Disclaimer: Monster Rancher, Monster Rancher Advance and related copyrights are properties of Tecmo and I do not work for them. In other words I do not own Monster Rancher or any related concept, this work of fiction is done purely for fun and not money. Don't sue me I'm poor!
AN: Yes I didn't give up on this fic! I was just waiting for imspiration to struck! Now I know I said somewhere I was gonna have the entire tournament, but I'm running out of time here so you'll have to wait for the rest.
Episode 7: The Youth Cup , part 1
Kanar smilled happily as he ate the dodorin cake Holly had brought him back from town. It was a wonderful treat. Meanwhile Mei was enjoying her mint candies while observing Holly and Metin. The girl was aplying some sort of herbal ointement to the slight burn on his left cheek.
"Oooh... feels cold." Commented the boy.
"That's the point." Holly replied. "I'm still not sure of that crazy training of yours... and your clothes are all dirty, soon you'll need new ones. Luckily you don't have anything broken or worse! You do realise humans aren't made to endure Monster's attack? Even as weak as Kanar's missile?"
"HEY!" Complained the Kokkung.
But Metin ignored the protest of his monster. "I'm sorry but that's the best I came up with...beside it was a good workout for me too. My new training program combine ALL the other training into one exercice.. the only one it doesn't include is the Defense training... but with Kanar's TufArmor and his natural tendancy for defense, we'll be allright. His defense will increase during battles, just as our opponent's strength will. Tomorow Kanar will have to use his wing slap to hit me, it might boost his speed even more. We'll take one day off, then train with missile some more and one final day off before the begining of the tournament! I'm a real genius."
Holly sighed, she knew she would never be able to convince the boy that his training was dangerous. Soon Kanar would grow stronger and stronger, using more powerful attacks than the two ones he knew now, and one day or another Metin's new training would have to go before he get seriously infured...or worse. At least for now Kanar was still only in E Class... but the future worried Holly, if the young breeder kept his reckless attitude, things could get ugly. In the meantime she had finished treating his burn and he should be allright, she applied a little bandage to his cheek and went to put away the medical supply... but not too far... you never know.
"Thanks Holly... hey Kanar, that looks good, can I get a little bite?" Inquired Metin, turning to his monster savouring his cake.
Kanar seamed to hesistate, but he remembered who had caused the burn on the boy's cheek and guilt made him accept the demand."Sure!"
With his fork he got a bit of the cake with icing and offered it to the human.
Holly turned around from what she was doing and saw that Metin was about to eat that piece of Dodorin cake "Metin wait that's..." But it was too late, the boy's mouth had closed down on the fork.
The fork came out clean and the breeder seamed to think for a while, tasting the cake. Holly was ready for some cry of digust. Dodorin cake was made for monster, and thus like every other monster food item, tasted HORRIBLE to humans! Monsters even had their own type of potatoes for them to eat! The only thing monster and humans can share are bevrages. But to her total surprise and shock Metin smiled and seam to apreciate the flavor!
"Hmm... delicious! Remind me to buy some to celebrate our victory in the Youth Cup! You girls like that cake too?" Proposed Metin.
"Sure!" Agreed Mei, smiling.
"Hmmm...no thanks." Simply said Holly, sweatdropping.
"Something is weird about that boy...beside the obvious stuff... no humans can stand the taste of Dodorin, let alone Dodorin cake... maybe I shouldn't mention this for now, he might get worried about it."Tought the older girl, as her new friend was telling the two monster about his mom's cakes, an ounce of sadness in his happy voice.
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It was finally the day. The day of the Youth Cup. Metin stood in front of the small wooden stadium in front of him with a grin. He had a hat on but it didn'T hide the fact he was wearing bandages on his head. His clothes looked dirty and he now had a small bandage on each cheek and one wrapped around his right wrist.
"It looks kinda small." He commented to Holly who was beside him with the monsters.
"Well it's only an E-Class tournament. "Said the girl with a shrug "Are you sure you want to participate? That training of yours got your pretty banged up."
"Nah, I feel great! Let's go Kanar!" Replied the boy, taking off toward the participant's entrace.
Holly shook her head before turning to Mei "Let's get seats."
"This is gonna be fun!" Said the Lip Pink with a great smile.
