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Chapter 15: Silver Swords, Broken Promises, and Flashing Kisses

"Funny how much spirals suck."

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Marin licked her lips and smiled innocently at Lulu, but was answered only by the ornery black mage's dark stare.

"Damn!" she exclaimed," Seems the busty ones around here have some serious social problems."

Lulu pretended not to hear the assassin and began to gather her energy, Keep your loose tongue where I can't cut it off.

The bell rang.

Lulu unleashed her emotions and pent up energy into one attack," THUNDAGA!"

Marin breathed in sharply, her assassins sense told her that the ratio of energy released to magic power the black mage had just unleashed would cover about the entire platform in about 1.2605 seconds. Not nearly enough time to dodge, but no worries. Marin quickly drew a kunai and threw it up high into the air, just in time to attract the lighting's full force away from the platform, but not all of it and Marin grunted in pain as the shock sped through her body.

Shit! she thought, that was too strong for an average mage. This Dracula cookie is gonna be tough to crack.

Lulu took Marin's moment of pain to unleash a barrage of flames in her general direction," Firaga!"

This time, however, Marin was ready for the attack and in one fluid movement danced across the platform away from the oncoming firestorm, my turn.

In a flash she had three kunai out between the fingers of both hands," Time to dance busty!"

Lulu growled and dodged the kunai in rapid succession and began to ready another spell, but she suddenly thrown down as the kunai sped into her back. She cursed, Strings attached to her fingers!

Marin pulled her kunai back and smiled sweetly," You dance bad busty! Let me help."

She stood in place and began to twirl around rapidly until the kunai flew around her forming a large saw blade.

Shit, thought Lulu, this is going to be tough.

She quickly dodged Marin's first two advances, but felt herself growing tired quickly from her brash use of magic earlier. Marin sensed the mage's pulse quicken and decided to up the attack, I've got her cornered.

Marin stopped spinning and flicked her wrists to produce a total of twenty kunai," Time for the grand finale!"

She threw all twenty at Lulu and watched them home in with a primal sense of satisfaction, but her pleasure did not last long. Lulu had saved her last magic reserve for this and now raised her palm with her moogle's," Blizzaga!"

The ice hit the kunai and froze them, their strings, and Marin (who was connected to the kunai by the strings). Lulu sighed and turned to leave the platform, but the sudden sound of ice cracking stopped her in her tracks.

She turned to see the ice around Marin cracking, but the real problem was a black mist that had surrounded her body. With a deafening crunch, the ice split and there stood something that Lulu sensed was but wasn't her previous opponent. It was Marin's body, but her eyes were pitch black and black flames licked out from her mouth when she breathed.

"Who or what are you?" Lulu asked with a bit of uncertainty in her voice.

Marin chuckled in a voice much deeper and ancient than her own," EVEN THOLUGH IT IS BETTER FOR YOU NOT TO KNOW, I WILL TELL YOU. I AM ZOAR, THE BLACK DRAGON OF THE BAAJ TEMPLE!"

Lulu shuddered, something told her that she was in too deep," In that case, I back down from this fight."

The dragon's voice roared," NO YOU WON'T! I HAVEN'T EATEN IN A WHILE, YOU'LL DO JUST FINE!"

Marin charged Lulu head on and the black mist turned into the face of a humongous dragon with blood red eyes. The black mage closed her eyes and waited for the bite, I'm sorry Wakka. I love you.

But it never came as a blitzball smashed into Lulu's right side, sending her body sailing over the platform line and onto the ground. Lulu fell into unconsciousness with a smile on her face.

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Cloud's sword slammed into Yuna's staff and the young summoner gritted her teeth in pain, I can't do this much longer! Since the beginning of the fight, cloud had been on a relentless attack spree, not allowing her a break from close combat. Yuna had been trained in intermediate staff combat, but her efforts were useless against this seasoned fighter. She blocked again and again, but his attacks only increased in ferocity. Then, she saw an opening, quickly she produced a bit of energy and yelled," Duplicate!"

Cloud groaned as the summoner split in two and moved to opposite sides of the platform in a summoning stance. Please work! thought Yuna, it was a simple spell that Tidus had taught her in case she ever needed some time to summon. Cloud charged the Yuna on the left side and rammed his sword through her midsection, throwing her back off the platform and into the dust below. He smiled, but quickly frowned as Bahamut's growl came from behind him. The copy disappeared from the ground and Cloud turned to face Yuna's massive dragon. It started slamming at Cloud with it's fists, but was too slow and the able swordsman scored a hit on his left arm. Bahamut, however, was not about to be beaten by such a little man, and with one mighty bellow shot six balls of black magic at Cloud. They hit dead on and Cloud grunted as the magic seeped into his skin and drained his stamina, already his sword felt heavier. He rose to face the dragon, but found it gone and replaced by the young summoner.

