A/N: Sorry it took so long, but I've finally got the new chapter for "The Seven Deadly Sins: Sin of Vengeance". And this time, there are going to be a bit more differences that could be or already is better. Enjoy. :)
The Seven Deadly Sins: Sin of Vengeance
Chapter 10: The Vizel Fighting Festival
First, it showed Grandmaster Dreyfus speaking to the Holy Knights present with Hendricksen, Gale, Vivian, and Lillia with him before then showing Jericho and Twigo were brought to a sort of underground chamber before the bags on their heads were lifted, Gilthunder and Margret were brought to a different chamber before the two saw Vivian and near the Horn of Cernunnos, much to Gilthunder's bafflement before it then showed Hendricksen offering the two chalices to Twigo and Jericho while Gilthunder and Margret seemingly agreed to becoming Holy Knight Angels before Twigo and Jericho drank their chalices and practically became demons while Gilthunder and Margret turned into Holy Knight Angels, notified by the mark of the goddess appearing in their eyes.
Narrator: "The Holy Knights hold true influence over the kingdom and they've been amassing power in anticipation of a Holy War. Holy Knight apprentices have been summoned and subjected to horrific experiments by grandmasters Hendricksen and Dreyfus. Known as the New Generation, they each gained tremendous magical abilities by either drinking the blood of a demon or by having divine, angelic energy transferred from the horn of Cernunnos into them."
Afterwards, it then showed Elizabeth, and Zarathos in a different room when Meliodas knocked on the door and walked in before then getting tied up by Hawk with Meliodas, Ban, Zarathos, and King walking into Vizel, passing by a sort of green-haired man before then showing Taizu lifting Meliodas up only for Zarathos to glare angrily as a vein bulged in his forehead before he then grabbed Taizu's free arm and twisted it to his back, shocking him, before Howzer reached his arm out and then placed his hand on Taizu's arm, prompting Zarathos to stop and relax, still holding his arm before he let go with everyone gathering for the elimination round.
Narrator: "Meanwhile, Meliodas' group, in search of Diane's sacred treasure, Gideon, agreed to participate in the Vizel fighting festival. Was it for fun? Or something more? Now, the fight upon which men have staked their pride and reputation is beginning."
FOREST ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF VIZEL
"Gather up anything that looks like it might be edible, okay? We can sort through them later.", Diane assured.
"All right.", Elizabeth and Elaine agreed before they ventured off and noticed several mushrooms.
"How lovely.", Elizabeth spoke before a shadow loomed over the two, who noticed something alarming enough to get Elizabeth to shriek a bit in surprise before moving away a bit with Diane catching up.
"What's the matter?", Diane asked before she stopped to notice a giant mushroom in front of them.
"Ingredient found and captured.", Diane grinned, raising her arm as if to tap it as Elaine gasped from noticing this.
"No, don't!", Elaine shouted just too late before Diane bonks the mushroom on the head, causing it to puff out pink smoke at Elizabeth and Diane while Elaine managed to get away from the smoke, although it only got to her wings.
Sure enough, when the smoke cleared, Diane opened her eyes.
"What was that?", Diane puzzled before noticing an alarming sight, she was not only stark naked, but also the size of a normal human!
As for Elizabeth, she was still the same size, but her wings weren't, which was shocking for both Elaine, Elizabeth, and Diane.
"That thing made us shrink!", Diane exclaimed as the big mushroom then hopped away.
"I tried to warn you…", Elaine responded.
Meanwhile, at the fighting festival, fireworks were being shot up in celebration with men speaking over each other as someone with familiar blue hair with a hood over her head and a cloak around her body was seen behind them.
"First up is the elimination round. The ref'll be yours truly! Lovehelm! The rules of this round are extreeeemely simple! Knock your opponents out of this ring! Throwing them out is fine. Pushing, too. Or send them flying as long as it's bare-handed! That means the 8 contestants who are still standing will move on to the finals! Now, then. LET THE BRAWLING BEGIN!", Lovehelm shouted before lots of men started fighting each other for fun with two even clashing with each other.
"I'm gonna come out on top this year!", one man spoke.
"You took the words right out of my mouth.", another responded before Taizu lifted the two men up and spoke.
