A Note to Eva-Badhraa: Remember that little contest I had, to get a summon request? Well they appear in this chapter, keep an eye out.
3rd Round
"We've gotten to our 3rd Round, and boy, have we seen some violence today, folks. Between Rinoa beating up Ares for hitting on her, to Leon beating up Ares for hitting on Rinoa, it's been a good time for everybody. Except Ares." The crowd watched solemnly as Ares, God of War, was taken out in an ambulance. "That's gotta hurt. Back to the tournament, we have in this round, Sora and Riku versus, uh, there seems to be a smudge on the name. Medy?"
A voice shouted out "Myde!"
"Whatever. Anyways, this guy's got a really weird weapon, but it's gotten him this far, so what do I know?"
On one side of the field, there was Sora and Riku, keyblade out. On the other side, was this Myde guy, with no weapon in sight, wearing all-blue. His brown hair was in an odd style, like a cross between a mullet and a Mohawk. The horn blew, and Myde thrusted his hand into the air. A bubble of water formed, and expanded into an instrument that was quite familiar to Sora.
"Demyx," Sora said. "Who knew?"
"Name's Myde, if you don't mind," Myde said, and started to strum the strings on his sitar. Water clones appeared, and slid around, occasionally clubbing one of them with their sitars. Riku cut through them quickly.
"What's so bad about this guy? Seems easy enough," Riku said, not noticing the Melodious Nocturne sneak up from behind and whap him with his sitar. "Ow."
Myde strummed a note, and water pillars went up, sending both of them into the air. Myde juggled them easily, and yawned.
When he finally landed, Riku felt really, really ticked off. His keyblade vanished, and both of his hands were engulfed in darkness. Continual blasts of fire came from him, bashing Myde a ton each time.
Myde dug through his pockets, searching for one thing in particular. "Please let this work," he whispered, before he held it into the air. "Let there be rock!"
In a flash of light, an apparently 11 year-old girl in a leather jacket, jeans, and black boots appeared. Her eyes were covered by sunglasses. She carried an Electric Guitar.
"The louder the better!" DarkGuitarGoddess, Goddess for short, shouted. She slammed a power cord on her guitar, and a shockwave radiated out, knocking Sora and Riku off their feet. She rocked out, playing a song that sounded suspiciously like "Through the Fire and Flames." Orbs of energy flew out and tried to hit Sora and Riku. With one final note, the barrage ended. "Thank you Olympia, good night!" Goddess vanished in a flash of light.
"Had enough?" Myde asked as he waved to the crowd.
Sora's eye twitched. "That's it. Riku, get back, it's time to pull out the big guns." He focused his mind to a state of calm. Light burst out from him, and his clothes turned white with black trimming. He felt something open up in his mind, his sixth sense that allowed him greater control over his keyblades. His right hand keyblade changed to the Oblivion, and the Ultima Weapon appeared in his left hand. Sora released his grip on his keyblades, and they both floated up to a position just behind his shoulders. His feet left the ground.
"Thunder," Sora said simply. Blasts of electricity made a circle of scorch marks around Myde. One bolt hit the sitar, and the strings broke.
Myde stared at his broken sitar, and gulped. Sora zoomed toward him, and held his keyblades at Myde's neck. "Any last words?" he asked with a large smile on his face.
Myde took a deep breath. He turned tail and got away as fast as he could, screaming "Run, run away!" He ran into the barrier, and fell backwards.
Riku watched this exchange with great interest. He then looked at Sora, who was floating on his back, enjoying every moment he got in Final Form. "That guy might be a coward, but he's no idiot. I don't know anybody who'd go up against you in that form, myself included." Sora flashed a V for victory with each hand.
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"Oh, that's gonna hurt in the morning. On to the next fight, we have the terrible trio, Terra, Ven, and Aqua. They've cut down any opponents that lie before them, easily destroying them without so much as breaking a sweat. But their next opponent might give them more of a challenge. He's sent all of his rivals thus far out of the stadium in a stretcher. The one and only, Seymour Guado!"
On the other side of the field from Terra, Ven, and Aqua stood a man wearing a long cape. Blue veins were easily visible in his forehead. In his hand he had a long staff that really wouldn't do much damage in of itself. But it was soon realized that this staff was not meant for hitting, but for spell casting.
"Blizzaga!" Aqua shouted. The fire surrounding them went out quickly. In a space of four seconds, she cast NulAll a few times, which would presumably protect them from any basic element spells.
Seymour smirked. "An admirable action, but a waste of magic." With barely a flick of his staff, the orbs were dispelled. "Now, you can see where my true power lies." He held his staff in the air, and a portal appeared above them. A chain shot from the portal and sank into the ground. It began pulling upward, and something big was being pulled with it.
"Holy cow," Ven said, though that was an understatement, and Seymour knew it.
"Meet the mightiest of all summons," he said, "the great Anima!" Anima roared.
With no other ideas, Ven ran at Anima, jumped high into the air, and hit its face. It barely caused a scratch. Anima swiped at Ven, and knocked him way off. Ven sat up in the dirt dizzily. "Now I can see why those other guys were taken out on stretchers." He jumped up, and grabbed a summon charm out of his pocket. "Courage!"
