Disclaimer: Alchemypoetry and I(DealyDreagon12), do not own any of the FF7 characters or any Zelda characters. Brittney and James we do own, so if you want a cookie, then do not steal

Raizen walked down a vacant hallway and went to the balcony over looking the arena.

"Your majesty may I have a word with you" he asked the King.

" I don't see why not... but of course" the King replied. Raizen then led him out into the hall.

"I found out an old tournament style. Its quite intresting really. You see its where teams go one-on-one and every man fights at least once. I think that it would make the crowd wild...It'd show your enemies what your army has to offer and to fear you...what do you think?"

"Hummmm" the King began stroking his beard in thought.

Later that afternoon+

With their first fight a victorious one, the team of unlikely heroes all felt that they deserved some rest. So they all, went all around to explore Hyrule. Except Link and Zelda of course, living there all their lives, they knew their home well.

"Hey Link, do you know a good place were I can take a nice breather or a swim?" James asked as he stretched his arms lazily.

"Lake Hylia has what you seek... just watch out for Zoras" Link replied with a nod.

"Ok, thank you...wait...what are Zoras?" Link laughed before shaking his head.

" People of the waters. Just don't piss them off ".

" Right " James laughed before walking towards the castle doors. He then turned to back and pointed unknowingly in any direction.

" Past the hills and gate, towards the mountains ".

"Ah...yeah ".Zelda slowly approached Link to reveal important news.

"Link there's ugh...there's been a change in the rules... once...once again...ummm...instead of having the whole team fight together... it's...its now going to be one on one matches... were everyone on the team fights, the fight you just had was a preliminary match" Zelda said nervously..

"Damn! Just like your father to make totally unfair for me ...ugh... well guess it's all right... thank you" Link sighed as he walked away slowly to Cloud's side. He had promised to show the mako infested warrior around his home.

"Hi your majesty... how are you?" Zelda turned around to see Tifa standing with her arms crossed and a smile upon her face.

"Oh please ...call me Zelda, and I'm doing just fine. Would you like to go explore the market? Maybe pick up some more clothes there?"

"Ok! sounds fun " .

Lake Hylia+

"Wow this is a nice place! Look at all the fish! Good thing I'm hungry "James took off his blue top to reveal his muscles that almost looked like they were carved from stone, along with scares, old and new . James tied his dirty blonde hair back into a pony tail, before removing his swords and putting them next to his shirt.

"God I really need this " James dived straight into the water not knowing he's being watched. The shadowy figure then began to move towards his swords and his shirt.

"What a fool, I can easily just take his swords from him." the mysterious person laughed.James looked up and saw the shadow moving to his stuff.

'Ok go ahead and try to steal my stuff '. The shadow begins to pick up one of the swords with their left arm, but is suddenly grabbed by another arm.

"Well it seems like we have a thief here " James used his advantage to throw the figure into the water and out of their mouth, came a girly scream.

"Huh?...oh god." James then realized who the shadow really was.

"GOD DAMN IT JAMES YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO THROW ME!! NOW MY ROBE IS ALL WET AND SHIT!!" Brittney hissed.

" Sorry ... didn't realize it was you until after I threw you into the water" he laughed. Brittney swam towards him before climbing ashore and sitting down.

"Well I hope this teaches you not to steal from me right?" James sat down next to her.

"Yea... but the next time don't throw me into water " Brittney answered in an angry tone as she squeezed water from her hair.

"By the way... why are you here Brit?"

"Don't call me Brit... I'm here because I was walking around and I saw you here, you left your swords unguarded so I decided to teach you a lesson and try to steal them, does that answer your question?" snarled Brittney obviously still pissed about being thrown and getting her robes wet. Brittney then turned to see James for the first time with out his shirt. She couldn't see before because she was too far away and had water in her eyes. But seeing all his muscles and the scares all over his body... she then for the first time in years... began to blush.

"Well, I'm sorry about your robe and clothes. when we get back I'll get you new ones, ok?" asked James with a smile on his face, eyes closed.James and Brittney then began to talk about things for awhile before realizing that the sun was setting.

"Oh ... look at that... well we better be going now if we want to be in top shape for our match tomorrow " James stood and put his shirt back and swords in place. He then extended his hand to help Brittney up. The walked back to the rooms back at the castle where the team was staying.

At the castle+

James walked Brittney back to her room, who she shared with Tifa. He then contineued walking to his room.

"So...James...where were you and Brittney for the day that you both come back at the same time, huh, huh." Cloud nudged James with his elbow.

"Well if you must know we were talking at the lake "James answered Link then preceeded to sit down on his bed and began to twirl his knife in his fingers. Shaking his head at Cloud.

"Oh...by the way, tomorrow, instead of having two teams fight each other all together, we are going to have one-on-one matches and everyone on the team fights at least one match." said Link. When Link gave this new rule both Cloud and James looked at him like he was kidding.

"What...I'm just as surprised as you. Zelda comes up tp me after the match as says that all the matches that took place were preliminary rounds" Link responded as he stared at James and Cloud.

"Well I'm going to bed now, night." Cloud sighed .James and Link turned over and went to sleep.

Next morning+

The crowd was cheering as they saw Link's team enter the arena which looked like a huge pit.

"Wow! More people here then yesterday!" Tifa stated.Then on the other side of the area the saw their opponents all in a horizontal line, one was skinny, another had a staff, one had huge muscles, and the last one had just a sword.

"I'll take the first match" volunteered James as he began to advance to the center of the arena, he then saw the skinny man walk up to the center. 'Heh him...better not underestimate him cause why would he fight in the tournament when he's that skinny?' James thought.

When both of them were in the center the whole coliseum went quit and the King shouted

"BEGIN!!!"

And with that word the whole place erupted with cheer, while James continued to stare at his opponent.

"Well I see your confused to as why I am here right?"

"Yes I am, you don't look like much of a fighter, you don't have a weapon, so you can only use spells."

"Yes you are correct I cant do anything but cast spells...James" replied the man with a smirk on his face. James the jumped back and drew both his swords.

"You see James Im a dragon summoner, so I don't have to fight my dragon's do." the man said. James then began to get into his fighting position.

"I'll defeat anything you throw at me." James said with nothing but confidence, but a small part of him wondered, just how exactly this man knew him.

A.N. ok that's all I'm able to do right now. School's been a killer on me that's why it took so long to come out and I apologize for it all you faithful readers.

DeadlyDragon12

Author's Note+ Ugh, school's been murder on both of us. Unfortunately, I don't know when I'll be able to make the next chapter. Anyway, making corrections isn't easy, and its annoying the hell out of me that my buddy here is writing in past tense. Eh, love em anyway. Alright, listen up people, reviews please, thats all we ask. It takes probably you to type 36 words per minute. The minimum review only has to be three words. Not much, so whats stopping you?! Alchemypoetry