Here is another chapter! Enjoy!
It was a beautiful morning as Haru got up and went downstairs to eat breakfast, with Muta and Toto. Then the three went to the coliseum and saw Hiromi at the entrance waiting for them.
"Well FINALLY you arrived!" Hiromi said with a bit of relief in her tone.
Haru blinked a few times and started to point at Hiromi. "Who're you again?"
Hiromi fell over anime style then shouted at Haru. "ITS HIROMI, YOU JERK! HIROMI!"
"Ohhhhhh riiiiiiiigggggghhhhht. I knew you look familiar." Haru said with a animeish cat like smile.
Muta and Toto laughed at Hiromi's angry face, as she turned around and fumed to herself. "You bakas......."
"So whatcha doing here, Chicky #2?" Muta asked.
Hiromi turned around with the stern look. "Didnt you hear me last time when we saw each other? I said that I am not going anywhere until I defeat Haru in a duel!"
Toto smiled at the hot headed warrior. "Oh really? Are you sure you arent here to be our friend?"
That's when Hiromi exploded comically. "HECK NO! WHY MUST YOU BAKAS KEEP INSISTING THAT I NEED FRIENDS?! I'VE BEEN FINE ON MY OWN!!!!"
The trio laughed as they suddenly grabbed and dragged Hiromi inside the coliseum to see who Haru is going to fight against.
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(Meanwhile at the castle)
The elder cat king, Baron, and Lune who was accompanyed by Yuki in her maid outfit were waiting outside of the castle waiting for expected visitors.
"Father, must we REALLY wait for them? I mean I dont have any problems with Louise but her sister Dorothy is horrible!" Baron complained.
"I agree with Baron! Last time when she and Louise visited, she tried to force me to kiss her!" Lune cried.
The elderly cat king looked back at his two sons. "I know you dont like her as much as I dont, but just like Louise, Dorothy is also the princess of the southern lands of Japan and just in case that one of you will get married to the winner of the tournament one of you will have to marry your bethrothed. It is the royal law. Understood?"
Both of the princes nodded their heads as Yuki sighed in despair. Just then a carriage came along and stopped in front of the royal family. The carriage door opened and out came two cat princesses, two servants, and a old but noble looking orange male cat.
"Marco! My old friend how are you?" the elderly cat king greeted happily.
The old noble cat just smiled at his friend. "Im doing just find old friend. Has the tournament started yet? I cant wait to see the fight!"
"You will see the action soon. Come along." The elderly cat king beckoned as he and King Marco headed towards the coliseum. "You will be amazed about the competition we have this year......"
As the two started talking while walking, Baron and Lune looked at their "fiances". One of the betrothed who was supposed to be engaged to Baron, was a kind looking white cat with minty green eyes, just like Baron. She wore a simple purple dress and wears a silver princess crown on her head. While the other cat princess was a haughty and vain orange cat that has a beauty mark on her face and she wore a french sky blue gown, plus she was holding on to a fancy white feathered fan.....oh yeah and did I mention that she has a wig on her head? Im serious! She was wearing a wig! It was a white wig with decorative beads and jewels on it! Both the ladies went to their "fiances".
"Hello Baron." the white cat princess greeted and bowed.
"Hello Louise." Baron greeted back and bowed to her. "How are you?"
Louise sighed, "Could've been better. Dorothy is being a brat as always, I try to convince my father that I didnt want to marry you and that I want to marry Machida, the usual."
Baron had a questioning look on his face. "Who's Machida?"
"Oh I didnt tell you about Machida? Silly me! Machida is a servant in my father's castle but he is also my human lover, see? He's standing next to Dorothy's manservant Archibald!" Louise pointed out to a black haired good looking human boy who is wearing brown raggedy clothes standing next to a blonde human boy who was also wearing brown raggedy clothes.
"Why Louise! That's wonderful of you to find yourself someone who loves you!" Baron said happily.
Then they heard shouting and screeching from Lune's side.
"H-Hello, Dorothy...." Lune greeted relunctantly.
"Hmph! Hello yourself! When do we get married?! When do I get my riches?!" Dorothy bellowed.
Yuki as much as she wanted to stay by Lune's side, was too scared to go near Dorothy, which is pretty understandable to Lune, Baron, and Louise, since last time Yuki got too close to the angry looking haughty cat princess, she got slapped across the face.
