The Legend of Dragoon
The Third Dragon Campaign
(Revised Edition)
CH.9
The Tournament PT 4
The Finals
A/N: Don't own anything but my ideas, character's, and story idea. Sony owns everything else, minus of course Michael Buffer, Sugar Ray, all other names that may or may not be real people is completely coincidental
The next day
"Ladies and Gentleman, the finals of the fifty-first annual Martial Arts Master Tournament is finally here, you've cheered these four great warriors on to this point, now let us have a word from our current commissioner Mr. Andre Silva." Michael Buffer yells through the microphone
"Ladies and Gentleman it is a honor to see a turn out such as this on our fifty-first year of doing this. Now lets us see the warriors fight with for all their worth, Let us sing of the strength of the victor and equally praise the valor of the defeated." with that he hands the mike back and leaves the ring
"Now Introducing the first fight of the day here hailing all the way from the rouge school Josh McClain, his opponent coming from parts unknown he flew through his fights with a grace rarely seen in the ring these days the rookie Zack Frost."
The referee steps into the ring as the two walk to their respected start lines
"Alright I want a good clean fight, no hitting below the belt, no raking the eyes got it" he tells the two proud fighters who both nod
"When this is over how about we go out drinking?" Josh says trying to make friends even during a fight
"No thank you" is all the stoic figure of Zack says as they tap gloves and the bell rings
Josh rushes in and throws a punch followed by a roundhouse kick that flows into a flip kick. Zack effortlessly dodges all the attacks by making the slightest of movements. Josh tries to sweep the feet with a low spin kick and follows through it with a football tackle that would make pro quarterbacks shake. Zack quickly sidesteps the tackle and throws is own roundhouse kick as Josh stops his rush.
Liv in the stands is cheering Josh on but can't understand how Josh can not be hitting the guy.
As the second round starts and they tap gloves again Josh decides to go all out.
"You are really good I haven't had to go all out in awhile, I was hoping to save this for Leon and the finals. But I guess you get to taste if first, hope your ready" he says as he shifts his stance from the traditional rouge fighting style.
He rushes towards Zack again and throws a left hook with all his force at Zack's chest, who sidesteps while rushing forward also to deliver a spinning backhand, that Josh manages to catch and drives a knee into the sternum of his foe followed by a spin kick to the back of Zack's head. Zack flips over after the hit to his chest dodging the follow up kick and sweeps Joshes feet and delivers a spinning heel drop to his chest knocking Josh out and cracking seven of his ribs.
"The Winner Zack Frost" the announcer yells
Liv runs to the ring to see if he's alright when they put him on a stretcher and wheel him away she starts to break down when she feels a heavy hand on her shoulder. She turns to see Nicoli looking at her.
"Don't cry, he strong, he be okay" he says to her cheering her up slightly
Leon watches as Josh is rolled out of the arena, Josh grabs Leon's forearm
"Can you give us a second?" he asks the EMTs
"Alright" they agree
"Leon you can't beat that guy, he's in a whole other league than us. Remember what your promise to Lily man." Josh tells him in a sober voice
"Now I really want to fight him, the only guy to bitch slap you in to a stretcher." Leon says with a smile
Back at the arena
"Ladies and Gentleman the last match of the semi finals, Sugar Ray Leonard versus Leon Grimore!" the announcer yells to the thunderous crowd
"Lets get this over with I want to fight that other guy." Leon says as they tap gloves
"Cocky ain't ya pal you still got to go through me you know." Sugar Ray tells him
"Minor details" is all that he says
The crowd was expecting a mostly vertical match as neither fighter were known for mat work in their fights. What they didn't know was that on the mat Leon was a force of nature. Next thing they see is Leon shooting through grabbing Sugars legs lifting up and slamming him into the ground and pounding him until his foe managed to cover his head and roll onto his back. Leon mounted on Sugar's back starts to work his arms through Sugar's arms and wraps a rear naked choke on him rolling to the side and scissoring his legs around his foes chest and squeezing the air out of him as well as cutting of blood flow.
"The winner by TKO and setting a new arena record win at ten seconds Leon 'Havok' Grimore"
The crowd was standing on their feet they never saw it coming, there was no clapping no cheering. Leon essentially took a pro fighter and embarrassed him on a national level tournament.
Later that day
"Ladies and gentleman the final fight of the tournament is here Zack Frost the rookie Cinderella man against Leon Grimore the master of surprise."
The two fighters tapped gloves and circle each other each one planning the fight out. Leon slowly walks in and throws a three punch combo testing Zack, who dodges each one effortlessly with the same grace he used in his other fights. The look of surprise evident on Leon's face as he realized his opponent was not normal, no human could dodge that swiftly with such little movements.
'well seeing as how I'm fighting a wingly I might as well go all out' he thinks as he starts pouring his own wingly power into his body. It had taken him a long time to learn to draw the power out at will and even longer to not show signs of it other than that his eyes very slightly changed color from steel blue to electric blue. While his power was flowing it looked to a casual onlooker as a second wind coming around. Only a wingly could detect the increase in magic power flowing through him.
It was always a very strange thing letting his power flow through him it felt like an adrenaline rush at an extreme level, it was the only thing he could think of to describe it, as for magic Leon's skill was horrible he could do a simple healing spell the rest of the time he used magic to increase his speed and strength to higher levels and to help reduce lactic acid in his muscles.
Seeing the look on Zack's face Leon knew that he knew what he was facing. He runs in again and throws another punch this time connecting with Zacks jaw knocking him back with a bit of blood flowing out of his lip. Zack runs in and throws a roundhouse kick followed by a backhand. Leon dodges the kick but takes the backhand in the cheek as he throws a high kick to Zack's back. The bell ends signaling the end of the round.
By the time the first round ends both fighters have several bruises and are bleeding. Leon looks at the crowd and sees Lily frowning. Sighing he calls the announcer over and forfeits the match.
"Ladies and Gentleman, the winner by forfeit Zack Frost." the crowd boos at the fact that the best match of the tournament ended so early by a forfeit.
Leon meanwhile is gets with his friends and family and drive to the house to avoid questions.
