Tournament of Power!

by Dancesnapple

We all know of the great tournament currently happening, but what of a different kind of tournament? One with no antagonists or protagonists. One between eight different franchises entirely. Which will win? This is not just a Naruto fic, but there are too many series to list as a crossover, so just posting it here.

4. Chapter 4

So... college happened. I was actually getting a good once a week update on this when started, but college is a whore. Doesn't help that this chapter is possibly the longest singular update or post I've ever put up on here...

Alright, so now we get to go back to the "Battle one, Battle two" format. Everything is about to kick back into overdrive. Star Wars seemed to have a steady hold what with having not lost a single man AND having the nuke on their team. However, let's see how long that lasts with everyone else firmly locked onto them. This will be fun. Enter Shao Khan voice.

Round 3: FIGHT!

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Kurama continues to monitor Luke Skywalker and the group of Jedi. He was not about to go chasing after a fight without knowing what they'd be facing. Yusuke, however, was itching to go after seeing that display. "Come on! We need to do something. We can't let this go much longer." He directs his words at Kurama. "And I'm no coward either. If these guys are as strong as you fear, then it would be better to take them on when others are on them as well. If they aren't that strong, then I'll just kick their ass!"

Hiei growls, the only sound made in his silence. He actually wholeheartedly agrees with the spirit detective. This standing on the sidelines, while he's sure has its benefit, is not what he was ever known to stand for. However, this was Kurama who was directing them. Hiei takes little from anyone, but he knows better than to disregard his best friend.

Kurama nods towards them. "I'm going to continue monitoring who we should direct our full attention at. However, if you want a fight that might swing some things in our favor..." He trails off and stares into the distance to everyone's right. "There are three fighters engaged against each other there. It would be advantageous of us for them to get going. They may come at us from behind, whoever wins."

Yusuke smirks, ramming one fist into his other open hand. "Perfect. Kuwabara, let's go!" He nods towards Kurama and takes off.

"Right!" the orange haired swordsman follows.

Kurama glances at Hiei. "Are you not going too?"

Hiei huffs. "Those two fools can babysit each other. Besides, I know something in your head. I'll stand guard a bit longer. However, take too long and I'm finding a fight myself." Kurama chuckles and nods.

Far off, Naruto and Shikamaru rush along together. Every so often, Naruto's senses alert them to another shot as they rush across the devastated environment. Every so often, they pass a few pieces of the zords that weren't thrown off by Luke's display earlier. Naruto can sense the intentions of the field. Things were about to get heavy. Shikamaru kept his senses on what they could see on their way to this sniper.

Naruto knew the sniper needed to be dealt with. Sakura would be taking a bit to get Lee back on his feet. With only Kakashi back there to defend them... No, he trusted Kakashi to do what he could. He trusted Sakura. He also knew Lee wouldn't go down so easily.

As they close in on ground zero, previously the Star Wars team's starting area, the Jedi all remain wary. Kyle steps a bit in front of the group. "Master Skywalker, I think you've riled some of them up."

Luke nodded to his former apprentice. "They saw the power of the Force. Now, they'll come to challenge it. We should be cautious." There was a quick sensation that pierced through himself and one other. He and Jaina each turn their heads away.

Jaina turns back to Luke. "Boba Fett is about to have company. I have a bad feeling."

The uncle and niece lock eyes. She was once trained by Boba Fett, trained how to take down a Force user. While 'friends' is not a term to use, he was still someone she's spent time with towards a goal. Luke was also keen on teamwork. Boba was their cover. He nods at her as she breaks into a sprint away from the group.

Jaina blitz's through the terrain, Force Speed empowering her along. She senses the presence closing in on Boba. Two of them. She vaults over debris, coming down towards Naruto and Shikamaru.

Battle One

Jaina activates her violet saber, swiftly slashing at the Hokage, who narrowly dodges him. Strange, she thought only Jedi would have the advantage of enhanced senses. She KNEW this attack wouldn't have triggered conventional senses. She goes into a flurry, Naruto pulling a kunai out to block. It's cut through by the saber right away. Naruto moves back, dodging and ducking slashes. In a single spin, he ducks a slash and throws a kick. Jaina's precognition alerts her to the attack, side stepping the kick. However, she senses the power of the environment, nature. The power warps from the kick, striking her gut as if he had actually kicked her. She's propelled away, landing with a pained grunt.

Now, Naruto is on the attack. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Smoke clouds the area before disappearing, revealing 10 Narutos. Several rush towards her as she steps back into Form V, Shien stance. Using the style's emphasis on aggressive counters, she blocks strikes with her saber and counters back, eliminating six clones.

This isn't good. Not only are his senses and speed on her level, but he can divide attention. She senses below her, Naruto ripping from the ground in an uppercut. She leans back, falling into her Juyo style. She needs to get control and back on offense. He slashes through the clone, turning to see two more Narutos with energy orbs in each one's right hand. "Rasengan!"

Sticking to the Juyo, she ducks one of the orbs, slashing one clone out, but the other closes in. She throws her off hand up, force push. She presses her hand right against the Rasengan as the push from her blast clashes with the spiraling power of the Rasengan. In a burst, both are launched back.

Naruto lands. So this one wasn't just a clone! Jaina lands as well, her hand numbed from the clash. She works through the pain and throws her hand up. Force pull! Naruto is wrenched towards her. His mind flashes back. This isn't any different from his battles with Nagato, also called Pain. Sasuke also has this technique, too.

Yellow chakra arms spawn from his back, grabbing into the ground to halt himself from being pulled in by Jaina. Naruto pulls out two kunai, throwing them at Jaina, but the Jedi halts the projectiles right in front of her. One is a traditional kunai, the other a three pronged kunai with an inscription on the hilt. . .

Jaina, seeing Naruto being held still, throws her saber at him. The saber closes in as Naruto smirks. Just before hitting, the Hokage flickers in a flash of yellow, the saber flying through and hitting nothing. Naruto reappears gripping the three pronged kunai right in front of Jaina. Flying Thunder God Jutsu!

Jaina's shock lasts but a millisecond. Naruto back swings with the kunai, Jaina catching the wrist with one arm. She throws her free hand to push him back, but Naruto's off hand clasps her's, palm to palm, his chakra blocking the brunt of the push.

The two remain locked against each other. Jaina's eyes close. The saber far behind Naruto whips back, closing in on his back. Naruto's focus changes, a chakra hand growing from his back to clash its hand into the saber blade, halting it.

Naruto's weapon hand flicks his kunai, the blade passing the two's clasped hands and nicking his own thumb. Naruto grins, Jaina's eyes looking shocked as Naruto's hand manipulates hers, performing hand signs with his and her hands.

Acting quickly, Jaina's hands both crackle with electricity. Use of Force Lightning is rare for most Jedi, but most of the upper tier of the New Jedi Order are quite powerful in it. She tries to channel the lightning through her hands directly into Naruto, but the ninja flickers away to his thrown kunai. He slams his off hand into the ground. "Summoning Jutsu!"

Smoke obscures the area between them. From the smoke, a massive toad appears. Jaina frowns. This guy just keeps coming with more techniques.

Naruto calls out. "Gamakichi! Use Water Bullet!" The toad responds, seeming to intake air. Naruto places his palm on the toad's back. He mixes his wind style and his toad's water style, the two natures combining as he fires a powerful blast of water like a giant bullet!

Quick reaction! Her arms drop to her sides then raise, a cracked panel of the ground in front of her folding upward to make a wall. The rapid wind and water shot hits, wind screeching around the edges of the wall, the wall cracking with holes appearing to let wind pierce through, and water streaming and whipping off the wall. Jaina's right foot slides back, arms moving to her side. She throws them forward, the remains of the wall getting launched back at the giant toad. Gamakichi crouches then leaps into the sky.

Naruto atop of the toad's back performs his signature seal. A puff appeared beside him as he spun in place, grabbing the hands of his newly appeared clone and throwing it down to the stage. He immediately picked up pace, spinning and whipping around grabbing newly puffing clones popping into existence. He launches them. One by one to bring a hail of Naruto's machine gunning at the Jedi.

Jaina ignites her saber, performing a flourish, whipping her weapon around in a flashy display. Each movement both dodges an oncoming clone attack and slashes it, causing a smokescreen to wash over the area as the clones keep coming.

Mid-flourish, her left hand palm strikes the air to the side. Gamakichi suddenly feels a Force wave strike him from the side, quickly finding the void under him and not the stage. "Dang! Sorry buddy!" The toad yells out.

Naruto nods at him. "It's fine!" The toad poofs away, Naruto throwing his Flying Thunder God kunai back over the stage and teleporting to it. He begins free fall down toward his opponent, creating mass shadow clones, a storm of Narutos descending towards her.

Jaina's hands thrust up, lightning coursing through her fingertips. From her spawns UNLIMITED POWER, thundering lightning blasting out in a cone above her. All the Narutos react, moving and dodging in the sky as the lightning forks and cracks all around him. The streaks and forks of sparking electricity strike clone after clone. The clones get closer to the source of the attack, making the lightning have fewer space between the forking and branching paths and destroying more clones.

Naruto dodges another fork of lightning as the last clone is hit. He forms a rasengan, coming right down at her. Jaina leaps back, the rasengan hitting the ground and blasting up smoke and debris. Two massive chakra hands reach from each side of the smoke and attempt to clamp onto Jaina. She throws her hands up, performing a repulse, the wave shockwaving out and bashing back both chakra hands.

Jaina charges, speeding up as she sprints. Naruto matches her at full speed, his arms beefing up as extra layers of chakra form around his arms. He brings both arms up as Jaina clashes her saber on them. The saber slowly cuts into the layers of chakra, but Naruto pushes back, the two moving into an intense flurry of slashes vs punches and jabs.

Taking a risk, she attempts to impale him and succeeds, the saber sticking through his back. His pain contorts in pain and anger, his eyes finally turning into fox slit eyes as two chakra hands sprout from his gut and grip the saber still, keeping it in place. Jaina tries to wrench the saber free, but it's held in a vice grip. Naruto grips her wrist with his left hand, his right forming a rasengan.

Just before he can thrust the attack into her, she decides to try an all out mental attack. She clenches her eyes in concentration as Naruto's face contorts in more pain, the veins showing at his temples. She rips her saber free from his gut. She whips back at him to strike again, her eyes snapping open. She stops, saber hand caught by Naruto's right hand.

The entire environment is gone, the two of them standing locked in a black void. The sounds of other battles and the void is changed to an echoing nothingness. There's the sound of a water droplet in water, the ripples passing by them.

Naruto speaks, his eyes glowing in the darkness. "Calm down." She looks up past him, seeing a mass of fur. Darkened red fills her vision as two GIANT versions of Naruto's fox eyes stare at her from the darkness. A massive fox peers at her, and she clenches her teeth at the presence. "Both of you." Naruto finishes.

He throws her back, the black space they just saw disappearing as they both skid to a halt on the stage. Jaina quickly realizes that she was just in his mindscape. So this explains the power she feels from him. She scowls, backing into a stance. However, Naruto stands straight, giving a hardened look.

"I want you and everyone here to know something." He states. She holds her stance, but stops from initiating another exchange. "I want you to know that while we are fighting, I will not stand for all of you losing your universes. I understand a feeling of pride, or maybe a feeling that you need to be the one to win to guarantee it, but once this is over, I'm using the wish given at the end of this to bring you all back." He finishes. "I also feel like you will do the same."

Jaina narrows her eyes. "You're correct. Your point in bringing it up? We still need to fight to get through this."

Naruto nods. "True, but I can feel your negative emotions, as well as everyone." This surprises her. He smiles at the confusion in her. "I'm saying that I think very few people here wouldn't just bring the rest of us back. We're all heroes of our universes. Instead of fighting like we're trying to kill each other." He reaches his arm out, hand clenched into a fist. "How about we simply enjoy the chance to cross paths?"

