Chapter 2
Authors note: OK so this story is WIP and things will change in previous chapters. To be a bit less confusing I will post what I changed.
Change: they are now creatures like Zootopia or Sing. Kira's last name was supposed to be Awazu, I only caught this recently.
Only just now have I realized that Rikku is also the name of a Final Fantasy character, this was a poor name choice. In other news I've decided to try and write a new chapter and have one released by the end of every month. Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon, any similarities to real people are accidental or meant as a compliment. Any similarities to animated characters is purely coincidental and not intended as plagiarism. Also only one of each legendary exists so I will be using their names, such as Celebi. Yes I'm using the word ASL sure its American but what does PSL mean to you out of context, ha I'm right.
Evanlyn VS. Iwan | Kami VS. Ethan | Kira VS. Daphne | Kaiyo VS. Cassandra | Ryu VS. Rikku
"WHAT!" A shout rang out and eight heads turned to Cassandra shivering with rage. "Why does "Kitty" over there get to fight the other new kid!?" "Well that's because!" Mr. Hero's flashed his teeth blinding several students, "He got the highest test scores on the mock test after the first semester!" He finished with a wink. She turned to him and growled "I'm gonna fight you, and anyone who stands in my way will be crushed!" Everyone flinched back, only a couple of them had type advantages over her and those who did hadn't trained in their specialty yet, that was what the elites would do, and Cassandra was the best basic fighter they all knew of."You won't" Said Rikku. Most faces looked pale and terrified by her threat except two. Rikku, who looked uninterested as always and Kira who had the appearance of a man waiting in death row for the guillotine to fall on him. "With the way the competition is set up you will be fighting Kaiyo, not me, and there is nothing you can do
"Now with that out of the way. Let the battle begin!" And everyone cheered as Evanlyn and a heavily armored, gray skinned, horned man stepped into the arena. That man is named Iwan Stonefist and, as his name described, he was built like a tank and had fists the size of small boulders. He pounded these colossal fists together and roared "Lets see what you got twinkle toes! Come at me!" Despite his strength he was at a large disadvantage for he was up against Evanlyn, and Evanlyn was a prodigy to her family she already had some basic control of her psychic abilities.
Evanlyn raised her hands and closed her eyes slightly levitating as magical sakura petals started floating around her. She opened her eyes and sent the petals toward Iwan at blinding speed, however Iwan had tucked his head and folded his body into an impenetrable shield and the petals bounced off. Roaring in triumph Iwan unfolded from his defensive ball and launched a spike of rock at the floating Evanlyn sending her falling to the ground and breaking her trance. Acting out of shock, as her calm had been shattered, she glared at Iwan and he instantly crumbled, his hand shot up to his head and he grimaced in pain. Sweat poured down his forehead, he was reaching his limit and Evanlyn had his min in her telekinetic hands. He had to end this, now. He charged, lowering his head. Evanlyn had suspected that the last attack would finish him off and had struck a pose.
"You were saying?" She asked smugly as she looked over her shoulder. The whole crowed burst into laughter as she looked over her head and saw a horn slam into her right kidney. She coughed and blood spurted from her mouth. "That's not good. That's a sign of internal bleeding!" she thought a her vision faded to black.
"And that is it for round one, good fight Iwan!" Iwan rose his eyes full of his victory he bellowed at the sky. Well he tried, however his injuries were too great and he fell to his knees. His cry of triumph turned into a croak of pain. the medical team disengaged from the crowed and rushed to the fallen fighters sides.
After the two were taken away to the medical office Kami and Ethan walked to the center of the arena and bowed. "Well it looks like you two are eager to fight!" Mr. Hero called from the wooden deck "Well then, If you want to fight then" he paused "FIGHT!" he bellowed towards them. Rikku's eyes danced with amusement. He leaned in and whispered into Kira's ear: "I love this guy, he's hilarious!" Her head whipped round in surprise. She didn't think he found anything funny. There is still so much I don't know about him! She thought as she stared at him watching the upcoming fight.
Kami was an interesting boy. He was one of two sons of Lord Tokugawa one of the advisers under Lady Celebi, the Senator or leader of the village. He had gray hair tied into a tail at the back of his head and gray pointed ears protruded from his head. His face was black with red eyes. He wore a gray gi with a black belt tied around his waist. Being the first born of the Tokugawa clan his father pressured him to be the best of the best, this plus his type advantage would make him a nightmare for Ethan who, like his twin sister, was a user of psychic type attacks. Kami had superior training form his rival with his brother Caleb, this fight would be over quickly.
