During the morning before the semi-final rounds of the World's Strongest Fighter tournament; the four remaining competitors had woken up, showered, brushed their teeth, eaten, and whatever else they felt that they needed to do to get ready for the day, before all of them stumbled across each other in the lobby of the hotel. While Cho, Aida, Will, and Kyle were beginning to converse, James and Leo had both decided to just sleep in since they didn't have anywhere to be at this early in the day.
Cho yawned loudly as he entered the lobby, took a seat on a fancy looking couch, and then addressed his friend and acquaintances in a confident tone of voice "Good morning, everyone. Are you all ready for the competition today?"
As soon as he said this, Cho looked over at Will and got a cocky grin on his face, Will quickly took notice of this and, never one to let others push him around, just stared Cho down, this went on until Kyle, who was grabbing a second breakfast from the breakfast bar, took notice, stepped between the two, and, as he swallowed an entire pancake down his gullet in one bite, spoke to the two of them in a calming tone "Alright, let's save it for the tournament, you guys."
After Cho and Will relaxed, Aida, holding a glass of orange juice, walked up to Kyle and snapped at him in an aggressive yet cocky tone "Listen up, weakling! I hope that you know that my teacher and I are going to face off against each other in the final round of this tournament! I just wanted to make sure that you don't get your hopes up about getting to the finals yourself." Following this up, she took a drink from her glass and smirked aggressively, all while Will watched the two of them cautiously.
Aida's tone of voice and mannerisms annoyed Kyle a little bit, but he simply let out a sigh before explaining to her in a tired yet friendly tone of voice "Listen, I don't want to get into an argument about something like this we'll see what happens when we fight, okay?" Having expected a more aggressive response, Aida looked a bit taken back by Kyle's calm attitude to her instigation, before simply responded to him with "Um... right..."
While Aida clumsily walked away from Kyle, Will let out a sigh of relief, before muttering to himself "All things considered, well that went better than expected for both of them."
After another half an hour or so of idle chatter, the group left the hotel so that they could get to the tournament-grounds.
While they were on their way to fight, Will made sure he was on the opposite side of the group that Kyle was walking on, before leaning downwards and whispering to Aida "Alright, listen up, Aida. Kyle's fighting skills are... Well the best way I can think to describe it is... well-rounded, but with just a little bit more emphasis placed on his speed than any of his other attributes, so, because of that, he occasionally throws out a block too early, and he's lacking just a little bit in the category of keeping his balance. He also can get frustrated when he thinks he has no hope of winning, but don't try to rely on this too much. Kyle makes for his poor balance and blocking issues with fast reflexes and an extremely high pain tolerance."
Taking a second to make mental notes of this, Aida nodded her head to Will and replied respectfully to him "Understood! Thank you, teacher."
Meanwhile, with Cho and Kyle. The smaller of the two smiled in a friendly manner to Kyle, before he asked him in a charismatic tone of voice "Sooo... You willing to share any information on your friend's fighting style before my match with him?"
Kyle thought this over for a second and then replied in an analytic tone of voice "Well... Will is an all offensive type of fighter, and he's a damn good one at that, but because of this, his defensive stances are near non-existent, so if you start to overwhelm him, he won't be able to deflect your attacks all that well and will try to bring you into multiple grappling techniques in order to either beat you down while he has has you restrained or just slam you on the ground so hard that you pass out. Basically, just stay on your toes whenever you get up close to him."
Cho responded to the information provided to him with a grateful smile and an appreciative reply "Thank you for the advice, Kyle."
Meanwhile, the winged figure was standing above and looking down on the group of fighters on a nearby rooftop.
While watching them, the figure entered his own mind and asked his master "My king, can I please just take the Seven Star Dragon Ball from them now, instead of waiting for the end of this tournament? I am strong enough to defeat them all as I am!" His master replied to this request with cheerful voice "Oh, come know, my child. Where is the fun in that? If you wait until the end of the tournament, then the monkey boys will be a little stronger after healing from the damage they receive in their fights and, in tern, give you a more entertaining battle when you steal the Dragon Ball from them! You'd enjoy that wouldn't you?" The winged figure replied to this with joy in his gruff, high pitched voice "That dose sound like fun, my king!"