"Now beat it.", Taizu spoke before flinging them off the ring and laughing, making Zarathos growl angrily before noticing someone touching his brother.
"I think it's about time for kids like you to get out of here.", the man spoke before Zarathos grabbed the man by the arm, nearly crushing it.
"HE'S NOT A LITTLE KID!", Zarathos shouted, flinging the man out of the stage before Ban yawned.
"Maybe it's because I was just brought back from the Necropolis, but this is so boring.", Ban spoke while fending off some of the men with King running hurriedly and Hawk watching from outside the ring.
"They oughta count themselves lucky I didn't sign up for this fight. Okay. Listen up, folks! I'm the Boar Hat's travelling sales rat! How about some ale to drink while you enjoy the festival? Only 1 silver coin a mug!", Hawk announced.
"One mug here, Porky!", one man shouted.
"We'll take three!", another added.
"Coming right up!", Hawk responded.
Meanwhile, one of the men named Cain was drinking and narrowly dodging the other men before Howzer knocked one of the men across the cheek.
"Careful.", Howzer suggested before Grimoire tossed a few men out of the ring with Ban knocking another man off the ring.
"Hey, Ban! Make sure you pull your punches against these guys.", Meliodas suggested.
"Yeah, obviously. This festival wouldn't be much fun if we killed everybody here.", Ban agreed.
"For once we can agree. Mainly because killing isn't allowed. And we never really kill anyway, so not much of a problem there.", Zarathos responded before King went over to the two brothers.
"Come on, Captain. You two are totally having fun here.", King responded.
"Of course, we are. It's been a while since I cut loose like this.", Zarathos responded.
"Point is, if we win this thing, we get Diane's sacred treasure, Gideon. Don't you wanna see the smile on her face when we do?", Meliodas asked, Making King give a surprised look before thinking about Diane's happy grin.
"Thank you, King!", Diane grinned with the last word echoing twice before King then quickly turned into his human form and spoke.
"First place is mine!", King shouted.
"All right. That's the spirit.", Meliodas grinned just as someone went toward the cloaked woman.
"You and me are gonna make sweet music together, baby.", the giant spoke.
"Hands off!", the woman spoke before then sending him flying off the ring, the man blubbering literally as the apparent fat shook across his body like a ripple before she then knocked several men off the ring, urging King to try and dodge it but seemingly failed.
"Talk about moves as fast as lightning! This one girl just knocked 10 men out of the ring all at once!", Lovehelm shouted excitedly.
"She's doing pretty good, huh?", Meliodas grinned.
"It's kinda scary. I'll bet she's not getting a lot of dates.", Ban commented.
"Well, whatever the case, she's definitely strong. And giving those other guys a run for their money.", Zarathos responded.
"Hey, where'd you get that jacket?", Meliodas asked.
"I made it!", Elaine shouted, waving before the group turned to see her.
"Got here just in time to see him about to steal the jacket before I got this out for him!", Elaine explained.
"Well, that answers that question.", Zarathos responded.
"Let's take a look at who's left in the ring!", Lovehelm shouted.
"7, 8, 9. Wow. Just 1 more person arrived in the tournament.", the citizen spoke.
"There's one more who hasn't gotten knocked out of the tournament.", another spoke, pointing to King.
"That was close.", King spoke.
"Hey, no fair! He can float!", one citizen shouted.
"Rule him out!", another shouted.
"Well, I admit that it's unfair but he's not using nay weapons! I'll allow it!", Lovehelm spoke, much to the citizen's distaste as they booed instead.
"Well, aren't you lucky? Playin' dirty and still won.", Ban smirked.
"Yeah, way to cheat.", Meliodas grinned.
"You really think it's cheating?", King asked.
"Apparently to them, you are.", Zarathos responded.
Later, the groups of fighters were inside.
"And now, we'll hold a lottery to decide the match-ups. The 8 finalists should head to the waiting area! Come on up and draw your lots! The first round will be contenders who each draw the same letter.", Lovehelm spoke before the woman with the hat drew a card while another woman waited behind her.
"Am I the only one here who just wants to get started already?", Zarathos asked.
"Don't talk like that and get knocked out before the end, okay?", Meliodas asked.
"That's never my plan. You know that.", Zarathos responded.
"My stomach… The stress is killing me…", King spoke queasily.
