Backies: It's been a while, but here's the next chapter. Got a new RP up and running on Gaia, FF: WEB. Stands for Final Fantasy, when the Eye Blinks. Welp, hope you like it.
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"And the the 41st seed is defeated by team Orchid!" announced Phil. The crowded stands cheered, their voices filling the Coliseum. It had been years since it had been so full. The satyr turned to the three fighters in the ring. "Nice job... for a buncha rookies."
"I hate you," growled Arc, causing Phil to laugh. "I'll kill ya after all this is over, ya hear?"
"Kupopo... I wish we'd get some more challanging matches," murmured Montblanc.
"So do I... he still has enough breath to gripe at Phil," noticed Orchid. She swung the keyblade about aimlessly. "So what's next? More soldiers and mages?"
"And now, the 40th seed..." started Phil loudly.
"Guess we find out," said Arc, walking back over to the other two.
"Yuffie and Rikku!"
"What?" he said in surprise.
"Well, they tried to get in a tournament that last time, remember?" reminded Orchid. "Ah, here they come."
Rikku came bouncing happily out the door towards the arena, Yuffie following not far behind, waving at the crowds and doing her best to look cool. She performed a frontflip onto the tiled fighting arena when she got there, landing neatly beside her partner, Rikku.
"Well, fancy meeting you here," Yuffie grinned impudently.
"Showoff," muttered Arc.
"What was that?" shouted the ninja angrily, drawing her oversized shuriken.
"Hey, hey, the match hasn't started yet," said Orchid.
"Aaaand, start!"
"Now it has," grinned Arc, readying his sword and shield.
"Bring it on, mop top," grinned Yuffie.
"Okay, you two get Miss Sunshine, and I'll get the loudmouth," barked Arc, before charging the ninja.
"Right, well, looks like we got you, Rikku," said Orchid.
"No lightning?" asked the older girl.
"Yeah, of course, kupo," said Montblanc.
"But other than that, no holds bar," added Orchid.
"Perfect," smiled Rikku.
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"You can't beat the Great Ninja Yuffie!" she called as she neatly dodged Arc's swordstrike.
"You mean like how I couldn't last time?" he taunted smugly, punching at her with his sheild. She jumped out of the way, performing a backflip and landing easily on her feet. He grinned before swiping a leg at her. "Of course, look's like you're improved some."
"More than you have," shot back Yuffie as she dodged, then used his forehead as a jump-off point. She snickered as he stumbled back, before throwing a number of smoke bombs at him.
"Ah, crap," cursed Arc, coughing as the smoke obscured his vision. "Now where'd she go?"
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"Watch out!"
Montblanc and Orchid narrowly evaded a thrown grenade, watching as Rikku readied another. Montblanc deflected the next with Aero, but a third exploded a bit too near them.
"Okay, where'd I put that potion..." murmured Orchid as she searched about her person.
"You mean this?" smiled Yuffie, waving a vial of liquid at them. She tossed about carelessly before popping the cork and drinking it down. "Mmm, tasty. Feel good as new!"
"Hey, that was ours!" protested Orchid.
"Well, she is a theif," sighed Montblanc.
"But don't say I don't give anything back, nya-nya!" giggled Rikku, throwing another grenade their way.
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"Come on out," Arc shouted into the darkened surroundings. He slashed his sword in frustration at the smoke.
"Over here!" called the ninja. Arc turned just in time to block a flying swarm of kunai with his sheild, though it left his arm ringing with the impact. "Can't catch me!"
"Oh, yes I can!" yelled Arc. He brazenly charged in the direction that the knives had come flying from, swinging his sword and sheild about wildly.
"What are you, a bull?" lauged Yuffie, her shadowy form dodging away in the smoke as he barrelled by.
"No... but I sure got a temper!" replied Arc. "Wings of the Dragon, fly into the Azure Sky!"
Arc swung his sword, and a great gale followed. Time blurred about his form as he swung faster and faster, the winds working up into a frenzy. Suddenly, the typhoon was unleashed, and the winds of change blew away the obscuring smoke.
"Uh-oh," said the revealed Yuffie. "That can't be good..."
"For me, it is," grinned Arc, advancing on her with a malicious smile.
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"Have another one!" shouted Rikku happily, tossing a flash bang and a fire grenade at them. The pair shielded their eyes and dodged, only to jump back into each other. They fell in a heap while Rikku, and portions of the audience, laughed at their misfortune.
"Kupopo...my head," moaned the moogle. "She's too fast..."
"Fast, huh?" asked Orchid. "This'll cool her jets..."
"You gonna fight, or just gab?" teased the other girl.
"Oh, we're here to fight," smiled Orchid, running a hand across the Judgement Lotus, a blue sparkle running across it. She swung the keyblade, trailing frost, then turned to Rikku. "Blizzara Rave!"
She blurred out of vision, trailing glitters of ice behind her. Rikku cried out as the cold struck her, literally. Orchid blurred into vision behind her, then turned gracefully and disappeared again. Explosions of ice and snow went off around the older girl, frost coating her arms and legs.
"Freezing Finale!" yelled Orchid. She disappeared and ice exploded around Rikku. Orchid reappeared behind her, keyblade held out, and Rikku stood behind, ice sealing her legs to the colesium floor.
"Give up?" asked Orchid smugly.
"This one does!" shouted Arc from where he sat on top of Yuffie's back, her arms pinned.
"We win, kupo!" exclaimed Montlanc happily.
"Great!" shouted Phil. "Only forty more to go!"
"Whaaaaat?"
