"Sharon." Jonathan said, causing Sharon to run into the entrance hall. "Do you have the second batch of contestants tracked down?"
Sharon nodded furiously. "Yes sir, it took me a while to track down the one from the outworld but it's finally been connected."
"Good…" He turned to Sharon, placing a hand on her shoulder. "You seem overworked… rest now. I'll take care of the rest of the day."
"B-but sir… I still have to-"
"Don't worry about it." He lightly caressed her cheek, causing her to turn red. "I can handle things from here."
Without another word she walked out of the hall, stumbling as she went down the hallway.
"You try too hard sometimes Sharon." Jonathan muttered. "But now, it's time for the entertainment."
Alexander Nikolaevich Hell vs Crona and Ragnarok
Alexander found himself in what appeared to be a cage hanging in a black void, surrounded by other cages hanging in a similar fashion. He looked down to see nothing but darkness below.
"I-I'm over here…" A voice sounded behind him, he turned to find the pink-haired contestant standing there staring at him, their eyes lifeless.
"You're the one I'm supposed to be fighting?" Alexander asked. He held his hand a few inches away from one of the metal bars.
"I-I guess so.. I mean.." Crona stood in an awkward fashion, one hand grabbing the others arm. "I don't really like fighting but.."
"Tell me…" Alexander said. The bar behind him turned red hot, melting into liquid and reforming into the shape of a scythe. "Have you ever trembled? Have you ever felt the chill reach down to your bones?"
"I don't know about my bones…" Crona said, looking down at the cage floor. "But my blood is black… does that count…?"
Alexander spun the scythe effortlessly before pointing it at Crona. "I'll try to make this quick."
Alexander ducked low and charged at Crona, his scythe aimed at the neck. He heard a solid clang of the metal, but he found himself stopped mid-slash. He looked up and saw Crona had blocked the scythe with one hand, black blood dripping onto the scythe from the palm.
"What the…" Alexander pulled the scythe back and spun it, slashing from the other side with the same result. "How…"
Crona pushed the bloody hands together, pulling them back to form a black sword. "I told you…" Crona said calmly. "My blood is black." Crona held the sword up, a mouth with ruby red lips forming on the blade. "Screech Alpha.." The sword wailed, the sound causing the air to shake. Crona slammed the sword into Alexanders scythe, the iron giving way and breaking due to the vibrations.
"Tsk…" Alexander spat on the ground. "I'm not about to lose to some emotionless brat." He placed his hand on the blade, seeming to be trying to channel his power, but nothing happened.
"How…" He muttered. "The iron in your blood… it's-"
"Gone?" The sword spoke, Ragnaroks voice echoing in the area. "That's because it's me! Your power means nothing."
"It's over…" Crona muttered, bringing the sword up again. "Screech Delta." Alexander had little time to react before Crona burst into a flurry of slashes, seeming to be powered by the screams of Ragnarok.
Alexander jumped back, his body a jumble of cuts, red blood dripping onto the cage floor. He looked up, seeming to realize he had no chance in hand to hand combat. He found his only chance.
Alexander placed his hands on the cage floor, the iron below Crona began to melt.
"Fall!" Alexander shouted as the iron below Crona gave in. He panted slightly as his opponent fell to the abyss below.
A few seconds passed before Alexander could hear what appeared to be wings flapping. He looked up to see Crona through the iron bars of the cage, gigantic black wings preventing Alexanders victory.
"You thought you'd be rid of me that easily eh?" Ragnarok shouted. "Ha! Idiot!"
Crona flew up to the top of the cage, moving Ragnarok beside the chain holding the cage up. Crona spun around, Ragnarok above the chain, slicing it across the binding. Alexander fell into a free-fall, a loud scream emanating from the drop.
"Well I think we have a winner." Jonathans voice echoed in the arena. "Crona and Ragnarok, congratulations." A blue flash came in and Crona disappeared, leaving the flailing chain.
Sebastian Michaelis vs Alucard
Sebastian found himself standing in what appeared to be a mansion, darkness the only thing visible through the windows.
"Hmmm… So dusty…" He muttered, running one of his gloved hands across the banister of the stairs. "This place could use a nice cleaning." He looked around, various portraits slashed to where the faces weren't visible. The entire area covered in red drapes.
"Huh… so you really are a butler." Sebastian looked up the stairs, Alucard walking casually down the stairs. "I can't believe I'm fighting a butler."
Sebastian laughed. "Well I am one hell of a butler… if that helps."
"Well then, butler boy," Alucard chuckled at his own joke. "Let's get this show started shall we?"
"One question, if I may." Sebastian paused, awaiting a response that never came. "Vampire or …?"
"Hmmm…" Alucard rubbed his chin for a moment. "Perceptive, how did you come up with that?"
