx asked Axel over the talking man's voice.
"Yeah, I was one of the first few people here." Axel said distractedly.
"Really? I didn't see you till a few minutes ago. Where were you?" Demyx said raising a brow.
"Huh? Oh uh I was just, wondering around. You know getting myself psyched." Axel quickly lied. He couldn't give himself up. Not about the plan.
"Oh okay!" Demyx smiled. "Hey, Roxas knows you're entering doesn't he?"
"Yeah," Hushed Axel. "Hopefully we won't have to face eachother." And with that he left Demyx to go stand alone by a wall. He hoped no one would bug him so he could think and get his mind made up. There was till time to drop out of the competition. Still time to forget about the whole thing and just go. Sure he'd have to deal with a pissed off Larxene and a pissed off Marluxia but he was willing to deal with that.
"Do you honestly think Axel will stick to the plan?" Larxene asked Marluxia.
"He better," Marluxia muttered. "Or I'll have to kill him."
Twenty minutes had come and gone and somewhere in those few minutes the rounds were put up and handed out for everyone to see.
"Who the hell is that?" Hayner asked looking at his rounds sheet. "I fight someone I don't even know!"
"Maybe you should get out more?" Pence joked.
"Eh cram it!" Hayner smirked.
"There're going to be more people here than we know. We already went over this." Olette said.
"Well come on! I at least wanna know what this guy looks like!" Hayner whined.
"Over there." Roxas pointed to a group of girls looking at a paper.
"Where?"
"There! Dakota is a girl not a guy."
"I HAVE TO FIGHT A GIRL?"
"Yes!"
"Dude! Am I even aloud to hit her?"
"She wouldn't have entered if she didn't wanna get beat up." Olette said. The girl came up with her friends by her sides and stood in front of Hayner.
"Hi, I'm Dakota! You're Hayner right?" She asked with a smile.
"Hey! Yeah I am! Uh you know, after this whole thing, what do you say you and I got out for some-"
"You're gonna get you ass handed to you." She smiled, cutting him off. Her friends smiled and followed behind as Dakota left.
"That bitch!" Hayner exclaimed. "I didn't wanna date you anyways!"
"Alright everyone! We're now commencing with round one!" Yelled the announcer over the intercom. "Hayner versus Dakota!"
Hayner entered the ring where the round would commence. He had already gotten his gear and had the chest guard on with the red balls attached to it. Dakota got in the ring and stood her appropriate distance from Hayner. She gave him a cocky smile and put her helmet on her head.
"Freaken…" Hayner mumbled as he put his helmet on.
"Now!" Started the referee, who also happened to be the man over the intercom. "Let's see a nice clean fight! No hitting below the belt. Blows to the face-" He was cut off by Hayner's snort of laughter. "Hayner." He scolded. He was use to Hayner being a little on the immature side and every time the man had said "Blows to the face" Hayner just needed to laugh.
"As I was saying. Blows to the face," He paused again for Hayner to laugh. "Are not aloud. The balls stuck the helmet gear are meant to fall of on their own, NOT by means of being hit off. If you come in range of one of your colored markers you MAY pick them up and put them back on. You must also pick up your opponents colored markers in order to win the round. The person who has more of their opponents colored markers wins! Now, let's get this show on the road! You have five minutes starting…" Hayner got into his position and gripped his bat.
"I'm ready, let's go!" He mumbled under his breath.
"Struggle!" Yelled the man.
Hayner and Dakota launched from their spots and ran at each other. Dakota swung her bat with too much force and ended up knocking herself off balance when Hayner dodged it.
"Ha! All talk and no-!" Hayner was cut of by Dakota swinging her bat and hitting him in the side. He fell on a knee and shook his head.
"All talk and no what?" Dakota smirked down at him. Hayner took a couple breaths and looked around him. He found that a few of his colored markers had fallen off his gear and rolled a bit away. Dakota hadn't gone after them which lead Hayner to believe that she was too caught up in taunting than in actually winning.
"All talk and no BITE!" Hayner yelled the last word as he jumped up and swung his bat around to hit Dakota in her side. She dropped to the ground holding her side and she took some deep breaths and made a couple whimpering noises.
"Hurts don't it?" Hayner smiled. He stood above her and grabbed one of her colored markers that had fallen off her. He stuck it to his chest plate and stared down at her, waiting for her to get back up. She looked up at him with tear filled eyes.
"W-why would you hit a girl that hard?" She cried.
"Wait what?" Hayner asked in disbelief.
"How could you?" Dakota cried some more.
"Ah, hey I'm sorry, I just you know, got a little too into it ya know." Hayner explained, holding out his hand to her.
Dakota grabbed his hand and pulled him forward. She brought her leg up and put her foot in Hayner's stomach to catapult him over her. He landed on his back with a thud and Dakota ran over to pick up two of his colored markers.
