"Alright! In ya go!" A male voice scoffed once Mateus Palamecia was shoved to land on his left side in pain in a cell, wearing nothing but the same pair of white cloth – like shorts he wore when he was imprisoned in the prison Void. He let out a moan as he slowly sat up to glare at the man who shove him in; to be the same man who wants him back to Mirage Arena.
"So Mateus, you're not the only one who escapes to "train". When you left, the other top fighter also escapes. Where is Souseke?" The ruler of the Mirage Arena demanded as Mateus narrow his cold eyes before exclaiming. "How should I know Salem? I was seduced by a man while Aizen was just defeated and seduced by your own prisoner…." Until a kick in the face interrupted him.
"True but you will be in the finals while a new competitor will be fighting you. I wonder what will happen if a former captain of the Soul Society versus a discarded emperor? I'll think of that when the tournament starts." Salem explained rudely as he walks out of the cellar, leaving Mateus flinching to sat up and wiping the blood off his lips with the back of right hand.
'Mind teaching me some moves?' Mateus recalled Sora's last words to him before he hid the boy to hide from Salem in his head before Sora voice in his head changes to sound like a little girl, her tone sounds like kind and excitement. 'I don't care if you're a mean demon emperor. I know even if your temper kept rising, you will find someone nice to be with.'
'That voice…I miss her…' Mateus thought as he covered his face with one hand to hide the expression of loss and depression. While Mateus is stuck in his cell in the Mirage Arena, Sora happened to be in a different world where he falls to the forest below while screaming until he land on the grass a mile away from a near lake where Sora slowly look up to see a yellow figure floating above the water. Once Sora stood up and dusted the leaves off his hair and clothes, he walks to the lake where he hides behind a tall tree to see a woman with longer blonde hair, a beautiful figure and face, and wears blue markings to cover her big chest, and green bikini panties.
'She's so hot!' Sora thought with amazement in his head as another figure emerges from the water, to Sora's surprise. This other person is a man with messy brown hair to his chin and calm brown eyes, Sora can see in the water; this man is wearing a white skirt – like cloth to his thighs with a shorts combo. Sora watches the two as the woman dove in the water before the man sank down back in the water for a short while until the two swam up near the riverbed and the man got out before the woman float out for the two to sat on the grass.
"We don't mind if you come out, Keyblade Master Sora." The man spoke in a calm way as Sora froze in shock before he slowly walk beside the two where the woman is just resting her head against the man's muscled chest, her face shows pleased and smug while the man just wraps his arm around her back and his fingers curled against her shoulder.
"Sorry if I was spying. I thought I will be in this 'Mirage Arena.'." Sora exclaimed as the woman gave Sora a curious look before asking, lifting her head off the man's chest. "Why? You want to see us fight in the finals?"
"Well. I want to save someone; long blonde spiky hair, purple eyes, and carries a dagger?" Sora questioned as the woman gave the man a seductive grin before exclaiming confidently that surprises Sora with a step back. "You owe me sex tonight."
"Alright Barbariccia (Final Fantasy 4)… Sora, you will follow us to Mirage Arena if… you help us fight the ruler of that world. Salem, he prisoned powerless fighters to fight in the tournaments and even abused them. He started this ever since we escaped the prison Void from Mateus; the escaping part we should thank him." The man explained as Sora nod in understanding with a determined look. "Okay. Who are you two?"
"My name is Aizen Souseke and this is Barbariccia." Aizen (Bleach) introduced as the two stood up before Barbariccia suddenly let her hair floating around her to form a hurricane until she floats while taking both men. It takes to a few worlds until the three suddenly appear at where Sora knows they are at the Mirage Arena.
"There you are!" The three heard a familiar male shout as Sora hid behind Aizen's back when Salem walk to the two, fury in his face while his left hand held a little girl by the collar. She has longer blonde hair to her ankles, her bangs almost cover her blood red eyes, and wears a simple blue dress to her knees with a strap on each shoulder. Sora felt pity for the girl to be held in a cruel way and he notice Barbariccia is looking at him with fury and gritting her teeth as the girl slowly look afraid of Salem.