"Okay, folks, I'm announcing the fight cards. The first 2 on 2 matchup is Griamore and Shin vs Matrona and Liz!", Lovehelm announced.
"Hey, look. It's those girls from earlier.", King spoke.
"Do you know who they are? For some reason, they feel kinda familiar.", Zarathos asked.
"I've never heard of them. But it's a big world out there.", Meliodas responded before Matrona gave a grin to King and turned back, puzzling him.
"The 2nd matchup is Howser vs Taizu!", Lovehelm shouted.
"I know him. Now, I remember. He's a Holy Knight. I've seen him with Gilthunder lots of times.", King spoke.
"But what's he doing here at a festival like this?", Meliodas asked.
"Yeah, it'd be pretty bad if he knew who we are.", Zarathos agreed before King turned to Zarathos.
"Hold on. You signed us up for this, right? You didn't enter us under our actual names by any chance, did you?", King asked.
"Come on. You'd think I do something that stupid?", Zarathos assured.
"And here's the 3rd matchup. Cain vs…!", Lovehelm announced.
"Who, me?", Cain puzzled.
"Harlequin!", Lovehelm shouted, puzzling King before he turned to Zarathos.
"Don't worry. I used your fairy name.", Zarathos assured with a whisper.
"Oh, thank goodness.", King sighed while morphing into human form.
"Hey. You made it to the finals, too?", Meliodas asked.
"Thanks to liquid courage.", Cain responded with a chuckle.
"That's odd. Why hasn't anyone called my name yet?", Zarathos puzzled.
"Or mine.", Meliodas added.
"And the final matchup, Zeldris vs Estarossa!", Lovehelm announced, attracting Howzer's attention.
"Hey, you. That's quite a skull mark on your face. Just like that guy on the wanted posters. And this rugrat with you…", Howser spoke before thinking to himself.
"I'm pretty sure that Gil said the captain of the Seven Deadly Sins and that he had a guy that looked like his older brother but was actually his younger brother. It…couldn't be…", Howser thought as Zarathos tensed his eyes a bit before Howser spoke up.
"Nah. You two guys have got totally different names. Sorry. My mistake. What's the matter with me? They wouldn't be at a festival like this one.", Howser spoke while walking away.
"Phew. Looks like we fooled him.", Zarathos sighed.
"'Cause he's dumb.", Meliodas spoke nonchalantly before King sighed, not knowing that Grimore was watching cautiously.
Meanwhile, as Hawk was still pouring some ale for the audience, Lovehelm announced the first match up was about to take place.
"The finals of the Vizel Fighting Festival are about to begin, everyone! The rules are simple. Matches are won by submission or K.O. Fall out of the ring and you'll lose then and there. Let's get to the first 2-on-2 match! It's Griamore vs… Matrona! And Shin vs… Liz!", Lovehelm announced.
"We've got plenty of ale! The best there is!", Hawk shouted as Griamore stepped up before Howser spoke to him.
"Griamore. I'm a little surprised to see you out here. What about protecting Veronica?", Howser asked playfully.
"That's Princess Veronica. Respect her title.", Griamore spoke before he stepped forward.
"Hurry up! We may run out soon!", Hawk shouted.
"Standing at 7 feet tall and weighing 400 pounds, Griamore!", Lovehelm announced.
"Look at those muscles!", one of the citizens shouted.
"Standing 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing an undisclosed amount, Matrona!", Lovehelm shouted.
"What are her measurements?", one of the citizens asked.
"They are 36, 23, 35.", Meliodas spoke.
"How'd you come up with that?", King asked.
"And for the other team, standing at 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 176 pounds, Shin!", Lovehelm shouted.
"Nice bangs, man!", one citizen spoke.
"Standing 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing an undisclosed amount, Liz!", Lovehelm added.
"Hey, is that me or does she look familiar?", Zarathos puzzled.
Meanwhile, Emilia had the same feeling.
"That woman looks so familiar to me but why?", Emilia puzzled.
"Hold on, there, misses! The hat and hood are fine, but you'll have to take off the cloaks. Gotta make sure that neither of you are hiding any weapons just to be safe.", Lovehelm spoke.
