The trip to the arena that day was a quite one. After watching last battles massacre, John and Zack were a little afraid to get in the arena with this team. They entered in the same fashion as last time. The Other Team Was already sitting on their bench.
"Ugh, were late as usual, Rios mumbled, No thanks to you!" He said as he looked at Sean.
"Hey would you relax, I couldn't find my bottle!" Sean Yelled back.
"And were was it? Oh yea! In the refrigerator like it was yesterday!"
"And Lets Begin the Semi Finals!" the Loud announcer voice boomed over the loudspeakers. "Due to the fact that the fights will be getting more dangerous, I have been removed from the ring and placed in this large VIP room from above!"
One man stepped up, he looked rather strange. He was wearing a Large Blue Trench coat, well, it seemed large on him, the man was little over five feet.
"Sean, your up" Zack told the big man.
"Why would I fight him, he's only half the size of me! Shouldn't I fight that big guy in the back there?"
"Don't underestimate him because of his size, his special skill should even out everything, your best just trying to get him out of the ring, don't bother trying to kill him, or keep him down for ten counts, his body will just remake itself." John warned him
"Alright" Sean said as he hopped onto the ring.
Sean took the extremely large bottle in his hand, put it to his mouth, and drank every last drop of the liquor. Suddenly his skin turned red, and Sean's muscles started to grow in size. His opponent looked confused, obviously not expecting this.
"Are both fighters ready, then Begin!"
"I think I'll start off this fight!" Sean yelled, he put his hands above one another, when suddenly a ball of orange energy formed in them. He launched the ball at his opponent across the ring, the other man did nothing to dodge it. The ball flew right into him, it hit with such force that the ball went right threw the man, who now had a large hole in his stomach.
"Huh, that was too easy" Sean muttered.
Suddenly the hole started to fill itself up. And the man Started to laugh
"Hahaha!, you'll have to do better than that if you want to actually hurt me!" The man raised his right hand, his fingers started to stretch out from his hand, and were heading straight towards Sean.
"Sean, get out of the way!" Zack yelled
Sean rolled to his left, the fingers turned in his direction, he started running towards the man, fingers still chasing him. Suddenly the man lifted up his left hand, and those fingers started coming straight towards him. He dodged to his right, one of the fingers scratched him, and blood was dripping out of the wound. Sean clutched the wound on his right on, but ignored it and ran towards the man, he was only five feet away when suddenly Sean felt a Searing pain in his left leg. He turned around to see five fingers embedded into his leg.
"Ahh!" Sean screamed, the pain was unbearable
"Sean, NO!" Rios screamed as he was hurled away from his enemy.
He was hanging upside down, his opponent was slowly bringing him to the edge of the ring. Rios managed to form another energy ball though and shot it right at the tentacle fingers . It hit solidly, and the fingers snapped. Rios fell to the ground.
He pulled the remains of fingers that were in his leg out. He was well on the other side of the ring now, and with his injured leg he knew he couldn't make it back across to punch him or get a good shot with his energy blast.
Sean was kneeling on one knee, he tried to stand, but the pain was immeasurable and he fell to the ground again. His jeans were stained velvet.
I only have one chance, He realized he still had one way to win this, but the mans fingers were all coming towards him again. Quickly he stood up, ignoring the immense pain in his leg. He Brought his hands above his head, The energy ball formed once again, but it was different this time, Sean never stopped expanding the ball, a few seconds later the energy ball was over three feat in diameter, He stepped up and threw the gigantic energy sphere at his opponent. His fingers hit the ball and were disintegrated.
"No this can't happen!, I'm Invincible!" The strange man yelled as the ball came closer and closer. It hit solidly with the man, launching him backwards. All that was left of him was his head and some of his upper chest. It hit the back wall and fell to the ground.
"Sean is the winner by way of Ring-out!" The loudspeaker yelled. That's one point for his team.
Rios Zack and john Jumped onto the arena to their injured friend. They rolled up his pant leg to examine his wounds better, there were five holes in his leg, all of which blood was coming out of. John opened his bag and pulled out a bag of crushed herbs. He put one in each hole.
"There, that will help it heal faster." John told him. They carried him off to the bench where Sean then wrapped his leg up in bandages.
