Jack Triumphs; Sisters Meet at Last
Disclaimer: I do not own Marchen Awakens Romance anime or the characters. If I did though, Ginta and Alviss would be together and some characters would have been removed. The only characters I own is Kuno, Yukito, Mary, Kaolla, Kisame, Occa, and the rainbow dudes who I created. Naru is a crossover character from Love Hina as Suzaku is from Fushigi Yugi, Neji is from Naruto, and Megumi and Kiyomaro are from Zatch Bell. I also own Kuno's and Yukito's ÄRM and Suzaku's attacks. I also do not own Cutey Honey.
Me: And the winner of the match is…
Yohko: A draw.
Guardian except Toshiro and Kosuke: Damn.
Aussa: What did you expect? -kicks Kosuke-
Kosuke: Oww…
Goku comes barging in.
Goku: I heard there was a fight going on, so I rushed here A-S-A-P!
Yohko: You're late since they already finished!
Goku: DAMN!
Everyone except Toshiro and Kosuke laughs at him.
Me: This chapter is part 1 of 6 of the final match. Hope you enjoy the chapter. This is Jack's fight! Mary will also come back, Yay!
Chapter 25: Jack Triumphs; Sisters Meet at Last
Megumi's POV
The next morning was a very important day…part one of six of an important day anyway. It was time for the final round. People from all over MAR Heaven gathered to watch Team MAR fight cheering for Team MAR to win the War Games. Some of the people were just being otakus (1) and were waving up signs that said stuff like "We -heart- Dorothy" or a picture of Nanashi on one of the fan girls' flags. I sweat dropped, who knew that they could get this crazy?
Pozun came out of the castle and determined the final battlefield which was a ring that didn't require teleportation.
"It's the last stage," Jack said.
"Yeah…" Ginta mumbled.
The Chess Pieces came out after that, but there were only four of them. The old man, Rolan, Chimera, and Halloween.
"Where's Phantom?" Alviss questioned.
"Peta isn't here either," Nanashi added.
Kaolla then appeared behind Pozun to his dismay and announced, "Phantom-sama and Peta said they were running late, so they can't watch the matches. Only if you beat these four Knights will they surely fight you."
Pozun pushed the cheetah girl off him and then questioned, "Then for the first match, who will step up?"
Jack stepped onto the battle field looking more determined than ever. On the Chess Pieces side of the field, the old man stepped up. He asked Jack how old he was.
"Huh? I'm 14," Jack answered.
"Ho-ho! A 70 year difference! This should be enjoyable!"
Alan and Gaira were talking about a destined confrontation. Whatever the hell that meant.
"MAR—JACK! CHESS PIECE—WEASEL! BEGIN THE FIGHT!"
Kaolla moved Pozun out of the way when the match began. Jack complained about fighting the old man, but he still attacked him with such speed. He was throwing fast punches which the old man surprisingly dodged.
The crowd was amazed at Jack's improvement.
"Jack's speed really improved!" Ginta commented.
"However, ever if everything has improved, I expect the old man is a high level Knight," Alviss told him.
Jack realized that he wasn't getting anywhere so he brought out his Battle Scope to hit the old man. The old man then asked Jack where he got his Shovel from. Jack replied that he got it from his father. The old man then told him that he was the one who killed his father six years ago.
"Jake was strong, but in the end I won," the old man praised. He then turned his arm into a cannon and fired bullet seeds at Jack which Jack managed to dodge them all until…
"Jack-kun, go for it!" the girl Pano cheered. He fell over.
"Hey nee-chan, why that homely and why are you even cheering for the enemy?" some other guy I think was Leno asked his older sister.
"How rude! I'm cheering for him because more than Ginta, more than Alviss, and more than Nanashi, I think you're wonderful Jack! And he's not homely! He's hot!"
There was silence and surprising expressions coming from the crowd.
"OH YEAH! WATCH ME WIN THIS PANO!" Jack shouted at his girl as his magic power increased drastically.
"His strength increased drastically…" Nanashi mumbled.
"-Red Vein- For his own personal gain!" Alviss said sarcastically.
The old man fired another bullet seed at Jack as monkey boy used his shovel to hit the bullet. It went flying into the air and hit someone causing an explosion.
"Home run!" Alviss and I shouted.
"-Sweatdrop- Was that really a home run?" Ginta asked us.
Kaolla looked over to where the bullet hit and sighed, "I think my sister and her friend got hit…"
The old man summoned these flower like buds.
