Chapter 8: Tournament Continues
A few minutes after Yuki left, a soldier came into the room.
"The final match will be in about 5 minutes. Are you two prepared?"
Rena nodded her head. "Yes." She glanced at her partner and noticed he was missing the piece of armor for his chest. "Well, just one more thing."
She looked around the room for then looked at Dias.
"Where is the armor for your chest?"
"What? I have it on."
Rena walked over to him and rubbed her hands on his chest. "Oh. It doesn't look like it's there."
"You just wanted to feel my chest." Dias said with a teasing grin.
The Nedian blushed a bright red and glared at him.
The forgotten soldier cleared his throat to get their attention. He had to do it twice more before it worked.
"Excuse me, but I have to escort you to the gate. You only have a couple of minutes left." He said.
Both contestants nodded, grabbed their weapons and left with the guard.
*********************** Other side of the Coliseum ***********************
Claude was checking his equipment with Celine's help when a solider walked in and froze. Not just the solider, everything.
"This... this is a time stopping spell. A very powerful one." Celine said after a moment.
Claude readied his sword as some mist materialized and he saw a shadowy figure appear in it. When the mist cleared, in it's placed stood a large white kitsune, with eight tails. Claude's eyes widened at the size of it. The kitsune's ears would stop at his shoulder while it sat, if it was next to him.
"Where's Callisto?"
Claude stood there like an idiot just staring at the fox demon.
"I know she was here." It said after waiting a few moments.
Celine shook her head. "The black fox with the dragons? They left with her a little while ago. I think they took her to rest somewhere."
The white kitsune rolled its eyes and snorted. Then it looked at Claude, who still had his mouth hanging open. The kitsune rolled its eyes and started walking away as mist started forming again, then stopped and turned toward Celine.
"Tell guppy-boy that he better fight his hardest out there when the match begins. Don't hold back just because they once traveled with you. You'll piss Callisto and Asurahime off even more then he already has. And it's an insult to Dias and Rena."
Celine nodded.
"Thanks Celine." It said as it faded and time began again.
The soldier, as if nothing happened, announced his message. "The match will begin in about 5 minutes. I am here to take you to your gate."
Claude shook his head. "Okay. We're ready to go."
******************** In the Coliseum stands ********************
Precis was pacing about the benches, while the rest of the crew was sitting and talking about what Gyroro and Ururun were fussing about earlier.
"I could check the library at the University when I get home and ask some of the Professors if they know about them." Bowman said after a bit.
Noel looked thought full for a moment. "They could be known by another name. I'm can't really remember what it was though."
Chisato tapped her pencil on her chin. "Your right Noel. There is another name they are called but, I can't think of it right now, either."
"Ururun and Gyroro might know." Leon said when he saw two dragons looking as if they were trying to hide.
The two dragons looked nervous and glanced over to the other side of the Coliseum. After a few moments, they turned back toward the group, opened their mouths then stopped again and a few drops of sweat beaded on their foreheads.
Everyone in the group could feel a presence near them.
"Quiet you too. Now isn't the time to tell them." A voice said out of nowhere.
Ururun and Gyroro clamped their mouths shut. If the others had looked over to the left they would have seen a figure with spiky hair and baggy jeans start walking away.
"Things are getting weird again." Precis muttered. "I wonder what's happening."
******************** Other side of Stands ******************** Asurahime was sitting with Grandpa Gamgee, Chibi, Gothic and Chisato, while Sophia and Lucia where playing, when she felt something. Callisto appeared and sat beside her, looking a bit annoyed, and Yuki sat down with a half smile on his face.
"Hi Asurahime."
"Hi Yuki. What did you do?" Asurahime asked laughing slightly. "Were you teasing Callisto again?"
He just smiled when he heard Callisto say a few choice words under her breath.
Asurahime chuckled and turned toward her friend. "What was that presence earlier? It wasn't ..." She trailed off when she noticed the kitsune following something with her eyes. "What is it?"
The person in question happened to jump on Callisto's back.
