Chapter Three: Final Exam 2, The deal
(OOC note: Long time no see huh? I've took some time off my fanfic because of schoolwork and my Computer broke so my time was limited but above all that I haven't gotten much support for it So know this if you read this give me opinions and reviews good or bad I don' t think you need to sign up to review. Just let me know you have seen the book.)
It was the day of the annual Luna tournament and the city of Enhasa's giant central tower was full of people to see there sons and daughters fight to the near death. As the first fight grew near I was in the waiting room with Schala and my parents Cyan the king and Zeala my mother.
"So," cyan asked "your sure about this?"
"YES!" she exclaimed
Schala had had enough of the past week. As soon as word got out that the first girl in years to brake the unspoken agreement that girls never try to act superior to there male counter-parts was the future ruler of (what they considered) the world th---
Frog tightened his tongue-based grip around the weary mage.
"ey iat a senkuond!" frog yelled. (hey wait a second! because his tongues sticking out (from now on translated ))
"What?" Asked Magus
"Why wouldst thine so-called inferior gender be thine lordship? Thou hast proven to thee thines deceit."
"It's a simple reason for a hard question." said Magus. "Even above their bigotry was there stubbornness to change tradition and it was a millions year old tradition to have a female leader, but in truth she was just I figurehead to the king and the council of 3-that's Dalton, the leader of our military, Kefka, the leader of a knowledge education and alchemy and the first female on the board ever, Kamui leader of health and welfare but she is inhumanly cruel and hides it well. They used to control the queen and she new it and didn't really care. And that's all there is to it.
"Humph" groaned Frog," "Thou is treading thinly on ice"
Magus continued
As soon as word got out that the first girl in years to brake the unspoken agreement that girls never try to act superior to there male counter-parts was the future ruler of (what they considered) the world there was an uproar considering her disrespected and unfit to rule and while me and mother supported her, father felt it un-wise to do something so controversial.
Schala responded, "I'm fighting in this tournament to prove that I can do this. To you, to my teacher and to this city it doesn't matter weather or not I win, but I want to have fun and I'm strong and you know that. I can win. And if nothing else I just want to try, to prove that not every man is better than every female......even if I end up proving the opposite.
"But not at the expense of the rest of the royal family." ,Cyan argued.
"What do you mean "at the expense of the rest of the royal family."? I only have my own pride too lose." ,Said Schala.
"Your pride is reflective on us as a whole. When you lose this fight we'll lose respect from our solders! I wont let you ruin our name! At least if you don't fight your inferiority is un-proven." Yelled Cyan
a long silence came upon us till finally....
"What do you mean "WHEN" I lose!?", she said with anger in her eyes.
"You can't really think you'll get past the first round on pure skill you might get lucky and get a weakling who will hold back on you for being the princess."
"Dad....."
And with that she walked towards the ring to stretch for her first fight.
Meanwhile, my parents and I were brooding over what just happened. It was a full minute of staring at the floor before I finally spoke up.
I spoke quietly, "Dad.... how could you say that to her? ....She's your daughter and you showed absolutely no faith in her and thought only of your reputation!
He looked at me coldly, "bite your tongue in the presents of elders."
And though the whole thing mom just looked on
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Meanwhile, Schala was finished stretching and walked over to the stage for announcements
Her teacher and chairmen of the annual tournament board, Mr. Mungle, spoke "Congratulations to al the contestants for joining this annual celebration for the end of the school year.", he glanced over at Schala, "Though there is much controversy over certain competitors I assure you that it will remained as unbiased as always." With that speech out of they way he pointed out the bracket
Souryu Langly (Zealiean) Vs. Jose Eva (Zealot)
Tomanati Yasumi (Zealot) Vs. Nene Netom(Zealot)
Goban Itechi (Zealiean) Vs. Yura Meashi(Zealiean)
Schala Zeal (Zealiean) Vs Arch(zealit)
She thought to herself "completely random, what a joke. I'm the one to fight the zealit in the first round. Well then I'll just have to try that much harder."
"WHAT!!!?" yelled Cyan, "Shes fighting Arch?!" Mr. Mungle had told Cyan the tournament listings. Being the king he was in the stadiums private box.
"The tournament was a completely random selection. It's a mere coincidence my liege."
Cyan grabbed him by the collar, "Don't give me that crap! You set it up so she would fight him, I wont let my baby girl face that humiliation. Why'd you do it to her?!"
With this Mungle just smirked," With all do respect, prove it."
Cyan put him down.
I said, "Don't worry dad, just have faith."
After 3 fights the last fight of the round was about to begin. During the 2nd fight Melchier came up to Schala and said "Remember the radical dreamer relies on your power so don't rely on the sword."
Arch was a buff man with a rarely mastered power known as "quantum wings", an ability that gave him angel-like wings, with blonde hair and a red and blue suit he was a force to be reckoned with both physically and magically and on top of every thing else he had a Giant blunt weapon a cross between a mace and a halberd.
He stepped on the stage along with Schala on the other end
1! arch, "Be ready princess,."
2! Schala "Good luck"
3! Arch "I don't need luck"
GO!
With weapons out they charged each other with force. Arch swung first but having a slow weapon Schala slid under the mace part of it and went to take a swipe at arch's ankle, but when she hit it ,it was like hitting a concrete wall. She knew then that only her magic and sword could beat him. She jump back out of striking distance before he could swing again.