She considers why he would want to say this all the sudden. "You're stopping this fight to make sure I'm having fun like you are?" She scowls at him. Jedi weren't typically meant to enjoy combat. The Juyo style she incorporates DOES utilize emotion in such a way, involving a mindset that borders on dark emotion. However, he's not wrong. This moment is an unparalleled experience. Her stance drops. "How about this? Whichever one of us loses promises to bring back all the universes lost, and to refuse to lose." Sure, he just said this, but this time she's sensing his motives in the force.

Naruto smiles, his fist still extended as he nods. She senses his emotions, coming to smile as her left hand comes up and extends a fist. "Then don't disappoint me. My name is Jaina Fel-Solo, Sword of the Jedi Order."

Naruto smirks. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki, Seventh Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village." His power erupts as his eyes glow. "Let's GO Kurama!" With proper introductions out, his fist withdraws as he forms a sign. "Mass Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He speeds ahead, clones popping into existence. They all begin throwing their Flying Thunder God kunai. However, rather than throw at Jaina, they throw in differing areas around her. That's when all the Narutos begin rapidly porting between all the kunai, a storm of yellow energy empowered ninja flickering in and out of each and every direction. Simply looking at it could cause seizures.

Jaina tracks with her eyes, but it's no use. There's no way to predict which kunai each and every enemy will port to. Instead, she shuts her eyes. Sight distracts, keeps you too focused on the senses everyone has. She feels out the area, and feels out through the Force. In visualization, to her, it's as it she's got a helmet on, blocking her sight, and around her are dozens of training probes, droids that fire stun shots for lightsaber training.

He controls her saber, moving back into a Djem So stance, Form V. In her mind, one of the probe droids fires, and she reacts to deflect it. In real time, Jaina's saber deflects an arm holding a rasengan. He deflect makes the clone clutch its arm and stumble. In her mind, she spins and slashes the probe droid that just shot at her. In the real world, she cuts down the clone, a satisfying pop sounding. She smoothly falls back into her stance. With this many enemies, this was the best way to fight.

To her senses, all of the probe droids fire at once, from different angles and distances, all the Naruto's begin moving and porting towards her to attack. Jaina deflects a rasengan into another clone, spin countering to kill the first clone. She ducks, smoothly transitioning to Form II, Makashi, the dueling style. She jabs with a riposte, impaling another clone. Transitioning to a backhand grip, she impales an attacker from behind, then whirls around in a flourish, striking two more clones.

She deflects one clone aside and force pulls another clone to her, twisting around it to use it as a human shield from another attack. She strikes the next attacker and side kicks a clone back, intermixing martial strikes with her saber slashes. She nimbly leaps up five feet, two chakra arms erupting from the ground at her legs and missing, as she comes down and stabs the ground, a muffled pop sounding underneath.

Before she can react, a fist crashes into her jaw. Faster! They get stronger and faster the less there are! She's launched away, skipping along the ground before hitting flat against an ripped upward chunk of the battlefield. She coughs out, her air being knocked and her vision snapping black despite her eyes being open now. She catches herself and gathers her bearings as only one Naruto stands, his one hand up with a spiral of energy shaped like a shuriken. The energy makes a high pitched hum as Naruto rears his hand back before launching it at her. "Wind Style: Rasenshuriken!"

The spiral closes in, but Jaina recovers enough. She speeds forward and ducks to the side, the attack moving past her. It'll hit the chunk of earth she just got hit into, so she should still move away from it-

That's when the spiraling four blades around the spherical center extend out. Jaina's eyes widen as she brings her saber up to slash at the attack's out blades, but she senses the impending expansion of the sphere. She pushes with all her power as the Rasenshuriken blows up in a dome of wind energy. However, the side of the dome is indented with Jaina pushing against the attack.

In a clash, an explosion occurs, the blast obscuring Jaina from Naruto's vision. However, Naruto still senses her. She's hurt, but she's well off. What DOES surprise him is the sudden grip at his throat. He shudders, hands reaching up to his throat as he's confused. The smoke and debris clears to reveal a pained and hurt Jaina looking powerfully pissed. Her saber arm is torn up, damaged, as her hand barely holds her saber. Her off hand is raised, her hand clenching as she raises Naruto a few inches from the ground, pulling him towards the edge of the stage.

She clenches her teeth, knowing she was using a sith application of grip to keep him still, but all she needed was to throw him off. However, that's when several chakra arms come out, locking Naruto in place directly in front of Jaina, her back to the stage edge. She concentrates her power to force him to move, but he holds still, staring dead on at her.

Without any clue to the next action, the yellow chakra bursts from the Hokage, a giant fox shaped head of energy forming around his body with its gaping maw facing the Jedi. Naruto coughs out his response. "Tailed..." Chakra bubbles out and collects into a concentrated ball point blank between them. "Beast..." The ball of energy condenses in a pure black orb. "BOMB!"

Jaina swiftly attempts to bring up her saber arm, her off hand gripping as well in a guard before her vision is blinded in light. A massive shot of energy blasts and explodes, a section of the stage side cracking and falling from the shockwave. In the debris, a lightsaber falls as well.

The debris clears, Naruto standing clear as day, holding Jaina by the collar. Jaina's consciousness fades as Naruto lets her go. However, he subtly places some of his healing power into her, letting her fall off the stage and land in the Star Wars stands. Having been minorly healed, she manages to stand up in the stands, locking eyes with him down on the stage. Naruto smiles and nods at her as he turns to go back to the other fights.

He quickly senses out for Shikamaru. When he'd first created shadow clones against Jaina, Shikamaru had used the smoke to get away to continue on after the sniper, Boba Fett. He senses out, focusing on the upper secondary level of the stage where Boba Fett was, only to snap in surprise. Shikamaru... lost?

Battle two

Shikamaru stands against Boba, a shadow connecting them. This would usually be a very advantageous position. However, this was anything but. The two are stuck, square against each other.

The fight hasn't gone well since the start. His enemy has special sensor equipment and saw Shikamaru coming. Now, while Shikamaru knew from the get go that his enemy would be exclusively long range, but he wasn't even close to prepared for his enemy having a jetpack to keep him well out of range from Shikamaru's attacks.

At that point, it was up to Shikamaru to get him out of the air... much easier said than done. However, through a mix of explosives, tools, and use of his shadows to throw sections of the stage up at him, he got the bounty hunter close enough to the ground to connect a shadow. Having halted him, he managed to damage the jetpack, then used his shadow stitching on him. That failed due to the Mandalorian armor's strength.

Shikamaru growls. This is how the two ended up in this predicament. Shikamaru had him under control, but he's used far too much of his chakra to get this far. Shikamaru decides that he'll need to use an explosive. He reaches back to his pouch at his lower back. His hand reaches in. Mirroring this gesture due to the possession, Boba's hand moves behind his own back. Shikamaru draws a kunai with a paper bomb tied to it. Boba, however, uses a magnetic tool in the glove of his gauntlet, pulling a tool hidden under his jetpack.

Shikamaru and Boba mirror each other as the ninja throws the paper bombed kunai at Boba Fett. However, Boba Fett also throws something, a bomb of his own. Shikamaru's eyes widen, thinking he made sure his enemy didn't have a hidden weapons pound behind him, then eyes the glove. Damn it! The bomb thrown by the bountry hunter threw explodes, destroying the kunai and paper bomb and breaking the jutsu holding him. Boba drops down, firing the rocket from his jetpack. The rocket travels through the smoke, Shikamaru uses a shadow stitching to blow of the rocket before it hits. The blast manages to launch the strategist over the edge of the stage, but he sticks to the wall, standing.

He breathes sound, managing to save himself. However, Boba flies overhead, firing up his flame thrower. The flame spout lights up the Nara's vision. This is when time seems to stop. Shikamaru's mind goes a mile a minute. He uses exclusively ranged weapons. He's got heavy armor that's difficult to damage. He specializes in explosive and flame weapons at medium range and blasters at long. The only way to beat this guy is close combat!

Quickly tossing his jacket off and throwing it at the flames, he charges. Using the jacket as a short lived barrier, he pushes through the flames and strikes Boba up onto the stage. He pulls out one of the specialty knives he'd inherited from his old sensei, Asuma, charging the blade with chakra as he moves at Boba Fett. The bounty hunter pulls forth a hilt...

However, just before he can secure the victory, a green blade ignites the blade and impales Shikamaru's shoulder. His right arm drops, unable to move as Shikamaru screams in pain. Boba Fett uses his jetpack to fly back over the edge, shutting the lightsaber off and letting Shikamaru drop over the edge.

Damn. Like almost every time, Shikamaru analyzed the situation, but didn't account for a detail he couldn't have known about, and he'd exhausted his chakra despite thinking of strategies dozens of moves left to go. However, he was faced against an opponent that was well equipped to take him down...

Shikamaru lands in the Naruto stands. Damn it. Sorry Naruto.

Battle three

Darth Krayt is knocked back, skidding to a halt. Damn it. He's cornered. Before him stood two warriors from Final Fantasy, Squall and Zidane. There was very little he could do. Not two against one. He'd tried to get back to his team, but couldn't get past them.

He stands tall, igniting his red blade. No use crying about it. He will have to just try to take one or both of them out with him. Letting anger flow through him, he engaged the two. He exchanges fast blows with Squall, clashing and moving back, before using the force to throw back Zidane. However, that split second going after the monkey bastard leaves him open as Squall uses the move Fated Circle, side slashing Krayt back towards the edge of the area.

Krayt fires back using lightning, the bolts scorching the ground towards the two warriors. However, Squall builds up power around him, his own aura blocking the lightning.

Zidane is shocked and moves back. "Squall!"

The brown haired man concentrates. "Don't worry." He brings his sword up above him. One might believe he's called forth power of the elements as a blue flame-like energy forms around his sword, thickening and extending the blade into the sky. Bigger. Bigger. Bigger. It keeps growing until he smirks at the attack.

Krayt stares up at the impending attack, completely shocked by the display as Squall grips tight on his weapon handle with both hands and brings down the massive slash. "Blasting Zone!" Blue energy blinds Krayt and it engulfs him, the massive blade coming down and smashing him into the ground before blasting him away, off the arena.

The attack ends, the energy dissipating back to Squall's original gunblade. He smirks and controls his breathing after the exertion. He turns to Zidane. "Come on. Let's go."

Battle four

Two v two. Lightning Farron leaps forward, slashing and clashing against Yukimura Sanada. Above them, Noctis Caelum and Sasuke Sarutobi clash as well, both pushing apart. The two teams of two land opposite of one another.

Yukimura smiles. "Oh dear, these two are fast enough to keep up with us." He lazily steps forward. "Sasuke, take your pick. I already tried to set you up with that blue haired girl, so you get first dibs this time."

Sasuke sighs, endlessly tired of his master's shit. He glares at his enemies, focusing on whichever matches his ferocity. The one that matches is Lightning, glaring back as she readies her sword and shield. Sasuke charges his sword with electricity, his eyes turning crimson. He ramps up the power and charges Lightning.

Like against Lucy and Wendy, he channels his lightning through the ground, creating a net along the area of his target. The net shocks and limits her movement, but his follow up strike is parried, Lightning throwing him back. She shakes at the shocks, but powers out of it, firing thundaga and firaga at Sasuke. The ranged attack pushes Sasuke back, but she frees herself to pursue him.

Yukimura's smile disappears, seeing Lightning almost effortlessly push Sasuke back at his most powerful. He tries to speed to intervene, but a dagger throw cuts him off, Noctis teleporting to it and striking Yukimura back.

Noctis begins switching between weapons, swords for up close, lances to thrust and push in, and throwing ninja stars at Yukimura whenever he moves back. Yukimura ramps up the speed, gaining distance. He moves to speed around Noctis, only for the prince before him to switch to a cannon. The powerful shot explodes the area the samurai had been running towards, cutting him off.

He glances at Noctis, barely catching his image flickering away in a teleport. Yukimura slides back, Noctis, lance in hand, impaling the ground. Noctis growls in frustration. This guy was good at moving. Time for a tactic change.