"None of us is going to get married until a contestant of the tournament is declared the winner." Baron replied a bit angerily to Dorothy's harsh questionings.
Dorothy huffed grabbed Lune by the arm and dragged him to the coliseum.
"Oh Kami kill me please........" Lune begged under his breath as Yuki followed.
Both Louise and Baron sighed then she beckoned both Machida and Archibald as Baron and Louise began to follow the others to the coliseum.
"So.....anyway before I was rudely interrupted how have you been?" Louise asked Baron.
Baron smiled. "Wonderful! On the first day of the tournament, I have met a VERY wonderful warrior girl!"
Louise looked happy and excited at her supposed fiance. "Really?! Who is she?! Is she cute?!"
Baron at first looked surprised at Louise's reactions but smiled again and answered her. "Why yes! She may be human but she is such a cute girl! She has a marvelous sense of humor, she is sweet and she's kind! Oh Louise, she's just the girl who is after my own heart!"
Louise giggled at Baron's sudden happiness towards the human girl. "So what's her name?"
"Her name is Haru. And to tell you the truth Louise.....I hope she wins and marries me.....I cant seem to imagine my life without her...."
"Awwwwww how kawaii!" Dorothy thought happily to herself.
As they kept walking, Dorothy overheard their conversation and smirked coldly behind the fan, little did they know she was already a step ahead of those fools. She has paid a bandit leader to take down any threat that was winning the tournament, just in case if the warrior wanted Lune to be her husband. Plus she has been concerned about the family name, so if any of the warriors are out of the way, and that if there isnt any warrior choosing Baron as her husband, Louise will have no choice but to marry Baron as well.
"Serves them all right....Louise is a princess and its time she starts acting like one." Dorothy thought cruelly to herself.
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Haru, Muta, Toto, and Hiromi all blinked a few times in confusion when they stepped inside the coliseum.
"Ooooooookay.......where are the rest of the fighters?" Haru asked as she looked at the remaining fighters.
There was the silent looking fighter with red hair that she saw yesterday, along with a crazy grey furred female cat with guns mounted on her back and sides, and the last one is a human woman with long black hair, wears black leather clothes, and has a black leather whip that matches, while she wears a moulin rouge lipstick on her lips with black eyeliner.
"Its like.......they all vanished......into thin air....."Toto said with suprise in his tone.
"This is weird......I got a bad feeling about this Chicky." Muta said cautiously.
Hiromi thought to herself. "Muta is right, something is fishy going on around here...."
Haru then rests her gaze on the warrior girl with the leather clothes. Something about her seems to be suspicious, but then again Haru could be wrong. She was always taught by her mother to never judge a book by its cover.
"I dont know why, but Im having suspicious feelings towards that girl with the whip." Haru said with suspicion.
Hiromi looked at the whip wielding girl with suspicion as well. "You think she did it?"
"Maybe, but I could be wrong....." Haru said as she kept staring with suspicion.
Then the gruff man appeared looking a bit distraught. "Okay ladies......it seems that the other ladies chickened out from the tournament, so that just leaves the four of you......" he was going to say but a couple of calls prevented him from saying.
"Wait!"
A couple of girls came inside the coliseum. One was a female cat with black fur and the other was another human girl with glasses on.
"Who are you two?" the gruff man questioned.
"Im Magenta and this is Brooke." The black female cat said. "We're sorry that we're late we kind of slept in....."
The gruff man nodded his head. "Okay then. Haru, your next opponent will be.....Echidna. Please head out to the arena."
Haru and the woman with the leather outfit and whip headed out to the arena where the crowd cheered for Haru and the woman called Echidna. The royal families were already sitting at the balcony as Baron already pointed to her to Louise.
"Do you see her? The one with brown hair? That's Haru!" Baron cheered happily.
Louise looked at Haru with admiration. "Oh my she is a pretty one! You got good taste, Baron!"
The elderly cat king smiled underneath his beard at his son's admiration to the brunette warrior. It seems he really have found someone he loved after all. Then the haughty "humph" came from Dorothy's mouth.
"Hmph! If you ask me that barbarian is going to lose!" Dorothy said loudly.