The next competitor on the other team stood up. John also stepped onto the Arena.
"Ready, Start!" The announcer yelled again.
John was not sure which weapon to use, so he reached into the bag and pulled out a blade of grass, and a Rose.
The man soon proved himself to be gifted in the art of flying, as he took off into the air.
"Rose Whip!" John yelled and twirled it around his opponent's leg, he wasn't going to let him get too far off the ground. The other man felt a sharp pain in his leg as the thorns dug in, but he wasn't going to let that stop him, he didn't need his legs to fight, he just kept pulling up and soon enough his opponent would be airborne as well, or he would have to let go of the whip.
Sure enough he was right, john was now being pulled across the arena, in his left hand he still had the piece of grass.
"Grass Blade!" John yelled again. This time a large sword appeared in his hand, with much effort he dug the sword into the ground. He then threw two seeds at the ground, which sprouted, clung to the sword, and dug their root very deep into the ground.
"You're not going anywhere!" John yelled at the wind master grinning. He then pulled the rose whip down, dragging the wind master down with him.
The wind master Doubled his efforts and the then started to prevail, John's grip on the sword was slipping, the whip hurt a lot, it was digging its thorns were digging into his ankle. One of them would have to give .
Zack looked from the sideline, he was obviously confused on what was happening, one man flying with a whip attached to him, another person holding the whip, and also holding onto a sword with his other hand, the sword was also overrun with weeds.
John pulled even tighter on the whip, he was starting to pull the other man down.
Suddenly the wind master had a great idea.
Instead of flying up now. He dove back down to the ring. He then started to fly in circles around john, the whip was tying him to the sword like. John was forced to de-transform his items back into a piece of grass and a rose. The man took off again. John formed his whip, but it wasn't in time to catch the master of wind. He came down and at supersonic speeds threw a punch at john's stomach. John tried to evade the punch, but it was so fast that it still hit his shoulder, thrusting John back and making him lose his balance, another punch came along now and hit him right in the face. John went flying and was heading straight for the stone wall. There was a smacking noise as his body hit the hard stone, but he was back on his feat and ready to fight again. While flying john took the Piece of grass and re-transformed it. He stuck it into the ground and used it to punch himself back into the ring.
"What the? I give you Credit! You're the first person to take a straight punch in the face and not go flying out of bounds, I can tell this one will be fun! My names Paul by the way." his opponent told john.
"Yea" don't take anything personally but I'm not hear to make friends, I just need to finish this tournament so I can get back home, I haven't been there for almost half a year.
"Oh isn't that a sad story, I hope you find your way home, but I got to win this thing too."
He took of into the air, but John was able to catch him. John then took out another piece of grass and sliced his opponent in the leg, the pain made him stop in mid air, no john was launched above him, and on his descent managed a powerful kick to the stomach. His opponent was off guard, and this hit made him start to fall. Paul managed to use his wind powers to soften his fall, but what really hurt was when John landed on top of him.
John managed to stand up, Paul on the other hand wasn't about to do anything but lye there.
"One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven." Paul turned over to his front, he tried to get up, but then fell again. John decided not to take any chances and carried him to the edge of the ring, he tried to resist but was too weak now to even land a hard punch. John threw him out of the ring.
"Eight…Never mind, that's a ring-out!" John walked over to his bench and sat down.
The large man stood up, but the smaller man stood up as well. They talked for a couple of seconds, and the big man stepped down.
"Zack, your up" John told him. "Don't forget, you might need your shield for shards of winter. Do you have it?"
"Yea yea" Zack told him "I got it right here"
The fight started. The cold air Blasted across the arena. Zack waited for his opponent to make the first move. When he saw he was creating the ice blade Zack took the offensive and formed his spirit sword. He charged his opponent and swung down, his blow was blocked by the sword of ice, Zack was relentless, attacking his opponent giving him no time to breathe.
The attack was fast, but easy to predict, it wasn't hard to figure out where he was going to try to hit him next. After a minute or two of Zack swinging his sword violently a punch came in, hitting the enemy hard in the stomach, they made no sign of feeling the blow, only they Started to attack as if there were no tomorrow. Zack wasn't exactly the best at blocking blows, his strategy had been not to give his opponent time to attack, a few hits got past his defenses. He has various cuts on his arms from the attacks, Suddenly, Zack took a large leap back
"Spirit Sword Double!" He yelled as the there sword formed in his hand. Even with two swords he couldn't hit his opponent, he was relentless, but still nothing got through, He doubled his efforts to keep his opponent occupied when he shot a low kick, tripping his opponent, the enemy was down for a few seconds before he got up.
