kim,amity,willow,hunter,Gus,maria,Chris,Anne,Darrel,Dani and rj stood with the other warriors along with mizar looking up at the Daimyo who sat before them at his seat with his young son ue-sama. Holding his mystical War Staff, he announced to them all, "Warriors who seek to become Battle Nexus Champion, prepare yourselves!"

The crowds and warriors roared and cheered with excitement for the upcoming contest to begin. Chris looked to see once again, garnet,draal,samurai jack and Wulf standing among the warriors.

"It really is draal,garnet samurai jack and Wulf. Those are our friends from the other Worlds." Chris said.

Wait how do you that samurai dude Polly asked.

He help me and Apollo train in the way oh the way oh a samurai Chris explained.

"Wow"sprig and Polly said in unison.

". This place keeps getting wilder with every minute." Darrel commented.

"Where is luz,Sasha and Apollo? The tournament will start soon." Rj asked, noticing that both Leo and Danny had not come out into the arena yet.

"Do not worry rj sensei. I am sure those three will be along any moment now." Mizar assured hee.

With luz,Apollo and Sasha

None of them were aware however, that as luz,Apollo and Sasha continued to pay their respects to both the statues of camila and Ciara, the hidden ninjas in black body suits were still aiming their arrows right at their backs.

Both Sasha'sApollo's and luz's eyes opened as they could sense their presence in the room and just as their assailants fired their arrows at them, luz spun round and deflected the arrows with a light shield. The arrows bounced off the shield and hit the statues of both Ciara and camila .

Luz,Sasha and Apollo quickly said to the statues, "Sorry mama. Sorry miss Ciara."

The assassins came out and fired more arrows at them. Apollo and luz summon their weapons and they both dodged all the arrows. Sasha blocked some arrows that were being fired at her and then luz grabbed one of the oncoming arrows using her super fast reflexes to threw it back at the assassins. One of the assassin jumped up onto the wooden planks of the roof and shot several shuriken at them but they both moved out of the way and luz to use her ice powers, she fired an ice blast at the assassin on the plank, but she moved out of the way in time. Suddenly, they were both hit the backs, sending them nearly into a shelf full of weapons.

They turned around and saw that the assassins had disappeared. Apollo pulled out his sword and stood ready. There was nothing but silence in the pavilion, which made them feel a bit uneasy.

"Okay, where did everybody go?" Sasha asked out loud, as she quickly grabbed a naginata (A bo-staff with a blade) from the shelf and stood prepared.

"And why the heck are they targeting us?" Luz wondered.

Suddenly a whip came out and latched onto Sasha's wrist, catching her completely by surprise as the two assassins pulled him towards them.

"Sasha!" Luz and Apollo shouted and was about to help, but found his path blocked by another assassin.

Sasha kicked one of them away and attacked the other one with the naginata, but the assassin blocked his attack with a sword that had spiked edges.

Another assassin came out and sent a shuriken at him, as Sasha pushed the assassin she was fighting back. The shuriken broke her weapon in half and she was suddenly kicked, sending she was sent flying into the wall, falling down on her stomach.

"SASHA HOLD ON!" Luz shouted as she and Apollo pushed back the assassin's sword and then jumped up and kicked him in the side of the head.

Suddenly luz was grabbed by her hair from behind and then pinched in a nerve, He was then swung over to Sasha, and Apollo was kicked hard on the back of his so hard he got sent hitting the wall and falling to the ground. Five of the assassins then prepared their crossbows once more and took aim at luz,Apollo and Sasha, ready to end their lives.

Just when it seemed like the end, the five assassin's crossbows were suddenly sliced in half by a sword from above. The sword belonged to samurai jack.

"You fight without honour assassins!" Jack shouted before jumping down, prepared to fight against the assassins.

The assassins immediately ran away and vanished within the shadows. Jack put his sword away and then turned to Apollo,Sasha and luz, helping them both stand up as he asked, "Are you warrior's alright?"

He pinched the nerve on luz's shoulder once more sasha and Danny could feel their powers once again. They rubbed the area but was grateful to samurai jack who had saved their lives.

"Thanks for saving our butts there." Sasha said with a smile.

"You are welcome." Jack said, bowing his head.

Luz,Apollo and Sasha bowed at samurai jack as luz said, "My name is luz noceda belos and these are my friends sasha and this is ap- she was cut off by jack.

saying her friend name Apollo it is good to see you again,

It's good to see masters jack and we are in your debt."Apollo said.