Lune, Yuki, the cat king, Louise, the two servants and Baron all glared at her.
"Say what you want, Dorothy.....Haru will win." Baron sneered at her.
The spoiled orange cat princess smirked coldly then hid half of her face with her fan and fluttered it. "We shall see Baron."
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Haru and Echidna stood face to face with each other as the gruff man was standing between them.
"So you're Echidna huh?" Haru asked.
"What of it?" Echidna spat as she glared at Haru.
Haru was a bit surprised by Echidna's behavior but kept it to herself. Then the gruff man shouted. "BEGIN!"
Echidna quickly pulled out her whip and lashed out on Haru but Haru dodged. Echidna growled as she lashes out many times while Haru tries to keep on her toes.
"Hold still, maggot!" Echidna snarled.
Haru laughed. "You sound like Albel Nox!"
"I AM NOTHING LIKE THAT PRETTY BOY!"
Echidna then started to move around while lashing her whip everywhere. Haru jumped from here to there while trying to think on how to get to Echidna.
"This one is pretty tricky......how am I gonna get to her?" Haru wondered to herself.
As she kept dodging and kept on thinking, Haru accidently tripped and got striked by the whip.
"OW!" Haru hissed in pain as she held on to her cheek.
Muta, Toto, and Hiromi went "Ooooooooooooooh!"
"That has GOT to hurt!" Muta spoke.
Baron gasped with worry. "Haru!"
"Calm down son......she'll find a way to deal with this...." The cat king said as he kept watching the battle.
Haru held on to her cheek as a little blood came out. "OW! That really smarts!"
A laughing Echidna smirked cruelly at Haru. "Im glad you enjoyed it! They're are plenty more then that came from! It is time that you pay for mocking my gang, just when we were going to have our good steal from that white cat!"
Haru then widened her eyes at the mean Echidna. "You mean.....your the leader of that idiot group that tried to rob Yuki?"
"The one and only! Now that Im here, Im going to teach you a lesson that you will never forget! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Then Echidna started whipping everywhere as Haru does her best to avoid getting hit. She was hit by the whip 20 times in a row.
"HARU!!!!!!!" Her friends cried out.
As the leather whip was about to hit Haru again, Haru quickly took out her silver sword and parried the attack! Everyone gasped at the sight of the blade. Its silverish glow shined from the sun's rays, from the tip to the carvings on the blade, to the hilt. The carvings on the blade had a lion on it in attack position, while the words below the lion carving said: courage. The elderly cat king had a surprised look on his face when he saw the blade.
"It can't be!"
Echidna was more amazed at the sword's blade and just like any thief that sets his/her eyes's on priceless things, greed takes over.
"My my what a lovely sword you have......since you rarely use it so much I should take it from your hands...."
Then she used her whip and lets it wrap itself on Haru's sword blade. Muta, and Toto's eyes widened in fear as does Haru's.
"NO! DONT DO IT!!!!!!!" Haru shouted in fear.
Echidna's eyes blinked. "What?"
Muta then shouted to Echidna. "DONT BE A FOOL! IF YOU SEPERATE THAT SWORD FROM HARU, SHE WONT BE HERSELF ANYMORE!"
Everyone gazed at Muta with a confused look, even the royal family. Echidna however shook it all off and laughed at Muta's words.
"Oh shut up you fat cow! Im taking this sword and none of you will stop me!"
Echidna then fiercely pulled the sword from Haru's hands. Because that Echidna pulled so hard the sword flew into the air and went over the coliseum's walls. Muta and Toto's hearts stopped and looked at Haru in fear, Hiromi was still confused on what's going on. So are the royal family, except for the elderly cat king. Baron looked at Haru with intense worry, even though he was confused about Muta's words, he just couldnt help but having a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach. Haru stood where she was, afraid on what would happen. Then she started to feel a feel pulses within her soul.
"Oh no.........Oh kami no......."
Her chocolate brown eyes were timid at first but when she blinked......they turned into an amber color with jet black slits........
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Oh noes! Haru's transforming! Will Muta, Toto, and Hiromi be able to find the silver sword?! Will Haru be back to her old self?! Will she kill Echidna on accident?! Will I ever calm down and take a chill pill for once in a tense moment?! Stay tuned to find out!