Round 7
The pinkette's hands glow green, chakra flowing into the unconscious Naruto. The uneven, broken grounds shift with an explosion far too close for comfort. Ichigo and Kyo's high speed exchanges rumble as Sakura continues to heal the hokage. She just hoped that she managed to hide enough to finish tending to the man. "Naruto..."
Nearby, the last two jedi take cover. Cilghal takes the lead, moving from cover to cover. "I know they came this way. We must eliminate him while he is injured." She huffs out a breath, worn.
Kyp stiffly walks, clutching his side. "Let me take him. You're exhausted after getting me back on my feet." Her healing got him back into the fight, sure, but the two were running on little to nothing. Rather than respond, the alien turns her head to give him a look. He sighs. "Right... we'll fight together."
Farther off, the land slowly defrosts, Akira walking back towards his leader. Gasping breaths leave him as muscles rip and tense up. However, meeting him at the end of the frozen wasteland are the remaining members of team Final Fantasy, Noctis and Lightning. "Great... this complicates things."
"He's powerful. Such a bother." Noctis speaks lowly "You want him or me?"
Lightning nods to him as she steps forward. "I'll take him." She casts a glance over her shoulder. "Besides. We have trouble."
"Spirit Sword!" The orange energy blade comes down, striking where Lightning and Noctis stood and demolishing the ground. Kuwabara grits his teeth and gestures with his sword. "Anyone who attacks those weaker than them dishonorably will have to face me!"
Lightning lands between him and Akira. She scoffs. "That's rich. How were we being dishonorable?" Noctis lands further off, staring down Kuwabara.
The ginger huffs and puffs his chest out, pointing to Akira. "You were attacking a blind man!" Immediate sweat drop from Akira, whose brow furrows in a twitch of indignation.
Lightning looks to Noctis. The prince nods. "I'll take this guy." Each turning away, Lightning speeds at Akira as Noctis squares off with Kuwabara. "Are you going to invite your friends?"
Up on an upturned ridge, the rest of Team Urameshi stand. Yusuke cups his hands, shouting down. "You better not mess this up Kuwabara!"
"I know, Urameshi! Gosh!" He flares his orange energy blade, taking his stance. Across the defrosted distance, Noctis huffs. In a flick of the wrist, he begins dashing and teleporting with his dagger, charging the spirit detective's sidekick...
Fight One
Lightning clashes blades with Akira, forcing him back along the ice. He ducks a follow up, but the man's legs are far too weak. He falls to a knee, barely blocking the next attack. Lightning's strike launches him away, through a hunk of frozen debris.
Having been frozen to such a degree by Rukia's bankai, the material shatters to dust as the samurai is propelled along the now icy wasteland. Each limb aches at the threat of shattering as he rams his blade into the ice to stop himself. His breath fogs out as he staggers to his feet.
Lightning's breath chills in the air, but she stands tall. "You're obviously in no condition to continue this fight. Do yourself a favor and simply exit the arena." As Akira's opens his mouth to speak, Lightning flashes forward in a burst of speed. Landing before the warrior, the tip of her blade halts at his throat. "And I suggest you take the charity."
Akira huffs a laugh, but his brow furrows. "Losing means being erased anyway. What fool would accept such a thing?" Immediately, a flash of ice blasts out, Lightning dodging back. Staggering to a combat stance, a loose sigh escapes. "Besides, you're not the first person today to be in this position against me."
"So losing is your winning strategy?" Lightning bites back, raising her blade.
As if to punctuate her mocking, chilled air flows around Akira. The cold getting colder, Akira channels his power for the second time within this tournament. "I'll enjoy the look on your face... with my own eyes." His eyes snap open, flashing with power with restored sight. Beyond the power he used against the Jedi, he activates Heaven's Ghost.
The power weighs down in the air as he smirks at the woman. Lightning resists the urge to mock him. The most powerful state of a blind person is gaining their sight? What a joke. Except, she can feel the shift in the air.
Lightning shifts to using magic, blasting fire to remain at a distance! Three fire streams burst out, but face and snuff at the freezing temperatures around the man.
Akira huffs. "Let's go."
Speeding forward, far faster than before, he closes the distance as Lightning continues back. The woman blasts thunder and ice, but the samurai dodges it easily. She switches back to melee just in time to begin parrying the freezing blades of the man.
The two clash as Akira presses Lightning back. Using two swords and swift strikes, the pinkette isn't able to launch a counter, merely parrying, blocking, ducking, and dodging!
Leaping away, she grits her teeth, frustration building. "This isn't working..." She grinds out. Looking up, he's already charging her again. Shit... If she's going to get out of it, she'll need to gain control back. She channels her own inner strength. If she's to regain control, she has to outperform the samurai with her own combat maneuver.
The two clash blades as Lightning pushes him away on his back foot. Her turn as she initiates her greatest combo attack, Army of One.
Forcing him back, she swiftly charges, viciously slashing from alternating angles and hammering away at his two defending blades. Her own speed ramping up to match his, Lightning gains full control as her attacks begin landing through.
