Before Reading Notes: There is A LOT.
Ienzo- 10- 4th grade
Sora- 15- Sophomore
Riku- 16- Sophomore
Kairi- 15- Sophomore
Naminé -15- Sophomore
Roxas- 15- Sophomore
Hayner- 16- Sophomore
Pence- 16- Sophomore
Olette- 15- Sophomore
Xion- 15- Sophomore
Lea- 17- Junior
Isa- 17- Junior
Ventus- 16- Junior
Zexion- 17- Junior
Vanitus- 16- Junior
Demyx- 17- Junior
Marluxia- 18- Junior
Larxene- 17- Junior
Terra- 18- Senior
Aqua- 17- Senior
Lexaeus- 18- Senior
Axel- 18- Senior
Saix- 18- Senior
Xemnas- 35- Teacher of History
Xigbar- 40- Teacher of P.E.
Braig- 38- Teacher of Weight Training
Xaldin- 29- Teacher of Nutrition and Wellness (Cooking)
Dilan- 27- Teacher of Nutrition and Wellness Teacher 2 (Cooking)
Vexen- 40- Teacher of Science
Even- 39- Teacher of English
Luxord- 27- Teacher of Math
Eraquas- 44- Terra's Daddy :3
Xehanort- 30- Principal
Aeleus- 37- Lexaeus's Dad
"Alright everyone," Xaldin started. "We're going to be having our cook off competition fairly soon. Now, Mr. Dilan and I will begin our elimination rounds. You all will be divided into your groups and start on the recipe you all had found while looking on the computers a couple class periods ago. You all divided your ingredients among each other and brought them in today to begin your dish."
The students started talking excitedly amongst each other, effectively upsetting Xaldin, considering he wasn't done talking yet.
"Quiet, quiet!" He shouted over them. "I'm going to pass out your ingredient papers you handed in and you all will set to work on you dish."
The teens divided into their groups they'd had so far that year and went to their respected kitchens. Xaldin came around to each kitchen and handed out the ingredient papers then returned to his desk to do paperwork.
Hayner, Olette, Pence, Roxas and Naminé all stood in their kitchen area waiting for Xaldin to make his way over to them.
"Alright, everyone remember what their doing for the recipe?" Olette asked the group. Everyone nodded.
"Hayner," Xaldin mumbled as he handed the group their paper. "Hayner, please refrain from throwing any flour this time."
"I'm not even sure our recipe has flower in it." Hayner smiled.
Xaldin shook his head and made his way off to the other kitchens.
"Alright, let's do this!" Hayner exclaimed. The group went over to the fridge and grabbed their ingredients.
"Okay, our mini cheesecakes are cooled, all we need is our toppings." Olette informed.
"Okay, Hayner, Pence, you two cut up the strawberries and Naminé and I will cut up the bananas." Roxas said.
"I'll put everything together." Olette added.
"Hayner," Pence started. "Try not to eat all the strawberries."
"Why am I always getting yelled at in this class?" Hayner exclaimed.
"You're always screwing around." Roxas laughed.
Hayner and Pence set to work on the strawberries while Roxas and Naminé made quick work to cut up the bananas into small enough bits for their cupcake sized cheesecakes.
The idea for the mini cheesecakes came from the need for their secret ingredient, cream cheese. They also needed a finger food so the mini came in great. No one was really sure how to make cheesecake from scratch so they looked it up and printed it off, just as they were told.
In no time the fruits were cut up and distributed on the mini cheesecakes. Some even had chocolate put on them. The five tasted a few of the extras before actually putting everything on all of them to make sure the concoctions actually tasted good.
"Man, I can't believe these things actually taste good." Hayner hummed after swallowing a mouth full of a mini cheesecake.
"Alright everyone," Xaldin said. "You have fifteen minutes left."
Since Hayner, Pence, Olette, Roxas and Naminé were done, they cleaned up their kitchen and put away the things that could be reused later for another class.
"Hayner, you go ahead and wash the dishes." Pence said.
"Why me?" Hayner whined.
"Because you haven't washed the dishes in two weeks. The rest of us have." Olette informed.
"Fine, who's drying?" Hayner asked.
"I'm not sure. Maybe we should have him do that too." Roxas joked.
"Are you serious?" Hayner said in disbelief. The group laughed at Hayner's expression then decided that he should clean and dry all the dishes. Naminé stood by to make sure he did a good job though. She would point out when he missed a spot or when he didn't fry a dish all the way. The rest of the group made sure that she didn't help him in any way though.