"Very well.", Liz spoke before she and Matrona both removed their cloaks, revealing how their bodies looked without the cloaks, although the hood and hat are still on, although while Matrona was in the similar dress as Elizabeth, Liz was wearing a blue short dress, a silver armor from the Druids covered of golden designs, and short white boots.
"Captain, that outfit on Matrona. Isn't it…?", King began.
"Yeah. No doubt about it. That's my tavern's uniform.", Meliodas responded.
"Yeah, and that other girl with her looks really familiar.", Zarathos responded.
"What the…?! It can't be Elizabeth, can it?", Hawk puzzled.
"Do you think she's really that strong to be with Matrona?", King asked.
"If that's Elizabeth, then there's something weird going on here.", Meliodas responded.
"Something weird? What do you mean by that?", King puzzled.
"Her top looks a little smaller than usual and her butt's a little bigger.", Meliodas responded casually.
"Did you really have to say that out loud?!", Zarathos exclaimed.
"Okay! My eagle eyes will be glued to this first match, folks! Here we go! Let the melee begin!", Lovehelm shouted before Matrona charged toward Griamore and began punching his gut with quick punches.
"Matrona is too fast for Griamore as she rushes in and lets loose with a barrage of punches!", Lovehelm shouted.
Meanwhile, Liz braced herself as Shin started attacking her, only for her to get the upper hand.
"I do not believe this, folks! Shin started his attack but Liz prevailed and gets the upper hand with unblockable attacks with no way for him to counter!", Lovehelm shouted.
As for Matrona, she kept punching until she noticed a sort of purple shield forming on Griamore's abdomen.
"I can't allow myself to be defeated. It isn't anything personal. This is my magical ability. Wall.", Griamore spoke as the barrier grew in size until it becomes a force field for him, causing the ground beneath him tocrack under the pressure.
"Hey, judging by that guy's power…", Ban began.
"He's another holy knight?", Meliodas finished.
"Yeah and a really tough one.", Zarathos responded before Matrona started punching the barrier, but seemingly to no avail.
"You're too late, sweetheart. Technical magical abilities or physical attacks won't work on him at all. When he's like that, all you can do is wait for him to stop it. Or I'll bet he runs out of manna at some point down the line. You should've tried to end this before it completely covered him.", Howser spoke.
Meanwhile, Liz was about to force him off the ring when Shin seemingly pulled a trick up his sleeve.
"Not bad. But let's see you try this!", Shin shouted before he pressed his fingers on his left wrist, seemingly causing lightning to rain down from the sky.
"Unbelievable! Shin is bringing lightning down on Liz with lightning rain!", Lovehelm shouted as the audience gasped in surprise, although, Elaine saw what's really going on via her blind eye and gasped softly.
Meanwhile, Matrona continued punching until the barrier expanded, starting to force Matrona off the ring.
"My wall is a symbol of my resolve to protect Princess Veronica. I insist that you leave the ring!", Griamore urged before Matrona was upto her heel near the edge.
"Whoo-hoo! Thanks to Griamore's mysterious power, Matrona's in big trouble!", Lovehelm shouted as Matrona struggled to keep the barrier from growing any bigger.
"I'll be advancing into the final round. If Princess Veronica were to command it, I would bring anyone to their knees, even the Seven Deadly Sins, even Meliodas and Zarathos themselves!", Griamore proclaimed, making Matrona tense a bit before stretching her right hand out, away from the barrier.
"Oh, yeah? That's not gonna happen!", Matrona shouted before then breaking the wall apart with her right arm, shocking Griamor before she then ran over to him and struck an uppercut, breaking apart the wall completely. Especially up to a point where her hat fell off before Griamore screamed as he fell down and landed on the ground with Matrona, now revealed to be Diane, then raising her hand with her pointer finger raised.
"Griamore's out of the ring! By default, the winner is Matrona!", Lovehelm shouted, earning the audience's cheer.
Meanwhile, Elaine was quite puzzled about something else in Liz's fight.
"I don't get it. What are those things attacking her?", Elaine puzzled before she then started to hear what Shin was thinking.
"This strategy is flawless. If I keep attacking her at a random order to make it look like I can control lightning, she will never beat my cloaked drones. This means that victory is within my grasp.", Shin thought with a smirk before Elaine tensed a bit with anger and then spoke to "Liz" via telepathy.
