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Warning: Blood and Gore

Black Eye Of The Tao Abyss

Chapter Eight:

Beyond Expectations

The chairman in the yellow robes was rather surprised by the response. "You speak like one from the realm of the Faery, the land of magical creatures. Tell me, are you half?" Asura showed no emotion, though it was quite easy due to his mask, "Sir, I suggest we get to business then I would be happy to answer any and all of your inquiries." The chairman nodded and the one in red nodded his approval "I like you boy, go straight to the point, maybe we'll go easy on you." He said with a laugh. "I suggest not to underestimate your enemies sir," Asura replied monotonously, as they broke off and began.

The Three chairmen began to chant and three portals appeared in front of them. From the portal of the red robe chairman, a dragon emerged. The beast had five heads of blue, brown, white, red, and yellow, each representing an element of Earth, wind, water, fire or thunder. It had four magnificent arms and claws that were made up of giant blades. It had two wings as black as the midnight sky and a tail that was long enough to wrap the entire coliseum twice. All of its eyes were white and each head had a special feature. The brown one had one magnificent horn growing in its forehead, the blue had aqua fins on its neck, the yellow had what appeared to be a lion's main made out of electric sparks, the white had a second giant mouth right below the first one (the bottom of the first mouth was the top of the second one), and finally, the red one had three horns made of fire.

Out of the portal of the blue fighter, emerged a giant golem. It had six harms, each with a different weapon (scimitar, spear, mace, crossbow, sword, and war hammer). Its entire body was silver and its head was wearing one of the helmets that knights used to wear, covering its entire head except for one ruby eye. Its two strong and sturdy legs seemed like it would withstand anything and it was wearing a cape of gold.

The last portal produced another great creature. It looked to be human, a man with long blond hair, but one look at its cold blue eyes told you otherwise. It was wearing nothing at the top and split colour pants. Half of it was white while the other half was black. It also had two wings, one appeared that of a dove, like the angels that people though about in the past. The other was like that of a bat. It was beautiful in its own way, as it appeared to be as smooth as silk. On the left, black side, its hand had become claws that could rival that of the dragons. Its left foot was clothed in a black steel-toed boot, seeming eager to land a kick. The right side seemed gentler, but it was still dangerous. Its hand and foot were like those of a human, and were clothed in a white steel-toed boot and a leather glove. Within its hand, it held a whip, apparently to be made of light.

"Bloody hell!" Eriol yelled, as followed others in the stands. "What's wrong?" Sakura asked, hoping nothing was too bad. "Sakura," Eriol began, "those are the imperial guards of the world, and they represent the power of Earth itself. The Dragon is named Torntaka, meaning "immortal". It has the powers of the 5 elements, which I'm sure you can work out. The golem is called Grigore meaning "undefeatable", called to be the general in charge of all that is strong, wielding the physical power of the world, not to mention technology. While it looks to be using crude weapons, they are more advanced than you can believe. Lastly, the winged being is called Zent, meaning, "balance". He holds in his left hand the wrath of darkness and in his right, the Holy powers of light. Asura has to face all of them at once along with the Chairmen, and can only use one card!"

Sakura began to see how difficult this was now, how could anyone stand up to those? She can't help but feel worried. True she didn't know this Asura, but she felt his confusion and pain when he first arrived, like something tugging at him. She prayed that he would be fine, but then began to feel guilty for not think more about Syaoran.

Back to the fight:

Asura look at his enemies without any emotion. He wasn't scared. He knew that he could beat them if he concentrated enough. Besides, somehow he was calm. Normally, Asura would be nervous when it came to stuff like this, but something or someone in this place was calling out to his heart, calming him down. He allowed a smile to grace his lips for a split second before he shed his cloak.

Another gasp ran throughout the crowd, it was getting on his nerves now. He looked down at himself, he was wearing his apprentice uniform, a black Gi (is that what those karate uniforms from DBZ are called?) with a red blood belt, the highest honour for a person under training to get. He also had blazingly white wings coming out of his back, 'maybe that's what they were gasping about?' he thought before shrugging it off.

He was no longer human in his own mind. He trained with every creature and animal alive and learned all there was to know about combat he needed (and his masters of course). He closed his eyes for a second, shutting every emotion, beckoning his instincts to come forward, releasing his inner beast. He was tuned to everything around his. He can hear every atomic movement around him, feel every grain of sand under his feet, smelled every possible scent in the arena. A special scent of the fresh spring breeze with hinted strawberries hit his nose and he began to indulge in the smell. But he snapped himself awake quickly remembering that this fight was more important.

