The Sixth Challenge

The two teams gathered at the said location, which was a large arena (with tropical fruit stands off to the sides).

"Where is that idiot Ansem? How dare he keep us waiting?!" Larxene asked angrily.

All of a sudden, someone popped out from behind a bush and screamed, "Boo!"

Yuffie screamed and Xaldin fainted.

"I-It's Ronald Mc Donald!" Sora cried hysterically, running behind a tree and trembling.

"What's with the little guy?" Demyx asked jerking his finger in Sora's direction. Riku sighed and Axel pulled out a bag of popcorn and started munching on it.

"I sense a horrible life story coming." he explained to the groups quizical looks.

"Back when Sora was five.."

-flashback-

"Riku, Riku! Let's go to Mc Donalds! I wanna get their new Transformers toys!" five year old Sora said tugging on six year old Riku's sleeve.

"But last time you got one of those toys, you got bored and fed it to old Mrs. Crackersmitter's dog Sparky." Riku protested.

"But that won't happen again, I promise!" Sora pleaded.

"Okay, okay, fine. Let's go." Riku gave in.

As they walked into the fast food restaurant, Sora exclaimed, "Oooh! Look Riku, look! Mr. Mc Donald is here today!" He pointed excitedly at the clown who was handing out balloons to children. Riku dragged Sora over to the counter and ordered themselves happy meals. They sat down at a table to eat.

"Transformers! Robots in...Riku, what was that last part?" Sora looked at the silver haired boy, who was no doubt thinking about tuna sandwiches.

"I dunno." he answered vaguely.

Sora looked at his transformer toy and whined, "Stupid robot! You bore me with your odd angles and evil eyes!" He tossed the toy over his shoulder.

"Aaaaaah! My eye! My eye!" Someone shouted. Startled, the two boys turned around and saw that it was Ronald Mc Donald lying on the ground. The man looked around and, seeing Sora and Riku, charged over to them. "Alright, which one of you did it?!" he asked with a deranged expression on his face.

"Sorry sir, he didn't mean it." Riku apologized.

"Why you little-" The man reached for Sora only to be pulled back by his fellow co-workers.

"Calm down Harvey! It was an accident!" one of them shouted.

"I know what you're trying to do! You're trying to silence me because I know about the aliens plot to take over the world using twizzlers!" he yelled to them.

-end flashback

"Poor boy..." Aerith said sadly.

"Yeah, yeah poor Sean-"

"Sora."

"Right, poor Sora. But that was a totally unnecessary flashback." Xemnas said.

"Um...hellooo? Back to the challenge." Ronald said peeling back his mask revealing Ansem.

"Why were you pretending to be a clown?" Kairi asked.

"Simple, because when I woke up this morning, Destiny told me to do it."

"Uh...I don't think that it's Destiny telling you these things..." Yuffie said.

"Silence!" Ansem shouted and threw a rock at Yuffie. She dodged the rock and it hit Xaldin, who was just waking up, only to be knocked back out by the stone.

"Now that's what I call irony!" Imogene said, appearing in a samurai outfit.

"Anyway, today's challenge is a fighting tournament. You will be allowed to use your weapons in an attempt to win your team the prize - which happens to beee...a picnic on a boat!" Ansem said.

"Complete with smoothies!" Imogene added.

There were several squeals of delight. "You will choose three people from each team to fight." The two teams huddled then decided that Cloud, Larxene, and Xigbar would compete for team Dominators, while Riku, Sephiroth and Axel were competing for team Warriors of Justice.

"Yes! We fight! Win! For honor!!!" Imogene yelled with a Japanese accent.

"Calm down." Ansem said.

"How can I be calm when I want to fight?!"

"Uh, yyyeah...fight this little guy if you're that desperate." Ansem pointed to a lonely iguana sitting behind a tree.

There was a glint in Imogene's eyes as she drew her sword. "Prepare to fight!" she yelled as she charged the iguana.