"Elizabeth, listen to me. Shin is cheating.", Elaine spoke telepathically.
"How is he cheating?", Elizabeth puzzled in thought.
"He has drones that are cloaked and they are attacking at random sequences to make it look like he's controlling lightning.", Elaine thought back in response.
"Alright. So how do I expose him?", Elizabeth asked.
"That wristband on his left wrist is controlling them. Hit that and it may case the drones cloak to short circuit and reveal them.", Elaine strategized in thought.
"Alright. A well-shot Ark can do that.", Elizabeth thought in response.
Then, Elizabeth prepared said well-shot ark, and fired it at Shin's left wrist, causing his band to short-circuit, causing the cloak to turn off, exposing the drones in the air, much to the audience's shock.
"UNBELIEVABLE! In a surprising turn of events, it turns out that Shin was using weapons the entire time! By the rules of the tournament, Shin is disqualified and Liz is the winner!", Lovehelm announced before the audience started booing at Shin.
"Hey, you should have known this before being a part of this tournament. But instead, you decided that the rules were stupid and that you would cheat. Well, I'll tell you now…", "Liz" began before she then kicked Shin off the ring, causing her hood to fly off and then she gave him a look of "For shame"-ing while clenching her fist, her hair revealed to be royal blue while one of her eyes was blue and another was red-orange.
"Cheaters never win or prosper!", "Liz" finished, earning the crowd's cheer.
"Matrona broke his wall with her bare hands and Liz saw right through Shin? But how?", Howser puzzled before noticing both Princess Veronica and Emilia as the former dragged her along.
"These sweet, young girls just took out that hulk of a man with a single punch and exposed Shin for the fraud he is! This year's fighting festival is one to remember, folks!", Lovehelm shouted as Diane and Elizabeth looked back, utterly shocking Zarathos as he gasped in shock and exclaimed in fright before moving back a little.
"Uh, what's wrong with Zar?", Diane puzzled.
"I think it may have something to do with me sounding like my last incarnation.", Elizabeth responded.
"Really?", Diane asked before Elizabeth nodded.
"There's no way it's them.", Ban commented.
"Actually, it is.", Elaine responded.
"Hey, Captain. Please tell me I'm dreaming or something.", King spoke before Diane and Elizabeth went down. And got off the ring now that the match is over.
"Oh, well. And here we were hoping to stay hidden just a little while longer. Yup. It's me!", Diane spoke excitedly.
"Diane? Is it really you? And Elizabeth, too?", King asked before Diane nodded, giving Zarathos some relief as he sighed.
"I just don't get it. What in the world happened to you? How'd you become this size anyway? And more importantly, Elizabeth, what happened to your wings?", Zarathos asked before Elizabeth blushed.
"Well, you see…", Elizabeth began with a blush before turning around to show that her wings have shrunk.
"What the? How are your wings that small?!", Zarathos exclaimed.
"Well…, why don't we go somewhere private so we can explain?", Diane blushed a bit.
Act II
Later, Diane, Zarathos, Meliodas, King, Elaine, and Elizabeth were inside the shack.
"A giant mushroom?", Meliodas puzzled before Diane nodded.
"It happened after you guys went into town. Elizabeth, Elaine, and I were gathering ingredients for dinner in the forest. And then…", Diane began.
"We found a giant oringi mushroom variation of the Chicken Matango and when Diane hit it in the head, it gave off spores and shrunk Diane down to human size and shrunk Elizabeth's wings.", Elaine added.
"I ended up having to borrow Elizabeth's outfit for the time being.", Diane added.
"So, I decided to make a new outfit for Elizabeth and gave it to her.", Elaine explained.
"Gotcha, so that's why you're wearing different clothes.", Meliodas understood.
"Those monsters are timid by nature and rarely show themselves out in the wild. But whenever they do feel threatened, they release spores that shrink living things.", King stated.
"Why didn't you say something from the beginning?", Meliodas asked.
"It's just…", Dinae began, puzzling the others.
"I really wanted to surprise you, King!", Diane shouted before landing in his arms and giggling, practically getting King excited as he squealed in joyful surprise.
"Being swallowed up in your arms is a dream come true.", Diane grinned.
"R-Really?", King asked in surprise.