"Where have you been Souseke!? You've been gone in two hours and the tournament is starting in 10 minutes!" Salem demanded as Sora slowly hid beside Barbariccia when Salem threw the girl to Aizen. Aizen gave the girl to Barbariccia where she curled her arms around the poor girl's body; like a mother and daughter embrace.
"I'm sorry Salem. I was following Barbariccia for a walk." Aizen lied confidently as the three watch him following to Aizen before Barbariccia turn to Sora, her face shows concern and annoyance. "See Sora, this is why Salem should be dead."
"Okay. Once I'll fight them, I'll convince them to ignore Salem's orders." Sora exclaimed an idea as Barbariccia let out a nod before Sora ran through the Mirage Arena where he found Salem walking past him until Sora turn back and pounce on Salem's back before he fell on his stomach.
"Yeah kid?" Salem asked in surprise once Sora stood up before Salem and Sora starts to offer. "I would like to fight in the tournament please. I can give you 1,000 gil from my pockets!"
"Deal!" Salem suddenly accepted with a snap of fingers when he heard about Sora's gil before dragging Sora by the hood; to Sora's surprise of Salem's stupidity for money, into a dark room where not a single light brightens the room until Salem switch on a light above him and Sora before asking. "Pop quiz: What do you learn about the tournaments of Mirage Arena?"
"Okay: You have 8 rounds of fighting Unversed, a semi – final round and the final round where you fight one of your top fighters. And are they…" Sora explained the basics as Salem help answering. "Deadly? Yes."
"They will be a timer of each round but a bonus score if you beat the Unversed in time and I don't know if the semi and final rounds has timers too."
"No they don't, go on."
"After the finals, they will be a big Unversed boss and the ruler of the Mirage Arenawill judge if you make any mistakes of your skills and magic when you beat it."
"And you're not here to do something stupid are you?" Salem asked once Sora finished explaining and he answered with a shook of his head, earning a sigh of relief from the ruler.
"Thank you, thank you. Hold your applause, thank you very much." Sora pretended to be a successful actor as Salem close the lights with a smirk before the two walk out and notices the spectators arriving in the Mirage Arena and when noticing the first four people; both Salem and Sora suddenly scream like surprised fangirls when those four people walks to the two.
"Redeemers of the Damned!" Both screamed again as Salem cough before exclaiming calmly when noticing the four people; who were called Redeemers of the Damned, were giving them confused looks. "Sorry; I'm Salem, owner of Mirage Arena. It's a pleasure to meet you."
"Thanks; names Landlord of Domus Facina (Sephiroth7734's Domus Facina from Deviantart) but just called me Jack Klauser. (I only own the name; Klauser belongs to Bartz Klauser of Final Fantasy V)" A man with chin – length brown hair, green eyes, has a goatee, and wears a trousercoat with the prominent color of black, gray, and gold with a long golden horn on each shoulder pads, black fingerless glove with a golden bracelet of spikes in each wrist, a golden belt of chains with spikes sticking out around his waist, gray pants and black boots with a golden belt tying in each shoe; said.
"Is this your son? You look young to have a child." The only woman of the group asked Salem, noticing Sora beside him. She has long black hair to her back, a very beautiful face, and wears a long white dress with a strap around each forearm, her back has a marking of white angel wings behind.
"What? Oh no, this is our chosen fighter for today's tournament, Lady Anya. What's your name, kid?" Salem asked Sora as he was looking at Lady Anya with a smile and blushing cheeks for a while until Salem elbowed his forearm to get his attention; which Sora snapped out before scratching the back of his spiky brown hair.
"Oh! Uh…uh… I'm Sora Hewley." Sora introduced as a tanned man with black unruly hair, a goatee, red eyes, a red headband tying his forehead, bearing a large tattoo of a black J at his muscled chest and body, wearing only black shorts to his knees with an orange sash at the right side, and a bandage tying each wrist; sighed in relief. "Oh god, I almost thought Salem got the kid when he's adopted. Or worse, if Salem's pregnant when he's a few years old…"
"Wait what? I'm not even 19 yet so I'm not a dad and I wont get pregnant." Salem said in surprise as Sora froze in shock till his body acts like stone and his own voice screamed his mind as a thought. 'What!? I thought he's 40!? I didn't know he's a teenager!?'