After fifteen minutes were up, everyone set up their table to make it looked nice and decent for when the judges who would come in. It was decided that each group would have two speakers to tell the judge what their dish was and what was in it. Naminé and Olette were made speakers of their table.
The judges were simply teachers through out the school who had the current block off for planning their next classes. Those teachers were Luxord, Even, Braig and Xemnas.
It wasn't long before the judges came into the classroom and were greeted by lovely table displays, hand made centerpieces and the food for them to judge. The teacher handed each of them the judging sheet for each of the foods and let them set to work on the taste testing.
Even came over to Hayner, Olette, Naminé, Roxas and Pence's table and browsed their mini cheesecakes.
"And what do we have here?" Asked Even.
"These are Mini Cheesecakes." Naminé said.
"They have a Nilla Waffer at the bottom of each for the crust and the cheesecake is your everyday homemade batter including the secret ingredient, cream cheese." Olette informed.
"Each topping was made sure to taste well with the cheesecake by our own mini samples taken from extras left over." Naminé added.
"They're all really good." Olette threw in.
Even picked up a mini cheesecake with strawberries on it and took a small bite. He nodded and savored the flavor. It wasn't too good, but it wasn't too bad either. He wrote down his score for them and moved on to the next table.
"That went well." Hayner frowned.
"Don't worry, I'm sure he liked it." Pence reassured.
The next judge to come over was Luxord.
"Ello," he said with his accent.
"Hi," smiled Naminé.
Olette went through the ingredients again and informed Luxord that each of the toppings tasted good with the cheesecake. He sampled a little bit of each, wrote down his score and moved on.
After all the judging was done, the judges handed in their papers and Xaldin added up the points quickly.
"Alright everyone, settle down." He said. "The winners are Mike, Shawn, Suzy, Lauren and Chrissie."
The winning group cheered while others threw some fake insults at them. Everyone got the full points for making a finger food for the final but the teenagers in the class liked to mess around., like any other teenager.
The teacher handed out all the points that the teams had gotten from each judge.
"Holy crap man!" exclaimed Hayner. "We got freaking last place!"
"Oh man we suck." Pence frowned.
"Guess we wont face off against Sora and them." Roxas sighed.
~X~
The next rounds of the struggle preliminaries took place in a matter of days. Shiya and Lea had gotten to go up against each other just as Terra and Ventus, Terra and Aqua and Larxene and Xion did. Larxene and Xion's match had gotten bad though.
Larxene had managed to switch her bat out with a custom made one that her, Axel and Marluxia had gotten made before hand. The bat sent a jolt of electricity to the person it hit, stunning them momentarily. Xion had lost to say the least but in the process she had gotten badly hurt.
All the other battles had gone on without any trouble but Roxas almost missed his next round due to checking on Xion the whole time. Axel pretended not to know what had happened when he knew one hundred percent. He was pissed at Larxene honestly.
Shiya and Lea enjoyed their match. It was very close, but Shiya ended up winning. Terra and Ventus's match was very interesting too. Terra ended up winning and later went up against Aqua, who beat him. There were plenty of interesting matches to say the least.
In the end Axel had to go against Roxas. He didn't want to and tried to forfeit the match before it even started, but Roxas stopped him.
"I wanna fight you!" He said happily. "I wanna see what I can do!"
Axel didn't try his hardest, therefore leaving Roxas to win. Marluxia had scolded Axel to the power of twenty.
"How could you lose to that little twerp?" Marluxia asked angrily.
"He's not a twerp, he's my friend." Axel stated firmly.
Larxene had chewed Axel out too.
Having Axel eliminated meant that it was up to Larxene to cheat her way to the top. She went up against Aqua, Roxas and Shiya afterwards. Roxas was second to the last till the finals. Axel panicked. He knew Larxene wouldn't hold back against the younger teen. He was starting to think he should have beat Roxas just to prevent this from happening.
"You better not hurt him." Axel warned her.
"And what if I do?" Larxene tried.
"I'll not only tell the judge what's been going on, but I'll make sure you suffer." Axel threatened.
"Suffer?" Larxene questioned. She laughed and headed off for her match.
She did end up using her electrically rigged bat and nearly cost Roxas his motor skills. Larxene had used the electrical setting on the bat a level higher than it had originally been on just to cause more pain to Roxas. After all, he was the reason Axel was no longer in qualifiers. The electrical shocks however hit Roxas so many time that it damaged Roxas's left hand muscles. It was nothing that wouldn't heal in a few weeks time but still Axel was pissed.
