Saras plunged into the water and Hei An dived right after him. Under the water she transformed into a crocodile while Saras chose his platypus. With a burst of speed he launched himself further onwards, Hei An with a lazy flick of her tail powered forwards, catching up to him and slamming her jaws shut around his tail. Blood seeped from the wound, and Saras opened his beak in a silent scream, accidentally swallowing in the water. He tried to kick to the surface, but Hei An dragged him further downwards. He teleported onto the river bank, coughing and spluttering. That's it I'm out of here.

Before he could do anything however Hei An leapt from the water and threw a sharp spear of pure darkness that pierced directly through his chest, pinning him to the ground. Landing next to him she shifted back into a leopard.

"Um, mercy"? He coughed, blood dripping out of his mouth.

He was a child. She thought. "Yes", suddenly to his horror tendrils of darkness pierced into him, the next thing he knew his soul was hers.

Turning into a fox, Hei An admired her reflection in the water.

"My, don't I look younger ? A bit too manly around the chest, and my fur doesn't really suit a fox. But"- she wrapped the tail around herself."This tail is just so fluffy"!

J: Well Hei An just had more sustain than Saras.

G:The fox's mobility was far greater but his attacks annoyed her more than anything.

J: All in all she just had an advantage. Okay, so points tally time.

G: In the lead so far with two wins under his belt stands Danzaburo Danaki.

J:The second place shifter is Hei An with one win so far.

G: Xueye stands with one win and no losses so he's equalized with Hei An.

J: Next up it's Rikuaoshi with only one loss so far.

G: And in last place is Saras with three losses.

J:But he only fought twice ?

G: The Grey Coincidence said that Xueye would beat Saras and he would prefer if they didn't fight for the sake of some story's plot.

J:So Saras only has one battle left ?

G: Yup, and it's against Rikuaoshi.

J: So best for last ?

G: We'll see. Anyways next up we have Xueye's first battle and Danza's third. In case you're too stupid to notice it's Xueye vs Danzaburo.


The temple was quiet, too quiet. Xueye lazily got off his bed, rubbing sleep out of his eyes. The Fox in Crimson wore a crimson cloak, with crimson pants that matched his crimson fur, in fact the one thing not crimson about him was a sheet of metal with a single red droplet of blood painted on it's flat sheet, this metal he wore on top of his head, and it covered his head down to the snout.

Marching he got the distinct sense he was being watched. When he reached the great flat expanse that was the temple room he lit a candle, which lit several others and the next thing he knew the whole room was alight.

"Who are you"?

A figure stepped out from the shadows, a racoon, it was Danzaburo Danaki. Dressed in his usual attire the tanuki was somewhat less than impressive to Xueye, who by now was used to wonders.

"They call me Danzaburo Danaki".

"Am I supposed to be scared"?

"You should be".

FIGHT!

Drawing a katana Danza entered his stance, awaiting Xueye to make the first move. The fox tapped a claw to his nose, waiting for the tanuki to attack.

The two waited, and waited and waited some more.

"Well, if you refuse to strike me, then I'll just get this over with". Xueye said.

Charging forwards, Xueye slammed a paw into Danza's chin, only to discover the tanuki was just an illusion that vanished in a puff of green smoke. Turning on his feet, Xueye clenched his paws tightly, blood dripping from the scratches he had made. Danzaburo appeared before him, he would have said something mocking, but was sent flying into the temple walls by a powerful ball of crimson.

"Was that blood"? Danzaburo was a little freaked out by what had just happened, but failed to show it. He had seen a lot of creepy things in his lifetime, a bit of blood wasn't going to scare him off.

"Of course", Xueye answered, summoning back the ball of blood, which Danza daintily leapt over as it flew through the air to return to it's master.

Danzaburo threw a couple of leaves, Xueye threw his ball of blood upon it swallowing up the leaves inside of it. They exploded dutifully, clouding the inside of the crimson bubble in black tar with bits of Kunai stuck into it.

"How interesting, you disguised a few leaves as weapons. Truly um, special don't you think"?

Danza could hardly think for the fear that pounded through him, he was frozen to the spot, he couldn't do anything. Think Danza think ! He scraped a claw against the flat of his palm, forcing himself to think of the pain rather than the fear. Suddenly the fear left him. Furious with himself for being affected by this kitsune's tricks, he clenched his fists, a bit of blood dripping to the floor.

"Kitsune kun, you are about to enter a whole new world of pain."?

"Believe me, I already know pain. And what did you just call me"?

Xueye lifted the drops of blood which vanquished the illusion completely.

Suddenly he was surrounded by white and found himself in an arena, one absolutely full of Danzaburos.

"Danza-sama, Danza-sama, Danza-sama !"

"Oh, shut up". Slicing himself further he sucked up a long chain of bloody droplets, before launching each and every one of them at his opponent's with the force of a machine gun. The illusion vanished as he slammed crimson bullet after crimson bullet into the tanuki chests. "Is that really the best you got"?

"No, this is", Danzaburo shapeshifted.

I'm back guys. Celebration noises. Okay so my updates are going to be slow, but hey at least I'm updating stuff.

Okay, so vote , Danza wins, Xueye wins, or do you guys need more info ?

Yup, Saras just didn't match up to Hei An in power, well better luck next time, right ?

Oh and who's next ? Which battle do you want to see, coz so far we're nearly halfway.

We've done :

Hei An vs Saras

Saras vs Danzaburo

Danzaburo vs Xueye

Xueye vs Saras

Danzaburo vs Rikuaoshi

So we have remaining:

Hei An vs Danzaburo

Saras vs Rikuaoshi

Xueye vs Hei An

Xueye vs Rikuaoshi

Hei An vs Rikuaoshi

So who next, who wins or do you need more info.

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