"Judging by the reaction Sora is giving you, I would say he just realized about your age." The last man with auburn hair slicking infront, has a strand of hair sticking up, his yellow eyes can be seen behind his purple rectangular – shaped glasses, and wearing black Soul Reaper uniforms told Salem as his voice shocks Salem to be stiff as stone and Sora has to agree with him; the man's voice does exactly sounds like Mateus.
"Sora! Time for the first round!" Salem just snapped out as the Redeemers of the Damned went to join the spectators before everyone watch Sora battling each powerful Unversed of each eight rounds and everyone kept cheering and clapping for him until the semi – final round started to see Sora versus Barbariccia and the same little girl she was worrying. The fight started with Barbariccia twirling her hair around herself like a hurricane while the little girl kept shooting magic rapidly while Sora dodge both of them before attacking the latter until he threw a Firaga spell like a baseball as the little girl open her mouth before she sucks the fire spell like a soul being eaten, to everyone's surprise until she opens her mouth and the fire spell grows bigger and shoots to Sora before he dodge and the fire spell hits the stands.
"I'm so proud of Haruhi…" Barbariccia whispered in surprise as Sora dash to the two before Barbariccia sends slashes of winds, hitting Sora to fly back before he use Aerial Dodge and counterattack Haruhi until she was defeated and lie on the ground while Sora attack Barbariccia before she is also defeated with a jump from Sora, earning cheering at the spectators.
"Don't worry, I'll stop this." Sora whispered as a thumbs up from Barbariccia agreed before the two girls slowly walk out of the round in pain when the finals started and Mateus walked in the arena while holding his dagger, cheering of Sora filled the air of the Mirage Arena.
"Now! The finals…Sora vs Mateus Palamecia!" Salem introduced the two fighters as the sight of Sora's appearance send Mateus's eyes widening in shock until everyone stop by the sound of long spit – taking before eyes peered to be the Landlord of Domus Facina, his eyes shows shock until he stops and wipe the drink off his lips. Everyone watch Jack storming to Salem's stand while mumbling until he stands infront of Salem, placing a fake moustache on his lips for a short while until he quickly pull it out, hearing a pained scream from Salem.
"That's gotta hurt." Sora mused with a shiver of pain as the Landlord walks back but he slipped on a banana which he just realize before he fell in the arena with a scream until he fell on his face and body, earning a face palm of Mateus but everyone froze of an unknown old male voice before an old man in his early sixties walked to Salem with a dirty – looking smirk. He has platinum silver hair with slight wrinkles showing in his face and he dress in formal black clothes, along a white tie.
"Such a pathetic way to feel pain with a fake moustache, son."
"Father?" Salem exclaimed in surprise once his, to everyone's surprise, father stand beside Salem before his eyes widen in shock and fear when he feels pain stabbing his chest until everyone scream in shock to see Salem getting stab by claws sticking out of his father's fingers before his claws retreated once Salem fell in the arena with a thud. The spectators ran out of the Mirage Arena while Lady Anya, Makoto Kibune, and Jecht jumped in the arena before Salem's old father also jumps in, getting everyone to draw their weapons out.
"I knew corrupting my son was useless; he only does my bidding because I tell him lies about his mother death by killing herself. He's a dangerous yet naïve boy the moment he was born; a dangerous water – elemental demon!" Salem's father explained while Sora can see Salem looking at his father with shocked eyes filled with tears while his chest bleeds heavily until his father finished explaining. "His mother and I are pure mages while he was cursed to be a demon yet his mother loved him like he's human. I won't dare call such demon my son so I kill his mother and raise and use magic on him to destroy other pathetic monsters and demons before I have a chance to destroy the demonic brat!"