A slash hits his arm, another at his thigh. Another at his shoulder, another at his side!
Being bashed back, Akira scoffs as he finds the smirk on the woman's face. Gritting his teeth from the pain, he moves to counter as Lightning moves into her final strike!
The two shout out as they strike against one another! In perfect form, each slashes past one another, sliding to a stop from their respective strikes!
A surge of pain hits the samurai as a spurt of blood bursts from the fresh wound across his chest. He cries out as he falls forward. "Damn it!"
Lightning stands tall, turning around... before grunting and clutching her arm. She was tagged. "Impressive speed, but-" Her eyes widen in a surge of numbing pain firing through her body. "W-what?!"
Akira struggles up to a knee, but can't stand immediately. "Only needs... one hit." He huffs a laugh through the pain. "And it will spread through you completely."
As if responding to his revelation, Lightning cries out in pain, dropping to a knee herself. The ultra freezing point squeezes every ounce of heat from her body as frost begins to coat her skin. She tries, but can't move...
Both fighters drop, Lightning from the freezing pain of Heaven's Ghost, Akira from the backlash of using said technique...
Fight Two
Cilghal swiftly ducks out from her cover, moving to the next upturned hill. The fishlike alien closes her eyes, feeling out the area around her. Through the force, she detects... a hint if desperation. The FEEL of unease and nerves running through their quarry. However, the pink haired ninja seems to have done well to mask her presence.
"This way." She whispers for Kyp, who pokes his head around the previous earthy cover. With a nod, he follows as they move on.
Through the wrecked ridges of destroyed land, Sakura and Naruto find themselves in a deep hiding hole. The blonde grits in pain, unable to move, as the pinkette floods healing green chakra into the man. "Naruto... come on you knucklehead. We need you."
BOOM!
The sounds of explosive traps ring out nearby. The ninja looks over her shoulder to the makeshift cave entrance. The jedi are getting awfully close. Her traps won't hold them back for long...
Exactly so, a plume of smoke fades with Cilghal dropping a shield of rocks held up with the force. "We're close." A feeling tugs at her, as she gazes down, finding a string of wire catching the light.
Igniting her saber, she cuts the wire, triggering an avalanche trap from both sides. The slide of rocks crushes down in front harmlessly. Kyp huffs as he marches by, clutching his side. "These ninjas are troublesome."
The two continue on, powering and moving their way through the assortment of traps...
Fight Three
Flashes of steel on steel, sparking off strikes. The attacks move far above and beyond the zenith of light speed! Blades, one thick and oversized, the other long and sleek, flicker into view with bursts of attacks. Zangetsu vs Tenro, Ichigo vs Kyo!
Kyo flashes to a standing position on the ground, brandishing his blade as a grin forms. Ichigo flickers into view above in a flash step! "Hyah!" Zangetsu swings down, but Kyo flashes away and lets the blade crash into the ground.
A barrage of wind slashes land all over Ichigo, battering him lightly as Kyo lands behind. "Mizuchi!"
Staggering a moment, Ichigo twitches before whipping around. A wave of bright blue energy explodes out! In a chaotic burst, cracks split in the ground and further destabilizing the arena. The orange haired man grunts out as he looks around. "What-"
Instantly, from all four sides of him, from the wind forms the shapes of four animals. Each animal for the four winds of Kyo's techniques! Suzaku the Phoenix, Byakko the Tiger, Seiryu the Chinese dragon, and Genbu the Tortoise.
All four spiritual attacks hit from all sides, exploding on the soul reaper. Upon a tall ridge of rubble, Kyo lands, clothes tattered, top completely gone. His full crimson eyes shine, as does the burning red cross pattern on his back.
The smoke and rubble suddenly wipe away. The air wisps, a gravitational pressure weighing down as the open space mimics static, unsaturated. Ichigo stands, clothes torn up, but no serious wounds. His spiritual pressure radiates out over the arena, a low growl building as his gold eyes lightly glow.
"You're fast. I'll give you that." Ichigo's grip on Zangetsu tightens. "But your attacks are lacking a bit." He stretches his neck to out side, popping it relaxed. The comment earns a grin from Kyo, cockily looking down on the soul reaper. "I'll enjoy taking that look off."
Kyo chuckles. "Threatening me with a good time? Stop talking and do it."
Crack, the ground shatters as Ichigo launches off. He closes the distance and swings! Miss! Kyo is behind him. The counter registers, a slash to Ichigo's side throws him away. The samurai gives chase as Ichigo recovers.
Ichigo disappears in a flash step, appearing above. He prepares a slash- Kyo is already gone! An attack lands from behind, sending the reaper through rubble along the ground!
Upon standing, the orange haired man looks up to find the flame bird technique, Suzaku, coming right at him. "Damn it, again?!" Knowing fully that he can't simply dodge it, he takes the hit head on.
Mistake.
