DDX- Wow. I am moving fast. Here's the next chapter. Thank you to my reviewers. Oh and Striker, no it's no crossover. I'm just using names because I'm way too lazy to try and think up names. And you will see some GS Psynergy attacks in the story but my characters use it not as Psynergy but as Dragoon Magic, and Mage Magic.

Chapter 4: Fire and Thunder

Dart unsheathed his Claymore, ready for an easy battle. This Isaac kid didn't look too overwhelming. Isaac took out his sword, which was a classic, ordinary long sword. Isaac was first to rush in for Dart.

Dart, knowing this would be easily won, stepped to the side while Isaac's slash seemingly hit air. What Dart didn't expect was an awesome make-up and a damn fast one too. When Isaac hit air, almost as soon as he did, he slashed to the side, hitting Dart and knocking him over.

"Ha" Isaac chuckled, standing over Dart.

Dart got up and then swung his blade. Isaac blocked quickly. Then with one hand held his sword, and with the other punched Dart, sending him back again. Dart was aggravated by now. In his head, he turned on battle mode, and started to fight Isaac like he fought Omega.

Isaac was no match for this style, he took slashes left and right. Finally, after he had realized it was no use trying, he raised up his left hand, showing surrender. The crowd gasped and couldn't believe that the champion had been taken out in the preliminaries.

Dart was still angry, he didn't want to win this way.

"What are you thinking!" Dart demanded.

"Better.alive than dead.right?" Isaac asked between breaths.

"Yeah, but I didn't want to win like this"

"You are a great warrior, you would have won anyway. Maybe we'll see each other and then get limitless" Isaac suggested.

"True" Dart said "It is a deal"

-*-

Dragoness blocked with his new sword. Felix seemed like an antagonist, he wouldn't stop attacking so Dragoness had to be on the defense, always. He couldn't use magic, and scare the people. He would get kicked out. But on the rules poster, it never said you couldn't use magic, and after all, he was a Mage.

"Maybe just a little shock." Dragoness pondered.

Felix struck again, but this time, when Dragoness blocked, he put one knee on the ground. Focusing a small amount of energy, he sent a small shockwave, non-visible to anyone, into the ground. It immediately struck Felix. He backed off and stood shaking for a moment, until Dragoness started to attack.

He slashed once to the side, then quickly did an uppercut. The sword moved like the wind, he couldn't believe the stealth of the weapon. Felix was down on the uppercut, it slashed his abdomen and he fell to the ground. The man judging the battle counted to three, where if Felix didn't get up, Dragoness won. Eventually, Felix did not get up by the count and Dragoness won. Their names were moved up in the standing board. Dragoness suggested to Felix that he train more, and eventually he would become an awesome warrior.

-*-

"Wow! Some exciting battles! Let's move on with the preliminaries shall we? In the next Eastern battle, we have Lavitz, a Serdian knight from Bale and we have Alex, a traveler bearing his name from Hoax!"

Lavitz and his opponent entered the arena. Alex was as tall and Lavitz, and had blue eyes, matching his hair. Lavitz was quite shocked at him. He immediately thought Alex was a Wingly. He just had to be. This tournament was getting crazy. First a Mage, now a Wingly?

"Oh, Lavitz, correct?" Alex asked.

"Yes"

"I'm not a Wingly" Alex informed.

Lavitz thought to himself "what is he then?" the question nagged his mind.

"And in the Western Division, we have Nimbulo in the gray china robe, and Mike in the red velvet cloak! Let's have some winners for the actual competition!"

Dragoness' eyes went wide when the announcer said Mike's name and 'red velvet cloak'. Nimbulo was up against the Mage.

"Let the second round BEGIN!"

Nimbulo immediately pulled out his spear. He gave a cold stare to Mike. The Mage then pulled out two katana blades. Nimbulo rushed at Mike with incredible speed then swung his spear down. Mike kneeled, and parried the attack with one blade, with matched speed.

Nimbulo withdrew and then slashed to the side, even though his spear had no sharp edges except the tip. Again, with the same speed as Nimbulo, Mike blocked but this time countered. He slashed at Nimbulo's shoulder. But since Nimbulo hadn't trained for his Proba speed for nothing, he shifted so the blade struck air.

Mike backflipped into the air, and landed making no sound. They both rushed at each other. Suddenly, everyone gasped. Nobody could see what they were doing. With their great speed, everything moved so fast. Nimbulo blocked, Mike countered, Nimbulo swung, and Mike stabbed. The Mage held the position where one of his blades was about to enter Nimbulo right in the torso, while Nimbulo's spear was at Mike's throat.

Then, with a velocity Nimbulo could not even see, Mike spun, kicked Nimbulo away, and slashed down, just stopping before his blades would kill Nimbulo.

"I surrender" Nimbulo stated, loudly.

"Good. I didn't want to kill you"

-Meanwhile-

Lavitz tried stabbing down at Alex, but the man was too fast. Even more amazing was that Alex used gauntlets as his weapons. Blue ones, at that. Lavitz was about to give up, when suddenly Alex appeared in front of him, then punched him hard in the stomach. But his gauntlet held him with the claw it had over Alex's fist.

Moments later, a huge blast of water flung Lavitz into the arena wall, downing him. Alex hoped that nobody saw him use that magic. He ran over to Lavitz.

