First off I want to apologize for the time it took for this update. I had neglected a lot of stories lately but one is coming to an end soon so that will make things a little easier, but I'm going to be working soon so that will slow progress further sorry guys, but I hope it will not take longer then this to give an update in future. 8 reviews this chapter alone :O, that's fantastic guys! So for your patience you get 2 chapters although the competition is a little slow to start in this chapter. I actually wrote this without the intention of using it in the story, but as a back story that I could have later.
Gerao-A: Yeah, Angel's on the woman's team. Who's going to win? No idea... but the fatal fury team is quite popular at the moment.
Hassun: I was thinking this as I updated actually but I wanted to make it seem nothing was working for the outlaw team at first, so some of their cheating WILL work (also the best kind of cheating is the kind that goes unnoticed don't you think). Athena has used her abilities already so there will be more of this. Chaos at the end for sure.
Tornado(Reviewer: Glad you found it funny hopefully I can continually find material.
Yuki Yagami: Yeah but as I said I didn't know much about those characters (aside Saisyu and Krauser), and all the characters that are competing/judging are not all that will be in the story, some may even be added through the story.
AngelicPhoenix: I can't have the Fatal fury team dominate otherwise that would be boring and it's never too late to suggest as I've got about 14 days to fill with 3 or 4 sports each day...
Captainspoon: Indeed I'll put Malin in, although I'm not quite sure how to have her character probably as somebody annoying and a little cheap. I dunno, there will be a few additions to balance out the teams soon.
Kruchevskid: Not to worry, the outlaw team will get some sympathy or balance (through fair and unfair means). I like Geese, Billy and Gato so the team will get a bit of light (that's not to say I dislike Yamazaki but I'm no fan either). Definitely some of their plots would succeed, so they will have a chance. I thought the two extra 'medals' were good, it may be an aluminium foil that wins the competition or a wooden spoon that loses it. Weasels or badgers!? What the? Well badgers I guess... shrugs
Larsonek: You are a good author too, and yet another Fatal Fury supporter. Bao tossing is one of the events I'm looking forward to writing the most. Malin pinning haha... not bad.
A/N: Rather then just have mindless competition I'm going to have a few side stories that I'll make relevant later on and add a bit more interest to the actual competition, but don't worry mindless competition will take the majority of this fic.
Day 2 of competition
Time: 1:32am
Sie Kensou was sitting in the on one of the park benches staring at the clouds in the dark night sky, he knew he needed to beat Jhun, although he wasn't usually a competitive person and was generally easy going when it came to Athena it was all different. He became far more aggressive and the want to impress Athena and win her over overwhelmed everything else, he hated it the after feeling, regretting becoming somebody he's not.
Rain began to fall but Kensou didn't care, he should have been asleep by now but he didn't care. He only wanted... what? What did he want? Winning over Athena would be great but there were so many other male admires out there, while Athena went through piles and piles of her fan mail, Kensou had threats, and other awful things sent by people claiming Athena belonged to them and he's not to go near her. Maybe he didn't want Athena, maybe he just didn't want anybody else to have her. It was then Kensou heard a few footsteps behind, but by the time he could react he already felt a knife to his neck.
"Hand over your cash... all of it" A male voice said in a quiet but threatening tone
Kensou moved his arms over his attackers head and threw him over his shoulder but then Kensou realised his attacker wasn't alone as three others were approaching him from different directions.
"Okay on your knees and don't do anything smart!" Another male voice demanded, however Kensou thought he could see somebody come behind this man, they looked ready to punch him out.
Kensou rushed at other two attacking one with a few low attacks and his opponent went to guard low but this was Kensou's plan as he attacked him bringing his foot over his head knocking him down and the other tried to attack from behind but only caught Kensou's back fist. Kensou turned his gaze to where the third attacker should be, but as he thought they had already been taken care of by that other person he saw.
"CRAP! He's that guy in the KOF psycho soldiers team!" one of the unnamed attackers said, this time a woman.
"I knew we should have brought better weaponary. Run!" The voice of his original attacker shouted out
The four stumbled to get up and make a hasty retreat all in different directions... Kensou was annoyed at being referred to as 'that guy', when and if he's mentioned in news stories or articles it's always that guy who hangs with Athena... never his actual name... on rare occasion they'd misspell his name.