Through the flaming blast, the wind claw like attack of Byakko is launched next. This time, Ichigo narrowly dodges. Second mistake. The second, wider current of wind catches him in the dodge and digs him into the ground.
Picking himself up, a sphere of wind contains him and the crater around. Kyo appears at the top of the crater, wind wisping off his blade. The containment technique, Genbu. Encased inside, the wind moves in multiple currents, forming shapes.
Ichigo can barely contemplate before he's suddenly caught in a continuous assault from all sides. Arms and sword raised in defense, it doesn't help. He needs to get out.
A flash of blue and red pours around him as he erupts from the ground. Directly charging at Kyo, he roars in an upward slash! Breaking from the wind currents, he goes for the attack and-
He misses! Kyo narrowly ducks around slash, gathering his power into his blade again. Ichigo raises above Kyo as the samurai chains into his fourth technique. Seiryu, the wind currents sweep upward, catching the airborne reaper and carrying him upward in a torrent of slashes!
The stream of slashes finishes, leaving Ichigo in the air, gritting his teeth from the sting. His eyes widen, Kyo appearing directly in front of him in the air. His black sword glows with the power of the divine wind, combining all four of his wind techniques together into his ultimate attack, Kouryu.
The technique, shining the image of a golden dragon as Kyo's sword shines bright gold, erupts out before firing forth. It projects as a beam of energized wind, striking at Ichigo's guard. Ichigo's raised blade blocks and splits the beam in the air, pushing him back!
Ichigo roars out, black and red reiatsu ripping through the gold as he begins a counter. Only, it was all a distraction. Through the gold, and around the black, Kyo's own blade slashes around. The black blade catches at the tip at Ichigo's left eye.
"Gah!" Ichigo cries out, blood spurting from his eyes. His guard is lost as the golden Kouryu attack engulfs him and carries the man off into the ground in an explosion!
Upon the plume of debris and dust erupting, Kyo lands smoothly, smirking. "So, your eyes aren't as hard as the rest of you. I see..." He pauses before his smirk grows. "Although, I'm sire you're having problems seeing."
From the clearing cloud, Ichigo stands. His left eye bleeds profusely, blood dripping from his chin. Grunting out the pain, he leaves the eye closed and glares at his opponent. Kyo is just too fast. Ichigo is used to this being HIS game to win, but being outsped like this isn't working in his favor.
If only he could cancel the speed disadvantage... could he?
Not exactly a fun idea, but he doesn't have too much else to deal with this guy. Thankfully, the pain in his eye begins to recede with hollow regeneration. Despite all the attacks he'd been dealt, the damage wasn't severe. Ichigo's durability was too much for him, so of course Kyo went for the eye.
Smirking, Ichigo huffs a laugh. "You're awfully cocky. Why don't you actually try and end it?" He just needs Kyo to attack...
Kyo smiles wide. "Very well." The samurai takes the bait, flickering in a burst of speed! Landing in front of Ichigo, he aims his blade for a thrust.
Ichigo's eye widens, raising one hand over his remaining eye... and his other hand releasing Zangetsu. In a split second, Ichigo relaxes his power, deactivating his Quincy Blut ability. Relaxing his defenses, he's met with the sting and sound of metal into flesh.
Kyo's thrust digs into Ichigo's hand. Tenro pierces through the palm and exits the back of the hand as Ichigo pulls his hand, and Kyo's blade, aside. Simultaneously, Ichigo's right hand reaches out and grabs Kyo by the arm.
Ichigo's pained face meets Kyo's dumbstruck look. His impaled hand controls the samurai's weapon, his dominant hand locks grip and anchors Kyo in place. Ichigo dips his head down...
The hollow horn sticking out from his temple glows with power, a red orb of glowing power forming at the tip, a cero! Head dipped, the cero aims at Kyo's torso. The samurai realizes the situation he's in. He frantically pulls to remove himself from Ichigo, but fails.
"Take this, you bastard!"
The attack ignites. A burning red explosion erupts, consuming the two and shattering the corner of the arena stage! The blast shakes the entire land, felt by every one of the fighters.
The smoke clears... with a shattered edge of the arena. Ichigo stands on the edge. Zangetsu rests on the ground beside him. Kyo's sword Tenro remains impaled through his hand.
And before him, Kyo falls into the darkness, a shocked look still on his face. And Kyo Mibu lands in the stands... eliminated.
Ichigo grunts in pain as he rips Tenro from his hand and tosses it out of the stage. Grabbing Zangetsu, he painfully opens his injured eye, now regenerated enough for sight, but still bloodied.
Fight Two Continued...
The green chakra continues flooding into the injured man. The blonde remains out cold as his wounds and chakra stores restore under the woman's jutsu. Then her hairs stand on end. Shit. She's out of time. Flooding most of the remainder of her chakra into Naruto, she gets up from him.
The mark on her forehead spreads, like a tattoo filling out a design over her face, body, and limbs. Activating the Power of One Hundred, she turns from Naruto and moves to the exit. "You better get up soon, you idiot. I can't buy you that much time."
