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Chapter 13

The cameras that were viewing everything that was happening during the fights had a hard time in the forest area as the forest was full of densely packed trees, allowing very little light through to the forest floor.

Despite this, they had no problem picking up on the massive amount of explosions and dust clouds that were kicked up in accelerating numbers as two people fought it out in the forest.

Under the canopy of trees, Ranma jumped from one tree to the next in increasingly confusing ways while Irina tried to follow while flying. "I'm telling you!" Ranma called back as several energy balls formed around him before he rotated in mid-air and snapped them forward at Irina, who fired back with several light arrows to collide and cancel out the attacks while Ranma created a barrier behind him and used it to propel himself back where he was coming from, surprising Irina as Ranma seemingly came at her like a missile. "You shouldn't try to fly with this many trees around you."

"That's good to know!" Irina held up her left index and middle finger, causing a ball of energy to form there before she spun around, revealing that it was a whip of light energy. She snapped her arm out, sending the whip of light forward, only to gawk as Ranma, without the aid of wings, magic or his barriers, seemed to do a somersault in mid-air and slammed his feet into her stomach, sending her flying backwards into another tree.

As she flew backwards into the tree, Irina threw her arms out in a wide arc, sending arrows of light from all directions at Ranma, who twisted to avoid what attacks he could. Eventually he allowed himself to fall face-first straight down, avoiding the attacks. After falling a few feet, Ranma created a barrier under him and he flipped over to land on it and launched himself straight up as more light arrows converged on his position.

Irina, who had recovered from the blow to her stomach, stared as Ranma landed on a tree branch. "Okay, I'll bite, how are you doing all of that without magic? I'm not sensing you using anything until you make those barriers to land on and then you jump backwards."

Ranma smirked at her. "My old man might've screwed up a lot of things with me, but his training certainly was top-notch." It was amusing how many people thought you needed magic or some other trick to fight in midair effectively. Sure, it was a lot easier to fight in mid-air when you didn't have to worry about falling, but part of what made mid-air combat so amazing was using gravity to your advantage. Being able to fly like most supernatural made them not understand the finer details of fighting in mid-air, like how a small movement of a limb could make it so that you could move out of the way of an attack at the last moment, or how the right movement could cause you to change direction. Sure, flight meant that most of that was useless, but understanding it made fighting in mid-air much easier and more enjoyable.

Snapping his hands out, Ranma launched several thin knives at Irina, who created her energy whip again and knocked them down. Ranma jumped from the tree he was on to another tree and another in a zig-zagging pattern that Irina was having trouble keeping up with.

"What is he doing?" Irina muttered to herself before flapping her wings and flying straight forward. "Just bouncing back and forth like this, it's confusing, sure, but it feels like it's a waste of energy."

When Irina flew past a random tree, she suddenly stiffened and let out a yelp as she felt something hit her on the butt hard. "Oww, what the heck was that?!" She asked as she spun around to see what got her, before yelping as her legs were struck. Irina tried spinning again, only for her left arm to get struck by something. She stared in surprise as it was a shadowy hand that was connected to a wobbly "arm" that was coming out of one of the trees. Another one of those shadowy hands grabbed her right arm and two more grabbed her legs, spreading her into a large X shape in mid-air.

Ranma landed on a tree branch under her and smirked up at her. "Gotta be hands on, right?" He chuckled as she squirmed and thrashed. "It's a good thing you aren't wearing a skirt, otherwise I'd see what kind of underwear you're wearing."

The brown-haired Angel looked at Ranma as best she could and glowered. "I'll have you know that this skin-tight suit doesn't have room for conventional underwear, if that's what you're hoping to see!"

"Oh, so you always wore a thong then?" Ranma asked her and she blushed, shaking her head. "No? That's a shock."

Irina was going to say something more when she felt a pair of hands on her butt. "H-hey! What are you doing?"

Ranma had a stupefied look on his face as more shadowy hands erupted from where he had put seals on the trees. "Uh, I only wanted them to capture you so I could taunt you a bit, I didn't mean for more of them to come out and try and fondle you." He sweat-dropped as some hands came out and started fondling Irina's breasts and one pressed on her stomach and started going lower. "Okay, while hot, that's enough of that." Ranma growled and snapped his fingers, causing the seals to shut off, which made the hands all disappear and allowed Irina to get free. "I think I need more practice with that, I never intended for that to happen."

"Yeah..." Irina's eyes were twitching as light energy formed in her hands, which turned into a mallet. "How dare you try and fondle me like that?!"

"AH!" Ranma jumped out of the way as Irina's light mallet slammed into where he had just been. "Uh... Sorry?"

Irina had her eyes closed as she smiled. "Sure, I accept it, but I'm still angry, so..." She hefted her light mallet again. "I'm going to chase you in an attempt to hit you for the next ten minutes, okay?" She tilted her head and her smile turned sweet. "Please try to avoid being squished."

Ranma sweat-dropped and nodded before yelping as she chased after him, calling him an idiot. "Why do I feel like the universe suddenly feels right?" He asked as he jumped away from a tree that was destroyed by Irina's strike.

Within the destroyed tree, two red orbs glowed softly.

(-)

In another forest area...

Cologne stood in the middle of a carved out clearing from her tornado attack, her fist still raised in the air, the thick trees cleared out from around her. "Hmm, maybe that was too much?" She asked and looked around to see that there were no trees around her for at least three meters in each direction. "Hmm, then again, I am dealing with a Valkyrie-turned-Devil, so maybe it's not enough?"