He looks at the environment. When the tournament started, it was but a single flat surface with with the tower in the center. Now, there was broken debris in various areas, destroyed robot chunks, and scraped crevices abound. Yukimura is already about to begin using the cover to try to help his friend.

Charging up magic, he leaps onto a ledge of rubble. He fires ice, freezing the environment with Blizzaga. Yukimura's route around Noctis freezes, having him keep himself from falling by jabbing his sword into the ground for a hold. Having found his target, Noctis then charges Thundaga, lightning sparking down at Yukimura. The swordsman dashes back, out of the ice. The thunder destroys the area he'd just stood in.

Yukimura, now serious, stares at Noctis with an undertone of anger. He sees a large strike of lightning intermixed with fire in the distance. Sasuke is in trouble against that woman. He needs to put this man before him down. Yukimura sighs, knowing he'll have to use Sekireigan.

Noctis sighs, taking the lull in the fight to breath. Using too much magic at once can cause a short recharge period. He waits to see what his enemy will do. He could also tell that Lightning could beat that child. The kid was strong, but not on their level. All he needs to do is either beat this Yukimura guy or last long enough to gain a numbers advantage.

Yukimura starts walking towards the raven haired man, his steps picking up. Noctis readies himself. Something is going to happen. Noctis keeps his eye on his target until five more appeared from him. Six Yukimura's appear as they all rush him, faster than even he can properly defend against.

Yukimura eyes Noctis with the intent to kill. "Sekireigan!" Noctis uses Reflect and Barrier to counter, the hexagonal shapes forming around him and making a sphere wall around him. The barrier is suddenly smashed against. Noctis lowers the barrier, seeming to be fine before the pain hits. He clutches his side, feeling the wet warm texture of blood.

He looks up at Yukimura, who wears a surprised and impressed look. "It seems only one of the attacks got through." Yukimura still glares with a killer like intent, but he smiles again soon after. His happy friendly demeanor is back. "I'll be back to throw you off after helping Sasuke." He dashes around Noctis, who still stands with his side clutched.

Noctis growls, using fire magic to sear his wound shut.

Yukimura continues rushing towards Sasuke and Lightning's battle, breathing hard. Only two more Sekireigans left with his stamina. Just as he makes it about 40 yards from the injured prince behind him, he detects an incoming attack. He stops and dashes back, a sword striking the ground. He turns to slash, his counter attack being parried by a lance before two more blades spark into existence and strike Yukimura, knocking him back.

Injured, Yukimura glares forward, Noctis standing surrounded by 13 weapons floating around him, his Armiger release. Yukimura's eyes widen at the weapon array, recognizing some of them as weapons Noctis has been using: A massive battle axe, an eloquent crossbow, a large four bladed ninja star, a chainsaw like greatsword, a large shield, a two handed mace, a royal scepter, a trident, a pair of twin dual swords, three different other one handed swords, and a katana.

All the weapons float seemlessly around him in a flurry. Noctis glares at Yukimura, ready to put him down.

The samurai glares. It seems he won't be able to get around it. He might expend all of his stamina on this next strike. He won't be able to use Sekireigan anymore, but he can still help Sasuke against his opponent. That will be worth it. Yukimura separates into various images of himself. Unlike the normal 6, this time he doubles the move, numbering at 12! "Double Sekireigan!"

He was able to speed blitz Noctis before. He's hoping to get through to him again. All 12 of himself move at once, blurring around Noctis in a pack hunt pattern. Suddenly, all 12 dash directly at Noctis from all sides. Noctis, however, tracks Yukimura with his eye. The two lock gazes as all the attacks come.

This was unexpected. This release not only made Noctis stronger and had more control of weapons... it also made him faster! Then another realization: math... 12 attacks...

13 weapons controlled at once. One strike is blocked by the shield. Noctis throws his star projectile into the oncoming Yukimura, striking him and making the image and attack disappear. The axe, trident, scepter, greatsword, and mace each block attacks, the chainsaw on the massive sword spinning through that Yukimura's blade and through the image. The rest are blocked by the Noctis' swords.

The images of Yukimura all disappear, leaving the real one with his sword stuck between the dual Swords of the Wanderer. Noctis, keeps the weapon locked with his perfect control of the floating weapons, aiming the cross at Yukimura's chest. In any other situation, Yukimura would move, but the sudden exhaustion of using the Double Sekireigan hits. Almost as hard as the crossbow shot that strikes through his gut, launching Yukimura back and skidding on the ground.

Yukimura lands in a heap, unable to move and bleeding from the gut. He lets out pained grunts trying to get up. Noctis, however, steps to him, his Armiger release ending. He bends over, grabbing and throwing Yukimura's sword away before pulling the samurai up, one arm over his shoulder.

He walks Yukimura over, who simply chuckles pained. "You... You are much stronger than I expected."

Noctis awkwardly shrugs, carrying the other man along. "So were you." He waits a moment. "I'm sorry for this, but I have a kingdom to go back to."

Yukimura startles at that. "Heh... You too huh?" The two chuckle. Yukimura nods. "I wished to become Shogun of my land. You might have beat me, but I believe my team will be victorious." He looks at Noctis as they reach the edge of the arena. "However, hearing that I was defeated by a ruler fighting for his people... that's good enough for me." Noctis releases him, giving him a nod as Yukimura stumbles off over the side.

The fall is short before he suddenly appears in his stands. Yukimura appears on his back, staring up into the void sky. He can't move. Only a few second later does he hear another person appear beside him. He smiles at the unconscious 12 year old that appeared beside him. "I'm sorry I failed you, Sasuke. I'm proud you came this far with me."

Back down on the stage, Noctis reunited with Lightning. Lightning sees Noctis' state. "You used Armiger again? Doesn't that drain you?"

Noctis chuckles nervously. "As long as I don't use it again too soon, I should be fine." He sighs. "Let's go."

The two rush off for another battle.

Battle five

Warrior of Light, still in his Knight transformation, is beaten back, falling to a knee. He breathes heavy. Damn it, this two on one shit is getting old. Benitora and Kyoshiro were working in tandem, the faster and stronger Kyoshiro beating at WoL's defenses as Benitora uses his spear to jab and score light hit after light hit.

The knight moves back and blocks a spear jab, only for Kyoshiro to appear behind him, a Mizuchi attack leaving slashes all over the knight's back. He stumbles, only to get bashed back, landing on his back.

Kyoshiro and Benitora stand side by side as they get ready to end this. Kyoshiro's stamina reserves aren't great, so he can't let this go on much more.

Kyoshiro lunges in, using a Suzaku strike at the Knight. The warrior is still unable to properly determine how to perfectly clash the technique, especially while worn down this much, the fire bird hitting and burning him. Through the flames, Benitora goes for a final strike with his spear.

The spear closes in on WoL's chest... "SPIRIT SWORD!" An orange beam like saber extends from a distance, striking Benitora's weapon aside and saving the would-be victim. Kuwabara dashes in and slides to a halt in front of WoL, wielding saber of energy conjured from his right hand. He stands tall. "How dare you gang up on an injured opponent!"

WoL, confused, tilts his head. "You are away I am an enemy, right?"

Kuwabara flashes a grin. "I am a man of honor! I can't stand by and watch a fellow 'knight' get ganged up on!" He takes a dramatic pose. He powers his saber and extends it before doing a sweeping slash at Kyoshiro. Kyoshiro blocks, but finds the attack is FAR too powerful for him to take. With the swing, Kyoshiro is thrown back, skidding to a halt near Benitora.

WoL steps to Kuwabara's side. "Are you sure about helping me? These guys have strange techniques."

Kuwabara smirks. "A mulberry is a tree, and Kuwabara's a man!" He grins. "We got this. Besides, Urameshi can't stay out of this either."

As if on cue, Benitora and Kyoshiro notice a glow from the side. "SPIRIT GUN!" The blast moves between them and strikes the ground nearby, completely erasing the area it hits. Yusuke lands by Kuwabara, eyeing WoL. "Man, your knight fetish is going to be the death of you." He ignores WoL's confused expression. The knight would be foolish to turn away their help. Yusuke punches one fist into his other hand. "Now, let's kick some ass!"

Battle six

Toshiro Hitsugaya moves around the battlefield. His Bankai having been activated, he desperately searches for a fight. Having separated from Byakuya, he ventures into the area that Fairy Tail had started at. Two ice wings fused to his back and ice talons on his feet, he floats up into the air, wondering where his next fight would be, only to react as a demonic blast strikes at him.

He blocks, an explosion going off in the air. He lands on the ground, the broken ice reforming. He glances up, seeing Yomi from the Yu Yu Hakusho team. Yomi, eyes closed, nods towards him. "Let us battle for our worlds." He smiles. "I sense you're powerful."

Toshiro dully looks at him, bringing his sword up. "Yes. Let me show you." He sends forth a massive blast of ice towards Yomi, an energy shield appearing around him and blocking the ice.

Yomi keeps his smile at him, dashing through the ice towards Toshiro and punching at him, the Soul Reaper's ice covered sword blocking. Toshiro keeps an eye on the floating ice flower behind him... only one petal left. He can tell from one strike that he'll need his trump card for this fight...

Battle seven

Sakura continues to heal Lee. Now situated in a hidden hole underneath rubble, Kakashi stands outside, waiting for someone to approach.

Moments pass, his senses on alert, but surprisingly enough, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a green book, flipping open to a book marked page. Heck, if their universe is erased, he may not have the opportunity to read this thing again.

As he reads, his thoughts follow the book. 'hmm. So Sayako says she can't be with Ken? I wonder why she continues to see him. Wait! Is she? Oh-ho inviting over when Mai isn't there. Scandalous.' He lets out an... only slightly perv-like chuckle before he sighs.

"I can tell you're there." At the statement, the ground behind him erupts, a metal pylon extending out at the former Hokage. Kakashi's free hand catches the thrusting hunk of metal as purple lightning shocks the rod back.

Gajeel slides to a halt, the metal pylon retracted back and turning into his arm. Gajeel grins. "So you're the guy who took down Jellal? I can't believe I'm so lucky!" He chuckles as metal encases his whole body, silver metal covering his skin.

Kakashi arches his brow. "Lucky, you say? Your enthusiasm reminds me of one of my former students." Suddenly, a trap around Gajeel springs, a smokescreen going off as dozens of kunai charged with lightning go into the smoke.

The smoke clears, Kakashi's eyes widening a bit to see Gajeel... eating his kunai?! The armor on his skin cracked from the lightning charged attacks, but the dragon slayer happily munches on the kunai, the armor reforming. Gajeel smirks as he finishes. "Good stuff."

Kakashi sweat drops. "You might want to consider a different diet. Too much iron in the blood can be bad."

Gajeel smirks and strikes the ground, pylons jutting from the ground towards Kakashi, forcing him to dash backwards away. "I'm all iron, you fool! The iron dragon slayer!"

Kakashi stops the coming metal strikes with a mud wall jutsu, only for the metal to crush through. Okay, earth style is out. That would imply water is out as well, though some ideas start coming to his head. Wind? Kakashi's never been strong there, so best not to waste chakra. That leaves fire and lightning.

Kakashi charges lightning around him. "Well, I surely hope you thought this through. You might just become a lightning rod."

Gajeel retracts his hands from the metal pylons and smirks. "I wonder what the lightning dragon slayer has to say about that."

Kakashi's flinches with realization, yellow sparks forming behind him as Laxus Dreyer appears from them, throwing a punch at Kakashi that causes the immediate area to explode.

Kakashi dashes back out of the dust and debris, standing unfazed. Before him stand both Gajeel and Laxus. He can tell already that this won't be easy. Maybe conversation will buy time. "Now, what is this 'dragon slayer' bit you keep referring to?"

Gajeel smiles wide, Laxus still calmly staring at the ninja. "Buddy, this ain't the time or place for a history lesson." He cackles, bringing his arms up. Metal grows out from his iron skin into his hands to form kunai before throwing them at Kakashi.

Kakashi parries them, catching one and throwing it back. Gajeel smirks as he charges. The kunai pings off his iron scaled skin, only for a large crack to appear. Gajeel winces in pain.

