All the preliminary tournaments got to the finals and the first and seventh spot was taken after Zell claimed the first spot by beating Vaan in a hard fought match after using burning rave limit break, the second spot was taken by Zidane who defeated Ansem after head butting Ansem in the gut, Wakka defeated Sora to claim the 3rd in a back and fourth fight which could have gone either but Wakka using his elemental reel and came out with thunder which was too powerful, Reno defeated Fran in a ferule one sided fight by using speed and his weapon to dodge Frans bows to get 4th spot, Vivi froze Balflear to claim the 5th spot, Rude K.O'd Nooj to gain the 6th spot and Rikku beat Rinoa after dodging Rinoa wishing star limit break the slashing her.
Now it is time for the 8th spot
Cloud V.S Zack
Cloud and Zack come out and Zack and Cloud Stare at each other then they draw there humongous swords and then Zack strikes first and Cloud blocks with his sword and pushes Zack back and goes for a strike of his own but Zack twirls to dodge and he kicks Cloud in his mouth and Cloud goes flying and he then gets up and wipes the blood from his lip and then strikes again then Zack smiles and falls to his back and Cloud goes over him and Zack donkey kicks him to the air and Zack follows and slashes cloud and Zack pushes himself from the ceiling for another strike but cloud blocks it and slams Zack to the floor and starts to pound his face in then Zack looks unconscious and not breathing and Cloud gets worried and stops because Zack is his best friend and he sees if Zacks all right but then Zack punches cloud in the nose and Cloud jumps back " you lying son of a bitch " Cloud says in anger " so what I do what I can to win " replies Zack with a cheeky grin that sets Cloud off and Cloud goes for Zack as if he was an enemy and Zack can only defend himself then Cloud kicks Zack in the knee to knock him down then brings his sword down towards Zacks face but Zack rolls out of the way " Cloud take it easy, calm down " Zack says worryingly but Cloud continues and Zack starts to fight back then Cloud uppercuts Zack in the air and jumps towards him while swinging his sword in a circle and his sword splits into many and surround Zack and Cloud strikes through him and grabs a sword then strike then grabs a sword so fourth and so fourth ( basically how he beats Sephiroth in advent children ) then Zack gets Knocked out and the ref calls it to Cloud and Cloud gains the 8th spot.
Then Paine beats brother easily to get 9th, Shuyinn beats Aries via no show to get 10th, Squall defeats Loz after 1 hit to get 11th, Yuffie defeated Godo in an intense Ninja fight to gain 12th, Rufus defeated Elena with ease to gain 13th, Dyne overwhelmed Quistis with an array of gun shots to get 14th, Auron Defeated Gippal after Gippal quit after Auron cut his giant Machina gun in half to claim 15th spot, Riku cut the stuffing out of Cait Sith to get 16th, Tifa didn't let up on Garnet to claim 17th, Sephiroth defeated Edea in an awesome evil fight to get 18th, Cid defeated Hojo to claim 19th, The Greatest defeated Ward in a showing of speed to claim the 20th spot, Vincent defeated Tseng in an intense showing of hatred to get 21st, Zeifer defeated Irvine to get the 22nd spot, Lulu shocked Elna to get the 23rd spot, Baralai defeated Yozoo in a great relentless showing to claim 24th spot, Steiner defeated Laguna in a showing of endurance to claim the 25th spot, Seymour defeated Zangan to claim the 26th spot, Amarant defeated Barthello in a high power fight to claim 27th spot, Barrett defeated Ashe to claim 28th spot, Kimahri defeated Freya in a high flying intense match to claim the 29th spot, Kadaj defeated Kuja in a high intensity fight which sent Kadaj berserk to claim 30th spot, Kiros defeated Selpie to get the vital 31st spot and now the 32nd and final spot will be up for grabs in the final fight in the pre luminaries against Muroda and Tidus.
Tidus V.S Muroda
Tidus and Muroda stared at each other with swords in hand then they charged at each other and they got into a sword stale mate and then Tidus pushes Muroda away and hits spiral cut but Muroda blocks it and then Muroda unleashes an array of hits on Tidus then they go back and fourth and then Tidus tells Muroda "how about we finish this know with our best attacks" and Muroda agrees then Tidus goes for Blitz Ace and Muroda matches his strikes then Tidus gets one strike in and then sticks his sword in the ground (BTW he is using his Brotherhood sword in this fic) then he jumps from it and hits a powerful sphere shot with a blitz ball Yuna threw to him then Muroda goes down and Tidus wins and Tidus gets the final spot.