"You first, I insist," he said to the council, amused to see their surprised faces at his calm demeanor. In another split second, everyone attacked. The dragon, Torntaka, fired 5 beams of the elements along with blood blades from its wings and claws. Grigore slammed all its weapons into the ground, forming a chain of sharp steel mountains heading towards Asura, while shooting white blasts with its cross bow. Zent fired two-barrel beams of white and black lights and shot feather-missiles with its holy wing. The three chairmen began to use their first cards as the powers of the beasts increased along with new card creatures for them to use. (Each card is actually a creature that in imbedded into the card). Everyone watched as more and more attacks were shot and hit where Asura was.

When they stopped, a huge explosion occurred and the smoke began to clear up. But this didn't happen before the ground shook and a giant beam of lava erupted upwards. The three were obviously pleased but their smiles faded when a figure appeared out of the lava. There, smirking (from what they could see) was Asura. There wasn't a single scratch on him except for his top being burned off. After an intake of power (which everyone could feel), he took one card from the deck that he just summoned. It was a black Abyss card. "Fury!" he cried as everyone watched astounded as a giant, blood red, lion leaped out and charged into Asura.

Everyone waited and saw a red flame that surrounded him. Asura growled and leapt to attack. Before anyone could realize it, all the card creatures were torn to shreds along with the decks of the three chairmen. Asura wasted no time and pierced his hand through Torntaka's left leg and drank the blood that was on his hand. This caused the red flames to turn black and his eyes white.

The opposition, realizing what had happened, tried to attack him, in whatever way possible. Asura dodged everything with ease until he got bored and decided to fight back. "Dragon's Fury!" He cried as two traditional dragon blades (description in later chapters) found his hand. Asura spun I around clockwise and what appeared to be a tornado appeared and torn the three beasts to pieces. The pieces were about to regenerate into the creatures that they were, but Asura concentrated his energy and the lava that was still pouring out formed into a phoenix and swallowed all the pieces, dissolving them into ashes that no longer held any life.

The three chairmen were red in the face with anger, no way were they going to be out done by a kid! They formed a triangle and a tri-coloured blast hit Asura dead center. They grinned as they thought it was over before the black flames turned into icy blue ones and suddenly he held 3 swords at the necks of each Chairman. "Surrender, it's finished," Asura said in his usual monotone, surprising the three. They complied before Asura separated from Fury. Then Asura held up another card and mutter something before releasing another card all "Regenerate". Soon, all the damage that was done was undone and all the beasts and cards returned without a scratch.

It was done… The three beasts smiled (if that was possible) at him and nodded their heads in defeat, as did the three chairmen. "You have shown great honour, strength, and control as we fought. We have no regrets loosing to you… Asura, you have earned the title: The Champion. (Followed by cheers and applause) As a reward, each of us will give you a card to aid you," the red robed man said, handing Asura 6 cards and another hand for a handshake. "By the way, we are called Tashinku (pointing at the man in yellow), Leroy (the man in blue), and I am called Gormez."

Then Asura's master appeared and smiled at him (not the same master from the shrine, the old champion one), giving him a handshake. Behind him, he saw that the master of ceremonies had began to talk again. Good, everything was going fine so far…

"Shit!" Eriol said. His friends and girlfriend, whom never seen him swear before, looked at him in shock. "You guys have no idea what that guy did, I mean-" he was cut off ad the master of ceremonies began to speak. "And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. The apprentice Asura has been qualified with flying colours! Please come back tomorrow for the continuation of the ceremony as the exhibition match was unscheduled. Do not worry; accommodations have been prepared for you all, please wait while you are going to be transported into the main hall. Please check at the front desk for your respective rooms, living accommodations and such. See you all in the morning!" With that, the man left.

As Sakura felt the similar sensation of transporting, she thought back to those brown eyes… it was defiantly a possibility that it was Syaoran behind that mask. When she landed next to her friends in an even more beautifully decorated room, she caught a glimpse at the competition. There were mainly two age groups in here, a relatively young group (around their age) and a very old group (excuse the manners, of course). Sakura then felt her pocket stir as something green jumped out. Sakura realized that it was Syaoran's piece of the Lovers' Stone and ran after it, getting many stares on the way. She ignored all her friends' shouts and the other people's glares as she chased. There was no way she was going to loose the only bit of Syaoran that she had left with her.

She ran blindly until she bumped into someone hard and firm. Before she could fall to the ground, the person pulled her so that she would stand up right. Though Sakura lost her balance again and fell onto the person. She opened her eyes to see…

I'm done! Woo Hoo! Yea! I hope you guys enjoyed these chapters. As I said before I might want an editor, anyone interested? Please review and tell me what you guys think. Also, do you guys want lemons? Cause I might give it a shot. Review plz and tell me what you guys think about the story so far. Is it worth continuing?

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