"The hell?" The kunai was his own! It shouldn't have been able to cut his iron scales. That's when he sees a purple sparking come from the kunai. Kakashi channeled lightning into it before throwing it. The ninja then throws his own kunai, charged with lightning. The dragon slayer catches it in his teeth and chomps it down, ignoring the sparks before smiling back at him.

He charges Kakashi again. "Iron Dragon Sword!" His arm turns into a blade as Kakashi removes another kunai, the two engaging in hand to hand with swordplay. Kakashi charges electricity into his kunai, clashing with the sword and slowly cutting through blade attached to his enemy. He pushes through and lands several strikes on Gajeel, but the mage counters as his arm becomes a giant thick mace. "Iron Dragon Club!" Too heavy for a simply kunai to block, he manages to bash Kakashi back.

Kakashi recovers and dashes back again, avoiding Gajeel smashing the ground he had just stood on. He then transforms his leg into a long lance, sweep kicking Kakashi despite the distance. Kakashi lands on the ground, vulnerable. Gajeel raises both arms, the hands fusing together to make a massive blade. "Iron Dragon Great Sword!" He swings down on Kakashi, but the Hokage responds with a move he hasn't used in years.

His open palm is engulfed in focused purple lightning as he thrusts his hand up to clash with the massive blade. "Chidori!" The move he could no longer use effectively after losing the sharingan, Kakashi can still manage to use it defensively. The lightning coated hand and arm clashes with the powerful strike from Gajeel, quickly gaining ground as he gets back his footing, pushes back, and slices through Gajeel's massive sword with his patented lightning blade.

The chidori fades out as Kakashi flickers out of existence. A foot crashes into Gajeel's jaw from below, launching him into the sky, the startup of the Primary Lotus move. However, from there it's original, Kakashi streaming lightning up loosely around Gajeel and shocking him as he's sent further into the air.

Gajeel growls out in pain before creating a lance as his arm and firing it. It impales the ninja, a satisfying pop sounding as it turns to smoke. Gajeel's eyes widen as he looks to the skies above him. There floats Kakashi, both hands charged. This is the trademark setup of his Twin Lightning Shiver, but rather than smash into Gajeel with two chidori's like that technique, he fires a massive blast from his hands, violet purple light glowing off it as it threatens to bolt Gajeel back down to earth. The slayer breaths in.

"Iron Dragon Roar!" A massive metal colored wind stream blasts from his mouth, clashing with the blast in a mid-air beam struggle.

However, this leads to an issue. Metal, and therefore iron, is just purified earth... and what is earth weak to in the ninja world? The massive lightning blast overwhelms the breath attack, pushing through and closing the distance to the poor slayer.

Just before he's hit, Laxus bolts in, half made of lightning, before tanking Kakashi's attack. The wave of purple hits the small mass of yellow sparks as Laxus opens his mouth. The purple sparks all about before slowly, but surely, disappearing into his mouth.

Gajeel twists around, landing on his feet on the ground. Laxus lands seconds afterward, arm wiping his mouth. Kakashi, surprised but focused, lands away from them. "So, a 'lightning' dragon slayer..." That... terrible for him. It seems each of these slayers can eat whatever thing that they're associated with for energy and recovery. Could they eat something they produce? Hmm, possibly, but more than likely no. Using any move uses energy, so how would be use energy to replenish their energy?

That said, he knows for a fact he can take the metal man. While Gajeel is more than a match for Kakashi in close quarters, so long as lightning is in play, Kakashi can win. However, this guy... If lightning is off limits, and earth loses to lightning, that leaves him with water and limited fire jutsu. Heck, even fire isn't a great strength of his. First, take at least one of them off the table.

Gajeel and Laxus eye the enemy together. "He has you outmatched." The guild master's grandson states. "I'm better suited because of my lightning."

Gajeel scoffs. "Piss off. You know as well as I do that I still have my trump card." However, at that moment, Kakashi's form fades away, disappearing. "What the-" Gajeel's eyes glaze over as his expression dulls.

Laxus flinches as he throws Gajeel back, Kakashi hitting the area with explosive kunai. Kakashi lands at Laxus, the two engaging in heated hand to hand. Laxus soon encases his arm in electricity, throwing a punch, though Kakashi ducks back to avoid, performing hand signs. "Fire Style: Fire Ball Jutsu!" He launches the fire point blank, Laxus charging out lightning to clash with the fire while Kakashi skids back with more hand signs. "Water Style: Water Vortex Jutsu!"

Moisture in the air condenses and forms in front of Kakashi before firing in a tornado of water. Laxus quickly calls lightning from above, a massive bolt striking the vortex and annihilating it. As the water is dispelled, a thick mist forms around him. Hidden Mist Jutsu!

Kakashi speaks through the mist. "I'm impressed you saw through my genjutsu. It saved your friend." Laxus moves back to Gajeel, who's still laying on the ground with glazed eyes. However, Kakashi knows that it won't last long. He'll need to finish this quickly.

Laxus scowls into the mist. "I've fought Mystogan before. He was all a out illusions, but he never once managed to stop me." He looks through. He figures he can spark lightning through the water particles of the mist.

"Impressive, but don't use too much lightning. If you stream your lightning through the entire mist, you'll attack your ally as well." Kakashi seemingly read his mind. Some things don't disappear with the sharingan.

Laxus considers for a second, but then smiles. His fellow mage, Freed, taught him something perfect for this. Laxus casts a runed barrier spell, the barrier appearing around Gajeel. "Glad to know I have a fix for that." With Gajeel now protected from his lightning, he decides to ramp this up. His yellow lightning quickly changes color, becoming blood red.

Kakashi detects the coming attack as he closes in on Laxus from behind. Damnit, he'll have to use lightning if he's going to counter that much power. Red lightning pours from Laxus into the mist, passing from water molecule to water molecule. A ranged move. So long as Kakashi uses his lightning defensively, it should be fine!

Kakashi mimics the red lightning, streaming purple through the mist to match it, power for power. The mist is suddenly alight in bring red and purple, clashing and streaks of forked lightning whipping across the inside of the mist and the outside, scarring the grounds.

In a final explosion, the mist is blasted apart. So much for the Zabuza plan... The blast dissipates the mist with smoke blowing from the epicenter. Laxus stands in front of the dazed and barrier protected Gajeel, facing Kakashi. Kakashi lets out very tired breaths. This was stressing his stamina. However, given Laxus' own worn body and expression, it went both ways.

If he can get through Laxus and eliminate Gajeel before he wakes up, he can win this. Hmm, maybe a different plan Zabuza is in order? He glances over his surroundings. Earlier water jutsu and the dispelled mist has left puddles and even a miniature river along a deep scorched crack in the ground. He looks to the sky. While there is a modicum of atmosphere, he can't use fire jutsu to make a mock storm. There goes a Sasuke tactic. He can't block out this guy's senses well, and genjutsu won't work. Kakashi reaches into his weapons pouch. He's already used a good deal of weapons to outmatch Gajeel.

Well, he really is running out of tactics. Earth Jutsu is still ineffective, and wind is too weak for this level of lightning. He removes a kunai, this time one that Gajeel had made earlier. Kakashi must have grabbed it within the cover of the mist. He charges chakra into the blade. However, unlike the traditional lightning chakra, he pushes wind chakra into it, creating an extended blade similar to the ones used by Asuma Sarutobi. Wind beats lightning, right? Perhaps just this small application can work.

Kakashi speeds at Laxus, the Fairy Tail mage charging his limbs with yellow lightning against as they engage in close quarters combat. Laxus uses short ranged lightning, but Kakashi uses his wind blade to fork the lightning around him, surprising Laxus as Kakashi scores some slices onto him. The blonde stumbles back, using empowered kick. Kakashi uses an axe kick, knocking Laxus' attack down before lunging with the wind powered kunai, but Laxus catches his arm. However, the wind blade still digs into Laxus' gut.

With a pained grunt as Kakashi pushes Laxus back, the blonde charges electricity straight into Kakashi's body. The wind blade disappears as Kakashi channels lightning around his arm, the purple and yellow sparks around their arms canceling out. Kakashi pushes him further back to the mini river behind them. Laxus's feet dip into the water, losing footing as Kakashi steps on the water with no issue.

To keep on level, Laxus changes his legs into lightning, partially turning into his element. However, before the top half can change, Kakashi kicks out, hitting Laxus' chest wound and knocking him back and into the water.

As soon as the mage is in the water, Kakashi begins hand signs. However, before he finishes, Laxus explodes from the water, hitting Kakashi with lightning. The water splashes on them both as the lightning is conducted. Laxus smirks. "Did you forget that water conducts electricity?"

Kakashi, with Laxus's hand in his gut, smiles through his mask at him, his eyes closing in his signature eye smile. "Not at all. I trust that means you know what I intended?" With that, Kakashi's body changes to water, the water bursting and surrounding Laxus. Kakashi lands behind the mage, completing hand signs. The water below Laxus warps upward, enclosing Laxus in an orb of water. Kakashi's hand jabs into the water. "Water Style: Water Prison Jutsu!"

Laxus, shocked at getting trapped, immediately flexes his power, lightning coursing through him and into the water. However, Kakashi's arm in the water lights with purple, canceling the shocks. That's when Laxus realized. It didn't matter if water conducted electricity. If lightning was both of their elements, he couldn't properly attack. Damn it! He's trapped! He puffs up, yellow and red sparks appearing in the water. "Lightning Dragon-"

Kakashi raises one hand. "Water Style: Water Wall!" the wall appears in a circle around the water prison, adding extra protection as Kakashi charges more power into his purple lightning to block the oncoming attack. His hand in the water positions itself in front of Laxus's mouth. "Chidori!"

"ROAR!" the breath attack erupts out at Kakashi. The orb of water, as well as the extra wall around it, light in a glowing white. The flare of shocks in the water blind the area until finally, the roaring attack splits around Kakashi, breaking the water prison. Red and yellow blast out on either side of Kakashi, creating explosions behind him.

Laxus stares wide eyed up at Kakashi, both still in the same position as before. Then, the water around him forms back. Laxus tries to get out before it can, both in no time, the large orb of water encloses around Laxus again. The water wall was simply to make enough water around him to reform the prison. Kakashi's lightning blade of a hand stops sparking, now back in the prison. "Right back where you started." Kakashi states, though his voice is out of breath.

Except now, Laxus clutches at his throat. The call out for the roar attack used much of the air in his lungs. Now, he's back in the water. Seems Kakashi knows exactly when to use lightning defensively without Laxus able to eat it, too.

"Now." Kakashi speaks with a weary tone. "You're done." A poof appears behind him, a shadow clone of Kakashi standing behind him. The clone dashes off, heading towards where Gajeel was.

However, Kakashi flinches as his clone is immediately destroyed. He turns his head, a mass of darkness appearing. . .

Kakashi throws his arm out, the strike moving through the shadows with no impact. From the dark mass, a metal sword arm comes out and bursts the water prison, freeing Laxus.

What the hell is this?! Kakashi's now freed arm sparks with lightning, only for Laxus's red lightning infused hand to clamp around his wrist.

From the mass of darkness, Gajeel, with silver metal skin and black markings and shadows creeping off him, appears. "Iron Shadow Dragon Slayer Mode!" Gajeel smiles wickedly. Time for payback for that genjutsu! "Iron Shadow Dragon-" He breaths in, Kakashi's eyes widening as he realizes he has no answer to this situation. "ROAR!"

A metal infused wind laced in black erupts forward, smashing into Kakashi's torso and launching him away. The blast carries him so far, he finds no more footing under him. . . the outside of the arena. Kakashi is blasted from the arena... and disappears into the darkness. Kakashi lands in the stands for his team.

In the arena, Gajeel falls from his form, both he and Laxus kneeling down out of breath. Gajeel sniffs, directing Laxus to look at the upturned rocks, finding Sakura and the now healed Lee up and staring at them. Gajeel smirks with Laxus. "Can you keep going?"

Laxus sparks an aura of lightning. "I was gonna ask you that."