Through the exit, into the broken ridge, Kyp leaps over a rock as an explosive trap blasts out. He lands, clutching his side and wincing in pain. Sakura locks on the man, gripping the rim of a hunk of earth before chucking the thing full force!
Kyp doesn't react in time, but Cilghal does! The alien dashes in and slashes through the rock with her saber. The pieces split to either side of the two, saving the injured jedi.
Sakura charges. Mid stride, her hands flash to hand signs. Finishing she reaches down and throws several shuriken at the alien. Cilghal force pushes the projectiles back, sticking into the medical ninja.
Poof!
Sakura disappears to a hunk of rock. Substitution! Cilghal catches a shadow from above. "CHA!" Sakura drops an ax kick, the jedi dodges back as the woman shatters the ground with her landing.
From the debris, Sakura speeds out, throwing a right hook. Cilghal spins into a slash, cutting through the woman... or rather, her slash passes through. An illusion? Clone jutsu!
The real Sakura slides under the slash from behind the illusion clone. Towards Kyp! Sakura raises and kicks the more injured jedi away, knocking him hard into the debris of the area. The woman ducks forward, dodging another saber slash from Cilghal.
Gripping into the ground, Sakura rips a makeshift spire of rock from beneath them. Pulling it with monstrous strength, she leaps up, swinging around and bringing the spire down like a massive maul!
"HaaaaaAAAA-Ngh!" Her downward swing halts as Cilghal raises both hands, catching the mass of stone with the force.
She throws the stone back in a force push. Sakura rolls around the stone in the air, leaping off it down to Cilghal to continue her attack. Cilghal flurries her saber as Sakura ducks and dodges around the slashes carefully.
Sakura dodges a slash and goes for a punch- The strike of a saber rings, Kyp's saber pierces Sakura's gut from behind. A force saber throw! Kyp staggers to his feet from the debris in the distance, wincing and gasping for air.
Recalling the saber, it rips free from Sakura, the woman's regeneration already working overtime to recover the scorched hole in her gut! The only problem is the regeneration barely closing the wound... before the tattoo markings on her body begin to fade.
So much of her chakra placed into Naruto, her limits have been reached...
A choke escapes her as she's lifted from the ground by Kyp's force grip. Raised up, her limbs flail, unable to find purchase. Kyp moves her up, looking out to find the nearest edge of the arena. "There. Cilghal, launch her."
Sakura's eyes widen as Cilghal nods and moves around Sakura. Desperate, she pulls out a kunai and throws it! However, Cilghal vaporizes the weapon with her saber.
Useless, Cilghal pulls her palms back before pushing forward with a grunt! A force push hits the woman, launching her from the hanging spot of air over the ridges of rocks. Over the broken ground. Over the edge...
Sakura Haruno falls from the arena, and appears in the stands eliminated.
Landing in the stands, Sakura gasps... then pounds her fist. "Damn it!" Looking out to the arena, she shouts out. "Naruto! It's all on you!"
Kyp and Cilghal relax their stances, breathing heavily side by side. "Quick. We need to eliminate the golden guy." Kyp states.
The alien agrees. "We can recuperate while allowing the other enemies to finish each other after-" She gasps, whipping around.
A golden yellow shine. Naruto flickers into view beside the two. His fox cloak burns with a rasengan formed in hand. "RASENGAN!" Cilghal raises her saber to block, the blue clashing with the condensed black tailed beast rasengan!
In a bright flash, Cilghal's saber shatters, the rasengan erupts in a blast and launches the alien! Through the debris, over the very same ridge the pink ninja had just been thrown... Cilghal is blasted from the arena and lands in the stands.
Kyp cries out. "No!" In a spurt of anger, he lashes out with his own saber, only for a golden hand to catch his arm at the wrist. His eyes widen looking into glowing orange sage fox eyes before the man is dragged through the very landscape.
In a burst of destruction, Naruto stops at the very edge of the arena, gripping Kyp up by the collar of his shirt. The man hangs limp in Naruto's grip. Painfully, his eyes open upon the Hokage.
Naruto looks him over with a grimace, a sad look in his eye. "I'm sorry... I promise I'll bring you and everyone back with my wish."Soon as the words leave his lips, he releases the man, dripping Kyp, the last member of the Star Wars team, from the arena.
The moment the man flickers into the stands, the sound of the Grand Priest's voice rings. "The galactic universe has officially been eliminated from the tournament!" To the horror of the members of Team Star Wars, and the chagrin of Naruto, he continues. "It is now time for erasure!"
"Erase!" One zeno says. ""Erase! Erase!" The other chants after as both snap their fingers in unison... and the team is wiped from view.
For a quiet moment, Naruto watches with a far off stare, but soon turns a stormy gaze in the direction of the remaining fighters.
Fight Four
Kuwabara backsteps, deflecting two sword strikes before countering! Noctis leaps over the spirit sword as he swaps from his sword to summon his lance. His off hand flicks his teleportation dagger forward.