"Sorry about that. I had to do something drastic" Alex apologized "You would've won if I hadn't used magic"

"So what are you anyway" Lavitz managed between gasps.

"I'm a Mage, I just didn't want to wear by robe"

Lavitz thought to himself, that's three in one arena. Dragoness almost killed Omega using almost all of his magic, but THREE! They could take down all of Endiness with their powers combined!

"But don't worry. I'm not evil" Alex explained "And yes. I was just reading your mind"

Lavitz laughed and sighed at the same time.

"Well it looks like we have our two winners! Dart and Dragoness will be moving on to the semi-finals! Joining them will be Alex and Mike!"

-*-

"I hope we don't get matched up, Dart"

"Neither do I, after hearing what you did in the Dark Realm"

"I wouldn't do that here though. And besides, I want to be matched with Mike" Dragoness stated.

Dart, Dragoness, Alex, and Mike went on to the competition. Each warrior battled each other for their spots. Dart eventually got paired with Alex, whom he defeated with no ease at all. Alex had a feeling about these strange characters, so he stuck around after the tournament. Eventually, Dragoness and Mike were the final competitors.

"I knew this would happen" Dragoness claimed.

"I've been waiting for this to happen" Mike stated.

"Let the finals BEGIN!"

Dragoness started to draw his new sword when Mike objected.

"Let's give them a show, shall we Dragoness?"

"Sure"

Mike suddenly was engulfed in flame. His once dark brown hair had now turned red and spiky but still short. Dragoness pointed out he was obviously a Fire Mage.

"Let's play. Nova!"

Mike stuck out his arms and faced his palms at Dragoness. Moments later, at least fifteen fireballs shot out of each hand at the same time. There was no place for Dragoness to run, so he assumed a defense position. The fireballs hit him and knocked him back into the arena wall. He fell off the wall and where he landed was a huge crack.

By now the crowd was shocked, even a little scared. Mike just laughed, while Dragoness had an angry look on his face. That was some strong magic, and Dragoness was going to have to go to great lengths to match his power.

Mike smiled at Dragoness, a wicked smile. Dragoness replied to his grin.

"Plasma!"

Dragoness stuck his arms in the air, then brought them down, along with a huge bolt of lightning. This wasn't the typical attack though, when it hit the ground, it created a radius of electricity that also hit the Fire Mage.

Mike fell to the ground, amazed. But he also knew that Dragoness was really trying, judging by the radius he had just created. Mike reacted with a new attack, one that made Dragoness' close combat magic would be equal to nothing.

"Flare Storm!"

He stuck one arm behind him, spread his legs and then swung his arm forward. With the gesture, flames ignited from his hand and onto the ground. They fed themselves on the ground and protected Mike from anything that got close.

"Wow. You think that can really protect you?" Dragoness shouted and asked from the other side of the arena.

"Yep"

Dragoness rushed to Mike. While he ran, lightning swirled around his body. He jumped over the flames and stood near the other Mage. They went into hand-to-hand combat. Dragoness threw a punch. Mike grabbed his fist, pushed his arm in the other direction, and with his free hand, punched Dragoness out of the flaming circle.

"Now for my finish.Cycle Beam!"

Mike's Flare Storm died down. He bent over in a half squat. He positioned his hands in front of him, inches apart. He spread his fingers and bent them, focusing heat and energy into a large sphere. It started to grow, and he moved his hands with it, being sure not to touch it. Then, he moved his hands to the top and bottom of the sphere.

It was now very large. He seemed to stop the growth, and repeated the attack name. Dragoness was still struggling to get up. "CYCLE BEAM!"

He moved his hands so his arms were out straight. Three circles appeared in front of the large fire sphere. It separated and filled the circles. Next, the spheres turned into beams. All three flew at Dragoness.

Dragoness was hit with the awesome attack. He flew back into the wall again, this time he was really indented. But with one last burst of energy, he fired tens of lightning bolts. They all it Mike, but not with the intensity of his Cycle Beam.

"And we have our Western Division Champ! Mike! He'll go on to face Dart in the last round!"

Dart went on to face Mike for the title of Hero Competition Champion. But, it surprised everyone that Mike was as good a swordsman as he was a Mage. Mike won the title, and the money.

-*-

Mike started to walk out of the commercial town. He heard all the rumors and whispers as he walked past. He knew it wasn't a good idea to use magic, but he wanted to see what Dragoness had.

Then, he heard the worst thing he could ever hear.

"Warlock! GET HIM!"

A mob was rushing toward him. He started to run out of the town. It was night, and he realized he had been fighting all day. When he was outside, he got to the nearest tree and jumped up it. The mob didn't see this. When the passed under, he smiled and then turned around.

Dart and his group met him there with smiles on their faces. Mike was startled, and took a step back.

"Where the hell did you learn to hone your skills like THAT?" Dragoness pointed back to Lohan.

"You'll have to walk back to my hometown with me and my brother. We must wait for him though"

"Your brother?" Lavitz asked.

"Yes, his name is Alex. I believe you battled him" Mike explained.

"Now it fits. So where are you guys from" Lavitz questioned.

Alex appeared behind them "We'd have to explain it to you on the way. Let's just say it's a land nobody knows about"

DDX- Well there we go. Next chapter up. I'm on a role here. Next chapter won't be STARTED until next week. Posted by next Friday. Ok? Oh and don't sue me for using the Golden Sun attacks. There wasn't a copyright or anything on the names.