"All this darkness makes it really easy for those kind of losers to steal stuff" The voice of this other person was that of a male
"Yeah... let's get outta here" Kensou said
The two left the park of South town towards the more lit main streets. The other person wore a mainly black jacket, a white t-shirt, dark blue gloves, blue bandana, black pants with black shoes with a few traces of red. He looked as if he was 16 maybe a bit older.
"Thanks for your help back there" Kensou said as they walked through the main streets
"No worries... but your Kensou right? I've seen you in KOF, you're awesome, you didn't need me around to handle those guys" the guy laughed
"Heh thanks" Kensou smiled.
It was the nicest thing he heard for a long time, somebody actually knew his name and thought he was awesome. Surely he couldn't be the only person on the planet who thought so.
"Anyway, my friends and I are staying here" The guy stopped outside a hotel
"Athena, Chin and I are here too... a lot of the fighters are staying here, mainly those who don't live around here" Kensou said
"Cool... I'm Ryan by the way... Ryan Nelson" Ryan said
They walked passed reception, Kensou was heading up the main stairway.
"Ryan? I have these for you" The receptionist said handing 2 envelopes to Ryan
"Hmm... okay... thanks" Ryan took them
Kensou thought he had seen those kind of envelopes before. Then it hit him, it was the kind the Ikari's used to send out the invites.
"Heh... the usual he worries about nothin'" Ryan said to himself
"So your part of the Ikari's?" Kensou asked approaching Ryan
"Err... yeah... I'm part of the Ikari cheer squad since well by tommorrow a lot more people know about the event now and will be cheering for their team, Heidern called in about 60 of us, partly for a break but some of us to do the organisation, cheering and other stuff" Ryan said "But hey I can cheer for you too, just not when not against our team... unless your against Heidern, because in that case everybody will cheer for you" Ryan said
"Why's that?" Kensou raised an eyebrow "Heidern seemed really strict at first but then when I learned about Leona and his family I thought he was a good guy, why would you want him to lose?" Kensou asked
"Haha... because we have a bet going on... if Heidern gets the least medals of all the Ikari's competing then we get to stay in South town for another week of R and R. Of course he's only doing this to motivate Ralf, Leona and Clark to perform better" Ryan explained
Kensou laughed "That's funny... but isn't that going to be rather expensive for Heidern keeping 40 of you in this hotel?" Kensou asked
"Not all of us are here... some of us are in the cheaper places, most of them are actually" Ryan opened the second letter... It read.
Ryan,
Gone to King's, back at 2.30. Keep it from Leona and Heidern, we're supposed to be checking out the other group.
Ralf and Clark
"I bet Heidern already knows" Ryan said
"Knows what?" Leona's voice came down the stairs
"Knows that we're planning a surprise party for him" Ryan replied without hesitation even as he turned to face her at the top of the stairs
Leona gazed down at Ryan "They're at King's right" Leona turned around and started walking away not even waiting for Ryan's reply
"And I thought I was psychic" Kensou said
Ryan sighed
"Knew it... thanks Kensou" Leona gave a rare smile to Kensou "However I'm in a good mood tonight, so I'll let you three off this time, but next time you'll Heidern to deal with. Got it soldier?" Leona said with a stern look on her face
"Yes Ma'am" Ryan said looking directly at Leona as if taking his eyes away from her's would cause building to explode. After Ryan's reply Leona's expression relaxed slightly.
"You should get to sleep... I was only checking on Ralf and Clark since they hadn't returned, good night"
Leona then walked back up the stairs
"Whew, that was close... but I better do as she says, or I'll actually be in trouble, good luck against Jhun" Ryan headed up the same stairs Leona went to
"Wait, you know about my deal with Jhun?" Kensou asked
"Yeah Ralf was talking about it, most of them are beating Jhun is going to cream you, but I don't think so... Jhun is too overconfident in his own abilities" Ryan said "Maybe I'll see you around" Ryan then left in a run up the stairs
Kensou thought he should get going too, but it was definitely an interesting night... knowing that at least 1 person in those stands will want him to win, fan support meant a lot to him, regardless of how big or small. Heading back into his room and opening the door quietly and closing it quietly again and moving towards his bed in a tip toe fashion, just when he thought he was there he tripped over something he didn't see.