Arch Charged again at the cornered Schala how managed to get out of the way but still got nicked by the giant edgeless mace "argh..." she went as she stumbled back into a good stance. From then on it was Arch attacking and Schala desperately dodging them. Finally Schala got an idea, she waited until he made a jab and hoped on the mace and used the elevation and force of the landing to jump very high, charged, aimed and "LIGHTNING 2!"
It struck his weapon and it acted like a lightning rod. Arch quickly learned what 10000 volts feels like. He kneeled over in pain as Schala dropped and positioned her sword to put it against his neck for the win. As she fell Arch stood up still cringing for the pain and swatted the sword and Schala away.
The score board that count HP down from 100 changed to Arch 60 Schala 26 when the scoreboard reached 0 for one the other would win. Also if there was a ring out or someone was a close to a fatal blow they would win too.
Injured and determined Schala got back up near the edge of the ring. Arch called out to her.
"You really think you can beat me? A she's better then me?" He regained his composure. "I'm not even trying. You want to face the true me?" with one last smirk he began chanting "QUANTUM WINGS!" a quick glow appeared around him as Schala looked on. After it was over Arch flew up to the top of the stadium. "It's time you learned your place."
Arch put his weapon out forward and charged and Schala at full speed while using one hand to cast spells that boxed Schala in the corner. In desperation Schala put the sword over her head to block the attack.
She thought to herself "please work, turn on, I need you to do what you did when I got you....WORK ..I have to do this my self then." As time seemed to slow down she focused with all she had on the tip of this weapon. With a yell she swung her sword straight down. She missed, swung too early. For some odd reason Arch stopped moving before hitting Schala. The mace weapon broke right down the middle and fell to the ground followed by a blast of hot air pushing arch all the way across the ring. She didn't miss, she cut right though it!
She looked at the sword which now shone a bright red. She managed to use her own power to access the dreamstone's abilities. She noticed Arch getting back up again and ran towards him her speed was 3 fold what it was before. When she reached to other end she turned her sword to the blunt side and swiped at his leg. Arch jumped out of the way but Schala turned and hit him in the back with the Hilt before he could go any where and he fell on his stomach. Schala pointed the Radical Dreamer at his spine and said "I win."
And she had.
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From that point on Schala had complete control of the sword and with it easily won the tournament and the 5000$ scholarship. She became famous after that and broke the gender barriers for Zeal. She went to the best schools and soon her 15 minutes in the sun became 6 months. And I must say I grew jealous. She got all the attention however I need to remained you I was 3 at the time. It was 6 months later and a week before my class left its 2 2.5 month math, science and writing curriculum and move to a magic curriculum. And Schala walked into our room she slumped down in her bed. In an attempt to surpass my sister I had been training nearly nonstop for 4 months to get powerful and I was sure I would be a full 2 grades ahead at least. I decided to give her a taste of her own medicine and show off...
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"Schala?", I said coyly.
With a depressed look on her face Schala looked up at me and said "huh?"
"I've been practicing my magic for a while and a think I've gotten pretty good. Wanna see me try on your target?"
With a look of interest she sat up and said "Really? Well its good that you're getting ahead in your studies. Ok let me see."
"Okay here goes nothing." I said with a smile and I aimed. "..............mmmmmmahhhhhhhhhHA TRIAD!!!!"
My hand glowed and a Lighting, Ice and Fire spell erupted from it. All three followed the same path parallel for each other before conjoining right before hitting the torso shaped target. The spell lasted for about 10 seconds before stopping. The target absorbed all the magic and drained it into batteries and gave me the score "AAA." All the while Schala just stared in amazement.
"Darn, I wanted a 'S.' rating...", I said.
"That...... was a level skill." Schala stuttered.
"Really? Not to bad in that case then."
Suddenly tears started forming in Schala's eyes. "Janus....your such a child. You don't understand this culture as well as I thought you did, I guess. If Zeal-at-large found out how gifted you were in the art, they would treat you like they treat me."
"Good."
"No, it's not....I never get a single moment to myself, and not one person sees me for being me. its all what I mean to the world, what my efforts do for the world, what my wining the tournament means to the world. I just wanted my family to be proud of me but this is all just to impersonal. Basically, Janus being an Icon is the worst thing that could happen to you. No matter how much you say you practiced there's no way anyone won't think your incredibly gifted."
This was the first time I had ever heard Schala say anything like that before and I felt horrible for being jealous.
"Schala....I don't want to end up like that."
"Then why don't you pretend to be average.. or below average so that you am lower and have less chance of losing control."
"But...I don't want to lose my powers by letting them decay." We paused for a few seconds before I said "how bout you train me?"
"Huh? What do you mean"
"how bout once or twice a week we meet in....a private place.....SOL HALL! Sol Hall is basically empty on the weekdays and it right out side the sol palace so its easy to get to. We can start training in a few weeks under the pretext of my falling grades and you can get some time always from the world and I can maintain my skills. What do you say?"
"Let me think about it....."
(OOC note: well there you have it, chapter 3. bet you weren't expecting to see this again but here it is, I didn't really like this chapter but it's a necessary evil for the next chapter which is the going to be the last one before we reach more Cannon waters. And as I said PLESE review or I probably won't continue. Two last things first of see if you can figure out where I got the names of the fighters from (including Arch) I'll post them at a later date. And finaly there's one glitch in continuity between this and an earlier chapter It was too late and complicated to fix so I let it go.)