Kami lifted his head and howled. Ethan, always trying to look better than everyone else, pushed his glasses up on his face.
"That won't help you, he jeered." as two more Ethans appeared next to him all with the same posed. The team of Ethans charged at Kami as he lowered his head. Kami struck out with a palm heel strike at one of the Ethans, It vanished into smoke. Taking the opportunity of Kami's open back Ethan summoned a barrage of ash leaves.
Unlike his sister, who summoned sakura petals, he had much more class, at least in his eyes. The needle sharp leaves flew at Kami however, thanks to his daily training, Kami easily dodged the attack and launched a counter of his own now knowing which of the Ethans was real. He lashed out with a hooked punch toward Ethans face. Ethan, having little experience in hand to hand combat dodged the attack which Rikku saw as a very obvious diversion, as Ethan bent backwards to dodge the blow the heel of Kami's hand wreathed in purple energy slammed into his solar plexus.
Kami stepped back and Ethan fell to his knees before he fell, face first, to earth. He was unconscious before he hit the ground. Kami stood tall his gaze fierce and cold. He lifted Ethan and carried him off the field and gave him to the medical staff.
"What a match!" Mr. Hero seemed shaken by Kami's strength, his voice wasn't as confident as before. "At this rate we might finish these tests early instead of late like usual!" He said with a shaky laugh. "Next up we have Kira and Daphne!" his usual silly tone had returned. Kira stood, she felt like she would throw-up at any second, and she looked it to, her cheeks sullen and sallow.
"Hey, you got this." Rikku whispered as she got up to leave. His voice, almost inaudible, seemed loud as a foghorn. She felt like her heart would explode. She didn't want Rikku to figure out her secret. He would reject her, just like everyone else who had tried to be her friend before. They would call her a "monster" and a "Loose Cannon." She took comfort in the fact that Daphne was her opponent. Daphne wanted to become a star, not an elite therefore her combat skill was close to none. Kira doubted that Daphne could do enough damage to activate her "curse." She stepped onto the dirt floor of the pit. Daphne floated down on her flower umbrella.
"I hope you ready to fall before my beauty darling." Such a cheep opening line fit her as she was quite tacky and cheep. Kira took up the fighting stance that had been drilled into her from her countless days of training under her father, Lord Awazu. Daphne imitated her, poorly. Kira sighed, this will be easy. She pounded her foot into the ground and coils of red energy started swirling around her. Daphne jumped at Kira and pirouetted in midair. Vines curved and spun out of her umbrella striking at Kira. However her inexperience and urge to make patterns out of her vines she missed Kira completely. Kira grabbed one of the vines and yanked Daphne toward her.
She reached up and threw Daphne over her shoulder and into the ground via Seoi Nage. With a choked shriek she fell unconscious and was carried off by the medical staff.
"Well" said Mr. Hero "This is turning out to be a very one sided sequence of battles!" Mr. Hero was looking rather disappointed in the fights. He loved a good fight, and these were rather boring. Kira was bored too, and it showed. She walked up and sat down next to Rikku and puckered her lips, very obviously, she was pouting.
"Whats up with you?" he asked both stunning blue eyebrows raised. "I'm bored!" she flopped onto her back and faced him with puckered lips and squinted eyes, she never did that. "Daphne wasn't much of a challenge, in fact she wasn't even a hurdle! She was like...a pebble!" Rikku was getting scared, this wasn't the girl he new. There seemed to be something different in her eyes. He knew he had a specific condition he got in after a battle. He would have to stay observant. If she had it and she hated fighting She started talking in quick run-on sentences.
"I mean she wasn't even trying, If she had been she wouldn't have made those patterns, ore used an attack like that in close quarters, I mean she has to know that that was a stupid idea right?" She finally stopped her sentence. He looked at her eyes, they looked the normal again. His mental gears started spinning at a million rpm. He ran thoughts, symptoms, things he felt after battles.
"Ok on to the next fight!" Lets hope this one is a bit more interesting thought Mr. Hero. "This is a match I'm sure many of you were waiting for! Its Cassandra VS. Kaiyo!" Kaiyo and Cassandra stepped onto the "mat" as it were. Kaiyo did the weird circle thing that all Alolan people did. She was a small girl with waist-length pink hair. She wore a red almost pink skirt that was longer on one side so it slanted from her right knee down too the middle of her left shin. To go with it a loose navy blue tank-top with a pink collar that was again longer on her left side stopping right before her breasts began, giving her the look of her not wearing much while staying more decent then most of Cassandra's friends ever could. She had a red arm band around her left arm and a string of pearls around her right ankle. No one knew what to expect of Kaiyo, no one had seen her fight or even gotten to know her personality. Unlike Kira, who virtually no one knew about, Kaiyo was weird. She came from a different culture. Most of her life was spent on beaches swimming or in the tropical jungles of Alola. This was a drastic change from there.