"As I said," He shook his arm, causing silver knives to appear from in between his fingers. "I'm simply one hell of a butler."
Sebastian threw the knives at Alucard, who retaliated, shooting each one out of the air with one of his pistols before drawing the other, firing into Sebastian. His blood fell onto the ground as Alucard stopped firing.
"Still standing I see…" Alucard called.
Sebastian threw his head back and coughed into his hands, revealing the bullets that used to be in his body, fresh blood on them. "I believe these are yours?" He threw the bullets back at Alucard, causing holes to drive right through his body, which quickly regenerated.
"We might just be at a stalemate." Sebastian said, removing one of his gloves. "Neither of us seem capable of dying."
"Speak for yourself demon butler." Alucard said, causing Sebastian to smile again.
"So you've figured it out… well… so long as I have my contract with my master I am not about to just die."
Alucard laughed. "You believe that your contract will help you? How amusing…"
Sebastian suddenly disappeared, reappearing in a blur in front of Alucard, attempting to kick him in the side, only to be stopped purely by Alucards strength.
"Are you done?" Alucard asked.
"Not even close." Sebastian continued his assault, Alucard remaining unphased at the flurry of attacks.
"You truly believe that anything you do can hurt me?"
"Even if it doesn't, my master would want me to defeat you in any way I can."
Alucard shrugged. "Suit yourself." Within seconds he grabbed Sebastians leg and twisted it, breaking it into a horrible position. Sebastian didn't even flinch.
Alucard released his grip and Sebastian slowly lowered his leg to the ground before twisting it back into place.
Sebastian cracked his neck before delivering a back spin kick to Alucards arm, breaking it into an odd angle. He finished the combo by delivering a similar kick to his other arm. Alucard laughed again and without even flinching his arms moved back into place.
"We're getting nowhere…" Sebastian muttered. "This game of yours Jonathan, you have a fatal flaw."
"You've pinned two opponents against each other who cannot die or even feel pain." Alucard continued. "So there is no winner."
A few minutes passed, the two opponents unmoving. Eventually Jonathan's voice came into the room. "Fine… Stalemate. Just be aware there will be consequences to your actions."
Alucards laughter filled the room before a blue light teleported the combatants out of the room.
Broly vs Sho Minamimoto
Sho wandered around what appeared to be some kind of destroyed city, everything made of some kind of dark blue rock. Various buildings tilted on one side as he walked, a smile on his face.
"This world is garbage! Get me a better equation for this game moron!" Sho reached into his pocket and put a black circular pin on his coat. It glowed for a moment before he teleported to the top of one of the buildings, balancing on the tip of the broken skyscraper.
"Ka…. Kakarot…" Sho laughed as he finally saw his opponent, levitating in the air in front of him.
"You're looking for K eh? Hehehe…" He teleported again, leaving Broly to his muttering.
"Ka… Kakarot…" Almost an hour passed, Broly unmoving from his position.
"Ugh.." Jonathans voice came into the area. "This is dull, come on!"
Another ten minutes passed before Sho finally reappeared, another pin on his hat this time. This one was a bright yellow and depicted an orange Gi attire. "Cool your vectors kid, I'm an artist at work."
"Kakarot..! Kakarot!" Broly turned to Sho, the yellow pin glowing on his hat.
"That's right big guy, K has been removed from his equation and substituted for S in ours." Sho laughed slightly.
"Kakarot!" Broly's hand erupted in a bright green glow of pure energy. He shot the energy forward at Sho with little effort. Sho simply teleported again behind Broly, laughing all the while. His crossed his legs as he levitated
"Woah big guy, you're outta your vector!" He bent low before his own hand glowed yellow, firing a blast of his own. Broly didn't even flinch as the blast hit him, floating unmovingly as he stared down at Sho.
Broly proceeded to grab the head of Sho, heading into a dive towards the ground. The duo hit the cement with a loud crash, a crater formed at the impact. Broly stood in the center, Sho levitating above him.
"Inverse Matrix!" Sho called. He reached into his pocket and pulled out three more pins, tossing them into the air. As they hit the ground they flashed and transformed into three crab-like black creatures. They had one small claw while the other was shaped in a crescent-like white shell.
Broly roared in what seemed to be anger before the entire area erupted in a green energy, the creatures fading away almost instantly into black pins.
"Eliminating factors from the equation easily I see…" Sho smiled wider. "Alrighty then."
He teleported down to Broly's level and got into a fighting stance, his feet levitating a few inches above the ground. "N-factorial!" He stuck his hand out and several black spheres appeared and charged at Broly. Broly fell backwards slightly as they impacted, but came back up almost instantly.
Broly charged yet again at Sho, reeling back a massive punch which Sho caught effortlessly. He used Brolys force to keep him moving before kicking him into one of the buildings, causing it to crash upon his opponent.
