Alright guys, the final fight continues!


Fung pushed a battle cry as he swung his battle axes at Alena who used her agility to dodge the attacks. She replied with offences of her own which were all blocked both by the croc's axes and his armor. She soon decided to use her Divine Sun Shield to equal the game and be able to block and fight back as well. Eventually, they clashed their weapons and smirked at each other's face.

"You've gotten really stronger since the last time we met!" The black panther remarked.

"And trust me, you didn't saw anything yet!"

Pushing her back, he used his Stone Chi to make a wall of stones from the ground and kick it at her. The black panther grabbed her Divine Brush and combined it with her shield to block and cut all the rocks. The croc then charged at surprising speed and swung his axe which the panther barely dodged, still getting a cut across her unprotected tummy.

Fung then decided to use his amulet and turn into his giant form and slammed both of his giant fists onto Alena, probably squashing her. "Sorry, Alena, this won't kill you, but you should be out of the match now."

However, he was surprised, when his fists were slowly pushed up and saw a white and black light underneath them. To his surprise, Alena turned into her Solar form with the right side of her body turning white with red markings and her left one turning black with purple ones. She managed to block his fists with her shield and smirked.

"I won't lie: for a second, I though I was done." She said before pushing Fung back with her strength.

"Okay, I'm starting to think I'm screwed there!" The croc though.

Despite his big size, the demigoddess was too agile to be touched by his giant battle axes. He decided to mix it with his stone attacks and actually managed to land a few scratches on her. Decided not to give up, Alena used her Divine Paintbrush and used the Power Slash technique on Fung who didn't get cut but was still being pushed back. However, just as he was going to fall out of the zone, Alena ran out of ink.

"Okay, enough playing: I'm giving all in one punch!" Fung though as he charged all his energy into one fist and went for a punch toward his opponent.

"If it's like that, then I'm gonna give it all too." Alena said and charged her Chi into her paws. "ECLIPSE BURST!"

As the two attacks collided, both Fung and Alena groaned as they gave everything they had into their final attack. It was a battle of determination to defeat the other. After many seconds, the contact caused an explosion which knocked the two of them very far and out of the fighting zone, hitting the arena's wall at the same time. They returned to their normal form afterward.

"Participants Alena and Fung have been eliminated!"

Alena weakly smiled and called to her croc friend from the other side of the zone. "I told you that you were strong enough to even defeat someone like me, Fung!"

The croc smiled and showed a thumb up which Alena returned.


Neyo flinched as he looked at his panther friend. "So you got eliminated, Alena? At least, you took Fung down with you, it's that."

"Don't look away from your opponent!" Mei Ling suddenly beamed as she swung her bo staff at the hedgehog who blocked with his boomerang just in time.

Neyo jumped back and kept throwing his boomerang at the golden cat who simply dodged and blocked it over and over again. Seeing that it didn't worked, he regained his boomerang and instead used his Chi bow to shoot Chi arrows.

The golden cat was having more difficulties with those attacks as she couldn't block them with her bo staff as it would destroy it. Instead, she created a cloud in the air and jumped on it to put some distance between her and the attacker.

Neyo kept shooting at her, but with the distance, she could see and dodge the attacks with ease. She soon decided to use her Water Chi and shoot waterballs in counter-attack. However, the hedgehog smirked and simply destroyed them with his Chi arrows.

"Okay, I'm gonna change tactics." Mei Ling though and took out her Wind Waker to shoot a slash of wind in front of Neyo, creating a lot of dust that momentarily blindsided the hedgehog.

She took the chance to jump down her cloud and behind him, just as he recovered his view and went for a punch in his face. He closed his eyes, but the hit never came. Opening his eyes, he saw that Mei Ling stopped her fist and instead poked his nose with her finger.

"Didn't see that one coming did you?" She said with a cute giggle.

Neyo simply smiled as it was the affectionate gesture she used to do with him since the day they started training. "How could I ever forget this?"

Becoming serious again, Mei Ling swung her Wind Waker at him, but Neyo took out his Jinshu Jian Jiao sword out and blocked her, the Dark Chi blade colliding with the metallic staff and creating a piercing noise. The friends smirked at each other before finally engaging the close combat.

Mei Ling and Neyo clashed their weapons, making sparkles fly in the air, sometimes stopping to use Water and Wind Chi to send jets of their respective element which caused water and wind to fly up all around too. Neyo would sometimes throw quills, but it didn't gave much results.

Mei Ling suddenly smirked and Neyo realized too late that, during their battle, water has been splashed all over the ground. Using her Chi, she made small water bullets fly from all around and hit the hedgehog from every directions. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't dodge them all.