The first match up was Riku vs. Xigbar.

"Hey, didn't the author already use the fighting challenge idea?" Riku asked.

"Yeah, but she is running low on ideas at the moment." Ansem answered.

"Eh. Works for me." Xigbar shrugged as he warped out and shot at Riku, who pulled out his Keyblade, The Way to Dawn, and blocked it.

"Dude! That was totally not bad for a girly boy!" Xigbar exclaimed firing another shot.

"No one except my mom calls me a girly boy and gets away with it!" Riku shouted going on a rampage. Xigbar blocked his first few attacks, but Riku shouted got through his defenses and slammed the Keyblade into him. As he landed his finishing blows, he yelled out, "Silly rabbit! Trix-" one smack, "are-" two smacks, "for-" a third especially painful smack, "kids!" And Xigbar fell dramatically to the floor.

"I don't think I'm gonna make it." he said in a pained voice. "Could you tell my wife that I love her?" Riku knelt down by him and nodded somberly, "And that I miss her?

"Sure."

"And that I'm sorry, but I forgot to walk the dog on Thursday?"

"Uh..."

"And that the wedding ring she's wearing, I got for 25 cents out of a vending machine?"

"Hold on. I'm not telling her that, so you're going to have to live and tell her yourself." Riku said flatly, getting up and dusting his pants off.

"Fine." Xigbar sighed getting to his feet.

The next match was Axel vs. Larxene. "Oh goody. I get the psychotic one." Axel said sarcastically bringing his chakrams out.

"Finally! I get some action!" Larxene shouted with glee as electricity shot between her kunai knives.

They were about to charge each other when Marluxia shouted, "Pause the battle!"

Axel nearly tripped and Larxene asked impatiently, "What?!" Marluxia walked in between them and knelt down.

"I couldn't let you trample this beautiful flower." he said picking up the flower lovingly. "Continue." he said as he walked back to the sidelines.

"You can do it Axel! I'll be your coach!" Sora shouted (he had finally gotten over his clown scare).

"Well, if Axel gets a coach, then I'll be yours Larxene!" Yuffie called.

"Go Axel!" Use flamethrower!" Sora commanded. Axel lit his chakrams and threw them at Larxene.

"Larxene! Dodge and use thunderbolt!" Yuffie said. Larxene dodged and sent a spark of electricity at Axel.

"Ahh!" Axel yelped in pain. "Hey kid! I thought you were supposed to be my coach!" he turned around and saw Sora was watching a butterfly instead of the match.

"Time for the winning move Larxene! Attract!" Axel's jaw dropped as he heard Yuffie's command.

"What?!" Larxene asked turning to glare at the ninja girl.

"Yeah! You know, attract. That way, he won't wanna attack you!" Yuffie explained confidentially.

"Yuffie?"

"What?"

"You're fired."

Axel caught Larxene off guard and kicked her in the stomach. "Haven't you ever heard the phrase 'never strike a lady'?" she gasped.

"Yeah, I've heard it - I just don't consider you a lady." Axel replied with a smirk. There were several shouts of 'burn!' from the spectators. There was now a pronounced vein in Larxene's forehead.

"Man, I'm gonna miss him." Demyx said sadly.

"What are you talking about water boy?" Xemnas asked.

"Axel's done for." Demyx shut his eyes tightly as the rest of the people watching gaped in shock as they watched the battle.

You're probably wondering what is going on in the battle field. But since it is so terribly violent, you'll never know... Axel fell to the floor, groaning in pain.

"OMG! Call a medic, or Dr. Phil or something!" Sora cried kneeling next to the unconscious pyro. "Wake up Axel! Oh no! Do you see a light?!" He gasped alarmed. Axel groaned. "NO!! Stay away from the light!" Sora cried frantically shaking the man by the shoulders.

"Calm down, Sora." Leon said taking the younger boy's hands off of Axel.