His master, in a pleased tone, commented "Of course it dose, my combat starved child. Now, just wait and watch them as I instructed." After getting these orders, the winged figure replied happily while excitedly fluttering his wings "Yes, my king!"
A little while latter, when the group of elite fighters arrived at the tournament grounds, they entered the main building through the front entrants and, while they were trying to get to the waiting room, they wound up having to make their way through a cheering crowd of people, who were asking for autographs and pictures taken with them. A couple of people even grabbed at Will's hair, running his pony-tail.
The group eventually made their way through the crowed of their new-found fans and arrived at the waiting room.
Aida, with a very obvious look of annoyance and slight fatigue on her face, asked the others "Why the heck were those jerks shouting and shoving paper at us?!" Will, while fixing his hair, responded to Aida's question by explaining "They're probably impressed with our fights yesterday." Deciding to chime in, Kyle commented "It's probably the first ever public display of kie in Human history."
A few minutes of calming down later, the Match Planner entered the room and addressed everyone with a disinterested tone of voice while looking over a clipboard "Alright, people. For today's fights we have Cho versus Will, and Aida versus Kyle. You all got that?" They all nodded in response and started getting prepared for their fights.
Out in the arena, the Announcer had taken the stage and, after making sure his microphone was in working order, he spoke to the crowd in a very excited and enthusiastic tone "Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to day two of the World's Greatest Fighter Tournament! We have some great fights lined up for you today. And if their performances yesterday were anything to go by, then these warriors will give you all a show of combat like you've never seen before! Now, it's time for the first round of today's fights. THE MONKEY MAN WILL VERSUS THE MONK CHO!" Hearing this, the crowed exploded into a huge cheer of excitement.
After listening to all of that, Will and Cho realized that it was time for them to take the stage, so they both looked at each other, both gave off a cocky grin, and, then, made their way to the arena.
While walking, Cho thought to himself in an arrogant and proud tone "Alright, so if this Will guy really has a Saiyan body like Kyle does, then it should be fairly easy to beat him, considering how much stronger I am than Kyle."
Will looked over the confident strut that Cho had, and then thought in a dismissive tone "This probably won't take too long to beat a punk like him."
Kyle and Aida watched Will and Cho walk towards the arena through the waiting room's monitor, both of them having different thoughts on the fight they were about to witness unfold.
Aida smirked at the confident way Cho was carrying himself and thought "I can't wait for teacher to humiliate this loser. He's so f***ing arrogant, it makes me sick!"
Kyle looked at the screen that showed two of his friends about to fight each other and thought nervously "I hope they don't do anything permanent to each other... Please don't humiliate Cho too badly, Will."
The two entered the arena, both of them getting a massive cheer from the crowd as they walk to the opposite ends of the ring. As soon as they got on parallel sides of the arena, they took up their preferred combat stances and waited for the Announcer's permission to go at it.
Seeing that the excitement on both fighters' faces matched his own, the Announcer shouted to them "And... BEGIN!"
As soon as the Announcer gave the okay to begin fighting, Cho immediately started to fly straight at Will in order to begin his assault, but Will had the same idea and also flew at Cho at the same time that the monk had started flying.
Due to Will's naturally higher speed, he literally beat Cho to the punch. Will landed a solid fist to Cho's face, followed up by a knee getting smashed into his ribs while he was still at point blank range. The force of these attacks sent Cho flying backwards, but, before his body could reach the arena's edge, Cho preformed a series of in-air back-flips that killed the momentum, allowed him to stay in the arena and on his feet.
Cho, after nearly being knocked out of the ring, regained his composer, glared angrily at the smiling Saiyan bodied Human that was now giving more of his attention to mugging for the audience than looking his opponent.
Now furious, Cho fired a mass of energy towards Will, catching him off guard and launching him backwards; however, he was able to quickly recompose himself in mid-air and stop his momentum with flight.
