The First of Many Battles

The group of six kids entered inside the gym covered in sand and rock to find a man that resembled that of Jet Lee, but he was in white uniform instead of a black pair of pants. He clapped his hands together standing in the centre of the gym and bowed. He then said, "Welcome guests to the Gemini City Gym. I am the GoldConoton Leader Yerty. I am sure you are aware of my special fighting abilities and as such you should all be aware that I will only do a one on one match with whoever is participating." Victor being the first to step up then said, "Master Yerty, it is an honour to be here sir and if you don't mind we would like to take a bit of time to discuss this." Yerty bowed and then went off to his side of the gym with a towel in hand as well. The group then huddled together as Victor started, "Well gang this is it. The first gym is now upon us. So I ask you this, which of you is planning to enter this of many battles?" "Well I'm definitely in this for sure, not just because of my practice for Naraku, but also because I hear the winner gets something called the Ignaryu Cup.", Inuyasha said. "You can count me in too.", Brock said. "How 'bout you Bart?", Victor asked. "Meh, as long as I get my time for some good time fun I'm so there.", the blonde kid replied. "I'm not sure how well I'll do, but I'll give it my best.", Sora said. "That's the spirit Sora, now how 'bout you Zoey?", Victor asked again.

"Oh it's on now!!", Zoey stated. Then Yerty arrived back as he asked, "So you have all come to a decision?" Victor bowed as he said, "Yes we have sir. We feel that we would all like to participate since we are all here of course." Then Yerty smiled as he said, "So who would like to be first?" The group went and did a classic rock paper scissors draw and of course Inuyasha had first pick, followed by Brock, Victor, Zoey, Bart and finally Sora. The first two matches went by really quickly as Inuyasha took a simple swipe here and there by Yerty from his karate kicks. Yet Yerty relied on more than just a few simple kicks though and would often use his hands to backflip and crunch his opponent's neck, and unfortunately he cracked Brock's neck good leaving him severely injured, but he earned his badge as did Inuyasha nevertheless. Inuyasha won his fight using his offences with his defense as backup and won with ease, but Brock doing the vice versa version had the most difficulty in predicting when Yerty would strike next and often let his guard down for a millisecond costing him rebound attacks. Yet he used his quick thinking to watch for Yerty's agile moves and struck him in his (KIWIS!!) and thus made him out of commission for twenty minutes.

Then came Victor. He gulped as he looked back at his 'audience' who gave him a thumbs up and a good cheer as Sora said, "We believe in you Victor!!" The brunette smiled when Sora said this and turned to face Yerty. Yerty having his own personal referee said aloud, "The match between Victor of Edmonton and Yerty is about to begin. Substitution breaks can only be used by the challenger and only the GoldConoton Leader can use weapons if he finds it necessary. Let the match begin!!" Yerty ran quickly right at Victor and socked him right at his chin. Then he flung his hand clenched and straight right at his neck, but Victor intercepted and he knocked him in his stomach. Then Victor jumped towards the wall to his left and trounced at him as Yerty thought to himself, 'So that's how he wants to play it eh?' Then Yerty dug a hole underground as Inuyasha asked Brock, "What the heck is he trying to pull diggin' underneath that dirt?" "I'm not too sure, probably my best bet is that while you and I like using our offence and defense in some balances, Victor tries to end things quickly and Yerty is probably trying to buy some time." The group stared at the ground as Victor searched with caution. Then underneath he got pulled right at his legs as Yerty said, "I got you now!!" Then the group caught a smile as Victor raised Yerty from the ground and launched him in the air. He then grabbed the guy, even as Yerty smacked him in his chest five times and kicked him three times. Then Victor threw him head first to the ground as he fainted in utter defeat and Victor landed finishing off with a bow and a confident smile to end it too. "Yerty is unable to battle. Victor of Edmonton is the winner!!" The group cheered as they came down to congratulate him. Then soon enough the other fights went by relatively quickly as well. Zoey used her Mew Mew Powers to finish Yerty with the same difficulty as Brock had, while Bart used his slingshot and rubbed dirt in Yerty's to get his badge as well.