The ginger dodges, then amplifies his spirit sword to a larger size with a baseball swing! The prince teleports to his dagger behind Kuwabara to dodge. He swings the lance, bashing the ginger upside the head. Knocking Kuwabara off balance, he moves for a follow up strike.
Twisting around, Kuwabara barely manages to parry the attack before he counters back with a sweep. Noctis leaps away in a backflip, gaining distance.
Kuwabara sticks the spirit sword into the ground. "Get back here!" Extending the sword into the ground, Kuwabara is propelled forth! He closes distance with Noctis mid air throwing a right hook! Eyes wide, Noctis swaps to his shield, the weapon barely appearing before the powerful punch lands.
The strike launches Noctis to skip along the ground, impacting an upturned hill hard! Kuwabara lands, laughing giddy. "Yeah! Try to get up from that!"
From the rocks, Noctis picks himself up, narrowing his gaze in frustration. However, his eyes flick to the others. Yusuke, Hiei, and Kurama stand nearby, observing the match. The prince scoffs. He's not likely to get away from four people... And fighting like this won't get him through all. Like this, he's not sure he can beat this orange haired moron...
"Tch!" He raises his hand, showcasing the ring on his hand. The ring of lucii, his birthright. If he's to win, he'll have to go all out, fire everything, and take them all down before they realize it.
And he means using EVERYTHING. Starting with the best thing first. Noctis readies himself because these jokers believe HE'S the one outnumbered here. They're wrong. The ring burns bright in a white glow, calling upon magic.
Summoning magic.
The air warps, a pulsing wave blowing out as Kuwabara shields himself. "W-what the hell?"
From the distance, all three of his teammates perk up. Kurama immediately speaks out. "We should help!" But Hiei and Yusuke have already burst forward before he finishes speaking.
A burst of lightning strikes around Noctis like a shield, before spreading and scorching the ground out. Kuwabara's jaw drops as, above Noctis, a massive, MASSIVE being comes into form. With the visage of a sage like wizard, a long beard, and a staff, the powerful lightning spirit Ramuh appears and floats as a giant above the prince.
A second pulse in the air pushes out, as a gigantic mass slams into the ground by Noctis... a foot, made of solid rock. Conjuring into existence, a leg appears attached to the foot, to a knee, a thigh, another leg connects to connect to hips. From that, an entire torso, finally forming a full human shape. The great earth giant, Titan!
Another pulse, the air warping and shimmering before a wash of water splashes from nothing. A great, gigantic, long serpent rockets out of the shimmer, body rippling back and forth as it lightly coils and pokes its head around Titan's shoulder. The water beast, Leviathan.
The water splashes out... then falls as frozen ice droplets. A chilling cold mists out from around Noctis. The prince clutches at himself as his body frosts over, and from the icy mist comes multiple forms. Multiple identical goddess like woman, frosted blue yet scantily clad. The ice deities collectively known as Shiva.
The four astral beings collectively take up a gargantuan amount of space upon the battlefield. Only the multiple Shivas are the size of a person, contrasted by the mountainous others. From Shiva's mist, a wave of ice blasts out towards Kuwabara, who flinches away. "AH! NO!"
Before Kuwabara is caught, Yusuke drops down, his spirit energy projecting and forming a dome shield and splitting the wave of ice by blocking it. Yusuke drops the shield, exhaling as Hiei and Kurama land next to the ginger. Yusuke cracks his knuckles. "Alright, so now we all have someone to fight."
"Sticking together would be unwise. Their size would imply large scale attacks able to isolate us." Kurama starts off. Eyeing the Shiva sisters, Kurama nods to Hiei. "I believe-"
Hiei flickers away in a burst of speed, already knowing Kurama's suggestion. He throws a punch in the air, firing a burst of flames towards the nearest of the ice sisters. A wave of ice blocks the flames in an explosion before the three of Shiva fly off after the fire demon. Kuwabara pouts. "Well, he's ruder than usual."
The massive being, Titan, pulls its fist up, punching down at the three remaining fighters. Yusuke and Kuwabara split off to either side as Kurama leaps back. "I will handle the giant myself! Rose Whip!" He forms his plant whip and slices into the rocky skin, garnering the giant's attention before he turns tail and runs. The giant gives chase with thunderous footsteps.
Leaving the remaining two staring down the water and lightning spirits. "I'm not much for fighting old people. I'll skewer the fish!" Kuwabara announces, forming his spirit sword.
"Maybe I should introduce him to Genkai? Crusty old people get along, don't they?" Yusuke comments as the two leap apart to dodge of piercing stream of water from Leviathan.
Unbeknownst to them, Noctis hides in the distance, channeling further magic into the ring of lucii... he's not finished.
Fight Four A
Hiei releases a stream of orange flames with his control of the Mortal Flame. One of the ice sisters conjures an ice wall to block. The next sends a volley of ice shards back as projectiles, but Hiei dodges them... right into a cold well pulling him in as ice bursts from the space.