Just as he was able to get a sense of his bearings back, Cho rushed at Will and tried to punch him in his chest. But, once again due to Will's higher speed, he was able to catch the fist just before it could hit him. Not wanting to give up on his assault, Cho tried to knee Will in his pelvis, but he saw this coming and countered by colliding his own knee against his opponent's.
After this, the two of them took a step away from each other. It seemed as if they both needed to take a second to let their legs recover from the collision, but suddenly, the both of them closed back in on each other and started delivering a flurry of attacks on the other, with Will, now seeming to take this fight much more seriously, landing far more blows than Cho was able to.
Cho was eventually forced to jump backwards due to the amount of damage he was taking. After making sure that he got the distance between himself and Will that he needed, he lowered his right hand below his waist and started readying his Enlightenment Orb. Will saw what his opponent was doing; he just smirked arrogantly at this and prepared his Demon Buster.
After charging up their attacks, both fighters launched their signature moves. The two masses of energy collided in the air for a second, but the Demon Buster was easily able to overpower the Enlightenment Orb. Cho took notice of this very quickly and dodge-rolled out of the way of the monster shaped energy attack just in time.
While struggling to stand back up, Cho rubbed his head and thought angrily as he glared at Will bouncing back and fourth with his fists raised, ready to go "DARN IT! That was my best move; it drains me of nearly all my strength. And he just fired what I think is his best attack, but he just seems like he went on a light jog! How much power do these guys have in their alien bodies!?"
Channeling all of the frustration he was feeling at this moment, Cho gathered up all of the remaining strength that he had left in his body, rushed at Will at a speed that was too much for him to counter, and launched a flurry of incredibly powerful punches at him, most of which Will just barely managed to dodge; however the last seven punches made contact on his chest, forehead, and stomach. All of them hit hard enough to draw blood from, rip through the flesh of, and bruise the bones of Will's Saiyan body.
This made Will panic quite a bit, so, he grabbed at Cho's arms before he could throw anymore punches, spun him around, and slammed him onto the ground underneath his own body. This had so much power behind it that it caused a shock wave that knocked over a everyone in the front rows of the audience. Unable to remain conscious after getting hit with this much raw strength, Cho wound up being knocked out for the ten count.
Will was nervously grabbing at his injuries while gasping for breath. But once he recomposed himself and realized that he'd won, he smiled, threw his arms into the air, and let out a victorious shout, earning him quite a bit of cheers from the audience.
About thirty seconds after Will had knocked him out, Cho woke up and was informed of his loss by Will himself, who, after his little celebration, had decided to sit by Cho's side until he recovered.
Sitting on the ground for a second, Cho, after he fully processed what he'd just been told, stood up and shouted into the air in a mixture of disbelief and shock "Wait, what?! NO! It's not possible! How could I possibly loose?! I'm suppose to fight Kyle in the finals and prove I'm the strongest person in the world!"
Will, as well as the Announcer, the people in the audience, Kyle, and Aida, weren't sure how to react in this situation, so everyone decided to just wait there until Cho had calmed down.
When the young monk finally managed to recompose himself, he looked at Will angrily for a second, but then his expression shifted to a more disappointed one, which was followed by him letting out a sigh, bowing to Will out of respect and, then, leaving without a word to find James and Leo in the stands.
After Cho had left and Will had started making his way back to the waiting room, the Announcer spoke to the crowed in his usual excited tone "ALRIGHT! It's time for the second and final match of today: Aida vs Kyle!"
Kyle and Aida, having heard this announcement through the P.A. system, left the waiting room in order to compete in their match.
As they were walking, it became more and more obvious that Aida was very nervous about the idea of fighting Kyle, due to the fact that, back at her village, whenever Will spoke of him, he mentioned that the strength difference between the two of them was almost non-existent.
While glancing up at a confident looking Kyle, Aida though to herself in a very scared, yet also an angry at herself tone "So he's almost as strong as teacher... How am I supposed to win this?!"