The kitsune smiled. "Yei!" She turned toward the other dragon, after she had let go and looked down at her.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
Yei snorted and raised a twice-pierced eyebrow. "What not happy to see me?"
"Of course I am, but I see only half of you and can't sense the other half." Callisto said after giving her a quick hug. "Where is Mandel?"
"Yeah, that's why I am here. I don't know. I woke up and was like this."
Asurahime bit her lip. "That's not good."
The trumpets sounded signaling that the intermission was over.
Yuki stretched. "The final match is about to begin, we can worry about it later. I want to see Dias kick guppy-boy's ass."
"Guppy-boy?" Callisto asked looking at him with a slight smile.
"I'll tell you later."
ANNOUNCER: THIS IS THE FINAL MATCH FOLKS. DIAS AND RENA FLAC vs. CLAUDE KENNI, THE THREE TIMES REIGNING CHAMPION, AND CELINE JULES. WHO WILL WIN?
"Dias and Rena." Callisto and Asurahime answered.
Gothic glared at them. "No interfering you two."
They glared right back. "We didn't interfere the last time. Claude got his butt handed to him on a platter in under 10 seconds."
They quit bickering when the two teams started walking into the arena from opposite ends.
Dias took his relaxed stance and crossed his arms over his chest. Rena stood beside him and laid her hand on Dias' arm.
Claude and Celine stopped a few feet in front of them. Claude noticed the way the two were standing and felt a slight tightening in his gut. The feeling he got every time he saw the two together, or heard their names together as if they were more then friends from four years ago.
"Good to see you again Dias. You too Rena." Anyone could tell by the way his voice and his eyes changed when he looked and spoke to Rena that there was more he wanted to say.
Up in the stands Precis was standing with her arms crossed over her middle and she had her head down looking away slightly.
'Stupid. I should have known his feelings would return as soon as he saw Rena. She is so pretty. But, I had hoped he...' Precis thought to herself unaware that the rest of the group were looking at her with concerned faces, even on the other side of the Coliseum, Callisto and Asurahime were too.
ANNOUNCER: THIS IS THE FINAL MATCH. THE WINNING TEAM WILL BE THE NEW CHAMPIONS.
The bell rang starting the fight.
Claude drew his sword and Celine readied a spell. "Don't hold back. I won't go easy on you just because we traveled together once." Celine said to Rena.
Rena smiled slightly. "You either." She and her partner took the same relaxed fighting stances that they had in the other matches.
Claude was charging at Dias when a heavy feeling came about the whole place and he stopped short. Everyone looked around wondering what the feeling was.
Yei rolled her eyes. "Here she comes. Just when things were getting good."
Callisto frowned. "I know. When Mandel is separate from you always spoil the fun stuff."
As soon as the name was said a few bolts of black lightning hit the ground inside the arena and in their place stood a women with long black hair, worn in loose ringlets, that went down to her lower back. She was wearing a black, long sleeve, dress with a low neckline. The hem of the dress stopped at her knees in the front while the back went longer to form a train. She was very pale with dark green eyes.
She smiled. "Well, seems that I made quite the entrance."
She was about to introduce herself when a very irate Callisto interrupted her.
"MANDEL! COULDN'T YOU HAVE WAITED A FEW MORE MINUTES?!" Callisto yelled. "I WANTED TO SEE DIAS HAND CLAUDE'S BUTT TO HIM ON A SILVER PLATER!" Mandel bit back a chuckle.
"SHUT UP, CLAUDE!" She pointed and turned toward an offended Claude when he opened his mouth to object. "OR I'll COME DOWN THERE AND DO IT MYSELF!"
Needless to say that he shut his mouth real quick.
Mandel tilted her head to the side. "Dias?"
"How are you going to miss the blue-haired hottie in front of you?" Asurahime said then turned toward Yei who was shaking her head. "I think that side of you needs glasses."
Mandel looked at Dias and Rena who were ready to fight, if need be.