Jack bowed back and introduced himself, "I am jack. A ronin samurai and a competitor in the Battle Nexus Tournament. I was passing by when I saw you both set upon by those dishonourable assassins."

"Lucky for us that you came along when you did." Sasha said.

Apollo you now this samurai luz asked.

Yeah when me and my brother were traveling the multiverse we meet master jack and he Thought us the way of a samurai Apollo said bowing to samurai jack.

"Luck has very little to do with it." Jack said. "It's about skill and control of your energies. Your mind and your weapon must be as one, or you will certainly perish. It can be said for the same as your, mystical powers luz."

Luz smiled and said, "Yeah I know. Our my who is sensei is always telling us the same thing. Any other advice?"

Jack suddenly turned serious and answered, "Yes. Duck."

Both Sasha's,Apollo's and luz's eyes widened as jack suddenly leapt at them with his sword. They both ducked as the samurai blocked two shuriken that were coming at them. Luz,Apollo and Sasha stood back up to see the assassins were back and one of them threw more shuriken at them.

Sasha grabbed a shield and deflected the oncoming sharp weapons, before throwing the shield like a discus, hitting the assassin that threw the shuriken dead in the stomach and knocking down from the pillar. Apollo and luz fired a couple of light-blasts at a few of them, pushing them back away from them.

"Who are these guys?" Sasha asked.

Jack blocked an oncoming sword from one of the assassins and then kicked him back, before spinning around and kicking another one that was about to attack him from behind, in the stomach.

Sasha grabbed a pair of tonfa and began to fight against one of the other assassins, blocking each punch his attacker sent at him. Apollo flew inside the assassin he was fighting and overshadowed him. The assassin's body was surrounded by a green aura as Apollo's control over his body was complete and he forced the assassin to begin fighting against his own comrades, taking them out one by one. Apollo then came out of the assassin and punched him right in the face knocking him out.

Samurai jack blocked the spiked blade and pushed the assassin back a bit, before they both faced each other. Jack glared at his opponent, before they charged at each other and continued their fight.

Sasha continued to use the tonfa to fight against the assassin he was fighting, he finally saw an opening and swept the legs, knocking him down on his back. Luz was about to hit him with the light blade, only for the assassin to grab her arms and push her back. Before luz could react, she was hit again with a powerful kick to the chest, sending she crashing into another pillar. The assassin grabbed a sword and came over to luz and aimed the blade right above him, ready to end her life once and for all.

Luz gasped and quickly, grabbed the helmet from behind him and used it to block the fatal blow. He then kicked the assassin in the stomach, allowing her the opportunity to completely freeze the assassin solid in a thin case of ice and punch him away.

She looked at the helmet she was holding and grimaced as it was the exact same helmet that belonged to ninja turtles enemy, the Shredder. Luz threw away the helmet as jack and Apollo,both split kicked back the assassins away from the and held their swords ready to continue to fight.

All the assassins groaned in pain and then fled the scene without a trace once again. Apollo,luz and jack put their swords away, the fight was finally over.

"They are gone. Vanished." Jack said.

"Again, thank you for your help masters." Apollo said as bowing to her old master.

"Do not thank me yet warriors.Apollo don't call me master anymore cause you are full warrior and Fate may pit us against each other in the tournament." Jack said, reminding them of the Battle Nexus Tournament.

"I have to tell you Jack, the way you fight I'd rather not go up against you if I can help it." Luz complimented.

"The same here. You're really good Jack ." Sasha added.

Jack smiled and said. "The feeling is mutual my friends."

The Gioji then appeared, with Sasha's now repaired swords in her arms and said, "Master Sasha, your swords have been repaired. I trust you will find them worthy."

Sasha grabbed her swords and smiled, happy that they have been repaired just in time for her to compete. She put them away in their sheaths and bowed to the Gioji, "Thank you."

"You three must hurry. The next stage of the Battle Nexus Tournament is about to begin." The Gioji reminded them.

The four of them then headed to the arena and stood at the entrance. Jack bowed at Sasha,Apollo and luz and said, "Good luck."

"And to you samurai jack." Luz,Apollo and Sasha said at the same time, bowing back.

With that, the four went on their separate ways in the arena. As jack was walking among one side of the arena, he suddenly stopped when he came across iron fist.

