Hello dear readers! Phoenix Champion here with another chapter of Alpha Gear.

Now something I need to let you guys know right now is this: My buddy Spiceracksargent001's sister story- The Elemental Reavers- Is going to tackle the Tournament that was informed of in the Open Market chapter.

Now, I'm not gonna use this tournament myself, but Spice need's some OC's to fill the roster, there is a link on my profile that will take you to the character creation list for these OC's.

Now or you all I'll give you a chapter not completely focusing on the four people we've been watching, and instead I'll give another world building chapter, this time involving the tournament's and how they work.

WARNING! This chapter will contain VORE (The concept of a person of creature swallowing another person or animal, usually alive and whole) This chapter will contain what is known as Soft Vore, meaning no blood/gore so nothing too too extreme.

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[David's P.O.V.]

When I woke up the next morning I noticed my Headhuntress was cuddling up to me quite closely... heck her head was snuggled deeply into my neck.

'Good morning David' Headhuntress said hugging me tighter before getting off of me and the bed, then she noticed a blinking on my Bracer, 'You've got a message.'

"You think?" I mumbled picking up and attaching my Bracer and opening the message.

[David: We're thinking of taking today to rest and watch some of the news of some of the entertainment channels in this world. Think you could buy a TV? : Mia]

"Well that's good to know, we're watching TV tod-" I paused as I realized something, "Wait why am I the one buying the TV!?"

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"Asshole's all of you." I grumbled as I sat on my bed with Headhuntress and my Troop Dragon.

"Sorry." Mia said as she and her Harpie Lady perched on top of my bedframe, "But you had the most money."

"She's got a point." Sadie said with her Fortune Lady Wind summoned and Sadie sitting in the lap of her monster.

"I tried to offer, but Mia sent the message too fast." Axel said with his Avian summoned.

'But you didn't try to offer afterwards.' Avian pointed out.

"Whatever." I grumbled, "At least I have a TV in my room." My TV was a large flatscreened one, though I'd have been happier if it wasn't mounted on the bones of a dinosaur's foot.

'Why is everything here made of bones!?' Troop Dragon cried out.

'I dunno let's just turn the damned thing on... Who's got the remote?' Harpie Lady asked.

"I got it." I said turning on the TV.

"Welcome ladies and gentlemen!" The announcer on the channel said, "And welcome to the Third match of Costel Village's first round of Tournament Battles!"

"Oh a tournament." Sadie cheered, "Why didn't we enter- Oh right the Outcasts."

'This is a good chance to learn how to fight in the Tournament's before we enter one.' FL Wind said, 'We'd best take notes.'

"In this round we have returning contender, born right here in Costel Village- Persephoneeeeeee SIREN!" The announcer called out.

The screen zoomed in on a young woman about 18 waving to the crowd. She had long golden colored hair and sea blue eyes, her chest was covered by armor that appeared to have been made out of a lobster, her legs however were replaced by a red scaled fish tail, she was armed with a spear that appeared to have been made with a long, slightly jagged, pole made of coral with a conch shell as the spear tip.

"Her opponent is newcomer, Vannnnnnnce CHASE!" The announcer called out.

The opponent was a large guy wearing what was obviously steel platemail, with a helmet that completely covered his face, however the golden reptilian tail coming out of his but still was visible and unarmored, a steel kite shield on one arm and a heavy looking steel mace in the other... Really it wasn't hard to see the guy was aiming for a knight theme.

Then the stats of the appeared on Screen

[Persephone: Lvl 6, LP 1000, ATK 150, DEF 160

[Vance: Lvl 6, LP 1000, ATK 180, DEF 180

"Now then as a reminder to all viewers and future Tournament contestants, during a tournament Player Defense is reduced to a Passive state, as to allow opposing Players a fair chance at doing damage to potentially stronger opponents." The announcer said.

"Forget putting it a passive, that Vance guy's equipment is superior to Persephone's." Axel muttered.

"Yeah." Mia added, "Plus she's at a natural disadvantage, she's a Fish type, she doesn't get any natural power boosts as far as I'm aware... At least not on land."

"So basically she's at a disadvantage." Sadie said.

"Let's see what monsters they have though." I added.

