Yeah, this chapter was already translated too. This is the last though, and
now I have to continue translating. Ah, I can't stand these short chapters,
but I don't want to edit this fic too! I'm very lazy... But they'll become
longer soon.
Reminding you of the author incompetence to narrate fight scenes, I won't get into details about them in this chapter too.
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Chapter 7: Mess in the Tournament
The fight was balanced. Although the earth demon was physically stronger, his opponent was very agile and skilled. He knew how to take advantage of his adversary's strength and turn it against him. This was being the most interesting fight until now and everybody was excited with it.
They stopped for a while in order to recover the breath and just faced at each other. Dai, as well as almost all of his siblings, noticed that Pian Shi's fighting style was very familiar, though this was the first time they saw him. Yan Kwang still watched Pian thoughtfully, trying to understand the sudden change of his style, corporal mass and his silence. Pian Shi was always a very talkative demon, mainly during fights, since he liked to annoy his opponents.
As soon as Dai recomposed, he moved forward to attack Pian, who smiled in victory. He managed to escape from the blow, catching the earth demon by his clothes and using his foot to give a low one and make him lose his balance. Then Pian got to raise Dai Gui in the air and throw him out the arena.
Everyone was impressed with the two demons' performance, including Yan Kwang, though he was still intrigued about Pian. All the people applauded the two fighters, who left the arena to give place to the arbitrator.
Before the semi-finals, there would be an interval, and now Xiao Fung has just wakened up.
-/-/-
Bai Tsa was commenting about the fights and the participants with Panatinaikos, when suddenly she felt a hand touching her shoulder. She turned to see that it was her fiancée and Xiao Fung.
"You? What are you doing here?". She asked angry.
"My, why are you so angry at us?", Xiao asked pretending to be hurt.
"Because you two are a shame to our family! How could you lose so easily? Stay away from me before somebody notices that we know each other!", she demanded turning to go away, but Dhai held her arm.
"Wait. There's a reason for me to have lost on purpose.", he said and Bai turned to glare at him.
"I'm part of a group-", he started and Bai pushed him so that he let her go.
"Enough! I can't stand you! Stay away from me!", she snapped angry and pulled Panatinaikos by his wrist.
"Who were they, Bai Tsa?", Panatinaikos asked after a while and she snorted.
"My fool brother and... a friend of him.", she answered.
"You have a brother? Cool, I always wanted to have a brother or a sister.", he said smiling and Bai bumped into another person. She got even angrier when seeing who was. Shendu... If there was someone who she hated more than Xiao Fung or Dhai Jiang, that someone was the fire demon.
"What's it now?", she asked clenching her teeth.
"I'm the one who should ask it. It was you who bumped into me.", he snapped and looked at Panatinaikos.
"Who's that? Your lover?", he asked and Bai Tsa almost died of shame.
"No, idiot! What do you think I am?", she shouted embarrassed and Shendu smirked.
"With a fiancé like that, I thought that you wouldn't take so long to find a lover. Well, but I really didn't expect too much from you...", he remarked and Bai Tsa clenched her fists trying to keep self-control.
"My name is Panatinaikos. Nice to meet you.", the Greek man said politely and Shendu didn't say anything, but just glanced at him is despise.
"Bai Tsa, don't tell me that he's your brother too...", Panatinaikos said turning to face the water demon.
"Unfortunately yes...", she answered slitting her eyes.
"How many siblings do you have anyway? It must be good to have such a big family, huh?", he remarked not noticing her rage.
"Believe me, it's not!", she said glaring at Shendu.
"What's the problem, Bai Tsa? Are you angry because you and your lover had to watch your fiancé's shameful defeat?", Shendu said just to annoy her. Now Bai tsa was almost exploding.
"You have a fiancé, Bai? Why didn't you tell me?", he asked and when seeing his sisters rage before the Greek man, Shendu decided to annoy her even more. He found very fun to see her angry and she felt the same way for him.