"What is that?!" Alviss questioned.
"Grass?" Nanashi answered sarcastically.
"Don't let your guard down Jack!" Ginta shouted.
Jack tried to prove that he was smart observing the plant. He poked it and…
BOOM!
Alan and Ginta yelled at Jack for being stupid again, but Jack claimed that he can take them out in one hit. Jack used his Earth Wave to destroy all the plants in one hit. The crowd was amazed by Jack's growth and power
The old man mentioned something about Jack's father doing the same technique, so he brought out the big guns and summoned a huge tree.
"That's a nice Lifa Tree (2)…" I mumbled to myself.
"Earth Wave is probably useless against that," Alviss said.
The old man then jumped into the tree as Jack followed him with his rock climb. Everything else that happened was among the leaves as there was clashing and sounds of the branches falling off.
"I can't tell what's going on…" Ginta complained.
I looked at Alviss to see that he was connecting to Suzaku. His eyes turned orange as he looked ahead to see what was going on.
"So who's winning?" I asked him.
"…Jack seems to be losing, but I'm not sure," Alviss or rather Suzaku told us.
Ginta clenched his fist as he shouted, "JACK, GO FOR IT! AVENGE YOUR DAD!"
Jack seemed to have heard Ginta's encouragement, the old man summoned snakes made out of branches at Jack as Jack countered with his Guardian ÄRM Mehitos. The piranha plant like Guardian chomped on the old man's Guardian as it went toward the old man himself. The old man jumped into it which surprised everyone.
"He's planning something…" Suzaku mumbled.
As Suzaku predicted the old man summoned another Guardian called Dead Wood Bird. The Guardian caused Mehitos to wither away.
"This guy can cause all of the enemy's plants to wither. There is nothing you can do," the old man taunted.
Team MAR seem to have given up on Jack as he really seemed to have lost.
"I might think he lost," Suzaku began which got everyone's attention, "But my master doesn't think that."
We looked at Jack who still had the determined look on his face, "I haven't lost yet! I still got that ÄRM I received from Caldia!"
Jack got out another ÄRM and called out for the Fire Guardian Kikazoku Foré. It took the form in shape of a Mamodo or at least I thought it did.
The Fire Guardian or Will-O-Wisp soared over to the Dead Wood Bird and burned it to ashes. It then moved over to the old man and burned the tree on his head. The old man fell down in defeat because the Tree on his head was his power source. Weasel stated that Jack's father didn't realize this.
"You have completely succeeded your father Jack…" the old man praised.
With that Pozun and Kaolla declared Jack the winner. The crowd cheered as Suzaku let Alviss back into his original body. Jack posed in front of everyone trying to act cool which only got Ginta to run over him and hug him to congratulate him for avenging his father. Alviss was not amused by this though. In fact he sent one of those death glares at Jack which made him shiver.
After Ginta moves away from Jack after receiving another glare from Alviss, Pano runs up to Jack.
"JACK!"
"PANO!"
The two embrace and a lot of people 'aww' them.
Alviss' POV
Why can't you do that with Ginta?!
Because someone is always ruining the moment!
As the audience cheered, Kaolla took the old man and teleported away as well as the other Knights. I glanced at Rolan who was staring back at me. Tomorrow we would be having a re-match and this time, I'll win.
"Alviss, you need to try the ÄRM that we received from the two cat girls," Megumi told me.
"For your correction, it's a cheetah girl and a cat girl."
"They're both cats, so what's the difference?!" I sighed
"Never mind…just tell Dorothy to meet near the front of the forest by 8:00 PM."
"Will do."
With that Megumi told Dorothy about where to meet, but she just had to tell the other members of Team MAR and Gaira-san to come along to. Damn her…
It was finally 8:00 PM. Team MAR met at the place I requested to meet. I had the ÄRM that I received after the semi-finals in one hand. After examining it completely, I come to the conclusion that it was the same ÄRM that Dorothy had. That Crazy Kilt ÄRM. If I was right then the ÄRM I have is another version of Crazy Kilt and would only activate if Dorothy activated her Crazy Kilt.
I told Dorothy about my assumption of the ÄRM which convinced her to work with me.
"Dorothy, let's see if this works…"
"Okay…Guardian ÄRM, CRAZY KILT!"