The ice threatens to consume him, but he burns his way through in a roar, sliding to a stop. However, the first sister sends a chilling wave, freezing Hiei's legs to the ground to halt his movement. The ice steadily creeps up him as the other two float about and add to the chill.
He simply narrows his gaze at them, stating plainly. "You've chosen death, it seems. I'm happy to oblige." With his arm tensing, a burst of black flames spark into existence around his right hand. The ice encasing his body ceases spreading. The sisters seem to recoil slightly, bringing a smirk to him. "Now, begone with my Dragon of the Darkness Flame!"
Throwing his arm forward, the serpentine dragon of black hell fire streams forth in a horrific roar! Immediately, it slithers through the air, directly towards the first Shiva. The second Shiva shields her, forming an ice shield to block!
Fire vs ice, the clash quakes the arena, as the fire dragon digs head on into the ice. At first, it seems to be even... until droplets of sweat drip on the two ice sisters. In a chaotic burst, the ice wall shatters as Hiei roars more power into the technique. The black flames break through, engulfing the two ice spirits.
A mixture of choked screams and a dragon's roar sounds as the dragon consumes and carries them away.
But the third grabs on to Hiei from behind. Arms wrapped around the already half frozen man, the final Shiva channels all her power in a flash freeze. In a burst, the fire demon is left as a frozen statue...
The ice spirit smiles seductively, floating gently around Hiei, running her hand to his chin, proud of her work. She winks and blows a kiss to the man. Usually, a kiss of death. But this time?
The dragon roars in the distance. The Darkness Flame curves upward into the sky before dropping down towards the spirit and Hiei. Shiva barely registers the coming flames, believing the man done for. The full force of the Dragon of the Darkness Flame strikes. Not Shiva, but Hiei.
In a bursting explosion of flame, the ice coating Hiei is vaporized into steam as the dragon is consumed into Hiei, momentarily recharging him with its power. Consumed, black flames spark and coat Hiei's entire body as he stands mere inches from the shocked ice being.
"As I said. You chose death." His hand reaches out and simply grips her cheek... as all the darkness flame around him flashes onto her! Shiva releases a hellish scream as the black flames burn her away from his sight.
Hiei momentarily stands tall... only to hunch over and catch himself. A heavy breath and gasp leave him as a wave of exhaustion hits him. Consuming the dragon, while a momentary recharge, also burns his reserves...
Still, he collects himself and moves back towards the others.
Fight Four B
Yusuke dodges back and forth, beams of lightning scorching around. Dodging another beam, Yusuke finds himself in the center between four beams closing in. "Crap!" The detective dashes forward, between two of the sparking beams, and dodges out from the ensuing explosion.
Having gotten away, he looks up, finding the giant old wizard charging sparks in his hand aimed down. "Damn it, why can't you just come down here and let me PUNCH YOU!"
Ramuh fires out lightning in a burst. The flashes separating, forking out into two bolts. Four. Eight. Thirty two. One hundred twenty eight. Each of the now hundreds of bolts beam down towards Yusuke. The man hikes his fist back, shifting his energy to preserve spirit energy, the fist glows red with demon energy.
"Damn it, fight like a man! Demon Shotgun!" Throwing the powered punch, a storming barrage of red beams fire out, clashing and countering the lightning barrage. Flashes if red and blue as the spray of red punches through and knocks the elderly spirit back from its attack.
Yusuke releases a cooling sigh before huffing. "Fine. You wanna hang around up there? Don't blame me when the drop break you, old rag!" He tenses his arm and aims at the spirit. His hand points one index finger like a gun.
From the finger sparks red as a massive red orb of growing, building demon energy. Up in the sky, Ramuh slowly whirls his wizardly staff, emanating sparks of lightning and wind currents. The lightning spirit grips the staff, holding it like a throwing spear as a storming tempest swirls around it. The lightning spirit throws the staff as it morphs to a chaotic, destructive arc of lightning towards the boy.
Yusuke braces his arm as he steadies his aim. "Take this, you geriatric bastard! Demon Gun!"
The bolt of bright blue and white strikes and clashes with red, like a strobing flickering of the arena! The clash begins to break as Yusuke's red blast steadily rips through the entire staff of lightning. The Demon Gun breaks through the clash... striking the summon.
The visage of the old man is engulfed in the sparking red. Then, vaporized out of the sky. Yusuke watches the cleared air with a smirk.
Fight Four C
Kurama runs at top speed, the colossal giant Titan giving chase. The redhead uses his rose whip to lash back. The whip slashes into the nearly foot as Kurama follows up leaping into the air. Dodging the giant's next punch, Running up the gigantic limb, Kurama lashes into the forearm, then the bicep.
"That's four... not nearly enough." He comments before gasping. Titan's hand slams down on his arm, right on to Kurama. Titan scrapes off his arm, throwing Kurama off and into the ground.