"Heh… come on I know that isn't your true answer!" Sho laughed.
An extremely loud roar could be heard from inside the rubble.
"There we go… almost there…" Sho's pin on his hat glowed again. "Maybe if I up my variable a bit." A dark yellow energy began to hover around Sho, a couple of pebbles began to levitate at his feet.
Brolys roars grew louder, eventually the rubble exploded around him, and what stood inside a crater was a much larger opponent. He at least tripled the size of Sho, his hair a bright gold. His pupiless eyes made him look almost possessed. Broly's true form was almost a generator for his energy.
His roars faded into a sadistic laughter before he pointed at Sho, a crooked smile on his face. "You think just by taking his energy you can stand up to Kakarot? Ha! I'll tear you apart!"
"Please, you're outta your vector!" Sho's hat barely stayed on his head as he dashed forward and delivered a sharp kick to Broly's face. He didn't even flinch.
"Are you sure about that?" He grabbed Sho's leg and tossed him into the ground, a crater forming on impact. He raised a hand and energy flowed into it once again, firing several blasts without even moving his arm. Each green sphere of energy created an explosion as it hit the crater. After a dozen he stopped, letting the dust settle on a clearly damaged Sho.
"There's only two things I allow in this game…" Sho grunted, slowly standing back up. "Flawless calculations.. and beauty…" He tossed a couple more pins and the creatures appeared again. He roared and the creatures faded into a shadow and merged with Sho. His body faded into a shadow before a new creature stood. Its legs resembled the bone structure of a human, yet a similar bone tail hung between them, resembling that of a scorpion. The golden body of what could only be described as a werewolf rested atop them, and a lions head rested on top of that, also a similar gold.
"The world is garbage!" Sho's voice erupted, echoing in an almost staticky manner.
"Ha! You think some kind of shadow trick can stand up to me?" Sho's new form dashed
towards Broly at blinding speed, several strikes nailing Broly. Yet he remained unmoved. "You don't stand a chance." He raised his arm and slapped Sho away, knocking down yet another building. Within seconds Sho dashed out of the rubble again, yet another flurry of blows following. Broly dodged them effortlessly, his arms crossed.
"You really are pathetic!" He grabbed and spun Sho around before throwing him several yards away into yet another crater. Broly landed and began a charge to Sho's fallen body, kicking it into the air and blasting it with another energy sphere, creating an explosion in the air. Sho's body reverted to its human form as it fell to the ground. Broly walked forward as Sho tried to stand up.
"Just stay down, it'll be a lot easier to kill you!" Broly laughed as he charged a final energy blast.
"Hahaha… Perfect." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a blank pin, raising it up to Broly's hand. "Drown in a sea of imaginary numbers!" The entire area erupted in a white light, blinding even Jonathan from his castle. When it finally faded only Sho was in the area, the formerly blank pin now a bright green, depicting jewels similar to that on Broly's gauntlets.
"Well I think that's that!" Jonathans voice erupted. "Winner: Sho Minamimoto!"
Gaara of the Desert vs Jinx
Jinx skipped around what appeared to be a massive playground, her guns rattling at her side and on her back. She skipped until she found a rather large swingset and began swinging on it, laughing all the while. She swung higher and higher until jumping off, landing in the sandbox a few feet away, creating a small dark patch where she landed.
"Hey fishbones," She said, placing her rocket launcher on her shoulder. "Shouldn't we be fighting someone."
She lowered her voice as she moved the shark-themed face of the rocket launcher back and forth as if it was talking. "We really should be heading home, I think you left the oven on."
"Priorities fishbones, priorities."
She heard the sand shifting behind her and spun around, drawing her electric pistol that hung at her side. Gaara was rising out of the sand, his arms crossed as he stood glaring at Jinx.
"If you're trying to scare me kid, it's not working." She said, her smile unfading.
"You're my opponent.. how pathetic…" He growled again.
She returned his insult with a laugh. "Alright, I'll go ahead and make this quick as not to bore you little boy." She pulled the trigger, electric building up at the barrel of the pistol before sending an electric shock toward Gaara. Sand seemed to almost animate itself in front of him, discharging the blast without him even raising a finger.
"Awww… Is sand trying to protect its little child." Jinx said, mocking Gaara. "Alright, let's see just how much mommy can take!"
She tossed her pistol and pulled up her minigun, firing a massive barrage of bullets towards Gaara. Each one stopped short by the sand.
"Mother…" Gaara muttered. "You want me to kill her… don't you…"
The minigun ran out of bullets and she raised the rocket launcher. "heheh, bye-bye!" She fired a massive rocket out of the navy-blue weapon, causing a massive explosion covering the area in black smoke. When it finally cleared, Gaara was protected by a rock-hard cocoon of sand which crumbled away, revealing him unscathed.