Zack was further away, out of swords reach. Ok, this Is a gamble, but I cant hit him, you never actually tried it either, but you know it's the only way.
Both of the spirit swords disappeared. In his right hand he put one of the sword hilts from his pocket. Zack thrusted his arm forward. "Spirit Sword.. Shotgun!" He yelled instead of a sword a appearing, energy shards shot directly at his opponent in a wide spread. He tried to deflect some, but a couple got threw, one hit him in the left a few hit him in the face, thankfully he managed to get a few of them to hit him in the right arm and a few to his stomach.
"What a well kept secret.. Huh?!" his opponent was saying when Zack was charging him with sword in hand. He tried to deflect it with the ice blade. Suddenly shards of Ice were scattered everywhere.
"I don't understand, how a weakling like you could have broken the sword! It's not possible."
"That wasn't actually a sword shotgun, the hilt I shot it from was my shield hilt, I wasn't sure if it would have worked, but I guess it did, and now, you're all out of energy. I'll tell you what, just walk off now and I promise not to attack you." Zack told him
"But I don't understand, why don't you kill me, you are now stronger than me, if you don't kill me, you never know, I might just come back and get you."
"Boy you sure are messed up in the head aren't you. IM doing a little thing called showing mercy. Whets your name anyway?"
"But… Christopher"
"Well then Chris, I might just see you around."
"I still don't understand why you don't kill me…I would've killed you" he ended.
"Who knows, maybe I'm to forgiving."
They both walked away, Christopher walked off and it was declared a ring out, Zack Joined the rest of his team.
"That was a little weird" John said to Zack
"Its weird, it felt like he never felt compassion or understanding his whole life, I could sense his sadness and anger in his spirit, but I didn't want to say anything." Zack replied
"Hey, I didn't get to fight today!" Rios said.
"Good, then you'll go first in the Finals." John answered.
"Ugh, were late as usual, Rios mumbled, No thanks to you!" He said as he looked at Sean.
"Hey would you relax, I couldn't find my bottle!" Sean Yelled back.
"And were was it? Oh yea! In the refrigerator like it was yesterday!"
"And Lets Begin the Semi Finals!" the Loud announcer voice boomed over the loudspeakers. "Due to the fact that the fights will be getting more dangerous, I have been removed from the ring and placed in this large VIP room from above!"
One man stepped up, he looked rather strange. He was wearing a Large Blue Trench coat, well, it seemed large on him, the man was little over five feet.
"Sean, your up" Zack told the big man.
"Why would I fight him, he's only half the size of me! Shouldn't I fight that big guy in the back there?"
"Don't underestimate him because of his size, his special skill should even out everything, your best just trying to get him out of the ring, don't bother trying to kill him, or keep him down for ten counts, his body will just remake itself." John warned him
"Alright" Sean said as he hopped onto the ring.
Sean took the extremely large bottle in his hand, put it to his mouth, and drank every last drop of the liquor. Suddenly his skin turned red, and Sean's muscles started to grow in size. His opponent looked confused, obviously not expecting this.
"Are both fighters ready, then Begin!"
"I think I'll start off this fight!" Sean yelled, he put his hands above one another, when suddenly a ball of orange energy formed in them. He launched the ball at his opponent across the ring, the other man did nothing to dodge it. The ball flew right into him, it hit with such force that the ball went right threw the man, who now had a large hole in his stomach.
"Huh, that was too easy" Sean muttered.
Suddenly the hole started to fill itself up. And the man Started to laugh
"Hahaha!, you'll have to do better than that if you want to actually hurt me!" The man raised his right hand, his fingers started to stretch out from his hand, and were heading straight towards Sean.