Jack smiled as he recognised him and said with a bow, "Ah iron fist. I am surprised to see you here."

Iron fist smiled back and asked, "Why is that?"

"I im glad you went in for contests of honour." Jack answered.

"Indeed?" Iron fist said im in it for honour. I'm glad to other great warriors as well."

With the others

Luz,Apollo and Sasha found King,kim,amity,willow,hunter,Gus,maria,Chris,Anne,Darrel,Polly,Dani and rj among the group and joined up with them.

"Yo guys! I was afraid that you weren't gonna show." Maria said.

"What took you both so long?" Gus asked.

"Apollo,luz and I ran into trouble in the Pavilion of Past Champions." Sasha answered. "We got attacked, by some unknown ninja assassins."

"Attacked?! Are you both alright?" Mizar asked with concern.

I'm glad no one is hurt Ue-Sama said with concern

"We'll survive." Apollo answered. For some reason he still didn't trust mizar even though he apologised. There was just something about him he didn't like.

"This is terrible! I will look into the matter at once." Mizar said and gave miss rj a polite bow before leaving the arena.

A horn blew and the crowds began to cheer, indicating that it was time for the contest to begin. Rj faced the realm defenders and advised them, "The time has come. Be brave my family and more importantly, be careful."

The Daimyo slammed the gong with the War Staff and announced, "Let the contest…..begin!"

He raised the War Staff in the air and began to glow with electrical energy. He fired the energy at the arena and suddenly, the floor lowered a bit before walls emerged from the ground and separated the contestants into pairs of two, indicating the one they were in their own fighting area with was their opponent for the first round.

Darrel turned and found his opponent was a boy named atreus is a fourteen year old teenager and has grown taller, towering above Brok and Sindri. He has gained a bulkier build, a deeper voice and his skin is less pale than it was when he was younger. He holds the Talon Bow on his back with an S-shaped hook patterned after Jörmungandr. He wears a yellow tunic lined with fur, and continues to wear his father's red sash and mother's yellow scarf. Additionally, he also wears the mistletoe arrowhead that allowed Baldur to be defeated as a necklace

Darrel chuckled nervously and said, "Looks like it's just you and me."

Darrel then looked up as the Daimyo announced, "Warriors, first tier begin!"

The crowd roared in excitement and when Darrel turned back around, atreus turns into a bear and charged right at him. Darrel screamed in fright for a moment. He quickly jumped out of the way as he swung his claws at him. Sprig then pulled out his sling shot and the two began to circle each other, waiting for the right moment to attack.

Rj's first opponent in the first round was a creature named Crusher. Crusher began to charge at rj with his spiked club weapon. The assassin made no move to dodge or even block the weapon as it was now aimed right at her. As Crusher bought the club down at him, she moved out of the way with extreme speed, and then ducked as it was swung at his head and the dodged another strike.

Hunter(in his silver claw suit)and his opponent Fiyero circled around each other. Both of their weapons out. Fiyero's weapon consisted of two sharp circular blades. Fiyero then made the first move to attack and launched at hunter with his staff. Hunter blocked the oncoming strikes with his sword and then Fiyero flipped backwards and landed, holding up his hands again and now revealed, he had another set of the blades.

Jack's opponent was a large dark purple creature. Its mouth held razor sharp teeth and its weapon appeared to be a double bladed weapon. Usagi bowed in respect for his opponent but then peeked to see him about to deliver a strike with his blade. The samurai acted quickly and pulled out his sword, blocking the blade from above.

Apollo's opponent was kratos(from god of war).Apollo looked around him, seeing a small park. It wasn't too shabby, it's open fields making for a great battleground and the fences clearly used for baseball and other sports could make for some flowmotion attacks if needed. Apollo saw the man take off his red cloak, readying his Leviathan Axe and taking deep breaths. Apollo studied the keychains he had on hand; Apollo charged into him but was met with a quick counter from his Guardian Shield, the rustic gold metal blocking Apollo's strike easily. Stumbling back, Apollo saw the shield glow a faint red color, a burst of energy being shot right back at him.

Rolling away from the attack, Apollo entered a sprint, trying to see if he could land another attack. Flicking his wrist,then Leaping in the air, Apollo landed a barrage of attacks, actually hitting Kratos easily, the man taking them like nothing. Finishing his explosion burst combo, light sending Kratos sliding back, he just spat out some blood, a faint smile growing on his face. "You got a warrior spirit." Kratos stood tall, clenching his ax. "I don't need to hold back."