"Mm-hmm.", Diane nodded before she then got off and lifted her skirt to King, much to Zarathos' shock as he covered his eyes quickly with an exclaiming grunt.
"Have a look, King. Ready to get naughty? All the stuff that Meliodas does to Elizabeth every day, you can do to me.", Diane offered before blood spurted out from King's nose and he faints as he flipped backwards.
"Why don't you guys get a room?", Zarathos responded before Diane groaned and Ban entered.
"You in there, King?", Ban asked.
"Oh, hey, Ban.", Zarathos greeted, looking toward him as Diane lowered her skirt.
"Huh? Is he dead or something?", Ban puzzled.
"No, he isn't dead. Because if he was, Elaine would probably go on a killing spree to find the person who did it.", Zarathos responded.
"I'm pretty sure that's what you'd do, if not worse.", Meliodas responded.
"Hey, that was, like, one time!", Zarathos retorted.
"So, how's the match been going?", Meliodas asked.
"Well, there's not much to talk about. That middle-aged baldy is way too weak.", Ban responded as Taizu panted.
"Come on. Now, stop being stubborn and throw the towel, will ya?", Howser suggested.
"No! It's not over!", Taizu shouted in defiance.
"That's a problem. See, I'm not like Griamore. I really didn't want to use this on a civilian. But I'd hate to be cruel to you by not getting this over with quickly.", Howser spoke as a sort of dusty wind formed around Howser's arm.
"Say, good night!", Taizu shouted while charging toward him.
"You put up a good fight buddy.", Howser responded before opening his eyes and then launching Taizu off the ring as he was spun around by a mini tornado, sending him crashing down to the ground before Lovehelm spoke up in excitement.
"Howser wins!", Lovehelm shouted.
"Yeah.", Howser grinned as he posed.
"Nice one.", Meliodas commented.
"Impressive.", Zarathos agreed.
"What control.", Elaine spoke in awe.
"Sure is.", Ban added.
"Next up is our 3rd match. Cain vs Harlequin!", Lovehelm shouted.
"My turn, huh?", King spoke.
"Harlequin? Who's that?", Diane puzzled.
"That would be me.", King responded.
"Really? You came up with that yourself?", Diane asked in joy.
"Hey, come on, you gave yourself a pretty weird name, too. Where did Matrona come from?", Ban asked.
"Actually, it's someone I used to know.", Diane responded.
"What do you know? That's the same reason I came up with names for me and my brother. The names I came up with not only work as disguise names, but also remind us of our own brothers with names like those back in the day.", Zarathos responded.
"I'll hold on to Chastifold for ya.", Meliodas assured before King gave his pillow to Meliodas.
"Go, Harlequin. Get 'em.", Meliodas grinned.
"Ki… Harlequin, go!", Diane cheered before King turned around and briefly went into his human form and gave a grin and thumbs up.
"If that's his game face, guess it makes sense.", Ban grinned.
"Yeah. He'll do just about anything for her.", Zarathos agreed before Meliodas caressed Chastifold.
"This is a perfect pillow.", Meliodas spoke before King stepped up.
"Standing 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 5 pounds, Harlequin!", Lovehelm shouted.
"He's a kid!", one of the citizens shouted.
"Standing 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighing 108 pounds, Cain!", Lovehelm shouted before Cain then moved around in a sort of haze-like fashion.
"You sure you're not drunk there, Gramps?", one of the citizens asked before Cain recovered and then got his balance.
"Can we even call this a fight?", Lovehelm asked rhetorically.
Meanwhile, Griamore recovered and saw both Princess Veronica and Princess Emilia.
"Griamore. Will you wake up already, Griamore? Up, lummox!", Veronica ordered before Griamore recovered and gasped as he then sat up and turned around to face Veronica and Emilia.
"Princess Veronica, my apologies!", Griamore apologized.
"Honestly, you got sloppy. If I had known this would happen, I would've brought Gilthunder.", Veronica spoke before Griamore tensed from what she said just before Howser came by.
"Yo! You okay there, Griamore? Yo to you, too, Princess Veronica. What's up?", Howser greeted.
"Howser… Wouldn't you rather be watching the fights?", Griamore asked.
"This one's a throw-away bout. Not even worth watching. The real question is, what are you doing all the way out here with Veronica and Emilia?", Howser asked.