The demon hits the ground hard, cratering the rocky surface. He's only allowed time to open one pained eye before the giant stomps down with its other foot! The arena quakes from the shock before Titan pulls its foot... but the limb is tugged back.
From under the foot, demonic plants sprout through and around the appendage, locking it to the ground. The summon roars as it tries and fails to pick its foot up.
Thirty yards off, Kurama breaks from the ground encased in blooming demonic flowers. Breathing heavily, he shakily stands. "All four limbs. Just need his head and torso."
Titan throws a massive punch down, Kurama taking a deep breath. Sprouting from the back of his tattered shirt, two demonic leaf blades stretch out, forming makeshift wings. Using the wings, Kurama leaps into the air over the coming fist.
The summon lashes out with punches and swipes, but Kurama dodges and flies directly at the head. Like against Byakuya, he forms a demonic blade forged from demonic plants. With a triumphant roar, he jabs the blade into the head of the summon, dead on the forehead.
Titan rumbles before its offhand comes up to crush Kurama. He drops down, but the hand catches and rips the leaf wings off. Kurama continues his drop, catching himself on the rocky 'skin' of Titan, near the center of the chest a long way down.
Head done. He pulls back enough to thrust his leaf sword into the center chest, plunging down to his arm's length... and plants a seed. Just as he's been planting during each attack throughout Titan's whole body.
This one planted the deepest, Kurama isn't able to pull back before the summon's hand slams onto its chest, crushing the demon against its chest! A spurt of blood coughs out the redhead's mouth, but he continues to flood demonic energy into Titan's body... as all the demon seeds in the MASSIVE summon's body trigger.
Sinning tree plants, placed in both arms, both legs, and the head. However, Kurama can manipulate them with his demonic plant control. The plants spread their roots throughout the entire giant's form, linking the roots and connecting to the seed planted in the dead center of the chest.
The sinning tree roots siphon the life force energy directly from their victim, but Kurama channels the siphoned energy, not to the sinning tree seeds to bloom, but to the central seed in the chest.
Titan shudders, the massive beast finally understanding that it is in serious trouble. With a crippling drop, Titan tips back, falling flat on its back in a hard crash as all inner power, all magic, all energy for its being is drawn into the central seed.
Kurama pulls himself up, standing atop Titan's chest. His chest and arms are bloodied, and he grips his right should for support, breathing heavily. However, he has his plant laid. All the plants he's planted throughout the tournament, all having collected energy throughout the arena, connect and merge with the root system inside Titan itself.
Where the central seed continues to grow.
Fight Four D
Kuwabara yelps out as he dodges a spew of water. The massive water serpent floats through the air and slithers around in circles. From its mouth, three condensed balls of water form, filled to the brink woth a bubbling energy. All three orbs spread before homing in on the ginger.
The man dodges the first, then the second, but the third he's forced to cut down with his spirit sword. Upon each impact, the energy explodes from the water balls, blasting out craters. Upon cutting the third, Kuwabara is splashed with the liquid, feeling a stinging burning sensation from the charged liquid.
"AH! YUCK! OW!" He viciously wipes the droplets away as Leviathan lowers itself low to the ground, still towering over Kuwabara. With a roar, its head lurches up as a conjured tsunami spikes up in front of it and waves down towards the human.
"Ah, crud. Spirit Sword Extend!" He cries as the orange saber grows a dozen sizes. The man swings like a brute, straight down, and bisects the entire tsunami down the middle. Both sides wash harmlessly by the ginger, but he looks confused. "What? Where'd it go?"
Behind the cover of the tsunami, the beast had disappeared! At least to Kuwabara, as Leviathan floats down from the edge of the arena, flying under the grand stage in the black void. Leviathan roars as it raises, digging head first into the bottom of the combat stage!
Ripping through the ground of the arena, Leviathan catches Kuwabara off guard by tearing in from underneath! Leviathan chomps upward. "WHAAA-" Kuwabara yelps out before the jaws consume the ginger.
Leviathan slithers into the air before moving to swallow-
"Spirit Sword!" The muffled yell sounds... as the orange burst of energy pierces out of Leviathan's head. The blade shines out of the summon's head as Kuwabara's muffled war cry comes out focused.
Quickly, Kuwabara rips out from Leviathan's head and whips around, slicing down the length of the gigantic serpent and cutting it clean in half. He lands, breathing hard and beating his chest for calming nerves.
"Gosh. Snakes. Why did it need to be a snake?" He cringes and shakes himself off. Turning about, he seethes. "Where is that little punk?" He stumbles to his feet beside the hole in the arena made by Leviathan. Looking to the original battleground, he finds Noctis still charging magic through his ring. "Hey! Quit your side line staring! We have a fight to fin-"
But he didn't get to finish it. Noctis finishes charging his spell. Death. The white light of magic flicks red as Kuwabara chokes. His body chills... his life force fading. He lurches forward... light fading-
Noctis throws his dagger forward, closing the distance and missile kicking him into the hole before the Death spell finishes. Drained to nearly nothing, Kuwabara falls stiff, through the arena, and is eliminated.