"So you didn't know? Do you remember that fool who lost the second fight in the tournament? He's Bai Tsa's fiancé. As you could well see, he's very weak and coward. Very nasty too. The perfect fiancé for this imperfect creature that is my sister. Certainly those two accidents of the nature deserve each other and-"
"AHHHHHH!!!!!!! WRETCH!!!!!!", Bai Tsa finally lost her self-control and moved forward to attack Shendu, who immediately got serious and took a fight position. Panatinaikos stepped back, seeing the danger that would be stay between them now.
Usually their fight would have been balanced. Despite their age difference they had almost the same strength. But this time Bai Tsa was really out of control, what gave her "extra strength". Shendu barely could defend himself, and all their siblings tried to stop the water demon. Well, nobody managed to do that before it was too late.
She gave a sequence of punches in Shendu, who fell unconscious in the ground. Bai was ready to continue the attack when finally Tchang Zu, Dai Gui and Po Kong managed to stop her.
"Calm down, Bai Tsa!", Po Kong demanded and Bai drew a deep breath. She glanced around herself and was very embarrassed when seeing that everybody in the festival was staring at her. The worst was to see that Panatinaikos was among them, and he seemed to be the most surprised.
Dhai Jiang was looking at her with admiration and pride. Yan Kwang looked angry. Tso Lan was serious, with a disapproving glance and Hsi Wu, Xiao Fung, Mei Liang and Po Kong approached of Shendu who was still unconscious in the ground, with a face like this: @_@.
"Is he alive?", Xiao Fung asked half-joking and Po and Hsi knelt down to check.
"He's just unconscious.", Po said carrying him to the festival medical room while most of the people began to go away and waited the continuation of the tournament. Tchang Zu swallowed.
"Fortunately she's not participating of the tournament...", he commented and Dai Gui nodded.
-/-/-
"Wow... Bai, I didn't know that you were so strong. I think it's very nice, you know?", Panatinaikos remarked smiling.
"Rea... Really?", she asked still very embarrassed.
"Yes. That means that you are a girl with strong personality, who knows how to defend yourself and doesn't depend of anybody.", he said and Bai Tsa felt a bit better. Indeed, seeing for this angle it wasn't so bad after all.
-/-/-
The fight between Tchang Zu and Hsi Wu began. Everyone already knew who would be the winner, except for Sakura who was still cheering aloud for Hsi. Po and Liu glanced at each other raising a brow. Hsi was still very young and weak. No way was he going to win.
In the arena, he was saying to himself that he'd like to win. Losing in front of his siblings and his father was normal. They already knew his limits. Losing in front of all those strange mortals didn't bother him either. They would think that he was just too younger. The problem was Sakura. He didn't know why, but that was a thought that really didn't please him. He stared at Tchang Zu hopelessly. The sky demon's defeat was obvious.
They began to fight and initially it was balanced. The thunder demon was just giving him some chance so that his brother's defeat wouldn't be so shameful. After all, he was part of the family and that wouldn't be good for their reputation.
Suddenly, when observing Hsi Wu's expression during the battle, Sakura stopped cheering and became serious. She didn't understand why Hsi wasn't making an effort to win.
Hsi managed to punch Tchang in his face, and that made that thunder demon angrier. He gave up of going easy on his brother and hit him in the stomach with so much strength that threw him out the arena. Sakura flinched in worry and Po Kong sighed.
"Yeah, I already expected that.", she commented and Sakura turned to face her.
"Yes, he lost. But not for the reason that all of you are thinking.", she said firmly and the group walked to Hsi Wu.
The arbitrator announced Tchang Zu's victory while the sky demon stood up yet a bit dizzy. He lifted his head and saw Sakura, Po Kong, Liu Yue and Mei Liang.
"Hsi Wu, are you ok?", the girl asked worried. Hsi looked away and left running. He didn't want to face her now. It was a shame that a human child pitied a demon like him.
"Hsi Wu! Wait!", she yelled.
"Let it be. He'll forget it soon.", Po Kong said and Sakura ignored her, running after him.
-/-/-
Hsi Wu didn't go very far. His will was to fly as high as possible and at least for some minutes forget of everybody's existence. He looked for a desert place in the festival - which was rare - until he finally found it. It was a small lake that was reflecting the moonlight and the stars and there were some vacancy-fires flying above it.
He was getting ready to take his true form and fly away when he heard Sakura calling him. He turned to face her and she recovered the breath before finally saying something.