When she had gone up against Shiya, Larxene had used the same shock level she had on Roxas. Because Shiya was so much smaller compared to the other competitors, the shock did more than it did to any of the other people Larxene had faced. Shiya had passed out, ending the battle. Since he had been wearing long sleeves, Larxene said he had simply gotten over heated while battling. Ezekiel knew other wise though.
"Shiya would never pass out due to over heating! He's been training in long sleeves for months now! You did something to him!" Ezekiel exclaimed as he held his unconscious friend in his arms.
"How could I do anything to him!" Larxene asked angrily. "The judges were watching us the whole time!"
The referee and an EMT came over to check Shiya and make sure he was okay. The EMT just said that he had fainted. The cause was most likely just exhaustion. Shiya groaned after the EMT had said his diagnostics.
"Shiya!" Ezekiel exclaimed. "Shiya are you okay?" Shiya groaned again and his eyebrows furrowed together.
"He needs water," The EMT stated. He pulled out a plastic water bottle he had gotten from the free cooler for the struggle competitors and gave it to Ezekiel.
"All right everyone, no need to panic! Everything is okay! We just have an overworked struggler! Due to disqualification, Larxene wins!"
Ezekiel carried Shiya away knowing well that Larxene had to have done something to him to make him pass out. The EMT let Ezekiel and Shiya rest in the ambulance as the matches continued. Lea, Isa and Ienzo hurried over to make sure Shiya was okay.
"Hey, what happened?" Lea asked when they reached the ambulance.
"That chick had to have done something to Shiya." Ezekiel mumbled.
"What did the EMT say?" Isa tried.
"That it was more than likely exhaustion." Ezekiel said. "It doesn't make sense though. He'd been training and getting enough sleep for so long! I made sure he drank a lot of water and that he never over did it! What happened?"
"Hey, did Ventus's brother say something about his hand hurting after fighting Larxene?" Lea brought up."That could mean anything." Isa started. "He could simply be tired after so many rounds."
"But it was his left hand right? I think he's right handed." Lea said.
"It was her then!" Ezekiel said a little louder than necessary. Isa, lea and Ienzo looked at him.
"You think so?" Lea asked him.
"It has to be! We have to tell the judges before she gets away with winning!" Ezekiel frowned. Shiya had made a noise as he came to causing everyone to jump with excitement.
"Shiya!" Ezekiel exclaimed. He leaned over his friend and watch as he slowly opened his eyes. The younger male tried to lift his arm to rub at his face but stopped in pain.
"Are you okay?" Ezekiel asked him. He put a hand on the other's arm but pulled back quickly when he had let out a hiss of pain.
"Did you hurt your arm?" Lea asked.
"Maybe when you fell." Ezekiel suggested. He carefully rolled up his friend's sleeve. His eyes grew wide when he saw the others skin.
"We have to get a judge." He said quickly. "It was her. That Larxene, she did something, she rigged her bat or something."
Lea and Ienzo had gone to get a judge but due to the giving away of the trophy found they couldn't get anyone to come with them, much less hear them out at all. They returned to Ezekiel and told him of their failure.
Ezekiel looked Shiya over. The smaller shook his head weakly in response.
"Ezekiel don't," he tried. "It's okay, it's just a game."
"No," Ezekiel frowned. "It may be just a game but she hurt you. I can't let her get away with this." He placed his arms under his friends shoulders and legs and carefully picked him up. Shiya made noises of pain and Ezekiel apologized repeatedly.
They all left the ambulance and made their way over to the handing out of the trophies. Lea and Isa cleared a path through the crowd as Ienzo, Ezekiel and Shiya made their way through to the judges table where Larxene was standing, about to receive the struggle trophy. The referee had finally stopped talking to allow enough time for an interruption.
"She doesn't deserve to win!" Lea shouted. Everyone went silent and turned to face the angry group. "She cheated!"
"I did not!" Larxene exclaimed.
"Then how do you exclaimed Shiya's arm!" Ezekiel yelled.
"Whoa, whoa time out everyone!" The referee said into his microphone. "Larxene won fair and square!"
"The hell she did!" Lea said disbelievingly. "Look at Shiya's arm! He's the last one she went up against and it's covered in bruises! People aren't aloud to hit hard enough to leave bruises like this!"
"They look like burn marks." Isa said quietly.
"Burn marks!" Lea yelled at the judge. "Her bat was rigged!"