Apollo tilted his head at the comment, but the man entered a spartan sprint, shouting as his shield was growing a bright red. Panicking, Apollo summons a shield forming his hand's right as Kratos crashed into it. Apollo could swear the ground shook from how heavy the man was marching, using his shields power to launch a godly fist at Kratos, the man taking the blow head on. Huffing from how powerful his foe's attacks were, Apollo was trying to focus on him aiming his ax. Apollo's eyes were wide as he threw his keyblade to counter Kratos' strike, but was surprised when both weapons fell to the ground. Apollo's eyes were in shock, the ax actually was stuck inside his keyblade. Kratos held out his palm, the ax and Apollo's weapon coming to his hand. "Mmm…" Kratos tried holding the Keyblade but it rematerialized in Apollo's right hand.

The wielder studied his weapon, it actually getting chipped from the attack. Apollo looked back at Kratos. The man gave Apollo an unimpressed look, causing Apollo to grit his teeth. Flicking his wrist, Sora summoned a powerful kai blast that was his strongest, deciding to play fair. He Summons his spear making various jabs toward Kratos. The man blocked each blow like nothing, his face twitching a smile. He countered one of Apollo's finishers, making him stumble back. Kratos then held up his ax, unleashing a pent up ice pulse.

Apollo winced at the attack, using a weak fire spell to dispel the slight freeze. He can use ice magic? Apollo smiled impressed, figuring if ice was his favorite… Charging his Highwind with fire magic, he charged toward Kratos, the man counting Apollo's blows with careful ax strikes. The two were match-to-match for the next minute before they both slid back. Apollo summoned his sword and transforms it into a gaint blade and let the weapon's weight adjust to his hand. Kratos to Apollo's surprise put his ax away and cracked his knuckles.

"Wait… if are you going to fight without a weapon I'll fight you without mine it's fair and honorable?" Apollo said Apollo turns super sayian, kratos Letting his inner power course through him, Kratos charged into Apollo like a wild animal, his fists emblazoned with fire. Apollo blocked some strikes before rolling out of the way, dashing to give himself time to transform into his other form. Leaping in the air, Apollo felt the power click,then two metal balls coating his hands while chains snaked over his two arms. Kratos paused at this, his eyes wide for a brief second. Kratos was about to strike then a blur as Apollo bobbed and weaved in between ranged punches. Kratos took some hits before using his shield to block the attacks.

The man took a moment's rest, with Apollo ready to land another strike… Before Apollo realized Kratos actually had chains on his arm too. How did I not notice that? Kratos summoned his Blades of Chaos, blood stained on the steel and its grip looking something out of hell itself. Apollo actually shook seeing the weapons, seeing… So much history in just how tired and rustic the weapons looked. Apollo couldn't admire them for long, as Kratos let out a powerful battle cry, sending the blades in Apollo's direction. He jumped in the air and used his flowmotion to fling himself toward a nearby tree to avoid another strike. Kratos shot the weapons like they were bullets, them hitting Apollo with precision, using his own balled fists to block the attacks. thinking of an idea Apollo smirked using his alchemy to summon a stone pillar from the ground,Using his flowmotion again, he used one hand to swing around the tree while his other free hand used the balled fist to swing around. Kratos rolled away from each attack before leaping in the air and unleashing a surge of fire in Apollo's direction.

Apollo leaped off the flaming pillar before it could burn his hand, but was surprised with a strike to the face. Screaming in pain, Apollo landed in a thud on the ground, his vision blurred by red. Touching his face, Apollo was surprised to see blood dripping down. He then summoned His keyblade, Apollo used the weapon to get himself up. Kratos' eyes narrowed, seeing Apollo's now very visible scar across his eyes. The fact he still somehow was able to see surprised the former god, but he simply smirked, Apollo glaring at Kratos. "That's it!" Apollo felt his inner darkness slowly take over, his body turning pure black. To his shock, he didn't just wield a Keyblade, but also the Void Gear in his right hand. Apollo's body covered in black, his eyes turned red he then charged at Kratos like a wild animal, the two weapons clashing with Kratos' Blades of Chaos. Apollo warped away as Kratos lunged his blades toward him, leaping in the air and jabbing the keyblade and sword into the ground, unleashing a surge of darkness toward Kratos.