Dorothy summoned Crazy Kilt which started to annoy the crap out of her and everyone else (but me) because of its 'annoying' voice. That was when my ÄRM flashed bringing out another Crazy Kilt, but this one was different. It was wearing hippie clothes, and a hat. It was obviously a male.
"I'M NOT CRAZY KILT! SHE'S CRAZY KILT! I'M CRAZY TIMBERLAKE! (3)" the male Crazy Kilt shouted.
Everyone falls down anime style.
"It's been a while Timberlake!" the female doll began.
"You to Kilt! Now we can sing that song again!"
"Yeah, but I don't think our masters want that now…"
"That's totally lame…so do they want her to come out?"
"I think so. That's the only reason why the two of us are together…"
The two ragged dolls continued to ramble until finally they combined their powers to merge into one or so we thought. They looked like they were merging into one, but that was to bring out this human figure with pink hair and witch like clothing…no way! It can't be!
"FREEDOM AT LAST!" the girl screamed in glee which kind of shocked everyone.
"M-Mary?!
Megumi's POV
This day is just getting weirder. First the otakus, next Pano saying that Jack was cuter than Ginta, Alviss, and Nanashi, third the two ragged dolls talking to each other…I didn't know they were acquaintances. Finally a girl appearing out of now where thanks to these two ragged dolls. The girl was a miniature version of Dorothy, and looked to be 10. It seemed that everyone was clueless to what happened. I looked at Alviss to see that he was the most stunned of us all as well as Alan and Gaira.
"M-Mary?!"
Who was Mary. Everyone seemed to know who Mary was but me. I'm so left out…
"A-Alviss, is that you?"
Silence. Instead of the usual hug scene that happens when you don't see someone in a long time, Alviss punched her in the stomach sending her flying. We all sweat dropped as Mary came crashing down
"What the hell was that for?!" the pink haired girl asked in rage.
"Mary?! How the hell are you still alive?!" Alviss questioned in disbelief ignoring her question.
"I'm dead smart ass!"
"The how come you're standing right here?!"
"It's called becoming a ghost and haunting people in the afterlife!"
Mary explained to us or rather Alviss about her soul being sealed in both of the ragged dolls a little after her death. While half of her soul went into the ÄRM that Yukito created, the other half flew somewhere to a similar ÄRM that could have been either in the right hand or wrong hand. It was a gamble.
"So Yukito trapped you in that Crazy Kilt…Timberlake ÄRM for you to haunt me the rest of my life…that bastard!"
"He's not a bastard! Yukito's cool, but Danna-sama is still better! -hearts in eyes-"
"-Sweatdrop- You're still obsessed with that?!"
It seemed like everyone else wasn't there as it seemed that Alviss and Mary were in their own world.
"-Sweatdrop- So this is my younger sister?" Dorothy asked not convinced.
"Quite lively, is she?" I asked her.
The two finally noticed Team MAR again. Mary looked at her older sister, as Dorothy looked at her, "Who is that?"
Everyone fell over anime style.
"You fool! That's Dorothy! You're older sister!"
Mary was shocked as she looked at her again, "We do look alike!"
"And you have the same annoying personality…" Alviss said sarcastically. No one but me heard him.
Mary went over to her older sister, "It's nice to meet you for the first time nee-sama. I'm Mary, but you can call me Mary-chan."
Dorothy smiled, "It's nice to meet you too, Mary-chan."
"-Shivers- Mary is showing her nice side…scary…" Alviss mumbled.
Alan and Gaira seemed to have understood what Alviss meant. The two sisters together was a scene that reminded me of Tia…I miss her now.
"By the way Alviss," Mary began, "Where's your Knight in Shining Armor?"
Alviss blushed, "You still remember that?!"
"Of course. I need to see who he is."
Dorothy pointed toward Ginta who seemed confused.
"Oh, he looks so much like Danna-sama!" Mary cheered as she ran over to Ginta and hugged him, "He even feels like Danna-sama!"
Alviss was mad now, "Mary…get your hands off of him! He's not Danna-san!"
"I know that…I assume that he's his son though."
"You're right on the mark," Alan told her.
Mary finally noticed Alan's and Gaira's presence, "Konichiwa Alan! Konichiwa Gaira ji-san."
That was all she said before turning her attention back to Ginta. Alviss continued to yell at her to get off of him. Alan looked at Gaira who was disappointed that Mary called him an old man
Once she finally got of Ginta, Alviss introduced her to Jack, Nanashi, and me.
"Megumi-san looks a lot like Naru…" Mary said.
"You think so too?"