A judge moved away from the table and made his way through the crowd to the protesting teens. He didn't seem happy. He looked over Shiya's arm and made a face.
"How do I know you didn't put makeup on him? Or that this didn't happen at home?" The judge asked. Ezekiel exploded with anger.
"What!" He yelled. His grip on Shiya tightened. "How can you say that! He's loved at home and this is a burn! It doesn't just come off with water!"
"Ezekiel," Shiya whined. "Let go, that hurts." Ezekiel looked down and loosened his grip.
"Sorry," He apologized.
"Where's that other kid who got hurt after fighting Larxene?" Lea asked.
"What other kid?" Questioned the judge.
"He's the brother of Ventus. Looks exactly like him." Lea informed. The judge shook his head in an annoyed fashion and looked the group over.
"I'm going to go call for him and we'll figure this out." He groaned.
They all headed towards the stage and the judge asked the referee to summon someone that looked exactly like Ventus. Roxas came up to the stage moments later.
"Where'd you get hurt?" The judge asked.
"Well, my wrist hurts and I can barely move my fingers but it's like a stiff feeling." Roxas informed.
"And when did this start?" Asked the judge.
"After my battle with Larxene."
"What hand did you use with the bat?"
"My right."
"Did she ever hit you on the left hand?"
"No,"
"Did anyone ever hit you on your left hand in any previous matches?"
"Well yeah I'm sure someone did but I don't thing it would make my hand stiff, just bruise it right?"
"Did you go to the EMT and have them look at it?"
"No,""Go now and see what they say."
Roxas looked around and then to Lea and Isa.
"Sorry Roxas," Isa said.
"Roxas," Axel called from the side of the stage. Xion was standing next to him. Roxas got off stage and they all headed over to the EMT station.
"Roxas," Xion started. "I know how you feel. I think Larxene's bat was rigged. I kept feeling little shocks every time she hit me."
"Yeah, I did to but I thought it was cause I was tired. Maybe I'd been to hard on myself in the last matches." Roxas said.
"Axel, you talk to Larxene don't you?" Xion asked the red haired man. He nodded.
"Do you know anything?"
He stayed quiet and just shook his head.
After Roxas had been looked at, an EMT had accompanied him, axel and Xion back over to the judges table.
"I'm guessing he has muscle damage of the sort." The EMT said. "These to claim they felt little 'shocks' when they were hit with her bat."
"This is ridiculous." Marluxia said from the side of the stage. "Why would anyone cheat?"
"I'm going to have to ask you to stay out of this sir." The judge said to him.
"The bat was rigged." Axel said suddenly.
"What?" Roxas asked.
"Larxene's bat was rigged. It had an electrical current running through it." Axel continued. He looked at Larxene who had a look similar to a shark who had just gotten kicked in the face. "I'm not gonna be a part of your lie."
"Get the bat." The judge said to the referee. The bat was brought out and a dial made to match the bottom of the bat was found.
"Absurd. This is the first time something like this has ever happened." The judge mumbled.
"Everyone who has faced her should go to a doctor to make sure they don't have any nerve damage."
The crowd erupted with annoyed and frustrated shouts.
"That'll cost a lot of money!"
"I can't afford that!"
"The money's the freaking reason I'm in the tournament!"
The judges started conversing and waved the EMT over. After a while they all dispersed and the EMT got on the microphone.
"It's been set up at the near by Twilight's Hospital that the players that wish to go get their nerves checked are able to do so for free. Only those who had competed in the Struggle tournament however." The EMT said.
"Wait, everyone or just those who went up against Larxene?" Axel asked.
"Everyone." The EMT answered.
The crowd's cheers change to ones of joy. Ezekiel smiled and looked down to Shiya who he was still cradling in his arms.
"Don't worry Shiya, we'll get you checked out." He said low enough for the younger teen to hear him. Shiya gave a small nod and smile in response.
The hospital was booming with free customers. The trophy ceremony had been put on hold till everyone had been able to get checked out and cleared as "damaged" or "damage free." The ceremony would pick back up in a few days. The official date was yet to be determined. The judges wanted to make sure that everyone was able to be at the ceremony so they waited till the next day to get an estimate of the remaining competitors still needing to be looked at. Later that day there were multiple announcements made saying that the ceremony would take place on the following Saturday.
Author's Notes: So, super later with posting this. Even though I don't actually have a set time on posting these things but yeah. So, some shit went down huh? Well I hope you all enjoyed it!
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