Kaiyo was halfway through the traditional Alolan greeting when Cassandra struck. Kaiyo seemed to move like fluid, curving out of the way of Cassandra's blow. Cassandra cursed, looking over she saw a truly terrifying sight. Kaiyo looked exactly the same, except for her smile.
It was without kindness toward Cassandra. And her eyes, oh Arceus her eyes were horrible, the whites became purple the iris black while her pupal became a four pointed yellow star with a dot in the middle. she realized they weren't Kaiyo's eyes it was a pinning attack. For once Cassandra felt true horror as she knew she could not escape from the next attack. But there was hope. She could launch one of her own. With a defiant yell she lunged at Kaiyo attempting to slap her across the face and break the hold of those evil eyes.
Again Kaiyo moved like water stepping forward and curling under the open hand like a wave in reverse. She made the ASL gesture for water and blew. A jet stream of bubbles rocketed toward Cassandra. This 'ill be easy to dodge. She thought and her legs sprung into action. She leaped with all her might. And her feet never left the ground. The eyes! The sudden realization of her predicament hit her like a brick, right after the stream of popping exploding bubbles did. Her head snapped back as the bubbles streamed into her chin. She looked into Kaiyo's eyes, they were blue, and kind.
She leaped toward Kaiyo with a furious roar her hands poised to strike Kaiyo's face. Kaiyo dodged backwards and Cassandra landed right in-front of Kaiyo, reached up, and slapped Kaiyo in the face with both hands. Two red marks in the shape of hands appeared on her cheeks. "What for?" Kaiyo signed with a confused look on her face. Cassandra looked stunned "Why you insolent little!" and she kicked out at Kaiyo's face. Kaiyo was confused at the low damaging and seemingly useless attack and a foot landed right between her eyes on the bridge of her nose.
Kaiyo stumbled back attempting to regain her balance. She planted he foot and glared at Kaiyo. Cassandra had never liked Kaiyo. To her Kaiyo was a deaf girl who could be a potential target for her bullying. Kaiyo was mad and she wanted revenge. She made a W with her hands, touched it to her lips, took her hands and made an action similar to tearing paper, and a circle of water shot from her hands and pulsed around Cassandra. Cassandra didn't even flinch, as the rocketing circle shot towards Cassandra she steadied herself, tensed all her muscles and dived through the opening in the middle of the attack.
Rolling Cassandra stood up and punched at Kaiyo all in one swift fluid like motion. Kaiyo leaned back barely a centimeter, just enough for the punch to miss, and returned the favor. Cassandra fell stunned lying on her back in the dirt. She got up and glared at Kaiyo with a murderous intent. Kaiyo recoiled from the evil in Cassandras stare. As she got closer Cassandra started screaming Kaiyo, being deaf, was unaffected Cassandra slapped Kaiyo across the cheek forehand then back hand then forehand again then backhand for a fourth and final blow. Kaiyo knew from her training as a healer that Cassandra was at her limit and would soon fall.
Kaiyo leaped back, having been pressed toward the wall by Cassandra's furious advance, and wall jumped over Cassandras head slamming her fist into the base of Cassandras neck as she went by. Cassandras eyes rolled into the back of her head she hit the wall propelled by the momentum of her blind rage.
"Great Job both fighters!" Mr. Hero was nearly jumping up and down for joy. "This fight was much more enterta- I mean, much more of a test of skill and valor and...and. Well it was great non the least!" Kaiyo walked over to where Cassandra was lying in the dust and put a hand to her chest. Her hand was wreathed in green light and tendrils of the energy shot into Cassandra's body. She shot up with a gasp and as she did so she made a hand sign in her face that everyone knew.
Not many people could understand Kaiyo, she was deaf so she spoke in hand signs and many didn't care enough to learn them, however this hand sign was different. Everyone recognized the upward fist with a single middle finger sticking strait up, and everyone cheered and whooped in delight as the girl who was picked on the most had just beaten the snot out of the best fighter they all new. A warm smile returned to Kaiyo's face and she walked back to her place in the corner where several new fans were already gathering.