She lifted an eyebrow and looked the tall warrior over. "Well. You are a cutie, I almost fell bad about doing this."
"Doing what?" Dias asked as she snapped her fingers.
Rena let out a surprised scream when a purple and black vortex opened up beneath her and started to suck her in. Dias ran over to her and grabbed a hold of her arms to try to stop her, but the pull was too great and was sucking him in also. Bowman and the others were running into the arena to help out. Claude ran over to grab Dias as Celine tried casting a fireball spell on Mandel to stop her. It was no good it just bounced off and fizzled into nothing.
Mandel snorted. "You really think YOUR magic is any good against a dragon? You have a lot to learn." She disappeared in a flash of lightning.
Gamgee looked frantic as he saw Rena, Dias, and the others getting pulled into the vortex. He looked at the Weavers who were watching. "Aren't you going to do something to stop this?!"
Callisto shrugged. "Nah. We don't need to." She turned to the dragon with the blue-spiky hair. "Yei, divert that portal to go to that place."
"Which pl...oohhh. OK." A glowing ball of light purple glowed in her hand and then disappeared.
Below in the Coliseum, Ashton saw a huge ball of purple light coming toward them.
"BRACE YOURSELVES!!" He yelled right before all of them were sucked into it and disappeared into the vortex.
Callisto stretched as she stood up. Gothic looked at Gamgee who looked really worried. "Hey Grandpa Gamgee, take care of Lucia for us while we are gone. Chisato will stay with you until we set up a barrier around this place."
The old man nodded.
"No need to worry, kid. They are fine. We'll have them back with you in a while." Chibi assured Lucia.
"I know. I'm not worried." He said with a smile.
The Weavers walked into a vortex made by Yei and disappeared.
Everyojne in the Coliseum was silent after what they just saw.
ANNOUNCER: WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!?
Author notes: I apologize for this taking so long. I didn't have it quite right in my head and I have been busy. There are pictures that are for this fic, drawn by Milena, and they will soon be on my website, when that sub domain is done. Thanks for reading. Don't forget to Review.
~ Reese
A few minutes after Yuki left, a soldier came into the room.
"The final match will be in about 5 minutes. Are you two prepared?"
Rena nodded her head. "Yes." She glanced at her partner and noticed he was missing the piece of armor for his chest. "Well, just one more thing."
She looked around the room for then looked at Dias.
"Where is the armor for your chest?"
"What? I have it on."
Rena walked over to him and rubbed her hands on his chest. "Oh. It doesn't look like it's there."
"You just wanted to feel my chest." Dias said with a teasing grin.
The Nedian blushed a bright red and glared at him.
The forgotten soldier cleared his throat to get their attention. He had to do it twice more before it worked.
"Excuse me, but I have to escort you to the gate. You only have a couple of minutes left." He said.
Both contestants nodded, grabbed their weapons and left with the guard.
*********************** Other side of the Coliseum ***********************
Claude was checking his equipment with Celine's help when a solider walked in and froze. Not just the solider, everything.
"This... this is a time stopping spell. A very powerful one." Celine said after a moment.
Claude readied his sword as some mist materialized and he saw a shadowy figure appear in it. When the mist cleared, in it's placed stood a large white kitsune, with eight tails. Claude's eyes widened at the size of it. The kitsune's ears would stop at his shoulder while it sat, if it was next to him.
"Where's Callisto?"
Claude stood there like an idiot just staring at the fox demon.
"I know she was here." It said after waiting a few moments.
Celine shook her head. "The black fox with the dragons? They left with her a little while ago. I think they took her to rest somewhere."
The white kitsune rolled its eyes and snorted. Then it looked at Claude, who still had his mouth hanging open. The kitsune rolled its eyes and started walking away as mist started forming again, then stopped and turned toward Celine.
"Tell guppy-boy that he better fight his hardest out there when the match begins. Don't hold back just because they once traveled with you. You'll piss Callisto and Asurahime off even more then he already has. And it's an insult to Dias and Rena."
Celine nodded.