Battle six, continued

Toshiro hits a chipped mountain of debris, imprinted into the side. From the look of it, he's having a horrible time. His limbs are torn, blood trailing from the top of his head, and his ice wings and talons torn apart. Before him stands Yomi, who shows a good deal of damage himself, but unlike the boy before him, he's not even breathing hard.

Yomi faces the last brittle flower petal crumbling apart over Toshiro's head. "It seems your time is up." He raises his hand, firing a blast and eradicating the brittle ice petal. He frowns at Toshiro. "I'm afraid time is up."

Toshiro breathes heavily, centering himself as he stares directly at Yomi. "Yes. Your time is up."

Yomi's look of surprise is followed by an immediate eruption of power. The upturned environment is turned into a cleared out crater. Yomi's barriers protect him and fade away, leaving him to stare dead on at Tos...hiro?

Toshiro's teenager look is replaced by a version of himself looking well into his 20s. This older Toshiro stares dead at Yomi, radiating more power than ever before. "You made the mistake of assuming the flower shows how much time I have in my Bankai. However, the truth is worse for you. It's how long it takes for my Bankai to truly wake up."

Yomi startles at that. Toshiro was not one for smirking, but he was tempted to as he channeled his power. Yomi's barrier comes up to shield him, but Toshiro launches his attack. In a split instant, the entire corner of the fighting stage turns from its stony grays, browns, clay tans, and blacks. Replacing it is an eerie snow white landscape. Everything becomes solid ice sheeting over the environment. Snow whirls around and falls, Toshiro standing in the ensuing blizzard.

However, his cold demeanor was short lived, as the snow calms down to reveal Yomi standing in a single untouched spot in the white landscape. Around Yomi shimmered a single energy barrier. "That was quite the attack." The S rank demon comments.

Toshiro flinches back, stepping back into a defensive stance. "I don't get it. What happened?"

Yomi smiles at him. "I see you're confused. You move reduced the temperature of the surrounding environment to absolute zero. You hoped that it would do the same to me." He then flares his aura. "But, before I tell you why it failed, I must ask. Are you, or have you ever been, something akin to a demon?"

Toshiro's eyes narrowed. A demon... like a hollow? His eyes widen in horror. His mind flashes to his own hollofication during his battles against the quincy. His energy took on the form of a skull like mask for a moment. His energy was infused with Hollow power so that the Quincy could not steal his Bankai's power!

Yomi nods. "I see you have, by your reaction. You see, these energy barriers of mine have their own special function outside of basic protection." He snickers. "They block out any energy that is demonic in nature."

Toshiro freezes in place, shocked. That means... none of his attacks even have the capability of reaching this enemy. Yomi charges himself full of power before charging the ice soul reaper.

They clash... but it isn't long before the soul reaper ends up in the stands alongside his fallen allies.

Battle eight

Ever since Jaina left them, the Jedi spread themselves to wait for the inevitable attack. Between the remaining 7 of them there, they felt they were ready for whatever could come their way.

Well... so they thought. Kyle, Kyp, Corran, Ben, Leia, and Cilghal all stood still with no reaction as someone speed through their entire group. Luckily enough, none of them were the target.

At the last possible fraction of a second, Luke ignites his green saber and deflects a slash, wind whirling around them from the speed of the reactions. Grinning at Luke's face are the eyes of a demon, red glowing eyes gazing back. Demon Eyes Kyo claims his opponent. With great speed, he speeds around Luke, using Mizuchi to create a stream of wind slashes. However, Luke predicts and counters them all. The two of them standoff as the other six Jedi are caught in shock.

Recovering, they move towards the two before another group lands.

Team Star Wars, meet Team Kyo. Hotaru, Akira, Akari, Bontenmaru, and Shinrei all land between the six Jedi and the ensuing fight.

Kyo eyes Luke and smiles. "Don't let a single one of them through. I want him all to myself."

Luke meets his piercing gaze. "This one is too fast for any of you." The opposing sides all begin glaring at picked up targets. One moment later, and both sides dashed at each other picking fights.

Luke steps into his trademark Form V stance. Kyo smiles wickedly before he dashes straight at Luke at speeds greater than nearly anything Luke's ever seen. They clash, Masamune vs the green saber.

Battle nine

Fire and water attacked together, striking the ground as Ben and his aunt, Leia, move back to shield themselves from the debris. Leia ignites her yellow saber while Ben lights his green. From the debris, Hotaru and Shinrei blitz towards the two. Ben rushes forward, meeting a clash with Hotaru and pushing him away before exchanging a flurry with Shinrei. He mixes a force push into the display, sending Shinrei rolling back, Hotaru dropping down on Ben with his sword flaming.

The flames dance around Ben's force shields, spiraling around the two as Hotaru pushes Ben. Outside the ring of fire, water spirals around as Shinrei guides the water to jet over the flames to Ben's back.

However, the water, as well as Shinrei, is pulled away by the force. He recovers mid pull, landing on his feet to dodge a large boulder. Leia stands with large vehicle sized rocks of varying size and color, chucking them at Shinrei with the force. The samurai dodges and weaves through several throws, but Leia uses one rock as a distraction, throwing the next rock at the spot Shinrei will dodge to. He does so, seeing the massive projectile coming. With a swing of both his curved blades, water whips up with the slash, cutting the whole rock in half.

With a swift slash, the water around Shinrei shoots forward two water dragons at Leia. She throws her hands forward, the dragons smashing against a force push. Shinrei takes the opening in Leia's concentration to blitz her, but she leaps away just before he can get her.

Hotaru and Ben begin circling each other, Hotaru switching up slashes from different fighting styles, only for Ben to manage to deflect and counter each one. Ben pushes back, forcing Hotaru back and out of the whirlwind of flames around them. Ben speeds towards him, forcing Hotaru to leap back again.

Hotaru lands with Shinrei, Ben leaping up and over them to land next to his aunt. Together, they combine their power into a single push. Hotaru and Shinrei flinch in realization that the attack is coming to them, getting hit and launched away, scraping across the ground.

They skid to a halt, both banged up, but okay. Shinrei growls. "They're faster than us."

Hotaru nods, commenting in a bored tone. "The guy is equally good with a weapon." Without glancing at each other, the two nod. They'll need to up the ante. The two begin running their fingers along their skin, until eventually both are covered with blood colored markings. The same upgrade as when Hotaru faced Kain in round one.

The markings shine red as both increase their power and speed. Instantly, the two rush the Jedi, Shinrei clashing with Ben this time while Hotaru wildly beats Leia's saber aside and blasts her back with fire. However, while Hotaru wholeheartedly beats back Leia, Ben ramps up the power and gets serious, beating back Shinrei and maintaining a speed advantage.

Shinrei spares a glance at Hotaru, seeing him push back Leia. She repeatedly compensates using the force, overwhelming power forcing Hotaru from making any winning blows. Shinrei turns back to Ben just in time to block his saber. The saber slices through his twin swords, breaking them.

Shinrei dashes back as Ben stands over the broken blades. "You've lost your weapons." The Jedi states. "Stand down."

Shinrei simply glares at him. Ignorance shows from Ben as Shinrei launches a sneak attack. See, his swords can take on any shape, usually a pair of short curved blades, colored clear blue. His control of water is such that he can crystalize it into any blade he wants. Shinrei smirks. "My weapon is never lost."

The blades on the ground change from their crystaline forms into water, whipping around Ben's legs and holding him still. Shinrei whips water around his blade hits and transforms new water into two new crystaline blades, resembling more traditional swords this time with longer reach. He charges the trapped Skywalker, making for the attack.

Ben slashes one whip of water off of his leg and force pushes the other off, but he can't move back in time to avoid a glancing blow from Shinrei. Ben moves back, two slash wounds on his arm and side. Returning the favor, he force pulls Shinrei to him and impales the samurai. . . That seemed too easy.

The form of Shinrei quivers and changes to water. A water clone?! He looks around to find no sign of Shinrei around him. That's when he realizes the strategy. . . Aunt Leia.

Leia continually launches rocks and debris, only for Hotaru to slice through them, send a blast of flames at her, and watch the flames get repelled by a force shield. Hotaru tries a new tactic. He uses his fire to minorly control the wind around him and he leaps into the air over the next rock throw from Leia. The Jedi is curious as Hotaru ends up high above her. Hotaru charges flames through his sword, switching to a reverse grip and coming down on her to impale the spot she stands.

Leia is shocked at the speed of the attack and leaps back JUST in time for the strike to hit the ground. This move isn't something in Hotaru's arsenal. That strike is meant to be done with a lance! It's almost like he copied the strike.

Up in the stands, with the rest of the final fantasy team, Kain Highwind glares down at Hotaru. The samurai was using his Dragoon Strikes! He made a makeshift copy to close distance with Leia faster!

Little did they know, Hotaru's always been capable of mimicking techniques after witnessing them first hand, at least a little. Hotaru follows up switching his grip on the sword and thrusting it in another fast piercing attack meant for a polearm weapon. He speeds forth, bashing into Leia's guard and knocking her back.

Leia rolls to her feet and blocks another strike, clashing with Hotaru, only to sense another presence beside her. Her head turns, her body getting struck by a water dragon. She is launched away, taking cuts and piercing wounds from the water dragon's bites before she repulses the water away. She lands, clearly injured, but not unable to fight.

Hotaru glares at Shinrei, who lands beside him. Hotaru noticed what Shinrei did there... even if the Jedi didn't notice the real reason for that dragon. The two brothers share a glare. Hotaru mumbles. "Can we stick to our own opponents?"

Shinrei sighs as Ben lands with Leia. "It's strategy. He's actually capable of fighting us at our best. She is the weak link. Take her out, and we can win with ease and continue on to help Kyo."

Ben checks on his aunt, but she reassures him she's okay. However, his senses alert him to something... off coming from Leia. He focuses on the two samurai and decides he needs to end this. He sends a powerful push at the two, Shinrei creating a large wall of water dragons, the water and push smashing into each other and splattering the water all over.

Hotaru sends his copy Suzaku attack, the fire phoenix blocking the Jedi's vision of the two, but Ben uses a repulse to destroy the attack. From behind the flames, Shinrei speeds past Ben and closes in on Leia. Leia moves to counter his attack, only to collapse in sudden pain within her chest. Shinrei takes the moment to attack her, landing several slashes and sending her skidding back towards the edge of the area.

Ben reacts, pulling Shinrei back. However, he's unable to follow up, as he clashes blades with Hotaru. Hotaru calls out. "Moenn!" His body engulfs itself in flames as Hotaru begins using multiple styles to chain different strikes at Ben, who barely blocks, deflects, and counters.

Leia tries to get up, but collapses again, unable to get up. She glares up, finding Shinrei standing over her. "How?" She states simply.

Shinrei twitches his hand, an area under Leia's skin twitching and causing pain at the same time. "When I hit you with that water dragon, I used my Muryou Saikyou Ryuu, or my Water Sevensplit Dragon." He continues twitching his hand to cause more pain in her chest. "It implants a small water dragon into my opponent's body, entering the chest. On my command, it can instantly kill someone, or be commanded to kill or maim should certain conditions be met." He meets her eyes. "Killing isn't allowed, but I can surely cripple you til you can't fight. A quick way to end a fight against a powerful but unaware opponent." Leia tries to get up, but Shinrei doesn't waste time, striking her and sending her off of the stage. Leia lands in the stands.

Shinrei returns to Hotaru and Ben, finding Ben having adjusted and beaten Hotaru back. Ben, sensing his aunt's elimination, leaps away so Hotaru and Shinrei are on the same side of him. He centers himself, an air of anger at these two getting the advantage and eliminating Leia. His eyes close, power gathering, as Hotaru and Shinrei step in line with each other.

Ben releases his full power push, the two samurai surprised by the force of the attack as they, and the ground beneath them, is launched away into a giant cloud of dust and debris.