"Alrighty folks I believe that this is the fight you all ave been waiting for! Its the new kids standing against each other! No one knows their abilities no one knows their passion, and no one knows the strength of their youth so lets get cracking before time takes us all!" Mr. Hero was way too excited for this fight Kira thought she looked over and Rikku was gone. But there, standing in the ring was a boy with blue skin fox-like ears and a black mask over his eyes the tails hanging down behind his head. He wore a black tank-top with gray-blue baggy pants that hid his feet. His hands had two elliptical pieces of metal on them that seemed to come from his skin. His eyes were red and had a similar look to Rikku's but without the boredom. They were calculating and cold but there seemed to be some warmth that was suppressed behind his eyes as if it wasn't the correct time to show that side.
The confusing thing was that right in front of him was an identical copy of the boy, but it moved on it own.
"Hello Rikku." The one on the left said with a small smile.
"You can drop the act" The one on the right said. "I know its you." A purple shimmer and the boy on the left became Rikku as he stood before the boy having just been disguised as his opponent.
"Old habits die hard." Rikku said shaking his head at the boy. "Its good to see you Ryu!"
"Likewise!" Said the boy apparently named Ryu. "Now then shall we begin?"
"I think it would be wise, yes." They walked forward and clasped their hands together. Elbow to elbow hand to hand as they stared each other in the eyes the chanted in unison: "We fight with honor and for glory!" And they leaped apart taking their respective stances. Rikku was in a standard Jujitsu stance while Ryu was standing on one leg with another slightly bent foot at knee height, crane stance.
They charged toward each other a blur of motion no one knew what was going on except Kira. Kira had many qualities about herself that she was unaware of such as unusually high perception, this allowed her to follow every move of the two friends.
Rikku was the one to initiate the encounter, charging toward Ryu punching toward his face. Ryu stepped toward Rikku and spun his hands in a circle blocking both Rikku's hands effectively stopping his attack. He twisted in place and hit Rikku in the chin with the top of his hand flicking it in an upward motion. Rikku twisted and the metal oval brushed past his chin only the fleshy part of Ryu's hand struck him. Rikku disengaged from the block and shot out his palm hoping to hit Ryu directly under his nose. It connected, there was a sickening thud as his palm's heel slammed under Ryu's nose causing him to stumble back, unable to move. Rikku took the opportunity to fly into a flipping ax kick toward Ryu as he lay helpless on the ground.
Ryu planted one foot and knelt on the other raising his arms in cross hand block. Rikku's kick landed square in the middle of it. Ryu grabbed Rikku's foot and spun him face first into the ground. Rikku pulled his hand close to his chest and as he hit the ground he kiaied (Key-eye or Kiai literally translating to Spirit Yell and is a technique in martial arts to expel air from the lungs before impact or to startle foes.) and rolled forward to safety. They took up their stances once again.
"Well this is going well" panted Rikku. "You've gotten rusty Ryu what happened?"
"We fought with Honor that's what happened!" he protested. "I'm not allowed to use my abilities against you!"
"Well you have a point there" Rikku shrugged. "For Glory!" And charged Ryu. This time Ryu was ready of it and stepped back with his right foot and raised his arms. Rikku saw this and changed tactics immediately. He ran right past Ryu and attempted to strike his kidney with his elbow as he past. Ryu sidestepped and attempted to punch the blur that was Rikku. Rikku, being a blur, was naturally hard to hit. Ryu missed and realized his mistake as Rikku got behind him and flipped into an ax kick.
Ryu dodged again and struck at Rikku with a knife hand to the temple. However Rikku stepped in and brought his hand around to slam into Ryu's head with a hammer fist blow. Ryu crumpled, his vision was slowly going black, a final sweep he tried to hook and knock Rikku to the ground.
Rikku jumped. It was all over Ryu knew.
"Your first...victory..." he croaked as he fell unconscious. Rikku looked over and saw Kaiyo watching intently.
"Can you heal?" he sign to her. She nodded and ran over. She placed her hand on Ryu's chest and the same green glow returned to her hand. Ryu's eyes opened quickly and quietly. He swore.
"Come on Rikku did you have to hit me so hard?" Ryu complained holding his head which didn't hurt at all thanks to Kaiyo.
"It was for glory!" Protested Rikku. "Of course I did!"
"Alright, Alright! Settle down now!" Mr. Hero was on the railing of the arena stands "Go home and rest now. You all have a big day tomorrow!" He blinded a group of students around Kaiyo.
"Ow" She signed.
"You will meet here tomorrow morning at Nine o'clock sharp! Dismissed!" He turned and leaped toward The Lady's manor. Tomorrow they would be given their proof of village membership, a greystone.