Crossroad Conventions

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Chapter Seven: Exhibition of Powers – Female

This time, most of the audience members were all the male warriors who had demonstrated their powers earlier. They were excited to see what the women could do and were more than ready to cheer the girls on.

There were still some girls left on the bleachers, though, because not all had powers which were used for combat. So everyone waited in eager anticipation for the exhibition to begin.

The announcer also clarified that this presentation would be significantly shorter than the last one.

"Don't get as wrong, we are not being sexist," the announcer said on the speakers, in a rare show of opinion, "but this is simply because some of our female participants have refused to demonstrate their abilities today and other combatant female participants were unable to make it for this event. We are sorry for the inconvenience and we hope that you still enjoy the show."

"Hey," some of the men complained, "we were all forced to give these silly exhibitions, how come the women are exempt from them?"

Surprisingly, the announcer replied to this particular complaint.

"Because we all know that no matter how reluctant you are to show your powers, you always want to take any opportunity to show off. So please stop complaining."

There was still some minor grumbling after this but some of the men had to admit that the voice was correct about them. After all, they had enjoyed all the attention they had gotten after they had demonstrated all their unique abilities earlier.

"Furthermore," the announcer added, "the management will not tolerate any lewd or rude behavior from the male members of the audience. Violators will be severely punished. So be warned."

Fortunately, this instruction was taken seriously by the men and they kept quiet about it. It was only fair to all the women who would be presenting. After all, they never had to worry about women being offensive to them when they were showing off.

The order of presentation was the same as the first batch of presentations, though some of the groups were not represented by any female participants.

First to present were Kaoru Kamiya and Makimachi Misao. Each lady fighter demonstrated her skills with expertise and loud cheers and applause from the entire audience.

Next followed the biggest group of female performers so far, the many ninjas from Konoha (led by Tsunade herself) as well as Temari from Suna. Their fellow team mates and ninjas cheered them on enthusiastically (and almost cliquishly) while the rest of the audience marveled at the variety of techniques presented.

Some of the other male fighters even took notes of the techniques being demonstrated, as future reference. This was by far the longest presentation of all but a very impressive and entertaining one.

After this came the ladies from Amestris and Xing. Only Izumi Curtis was an alchemist and Mei Ling was a practitioner of alkahestry. Nevertheless, the other female fighters were not a disappointment at all. Riza Hawkeye impressed even Sanzo with her skills with firearms and her excellent aim.

("There must be something about blondes and guns," Gojyo had commented wryly to Hakkai.)

And of course, Olivier Armstrong even impressed the experienced swordsmen like Kenshin and Sesshoumaru with her sword wielding abilities.

So once again, loud cheers and applause were given to this batch of presenters.

There were only a few female fighters left to represent some of the remaining groups. But the next few exhibitions were not at all disappointing.

Next up was the so-called Poison Lady, Himiko Kudou, who brought out several vials of her deadly perfumes and demonstrated the magic spells that could be evoked by these perfumes. The audience watched in awe as the girl wove her magic using only small vials of mysterious liquids. She was the only female to represent the GetBackers and their friends as most of their fighters were male.

The next female fighter was the legendary reiki master and martial arts expert, Genkai, who displayed her tremendous skills easily and impressively. She even gave a short demonstration of her trademark technique, the Spirit Wave. Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama all cheered enthusiastically for her and the rest of the audiences followed suit. No one had imagined that such a petite lady could be such a fierce and formidable fighter. No other females from Yusuke's group were to demonstrate.

After Genkai, Sango and Kagome appeared at the arena to demonstrate their skills. Hitomi waved excitedly at her new friend while the other members of the Femme Fatale group all cheered Sango. The male spectators were also very supportive as well. Their demonstration was simple and straightforward enough. Kagome showed her amazing archery prowess while Sango merely showed some of the powers of her Hiraikotsu. Many of the men were impressed at how the demon slayer was able to effortlessly fling such a huge weapon, aim it accurately, and catch it without any difficulty at all. There were loud cheers from Inu Yasha and Miroku, and then from everyone else.

Next were the two other members of Kougaiji's group, Yaone and Lirin. The latter was more eager and excited to display her fighting skills while Yaone showed her talents with using small explosives as well as wielding her blade. All members of Sanzo's Party (except Sanzo, of course) cheered for the two women and showed their support along with Dokugakuji and Kougaiji. And as usual, the rest of the audience were also quite impressed by this display.

Since Naria and Eria were not able to make it to the convention, no female fighter represented Gaea during the exhibition of powers.

So the female demonstration ended a lot earlier than the previous event but everyone was already tired after such amazing and intense shows. They hoped that whatever came next would not require exertion of too much effort.

Once again, members of the hotel staff entered the arena to clear up any debris that was left behind. Everyone marveled at the efficiency of these maintenance crew.

Just as the audience was beginning to grow impatient, the expected announcement was given over the speakers.

"Thank you to all those who generously decided to share their talents with all of us. We sincerely hope that you all enjoyed the exhibition of powers and abilities by both the male and female participants. We will now proceed to the next event of today's convention, the symposium."