About half way to the arena, Kyle glanced over at his young opponent and saw the nervousness on her face, so he asked Aida a question in the type of tone you'd hear from an adult speaking to a terrified child "Hey, Aida, are you OK? You seem a little nervous."
She didn't respond to his question, so Kyle thought to himself for a second, snapped his fingers and spoke in a fake-criticizing tone "Hey! How are you supposed to beat me and prove yourself to your teacher if your acting this nervous? What's he gonna think of that?" When Aida heard Kyle say this, she stormed past him and got onto her side of the arena, this caused him to laugh a little to himself at how determined she looked now compared to just a second ago.
Kyle then got into the arena as well, got onto his side of the ring, and took his preferred martial arts stance when he got there.
The Announcer looked back and forth between Kyle and Aida in order to make sure that they were both ready for the match, before he shouted "And... LET THE MATCH BEGIN!"
Aida instantly rushed at Kyle, and, when she got close to him, she preformed a cartwheel-like spin in the air, which resulted in her managing to land two kicks in his face. After she landed back on her feet, as well as directly in front of Kyle's tall frame, she struck him with an uppercut punch to his gut, causing him to bend over from the force of the young girl's attack.
Now feeling pretty confident in her ability to win, Aida smiled on the inside, that is until Kyle grabbed her arm, which was still planted in his torso, looked up at her, and grinned in an, almost, playful manner.
Before Aida could try to get away, Kyle tightened his grip, spun her around by her arm and, then, tossed her away with the intent of her falling outside the arena. Fortunately for the young girl, she was able to catch herself in mid-air and, angered at getting thrown away, immediately flew back at Kyle with a jump kick, however, he was able to dodge her attack this time by spinning around it, and, as he was still spinning, elbowed her in her back, knocking her to the ground.
While Aida was on her hands and knees, she shot out one of her feet at Kyle's legs in an attempt to knock him over, but he swiftly jumped over her attack, flew into the air and pelted her with a weak barrage of energy blasts.
Despite being knocked back down, Aida managed to quickly power through the pain she was in from Kyle's assault, quickly stood up and fired the 'Wrath Of My Father' attack at the air-born Kyle. When the pointed energy ray reached him, Kyle stopped the attack with his hands and redirected the beam into the air, and, while this didn't do any permanent damage to him, it did noticeably burn and cut his hands.
Almost horrified by Kyle's superhuman display of endurance, Aida thought herself "WHAT?! That's not possible! I put all of my strength into that blast and he just threw it aside like it was nothing! I know teacher told me he could take a hit, but that's just ridiculous!"
While Aida was panicking inside her head, a very calm looking Kyle, was thinking to himself in a slightly panicked and pain-filled tone "Holy crap; that burned! My hands are all cut up too!... Eh, whatever, I'm still having fun!... Although... Aida dose seem like she's out of energy... I guess I should end this before I wind up seriously hurting her."
In an instant, Kyle flew downwards at a speed that was far too fast to be seen by Aida, suddenly appeared in front of the young girl out of thin-air, and screamed threateningly at her "BOO!" Causing her to stumble backwards in shock and giving Kyle a chance to knock her out of bounds with a forceful push.
After Aida fell outside of the arena, the Announcer took a second to look at her, in order to make sure she wasn't floating or anything, shouted excitedly "Well, that looks like the end for Aida, cause she is out of the ring!"
Aida looked around herself in complete shock and confusion for second, and, when she realized that she had lost the fight against Kyle, she flew into a fit of rage, jumped back into the arena and attacked Kyle with what little strength she had left, shocking everyone who was watching.
While dodging her vicious attacks, Kyle spoke to Aida in a panicked tone "Hey! Aida! It's over, you lost!" This had the opposite effect on Aida that Kyle was hopping for, as in making her even angrier as she sped up the rate of her attacks.
The Announcer was worried that this would look bad for the tournament's future reputation, so, in an attempt to get her to stop, he weakly began speaking to Aida "I.. Uh... Young ms; the fight has already ended... You fell out of the ring." Aida just glared at the Announcer for a second as a response to his statement, this caused him to shut his mouth and take a few steps back for fear of his own safety.