"Thanks Celine." It said as it faded and time began again.
The soldier, as if nothing happened, announced his message. "The match will begin in about 5 minutes. I am here to take you to your gate."
Claude shook his head. "Okay. We're ready to go."
******************** In the Coliseum stands ********************
Precis was pacing about the benches, while the rest of the crew was sitting and talking about what Gyroro and Ururun were fussing about earlier.
"I could check the library at the University when I get home and ask some of the Professors if they know about them." Bowman said after a bit.
Noel looked thought full for a moment. "They could be known by another name. I'm can't really remember what it was though."
Chisato tapped her pencil on her chin. "Your right Noel. There is another name they are called but, I can't think of it right now, either."
"Ururun and Gyroro might know." Leon said when he saw two dragons looking as if they were trying to hide.
The two dragons looked nervous and glanced over to the other side of the Coliseum. After a few moments, they turned back toward the group, opened their mouths then stopped again and a few drops of sweat beaded on their foreheads.
Everyone in the group could feel a presence near them.
"Quiet you too. Now isn't the time to tell them." A voice said out of nowhere.
Ururun and Gyroro clamped their mouths shut. If the others had looked over to the left they would have seen a figure with spiky hair and baggy jeans start walking away.
"Things are getting weird again." Precis muttered. "I wonder what's happening."
******************** Other side of Stands ******************** Asurahime was sitting with Grandpa Gamgee, Chibi, Gothic and Chisato, while Sophia and Lucia where playing, when she felt something. Callisto appeared and sat beside her, looking a bit annoyed, and Yuki sat down with a half smile on his face.
"Hi Asurahime."
"Hi Yuki. What did you do?" Asurahime asked laughing slightly. "Were you teasing Callisto again?"
He just smiled when he heard Callisto say a few choice words under her breath.
Asurahime chuckled and turned toward her friend. "What was that presence earlier? It wasn't ..." She trailed off when she noticed the kitsune following something with her eyes. "What is it?"
The person in question happened to jump on Callisto's back.
The kitsune smiled. "Yei!" She turned toward the other dragon, after she had let go and looked down at her.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
Yei snorted and raised a twice-pierced eyebrow. "What not happy to see me?"
"Of course I am, but I see only half of you and can't sense the other half." Callisto said after giving her a quick hug. "Where is Mandel?"
"Yeah, that's why I am here. I don't know. I woke up and was like this."
Asurahime bit her lip. "That's not good."
The trumpets sounded signaling that the intermission was over.
Yuki stretched. "The final match is about to begin, we can worry about it later. I want to see Dias kick guppy-boy's ass."
"Guppy-boy?" Callisto asked looking at him with a slight smile.
"I'll tell you later."
ANNOUNCER: THIS IS THE FINAL MATCH FOLKS. DIAS AND RENA FLAC vs. CLAUDE KENNI, THE THREE TIMES REIGNING CHAMPION, AND CELINE JULES. WHO WILL WIN?
"Dias and Rena." Callisto and Asurahime answered.
Gothic glared at them. "No interfering you two."
They glared right back. "We didn't interfere the last time. Claude got his butt handed to him on a platter in under 10 seconds."
They quit bickering when the two teams started walking into the arena from opposite ends.
Dias took his relaxed stance and crossed his arms over his chest. Rena stood beside him and laid her hand on Dias' arm.
Claude and Celine stopped a few feet in front of them. Claude noticed the way the two were standing and felt a slight tightening in his gut. The feeling he got every time he saw the two together, or heard their names together as if they were more then friends from four years ago.
"Good to see you again Dias. You too Rena." Anyone could tell by the way his voice and his eyes changed when he looked and spoke to Rena that there was more he wanted to say.
Up in the stands Precis was standing with her arms crossed over her middle and she had her head down looking away slightly.
'Stupid. I should have known his feelings would return as soon as he saw Rena. She is so pretty. But, I had hoped he...' Precis thought to herself unaware that the rest of the group were looking at her with concerned faces, even on the other side of the Coliseum, Callisto and Asurahime were too.