Once she was done and the hedgehog was covered of wounds, she charged and looked to finish him off with one last staff swing. However, Neyo suddenly took out a small circular device and blocked her staff with it. She was surprised and Neyo smirked.

"I too have many tricks up my sleeve."

The golden kept pressed on her attacks, only to be blocked again and again by the little device which curiously didn't moved at all upon impact. Eventually, after tens of strikes, Neyo once agains took out his boomerang and threw it at Mei Ling who simply knocked it away with her Wind Waker.

However, this gave the hedgehog an opening and he pressed the device against her stomach. Before she could react, Neyo pressed the little button in the middle. Mei Ling felt as if we gave her a violent punch in the guts which made her spit saliva and was sent flying back many feet away.

"What just happened?" Sakchai asked.

Neyo held his arm in pain as it was visibly damaged. "This device allows me to absorb the impact of a smash - not Chi attacks - and then I just have to press on the button to release it against what I want. However, it is a double-bladed weapon as it also make some of the released impact damage my arm." He said with rubbing it softly. "But it is to compensate for my lack of physical strength and it's super effective!"

Mei Ling somehow managed to get back up despite the pain and dashed at full speed to smash Neyo across the face with her Wind Waker, sending him flying out of the fighting zone.

"Participant Neyo has been eliminated!"

Mei Ling smiled, but before she could use her Healing Rain, she suddenly coughed blood and collapsed on the ground, clutching in pain. Bindo looked at her and decided she could no longer fight.

"Participant Mei Ling is no longer able to battle! She's eliminated!"

As the two of them were getting carried to the infirmary, Mei Ling weakly smiled at Neyo. "I'm really proud of you, my student..."

Neyo weakly smiled back. "Thank you so much for making me stronger, master. And I'm sure you,ll make a perfect auntie for my little Chao..."


Up in the sky, the two owls were clashing flower petals and jets of ice everywhere, making a good firework show. Suya in her Tre of Life form shot torrents of flower petals at Fenghuang in her Freezing Phoenix form who blocked with mini-blizzards.

"Is that the best you can do, Suya?" The elder owl asked as she knocked the young one to the ground with a kick in the shoulder.

She quickly got back up and panted. Despite her best attacks, Fenghuang was just stronger than her, even in her Tree of Life form. "Looks like it's time to spice things up a bit!" She mumbled and brought a wing to her Pearl of Hope which started shining a light that took over her whole body.

Once the light faded away, Suya's look had changed again. Along with her strong aura, she was now dressed in a Egyptian dancer's top that was made of gold coins along with a skirt of the same material that was open to show her leg. Her Pearl of Hope also changed as it now had extra parts resting into all four corners of her belly button while the central part remained normal. "FIRST GEAR!"

Fenghuang giggled a bit. "You're sure it's a good idea to take this form in here?" She said and pointed a wing toward the audience where practically all the boys were looking at her in awe.

"Okay, maybe I'm a bit undressed." Suya admitted and blushed. "Anyways, FURY BRAND!" Red energy surrounded her body for a moment. "This will make my attacks stronger."

Fenghuang nodded and then shot another mini-blizzard. Suya rose her wings and shouted "SEAL EVIL!" and made appear a light portal that sucked all the attack.

"Whoa! Sexy and strong." A boy in the audience said.

"Hey! She's MY wife!" Koji screamed from the air before resuming his fight with Karasu.

Back on the ground, Suya rose her wings and created a ball of cherry blossom petals. "CHERRY BLOSSOM BOMB!" she screamed with throwing it at Fenghuang.

This last one decided to counter it with one of the 12 Impossible Moves (it's the one where she creates a fireball, I don't know how it's called) which created a giant explosion. Fenghuang then charged her wings with Ice Chi while Suya did the same with Tree of Life Chi and they charged forward to engage another close combat.

The elder owl immediately saw the difference in strength as the Fury Brand technique truly made Suya stronger. Every wing strike she received was making her winch in pain, though the snowy owl reacted the same with all the wing strikes she herself received.

After a long and intense moment, they both jumped away from each other, panting in exhaustion as they were covered of bruises, wounds and blood. They both decided to give all they had into one last attack and rose their wings.

"FLOWER BLADE!" Focusing all of her energy, the snowy owl made many trees appear behind her and they all turned into pink flower petals which she sent toward her opponent.

"WINTER PHOENIX!" The elder owl created a giant ice phoenix that charged toward Suya.