The participants entrace was a large gaping hole on the side of the building, large enough for a golem to fit. There was a black haired man in grey featureless clothing standing next to it, he had a metal badge with 'AGIMA' written on it pin to his chest. He was an official and he was holding a pad with papers and seamed ready to note something with his pen. Metin tought he looked more like an accountant than an AGIMA official.
"Hi there! I'm Metin Uchara!" Said the boy hapilly, only to be replied by a stern look.
"Open your MonUnit so that I may verify your identity." Stated the man.
The boy sighed and did as instructed, after a quick verification the boy and his Kokkung were allowed to go in.
"This guy needs to lighten up, he's as grey as his suit." Grumbled Kanar.
"Yeah." Agreed the boy.
Soon they found themself in front of door labeled as the participants preparation room. They entered and found three humans and three other monsters. Just like in the game, this little tournament only had four participants. Metin guessed there wasn't many Breeder on the island to begin with so it was probably rare to find them with monsters at the same level at the same time.
There was Aroma with Suzi off course but the other two was what Metin was interested in. There was a large teenager, a tad older than Metin, accompagnied by a yellow colored Golem who only had one eye! The guy had blonde hair that matched his monster's coloring. He had a yellow shirt with one of those collar with lace like rope and with a grey sleeveless shirt and brown pants. He was standing in front of his monster with his arm crossed, showing his dull grey MonUnit. The second participant was about Metin's age and wore a straw hat and clothes that made him look like a medieval farm boy. Next to him was a type of monster that Metin considered to be the weirdest ever: an Octopee. Altough the boy's Octopee wasn't totally red but his head and 'arms' were orange and his lower body white. The boy was lazily sitting on a bench, but you could still see his orange MonUnit. When she noticed him, Aroma went over to Metin happilly.
"Hey Metin! What happened to you? You look like you felt down a cliff!" She commented hapilly.
"Hello Kanar." Timidly said Suzi.
"Hi!" Both both replied.
"He didn't fell off a cliff it's just..." Started Kanar before Metin muted him with a slap behind the head.
"I fell down the roof! There was a hole so I went to repair it!" He explained quickly.
"Yeah and he looked silly falling down." Added the Kokkung, getting a chance to mock his breeder.
"Haha. Anyway... do you know anything about the other guys?" Asked the boy to Aroma, looking across the room to the other two participants.
"The tall guy is Anzo from the Rocky Peek Ranch, they specialise in Golem and the ranch is built on the side of a mountain, and thus the name. The other is Pete 'Lazy' Garufieldu of the Cat Meadow Ranch, I hear he deserve his nickname but he's pretty knowledgeable. I don't know who you'll face. I hope we don't face each other in our first match, it would be boring." Explained the girl.
"I know." Agreed Metin.
That's when another official, this one wearing glasses, but with the same accountant look, came in.
"We have randomly paired you for the first match. Spring Blossom VS Cat Meadow, Rocky Peek VS Hopestar. The Aroma, Pete, please proceed to the battle arena." Instructed the official.
"I hope to see you in the final round Metin!" Called the girl, running off to the battle.
Metin and Kanar were left with Anzo and his monster. Metin smiled at the guy but he just glared back. Not much of a talker, same thing for his monster. Metin decided to check his one eyed golem's stats while the fight betweem Pete and Aroma went out outside. He could hear the sound of the crowd slightly, and it was making him a bit nervous. He opened his MonUnit and discreetly pointed it at the yellow giant.
Name: Gigant
Specie: Titan, (Golem+Suezo)
Breed: Golem
Age: 3 month
Traits: UpEarth, Glutton
Moves: Punch
(AN: At one point I probably will stop doing this, before I start making mistakes. )
His stats were all low save for his DEF and POW wich were pretty high for an E-Class, and his LIF wasn't bad either. This guy was powerful and resistant, but not really bright, or accurate. Metin was already thinking he had victory in his grasp. He heard a loud cheer outside and could guess one of the competitor had managed to score a great hit.
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Holly and Mei were in the stands, cheering on for Aroma. This was a minor tournament but the entry was cheap and the weather fine so the place was packed. The circular arena was a hole in the ground with low stone wall, one both ends the breeder were standing on slab of stone enbedded into the dusty ground. There was a huge clock on each side in betweem the two breeder, it was the stadium timer, underneath one of them was Francesca, holding the flag use to signal the begining of the match. The fight had already begun and was going wild.