As she continued with her mindless attack, Kyle realized that Aida was not listening to reasoning from anyone, so he thought to himself in an annoyed tone "I really didn't wan't to do this..." He then kneed her in her stomach and followed it up with a light elbow to the back of her head, rendering the small fighter unconscious.
After removing his knee from Aida's gut and gently setting her down on the ground, Kyle sat on the floor of the arena himself in order to catch his breath, so that he could say to himself in a smart-ass tone "Well... I'll give her this much: She sure doesn't give up without a fight." Feeling stupidly proud of himself, Kyle allowed a half smile to form on his face.
A few seconds later, Will, who had been resting his injuries off until now, flew out to the arena.
Kyle explained what happened, specifically what Aida did, prompting Will to complain with a half frown, while scratching the back of his head "Damn it! Out of all the things I tried to teach her, she was never able learn how to loose gracefully!"
After rubbing his brow in annoyance, Will gave Kyle a helping hand up and, without saying a word, He threw his student over his shoulder and began carrying her back to the hotel so that she could recover.
Not seeing any reason to stick around, Kyle decided to follow Will out, and, as the two of them were walking, Will looked over at Kyle and apologized to him in a disappointed tone "I'm sorry Aida went crazy like that, man... I should've trained her to control her temper more... I-"
Kyle cut off Will's apology by saying to him in a happy-go-lucky tone "Don't sweat it, brother! I'm fine, and I'm sure the kid will learn some kind of lesson from this or something... In all honesty though, she was really adorable during that fight." Will laughed at this and sarcastically asked "Why don't you ever get angry at kids? Seriously, you some kinda saint?"
Giggling in response, Kyle answered Will's sarcastic question "Cut me a break. I just really like kids is all. And come on, you have to admit that she's adorable!" Will thought back to all the time that he spent training this violent child he was carrying, before responding to his brother with a soft smile "Yeah... I guess she is."
Back at the arena, the Announcer, after regaining his courage and making sure that Aida was gone, adjusted his tie, turned to the audience and excitedly said to them "Well, folks; that settles it! The finalists of the World's Strongest Fighter Tournament are two of the young men with the strange eyes and monkeys tails: WILL AND KYLE!" The crowed then exploded into a massive cheer.
Later that night, back at the hotel. Will was in the now conscious Aida's room.
Will was sitting on the Aida's bed with her, while trying to get her to put an ice pack on the part of the back of her head where Kyle elbowed her, but she was being, to put it lightly, difficult.
Aida punched Will in his face while stating defensively "I don't need a stupid ice pack! I'm fine! I'm invincible, just like my father was! Kyle just got lucky, that's all!"
While desperately trying not to get angry with the his student, Will, in a concerned voice, exclaimed "Would you please hold still!? I need to make sure that you didn't get hurt too badly!" Aida shouted angrily at Will while continuing to struggle with him "I just told you that I don't need it! I'm invin-"
Will, who had now lost patience, grabbed Aida's arm and stated angrily "No one's invincible, not even your dad! I think you should know that better than anyone! Now let me see your head. I don't want you to die too!" Aida and Will both gasped at what was just said.
After a moment of silence, Aida let her hair down from the long ponytail she would usually keep it in, while saying to Will in an apologetic tone "Go ahead and see if I got hurt badly..."
Feeling horrible for what he'd just said, Will hesitated for a second; but he managed to compose himself enough to scoot next to the child and brush her hair away from where she got hit. He found a nasty looking bump on the back of her head and instinctively commented "Ouch! I think Kyle hit you harder then he intended to."
Worried by what her teacher said, Aida started freaking out a bit, before asking Will in a fearful tone "Is it bad?! Am I going to die too?!"
In response to Aida's panic attack, Will turned her around, put his hand on top of her head, started gently brushing his hand through her hair, and said to her in a calming tone of voice "Hey, shush. It's okay. It's not nearly that bad..."