"Sean, get out of the way!" Zack yelled
Sean rolled to his left, the fingers turned in his direction, he started running towards the man, fingers still chasing him. Suddenly the man lifted up his left hand, and those fingers started coming straight towards him. He dodged to his right, one of the fingers scratched him, and blood was dripping out of the wound. Sean clutched the wound on his right on, but ignored it and ran towards the man, he was only five feet away when suddenly Sean felt a Searing pain in his left leg. He turned around to see five fingers embedded into his leg.
"Ahh!" Sean screamed, the pain was unbearable
"Sean, NO!" Rios screamed as he was hurled away from his enemy.
He was hanging upside down, his opponent was slowly bringing him to the edge of the ring. Rios managed to form another energy ball though and shot it right at the tentacle fingers . It hit solidly, and the fingers snapped. Rios fell to the ground.
He pulled the remains of fingers that were in his leg out. He was well on the other side of the ring now, and with his injured leg he knew he couldn't make it back across to punch him or get a good shot with his energy blast.
Sean was kneeling on one knee, he tried to stand, but the pain was immeasurable and he fell to the ground again. His jeans were stained velvet.
I only have one chance, He realized he still had one way to win this, but the mans fingers were all coming towards him again. Quickly he stood up, ignoring the immense pain in his leg. He Brought his hands above his head, The energy ball formed once again, but it was different this time, Sean never stopped expanding the ball, a few seconds later the energy ball was over three feat in diameter, He stepped up and threw the gigantic energy sphere at his opponent. His fingers hit the ball and were disintegrated.
"No this can't happen!, I'm Invincible!" The strange man yelled as the ball came closer and closer. It hit solidly with the man, launching him backwards. All that was left of him was his head and some of his upper chest. It hit the back wall and fell to the ground.
"Sean is the winner by way of Ring-out!" The loudspeaker yelled. That's one point for his team.
Rios Zack and john Jumped onto the arena to their injured friend. They rolled up his pant leg to examine his wounds better, there were five holes in his leg, all of which blood was coming out of. John opened his bag and pulled out a bag of crushed herbs. He put one in each hole.
"There, that will help it heal faster." John told him. They carried him off to the bench where Sean then wrapped his leg up in bandages.
The next competitor on the other team stood up. John also stepped onto the Arena.
"Ready, Start!" The announcer yelled again.
John was not sure which weapon to use, so he reached into the bag and pulled out a blade of grass, and a Rose.
The man soon proved himself to be gifted in the art of flying, as he took off into the air.
"Rose Whip!" John yelled and twirled it around his opponent's leg, he wasn't going to let him get too far off the ground. The other man felt a sharp pain in his leg as the thorns dug in, but he wasn't going to let that stop him, he didn't need his legs to fight, he just kept pulling up and soon enough his opponent would be airborne as well, or he would have to let go of the whip.
Sure enough he was right, john was now being pulled across the arena, in his left hand he still had the piece of grass.
"Grass Blade!" John yelled again. This time a large sword appeared in his hand, with much effort he dug the sword into the ground. He then threw two seeds at the ground, which sprouted, clung to the sword, and dug their root very deep into the ground.
"You're not going anywhere!" John yelled at the wind master grinning. He then pulled the rose whip down, dragging the wind master down with him.
The wind master Doubled his efforts and the then started to prevail, John's grip on the sword was slipping, the whip hurt a lot, it was digging its thorns were digging into his ankle. One of them would have to give .
Zack looked from the sideline, he was obviously confused on what was happening, one man flying with a whip attached to him, another person holding the whip, and also holding onto a sword with his other hand, the sword was also overrun with weeds.
John pulled even tighter on the whip, he was starting to pull the other man down.
Suddenly the wind master had a great idea.
Instead of flying up now. He dove back down to the ring. He then started to fly in circles around john, the whip was tying him to the sword like. John was forced to de-transform his items back into a piece of grass and a rose. The man took off again. John formed his whip, but it wasn't in time to catch the master of wind. He came down and at supersonic speeds threw a punch at john's stomach. John tried to evade the punch, but it was so fast that it still hit his shoulder, thrusting John back and making him lose his balance, another punch came along now and hit him right in the face. John went flying and was heading straight for the stone wall. There was a smacking noise as his body hit the hard stone, but he was back on his feat and ready to fight again. While flying john took the Piece of grass and re-transformed it. He stuck it into the ground and used it to punch himself back into the ring.