"Alright…. I'll do it.." He raised his hand, and sand began covering Jinx's body. She tried to pull herself out but she wasn't strong enough, and soon the sand covered her entire body except for her face. For the first time she seemed genuinely scared. He raised his arm and the sand lifted Jinx high into the air. "Sand coffin…" He called, his eyes seeming to project his sadism. "Sand burial..!" He clenched his fingers into a fist, and the sand crushed Jinx's entire body. Her screams lasting barely a second before her crimson blood began raining down in the area. Her body was nowhere in sight.
"Well you work fast don't you?" Jonathans voiced called. "Winner: Gaara of the Desert!"
Dante vs Rita Mordio
Dante wandered around what appeared to be a forest for quite some time, his pistols in his hand. "Come on out!" He called. "There's gotta be someone out here otherwise this would be one boring game!"
His answer came in the form of a gigantic, electrified blade erupting out of the sky and crashing down above him. He rolled out of the way just before it came in contact with him before turning and firing in the direction of a nearby brush, several bullet casings falling at his feet. A few birds flew out of the bush but nothing else.
"Alright then… Now we're talking." The blade lost its charge and began to fade away. "Come on! I know you can see me, there's no way in hell that you're blind-firing that!" Once again his answer came in the form of an attack, this time the earth below him erupting in several spiked stones. Dante perched himself on top of one of the rocks before sliding down the stone, spinning around and firing in all directions. Finally he heard a sharp "Ow!" and jumped towards the direction he heard it. Rita stood in one of the trees, grabbing her side, a rune hovering a few inches away from her body, holding the bullet in the center of it. Her leg seemed to be bruised.
Dante put away his pistols and grabbed the sword on his back, pointing it at one hand towards his opponent. "Let's rock!" He called as he dashed forward, thrusting his blade towards Rita.
"Tsk.. Ivy rush!" A strange circle appeared around Rita before Dante was suddenly trapped by several spiked vines, stopping his blade inches from Rita. Upon closer inspection Rita could clearly see Dante was bleeding, but no wounds seemed to appear.
She jumped down below to the clearing and got into a stance, the same magic circle appearing around her again. "O' obsidian flash, be as a raging spear to run my enemies through…" She chanted. Dante broke free of the thorns and jumped down, diving towards Rita. "Demons lance!" Rita spun around and a dark purple spear appeared above her and dashed towards Dante, landing through Dante and pinning him to a nearby tree. Unlike the sword, the spear remained.
"Well then, I think we're done here." Rita said, dusting off her hands. She turned to walk away when she heard the sounds of blood dripping to the grass. She turned back and saw Dante driving the spear further through his body, until it went clean through him. No hole remained where the spear was, and he dropped to the ground, standing up slowly. He seemed almost unphased.
"Ha… that the best you got?" He made a motion with his guns resembling that of 'come on' before tilting his head back with laughter. "Some mage you are if you can't even harm a half-demon!"
"Tsk…" Rita bit her thumb for a moment before getting back into her casting stance. "O' gathering flames of darkness, treat our dear guest to the strains of your terrible song!"
"Ha! Not this time!" He snapped to his right before tossing his blade forward, the blade passing just over Ritas shoulder and leaving a small cut on her cheek as it landed with a loud thud inside a tree behind her.
"Bloody howling!" She spun around and a dark portal seemed to appear at Dante's feet, causing the ground below him to erupt with a purple flame, screams could be heard below as the flames burned Dante's skin. He writhed for a brief moment before freezing.
He laughed again before standing up straight, not a wound in sight. "Almost had me there, but the show's over." he snapped again and runes not unlike Rita's spellcasting runes appeared around him, his entire body transformed into something Rita had never seen. His jacket turned into almost wing-like red appendages at his waist, the skin that was formally showing turned into a grey-blue scale-like substance, and his hair seemed to form a type of helmet over his head.
His voice echoed as he taunted Rita once more. "come on!" Rita froze for a moment as she heard the blade behind her remove itself from the tree, seeming to almost cut the wind as it spun back to Dante, landing yet another cut on her cheek. He caught it at the hilt before spinning it around at his side and making a dash at wicked speed at Rita, Falling into a dance of glistening blade slashes. Rita's magic, unable to keep up with Dante's speed, could only manage to prevent any cuts on her vital organs, the rest of her body causing crimson blood to fall onto the grass. Dante jumped back several yards, leaving Rita barely able to stand up on two feet.
Rita weakly got back into her spellcasting stance. "O' blade of noble light… overpower even…" She was cut off as Dante pointed his guns at her once more.
"Jackpot." he muttered as he fired two bullets charged with energy. They spun as they charged towards Rita, landing clean through her chest. Her body fell feebly as Dante turned back into his normal form.
Once again Jonathans voice resounded through the area. "And the final battle of round 1 is done, Winner: Dante!"