In a cloud of dust, a red . . . something, a feline of some sort, ran in. On the back of Red XIII was the cat with a Scottish accent, Cait Sith.
"Let's get 'em, lad!" Cait Sith shouted.
"Let's go," Red XIII said simply.
Red XIII charged at Anima, and hit it multiple times as Cait Sith threw flaming dice, which non-surprisingly did not do much damage. When he was right in front of Anima, Red XIII howled. An enormous blast of energy hit Anima. From an invisible pocket, Cait Sith pulled out a megaphone. "Get out here, and do somethin'!" he shouted through it. From the sky, a fat chocobo fell onto Anima's head, then vanished. Red XIII and Cait Sith vanished in a flash of light.
"You've got to be kidding me," Ven said. Anima looked no worse for the wear, and that was one of his best summons!
"He does not fall so easily," Seymour said calmly. "Anima! Show this boy your power!" Anima's eyes flashed, and a beam of light shot from him to Terra and Aqua, who had been just standing by looking for a weakness. A blur shot by them, and Ven took the full brunt of the attack.
In that moment that the Pain attack hit him, Ven felt like a thousand cold knives were plunged into his skin. He screamed in agony.
Aqua leaned down over him, as Terra went at Anima with all he had. Aqua took Ven's hand. "Heal," she said. Nothing happened. Then again, the only true pain was from the brunt of the attack hitting him, and the rest was just a mental illusion. A very realistic illusion.
"Make it stop," Ven said through gritted teeth.
Aqua bit her lip. From in her pocket, the life shard grew warm. A bright light enveloped Aqua, and transferred to Ven. His breathing steadied. He opened his eyes. "Light magic," he mused. "Are you hiding something from us?"
She shook her head. "But there's no time for that, we have to help Terra!"
Speaking of Terra, he flew backwards into the dust. Seymour seemed amused at their attempts to cause any sort of damage to Anima. "I hate that guy," Terra said. "There's got to be a way to beat this thing!" An idea fell into place. They had only ever done it once, when they had three huge unbirths breathing down their necks, but it might be just the thing they needed.
Terra pointed his keyblade at the ground in front of him. "Trinity Focus!" he called. Ven and Aqua stepped on either side of him, and did the same thing. A crown shape appeared on the ground, with the trio standing on it.
"Warrior!" Terra shouted.
"Mystic!" Aqua cried.
"Guardian!" Ven hollered.
Light burst up around them. A red aura began to glow around Terra, a golden aura around Ven, and a blue aura around Aqua. The aura wasn't the end of it, of course. Terra felt much stronger, like he could take on the Rock Titan without breaking a sweat. Energy coursed through Ven, and he knew that his speed was faster than ever before. And Aqua, her sixth sense opened up further than normal, and her mind was processing things at an amazing speed.
Faster than the human eye could see it, Ven dashed at Anima, and attacked it so quickly that it couldn't react at all. Ven's feet barely seemed to even touch the ground. Terra ran at it, his keyblade transformed into a key-fist, and hit it multiple times in the face. Aqua floated an inch off the ground. Her keyblade floated around as she flew through the air, and jumped high up. Fire gathered around her and her keyblade as she flew at Anima at high speed. An explosion rocked the arena on contact, and Anima was almost dead.
"Shall we?" Terra asked. He didn't even need answer from his friends. Both of them got on the other sides of Anima and Seymour. "Focus Delta!" Their keyblade glowed with their respective auras, and they threw them at Anima. The resulting explosion completely eliminated Anima. Terra called his keyblade back to him, and charged at Seymour. With a single slice, Seymour was knocked to the ground, and did not stir. He was still alive, unfortunately. Terra could see the rise and fall of his chest. But until he got a new staff, he wouldn't be performing any summons or magic. It had been slice in half by Terra's strike. As their auras faded away, Terra said simply, "We win."
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4th Round
"And we continue on, closer and closer in each match to reaching the final match. This next match ought to be interesting, Kairi and Xion versus Yuffie and Rinoa! This is gonna be good!"
Rinoa sent her blaster edge straight at Kairi, who blocked it easily. A flurry of spells came at the Princess of Heart. "Reflect!" Some of the spells were caught, but others got through and hit Kairi full force.
Yuffie's shuriken blazed by Xion, and came back to its owner. Yuffie vanished in a puff of smoke, and somebody tapped Xion's shoulder. She whirled around, and was caught by a punch straight to the chin.
"This one's gonna hurt," Yuffie said as her shuriken began to glow with a strange light. She threw it hard, and it looped around three time, with Kairi and Xion barely dodging it each time. Yuffie grabbed the shuriken, ran at her opponents, and struck both of them.
Rinoa put her hand to her lips and whistled. A dog appeared from nowhere, and bit at Kairi and Xion multiple times.
"Was that supposed to do something?" Xion asked. Seriously, there was no visible injuries to either of them. Whereas Rinoa and Yuffie were breathing heavily already.