"Her personality isn't violent though…"
"It's more perverted."
"Hey!"
The two were in their own world again, so everyone decided to leave the two alone except Ginta.
"Will the two be okay?" Ginta asked Alan.
"Yeah. Mary was the stronger one of the two six years ago, so he'll be okay," Alan told him.
Suzaku's POV
I hate this. Now I have to baby-sit another nuisance. People think that Mary is like Dorothy. That's true, but when Mary and Alviss are together, not only can they be in their own world easily, they act the same when they're cheering in the War Games. In other words they cheer like there is no tomorrow for the heroes and sew the Chess Pieces badly.
The two walked over to Naru's grave which was also where Mary, and recently Yukito were buried. Alviss gave his prayers to Naru and Mary as Mary asked, "How did Yukito die?"
"…He joined the Chess Pieces to learn about them. He died in the semi-finals after I fought him because he lost. That bastard Ian (4) killed him…I couldn't do anything for him…I failed to protect him like you and Naru…"
"Alviss it isn't your fault. I'm just disappointed that Yukito didn't put up a fight against this Ian. Where is that guy now?"
"I don't know. I fainted after Yukito died, so I don't know what happened to him…all I know is that in the semi-finals Snow was captured because I wasn't captured."
Alviss had to explain to Mary who Snow was. Mary seemed to have taken her as Alviss' rival for Ginta's affection, so she didn't really seem to care.
"Hey Alviss, have you gotten stronger?" she asked.
"It depends on what you mean by that."
Time for me to shine.
I took over Alviss' body and introduced myself to Mary, "Please to meet you. I am Alviss' Guardian Suzaku. It's a pleasure to see you again."
"Wow that's so cool! What's Suzaku suppose to be?"
I let Alviss take over again as Alviss explained that Suzaku was a Phoenix Guardian, "Suzaku pisses me off time to time, but I think I'm really close to him…I am close to achieving Armor form…"
"What form is after that?" she asked.
It's The Guardian of Earth form which only activates when 100 percent of the power is achieved.
"The Guardian of Earth form which only activated when 100 percent of the power is achieved," he copied.
"Doesn't that cause a lot of strain on your body?"
"Not anymore."
The continued to talk about me. I feel loved. That didn't last as they changed the subject to what happened in the War Games so far.
"Today, Jack defeated the sixth most powerful Knight that killed his father. Tomorrow I will be having a rematch against Rolan…"
"Good luck in the finals tomorrow…"
"Yeah, but I'm worried about the evil nature coming up and forcing me to kill Rolan…"
""You actually like him?"
"NO MARY! It's just…I think it's possible to bring him to our side somehow…but…"
"GO WITH THE FLOW AND USE SUZAKU TO KICK HIS ASS!"
"-Sweatdrop- You don't care about my feelings after all…"
"I do Alviss, but in some situations you have to do it yourself…"
Alviss didn't say anything as he continued to pray for Naru and Yukito. After that the two went back to Ragengrave castle, but Mary was planning something.
At the castle, Team MAR was wishing Alviss good luck tomorrow…not like he needed it since he was going to win anyway. Team MAR left Ginta and Alviss alone…or so they thought…they were spying on them from a distance (Ginta and Alviss are in the same spot where they were found in that awkward position.)
"Alviss, good luck tomorrow!" Ginta said with his usual grin.
"Thanks Ginta-chan!"
You called him 'chan' again!
I was ignored as the two kept staring at each other. How romantic. I noticed that Mary snuck up behind Alviss and put something in his back.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU PUT IN MY SHIRT?!" Alviss questioned her losing his temper in front of Ginta which scared him.
"A spider of course," Mary said with an evil grin.
Silence. Alviss fell to the ground, "Just…get…it…off…of…me…"
He couldn't even say the sentence fast enough like he always did.
"Hey, I thought you got rid of that fear of spiders!" Mary said with a grin before using a Spirit bomb to kill the spider that was crawling on his back. Alviss mumbled about the spider still being on his back.
"So Alviss has a fear of spiders…" Ginta mumbled.
"Yep. Let's just hope that his opponent doesn't use anything spider related tomorrow," Mary told him.
"I wonder how he got that spider phobia… (5)"Ginta asked himself.
Alan couldn't take it anymore as he made everyone known to Ginta, Alviss and Mary, "It's simple. Mary did the same thing to him six years ago only it was a poisonous spider that bit him, and he almost died because of that. Alviss had a fear of spiders ever since."