Pete's monster, a Boilpee (Octopee+Arrowhead) had been trying to hit Suzi with his ear/arms since the begining of the fight, but the little monster was blocking the attacks with her wide sleeve. Her defense was even better than when she had face Kanar and Holly was wondering if Metin and his Kokkung would manage to break it. Pete's monster stop for a second and Suzi seized the occasion to deck him across the face with a Pokorin attack, her sleeve enlarging to hit him harder. The Boilpee was sent back confused as the crowd went wild and while the stadium's timer was counting down the last few seconds, Suzi unleashed three Aim Hit that sent the Boilpee down just as the buzzer rang. Holly was impressed, Octopees were know for their evasiveness but it seamed like Suzi's accuracy was too great for it and it was still slightly confused and weakened. Aroma was a great breeder and her strategy worked great so far, but Holly was sure Metin wouldn't fall for the same trick twice, if Aroma was going to use the same technique as before she would probably fail.
"And the winner is... SUZI!" Declared Francesca after a few seconds, pointing to Aroma and Suzi's corner with her flag.
The crowd cheered happilly as Aroma waved at them and Pete retreated with his battered Boilpee. Aroma was then led back inside.
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"WE WON! WE WON!" cheered Aroma as she and Suzi entered the preparation room once again.
"Congratulation Aroma! I'll do my best to see you in the finals!" Replied Metin.
"HA! You'll have to beat me first, rookie!" Declared Anzo, chuckling slightly. "Gigant will crush your puny Kokkung!"
"WHO'S PUNY?" Roared Kanar, ready to jump on the annoying breeder, only held back by the arrival of the official with glasses.
"Metin, Anzo, you're up!" He declared.
The two boys walked toward the exit, their monsters in tow. It was time for Metin and Kanar to proove their worth to the inhabitants of the island. Metin emerged from the building into the sun bathed arena, surrounded by the public cheering and waving, he noticed Holly and Mei among them and waved. Both Breeder were led to their side of the battling arena that Metin immediatly nicknamed 'the pit'. Both monster jumped in, first Kanar who barely managed to stay in one piece, then Gigant who landed with a loud thud. The large monster was taller than the walls of the pit, Kanar truly was puny compared to him. Both breeder opened their MonUnit and iniated Battle Protocole.
"We won't go down easily!"Warned Metin.
"I doubt we have the same definition of easy!" Retorked Anzo.
Metin didn't like fighting Golems, they had low speed but their defense was too strong to make any dent in them without a very high level monster, and if they ever got lucky enough to lay a hit, they could knock out a monster in one shot! He didn't like those odds but he believed he could win.
"Ready?" Started Francesca, readying her flag before she recieved nods from the two breeder "BATTLE!" She shouted, bringing the flag down.
"Don't get to close Kanar, he can only fight on close range! If you keep running away he won't be able to hit you. Use your missile to damage him AND make sure he can't attack!" Instructed Metin.
" Yeah yeah... same old same old... I need new moves." Complained the ducken.
Metin didn't have much time to reply because Gigant had taken the offensive and with surprising speed considering his SPD rating he was in close range and unleashed a punch attack! The larger monster could take much larger steps than the little ducken, offsetting their speed diferences. Kanar dodged only by a few second as the massive yellow fist landed on the ground, smashing a hole in it. Kanar ran away backward and when he got in range he unleashed his missile as the Titan turned around. Gigant dashed forward and was hit by the attack straight in the face but kept running, leaving the smoke cloud behind and just going straight toward the Kokkung who was just recovering from being thrown into pieces. Thanks to his special training, Kanar had developped his ability to put himself back in one piece much faster and it is probably what saved him from Gigant's smashing punch once more! Metin took a look at his MonUnit, the missile had only done 1 point of damage to Gigant, one punch attack and even if Kanar was still standing it would be all over for them!
"Run all you want little duck! But this arena is too small for you to go far enough! Gigant CRUSH HIM!" Shouted Anzo.
"This is not good..." muttered Metin.
To Be Continued...
AN: Hello friendly readers! I decided to let you help me: I need filling breeders for tournaments! So submit a character name, gender, hair color, eye color, monster (with name, specie, breed, constitution. Please no SP monster or breed that needs a special accomplishement to obtain), a MonUnit color (no metalic ) and a Ranch name! Please try not to use names from other series to keep the originality of this fic. I can come up with some myself but I'll gladly accept your proposal. I'll try to keep this fic updated and warn you if I take another break! Thank you for your time!