Ben breathes out, ready to continue. That wouldn't put his enemies down, but it would hopefully injure them. Just as he believed, both stand side by side as the dust settles. Hotaru and Shinrei glare directly at Ben, but this time, their eyes cause the Jedi to experience some shock. The shock came from the power emitting from their eyes. One eye each, to be specific.

The two usually have golden yellow eyes, but Shinrei's left eye lightly glows red in the iris. Hotaru, likewise, has the same crimson red iris in his right eye. Like before, the markings on their bodies glow red.

Just from the air around them, Ben falls into his stance. He has to be ready for any-

Both the brothers blitz the Jedi. Their speed increased dramatically. Ben barely manages to parry Shinrei, only for Hotaru to seamlessly step around him to slash Ben across the chest. Ben falls back, parrying and matching Hotaru's pace in heated swordplay. Emphasis on heated as flames roar out from Hotaru using Moenn.

Ben blocks Hotaru, using his force shields to support one hand, before releasing his off hand from the blade to force push a torrent of water dragons coming from behind him. Shinrei leaps from the water at Ben, who uses a counter to throw Hotaru off so he can parry Shinrei.

While locked with Shinrei, Hotaru comes down with another imitated Dragoon Strike, only for Ben to use a push attack to launch Hotaru away. However, Shinrei takes full advantage of the split focus, clashing one blade with Ben's saber, then slashing Ben's legs with his other blade. Ben staggers back and falls to a knee.

Ben stands, swaying side to side unable to balance himself on his injured legs. Shinrei and Hotaru nod to each other before Shinrei calls forth a water dragon colored red as blood. Water mixed with his own blood. Hotaru condenses fire until it turns pure black before firing it as a blast. The blood dragon and black flame attacks hit simultaneously. The resulting crater has an unconscious Ben in the center.

Shinrei takes a step towards him, only for Hotaru to dash and grab Ben before quickly tossing him from the fighting stage. Shinrei's blood markings and red eye deactivate, as he shakes slightly from exhaustion. "Was that necessary?"

The flames of Hotaru's Moenn disappear, his own markings disappearing and his right eye turning back to a gold color. Hotaru shakes for a second before he falls to a knee, breathing heavily. "Sorry, but you got to eliminate the other one."

Shinrei kneels down to Hotaru, both feeling low on stamina from their exertion.

Battle ten

At the same time that Ben is eliminated, another fight is ending quickly, but not in favor of the Kyo team. Bontenmaru falls over, completely unable to continue. His body is littered with burns, slashes, bruises, and bloody splotches.

He never stood a chance against Kyp Durron. Not only was Bontenmaru slower, but he had no other weapon than his fists and a wooden sword vs a lightsaber. Hmph. He would try, but this was a fight he had no advantage in. In mere moments, he's launched from the stage by the force.

Battle eleven

Akari is knocked back, unable to keep up with her two opponents. The Jedi healer, Cilghal, and the Jedi master, Corran Horn. The two of them together were easily too much for her.

She dodges Corran, dashing back and waving her scepter. "Soul Vamp!" A wave of energy tries to connect the two, but Cilghal blocks the connection. Damn. Her only offensive technique is a bit easily thwarted. Corran and Cilghal use a combined push, launching Akari into the ground.

Akari quickly rolls to her feet, dashing back to dodge Corran. She skids to a halt, growling in frustration. This wasn't going to end well if she didn't get some form of help...

Just as Corran closes in on her, a new challenger approaches, bashing Corran away and sending him away from Cilghal. In-between Cilghal and Akari, the new entrant lands, a rugged man with brown hair, bandages around his gut, and a confident smirk.

Gildarts smiles at Akari, his charm making her(Him, remember?) blush. Gildarts smiles as Corran Horn stands up to face him. Gildarts announces to Akari. "Sorry to step in, but I can't let a beauty be outnumbered and trampled on. Please, allow me to even the odds for you."

Akari blushes and waves her hand nonchalantly. "Oh, by all means, please."

Gildarts smirks back, his womanizing bringing some fun irony in this situation. He charges Corran, bashing the Jedi away and leaving Cilghal and Akari to fight among themselves. Akari has better offense, Cilghal has higher speed. Both heal... yeah this fight won't be going anywhere.

Battle twelve

Corran lands hard and rolls to his feet. Gildarts approaches him, slowly stepping closer with a challenging grin on his face. "Come now. You have to give me something good."

Corran ignites his silver saber and charges Gildarts. While the Fairy Tail mage had taken him off guard before, the Jedi was able to blitz him quickly. Gildarts is taken off guard by the speed as Corran goes for a quick strike to the chest.

The saber slash hits on point, the blade halting against Gildarts' chest. However, to Corran's surprise, the saber's blade begins to break apart, the plasma of the blade sparking away. Corran's eyes go wide as he leaps away, the saber reforming after a spark in his hilt. He steps back from Gildarts, wary. The hell was that?

Gildarts clutches his gut, half panicked, satisfied to find not a single scratch. He sighs in relief before smiling at his opponent. "So, you're much faster than me, huh?" He steps into a combat stance. "However, it seems you can't cut me, can you?"

Corran scoffs. What was that power? How did his lightsaber blade break on contact? That's not something common. He decides to move in again, blitzing around Gildarts. The mage follows with his eyes, slowly getting used to how much faster his opponent it.

Corran breaks from his sprint around his enemy and closes in. Using a jab like motion, he moves to thrust through Gildarts. Gildarts barely reacts. Emphasis on BARELY. His hand comes up, palm out, as the saber thrusts into the palm, a great sparking of the saber's blade and the sound of a saber striking thousands of times is heard as the entire length of the blade is destroyed, the light of the blade bursting out around Gildarts' hand.

Corran jerks back, his saber reforming in a short second as he stumbles back. Just what the hell is that?! Gildarts chuckles, though a little shaken himself. "You ARE fast, but it doesn't seem like your saber can match up to my destruction magic!"

Gildarts charges his opponent before the Jedi can process what's happening. The massive man throws a powerful punch, the Jedi bringing his saber up to block, only for the punch to smash and break the saber blade. However, it didn't stop there, the hilt of the lightsaber instantly breaking apart to pieces from the strike as Gildarts' fist crashes into Corran's gut. Corran is sent skidding along the ground and stops near the edge of the ring.

This is bad. Physical attacks weren't working. There was always the force, but Corran's one true weakness was his skill in physical force power. He was extremely proficient in mental ability, but one check against Gildarts' mind showed that the S class mage was well prepared against mental attack, and he was far to strong for single force push or pull attacks.

Gildarts charges him before Corran can get his handle... Damn, this was a mismatch.

Battle thirteen

Akira clashes and separates from Kyle Katarn, Akira sending shards of ice to clash against Kyle's force push. However, it's only a distraction. Akira brings ice walls up around them, closing Kyle inside an icy cavern.

Kyle rushes through the corridor, attempting to escape before whatever exit there has to be closes. However, he's stopped by a hail of ice shards. Pushing them away, he's met by Akira, who strikes at him. It doesn't take much for Kyle to outpace and cut Akira down, only to realize that it's an ice clone. The clone bursts apart, the shards cutting lightly into Kyle.

The battlemaster steps back into a defensive stance as more Akira clones and ice pillars form, attacking at him. He uses a repulse this time to both destroy the ice and repel the shards coming towards him. What is this? Some type of construct of ice that can continually attack him, trap him, and holds no risk of being attacked?

Akira was confident in his Ice Fortress move. Each of the factors Kyle's already discerned is entirely correct. Trap the opponent. Attack with ice constructs that, when destroyed, burst to cause minor damage, wearing the enemy down.

However, Kyle wasn't going to have any of it. He concentrates, eyes clenched shut, before he releases a massive burst of force power. The blast crashes against the ice around him, cracking and smashing it outward. In a single explosive burst, the ice fortress is blasted apart, Akira throwing his hands up to shield himself. From the bursting power, Kyle steps from the remains of the fortress with lightning crackling lightly around him. He raises his hand and fires the blast of electricity.

Akira blocks the hit, but it stuns him, dropping him to a knee. Kyle speeds towards him. Akira parries a saber slash, only for Kyle to twirl the saber around and catch the samurai in the arm, a glancing blow.

Akira dashes back, getting distance. Damn it. This can't be a long battle. Although, Akira has just the technique for this. One hit is all he needs.

Kyle rushes Akira, moving to end the fight, so he can throw him off. However, as he approaches, a wave of cold washes over him, chilling him to a halt. The ground frosts over, his breath showing and freezing in the air and dropping to the ground as specks of ice. He shields himself in the force, holding his saber close to him. He eyes Akira, who stands in the cold completely unharmed.

Akira's saber wound on his leg is frozen over as the samurai steps towards Kyle. Kyle's body frosts over, slowing him down as Akira charges. Akira calls out. "You can't move well. Not while you're in my Hell's Ghost." Hell's Ghost, a move that reduces the environment's temperature to absolute zero.

Kyle adjusts, barely blocking a strike, but the cold is getting to him. Akira is faster than him now. Though, whether Akira is powering up or Kyle is simply slowing is up for debate here.

Akira bashes Kyle's saber aside with one sword as his other catches a light cut on Kyle's side. Kyle moves back, gaining distance. He moves further and further back, only to end up feeling numb through his body. He trips and falls, skidding to a halt. Akira slowly walks over and picks up Kyle, who tries to move but can't. "What is..?" Kyle manages to say as his lips begin to freeze over.

Akira breathes out. "Hell's Ghost hinders my enemy, if it doesn't outright freeze them. However, should they be strong enough to continue fighting, I can channel that power into my blade. All I need is a single cut, and my power seeps through your body, chilling every organ, every tissue, every cell, from the inside, until you die." He watches Kyle's body fight it with the force, sustaining himself. "It seems you have a means to fight off the death part, but no matter. You're not the first. Still, you obviously can't fight back now, can you?"

Kyle tries his best, but Akira is right... Within moments, Kyle fades to unconsciousness, entering a trance in the force to keep himself alive, but that doesn't stop Akira from tossing him over the edge.

Battle eight, continued

Kyo strikes at Luke in a blur of moves too fast to be seen. Luke, through his precognition, is barely able to block each strike. Kyo disappears, Luke's eyes following his senses. Luke's saber blurs into green flashes at the speed he swings, rapidly cutting each of the slashes in the wind from Kyo's Mizuchi.

A distraction, Luke surmises, as Kyo's presence is behind him. Kyo strikes, but Luke's off hand produces a second saber, a short saber colored red. His shoto saber. It parries Kyo as Luke moves to a Jar'Kai saber style, duel wielding. He slashes at Kyo, but the samurai dodges back. Kyo activates Genbu, the wind enclosing around Luke, releasing wind snakes to lash at him. This will overwhelm him for sure!

Except Luke doesn't bat an eyelash. The snakes dissipate just inches off Luke's body, the Jedi lowering his stance and walking forward. The wind attacks continue to form snakes inside the Genbu air shell, but all the snakes, all the slashes, all the attacks get within a foot of touching the Jedi Grand Master, then peter out into light gusts of wind. Kyo's excitement over his tough opponent was suddenly replaced with an annoyance. Luke's passive force shields were too strong for Genbu?

Luke takes one last step into the wind barrier of the Genbu technique's shell, passing through with a stutter and the shell disappearing.

Well, trapping and overwhelming won't work. Let's see our options. Kyo smirks. "I'm surprised there's someone of your caliber here. It'll be fun beating you down."

Luke senses through Kyo. "You crave batter and challenge. Interesting." He continues to sense Kyo's emotions. "Fighting is your peace. You aren't like any Sith I've met." He quickly catches himself. "Maybe Maul, but I never formally met him in person."

Kyo smirks. "Is there a reason you're trying to gauge my personality? Please. So long as we fight, we can truly understand each other." One moment, Kyo is there. The next, Kyo has closed the distance. His sword swings create the image of a tiger, Byakko, forming two slashing claw attacks at Luke.

Luke's precognition tells him this move's purpose. Either take the initial hit, or dodge to get hit by the other claw. How about neither. He raises both sabers, his green blocking the main slash, his red blocking the secondary slash. He releases both sabers, the weapons staying in the air blocking the slashes as he raises his hand towards Kyo.