"HEY watch it!" A voice screamed out
The lights turned on
"What? What's going on" Chin's voice echoed through the room until his eyes lied upon Kensou
"Kensou!? What are you doing up so late!" Chin shouted out from the other end of the room
"I... err... I..." Kensou stuttered
"You're soaking wet too... honestly... men" A girl on the floor complained
"Who's this?" Kensou asked indicating to the girl on the floor
"She's Malin, but what are you doing going around this dangerous town so late at night... have you gone mad!?" Chin continued to shout
"I needed some time alone, I just needed to think for a while" Kensou said sitting on his bed
"Well you are not to go out like this again, it's not safe here" Chin said
"Yeah well whatever" Kensou was no longer able to hide how annoyed he was with Chin speaking to him in that tone, like he was a little child.
Chin sighed and and turned off the light again. Kensou realised he needed to see where he was going to change but didn't want to ask Chin to turn the light on again, so just grabbed his suitcase next to his bed and felt around for what he wanted, headed for the bathroom changed came back to bed and crashed his head on the pillow.
Day 2
Time: 9am
The teams again where gathered at the stadium this time with a few people in the stands ready for the day's events but not all would be held in the stadium. In fact only the 800 metres hand grenade relay would be held in the stadium, pool and darts were at King's bar and the 10 meter platform and bombing events were at the swimming pool. There was a bit of a crowd who had heard of what was going on and of course Heidern had 'strategically' placed some his squad to charge for entry, not much but enough to make him a decent profit through the tournament as it cost him quite a bit to start it.
"Heidern, I'd like to speak to you about our team" Chin approached Heidern
"Yes, what is it?" Heidern asked
"Can we add extra members since we are short a few?" Chin asked
"Certainly, since most teams have 4 or 5 I'll set a maximum of 5 members, you have your extra addition or additions with you?" Heidern asked
"We'd like to add Malin to our team" Chin presented Malin
"Fair enough... she can now compete for today" Heidern said adding Malin's name to the Psycho solider team.
Somebody else positioned themselves in front of Heidern. He was a very tall and looked very strong, Heidern knew who he was.
"Wolfgang Krauser... what are you doing here?" Heidern asked suspiciously
"So nice of you not to invite me... but seeing as Geese is in this tournament, I would like to enter also" Krauser said
"Very well... For the outlaw team?" Heidern asked
"No... the Ash team has fewest members... as much as Crimson and his friends revolt me I would like to prove to Geese who is the better between us" Krauser said "Even if this means teaming up with Crimson... it might give them a chance since they are such a pathetic bunch" Krauser sighed
"Well okay... if you insist" Heidern said taking Krauser's name and adding it to the Ash team... well at least now all teams had at least 4 members, Heidern thought.
"By the way, that's Ash/Krauser team mind you" Krauser said as he left
Heidern gathered the teams around and took a megaphone from Ralf
A/N: I actually thought of this entire game myself at 3am, which I admit is partly influenced by dynamite run, but when Tornado(Reviewer mentioned target area I got another idea for that.
"Right this event is a team event. This is how it works, you get a hand grenade, now don't worry it's not real it only has paint inside which splatters on the time limit. The idea is to get as far as possible before it explodes which it does in exactly one minute and 20 seconds after the start, it's a relay because you can use up to 4 members of your team to pass the grenade to in order to get a new runner and therefore cover more distance. If the grenade explodes while in someone's possession then that is the distance covered by the team, however you can throw the grenade in order to cover more distance. Oh and this is a variation since the rules normally are the team had to run 800 metres before the grenade splattered but of course a longer time limit was set hence the name" Heidern finished
A lot of the teams looked confused...
"Perhaps a demonstration" Heidern blew his whistle and 4 of the Ikari cheer squad came onto the field.