The man rolled away from the attack and saw Apollo's eyes unmoving, body in full control. He frowned at this, but couldn't reflect more as Apollo threw one of his keyblades at Kratos, the man blocking it effortlessly, but Apollo's dark form smirked as if that was the intention. Kratos spun around, wielding his ax once more and slammed the weapon into Apollo's shoulder, making his dark form encased in complete ice. Kratos collected himself, walking back slowly to give himself some distance. Retracting the ax, Apollo fell to the ground, his dark form gone but still having his Keyblade and sword in hand. he glared at Kratos with his red enraged eye's, meeting Kratos' own aged blood red ones.

They screamed like warriors, charging into one another. Apollo used more skillful strikes and leaps, while Kratos matched Apollo's movements with heavy swings and powerful punches. He grabbed Apollo and dashed toward a nearby tree. Slammed against the tree, Kratos started punching Apollo rapidly, unable to block the attacks. Apollo , getting desperate, bit into Kratos' arm, but the man just shrugged off the futile effort, landing a powerful punch across Sora's face.

Falling to the ground, Apollo hissed in pain, he quickly healed himself. Apollo stood tall and spat out some blood. "I can take it. I… I can take more hurt." Apollo grits his teeth and hissed, with Kratos pausing. "What?! I faced thousands of heartless, nobodies and fought much worse than you!" Sora pointed his weapons at Kratos. "I'm not giving up And you aren't going to stop me!" Apollo charged at Kratos,Apollo started punching Kratos with thunder punched but he stopped seeing the state kratos was in,kratos then fell down do to his injuries and from exhaustion,he was then transported to the medical bay.

In the other battles.

Willow heard footsteps, heavy footsteps. She saw some pebbles on the ground vibrating as her opponent stepped up. To her shock, he was about six feet taller than her, with black spiky hair, brown eyes, and lizard like with a x-mark scar on his left eye. He had a hardened look and was wearing the Hexside uniform, but was built like a large tank, very muscular.

"You must be Willow Parks of the boiling," Simon said in a deep, manly voice. "I am Simon Saltstar of the tattoo one!"

This is fun Simon said.

Don't underestimate me willow said.

"Really? Huh, that's a shock. No offense, but I thought Plant witch were just tree-huggers." Simon got into a fighting position. "But let's see what you got!"

With gus

Gus opponent was someone he didn't expect to see he was his friends majuub.

Gus it's good to see you my friend majuub said.

"Alright, prepare to be amazed by Gus Porter's illusions!" Gus struck a pose, which made majuub smirk.

"Alright shows me what you got," maguub replied, as he starts to charge. "Too bad I'm gonna have to beat you." He charged at Gus, who dodged his quickly but was unable to stop his finger from touching his shoulder, causing his shoulder and left arm to go numb.

"My arm!" Gus cried out, gus smirking at him while she summoned illusion clones of himself with his remaining arm.

"I've learned pressure points" majuub told him. What I've just done is block your nerve points. Don't worry, you will recover… but not until after I win!"

With amity

Amity's match started as she entered the ring. To her surprise, her opponent at the other side of the ring was just a tall girl with blue curly top hair, wearing a cloak with a life sis puppy with purple strings coming from her fingers.

"Golly gee, you must be Amity Blight," the girl greeted. "My name is Tempus, I'm an Oracle also a puppet master and I have big dreams!"

Amity blinked, she couldn't help but feel a bit put off by this. "Um… what are your dreams?"

Wining the battle nexus Tempus explained as she closed her eyes, then opened them again to show that they were glowing purple. "Oh, and watching witch girl squirm!" She held up her doll and listened to him. "What's that, Jojo? You wanna show her the true meaning of fear?" She made the puppet nod and puppet had a mouth form and then smirked while aiming the puppet at Amity to spread a purple mist around her.

"Abomination, rise!" Amity quickly summoned her Abomination. The Abomination went to grapple puppet who stepped out of the way, still targeting Amity.

"What's wrong, Little Miss blight?" Puppet asked now with crazy eyes. "After all, this duel's just begun!"

Amity Cringed at the puppet Creeped out.

Back with willow

Willow slid back, avoiding the attacks from Simon tail. Her eyes glowed green as she brought out large vines to go straight towards her opponent. Simon dodged them.