"We are looking for Elizabeth.", Veronica responded.
"Are you kidding? Princess Elizabeth, she's here?", Howser asked in surprise.
"Most likely. As well as the Seven Deadly Sins.", Veronica responded as Howser then looked back toward the fighting festival.
"All right, let the fight begin!", Lovehelm shouted.
"I can't believe King's fighting without a weapon. I've never seen him do that.", Diane spoke in surprise.
"Guess it's twice for me and Zar now. It's really something to see.", Meliodas spoke as King prepared to attack.
"Diane, this is for you. My victory in this festival and your sacred treasure, Gideon.", King thought.
"It's that mindblowing?", Diane puzzled.
"Yeah. Because the thing is, without weapons…", Zarathos began before King ran toward Cain, aiming to strike him, only to trip on a tile and fall down.
"He's hilariously weak!", Zarathos laughed, baffling Elizabeth and Diane as they bent over to their left sides, their arms stretched out all the way.
Then, King got back up and saw Cain moving in to strike him before doing so, but only with a knock on his head.
"Man! He's tough!", King spoke in shock before Diane and Elizabeth reacted again while Ban and Elaine groaned and sighed.
"What a letdown! This battle is the opposite of epic!", Lovehelm shouted.
"What a whimp…", Hawk commented.
"Zar and I saw a cat that swiped a snack from him once. And he lost.", Meliodas responded.
"And the way that cat scratched him up, oh, you should've been there!", Zarathos added with laughter before King then moved back from Cain.
"Well, give up?", Cain asked.
"This is bad. I can't afford to lose. Not this early. I have a mission to accomplish: recover Diane's Gideon.", King thought before then raising his hand toward him.
Play Super Music: "Tactics"
"This might not be playing fair. But I'm gonna use my power.", King thought before Cain then gasped, went forward, and then pushed King with his hand, knocking him out of the ring.
"Harlequin's out of the ring! Cain wins!", Lovehelm shouted.
"Sorry. You kinda caught me by surprise for a second.", Cain apologized.
"That was so mean! All I was trying to do was use my disaster power to make his rheumatism a little worse.", King spoke before Diane gave him a kiss in the cheek.
"Thank you for trying to get my Gideon back.", Diane grinned, making King blush in a dreamy state.
"That was totally worth trying to get her Gideon back for…", King muttered in awe.
"He won.", Zarathos smirked.
"Next up is the last match in this round of the finals! It's Estarossa vs Zeldris!", Lovehelm shouted, making Meliodas and Zarathos grin.
"Hold on. That shrimp's with the Seven Deadly Sins?! He's Meliodas?! Then, those guys were…", Howser realized in surprise.
"That's right. Elaine, King, and worst of all…, Meliodas' brother, Zarathos.", Griamore spoke as it then showed them grinning, although only Zarathos had a purple glare in his eyes toward Meliodas as he chuckled before crossing into the stage with Meliodas following him.
"Hold on! Having a weapon's against the rules!", Lovehelm shouted.
"Oh. This thing? It's only for show.", Meliodas grinned as he proved it by removing it form the scabbard and then put it back in.
"Oh. In that case, I'll allow it. Standing 5 feet tall and weighing 110 pounds, Zeldris! Standing 6 feet 3 inches tall and weighing 166 pounds, Estarossa!", Lovehelm shouted.
"I've been waiting for this, brother. Now, don't hold back, got it?", Zarathos requested.
"Got it. Now, let's go.", Meliodas responded as he cracked his knuckles.
"Wait, are you serious? I can't just stay here like this!", Howser spoke before running back to the festival.
"Hold on! Don't go causing a commotion 'til we find Elizabeth!", Veronica shouted.
"Right back at ya! If things start going bad and you ruin the festival, you're gonna be sorry!", Howser shouted back in reply, puzzling the trio as Howser ran as fats as he could go, excitedly.
"I've finally got a chance to see the power of the legendary sins up close and personal! YAHOOOOOOOO!", Howser shouted as he then jumped back up into the festival.
End Super Music: "Tactics"
A/N: Looks like Howser's just about as excited for an awesome fight as a Saiyan, which practically makes him the Goku of "The Seven Deadly Sins", am I right? Until next time. ;)