"That's harsh," everyone said at the same time.
"I thought it was funny! Hahahaha!" Mary giggled.
"It's…not…funny…" Alviss managed to get out.
"You shouldn't do that to Alviss when he has a match tomorrow," Megumi scolded Mary.
"Okay, 'ka-san'! (6)" Mary said sarcastically.
Me: This was a short chapter compared to the others, but part 1 of 6 of the final battle is done.
Yohko: Mary is scary!
Me: She's supposed to be…I hope she's not a Mary Sue…
Toshiro: She's all ready dead, so she can't be a Mary Sue.
Me: You recovered fast…
Toshiro: Probably because Jun, and Satoshi are beating up on Kosuke. -Points to the Guardians-
Kosuke: You call this wrestling?!
Jun and Satoshi: Yeah!
Me: There aren't a lot of notes, but…
1. Otaku means fan boy or fan girl, and yes people were holding up pictures of Team MAR, and I saw a lot of girls holding up we love Nanashi banners in one of the episodes.
2. The Lifa Tree is the biggest tree in Final Fantasy 9, and plays an important role starting in Disc 2 since the Lifa Tree created the mist that was on the Mist Continent.
3. Crazy Timberlake is a name I got from Justin Timberlake. In Dorothy's match with Chimera, can you guess what Crazy Kilt and Crazy Timberlake are going to sing since whenever one of them is activated the other one activates on it's own which means that Alviss will activate it more. One hint: The song is very popular.
4. In the series Alviss doesn't have a grudge against Ian as he sees him as an acquaintance near the end of the anime, but in this story Alviss despises him for killing Yukito and will affect the final arc in the story.
5. Mary did a lot of bad things to Alviss throughout the days that she was still alive since she was the dominant child of the two. Beside pushing him into the water when he couldn't swim and almost drowning him she did other things to him. She gave him spider phobia six years ago. The spider phobia won't affect Alviss as much as the ability of not being able to swim. If you have any other funny suggestions of what Mary did to Alviss throughout her life let me know in the review or in private messaging.
6. Again, Megumi has the appearance of Naru, but the personality of Keitaro. Mary called Megumi 'ka-san' because of this, and because of the fact whenever Mary teases Alviss, Naru always stops and scolds her.
Me: The chapters might get shorter to those who hate long chapters. There are also three more arcs before my story is finished. Chapters 24-31 is the final batter arc. Chapters 32-42 is the Ghost Chess arc (Yay to all those people who love that arc!) The final arc is chapters 43-50.
Yohko: That's long, but remember that some of the chapters get shorter as the story goes on.
Kosuke: Stop this madness!
Satoshi: Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting!
Jun: That was random…
Me: Preview!
After Alviss successfully dodges the Stone Cubes.
"Is that all you got?"
"Missed him! Missed him! Now you to kiss him-"
Alviss hits Mary with his 13 Totem Pole Rod Version, "Shut up."
"Do you value anything more than your own life?"
"I do. Peace for all MAR Heaven!"
And Ginta of course.
Shut up stupid bird!
"For me…it's Phantom."
"It isn't love that Phantom bestows on you! It's chains for eternity!"
"I don't care if they are chains…I afraid of being alone in both life and death…"
Before you use that ÄRM, let me fight that bird one on one! While that happens, try to reach out to Rolan! You have five minutes to do that!
"Okay…Come out Suzaku!"
"HOT SPRINGS!"
"-Sweatdrop- It's just hot springs…Mary…"
"CANNON BALL!"
There's a big splash.
"And again…she doesn't listen to me…"
"Ginta, do you think Dorothy will be okay in tomorrow's match?"
"Of course. She can defeat a Knight easily, Alviss."
"That's true…"
"This is my chance! Ginta…I have to tell you something…"
"What is it?"
"I lo-"
Someone pushed Ginta onto Alviss.
"Whoops…"
Me: I think I'll make the bath scene more ecchi than the anime put it. I was still disturbed by Alan and Gaira.
Yohko: That part was scary. It would have been better if that was Alviss, but…
Me: Please read and review. All editing goes to Taisaya-chan. The next chapter will come eventually, but school for me starts in September. Ja ne! I'm going to work on my Law of Ueki drabbles and The Song of Hope!
Kosuke: Have mercy!
Satoshi: How about-NO!
Me and Yohko: FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Toshiro: -Sighs- You're on your own Kosuke…