Chapter Eleven
Upon entering the arena, the stage took form of Franzea. "This is it Pupul! First time I've been fighting you, neither of us will hold back and have a perfectly clean match!" Spike could see she wasn't paying to much attention, rather looking around toward the audience before everything transformed. "Uh, Pupul? Right…" He shook his head a bit.
Kuu stepped back to avoid being hurt for now as the fight started. Spike instantly reached for the flowers overheard, which dropped AP. Both fighters went after them now for an early build-up. Casting a fire spell, Pupul proceeded to knock her opponent into the water next to the floating mammal.
Jumping out right away, he attacked Pupuru with his sabers and proceeded to do a series of combos, receiving a super. They were ended short when she grabbed Spike by the shirt and threw him to the walls, proceeding to steal AP to cancel out the Level One he was going to use. "Hope you got more plans than this Spike! Otherwise, this match which go all too smoothly!"
He didn't realize that Pupul had already charged herself for Level One. Kuu rammed himself right into Spike with utensils, making the boy explode into shapes as the creature went back to hide. The land underneath them started to vanish and they both fell into the water now.
Onto the animal's stomach and hopping onto the lilies to avoid the large fish, Spike tossed a large banana in his foe's direction. Pupul swam to the surface in enough time to dodge it. "This place seems to have a lot going on in it. Little creatures, colors, flowers, water with aquatic life so I'm glad I didn't bring my swimsuit… What's next?!"
"Uhh, best if it surprises you then..." Spike tried to smile that off as he pulled out a satellite, his charge was interrupted though when the sorceress froze him in place by casting ice spells. Changing her equipment afterwards, Pupuru proceeded to wail out combos with her sword. The layout around them continued to change until there was a rumbling.
Pupul flinched to see what it was, the sky behind her was cracking like glass. A large mechanical monster approached them. "Wha?! What is that even?!" Metal Gear RAY stared down at the sorceress, proceeding to bite at the foreground she was standing on. "Uwaaaa!?" Spike managed to stop it in time by using a Level One, destroying the girl with his net.
With a pout, she retaliated with another series of hits on Spike. He on the other hand, looked up to see bubbles with musical notes. Since he knew how this stage worked, all the boy could think about was popping them to take their AP. Rather than using a Level One they could both waste if it was dodged, both combatants were charging themselves up for Two or Three.
And the only way they could reach those quickly was to avoid RAY, nab the AP in the flowers or bubbles, keep attacking each other, or all at once. The last one is exactly what they did, neither of them wasted a single moment or chance to take in power. "Better think fast Pupul! I think RAY is about ready to fire!"
Taking the chance of a point rather than listening to Spike, Pupuru grabbed and tossed him once more followed up by a string of combos. She quickly dodged the missiles planted by RAY when her foe got up to be hit by them. "Geez! Playing like Kratos or Radec?! Granted, you're not as fast with AP gain, but I can counter that!"
Lifting up his stun club to aim and fire a yellow projectile at Pupul, she attempted to flee, but was frozen in place as she exploded once more. "Yyyes! You keep trying, but I'm still better than you!" He taunted a bit to work up the sorceress, upon respawning she stuck her tongue out at Spike in retaliation. That was enough to get him moving too. It was tempting to use a Level Two now, but she didn't know if it was worth it.
Clearly it wasn't. Instead she went back to freezing him with magic. "Your little sword frenzy won't match up for what I have next!" One last hit did it. RAY was now being chased by Kulche, a yellow LocoRoco who didn't take kindly to the Metal Gear invading his land. Spike attempted to slingshot Pupuru, it only knocked her back for a fear seconds as she was ready.
"The curse of the gods are ready to make their attack!" The golden light beamed down to her hands, Pupul was ready to take down her opponent. Spike flinched, seeing this attack before, but not at it's fullest. She instantly fired a beam at his direction.
Spike respawned once more. "Alright! I'm back! Just one last point for either of us and-" He didn't see his recovery time wore off, and Pupuru's meter wasn't depleted entirely. That last point was in her favor, as was the victory. In the background, RAY was finally destroyed as well by Kulche.
Uni rang the bell to proclaim the winner as the stage faded away. "Hey, are you alright? I know neither of us were going easy on each other, but I hope I wasn't too harsh!" Pupul asked in a bit of worry when Spike returned. He just laughed a bit.