"What the? I give you Credit! You're the first person to take a straight punch in the face and not go flying out of bounds, I can tell this one will be fun! My names Paul by the way." his opponent told john.
"Yea" don't take anything personally but I'm not hear to make friends, I just need to finish this tournament so I can get back home, I haven't been there for almost half a year.
"Oh isn't that a sad story, I hope you find your way home, but I got to win this thing too."
He took of into the air, but John was able to catch him. John then took out another piece of grass and sliced his opponent in the leg, the pain made him stop in mid air, no john was launched above him, and on his descent managed a powerful kick to the stomach. His opponent was off guard, and this hit made him start to fall. Paul managed to use his wind powers to soften his fall, but what really hurt was when John landed on top of him.
John managed to stand up, Paul on the other hand wasn't about to do anything but lye there.
"One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven." Paul turned over to his front, he tried to get up, but then fell again. John decided not to take any chances and carried him to the edge of the ring, he tried to resist but was too weak now to even land a hard punch. John threw him out of the ring.
"Eight…Never mind, that's a ring-out!" John walked over to his bench and sat down.
The large man stood up, but the smaller man stood up as well. They talked for a couple of seconds, and the big man stepped down.
"Zack, your up" John told him. "Don't forget, you might need your shield for shards of winter. Do you have it?"
"Yea yea" Zack told him "I got it right here"
The fight started. The cold air Blasted across the arena. Zack waited for his opponent to make the first move. When he saw he was creating the ice blade Zack took the offensive and formed his spirit sword. He charged his opponent and swung down, his blow was blocked by the sword of ice, Zack was relentless, attacking his opponent giving him no time to breathe.
The attack was fast, but easy to predict, it wasn't hard to figure out where he was going to try to hit him next. After a minute or two of Zack swinging his sword violently a punch came in, hitting the enemy hard in the stomach, they made no sign of feeling the blow, only they Started to attack as if there were no tomorrow. Zack wasn't exactly the best at blocking blows, his strategy had been not to give his opponent time to attack, a few hits got past his defenses. He has various cuts on his arms from the attacks, Suddenly, Zack took a large leap back
"Spirit Sword Double!" He yelled as the there sword formed in his hand. Even with two swords he couldn't hit his opponent, he was relentless, but still nothing got through, He doubled his efforts to keep his opponent occupied when he shot a low kick, tripping his opponent, the enemy was down for a few seconds before he got up.
Zack was further away, out of swords reach. Ok, this Is a gamble, but I cant hit him, you never actually tried it either, but you know it's the only way.
Both of the spirit swords disappeared. In his right hand he put one of the sword hilts from his pocket. Zack thrusted his arm forward. "Spirit Sword.. Shotgun!" He yelled instead of a sword a appearing, energy shards shot directly at his opponent in a wide spread. He tried to deflect some, but a couple got threw, one hit him in the left a few hit him in the face, thankfully he managed to get a few of them to hit him in the right arm and a few to his stomach.
"What a well kept secret.. Huh?!" his opponent was saying when Zack was charging him with sword in hand. He tried to deflect it with the ice blade. Suddenly shards of Ice were scattered everywhere.
"I don't understand, how a weakling like you could have broken the sword! It's not possible."
"That wasn't actually a sword shotgun, the hilt I shot it from was my shield hilt, I wasn't sure if it would have worked, but I guess it did, and now, you're all out of energy. I'll tell you what, just walk off now and I promise not to attack you." Zack told him
"But I don't understand, why don't you kill me, you are now stronger than me, if you don't kill me, you never know, I might just come back and get you."
"Boy you sure are messed up in the head aren't you. IM doing a little thing called showing mercy. Whets your name anyway?"
"But… Christopher"
"Well then Chris, I might just see you around."
"I still don't understand why you don't kill me…I would've killed you" he ended.
"Who knows, maybe I'm to forgiving."
They both walked away, Christopher walked off and it was declared a ring out, Zack Joined the rest of his team.
"That was a little weird" John said to Zack
"Its weird, it felt like he never felt compassion or understanding his whole life, I could sense his sadness and anger in his spirit, but I didn't want to say anything." Zack replied
"Hey, I didn't get to fight today!" Rios said.
"Good, then you'll go first in the Finals." John answered.