"Move him out of the way, Rex." Ansem said to the buff security guard. The man nodded and carried the red head and dumped him on the sidelines.

Next was the fight everyone was waiting for - Cloud vs. Sephiroth.

"It is time for you to meet your demise." Sephiroth said gripping his sword.

"Sephiroth!" Cloud shouted angrily.

"Cloud!"

"Sephiroth!"

"Cloud!"

"Sephiroth!"

"Just fight already!" Aerith shouted.

"Quiet human!" Sephiroth said stabbing Aerith with his sword.

"Ouch!" she yelped, falling backward.

"You'll pay for that!" Cloud exclaimed angrily. And thus, the fight began.

"I'm okay..." Aerith said faintly flashing everyone a thumbs up sign.

Meanwhile, Sephiroth and Cloud's battle raged on, neither one of them gaining an advantage over the other.

Then, Sephiroth yelled out, "Look! A kitty!"

"Where?!" Cloud exclaimed turning around. Not seeing a cat, he turned around only to find Sephiroth's sword at his throat.

"Any villain knows that no hero can resist the fake kitty distraction technique." Sephiroth said smugly. Cloud glowered at him and lowered his sword in defeat.

"Aaaaand team Warriors of Justice is the winner!" Ansem declared.

"Yeah! Winning feels great! Nothing could make me feel down right now! Not even if I got struck by lightning!" Xemnas yelled jubilantly. Then he got struck by lightning. His only response was to grin and smooth down his frazzled hair. "Nope! Not even being sued for rear-ending that NBA all-star's car!"

Ansem walked over to him and handed him a letter. He opened it and scanned it's contents.

"Well, how do you like that? But it still doesn't make me feel down!" the Nobody smiled.

"Well how about this?!" Larxene asked as she threw bird crap in he face, kicked him a few times, then thrust his face if the sand.

"That'll do." Xemnas muttered, not daring to get back up.

"Now team Warriors of Justice, if you'll follow me, I'll lead you to your picnic of Destiny!" Ansem said with a smile.

"Cool! Picnic!" Xemnas exclaimed jumping to his feet. Larxene, sensing her prey had recovered, turned around and charged him like a pms-ing rhino. Xemnas screamed and tried to get away, but unfortunately for him, Larxene was faster. She dragged him, still screaming, into the cover of the trees. The savage nymph emerged minutes later wiping her hands.

"Are you okay Mr. Xemnas?" Sora asked peeking into the bushes. "Oh." the boy turned to the others and said, "He's gonna be a while."

Imogene dragged her weary form back to the beach. Her outfit was ripped and tattered, and her hair was frazzled.

"What happened to you?" Yuffie asked.

"That iguana put up a good fight." she replied before collapsing into the sand.

Ansem was conversing with someone invisible. His conversation was nearly inaudible. "Mmhm...yes...oranges, I see...okay. Team Warriors of Justice, could you wait here as I go attend tribal council? I won't be but 30 minutes."

-at tribal council-

"Alright everyone, tribal council will be starting now." Ansem said.

"What about Xaldin?" Demyx asked pointing to the man (who was still unconscious).

"Hmm, come to think of it, Xaldin has been unconscious for every tribal meeting so far." Something occurred to him and he said, "Wait...then how come I've counted his vote both times?"

"Well, it's a funny thing..." Xigbar said. He picked up a piece of paper and held it next to Xigbar's face.

"Hey, dude - Xaldin. We're voting now - who do you vote for?" The Nobody (with his eyes still closed) took the pen and wrote a name on the paper - in neat cursive handwriting I might add.

"Well, that's interesting." Ansem commented. So, the rest of the voting commenced. "And the final score is Xaldin - 4, Aerith - 5."

Aerith was silent then asked, "I'm being voted out?"

"Yep."

"You'll all pay for this." She smiled sweetly as the trapdoor opened underneath her and she fell. A shiver went through the group.

Heh, Aerith and her mechanical sounding voice scares me sometimes...

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