The samurai stops, dashing back, but that barely softens the blow of the powerful force push, Kyo getting launched away along the ground. He recovers, speeding around Luke on all sides, leaving after images behind him at the speed he's moving.

Luke gets on his guard, Kyo taking chances to break away from his patterns to lunge through. Each time he does, Luke reacts, blocks the lunge, and Kyo gets away before the Jedi can counter. However, it's only a distraction again. Luke glances to the side, finding the turtle Genbu again. To his right, the tiger Byakko. In front, the dragon Sieryu. Behind, the phoenix Suzaku. Each of the four attacks of the four winds condensed into their animals and striking from all force sides.

Luke releases a force repulse, blasting away all four attacks, leaving nothing left but debris and rubble. From behind the cover, Kyo speeds in for a slash, only for Luke to barely dodge and score a glancing blow on Kyo's back as he passes. Kyo moves away, his kimono cut open in the back to reveal his Crimson King tattoo, glowing red.

Kyo's eyes have long since become their true, Full Red Eyes, form. And yet, this bastard won't go down. However, he did score something himself in that last lunge. Luke starts to take his stance, only for his shoto saber to spark and fall apart. That last missed lunge hid a Mizuchi slash. With this much speed and using his moves as cover, he was able to take away Luke's secondary weapon.

Luke, while breathing a little harder than before, is still fairly comfortable. Kyo smiles and charges the master. The two clash again, but this time, it's different. Kyo feels off. Luke goes for a counter slash, but Kyo manages to duck it and cleave through the Jedi. That... was too easy.

And true enough, the image of Luke disappear- Doppelganger Illusion! Kyo's eyes scan the area as quickly as he can, only for a red blur to speed at him. The shoto saber he cut through? It's being held together by the force. Then again, Luke's mechanical knowledge is enough to know how to simply put it back together enough to make it work with the force. At least, as long as the crystals were damaged.

The saber whirls around at Kyo, chasing him, but he manages to both dodge and, this time, slash through the hilt a dozen times. This time it won't be coming back. However, that left him with the mystery of where Luke had went. He scans the area, finding only dust uplifted into the air as a cover. He just needs to find him.

A feint echo is heard in Kyo's head. "... over here." The samurai snaps to his right, only for the dust to get blown at of the way by a massive powerful concentrated force push. Kyo can almost swear he can see the power before it hits him.

It launches him away, with no mercy. Kyo is engulfed by a concussive explosion of power that can be seen from anywhere on the battlefield. The smoke and dust settles, a massive mountain of rubble appearing.

Luke stands at the edge of the crater. He's waiting. Sure enough, within moments, the rubble explodes off, Kyo standing from it. His top is bare now, minor wounds littering his body. His True Red Eyes still piercing Luke's gaze. His cross tattoo on his back is now fully visible, glowing an eerie red. While his grin is now gone, his determination hasn't diminished one fraction of a bit.

Luke speaks. "You are strong, but you cannot defeat me. Trust me, I have no ill will towards any of these other worlds you all hail from. In fact, these worlds, these universes, are all important. If I can, I would wish all of your worlds back after the tournament. So, why not just allow me to do so?"

Kyo's determination turns into a fierce glare. Kyo's persona aside, he's not a person to love wholesale slaughter. Truth be told, he would also have been thinking of making that wish. Why kill all these people forever? He would rather defeat them all and make them see his way. After all, that's exactly what he did to Hotaru once. Bontenmaru too. Akari on top of it. Benitora followed him out of that respect. Kyo hates these gods putting this tournament together. Judging others without facing them themselves.

Kyo scoffs. "No." He raises his sword. "If so many of us want that wish anyway, then it won't matter who wins." His fierce look turns into a mad win. "And I intend to be the one to say I beat each and every one of you."

Luke nods. "Very well, but." Luke takes a single step. Just a single step into the crater... His step lands directly to Kyo's right, a feint glow around him for a split second. "... this won't go that way you think."

Teleportation?! Kyo narrowly dodges the swing and dashes away. Kyo speeds back as his sword is encased in flames. He slashes, sending a large phoenix shaped blast at Luke, Suzaku. Luke blasts the attack apart, readying his saber again.

However, the phoenix appears again where it was destroyed and continues towards Luke. This time the master slashes through it, destroying it, only for it to reform behind him and come again. Luke frowns, putting more power into his protection as the phoenix crashes into him, dissipating.

The last flickers of flames dance around Luke, who stands uninhibited. However, from behind the flames he sees something off. The void... it's solid black as before, but the stands are gone. The light above is gone. The gods are gone. The ground is discolored to pure white and black. Negative vision? Why? That's when he senses a presence. He glances towards the sky. The light source above the tournament stage has been replaced. A large, red eye glares back down, its pupil pure black, with three comma shaped tomoe.

Luke's mental force ability stresses the illusion and shatters it. Kyo is shocked as a newcomer lands between then and charges a locked in place Luke. Sasuke's sharingan jumps to Eternal Mangekyo. He throws his sword dead on at Luke's head. Just as Sasuke's genjutsu subsides completely, Luke detects the attack, and ducks to the right, the sword passing right by him. Sasuke continues his mad dash at Luke, the wind from the movement revealing Sasuke's other eye. The purple Rinnegan eye's target look doesn't move, but Luke notices they're not quite looking at him, but …

Luke spins in place, Sasuke replacing his sword. Another person who can teleport! Sasuke's hand lights with blue lightning and creates a long blade of energy, the Chidori Sharpspear. Luke uses his saber to clash with the jutsu, the two locked together. However, Luke wonders where that sword went-

Sasuke's sword strikes into Luke's back, hitting the shoulder and stabbing through to the other side. No, it wasn't teleportation...

This time, Sasuke's gaze is centered on Luke. In a split second, the two have swapped places. Sasuke's sharpspear disappears as he grabs his sword's hilt, lightning channeling through, before he rips the sword out from Luke. Luke coughs, pained by the surprise attacks. He spins around again to clash blade vs saber, lightning streaming through Sasuke's blade so it isn't cut through.

Luke's off hand comes up, palm at Sasuke. This is gonna be a powerful force push. Sasuke's eye centers it's look at Luke's. Sasuke calls out as his chakra powers up. "Almighty Push!" With that, two sides of an invisible, seemingly unblockable power crashes, SMASHES, violently into each other with chaotic wind blasting out from them. The ground violently cracks between them, then splits into large cracks moving out away from them. Around the two of them, two visible spheres of kinetic energy are faintly seen until the two forces explode against each other.

From the blast, Luke and Sasuke are each sent away, ragdoll bouncing along the ground, causing violent cracks and craters on each bounce before both come to a halt. Sasuke gets up, moderately okay. Luke, on the other hand, stumbles before getting up. He places his hand over his wound. His force power begins working on healing him.

Sasuke immediately starts towards Luke, only for a speed blitz, the masamune Tenro impaling Sasuke from behind. The ninja's body disappears in a puff of smoke, revealing a rock that the sword is stabbed through. Kyo turns around to see Sasuke standing far off. Now, Kyo, Sasuke, and Luke have a standoff, making a triangle.

Kyo angrily calls out to Sasuke. "Hey! What the hell are you interrupting out fight for?"

Sasuke's gaze stays on Luke, but he answers. "I was attacking the obvious threat. I waited and attacked the stronger opponent. If you want to face me, wait until we've beaten him."

Luke winces in pain as he sits on his knees. Healing meditation. Weird that he'd pick now to do it. Sasuke doesn't wait for an answer from Kyo as he speeds at Luke. He makes it half way before his senses flare up. He ducks, a few hairs getting lopped off from a slash from Kyo. The samurai smiles as he locks eyes with the retreating ninja. "Wait until he's beaten? Bastard, I'll defeat him myself after I crush you!" He speeds at Sasuke faster than the Uchiha's sharingan can catch. Sasuke, through instinct, activates Susanoo, only the minor rib cage. The ribs and skeleton form very close to Sasuke's body, one of the ribs instantly cracking from the strike.

Sasuke coats himself in black flames. "Amaterasu!" Kyo stops just before touching the flames. Sasuke glares at the samurai. "Inferno Style Flame Control!" The flames spike out after Kyo, but the samurai dashes away.

With Kyo away from him, Sasuke's hand reaches up towards Luke, a small black ball forming. "Universal Pull!" Luke's eyes snap open, having stopped his bleeding, but not coming close to finishing his healing. The master is wrenched from his kneeling position. He throws his hands up, stopping the pull. Luke then pushes the top of the ground between them at Sasuke.

Sasuke's Susanoo half forms, the top half of the ethereal soldier forming around Sasuke. The Susanoo bashes the rocks out of the way, forming its crossbow on its arm, then making an amaterasu arrow. It fires back at Luke. Luke slashes at the fire arrow, deflecting the arrow off. Sasuke uses his flame control to turn the flames back on Luke. Luke scowls throwing his hand up as the flames condense into a ball.

The condensed flames shrink smaller and smaller until Luke sees to hold only a tiny spark of black flame in his hand. His hand clenches, absorbing the last of the flame. Tutaminus, the force power of energy absorption. Luke breathes out heavily, his hand suddenly crackling with lightning. He fires lightning at Sasuke, knowing his other ranged abilities aren't working. He rarely uses lightning, but when the situation calls.

Or so he'd think. Sasuke glances behind him, seeing Kyo launch a Suzaku attack at Sasuke's back. The ninja scoffs, his susanoo disappearing. Luke's lightning and Kyo's suzaku both strike Sasuke from each side, an explosion of fire and electricity, only to shrink and slowly absorb into Sasuke's body. Rinnegan Preta path, the ability to absorb energy.

Sasuke's amaterasu continues to spread around the battleground. The heat builds up to create a storm over the entire tournament ground.

Across all the battles, everyone glanced up to the sky as rain began to fall. Lightning sparked through the sky as Sasuke smirks at Luke. He raises his hand to the air. "Begone." His eyes focus on the Jedi. "With a thunder clap." His hand drops. From the sky, a massive beast head made of lightning strikes down. It closes in on Luke, whose eyes widen at the scale of the move. "Lightning Style: Kirin!" The attack nearly strikes, only for a dragon made of light to hit it in the side.

Kouryu, Kyo's strongest move, fires and strikes the head of Kirin, narrowly redirecting it to hit near Luke, but miss him. The explosion of the kirin pierces through the tournament stage, creating a pit like hole through the entire stage.

Sasuke's eyes turn to Kyo, Tsukuyomi. Sasuke pulls Kyo into the false world, colors going negative, only pure white, black, and certain reds. Kyo appears bound to a cross, Sasuke standing in front of him.

Sasuke comments dryly. "You realize that the man before us is stronger than either of us. Why are you so intent on saving him." Sasuke slowly jabs a sword into Kyo's gut.

Kyo winces at the pain, but smiles. "Save him? Nah. Making it a fair fight? Absolutely. I don't need handicaps to beat people."

Sasuke sighs. "Then let's see how long you last here." Suddenly, a demonic like spirit forms behind Kyo, color appearing normal in the space around Kyo. However, Sasuke has repressed the nine tails before. He can suppress whatever this is.

But before he can, another voice enters. "Perhaps we can keep this as a three side dance." Sasuke reacts, finding Luke having placed himself in his Tsukuyomi!

Luke smirks. Another force ability, astral projection and mental links. Luke pressures the illusion as Kyo struggles. In a snap, the illusion shatters, the real world coming back to view for all three of them, Sasuke's sharingan eye is awash with pain, Sasuke clenching it shut as he's forced to only use his rinnegan eye.

Fighting snaps back between them. Luke saber throws into Sasuke, who disappears. Shadow clone. Luke senses the coming attack, leaping into the air as the ground explodes. Sasuke follows after him, clashing a lightning charged sword clashing with his green saber as they hop between rocks blown in the air.