"So it looks like you're not the half-a-witch everyone said you were," Simon commented. "That's good, because I prefer a strong opponent!" He smashed his fist on the ground and a boulder sprang up that he repeatedly punched into smaller boulders, each targeting Willow.

Willow summoned a large mushroom to shield herself from the many boulders being punched at her.. She struggled to keep it up, but waved her other hand to grow more vines that formed a large man-eating flower with four eyes on each pedal. She launched the flower at Simon, but he jumped up with his fist out and punched straight through the flower from the mouth to the other side. The flower fell and Simon landed behind Willow.

"Not bad," Simon said while he turned to Willow. "But let me show you something I came here to win this." He then glow causing him to be encased in stony armor. He covered himself in brown, knight-like armor with a rhino-shaped helmet with a horn on top and vertical visors on the plate of his helmet. His armor was brown with white metal chest armor, bulky brown shoulder pads with spikes, having boulder gauntlets, grieves and on his back two small pillars stuck out. "Behold, my stone Armor! With it you've more than met your match, vegan!"

Willow's left eye twitched.

With Gus

Majuub tried to find Gus, who was hiding among his illusions.

"Come on, just make it easier for himself!" Majuub demanded while firing kai blast at a Gus illusion away from him. "You Illusionists can't keep up forever. Once my pressure point hits you, your muscles will fall asleep! So let's make this battle quick!" Majuub fired a Kai wave that caused the Gus clones to disappear.

Then a Fog appears surrounding the area.

With amity

"Hehehe, you can't hide from your fears," puppet said as she spread her mist throughout the ring. "Only five minutes have passed, and once I make you submit, I'll be known as the one who took down a Blight!"

Amity was trying to use a fire spell to disperse the mist around, as she strategized. 'This puppet prefers long distance attacks,' she thought, before noticing that the fear mist surrounding her was caused by puppet copies of her mother. "Abomination, rise!" Amity summoned Abomination tentacles and attacked the puppets.

Tempus dodged the Abomination tentacles, then raised her puppet to fire more mist at Amity now that she was exposed. This time Amity couldn't disperse the mist in time and it covered her, much to puppet's glee. "Now, to make you submit!" she declared.

"You should've kept your back protected," said a voice behind her.

Tempus's eyes widened, but before she could turn around her puppet was taken from her and thrown away. The mist disappeared and puppet found herself defenseless against Amity, who she now realized had used a shadow clone. When Tempus had dodged what she thought was an Abomination, it was actually Amity who shape-shifted while the Amity that the puppet thought she had sprayed was actually the Abomination. "W-Wait… you used a shadow clone!?" Tempus asked in shock.

"Yup," Amity replied, before summoning an Abomination hand that knocked Dolly out.

Five Minutes Passed.

Amity Blight of the boiling has Wone, Tempus… you los.

"W-What? Golly-gee noooo!" Tempus cried out as she fell into the dark portal, banished to the shadow realm for remedial classes.

Amity cheered with joy."

While the judges made their notes, Amity started to leave the Arena and prepare for the next round.

With Gus.

Majuub struggled through the fog, he then listens to where Gus is .

"You know what? I'll just have to blast you!" Gus majuub shot a paralyze beam at Gus. "Prepare to be frozen!" However, this Gus turns out to be a shadow clone. "A shadow clone!?" Majuub cried out and noticed Gus popping out of the fog elsewhere.

'Thank you Naruto's ninja training for the influence!' Gus thought to himself as he looked at the clock. Seven minutes had passed, all he needed was to last three more. Though one of his arms still wouldn't move, that just meant he had to think more creatively.

Well I've been wanting to fight in my world but this will do majuub said.

"Thanks I've always wanted to see you in action!" Gus said.

Majuub wiped out the Gus clones and saw that the real Gus had fallen. "Show's over, little buddy," she said as she stepped towards him and turned Gus over. Her eyes widened when she saw guts, blood, and that his face was now a skull "EEEK!" she cried out, stepping away. "Oh my God…"

"That's all I need an opening," spoke a voice that surprised Majuub, he turned around and saw that Gus with a rasengan majuub sending him to the other side of the Arena.You a great opponent goku would be proud of you gus said as he snapped his fingers, the clones around him disappearing.

Augustus Porter of the boiling isles has won, Majuub you have lost.

"You tricked me!" Majuub called Gus out, but good fight.