Both attacks missed by inches and connected with the launcher's opponent simultaneously with Suya getting frozen before the ice broke and caused her massive damage and Fenghuang receiving a lot of cuts from the petals that sent a lot of her blood flying in the air. However, it was Suya that fell on the ground and returned to her normal form.

"Participant Suya is no longer able to battle! She's eliminated!"

Fenghuang returned to her normal state and looked down sadly at her student. "Suya..." She mumbled before picking her up in her wings and surprisingly walking out of the fighting zone, eliminating herself. However, she didn't mind and smiled down at Suya. "Congratulations, my daughter..."


Meanwhile, the sword duel between Koji and Karasu was raging on with neither making an advancement on the other, though they still had a few cuts. Koji flew back on the ground and looked up at the raven through his mask.

"He can still keep up with me even though I'm in Cong Wo mode. He really became that strong since the last time we met?"

Just then, the raven flew down on the ground too. "Well, already tired, Koji?"

"Are you kidding? I'm barely getting warmed up!" He replied before charging his sword and shot an Demon Chi slash which Karasu easily dodged.

Then, grabbing his pendant, he threw a Demon Chi propeller which the raven cut in two with his sword. "Come on, dude, I know you can do better than that."

"Okay then." This time, Koji used his pendant to summon a ninja outfit and dagger made of Demon Chi and charged to clash it with the raven's sword.

"Time to power up then. DRAGONIC AURA!" The raven and created blue Chi with his body which took the form of a dragon and boosted his speed.

They started moving all around with an impressive speed again, clashing their blades and shooting Lightning and Demon Chi at each other. However, Karasu was still ahead of Koji in terms of power and slashed different parts of his body before ending by delivering a strong kick that knocked him down on the ground.

Decided not to let his opponent take advantage, Koji made his body explode with red energy. "SHENG CHU!" He said, activating the technique that doubled his power level at the cost of tiring him faster.

He swung his sword to send a Demon Chi slash which Karasu couldn't dodge in time and had to block with his sword, but he couldn't stop it. As he struggled, Koji suddenly dashed behind him and shot another Chi slash, trapping the raven between the two and causing an explosion.

"Didn't see that one coming!" Karasu said as he jumped away, his clothes a bit damaged from the shot he took.

Koji had to put an end to his Sheng Chu technique as he didn't wanted to drain all his energy yet. Karasu jumped back and shot shurikens which Koji blocked with his arrow-shaped horn before replying by spitting secretion balls with his mouth which Karasu dodged. They then both stopped and smiled at each other.

"DRAGON CHI VOLLEY!" Karasu beamed and shot many Chi-charged arrows toward his beetle friend who turned on his Cong Wo mode again.

"BUG'S BITE!" He shot his big jet of Demon Chi which collided with Karasu's attack, creating another explosion.

"Man! This is intense!" Mustafa said as he covered his face from the wind.

Koji shot another Chi slash which Karasu dodged by jumping up in the air. Koji jumped too and shot another Bug's Bite which Karasu countered with an Elemental Slash, causing another explosion. After both men landed back on the ground, Karasu focused and his aura took the shapes of a dragon and a phoenix, making Koji look in surprise as he smiled.

"What? Forgot that I now possess both the power of the Dragon of Yang and the wisdom of the Phoenix of Yin?" He asked.

Koji smiled back. "True: I forgot about that." Suddenly, he summoned a second sword that was smaller and black with blue waves pattern in his other hand as his blue back tattoo started glowing. "And you forgot that I possess both the power of Cong Wo's Demon Chi as well as the power of Motherly Love."

The two friends agreed to go for their final attack together with Karasu focusing all his energy into his sword before being enveloped by it while Koji saw illusions of Cong Wo and his mother beside him which made him smile before he looked back at his opponent and charged his two swords with their respective Chi. "FINAL WAVE OF THE BUG'S BITE!" He screamed and dashed toward Karasu, holding his swords in a X position.

CLASH!

They collided and passed each other, freezing on the spot. everybody now waited to see who ultimately came out victorious.

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Bindo checked on them before giving his decision. "Participants Koji and Karasu are no longer able to battle! They are both eliminated from the match!"

As they were carried to the infirmary, Karasu managed to look at Koji with a weak smile. "A draw. Looks like we'll never which one of us is stronger."

"Yup. We'll just have to rematch." The beetle happily said and held out his hand for a bump-fist with his raven friend.


With all this action, Toka from the New Legend and Shen from Tao Gao were now the last ones remaining in the match. The crowd chanted: "LET'S GO, TOKA/LET'S GO, SHEN!" to cheer the two leaders of their respective team.

"So it's just the two of us now?" Toka said.