Sasuke leaps back, firing two fireballs. Luke leaps in the air, then uses the force to shift the rocks hanging in the air. He lands, raising his hands as the rest of the rocks all move to crush Sasuke. Sasuke raises his hand, a black light source appearing over him. Universal Pull. All the rocks gather over Sasuke's head. Sasuke nimbly twists around to flip upside down, his foot barely touching the bottom of the collection of rocks as he hangs in the sky.

Luke's rock he stands on is pulled in, Luke taking a stance to force push away, only for his senses to alert him, Kyo speeding and striking at Luke with wind slashes, the air attack Sieryu. Luke leaps off the rock as it's added to Sasuke's collection, landing on top of the growing rock mass in the air. The universal pull has turned into a full blown Chubaku Tensei, a center of gravity pulling more and more towards it.

With Luke on top of it, Kyo lands on the mass, speeding at Luke and striking. Luke parries, but a light slash cuts his side. Kyo goes into a flurry of slashes on Luke, who frantically parries and blocks. Luke uses force grip to halt Kyo. Luke goes for a return strike, but Sasuke's hand clamps down on Luke's saber arm, halting it. Sasuke kicks the stunned Kyo off the growing mass in the air. Kyo recovers and lands on his feet on the ground.

Luke twists his arm out of Sasuke's grip, outpacing Sasuke's speed and slashing the ninja in two, only for the ninja's body to turn into crows, a carry over from his older brother. From behind the cover of crows, Sasuke's foot kicks Luke from under his jaw, launching him up. The beginning motions of the Primary Lotus! Sasuke leaps after Luke, appearing behind him in the Leaf Dancing Shadow position.

Sasuke twists Luke around until Luke is upside down, Sasuke right side up and grip locked. A pile driver dive. He did this to Naruto during their first great battle. At this rate, Luke would certainly get put out of commission. However, Luke uses the force to manipulate them, twisting them around for them to land, Sasuke on bottom instead. From the rubble, Luke jumps back, stumbling slightly from the impacts. The point of impact suddenly erupts in black flames of amaterasu. Sasuke stands and stares at Luke, both eyes open.

Luke already knows what's coming as both his and Sasuke's positions are switched, Luke landing inside the black flames, and Sasuke standing where Luke had landed. While Luke brings up the force to protect himself, Sasuke turns to the third fighter, Kyo ambushing and bashing Sasuke away, a slash wound hitting Sasuke's chest.

The Uchiha skids to a halt, Kyo already on him again. Sasuke forms a small rib cage Susanoo, the forming skeleton trapping Kyo's sword before it impales Sasuke. Even Sasuke hadn't expected the outcome. Kyo's speed is to such a level that a single mistake means a loss. However, before Sasuke can think of a counter measure, Kyo full speed punches Sasuke away, wrenching his sword back from the Susanoo bone.

Sasuke hits the ground hard, shakily trying to get up. Kyo moves to strike the downed ninja. However, the black flames around Luke are repulsed out and away. Luke stands, showing many burns around him. He shows clear pain, but is still pushing forward. Just before Kyo strikes Sasuke, Luke force pulls Kyo away from Sasuke with such force that Kyo gets imprinted in uplifted debris far behind Luke.

Sasuke gets up to glare at Luke, making a single one handed sign. Above them, the Chubaku Tensei is still building from debris. Sasuke decides it's enough. Similar to his former incarnation, Madara Uchiha, Sasuke makes a simple effort, and the collected mass in the sky drops. Almost like one of Madara's meteors.

The massive hunk of rock drops directly towards Luke, who looks up at it, standing, but in pain already. The meteor strikes Luke, a massive wave of wind blows all the dust and debris away as it smashes apart on top of the Jedi.

Sasuke sighs before standing, but it isn't long before his eyes sees something. The massive chunks of the meteor rip upward and begin to float in the air anew. Standing under where the pieces were, Luke stands, stressed, but focused on Sasuke. Luke raises his left hand towards Sasuke. All the leftover mass of the meteor suddenly rockets towards Sasuke. The rocks hit, obscuring Sasuke under a pile of rubble.

The battle dies down, Luke staring dully at the rubble on the ground. After a moment, he shifts his gaze to the hole in the arena made by Sasuke's kirin. He takes a step, then another. Slowly, he makes his way to the edge of the hole. "You can't escape my awareness." He looks over the edge, seeing Sasuke standing on the wall of the hole. Sasuke is staring up at him.

Sasuke continues his trademark scowl. Lightning sparks in his hand. With a single drawback, the lightning scorches the wall of the hole. Sasuke charges Luke with a simple chidori. At the last moment, Sasuke's lightning turns black.

Luke prepares to block, but reacts instead to an attack from behind, blocking Kyo. The samurai attacks and scores a light hit on Luke, forcing the master to jump over to the other side of the massive sink hole. Sasuke comes up and strikes at Kyo, causing another explosion. From the smoke, Kyo leaps away and lands on the edge of the hole in another spot.

Sasuke stands in the smoke, turning around to face them. The three of them stand on the edge of the hole, making yet another triangle just like the beginning of their three way battle. Sasuke is wounded on the chest and is battered and beaten. Luke is burned and cut up, not counting the stab earlier in the fight. Kyo looks like someone used him as a punching bag, but that last chidori attack nearly ended him, leaving a scorched and bleeding wound across his chest.

The three of them stare at each other, sharing the intensity, before they take stances to continue.

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WOOO Next time: Round 4!

First to summarize the fights:

Jaina Solo vs Naruto Uzumaki – Speed is on par. Both have precognition style reactions. Both have tricks even Smythe Higgans would be jealous of. (For those Hey Arnold fans out there.) However, Naruto has her trumped in raw power, stamina, and number of tricky techniques to use. Some of those tricks will come soon, too!

Shikamaru Nara vs Boba Fett – This one was one of the worst mismatches. Boba has by far the slowest speed out of everyone here, but he's reacted and attacked people capable of almost lightspeed feats, so Boba can certainly fight Shikamaru. The thing that makes it horrid for Shikamaru is the jetpack. Boba being a fly boy and having more weapons on hand than Shikamaru would means that it is unlikely Shikamaru would be able to beat him. Shikamaru might not even have a way to get through the armor seeing as Boba's newer armor fully deflects lightsabers and the like. Unfortunate time for our strategist.

Darth Krayt vs Squall Leonhart and Zidane Tribal – Both Squall and Zidane, while slightly slower, can keep up with Krayt. Power is comparable. Krayt is injured. Krayt is outnumbered. The force might be a hilariously overpowered source of abilities, but he can't fight them both at once.

Lightning Farron and Noctic Lucis Cealum vs Yukimura Sanada and Sasuke Sarutobi – Speed is once again on par, especially with higher level forms in this one. However, team Final Fantasy has power in spades for this match up, and team Kyo's group here lacks good enough stamina to warrant any kind of victory.

Warrior of Light, Yusuke Urameshi, and Kazuma Kuwabara vs Kyoshiro Mibu and Benitora – WoL makes it through another round! Yeah, literally at this point we knew Yusuke and Kuwabara at least would seek out a fight and this is where they ended up. Due to WoL being the losing side and Kuwabara's own love of chivalry, it's easy to see them helping WoL out and turning the match around. Fight continues on to Round 4.

Toshiro Hitsugaya vs Yomi – Similar speed. Similar power, though power is in Yomi's favor. Toshiro didn't have much chance of winning, but when we recalled Toshiro and other captains that got partially hollowfied, i.e. Bleach's answer to demons, that meant that Yomi's barrier that is specially better at deflecting demonic energy became that much better. That depressed me.

Gajeel Redfox and Laxus Dreyer vs Kakashi Hatake – REVENGE ! Revenge is a dish best served with lightning charged metal. It should go, based on how I wrote it, that Kakashi would be more than capable of taking out either one in a single one vs one match up. However, that was not the case. Kakashi was forced to act alone vs two powerful opponents who make most kage in the world of Naruto look like child's play. Kakashi is faster. Kakashi is stronger. However, both those advantages are not by too much, so the two on one aspect heavily gives them an advantages. Not to mention, only being allowed to use lightning defensively and having his tools eaten by Gajeel takes away a large amount of Kakashi's arsenal, further handicapping him. Fairy Tail gets a deserved win here.

Hotaru Mibu and Shinrei Mibu vs Leia Organa Solo and Ben Skywalker – Ben would have a rough time taking down either of these opponents one on one. While their power in the force drastically gives a power advantage, both of them have insta kill techniques and crippling powers. Leia has raw power, but her actual combat ability is subpar compared to all but maybe three of the other members of her team. She will fall victim to one of the big moves from the two, then Ben will be stuck trying to defend himself, which Ben is more skilled in mental abilities than physical force powers anyway, which wouldn't affect this battle much.

Bontenmaru vs Kyp Durron – God damn it, Bontenmaru! I wanted to use you! Instead you go against a lightsaber when your only weapon is a wooden sword! Ugh. Either way, he's slower and lacks any type of ranged attacks.

Akari vs Cilghal – Nothing will be accomplished. Cilghal is a healer and can't fight for garbage, but Akari is heavily nerfed at the end of Samurai Deeper Kyo, leaving her with only one special attack and much slower than her enemy here. Neither can get anything up on the other. Fight continues.

Gildarts vs Corran Horn – Year of the Fairy, here we come. Gildarts CRUSHES this match. Not only because Corran SUCKS with physical force abilities, but because Gildarts magic could very much affect technology. Sure a lightsaber can block some magical abilities targeting a force user, but a lightsaber is just as easily destroyed by attacks and energies as anything else, as has happened many times. With destruction magic, Gildarts may not have speed on him, hell Corran is a dozen times faster, but Corran can never hurt the man.

Akira vs Kyle Katarn – Again, the one hit kill moves are saving Samurai Deeper Kyo's characters. Kyle is faster and more powerful, but the nature of abilities in Akira's arsenal make it simple. One hit, you down. Sure, Akira burns through his stamina like CRAZY doing this, but it'll work. Being fair, I argued that Kyle could win for this, but considering that even when protected by the force, temperatures still can end up killing even the strongest Jedi, the moment Kyle was in Hell's Ghost, the one hit was bound to happen.

By the way, for anyone wondering, Yes! Ichigo's group searched multiple times for fights, and based on our random option, each time they came across NOTHING! We even eliminated the possibilities a bit to make it easier. But nope. Kenpachi's lack of direction plagues them. Maybe for the best. Aizen is also standing still. Byakuya, by our random option, ended up no where either. Bleach getting some dumb luck here since everyone else is dying.

Luke Skywalker vs Kyo Mibu vs Sasuke Uchiha – Most powerful vs Fastest vs Most hax. This fight wouldn't settle quickly in the slightest. Luke is the only person with enough reaction to properly straight up react to Kyo, but that's barely. Kyo's power output in tiny compared to both of these two. Sasuke is the slowest of the three, but has so many tricks on his side. It's a tough fight to write, and it's made harder with the three way setup. Luke had enough force abilities to match Sasuke hax for hax, and will use his speed advantage on Sasuke anytime Sasuke's tricks gain the Uchiha any ground. All three will end the round injured, with Kyo the least injured having the best speed and recovery skills. Fight continues to next round.

Team compositions:

Naruto:

Naruto Uzumaki

Sasuke Uchiha

Sakura Haruno-Uchiha

Rock Lee

Bleach:

Ichigo Kurosaki

Rukia Kuchiki

Renji Abarai

Uryu Ishida

Sosuke Aizen

Byakuya Kuchiki

Fairy Tail:

Gildarts

Gajeel Redfox

Laxus Dreyer

Yu Yu Hakusho:

Yusuke Urameshi

Kazuma Kuwabara

Hiei

Kurama

Yomi

Final Fantasy:

Squall Leonhart

Zidane Tribal

Lightning Farron

Noctis Lucis Cealum

Warrior of Light

Samurai Deeper Kyo:

Kyo Mibu

Kyoshiro Mibu

Benitora

Akira

Akari

Hotaru

Shinrei Mibu

Star Wars:

Luke Skywalker

Kyp Durron

Cilghal

Boba Fett

Next time: Round 4.