"Are you kidding? That was intense for both of us!" He stretched his hand out to shake with Pupuru, both of them were smiling. "One of the few times in a fight where I wasn't unhappy about losing. I was kinda hoping you would win anyway! A step forward for the newbie, huh?"
Taking leave from the arena, Noire's voice boomed into the intercom. "We have the Ghost of Sparta against the wielder of the Heavenly Sword!" As Spike and Pupuru exited from where they came, Nariko and Kratos entered from each side.
Noire decided to choose Chop Chop Master Onion's Dojo. As strange as the choice was, she figured it was one way for two warriors to fight head-on. Kratos and Nariko both just scowled at each other. "Most say you are the same as me, only female." The God of War growled to her.
"Others say the reverse situation. But the only way to judge that is if we fight, isn't it?" Kratos took out his blades upon her words, Nariko pointed her sword at him. They waited for Uni's signal to start fighting. Right on the cue, both warriors began to tear at each other.
Zeo made his way to the strange world and the stadium lying there. "Tch, this is where Gigadis keeps looking over to? How foolish of him. What could be the potential of looking at a place such as this? Unless..." Originally he wanted to stop Gigadis, but he had grown curious about the area the Hell Prince watched over.
After all, he was a dark wizard. Unlike Lord Zarok, who did evil and domination for the fun of it, Zeo Weugur wanted to take in the ultimate magic powers of others including the gods. "Of course! He wishes to take their powers like that poor excuse of a magic user said! But can I do it before him is the question? And will it help me with my goa-"
"Yo! Something you need help with?" He jumped back, seeing an anthro sheep girl being him. "Sorry about that, was on my way to see this tournament, but I see a weirdo like you wandering around, and it got me curious! I'm Lammy Lamb! What's your name?" Zeo simply thought Lammy was some sort of demon, judging by her horns and appearance.
Slowly, he put his hand on the staff. "I am Zeo Weugur! The great dark mage. You speak of a tournament?" Now Zeo felt his attention grabbed a bit. "Is such a tournament to show or test one's ability and power? Do any of these fools gain anything from it?" Lammy felt as if this guy was just talking in riddles entirely.
The only thing she could do was shrug. "I think they're doing it over what they want most from Black Heart or something. That guy who thinks he's a god and the red-head lady with the sword are fighting right now." His eyes widened a bit, remembering Nariko. "That your kinda thing? I wanted to enter, but I was too late! Plus I didn't have a rival… Oh well, always another time, huh?" Lammy stared at the strange young man, before lighting up. "I know! Maybe you could be my assigned rival! We could come up with something in common!" Zeo was just utterly confused.
"What do you speak of? You mean there is no chance of me entering this place right now? And you wish for me to accompany you?" She nodded in reply. "Tch! As much as what you say interests me as I had encountered the woman holding the Heavenly Sword… I had watched and wanted her before, and I shall chase another time! this time it will be me who gets to ruin her body!"
Lammy gave a dumbstruck look to him. "Stop me now for being out of place on this, but it sounds like you're some kind of pervert- Whoa!" The staff was pointed right at her face. It was obvious that Zeo did not like the term she used at all.
He pulled the staff away from her. "You have misheard me clearly. What I meant is that I would defeat that woman with the Heavenly Sword, take it for my own, adding it's power to mine!" She was positive that Zeo didn't word it that way, but it was clear to Lammy the dark magic user was telling the truth. "Regardless. One such as myself has better things to do regardless. I shall continue my original plan… Stopping Gigadis and his associates, taking his power instead!" With that, he was gone.
"Gigadis? Power taking? Talk about weird. But certainly more normal than what I've been through!" With that, Lammy shrugged and walked away to watch the fight.
((So we get a bit more detail about minor and non-fighter character, Zeo… Who like the others(Pupuru/Kuu/Gigadis/Saffron), is just a knock-off of an older character and nowhere as cool. Did this guy get his freakin' head blasted off and proceed to be moving while decapitated? Or defeat a sword to make it his own? Yeah, don't think so. But most of the Sorcery Saga characters are inferior to the originals.
Also UmJammer Lammy, cause I like Lammy~! She's pretty rad and adorable. Shame that they planned Master Onion to be playable in the beta but not her…))