"Aw, baby boo-boo?" Dakota asked as she placed his markers are her vest.
"You faker!" Hayner ground out.
"Uh yeah!" She said making a face at him.
"Hayner!" Yelled Pence.
"Focus Hayner!" Yelled Olette. Hayner gave a nod and got to his feet. He swung his bat and hit her in her side again. He made quick to follow up his attack with a few more hits. Dakota found time to run back from Hayner and catch her breath.
"What, you serious?" She asked him.
"I'm not playing any more. I don't care if you're a girl or not! You're going down!"
More hits ensued and the audience watched in awe as colored markers flew across the ring. Many people would say Hayner was a flash of green, red and black. Hayner stopped his attacks and jumped back. He was out of breath and fell down on one knee. Dakota was a few feet away from him on both her hands and knees. She was panting as well but looked like she might have been in a little pain. Hayner had honestly pulled off a lot of her colored markers more than hit them off. He shook his head clean of the thought and looked around at all the blue colored markers everywhere. He took a couple more deep breaths then jumped up to grab them. His knee gave out though and he fell back down. The crowd let out a group of "oh's" and some flinched at the fall. Sure he didn't have a high distance to fall from but it looked kinda bad.
"Ah, man." Hayner ground out. He wiped at his chin with the back of his hand and crawled over to a group of the blue colored markers lying on the ground. He picked them up and stuck them onto his chest plate.
"Go Hayner!" Called Olette.
"You got it Hayner!" Pence yelled along side her.
Hayner let a small smile slip across his face as he grabbed a couple of Dakota's colored markers from off the ring floor. He looked over to where he had left his partner and saw her starting to put some of her markers back on. She was on both feet though.
"Crap!" Squeaked Hayner and he quickly crawled over to get more markers.
"Time's up!" Yelled the referee. He ran onto the ring and held up his arms. "Alright contestants come on over and let's check out your points!" Dakota ran over and looked to Hayner who slowly crawled over to where they were.
"Geez," Dakota mumbled. "I got my ass beat and you're the one crawling around."
"Shut up!" Yelled Hayner.
"Alright now keep it clean, keep it clean!" The referee chuckled. It took a couple minutes while Hayner and Dakota got their points counted up. If Dakota hadn't been so quick to pick up her red markers near the end of the round Hayner would have one hands down. They wouldn't have even need to count them.
"And the winner is… Hayner!"
The crowd cheered. You could mostly hear Olette and Pence freaking out on the sidelines but heck it was all the same to Hayner. He stood up and shot his fists into the air. He turned to Dakota and held out a hand.
"Hey," He started. "Nice game."
"Yeah, I guess." Dakota said with a small smile. She shook his hand and gave a small wave then left the ring to join her friends.
It was amazing how many people had entered the qualification rounds. It was a given that it would take more than a day before there would be enough people to go onto the preliminary rounds. They needed sixteen people and so far they had around thirty. It was difficult what with Vanitus breaking his arm a few days before the rounds. It had made a huge gap in the tournament. Eventually things got worked out but at first it seemed like this dilemma would be what took up the first day of the rounds.
"Sucks how everyone drops out at the mention of Terra and Aqua's names." Marluxia mumbled.
"It really isn't fun this way." Larxene sighed.
"You and Axel have been turning some heads." Marluxia smiled.
"We just need to make sure those Roxas and Xion kids don't make to the preliminary rounds." Larxene said.
"It's stupid how they have two rounds of disqualifying people. Just have one and have it go on for a few days. Besides, doesn't preliminary and qualification both imply the same thing?" Marluxia asked with a flick of his wrist.
"Amazing considering you failed a year of high school." Axel said as he walked over to the two.
"Shut up." Marluxia frowned. "I prefer the term Super Senior."
"Whatever," Axel sighed. "Too busy worried about your looks I guess?"
"It takes time to look this beautiful." Marluxia commented offhandedly. Larxene sighed and shook her head.
"These rounds are running into tomorrow. Just because we've gone doesn't mean we can't show up tomorrow." She informed Axel.
"Roxas and Xion are going tomorrow. I promised I'd be here." Axel said.
"Good," Marluxia smiled. "We'll need to keep tabs on them anyhow." Axel frowned and looked over to where his two friends were watching the current round excitedly. He needed to make sure they stayed out of Marluxia and Larxene's way. No matter what it took.
Author's Notes: Oh goodness! Something white is goen down! Anywho, I've been working on a Skrillmau5 fanfic on Tumblr and a lot of people on there are liking it so that's why I haven't been posting any updates on this ^^' Oh! I got a job so I might be lacking on updates for now. Plus I have a school thingy sometimes and I have to practice my readings and pieces for it so that cuts into my writing time as well as doing homework does. But you know, that's just high school for ya!
Read and review please! Hope you enjoyed! :D