"You're wrong!" Sora shouted at the old cruel man with anger as Salem froze at the boy's bravery and anger to Salem's own betraying father before Sora continue. "It doesn't matter if he's a demon or a human; what matters is if he cares about you! And if you can't see that, you should be the demon instead of him!"
"You sound brave for a brat who holds the Keyblade; like the stupid little human girl who believes demons are like people…" Salem's father scoffed as he waved a hand before white mists of smokes appear to form a vision showing a little girl of eight with longer black hair with the bangs almost covering her left eye, brown eyes, and wears a simple red dress with a strap on each shoulder and blue flip flops, and she is also hugging a green cat plush doll in her arms, the size of the doll is the same size of her height.
"That looks like…" Sora whispered as before he can finish, he can feel a hand touching his right shoulder before he looks up to be Mateus, his eyes shows more shock at the sight of the vision of the little girl before Lady Anya step forward with anger. "How dare you! We angels have been watching her and I feel pity on her for being called useless from the children her age but she is special and cares for her own people, even if she sacrifice herself!"
"But it's true, Lady Anya. Demons are monsters who eats unfortunate souls who will be sent to hell for their sins and torture them till they won't make it to heaven. And another thing about this girl…" The old man exclaimed in pride as he looks at the little girl who shows no fear before he added with a frown. "She held no reactions or fear of anything for a young girl…"
"How dare you…" Mateus hissed coldly as the old man could only do is smirking at his reaction before the vision ended and replace it with a giant Unversed; it's lower body is locked in a black gibbet with silver highlights and several black, diamond-shaped gems set in it. Its arms, which are covered in black armor with two blue gauntlets, are bound by four red chains. Only its head, encased in a helmet that is light grey on its right half and grey on its left half, is free to move. It has jagged, black horns on either side of its helmet, though they are not of the same shape; The right horn is somewhat straighter and more horizontal, while the left horn hooks upward sharply.
"I will enjoy watching you all die from the guardian of the Mirage Arena." The old man exclaimed as he disappears, leaving his dying son on the arena before reappearing back to Salem's former stand; not hearing Jecht silent cursing. "Damn old bastard."
"We'll get him once we're done with this!" Makoto told Jecht as Sora narrow his blue eyes at the Unversed before hearing Mateus muttering. "I will get him with only a demon form…" as Jecht grabbed Sora a bit before Mateus was glowing with black energy consuming him for a while until purple eyes with black demon slits appeared for the energy to fade to show Mateus wearing a black leather clothing to cover around his chest with big demon wings, black leather wristbands, black leather shorts above the upper thighs with a long demon tail and a matching belt, and black Stiletto boots to his thighs with a zipper on each boot. (The clothing is from a pixiv picture of the Emperor in Pixiv.)
'He dressed like Kiara; almost!' Sora thought in surprise as he shook his head to focus the fight with the Unversed called the Iron Imprisoned (Battle Music: Unforgettable of Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep.) The Iron Imprisoned starts to fight by spinning around the arena while it is on fire but everyone dodge by flying and dodge rolling before Jecht threw Makoto by his right arm before striking the Unversed with his weapon; a large, three-bladed weapon connected with a straight pole, with two edges extending like arrow points and the third shaped like a fan in between them until the Iron Imprisoned spin around, sending Makoto flying before landing on his legs perfectly when the Landlord suddenly earth – bend the tiles of the ground and shot them at the Unversed's head and chained body.
"Keep fighting!" Salem's old father ordered roughly as Mateus gave a snarl before his demon tail suddenly grow to dash to the stand until it crashed the entire stand and the old man had a long fall but he floats almost to the ground, giving Mateus a cruel smirk. "You won't stop Bass Mahone, demon! I will kill my own son, just like how you failed to save your precious human friend!". His remark send Mateus gritting his demon fanged teeth with widen eyes showing fury before flying faster to attack the cruel old man; possibly Bass Mahone.