"PLAYER!" The announcer called out, "Summon your Monster! And remember, only one monster and one Equip Spell if you so choose!"

"I summon, Red Archery Girl!" Persephone shouted.

"Come, Uraby!" Vance demanded.

The two monsters appeared next to their Duelists.

[Red Archery Girl: Lvl 5, LP 500, ATK 150, DEF 160]

[Uraby: Lvl 4, ATK 150, DEF 80]

"Persephone's really used that Red Archery Girl a lot, she's leveled it up once." FL Wind said.

"True." Troop Dragon said, "But the primordial lizard has the size advantage and it's Player has the attack Advantage."

[Costel Tournament- No P.O.V.]

"On your marks!" The Announcer called out as Red Archery Girl drew her bow and aimed it at the Uraby, which was much larger that her, but not large enough to her clamshell in it's mouth.

Persephone began to float just above the ground, thanks to Admin's understanding that if someone wanted to go mermaid they needed to move on land every so often, and readied her spear at the Dinosaur Player in the heavy armor.

"You really think you've got this?" Vance taunted, "Please, you're old man musta been desperate if he stuck his junk in a Monster card just to get off."

Persephone growled as her eye twitched, "Shut up..." She growled under her breath.

"Fight!"

Persephone hurled her spear at Vance, thankful that Admin programmed it so unless you handed over a weapon to an opponent it was reappear in the users hands if they lost or threw it.

Vance smacked aside the spear as the Uraby roared and charged at the Red Archery Girl, taking the arrow she shot at it before slashing it's claws into the monster, removing 70 LP from the mermaid monster.

Persephone's spear returned and she charged Vance head first, jabbing him with her spear, dealing 60 Damage to him, only to be slammed aside by his mace and sent underfoot of the Uraby right as it stomped on her, dealing her a total damage of 170 Damage.

"Oh that has got to hurt right there!" The announcer called out.

Vance grabbed Persephone by her tail and dragged her out of the underside of the dinosaurs foot and raised his mace, only to get shot in the shoulder by an arrow from the Red Archery Girl, losing 60 more LP.

Vance growled as Persephone got up, then grabbed her as the Red Archery Girl shot another arrow. Vance was expecting friendly fire, however Admin's figured a lot of monsters might cause such an issue, so Vance was surprised when her took another 60 LP of damage.

Angered, Vance hurled Persephone toward his Uraby, which slammed her to he ground with it's claws, taking another 70 of her LP.

"Not so tough are ya?" Vance taunted,only to get slapped in the face by Persephone's tail, causing another 60 damage to him.

"Uraby, clam that Red Archery Girl shut!" Vance shouted, triggering Uraby to leap at the shelled Mermaid, who quickly closed it's shell to defend itself, this however left her unable to attack, thus allowing Vance to pick up Persephone once more and slam her in the face with his mace, dealing 100 LP of damage to her.

He then kicked her over to his Uraby, which slamme it's claws on her, causing another 70 damage to her.

Persephone raised her spear to counter another attack from the creature, causing the Uraby 110 Damage, but unfortunately disarming her.

Angered the Uraby clawed at her again, four more times to bring her LP to 310.

Vanec picked up the dazed Persephone once more, then slammed her in the gut with his mace 3 times, bringing her down to a measly 10 LP

Persephone coughed once before looking up at Vance, and thust her returned Spear into him, only for him to bat it away and laugh, "I guess that's about as much as I'd respect from a girl that's only half human." Vance said throwing her back to his Uraby.

Persephone screamed as she flew toward the dinosaur, which opened it's mouth, jumped off Red Archery Girl toward Persephone.

And in a heartbeat Persephone was in the Uraby's stomach.

Persephone's screamed as she thrashed about in the dinosaurs stomach, this caused Red Archery Girl to lunge out of her shell and began to fire rapidly at the monster that had swallowed the Player.

Unfortunately, each arrow was knocked aside by Vance as he laughed and walked toward the Red Archery Girl.

After exactly a minute had passed Persephone's screams cut off, and Red Archery Girl faded away.

[David's Home, David's P.O.V.]

I stared dumbstruck at the screen...

"That..." Sadie said as she clung to my arm shivering, "Was terrifying."