Kairi held out a hand to Xion. "Shall we?"
"We shall," Xion replied, and took her hand. They raised their keyblades. "Twilight Comet!" A bright blue comet slammed down from the sky and hit the ground. Flames roared up from the point of impact around Rinoa and Yuffie before they could react. When the flames cleared, Yuffie was flat on her back, and Rinoa was on her knees, scraped up all over.
Somebody yelled from behind Kairi and Xion. They looked at each other, an expression of horror on their faces. It took ten minutes, five security guards, Sora, Riku, and Hercules to stop Leon from murdering the girls.
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"Here we go, the final battle of the fourth round, we have Braig and Dilan facing off against--I'm beginning to like these two--Oro and Jessie! Wait, hold on, you aren't supposed to start yet! Aw, forget it."
Braig randomly fired off bullets, with no way of predicting where one would go. Dilan used his control over wind to speed around stabbing at Oro and Jessie with his lances.
"You take care of Braig, I got Dilan," Jessie said. The next time Dilan stabbed at him, Jessie side-stepped and brought his sword down to pin the six lances to the ground. He brought his foot around to kick Dilan upside the face.
Oro moved continuously to avoid the bullets. He dove to the side, pulled back the string on his bow, and shouted "Blizzard!" The arrow was covered in ice as it fired at Braig, who got hit in the side.
"One arrow versus fifty bullets," Braig said. "I wonder who'll win?" He sent a continuous barrage at Oro, who spun his bow in a circle continuously to reflect away the bullets. When it ended. Oro pulled back the string of his bow, and aimed the shot up in the air.
"Let's see how you dance," Oro said, and released the arrow. At the peak of its flight, it split into a couple dozen identical green arrows. They fell to the ground quickly and at least ten hit Braig. There appeared to be no further injuries to Braig besides a small cut on his hand.
"Nobody, and I mean nobody," Braig said threateningly, "steals my battle quote." Oro shrank away, and ran as fast as he could away from Braig and his guns.
Jessie flipped backward, away from the lances. A gust of wind whipped around him, and Dilan got in a hit. Nothing big, as it was with the flat of the blade. But the flat of the blade connected with the right side of Jessie's head, and he got dizzy for a second. He shook it off, and went for the same tactic he first did. When Dilan stabbed at him with all six lances, Jessie jumped up, pinned the lanced to the ground with his feet, and slashed with his sword. A few pieces of Dilan's hair fell to the ground.
"You're dead. You're so dead, it's not even funny." Dilan went into a frenzy, smacking Jessie all over the place. Dilan jumped into the air, and his lances formed into a dragon-like wind cannon. A vortex shot from it, and rotated around the field. Jessie held his sword in the air, and it shimmered momentarily. When the vortex hit him, the wind slipped past him. Oro jumped into the air, but Braig didn't see it in time to avoid it.
"Crud," he said, and the vortex collided with him. He was sent flying back and he hit the barrier. He fell to the ground, unconscious.
That left Dilan alone, facing off against Oro and Jessie. Oro drew back the string of his bow, and fired an arrow. Dilan leaned his head to the side and the arrow flew by him. He raised an eyebrow. Jessie spun his sword around and stabbed the point into the ground. A burst of energy ran along the ground and knocked Dilan off his feet. While he still had the chance, Oro fired arrow after arrow, each one hitting perfectly.
"Fire!" Oro released the arrow, and it burned along a straight path, and collided with Dilan's chest. That last hit left the Whirlwind Lancer down for the count.
Myde
Demyx's other. In his world, he's a well-known musician, who plays all sorts of magnificent songs. He retained his Nobody's sitar, control over water, hairdo, and common sense (c'mon, honestly, who would fight Final Form Sora?) He first appeared in Kingdom Hearts II.
DarkGuitarGoddess
She's my little sister . . . and apparently a summon of Myde's. She doesn't actually play guitar, but she's a beast with Guitar Hero.
Seymour Guado
A half-human half-guado sorcerer, with magnificent skill in both magic and summoning. There's something about him that's not quite right . . . He first made an entrance in Final Fantasy X.
Anima
Considered by some to be the Ultimate Summon. The Fayth of Anima (the soul that created it) was Seymour's mother. Thus, Anima is a she. Her high strength and devastating Pain attack make for a difficult fight. She first appeared in Final Fantasy X.
Red XIII
A being of unusual species, whose real name is Nanaki. He was going to be experimented on by an insane scientist (no, not Vexen) but was freed from his imprisonment along with Cait Sith by Ven, and gave him a summon charm in gratitude. He first appeared in Final Fantasy VII.
Cait Sith
A robotic cat with a scottish accent, who fights with a combination of his megaphone, which he used to give commands to his now missing giant moogle, and dice--that didn't actually originally flame. The author added that because it was better than plain old dice. He had been deactivated, but was woken up by Ven when the latter had snuck into a secret lab in Radiant Garden. He was freed along with Red XIII. He first appeared in Final Fantasy VII.
Author's Notes
I honestly had so much fun writing this tournament. So much Final Fantasy madness in this! I luv it! Until next time, dear readers.