ANNOUNCER: THIS IS THE FINAL MATCH. THE WINNING TEAM WILL BE THE NEW CHAMPIONS.
The bell rang starting the fight.
Claude drew his sword and Celine readied a spell. "Don't hold back. I won't go easy on you just because we traveled together once." Celine said to Rena.
Rena smiled slightly. "You either." She and her partner took the same relaxed fighting stances that they had in the other matches.
Claude was charging at Dias when a heavy feeling came about the whole place and he stopped short. Everyone looked around wondering what the feeling was.
Yei rolled her eyes. "Here she comes. Just when things were getting good."
Callisto frowned. "I know. When Mandel is separate from you always spoil the fun stuff."
As soon as the name was said a few bolts of black lightning hit the ground inside the arena and in their place stood a women with long black hair, worn in loose ringlets, that went down to her lower back. She was wearing a black, long sleeve, dress with a low neckline. The hem of the dress stopped at her knees in the front while the back went longer to form a train. She was very pale with dark green eyes.
She smiled. "Well, seems that I made quite the entrance."
She was about to introduce herself when a very irate Callisto interrupted her.
"MANDEL! COULDN'T YOU HAVE WAITED A FEW MORE MINUTES?!" Callisto yelled. "I WANTED TO SEE DIAS HAND CLAUDE'S BUTT TO HIM ON A SILVER PLATER!" Mandel bit back a chuckle.
"SHUT UP, CLAUDE!" She pointed and turned toward an offended Claude when he opened his mouth to object. "OR I'll COME DOWN THERE AND DO IT MYSELF!"
Needless to say that he shut his mouth real quick.
Mandel tilted her head to the side. "Dias?"
"How are you going to miss the blue-haired hottie in front of you?" Asurahime said then turned toward Yei who was shaking her head. "I think that side of you needs glasses."
Mandel looked at Dias and Rena who were ready to fight, if need be.
She lifted an eyebrow and looked the tall warrior over. "Well. You are a cutie, I almost fell bad about doing this."
"Doing what?" Dias asked as she snapped her fingers.
Rena let out a surprised scream when a purple and black vortex opened up beneath her and started to suck her in. Dias ran over to her and grabbed a hold of her arms to try to stop her, but the pull was too great and was sucking him in also. Bowman and the others were running into the arena to help out. Claude ran over to grab Dias as Celine tried casting a fireball spell on Mandel to stop her. It was no good it just bounced off and fizzled into nothing.
Mandel snorted. "You really think YOUR magic is any good against a dragon? You have a lot to learn." She disappeared in a flash of lightning.
Gamgee looked frantic as he saw Rena, Dias, and the others getting pulled into the vortex. He looked at the Weavers who were watching. "Aren't you going to do something to stop this?!"
Callisto shrugged. "Nah. We don't need to." She turned to the dragon with the blue-spiky hair. "Yei, divert that portal to go to that place."
"Which pl...oohhh. OK." A glowing ball of light purple glowed in her hand and then disappeared.
Below in the Coliseum, Ashton saw a huge ball of purple light coming toward them.
"BRACE YOURSELVES!!" He yelled right before all of them were sucked into it and disappeared into the vortex.
Callisto stretched as she stood up. Gothic looked at Gamgee who looked really worried. "Hey Grandpa Gamgee, take care of Lucia for us while we are gone. Chisato will stay with you until we set up a barrier around this place."
The old man nodded.
"No need to worry, kid. They are fine. We'll have them back with you in a while." Chibi assured Lucia.
"I know. I'm not worried." He said with a smile.
The Weavers walked into a vortex made by Yei and disappeared.
Everyojne in the Coliseum was silent after what they just saw.
ANNOUNCER: WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!?
Author notes: I apologize for this taking so long. I didn't have it quite right in my head and I have been busy. There are pictures that are for this fic, drawn by Milena, and they will soon be on my website, when that sub domain is done. Thanks for reading. Don't forget to Review.
~ Reese