Chaka, Cyran, thanks for reviewing. I'm glad everyone liked Yugi's attack hair, and I hope you'll like this new chapter just as much.

Chapter 7: Cock Fight

After Katz sent Seymour back to the Farplane, the group's general enthusiasm increased by several notches, and it was evident in their behavior. "So, are we stopping for today, or are you going to pick some more names?" Vincent asked the wizard.

Katz looked down at his Mickey Mouse watch, saw that it wasn't even lunchtime, and said, "I think we have enough time for a couple more matches before we stop."

He snapped his fingers, and the black top hat appeared once again. "You all know the drill: I'll pull out a couple of names, and whoever I pick will fight in whatever manner I deem appropriate."

"I hope I get to fight that big bully Nightmare," Mitsurugi said, sticking his tongue out at the dark knight.

"Oh, yeah? Well I hope I get to fight you, too, so I can show everyone how big a dork you really are!" Nightmare retorted.

"You need to get them some kind of mental help, Kilik," Auron told the monk.

"I plan on it."

"Okay everyone, the first fighter of the next round is Seifer," Katz announced.

"YES!" the orange haired boy exulted, whipping the Hyperion about in what was supposed to be an intimidating manner. "Okay Fat-Ass, which one of these chumps is my opponent?"

The mage unfolded the second slip and read, "Sephiroth. Your opponent for this match will be Sephiroth."

"Oh, you mean one of Fruit Salad's boyfriends?"

"Watch your mouth, punk!" Sephiroth growled.

"So, what kind of fight is this going to be?" Joey asked. "Are they only going to be allowed to use magic, or something?"

"This match is going to be a cock fight," Katz replied nonchalantly replied.

"WHAT?" Everyone was shocked.

"I absolutely refuse to take part in that kind of fight, you psychotic mama's boy!" Sephiroth shouted.

"What's the matter: you afraid that mine's bigger than yours?" Seifer mocked.

"You guys need to get your minds out of the gutter! I'm not talking about that kind of cock fight!"

"Then what kind of…" Tidus started to ask, before the wizard silenced him with a wave.

Katz flicked his fingers and a flash of yellow light engulfed the two combatants. When it cleared, both Sephiroth and Seifer were dressed in giant chicken costumes, much to the amusement of everyone else. "What the hell is this?" Seifer demanded, as Squall and Zell roared with laughter.

"I already told you that it's a cock fight. You two are going to battle each other in these costumes."

Suddenly, a Mexican man with a towel flung over one shoulder appeared, pointed at Seifer, and said, "El pollo es muy caliente."

"I know that already, Javier!" the wizard replied, irritation coloring his voice. "Now go home and stop telling me that!"

The strange man vanished as mysteriously as he appeared, and Vincent scratched his head and asked, "Who the fuck was that?"

"Javier is an old boxing coach, but he quit after one of his fighters knocked him out. Anyway, he pops up from time to time, yelling about a chicken being hot, and I have to run him off."

"Oh. Well, what were you saying about the cock fight?"

Katz nodded, and continued, "Sephy and Seifer are going to fight in those costumes, and they're only going to be able to use the weapons I give them."

He snapped his fingers again, and two weapons appeared. One was a plastic pitchfork like the ones found with Satan costumes, and the other was a fluorescent green Nerf boomerang. "Okay gentlemen, pick your weapons and get ready to fight."

Both fighters sighed, and Sephiroth picked up the boomerang while Seifer took the pitchfork. Everyone managed to stop laughing long enough to walk to the edge of the arena before the fight began. Katz transported his giggling captives into the stands and yelled, "LETS GET IT ON!"

The two "chickens" sighed again, and Sephiroth threw his Styrofoam boomerang at Seifer's head, but the carrot haired boy evaded it. "You dummy! You missed…"

The boy's words cut off when the boomerang came back and whacked him in the back of the head. "Idiot! Boomerangs come back, you know," Sephiroth jeered.

Seifer jumped to his feet and hurled his pitchfork at the One Winged Angel. However, the tines were made of plastic, so they merely bounced off the feathers of the chicken costume. They stood there, malevolently glaring at each other from inside the beaks of their outfits, when Tidus stood up and shouted, "Why don't you use your peckers?"

Auron smacked his forehead and said, "Tidus, sit down and shut up."

"What? They're chickens, so they should peck each other to death!" the blitz player innocently replied.

"Hey! Why don't you two use your spurs?" Yugi suggested, finally seeming to recover from his ordeal with Seymour.

Sephiroth and Seifer looked down at their feet and noticed that there were shiny silver spurs attached to their ankles. The silver haired villain shot his opponent an evil look and yelled, "Your ass is grass!"

Then the two of them started kicking at each other, hoping to cause some damage with the spurs, but kept tripping over the big feet of their costumes. Finally, they gave up on it and tackled each other, punching and kicking with reckless abandon. This went on for some time before they fell to the ground and rolled around like a couple of scrapping school kids. Seifer eventually got to his feet, but he was blind since the head of his outfit was turned around. He made some kind of muffled comment, and tried to attack Sephiroth, but the villain kicked at him and inadvertently managed to make a brutal blow with one of the spurs.

"Damn it, that HURT!" the boy yelled, pulling his head off and throwing it to the ground.

"It was supposed to hurt, Rufus!" Sephiroth snapped, removing his own head in response.

"My name's not Rufus, you turkey!"

"I'm not a turkey, I'm a chicken!"

"Yeah, you are, aren't you?"

The One Winged Angel lost his temper, and threw his chicken head at his opponent. Unfortunately, Seifer didn't duck fast enough and the flying head hit him in the face. The boy dropped like a collapsing roof and did not move. Everyone gaped for a moment, and Katz hurried over to Seifer to check his pulse. "Hey, he's still alive, but he's not going to be very happy when he wakes up."

"Holy shit!" Sephiroth cried, struggling to contain his laughter. "I didn't think that it was actually going to hit him!"

"So does this mean that Sephiroth won?" Kaiba wanted to know.

"I should bloody well think I won! I did all of that in a goddamn chicken costume, without my sword, so it had better count for something!"

He gave Katz an ugly look, and the wizard quickly said, "Okay, you won, just stop leering at me!"

"Ooh, I have a question!" Mitsurugi yelled, waving his arm. "Are you going to send Carrot Top back to wherever like you did with Seymour?"

The mage looked down at Seifer's unconscious form and said, "No, I'll let him stay."

"I just want you to know that I'm going to kill him if he calls me a vampire again, okay?" Vincent informed him.

"Yeah, yeah, don't get your cape in a knot! If he starts running his mouth when he wakes up, then you can pull your Incredible Hulk routine and tear him apart!"

The ex-Turk nodded and Sesshomaru asked, "So, what are we going to do now?"

The wizard grinned and said, "Let the next round of the tournament commence!"

That's all for this chapter. Did you like the chicken costumes? Well, you all know what to do…review, of course!