"Hsi, don't get so upset because of that. It's not worthwhile."
"Leave me alone.", he said turning again to the lake and lowering his head.
"I know why you've lost.", she said and Hsi snorted.
"Of course you do. Just like everyone."
"It's nothing you are thinking about. You know, actually that's the reason why you've lost. You think what everybody thinks. That you're weak. You aren't self-confident.", she said sadly and Hsi turned to face her again.
"What do you mean?"
"Tchang Zu was going easy on you, but you were so sure that would lose that didn't even notice that you actually could win. You don't have to be ashamed of having been defeated, you should be ashamed of not having tried.", she scolded and Hsi was in deep thought for a while.
"If you don't believe in yourself, Hsi, nobody will do. You'll be no more able to show your true values.", she said and gave a pause while Hsi stared at her.
"That's the real victory.", she continued and hugged Hsi. He tried to push her back, but she just hugged him harder and he slowly gave up and hugged her too. Her hug was so... warm and soothing. With Sakura, he forgot all his problems and shames. He felt great. It was a feeling similar to what he felt when flying alone in the sky.
"I believe in you, Hsi.", Sakura said in a low voice. Hsi blushed and his heart beated more and more fast. He was confused. What was this feeling? All he wanted now was to be there, hugging Sakura, for ever.
She slowly moved away of him, and stretched her hand.
"Come on, Hsi. Let's go back together.", she said smiling and almost unconsciously he held her hand, and they returned together to the tournament.
-/-/-
"Where were you?", Po Kong asked when she saw Hsi Wu and Sakura returning. Now they weren't holding hands in order to not cause suspicions.
"That's not important. Who's going to fight now?", Sakura asked and Po Kong shrugged.
"Not sure. The arbitrator and some few people of the tournament went to see something, and here we are waiting them.", she answered.
"Oh, look. It's the arbitrator.", Liu said pointing to the man in the arena.
"Well, the next fight would be between Shendu and Pian Shi, but since Shendu is still unconscious and disable to fight, Pian Shi is going to fight against Tchang Zu.", he announced and the two demons went to the arena.
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Ok, I give up. I think the demons are OOC. You don't have to comment about it.
Reminding you of the author incompetence to narrate fight scenes, I won't get into details about them in this chapter too.
*****
Chapter 7: Mess in the Tournament
The fight was balanced. Although the earth demon was physically stronger, his opponent was very agile and skilled. He knew how to take advantage of his adversary's strength and turn it against him. This was being the most interesting fight until now and everybody was excited with it.
They stopped for a while in order to recover the breath and just faced at each other. Dai, as well as almost all of his siblings, noticed that Pian Shi's fighting style was very familiar, though this was the first time they saw him. Yan Kwang still watched Pian thoughtfully, trying to understand the sudden change of his style, corporal mass and his silence. Pian Shi was always a very talkative demon, mainly during fights, since he liked to annoy his opponents.
As soon as Dai recomposed, he moved forward to attack Pian, who smiled in victory. He managed to escape from the blow, catching the earth demon by his clothes and using his foot to give a low one and make him lose his balance. Then Pian got to raise Dai Gui in the air and throw him out the arena.
Everyone was impressed with the two demons' performance, including Yan Kwang, though he was still intrigued about Pian. All the people applauded the two fighters, who left the arena to give place to the arbitrator.
Before the semi-finals, there would be an interval, and now Xiao Fung has just wakened up.
-/-/-
Bai Tsa was commenting about the fights and the participants with Panatinaikos, when suddenly she felt a hand touching her shoulder. She turned to see that it was her fiancée and Xiao Fung.
"You? What are you doing here?". She asked angry.
"My, why are you so angry at us?", Xiao asked pretending to be hurt.
"Because you two are a shame to our family! How could you lose so easily? Stay away from me before somebody notices that we know each other!", she demanded turning to go away, but Dhai held her arm.
"Wait. There's a reason for me to have lost on purpose.", he said and Bai turned to glare at him.
"I'm part of a group-", he started and Bai pushed him so that he let her go.
"Enough! I can't stand you! Stay away from me!", she snapped angry and pulled Panatinaikos by his wrist.