Hearing a noise behind her, Cologne turned around and saw a large pile of fallen trees suddenly shake before exploding, kicking up dirt and dust. When the dust settled and cleared out, she saw Rossweisse standing there, covered in dirt and dust, coughing slightly, but looking otherwise fine. "I'm impressed that you're not hurt by that attack."

Rossweisse coughed a couple more times as the dust cleared out. "Advantage of being reincarnated into a Rook-class Devil. I'm more durable than a tank."

"Hmm..." Cologne nodded as snapped her fingers and her gnarled staff appeared in her hands. While it was normally huge for her, with her youth restored to her, it looked like a slightly large stick. "I see, beating you down physically will be like trying to defeat the tiger clan of the Musk in unarmed combat." No matter how strong or skilled an Amazon was, trying to beat a member of the Tiger clan in direct combat was nearly suicide. They were just too strong and durable in a fight to beat.

Cologne spun her staff in her hands and grinned. 'But they tend to over-rely on their physical abilities and ignore training.' She doubted that Rossweisse was the same way, but she hoped that Rossweisse didn't have any knowledge about what she was going to do. "Bakusei Tenketsu!" She jabbed the ground with her staff three times, causing several explosions, one around her, one in between then and one close to where Rossweisse was. 'Rushing straight forward would be stupid.' Cologne thought to herself as she prepared herself for her next move. 'Then, let's do this.'

In the newly formed dust cloud, Rossweisse quickly cast a wind spell to get the dust to clear out in front of her and she gasped as several Colognes escaped from the dust cloud in front of her opponent. "She can clone herself?" Such an ability wasn't unheard of, but it wasn't extremely common. Snapping her hands out, she cast a spell to launch thin energy needles in a wide arc. When the attacks hit some of the Colognes and passed right through them. "Oh, illusions, huh? Well then." She stomped on the ground and lightning crashed all around her, smashing into the illusions and disrupting them. "Was that all?"

Seeing a crystal blade being thrown at her from the corner of her eyes, she flew up, only to gasp as another Cologne, this one likely the real one, was dashing at her at such speed that she actually caught up to the thrown blade and grabbed it, throwing it again, only this time, she forced Rossweisse to jerk to the side to avoid the attack. Cologne then jumped over Rossweisse, who was still trying to fly up, before grabbing the Devil's shoulders and using them to flip behind Rossweisse to land a kick on the small of her back, causing Rossweisse to grunt in surprise.

"I barely felt that." Rossweisse said as she spun around to face Cologne in the air, only to get several staff taps on her arms, legs and stomach. The former Valkyrie shook her head and her eyes widened as she felt the muscles in her arms and legs suddenly going limp. She found that she couldn't even hold them up as they flopped down helplessly to her side. As soon as she saw what happened Cologne leaned in and did several quick taps to Rossweisse's neck and head, causing her eyes to widen before rolling into the back of her head and she fell down limply.

Cologne let out a sigh of relief. "Thank the ancestors that your body is close enough to a human that those worked." Granted, it wasn't completely the same, she had been trying for temporary paralysis pressure points in the limbs, but instead it seemed like she hit a sequence that just caused Rossweisse's muscles to go completely limp.

After a few moments of seeing Rossweisse not moving, Cologne nodded as the silver-haired woman disappeared in a spectral flash of light. "Well then, I guess I win, do I face another opponent?" She asked and raised an eyebrow as a glowing door appeared in front of her. "Well, guess I'll go through it." She shrugged and walked through the door.

When she got through to the other side, she was greeted by the largest human she had the pleasure of seeing. "Ah, Vasco Strada..." Cologne smiled as the large man looked at her. "You defeated my great-grand-daughter, I'm rather impressed."

Vasco smiled at Cologne. "And you defeated Miss Rossweisse, I believe." Cologne nodded and he chuckled. "I must admit, it's rare for me to face a human who's so much older than me. May I ask your secret?"

"Oh, you know..." Cologne lightly flicked her hair to the side. "Eating healthy, lots of exercise and finding ways to annoy several generations worth of descendants all at once and being too stubborn to die."

Vasco continued to smile. "I can imagine." His smile slowly disappeared as the atmosphere became more tense. "No offense, miss Cologne, but I'm going to go all out against you."

Cologne had a grim smirk on her face. "I would feel extremely offended if you didn't."

The two let out a yell and charged each other.

(-)

Back in the main stadium...

"Things are going well, I think." Sirzechs said to Azazel, who nodded and grinned. "The crowd seems to enjoy some of the fights."

"The ones they can see at any rate." Odin commented as he looked at the ones with the forest. "Next time, don't put fights in such a dense grove of trees. Or get more cameras down there."

"Yeah, an oversight on my part." Azazel nodded in annoyance. "Hmm?" He turned his head as he noticed someone getting up. "You okay, princess?"

Rias smiled and nodded. "Yes, I just need to use the bathroom, I'll be right back." The others nodded as Rias left the VIP section.

Odin suddenly stiffened in surprise. "Something's not right." All the cameras suddenly were covered in static and a whirlwind of power suddenly surrounded the VIP box and most of the stadium. The lights in the stadium dimmed, causing confusion among everyone.

A new face appeared on the screens as lights appeared in the center of the arena. "Welcome! Ladies! Gentle-devils! Boys and girls! And everyone who's brain damaged into thinking they're something else."

On the screen, with a large grin on his face, was Jedah Dohma as he spoke into a microphone. "Don't bother trying to adjust that TV set, we'll be right back."

End Chapter 13

Dun, dun, duuuuun!

Time for the plot to finally kick in.