Yuna smiled sweetly and said," I want to finish you off myself. No summons."

Cloud nodded and charged, but met a swift staff uppercut to the jaw and crumpled where he stood.

Yuna nodded in satisfaction and then leaned on her staff breathing hard.

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Tidus regarded Mr. Dark with a quizzical look; the man was concealed by a heavy, black trench coat and a large black hat that covered his face. Slowly, Tidus raised his sword, but winced as the wounds from his previous fight fought back with pain. Mr. Dark seemed to sense his discomfort and raised his unseen head slightly with a low chuckle.

The bell rang.

Tidus was exhausted and knew that he could only last so long in hand-to-hand combat, so he pulled up a slight reflect defense that Yuna had taught him. Mr. Dark laughed and threw off his clothes to reveal a human-like shadow of a body. Tidus gasped in surprise as the shadow turned into…father?

Jecht's shadow stood in front of him with his fists up and his eyes on fire," Come on you worthless excuse for a son! Fight me!"

Tidus shuddered, It can't be him! It's all an illusion! No, FATHER!

WHAM! Tidus was sent reeling by a left hook from Jecht's shadow to his jaw.

It smiled and growled," You're still weak, even after all your training, you're still no match for me!"

"AAAAARRGGGGGGGG!" Tidus lunged at the shadow and moved his sword in the moves he had memorized so many times before. He moved flawlessly, his sword barely made a sound as it cut through the air in flashes of light and metal. He clipped Jecht's shadow in the sides and shoulders, but showed no sign of stopping and instead fell back and raised his blade up high yelling," Omnislash!"

Before the shadow could react, Tidus disappeared and reappeared on the other side of the platform, but the shadow did not have much time to take this into consideration as it split into six different pieces and vanished. Tidus was breathing heavily and sighed deeply as Mr. Dark materialized in front of him," Well done young warrior. You have beaten one of my forms, but you won't be advancing farther than that. Taking your greatest fear and pitting it against you didn't prove effective."

He smiled and jumped back," Let's see you fight your greatest love!"

Tidus' eyes opened wide as he whispered," No."

The shadow turned into a shadow of Yuna and moved into summoner's stance," I hate you Tidus! You are the worst lover and a terrible person. I can never be with you!"

Tidus' heart clenched, it was her voice, so real, so angry, he had never seen it before," Yuna..."

Beaten and bruised, Tidus shivered on the ground as the shadow of his lover sneered and hit him again with her shadow staff.

"You are weak and worthless," it jeered.

Tidus felt a tear swim down his cheek, but did not put a hand up to stop it. The tear had rekindled a memory, one of Yuna crying when they first made love. It had hurt for her, but she had still whispered through it all," I love you. I love you."

Then he closed his eyes, it's not her. It's not her. IT'S NOT HER!

When he opened his eyes, red was all he could see as he cried," YOU ARE NOT HER!"

His sword glowed lightening blue as his overdrive ripped the shadow into ten different pieces.

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Wakka picked Lulu up and cradled her in his arms lovingly. In throwing her from the platform, he had forfeited his match with Kimahri and eliminated himself from the competition. However, he didn't care as long as she was safe.

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Yuna hugged Tidus fiercely as he limped off the platform," I saw, baby. I'm so sorry!"

"Don't be, it wasn't your fault," he huffed painfully.

Suddenly, five muscled men appeared flanking the one and only, Seymour Guado.

"Tidus Remming, Jayna Way, Katya, Marin, Feros Airn, you are all under arrest for the illegal use of magic tablets," he said in a stern voice.

"What the fuck!" exclaimed the girls.

Tidus cursed inwardly, he knew what this was about, he knew where they were going to take them. Feros smiled and winked at Remi, who looked worried but nodded.

The four men handcuffed Tidus, Feros and the girls," Any last words?"

Without a shred of thought, Tidus claimed Yuna's lips with extreme ferocity, practically eating her mouth. Yuna was caught by surprise, but soon began kissing back with the same passion. The guard finally parted them and led Tidus to Seymour's side," One hell of a goodbye kiss."

The guard that was taking Marin back was stopped by Cloud who assumed his position. Marin giggled," Oooooh. My guard is sexy!"

Cloud grunted and said nothing, but was sure to slip a tracking chip into her back pocket.

The guards led the new prisoners off, and Yuna stood tall," Send out a private message to all the remaining contestants. Meet outside the stadium, now!"

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