"Yes. It was going to happen sooner or later, young Toka." Shen nodded with a smile. "It's time for the battle of the phoenixes."

Both opponents took out their respective weapon (Huángyúnfāng for Toka and Guan Dao for Shen) and got in fighting stance. For many seconds, they glared at each other while the spectators were waiting impatiently.

They eventually charged in for the final battle and engaged a close combat, clashing their metal weapons against one another. Since Shen had a larger reach of attack, and could also use his metal talons, Toka had to get on the defensive. This and the fact that his heavy sword was slowing him down a bit.

Eventually, he got on the offensive and swung his sword at Shen who dodged it and went for a strike that Toka blocked. The encounter lasted very long with both fighters either blocking or dodging the other's offensives until they jumped away from each other, but immediately charged forward once more and went for a punch. Simultaneously, their attack reached the other's face, knocking them back at the same time. They got back up quickly and panted a bit while rubbing their cheek.

"Who do you think will win?" Hikari asked her husband.

"Honestly, I'm not sure, sweetie." Ryuu replied, not getting his look away from the fight.

After the two opponents got back up, Shen was the first one to speak: "What do you say we stop messing around and give our best?"

Toka smiled and gave a nod. "Good idea: I'm totally warmed up now, so why not?"

Holding out his free wing, the peacock manifested a second Guan Dao. However, this one was made of Fire Chi. "This is my Burning Shen form! My power increases and I can't feel pain, but all the damages I will take will be felt at once, after it ends."

"I know, you already told me." The snow leopard remarked before focusing his own Chi. "PHOENIX WARRIOR FORM!" He exploded with jade green Chi which was also the colour his fur took.

"No holding back now." Ryuu though.

"FIST STORM!" Toka shouted and started swinging his fists so fast that it looked like he was throwing tens of them at once which forced Shen to get back on the move to avoid them all. Toka could keep it going on as the Fist Storm technique didn't consume that much energy. Eventually, Shen decided to fight by using his Feathered Flurry technique which saw him shooting many rapid fire knives. While Toka was able to dodge them, some still rubbing on his skin and left marks.

Having enough, Toka charged Chi in his fist. "PHOENIX FIST!"

As he charged, Shen also charged his Fire Chi. "RISING PHOENIX CRAH!"

As the two attacker collided, a big fire explosion jumped in the middle of the arena, sending an heatwave over all the watchers. Once it faded, there were burning marks all over the fighting zone and the fighters were panting a lot, covered in sweat. And not only because of the heat.

Shen suddenly ended his Burning Shen form and started glowing with a brillant light that surrounded his whole body. Once it faded, Shen was now wearing his traditional white robes with his aura being a clam, fiery blaze. A phoenix then came on his shoulder before entering his weapon. "CELESTIAL PHOENIX FORM!"

Toka widened his eyes in shock. "He's too strong in this form for me to beat him! I need to power up!" He rose his arms in the air. "NEW LEGEND! LEND ME YOUR POWER!"

Somehow, as he said that, his four friends, though absent, heard him and lifted their hands/paws/wings to make their energy float over to him. Once he received the energy from his friends, Toka pushed a loud scream and exploded with jade green energy which suddenly turned into a burning orange-red colour. Once the energy moved away, it revealed that he now had a whole new appearance: his fur was now a burning red, his eyes were now ruby in colour and his body was surrounded by the orange-red aura that just exploded. But most of all, he looked way more determined.

"W-What's that?!" Shen asked, surprised to see Toka's new form.

"I present to you my new form, the Phoenix Warrior Level 2!"

The peacock quickly pulled his surprise away and simply smiled. "I'm really glad to see you've pushed your limits back, my friend. Ready to pursue this fight?"

"Unfortunately, I can only stay in this form for 5 minutes, so we'll have to end this quick." Toka answered and charged jade green energy in his right fist.

She nodded with a smile. "As you wish, my friend." He charged his weapon with pure light.

The two warriors then charged and jumped high in the air and toward each other, going for their final attack.

Toka lifted his fist and though about all the people he cared about: Master Yoshi, Koji, Alena, Suya, Neyo, the Elemental Five Po, Tigress, Viper, Monkey, Mantis, Crane, Shen, Karasu, Fenghuang, Mei Ling, Fung, the Imperial Ten, and everyone else. Then, once his fist was surrounded by a giant burning phoenix, he charged forward at full speed. "FINAL PHOENIX FIST OF HOPE!"

Shen lifted his Guan Dao and putted all the light he acquired since the day his destiny changed into one last attack. "LIGHT PHOENIX STRIKE!"