"Killing isn't allowed, so thank me for stopping the spell." Noctis then teleports away, landingnbehind a set of rocks. The summons were defeated... so, he'll have to remain hidden while using the Death spell on the remaining three one by one.
"Kuwabara!" Yusuke lands, looking around in shock. Having just witnessed Kuwabara's elimination, he searches for Noctis, teeth gritting. "Where did you go, you coward BITCH!"
Seething, he's accompanied by the arrival of Kurama. "Hiei has gone after the other two fighters. My surveying plants show they've both been incapacitated."
"Good, now help me find this guy, so I can kick his ass for Kuwabara!"
The words register to Noctis... "Plants?" Movement catches the corner of his eye. Eyeing a crack in the ground, a tinged yellow plant twitches out. It moves around... and shows an eye. An eye looking right at Noctis.
"There!" Kurama's voice calls.
Shit-
Yusuke rips through the rocky cover, catching Noctis at the side and stunning him. Eyes wide, Noctis isn't ready for the red energy infused fist crashing into his jaw... "GET OUT OF MY RING!"
Yusuke's attack launches Noctis painfully away.. and away... and out of the ring. Noctis is eliminated. Unable to hide from Kurama or withstand Yusuke.
The two Yu Yu fighters glance over, seeing far, far off in the distance that Hiei has arrive to the other two, Akira and Lightning.
Hiei watches as Akira tries and fails to pick himself up. Meanwhile, Lightning grovels in pain, her body chilling and freezing from the inside. Hiei huffs. "I despise eliminating opponents in such a way, but with the fate of our universe at hand, I can't see a way around it."
Leaning over, he grips Akira by the collar... then stalks to Lightning, doing the same to her with his other hand. Lifting the two, neither are able to fight back before Hiei walks them to the edge and drop them. Double elimination. Akira and Lightning eliminated.
Hiei slowly moves back towards Yusuke and Kurama. He finds the two, frowning. "Kuwabara was eliminated?"
"Yeah..." Yusuke remarks as he scratches his neck.
"The fool. It can't be helped." Hiei finishes as the three look to the far ridge... finding Ichigo Kurasaki standing tall and looking down at the three. "It seems we have another contender"
"Two." Kurama corrects, as a flash of gold catches their eyes to the side. Naruto lands with his fox cloak burning. "The last two, it seems." He shifts his stance, but winces and clutches his arm in pain.
Yusuke slams one fist into his other palm, stepping in front of the two demons. However, the five remaining fighters are interrupted by the Grand Priest's announcement. "Two more universes have been eliminated from the tournament. Now, they must await erasure."
Both the teams of Samurai Deeper Kyo and Final Fantasy look in horror as the twin Zenos raise their hands. "Bye!" "Bye Bye!"
And in a flicker, both teams vanish. The fight is down to five.
Round End
Fights:
Sakura and Naruto vs Kyp and Cilghal – Sakura will spend this round attempting to heal Naruto, moderately succeeding, and getting eliminated by the Star Wars crew, who are running on fumes at this point. Naruto gets back up and immediately eliminates both threats. Sakura has a history of getting Naruto back into fights after all, but Naruto is not looking good at this point.
Ichigo vs Kyo – This fight goes only one way because of one factor. Blut. Blut is a Quincy ability that increases durability, and in higher forms is always active. Ichigo uses it multiple times and integrates it into his bankai. So, while Kyo has a lot of hax to use, even catching Ichigo off guard won't make his attacks actually work. This isn't like Naruto's lowered guard allowing a sword to stab him in Boruto or Goku getting shot with a ray gun. Once blut is active, its there. Sad for Kyo.
Akira vs Lightning – Akira will end this exactly how he did against the Jedi before. His ultimate move is a one shot, and Lightning won't out tank it as her resistance to it isn't that high. Akira will be eliminates shortly after because he's half dead after.
Noctis + summons vs Team Urameshi – So, Noctis is going to need to use his ring in this fight. This means summons galore, and he shows his intense hax. Unfortunately he's facing four planetary level opponents, so his summons aren't exactly going to win on their own. If this one just him vs one, he could potentially win, but it isn't happening against four. What IS happening is Death, which is an insta kill spell with a charge time. Summons buy time, so one of team Urameshi is getting eliminated. We rolled a four sided die when me and my friend did this, and yes, it came up Kuwabara. Yusuke is healthy, Hiei is shaky using dragon absorption to extend his reserves, and Kurama is on his last legs for stamina.
Team remainders:
Team Naruto: Naruto Uzumaki
Team Bleach: Ichigo Kurosaki
Team Yu Yu Hakusho: Yusuke Urameshi, Hiei, and Kurama.
Five Combatants Remaining
Ichigo is by far the healthiest person here, followed by Yusuke, Naruto and Hiei after, and Kurama the most worn.
Next time... the final round...