"Who were they, Bai Tsa?", Panatinaikos asked after a while and she snorted.
"My fool brother and... a friend of him.", she answered.
"You have a brother? Cool, I always wanted to have a brother or a sister.", he said smiling and Bai bumped into another person. She got even angrier when seeing who was. Shendu... If there was someone who she hated more than Xiao Fung or Dhai Jiang, that someone was the fire demon.
"What's it now?", she asked clenching her teeth.
"I'm the one who should ask it. It was you who bumped into me.", he snapped and looked at Panatinaikos.
"Who's that? Your lover?", he asked and Bai Tsa almost died of shame.
"No, idiot! What do you think I am?", she shouted embarrassed and Shendu smirked.
"With a fiancé like that, I thought that you wouldn't take so long to find a lover. Well, but I really didn't expect too much from you...", he remarked and Bai Tsa clenched her fists trying to keep self-control.
"My name is Panatinaikos. Nice to meet you.", the Greek man said politely and Shendu didn't say anything, but just glanced at him is despise.
"Bai Tsa, don't tell me that he's your brother too...", Panatinaikos said turning to face the water demon.
"Unfortunately yes...", she answered slitting her eyes.
"How many siblings do you have anyway? It must be good to have such a big family, huh?", he remarked not noticing her rage.
"Believe me, it's not!", she said glaring at Shendu.
"What's the problem, Bai Tsa? Are you angry because you and your lover had to watch your fiancé's shameful defeat?", Shendu said just to annoy her. Now Bai tsa was almost exploding.
"You have a fiancé, Bai? Why didn't you tell me?", he asked and when seeing his sisters rage before the Greek man, Shendu decided to annoy her even more. He found very fun to see her angry and she felt the same way for him.
"So you didn't know? Do you remember that fool who lost the second fight in the tournament? He's Bai Tsa's fiancé. As you could well see, he's very weak and coward. Very nasty too. The perfect fiancé for this imperfect creature that is my sister. Certainly those two accidents of the nature deserve each other and-"
"AHHHHHH!!!!!!! WRETCH!!!!!!", Bai Tsa finally lost her self-control and moved forward to attack Shendu, who immediately got serious and took a fight position. Panatinaikos stepped back, seeing the danger that would be stay between them now.
Usually their fight would have been balanced. Despite their age difference they had almost the same strength. But this time Bai Tsa was really out of control, what gave her "extra strength". Shendu barely could defend himself, and all their siblings tried to stop the water demon. Well, nobody managed to do that before it was too late.
She gave a sequence of punches in Shendu, who fell unconscious in the ground. Bai was ready to continue the attack when finally Tchang Zu, Dai Gui and Po Kong managed to stop her.
"Calm down, Bai Tsa!", Po Kong demanded and Bai drew a deep breath. She glanced around herself and was very embarrassed when seeing that everybody in the festival was staring at her. The worst was to see that Panatinaikos was among them, and he seemed to be the most surprised.
Dhai Jiang was looking at her with admiration and pride. Yan Kwang looked angry. Tso Lan was serious, with a disapproving glance and Hsi Wu, Xiao Fung, Mei Liang and Po Kong approached of Shendu who was still unconscious in the ground, with a face like this: @_@.
"Is he alive?", Xiao Fung asked half-joking and Po and Hsi knelt down to check.
"He's just unconscious.", Po said carrying him to the festival medical room while most of the people began to go away and waited the continuation of the tournament. Tchang Zu swallowed.
"Fortunately she's not participating of the tournament...", he commented and Dai Gui nodded.
-/-/-
"Wow... Bai, I didn't know that you were so strong. I think it's very nice, you know?", Panatinaikos remarked smiling.
"Rea... Really?", she asked still very embarrassed.
"Yes. That means that you are a girl with strong personality, who knows how to defend yourself and doesn't depend of anybody.", he said and Bai Tsa felt a bit better. Indeed, seeing for this angle it wasn't so bad after all.
-/-/-
The fight between Tchang Zu and Hsi Wu began. Everyone already knew who would be the winner, except for Sakura who was still cheering aloud for Hsi. Po and Liu glanced at each other raising a brow. Hsi was still very young and weak. No way was he going to win.