"Sora! You must help Mateus!" Lady Anya exclaimed as the Iron Imprisoned traps her in a cage but she ignited it with a tornado of fire before Sora nod in reply and ran to Mateus as he kept fighting with martial arts but Bass kept dodging with flash dodging until Sora strike a sliding dash at Bass to hit him to the air and Mateus rapidly attack the old bastard with punches before a drop kick send Bass falling until he hits the ground, a mile beside the still wounded Salem, who slowly heal himself with a simple Cure spell he only has. Suddenly, a hand grabbed Salem's throat as everyone notice Salem is choking with a gasp by Bass as he is severely bleeding from face to body but his face shows a dreaded grin.
"Now to end with you, you demonic monster!" Bass gritted his bloody teeth at the shocked Salem as both his hands try to get out of his grip, but now he's feeling no use until Sora suddenly appears infront and strike his Keyblade to release Salem off Bass's hands before the latter grabs Sora's neck instead, earning shock from the Redeemers of the Damned as he kept screaming.
"Dad! Stop!" Salem pleaded in shock as Bass ignored his plea and continue gripping Sora's neck harder until Mateus shouts furiously while giving a punch in Bass's face "He said STOP!", earning the old man to fall on his back and Salem catch Sora from falling once Jecht, Lady Anya, Jack, and Makoto finally defeated the Iron Imprisoned with the four attacking at the same time.
"Why do …all of you have to trust worthless monsters!? They will kill humans with little care! And eat the lives out of them!" Bass hollered furiously as Jecht held Salem on his arms until a familiar female voice to Sora spoke confidently before everyone notice a certain princess in pink with long black hair walking in. "Shut up about complaining monsters like trash; old prick. It makes ears bleeding just about hearing you declaring like shit."
"Princess Kai! When did you got here!?" Sora asked in surprise as Mateus slowly widen his violet eyes while Kai walks to Bass Mahone, who gave a sneer to her. "So… you are alive all this time…" until he notice the rose mark in her left hand and froze at the sight of it before trailing his feared eyes at the cold expression in her face. "The little girl who stupidly believes….is the Princess of Demon Summoning!?"
"You guys should get out of here…" as Kai's cold eyes turn to glowing red with a small smirk while showing her teeth in a death expression before adding. "I got a bone with this old man." Earning fear and stuttering from the eye - widening old man while everyone heard a whistle at the entrance to be Lord Aizen with Haruhi on his arms, and Barbariccia and behind the three is a portal showing darkness but different than the Corridor of Darkness.
"Oh hell no we're not taking him with us!" Barbariccia shouted as everyone ran before she was pointing angrily at the unconscious Salem on Jecht's arms, as everyone can hear his panting while clutching his bloodied shirt but Lord Aizen nod in agreement before everyone ran in the portal until Mateus grab Sora by his tail around the latter's waist when Sora was the last to see Bass screaming in fear once Kai suddenly glows a dark red aura; once the portal disappeared, the energy all over Kai grows before she slowly spoke with a small cold smirk. "This is for calling Matty a monster and almost got me killed that day….eight years ago…"
ROTD Omake: Haruhi and Barbariccia's cooking for the day! (Parody of Orihime and Rangiku's Cooking For the Day in Bleach.)
Haruhi: I'm Haruhi!
Barbariccia: And I'm Barbariccia!
Both: And welcome to…. Haruhi and Barbariccia's Cooking For The Day!~
Haruhi: Today, Daddy and Spiky blonde head Emperor are going to try my first cooking with Mommy's help!(showing a tied up Aizen and Mateus together with a cloth gagging each of their mouths.)
Mateus: (gagged) Why are we tied up?
Aizen: (gagged) Barbariccia tied us up during the fight!
Haruhi: Mommy, the vegetables are mushy…
Barbariccia: Then we're making stew! ~ (earning Aizen and Mateus to struggle and squirm in shock.) Haruhi, are you going to add watermelon too?
Haruhi: Yes please! (chopping noises before both tied men struggled faster until hearing Haruhi.) It's done! (before placing a big bowl of purple stew with hissing noises; earning sweat drops from the two men.
(I realized I haven't made any disclaimers so I don't own anyone but my own original characters; Princess Kai and her summons; except Narunosuke and the Pink Elephants, Haruhi, Salem and Bass Mahone.)