"Peter, Jenna, Ryan and Tanya... we've done this loads of times so you know what you are doing?" Ralf asked
"Yes sir" One of the girls said
"Excellent, show them" Ralf stood aside
The 4 of them positioned themselves on the field
"Oh yes, you can position your team in different ways around the track in order to take advantage of each members strengths, such as Peter is a good short distance runner so the team gives him a shorter distance to cover, however Jenna and Tanya are good at keeping the pace for longer runs while Ryan's got a good arm for throwing the grenade at the end" Heidern said
Heidern handed the blue grenade to Peter who took out the pin and started running, at the same time Heidern started a stop watch that appears on the track side so everybody knew when the grenade would go off.
"You obviously can't start until you remove the pin" Heidern said
Peter continued to run about a distance of 100 metres, and 14 seconds had passed on Heidern's stop watch, passing it, he then passed the grenade to Jenna.
"Unlike the actual relay you can pass the grenade a distance of up to 5 metres in any way you like. Throwing it is obviously the quickest way but if you drop it you can lose a lot of time" Heidern explained
Jenna continued to run, she went about 150 more metres and passed it to Helen, 41 seconds had now passed. Helen took it after Jenna passed it to her and she started her run and she also went to around 150 metres before throwing it to Ryan, the timer was now at 1 minute and 8 seconds, only 12 seconds remained. Ryan started his run and then the timer began to count down, 6,5,4, Ryan looked as if he was ready to throw, 3,2... he moved his arm forward and threw it into the air... 1... SPLAT.
There was a mixture of shock and laughter in the crowd... Ryan had indeed thrown it but because he delayed it for too long it splattered right above his head showering him in blue paint.
"Well that's what happens if you wait too long... at least it didn't explode in his hand" Heidern chuckled a little "Anyway the team covered a distance of 480 metres... so you can choose up to 4 members so those teams with 5 members will have to sit at least one member out of this one, in addition there are several clocks around the stadium so unlike our team here you will know exactly how long you have until the grenade will go off" Heidern said
The teams strategised and put their team line up to Heidern in order from first to last. All teams would run at once for a truly crazy race. Of course those on the outer lanes would start further ahead.
Fatal Fury team: Joe, Andy, Terry, Tizoc
Art of Fighting team: Yuri, Robert, Ryo, Takuma
Ikari team: Leona, Heidern, Ralf, Clark
Korea team: Jhun, May lee, Kim, Chang
Women's team: Mai, King, Angel, Mary
K' team: K', Kula, Diana, Maxima
Psycho soldiers team: Athena, Malin, Kensou
Japan team: Benimaru, Kyo, Shingo, Daimon
Outlaw team: Gato, Billy, Geese, Yamazaki
Ash/Krauser team: Ash, Duo Lon, Shen Woo, Krauser
The teams moved into position while the others moved around the course, it was hard to know how far each member could cover in a given time, however every team had this difficulty to work around. The lead off runners each took their grenade that was a different colour for each team so that when the distance was measured regardless of where the grenades ended up it would be clear who's grenade was who's. Chris today had the starters pistol.
"Ready?" Chris held the pistol above his head
Bang...
The lead off runners pulled their pins as soon as Chris fired and started running, it was difficult to know who had started well or poorly because of the different positioning of the starters due to the track being circular in order to make it as fair as possible. However Leona was first to make her exchange to Heidern and without a problem he caught it, Mai passed to King soon after then the next exchanges happened quickly Gato to Billy, Ash to Duo Lon, Yuri to Robert and after approxamiately at the 130 metres mark Benimaru threw his to Kyo, K' to Kula, Jhun to May lee a further 25 metres later Athena and Joe finally let go and passed it on to their team mates. By this point it seemed that outlaw team was in the lead, they had passed Ash's team at least and they started further ahead but of course had the very outside line, Kula and Diana were in fourth position.
At the 200 meter mark there were 3 fighters ready to accept, the timer was at 27 seconds, Heidern passed to Ralf, Duo Lon passed onto Shen Woo and Kula passed over to Diana, the rest of the teams kept with their second runner. Billy was still leading the race for the outlaw team, with Kyo for the Japan team not far behind him, the Ash/Krauser team had fallen into third place.
Billy was soon approaching Shingo in the lane next to him, Geese was about 10 metres ahead of where Shingo was positioned, Billy could see Kyo coming so he shoved Shingo in order to misfoot him just as Kyo threw the grenade causing Shingo to miss the grenade.