"Why in the world are Monsters allowed to eat People?" Mia demanded.

"Well they act like they would in a natural world right?" Axel spoke up, "I think it's natural a Dinosaur would eat someone."

"I'm gonna need to look that information up." I muttered as I opened my Bracer's help guide.

"And that concludes the third battle!" The Announcer called out, "Don't worry newcomer's Miss Siren will respawn at her home with nothing more that bad memories of this fight. See you all in thirty minute for the next Round!"

I cut off the T.V. there, sorry but I was a little too unsettle to keep watching tournament's today.

"Found it." I said as I found the note on Devourment.

[Players be aware that larger monsters are in fact capable of devouring you alive- However for the sake of fairness in realism there are a few rules that are applied to this unfortunate outcome- First, the Monster must be big enough to fit it's prey into it's mouth, obviously- Second, in order for a monster to eat someone the Player or monster being eaten must be at 10 LP or less, so it's best to keep your LP high- Third, when swallowed you have exactly 1 minute before you lose the rest of your lifepoints, however if the monster is destroyed in that time framed you'll be released. We hope you do not and will not experience this for your selves (And we really didn't want to put this in, Simon was too stubborn about it, sorry.)]

"Leeeeet's watch something else." Sadie said picking up the remote and turning the TV on and changing the channel to.

"Cartoons? Really Cuz?" I asked.

[Costel- Under the docks.]

Persephone floated under the water, her Red Archery Girl right beside her, patting her back.

"F-four times." Persephone sobbed as her tears mixed with the sea water, "F-four times I've entered that tournament a-and each time I'm beaten in the first round... A-and this time I-I-I-I was EATEN!" Persephone wailed as she curled up.

"There there Persephone." Red Archery Girl said, "It's my fault, I keep going into my shell when the enemy get's close and they lock me inside of it, and I can't provide the ranged support you're used to."

"I-It's not your fault Red." Persephone sniffed, "The way he talked about my mother like that... I-I... I just got so... So..."

Red Archery Girl then grabbed Persephone's arm and pulled her into her shell, "Come on Seph, just take a short nap with me, like we always did whenever you were sad."

Persephone had no objections as the shell closed around her.

[Grave Town- Late at night]

"Listen." Rott sighed as she looked at a female figure that was cloaked in the shadows of a building, "My old man's got nothing to do with you Black Talon thugs, so just get lost will you?"

"Now now my petit cadavre." The woman said with a french accent, "That's not a very nice thing to say. Especially to L'araignée de Black Talon."

"Listen bug, I'm tired of saying it." Rott said, anger seeping into her emotionless tone for once, "Grave Town is a place for people to rest and recover on their war to the Catacombs, it was never built with the intent of becoming a Black Talon black market place or whatever the fuck you've got planned for it, so piss off!"

The woman in shadows tsked repeatedly, six limbs uncurling from her back as several figures eye's began to glow from the shadow's behind her, "Now that's crossing the line petit cadavre, let's just see how you and your dear papa feel about it when you go a few weeks without something... say... Your legs."

Rott gasped just before a figure blurred out of the shadows and grabbed her leg, before screaming loudly... followed by a large snap, and then a second one.

Rott scrambled back from the shadows, looking in horror at her sudden lack of legs, torn off halfway down her thighs.

"You'll get these back as soon as I get what I want." The woman said, "Emmenez-les dans les catacombes, voyez comme elle aime les chasser là-bas sans pouvoir marcher."

"Yes mistress, at once." A male voice said before he ran off.

"I do hope you learn your lesson my petit cadavre." The woman said before she teleported out of Grave Town, her entourage doing the same shortly after.

"Yeah..." Rott said as she reached for her deck, "I've learned something bug bitch." Rott continued as she pulled out a Dark Assailant card, "I've learned French you huit chienne armée."

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Well folks, that's the chapter for you, I hope you all enjoyed it and... apologies if the Vore scene made you uncomfortable, but someone PMed me a question about it and this is my answer to it.

If you didn't read my warning and were disturbed with no preparation... NOT MY FAULT!

Anyway, now you've seen a Tournament round, a person who will play a role in the story, and another member of Black Talon... Sorta.

See you all in the next chapter.