Rise of The Phoenix
Summary: What happens when characters from all over the universe compete in a huge tournament, you get craziness and some awesome encounters for a prize.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, they belong to WWE, CZW, IWA Mid-South, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Fresh TV, Capcom, Hasbro, Mattel, Disney, Marvel, D.C, Etc.
Rated T for violence, blood, language, and some sexual themes.
P.S-This is not related to Fanfiction Master of the Death Matches.
Chapter 4: The Qualifiers Begin
The next day, Triple H, William Regal, and the current fighters who already entered the tournament walk through the doors of the NXT Arena at Full Sail University.
"Welcome everyone to the NXT Arena," William Regal said as everyone walk into the arena.
Then, they head through another set of doors and what they saw was the NXT ring, but it was different. There was no ropes on the ring and there was these elevated platforms on the corners of the ring, about a foot taller than the top rope.
"You all got lucky enough to enter this tournament already, now you will see eight matches to determine the last spots in the tournament," Triple H said to the fighters.
"If you all can take a seat we can start the qualifiers," William said to the fighters as they took a seat on the bleachers.
Dean then looks over to Dawn and notices that Dawn looked really tired, apparently Lynn's loud snoring caused Dawn to get little sleep last night.
"What happened to you, you look like sh*t," Dean asked Dawn.
"My roommate has a sinus problem or something because her snoring kept me up all night," Dawn said to Dean.
"My idea, grab a set of earplugs, that should give you a good night rest," Dean said to Dawn.
"Will it work," Dawn asked Dean.
"It works for me," Dean said.
"Can you please shut up, the match is about to begin," Seth said to Dean.
Then, this guitar riff was heard and after a minute of this rock music being heard, on the screen was the name "Shinsuke Nakamura".
"No way," Lynn said.
"This can't be," Dean said.
The fighters look to see that "The King of Strong Style" Shinsuke Nakamura enter through the stage and he walks down the ramp and soon enters the ring and waits for his opponent to enter.
"I wonder who's the opponent for Shinsuke," AJ asked.
"Like it matters, whoever wins will have to go through me," Jasper said.
Suddenly, the lights in the arena go out as the fighters were confused on what was going on.
"What happened to the lights," Austin asked.
"Probably a fuse got blown," Wendell said.
Then, these flashes of white light go off in the arena.
"Man, those lights are flashing enough to give someone a seizure," Amethyst said as she and everyone shield their eyes from the flashes.
After the flashes, up on the screen was the words "Balor Club" as the fighters were excited to see Shinsuke's opponent.
"Oh yeah, this is going to be very good," Seth said.
Then, out of the stage came NXT's longest reigning champion, Finn Balor, who for this occasion was not covered in his demonic face paint.
"This could be the match that shows who is more likely to win the tournament," Star said.
Finn soon enters the ring as his music is turned off. Then, Finn and Shinsuke walk into the middle of the ring.
Then, the referee for this bout (which was Drake Wuertz) begins to explain the rules to the fighters.
"Okay guys, you were explained the rules. Only way to win is by knockout, submission, disqualification, or knock out your opponent out of the ring," Drake said to the two wrestlers, and then he asked the wrestlers, "any questions?"
The wrestlers say they understood and then the bell rings beginning the match.
The two wrestlers begin with a collar and elbow tie up. Then, the two wrestlers were moving around the ring, trying to avoid the edge of the ring.
Seconds later, Finn nails Shinsuke with a knee to the ribs, followed by a back suplex.
Shinsuke quickly gets up and nails a hard super kick to Finn, taking him down.
"Ouch," Star said.
"That looked f***ing painful," AVGN said.
Shinsuke begin to show off to the other fighters, not knowing that Finn was starting to recover.
"If I was Shinsuke, I would focus on Finn," Johnny said.
"Nah, I like Shinsuke's attitude, it suits him," Amethyst said.
Shinsuke begins to pick up Finn, but Finn counters by grabbing Shinsuke by his right arm and begins to twist it, trying to make him submit.
The ref was asking Shinsuke if he wanted to give up, but Shinsuke refused to give up as the pain was becoming more intense.
Seconds were passing by as Shinsuke flips Finn over, letting him go as Finn's feet nearly hit the floor.
"Wow, that was close," Sunset said.
"Eh, doesn't really matter to me," Lapis said.
Finn stood back up as he and Shinsuke begin to trade chops and slaps, back and forth as this was even so far.
About thirty seconds later, Shinsuke nails a roundhouse kick to the side of Finn's head. Then, Shinsuke gets Finn down with a hip toss.
Shinsuke backs up to one of the corners as he was ready to finish off Finn.
"Oh yeah, we are going to see the Kinshasa," Lynn said in a excited mood.
Shinsuke runs for Kinshasa, but Finn dodges the strike. Then, Finn grabs Shinsuke from behind and gives him a back suplex.
The ref begins the count on Shinsuke.
1...2...3...4...and Shinsuke gets up before the five count could be made.
Then, Finn nails a kick right to the face of Shinsuke, he then nails a backbreaker on Shinsuke, followed by a neckbreaker on Shinsuke.
Finn sees Shinsuke down so he climbs up to the top of one of the platforms.
He try to nail a frog splash on Shinsuke, but Shinsuke moves out of the way and Finn crashed hard onto the mat.