"What are you doing!?!" Kyo shouted as the grenade was on the ground and Shingo hurriedly picked it up.
"Billy pushed me! It's not my fault" Shingo replied as he picked up the grenade and tried to regain pace. Kyo sighed and shook his head as the other teams from behind came to pass on. The timer was now at 45 seconds.
Billy passed over to Geese, Shen Woo held, Diana held, May lee passed to Kim, King passed onto Angel, Malin held, Ralf held, Andy passed to Terry and Robert passed onto Ryo. The outlaw team was still in the lead, Ash's team had retaken second after the fumble from Kyo and Shingo, and Diana benefited too and took third, while Shingo was in fourth but the runners were coming a lot closer to each other.
60 seconds and Kensou and Maxima were waiting for their team mates, Diana passed to Maxima, while Malin threw it but the throw was a little less then what it should have been but Kensou stretched his arm for the grenade and caught it before it landed on the ground losing little to no time. The time seemed to pass really slowly to the crowd but in the frantic race time seemed to move faster then ever, as 10 seconds remained and the remaining 8 team members were all standing close to each other ready to accept.
Geese passed to Yamazaki, Shen woo to Krauser, Kim to Chang, Ralf to Clark, Terry to Tizoc, Shingo to Daimon, Ryo to Takuma and Angel to Mary. Most of teams lined up very closely although the outlaw team still had a slight distance lead as Daimon was first to throw his grenade into the air, about 2 seconds later, Chang through his and the next ones came quickly from Mary, Tizoc, Kensou, Takuma, Krauser, Clark and Yamazaki. Maxima threw his last. 5 seconds left and Daimon's had started bouncing on the surface, the rest were still in the air. 3 seconds and Mary's landed then Kensou's, Takuma's and Chang soon after, 2 seconds Daimon's had stopped moving completely while Krauser's and Clark's landed, 1 second... and all at the same time a gigantic splatter sound was heard as all 10 grenades splatter with Yamazaki's and Maxima's still in mid air.
The crowd clapped and cheered even though the result was unclear, Vice and Mature went to check on who's colour had been flung the furthest.
"The winner is..." Vice started...
"The Ikari team!" Vice finished
Cheers were heard throughout the crowd mainly from the Ikari cheer squad
"In second place is the Ash team" Mature announced "In third is the Outlaw team... come and get your medals" Mature said
"IT'S ASH/KRAUSER team" Krauser shouted out
"Geez... fine then... in third is the Ash/Krauser team, satisfied?" Mature said with a roll of her eyes
"Thank you" Krauser sighed
"Oh yes and in fourth... is the K' team and the wooden spooners are..." Vice walked up to a group of the teams... she was handing it to Kensou.
"Aw man... not another one" Kensou said
"Quite right... it's yours Kusanagi" Vice laughed and handed Kyo the wooden spoon
"You serious!?" Kyo asked in surprise
"Yes" Vice smiled in a sweet manner which also displayed her pleasure.
"Shingo this is all your fault... if you hadn't tripped..." Kyo started
"I'm sorry but this wasn't just my fault, take it out on Billy he tripped me" Shingo replied
"I threw too early... I am actually to blame for this loss, remember though this is just for fun " Daimon said
"I suppose you are right, but had better not screw up like that again Shingo" Kyo then walking off
"Don't worry about him Shingo, you did your best that's what counts" Daimon gave Shingo a reassuring pat on the shoulder
"Thanks Daimon" Shingo said
Each team was awarded their medals and after that Heidern took his typical megaphone to tell the teams what would happen next.
"Now we will move onto to King's bar for the next part of today's competition" Heidern said
The teams grouped up and chatted about the event and left for King's bar.
"Excellent work, we may not have won but we still did very well, best of all one of the teams are fighting each other instead of everybody else which makes them weaker and easier to defeat. Now let's keep this up shall we?" Geese smiled in a satisfied manner
"Yes Geese... I've got a few tricks for the games up next... and besides I'm a master at pool" Billy said
"I know Billy, they'll be no match for you..." Geese said as he and his team headed out an alternate exit where Geese's limo was waiting for them.