After leaving his hand on her head for a minute, Will gained an embarrassed look, before he quickly removed his hand from Aida's head. He then grabbed the ice pack, handed it to the child sitting next to him and said in a more stoic tone "So just keep this on the spot where you got hit for about an hour and then go to sleep. You should be all better in the morning..."
Aida, who was looking at Will with an expression of admiration he'd never seen from her before, slowly responded to him "... Okay, teacher... I'll do that..."
Putting the ice pack on her head as Will instructed, Aida and Will wound up sitting in silence with each other for a pretty long time. Just as Aida was about to start scooting closer to Will, he stood up and said in an emotionless tone to Aida "I need to get some sleep for my fight with Kyle tomorrow, goodnight." Aida was a little surprised by this, but then responded calmly "Oh... Alright. Goodnight..."
Getting underneath the covers of her bed, Aida hugged a pillow close to her, while Will started walking out the door of her room; but the Saiyan bodied Human stopped walking, thought to himself for a second, before saying "Aida." Without turning to look at him, she responded "Yes?"
Will struggled to think of what he wanted to say for a moment, but then said to her in a proud and compassionate tone of voice "You did a great job today against Kyle, I'm really proud of you, Aida. I know that you'll just keep getting better and better as you get older." Aida didn't respond for a second, but she eventually replied "Thank you... goodnight."
Will couldn't help but let a very small smile form on his face at her response. He then closed the door and made his way back to his room.
Meanwhile, on the side of Aida's room where you could see her face. The child was now hugging her pillow even tighter while crying tears that were a confusing mixture of joy and sorrow.
Meanwhile, In James' room. James was hanging out with Leo and Cho, and the three of them, in between watching television, were looking at the Seven Star Dragon Ball in wonder and amazement.
After about an hour or so, they all got bored. Cho stood up, stretched out, and started making his way towards the door of James' room so that he could return to his own room, but James stopped him by commenting in a friendly tone "Hey, sorry that me and the big guy here missed the first half of your fight. Guess we just slept in for too long. I hope this doesn't put a strain on our friendship."
Cocking his eyebrow, Cho turned around and replied in a slightly hesitant tone "Uh... it's fine, but... what do you mean friendship? I just met you guys a couple of days ago."
Leo rolled his eyes at Cho's attitude and exclaimed "Don't be such a stick in the mud! People don't need to know each other for a really long time to be friends. Me and James hit it off in the friendship department on practically just our first day of knowing each other!"
Cho took a moment to process what Leo said before responding with a genuine smile "Yeah, I guess you have a good point there. Heh heh... Well, I think I'll go to bed now. Let's all make sure to get up tomorrow and go watch Kyle win."
James let out a quick laugh at Cho when he said this and, then, asked "What do you mean 'watch Kyle win'? I know first-hand how strong he is and all, but Will's definitely got more than just a small chance at winning." Cho grined at James' comment and replied in complete honesty "I think we all know at the bottom of our hearts that Will stands no chance at defeating Kyle. After all... he is MY rival!"
After saying this, Cho confidently walked out of the room.
James and Leo, after waiting to make sure that Cho was out of earshot, let out big laughs at his attitude. Leo then got out of the swivel chair he was in, stretched out, and said in a relaxed tone to James "Well, I'm exhausted. Think I'll go hit the hay. See ya tomorrow, kid." James stretched out on his bed, let out a yawn, and responded "G'night."
Meanwhile. In Kyle's room. He was laying awake in his bed while looking at the ceiling. After a few minutes passed by, the young martial artist heard his Saiyan stomach growl, so he sat up and said to himself "I think I'll grab a midnight snack... Okay; a midnight meal... or two."
Just as everyone had finally fallen asleep, the winged figure landed and sat on the roof of the building across the street from the hotel. While looking in at James' room, the strange creature said to himself in a slightly sadistic tone "By the end of tomorrow, that Dragon Ball will belong to my king!"
Power Levels.
Cho: 200. 325(Furious and desperate)
James: 520(After healing from his fight with Kyle)