In the arena, he was saying to himself that he'd like to win. Losing in front of his siblings and his father was normal. They already knew his limits. Losing in front of all those strange mortals didn't bother him either. They would think that he was just too younger. The problem was Sakura. He didn't know why, but that was a thought that really didn't please him. He stared at Tchang Zu hopelessly. The sky demon's defeat was obvious.
They began to fight and initially it was balanced. The thunder demon was just giving him some chance so that his brother's defeat wouldn't be so shameful. After all, he was part of the family and that wouldn't be good for their reputation.
Suddenly, when observing Hsi Wu's expression during the battle, Sakura stopped cheering and became serious. She didn't understand why Hsi wasn't making an effort to win.
Hsi managed to punch Tchang in his face, and that made that thunder demon angrier. He gave up of going easy on his brother and hit him in the stomach with so much strength that threw him out the arena. Sakura flinched in worry and Po Kong sighed.
"Yeah, I already expected that.", she commented and Sakura turned to face her.
"Yes, he lost. But not for the reason that all of you are thinking.", she said firmly and the group walked to Hsi Wu.
The arbitrator announced Tchang Zu's victory while the sky demon stood up yet a bit dizzy. He lifted his head and saw Sakura, Po Kong, Liu Yue and Mei Liang.
"Hsi Wu, are you ok?", the girl asked worried. Hsi looked away and left running. He didn't want to face her now. It was a shame that a human child pitied a demon like him.
"Hsi Wu! Wait!", she yelled.
"Let it be. He'll forget it soon.", Po Kong said and Sakura ignored her, running after him.
-/-/-
Hsi Wu didn't go very far. His will was to fly as high as possible and at least for some minutes forget of everybody's existence. He looked for a desert place in the festival - which was rare - until he finally found it. It was a small lake that was reflecting the moonlight and the stars and there were some vacancy-fires flying above it.
He was getting ready to take his true form and fly away when he heard Sakura calling him. He turned to face her and she recovered the breath before finally saying something.
"Hsi, don't get so upset because of that. It's not worthwhile."
"Leave me alone.", he said turning again to the lake and lowering his head.
"I know why you've lost.", she said and Hsi snorted.
"Of course you do. Just like everyone."
"It's nothing you are thinking about. You know, actually that's the reason why you've lost. You think what everybody thinks. That you're weak. You aren't self-confident.", she said sadly and Hsi turned to face her again.
"What do you mean?"
"Tchang Zu was going easy on you, but you were so sure that would lose that didn't even notice that you actually could win. You don't have to be ashamed of having been defeated, you should be ashamed of not having tried.", she scolded and Hsi was in deep thought for a while.
"If you don't believe in yourself, Hsi, nobody will do. You'll be no more able to show your true values.", she said and gave a pause while Hsi stared at her.
"That's the real victory.", she continued and hugged Hsi. He tried to push her back, but she just hugged him harder and he slowly gave up and hugged her too. Her hug was so... warm and soothing. With Sakura, he forgot all his problems and shames. He felt great. It was a feeling similar to what he felt when flying alone in the sky.
"I believe in you, Hsi.", Sakura said in a low voice. Hsi blushed and his heart beated more and more fast. He was confused. What was this feeling? All he wanted now was to be there, hugging Sakura, for ever.
She slowly moved away of him, and stretched her hand.
"Come on, Hsi. Let's go back together.", she said smiling and almost unconsciously he held her hand, and they returned together to the tournament.
-/-/-
"Where were you?", Po Kong asked when she saw Hsi Wu and Sakura returning. Now they weren't holding hands in order to not cause suspicions.
"That's not important. Who's going to fight now?", Sakura asked and Po Kong shrugged.
"Not sure. The arbitrator and some few people of the tournament went to see something, and here we are waiting them.", she answered.
"Oh, look. It's the arbitrator.", Liu said pointing to the man in the arena.
"Well, the next fight would be between Shendu and Pian Shi, but since Shendu is still unconscious and disable to fight, Pian Shi is going to fight against Tchang Zu.", he announced and the two demons went to the arena.
*****
Ok, I give up. I think the demons are OOC. You don't have to comment about it.