Shinsuke gets up and grabs Finn from behind, he then delivers a brutal German suplex on Finn.
"Man, Finn landed on his head from that move," Hunter said.
Shinsuke lets go of Finn and was setting up Finn for Kinshasa again.
"Hopefully this time Shinsuke hits it," Flippy said.
As Finn got on one knee, Shinsuke runs up and hits the Kinshasa on Finn, knocking Finn down.
The ref starts the count on Finn.
1...2...3...4...5...6...and Finn gets up before the seven count could be made.
Shinsuke then nails an enzugiri to the back of Finn's skull.
Shinsuke then turns Finn around and nails him with a DDT.
Shinsuke then takes a risk and climbs up to one of the elevated platforms in the ring.
He then jumps off and gets Finn with a elevated leg drop.
"If that didn't knock out Finn Balor, then he must be made of metal," Dean said.
The ref started the count on Finn.
1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...and Finn barely gets up before the nine count could be made.
"Oh my god, one of these guys could easily win the tournament," Dawn said.
"They have to win first and even if they win, they will be beaten so badly that they could be eliminated in the first round," Seth said.
Shinsuke grabs Finn by the head, hoping to get him with a reverse DDT.
But, Finn gets out of the hold, he then runs up and nails Shinsuke with a sling blade.
As soon Shinsuke got back up, Finn grabs Shinsuke by the head, hooks Finn's arm around his neck, and lifts him up, hoping to hit him with 1916.
"Alright, I think Finn is winning this thing," Dean said.
But suddenly, Shinsuke lands back on his feet, pushes Finn off of him, and nails him a kick to the side of Finn's skull.
Finn was stumbling around when Shinsuke comes behind him and nails him with a release German suplex.
"Man, that looked like it hurt," Turner said.
Finn got on one knee when suddenly, Shinsuke runs up and nails him with the Kinshasa, taking him down.
The ref then starts the count on Finn.
1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...and Finn manages to get up before the count of ten.
"These two guys won't stay down, just like those extremely hard enemies in Dark Souls," Wendell said.
Shinsuke then nails a brutal backhand to the side of Finn's head.
Then, Shinsuke goes behind Finn, he grabs a hold of him, and then he gives him a release German suplex that sends Finn right near one of the corners.
Shinsuke then was waiting for Finn to get up, hopefully to get Finn with Kinshasa for the third time.
As Finn got onto one knee, Shinsuke runs towards him, hoping to nail his finishing move.
Unfortunately, Finn moves out of the way and Shinsuke wrecks himself on the post as the fighters just cringe at the impact.
"Ow," Lynn said.
"Yikes," Steve said.
"That looks extremely painful, especially with those poles having no give," Turner said.
The ref then starts the count on Shinsuke.
1...2...3...4...5...6...7...and Shinsuke manages to get up with him holding his nuts in pain.
Suddenly, Finn grabs Shinsuke from behind, he then lifts him up and drops him with 1916.
"Oh yeah, 1916, that move has taken out everyone he has faced," Lynn said.
"I don't think Finn is quite done just yet," Dean said.
Dean was right, Finn then started to climb up to the top of one of the elevated platforms again. He wants to make sure that he finishes off Shinsuke so he can enter Rise of the Phoenix.
"Him climbing up to the top of the platform could only mean one thing," Seth said.
"It is time for Coup de Grace, the only top rope double stomp move that has taken out a good chunk of the NXT roster," Deadpool said.
Finn then jumps off and gets Shinsuke with Coup de Grace, it was even worse since this was from the elevated platform and the move caused Shinsuke to break two of his ribs.
"Wow, that was possibly the most brutal Coup de Grace ever," Hunter said.
"Yeah, even the one I received at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn was less brutal than the one I saw now," Kevin said.
As Finn got up and looked like he was in some pain, the ref started the count on Shinsuke who was still down.
1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9...10 and the ref signals the bell to be ringed and the match was over.
The fighters that were in the tournament were a bit scared and surprised to see that Finn was now in the tournament.
"Oh my god," Lynn said in shock.
"That was brutal and insane," Rainbow Mika said.
"I thought it was the most amazing thing I have seen in my life," Harley said.
"Well it could have gone either way, but now that Finn is in the tournament, I can't wait to tear that demon apart," Jasper said.
Meanwhile, Finn steps off the ring and approaches William Regal and Triple H.
"Congrats Finn on making it into Rise of the Phoenix," Triple H said to Finn.
"Thanks Hunter, those people should be ready to face against someone like me," Finn said to Triple H.
Finn then took a seat with the other tournament participants.
"You might have won the match to be in this thing, but if you face off against me, then I will curb stomp your skull in," Seth said to Finn as Seth got into Finn's face.
"Bring it on, I'm not the only former NXT Champion that wants to win this tournament," Finn said to Seth.
Seth then walks away from Finn, without saying anything.
"Okay everyone, we need to get this cleaned up a bit and then our next bout will be in a few minutes," Triple H said to the fighters.
So Finn Balor, aka. The Demon King, has qualified for Rise of The Phoenix. But there is still seven more qualifying matches that are taken place in this story.
Coming up will be the next qualifying match and it will have some unique rules in it.
Stay tuned because it will be in the next chapter.