Sora's fight then came up. It began very slowly with him backshuffling many punches that Yerty threw at him, but a single kick to his throat made him backflip and he grabbed the ground as he held on while getting blown ten feet away. Then Sora used his speed to zap Yerty and he slashed him five times before Yerty kicked the kingdom key out of his hands and soon enough he looked at Victor for guidance as he said, "Look out Sora!! Use the walls!!" Then Sora backflipped to the walls and flung himself right at Yerty tackling him hard to the ground. Sora then asked with his fist about to knock him out, "You ready to give up yet?" "You my boy have much to learn about your opponent. Lesson 1: your chest is always an open target in these tournaments." Then a punch to Sora's chest occurred and Yerty flung him straight across the gym twenty feet behind him. Then Yerty ran in as he kicked Sora's stomach and even when the boy got his keyblade back and slashed at his uniform, Yerty poked his eyes out and grabbed him by his right leg thigh and his neck near his left arm and threw him high in the air. Then he teleported and slashed at Sora repeatedly. Zoey covered her eyes with fright as Bart and Inuyasha kept chanting, "Come on Sora you can do it!!" Then Brock asked Victor, "So do you believe he can make it Victor?" Victor was silent. "Victor?", Brock added again. "He's got good potential Brock. I saw it when he faced me in my own mind (reference to Legend of the White Knight if you haven't read it yet it will make sense when you do since this is a cameo of it), but he has to watch out for Yerty's kicks. When that guy uses his legs he can find a weak spot anywhere." Brock turned to face Sora's beating and thought to himself, 'Be careful Sora. This is one fight that can't be taken lightly on.'

Then Sora landed brutally injured and Yerty then said, "Are you ready to give up yet?" "Never. I call my break now!!" The referee raised his left hand to give the sign for a break and said, "I'll raise my right hand when your break declines." Then they departed in each direction, both GoldConoton expert leader and challenger, awaiting their opponent's next move. 'He is very tricky this Sora. I better keep a good eye out for him. He has potential.', Yerty thought to himself. Sora meanwhile thought to himself, 'There's no way I can beat him with just my regular attacks. He can just intercept my offence like the wind rustling a tree. Unless, his legs… he always uses them for his main attacks and then goes back to his regular moves. That's it. Next time he kicks I'll get him good.' Then the referee lifted his right hand to end the break as Yerty ran up to Sora and did the same move that started the match in the first place. Yerty then said as Sora kept backshuffling, "You must be joking me boy. You won't win fights with repeat moves like that." Then Sora kicked him in his chest as he flung a kick towards him as the whole group in the audience stared. Even the referee stared in utter awe as Sora said, "You gotta be careful what you say you know. Sometimes ideas come to me very quickly." Then the whole group started cheering as Victor chuckled a little with confidence as Sora kicked Yerty up into the air and slashed him with his keyblade in the same way he did to him. Then he flung Yerty to the ground hard and smacked him twenty times across his face and his legs to weaken him some more. Finally the final blow to Yerty was a 360 kick to his left cheek and it knocked him to the ground spitting up a tiny bit of saliva from his mouth.

Then there was a twenty second silence period and the referee stunned by Sora's strength said, "Yerty is unable to battle!! Sora is the winner and the victory goes to him just as well as the victory goes to his friends too." Then more cheering came from across the stadium as the entire group ran down to cheer for Sora and they gathered together and laughed about Sora's impressive battling moves. Victor then approached Sora as Inuyasha stood next to him and he said to Sora, "You gotta be careful for next time Sora. You let your guard down a little early and could've had your butt handed to ya. Brock almost had the same thing happen to him and…" Victor then raised his hand as Inuyasha said, "But all and all you did great." Victor then said, "What Inuyasha is trying to say is that you got great stamina and potential to do great things. Just make sure you check all of your surroundings and your options first. In a way you remind me of Ash when he does his battling moves too. I expect you to be at your best though nevertheless. You won't get to the finals that way." Sora then shocked as well as everyone else slightly too and then Sora asked, "You think I'll make it to the finals?" "Heck I think everyone will. We all got what it takes. Besides what rule says we can't. The manual doesn't have any, life doesn't, heck I don't know where else to check I'm no expert on these things. But I do know this. You're going to the finals because we're going to do it with each other every step of the way." Sora nodded and smiled as Yerty arrived behind him along with the referee with a golden basket and a grey boulder looking badge as Yerty said, "For great agility, remarkable fighting abilities and outstanding courage, it gives me great pleasure to award you, like I did with your friends the Rock Badge. It's yours now." Sora then said, "Thank you master Yerty. It has been a pleasure to fight against you." Then the group bowed as did Yerty in kind. Soon enough they went on their way out of Gemini City into the calm cool sunset grassy countryside of Ignaryu.

They each had their own thoughts on the GoldConoton Tournament approaching them eventually, yet was so far away because of the lone single badge they each had in their possession. Bart then asked, "So where's the next gym then Brock my man?" "From what the map says the nearest one's in Asperground City. All we got to do is head five hundred miles west…er sorry I meant east. I had it upside down." The group had a slight chuckle at this since Brock is usually the one well prepared for anything and this was unusual for him. Then Victor said, "Alright, Asperground City here we come!!" Even as they said this, the sun twinkled in the sky as it set in the east ironically. (Ignaryu's sun movements are different since it spins counterclockwise to Earth's 'clockwise' movements.)

(A good chapter if I say so myself. I'll get back to some of that classic cartoon humor of the Simpsons and I might include a Family Guy cameo as well if I get a chance, but that's another story entirely. Again I hope you guys like my latest work and until next time more to come on the horizon.)

(Next Time: Robbery at Springtime Bank.)