They collided and created a giant explosion which caused the arena to tremble despite the fact that it was in the air above the arena. Everybody had to cover their eyes because of the strong light it caused along with the smoke.

"Who won? Who won?" Shan Qu asked with excitation.

After many seconds, Toka and Shen both fell down from the smoke in the sky and landed back in the fighting zone. they were unconscious.

"What?! A draw?!" Mustafa asked.

"No: look!" Saras suddenly said and pointed to something.

To everybody's surprise, while Shen landed back in the fighting zone, Toka landed outside the limit of the zone. This could only mean one thing and Bindo announced it.

"Participant Toka has been eliminated! The whole New Legend have been eliminated from the match! This makes Tao Gao the winners of the match and the tournament!"

Confettis exploded in the air as the whole crowd cheered loudly - Hikari and Ryuu more than the others. "Come on, guys. Let's go get them to the infirmary." Saras said as he and the other participants minus the Brotherhood walked down the fighting zone.


A few hours later, after every Tao Gao members woke up, the winning ceremony started. All five of them were standing in the middle of the arena and in front of the emperor who gave them medals and the promised money in a bag. The five of them bowed respectfully as everyone cheered for them, including their family and friends.

Afterward, they joined their friends and family at the arena's outside. "That was freakin AWESOME!" Po beamed with enthusiasm.

"Yup. You guys did a great show." Hiro nodded in agreement with a paw resting on one of his swords.

"You guys have a lot of style." Lilinc added with a smirk.

"Thank you all." Shen said before turning to Toka. "You're sure you don't want a part of the prize? I only won because I was lucky."

"Nah." Toka said with a paw shove. "A good warrior needs to have luck and besides, we're not fighting for money, you know that."

"But I already have a lot of money because of my family."

"Then just give it to an orphanage or people who don't have a lot of money." The snow leopard insisted with a wink.

"Okay, it's been fun and all, but we have to go now. Take care of you guys." Mustafa said and shook hands with Saras before turning to his team. "Rio?"

The bunny nodded and suddenly summoned a strange pipe from the ground into which the whole Battle Hive jumped. Everybody looked dumbfounded.

"What the duck?!" Neyo said.

"We'll go too. It was fun for our first Power Struggle Tournament." Liling the pig said. "See you soon." She said and left into a portal with team Musica.

After the Adamant Warriors thanked Toka for saving Sakchai and left, Tao Gao and New Legend were now alone and felt a bit sad. "So I guess this is goodbyes again." Karasu said.

"Yeah." Koji nodded and rubbed the back of his head. "It was nice seeing you guys again."

Suddenly, the little Safui'e started whining in Suya's wings while holding his hands toward Karasu, not wanting the raven to go.

"Hey, hey, don't worry, little guy. I'll come to see you again, it's a promise." The ninja said and patted the little bug's head, making him laugh.

"I'll come to see you too. Don't worry." Fenghuang added with kissing his little forehead.

"Take care of yourself, young Toka." Shen said with a smile before looking down at the little Ryoka in his father's arms. "You too, my little friend." He said with patting his head, making him laugh.

"I'm gonna miss you, Alena." Fung sadly said with looking at his panther friend.

"Me too, Fung." She said before Moon Dancer suddenly hugged the croc's tummy, making her smile. "I think she will too." They shared a laugh after that.

"Bye, Mei Ling. Say hi to Crane for me." Neyo said to his golden cat friend.

"I sure will, Neyo." She said with poking his nose before looking down at Chao who was still hiding behind his dad's leg. "Goodbye, Chao, I hope to meet you again one day." She said with poking his nose too, making him laugh.

"Thanks again for helping our son, young people." Hikari said with a bow to Koji and Suya. "We will never forget it, right darling?" She asked to which Ryuu nodded with a smile.

"You're welcome." Koji's mom form said with a giggle. "Remember that you can come visit us whenever you want to."

"I still don't understand how your mom can be a ray." Fung said with scratching the side of his head.

"She's not really a ray: it's just her spiritual form after she died." Koji said before turning to Karasu. "So are we gonna meet again after that?"

"I don't know: it depends of the author." The raven replied before smiling. "But don't worry: I sure want to bond with my little nephew. And besides, we still have a rematch to do."

Koji nodded with a smile before the two friends exchanged their trademark bump-fist again...


Well, I sure hope you enjoyed this match 'cause it took me a full day to write it. And I also hope you enjoyed the tournament in general.

Let me know in the reviews if this was better, worst, or as good as the two previous entries. If you liked it, thank you. If not, I'm sorry, but I do what I can.