"Same," Gus said, rubbing the back of his head.

Back with willow

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch that," Willow said while her eye twitched. "What did you just call me, blockhead?"

"I just called you a vegan," Simon repeated while charging at Willow in a sprint, leaving behind a cloud of dirt. Willow summoned a bloom to entrap herself in and went underground before Simon could hit her. His horn struck the wall, causing it to crack. As he pulled his horn out, Willow popped out from the ground in the bloom. He turned to her and saw Willow coming out of the bloom, but her hair was looser and her expression was angry as her eyes glowed green.

"I get pushed around and picked on a lot. I've been called many names…" Willow's voice sounded otherworldly as thorns started sprouting from the ground around her. "Half-A-Witch, Leaf Girl, a pushover, but if there's one thing that I hate being called more than anything else..." Her hair stood up as Willow stomped and caused a large tree to sprout from the ground, her arms flexing causing her green sleeves to tear and to show the muscles of her biceps. "IT'S BEING CALLED A VEGAN! THAT IMPLIES THAT I EAT THE PLANTS AROUND ME, BUT I'M A CARNIVORE!" Large thorn vines sprouted from the ground around her.

Simon began dodging the thorny vines that were being shot at him until he felt one grab him "What the-!?" Before he could react, he was thrown by the vine into a wall on the other side of the room. When he got back up, his armor was cracked and his helmet was slightly broken off showing a part of his face. "Now this is a worthy fight!" he declared as he drew his spell circle, pressed it onto the wall behind him, and a large stony fist sprouted from it. Willow retaliated with a large bush fist made of thorns and wood.

"I won't let you walk out of here for comparing me to those STINKIN' ANIMAL-LOVING BEAST KEEPERS!" Willow raged. The spectators that came to watch her match were amazed but certain orange-sleeve track students felt a sting from her comment.

'You didn't need to target us like that,' the Beast-Keeping students thought to themselves while watching this epic match.

Willow and Simon's match continued, each throwing out multiple punches of either plant or constructive stone at the other. Both were going at it intensively. Gus was now a spectator.

"Go Willow!" Gus shouted as he looked at the timer. 'They're really going at it for the last eighteen minutes!' he thought.

"It's time to finish this off!" Willow shouted as she summoned another large plant fist that towered over Simon.

Simon smirked. "I've never had an opponent that lasted this long against me before!" He smacked his hands on the ground, creating a pillar below him to launch him at the large plant fist. "YAAAAARRRR!" he shouted as he threw his fist at the plant fist.

Then expansion justu human boulder willow shouted

Willow struggled to catch her breath before answering. "I think… I have some… years of pent up anger issues… I think I got out of control?" Willow replied,

With Dani.

Dani had found herself up against none other than Wulf himself. She could remember the first time he and his cousin Danny met Wulf when saving the world from the asteroid,and that was the last time they saw him.

"Estas bone revidi vin kaj viajn fratojn mia amiko, kvankam tio malĝojigas min, ke mi devos elpeli vin de la turniro en la unua raŭndo. (It is good to see you again my friend, though it makes me sad that I'll have to knock you out of the tournament in the first round.)" Wulf spoke in Esperanto, before swiping his claws at dani.

Dani quickly changed into his ghost form and summons her sword, blocking the sharp talons from cutting him down and then pushed back before flipping over Wulf and delivered a swift kick to his back, knocking him down to the ground.

Wulf smirked and let out a predatory growl as he stood back up. Thanks to Tucker teaching dani Esperanto,she could understand what Wulf was saying.

Dani spun her sword a couple of times before holding it ready and said, "Pardonu Wulf, sed mi estos tiu, kiu forigos vin de la turniro en la unua raŭndo. (Sorry Wulf, but I'm gonna be the one who knocks you out of the tournament in the first round.)"

With Chris

Chris faced off his opponent whose name was Sakora, who held a weapon that looked like a long nun chuck. So far he blocked his attacks, but Sakora had proved to be a very fast opponent and managed to hit him several times. Even though it didn't look well for him so far in the first round of the competition, Chris wasn't ready to give up and continued to fight with all his might and skill that head had learned from his experience.

Ten minutes later, the first opponent was eliminated from the competition and was transported to the medical bay. The crowd roared and cheered with excitement as more and more warriors won against in their fights.

Luz faced his opponent Shintaro's claws. He blocked each attack and then jumped in the air flipping over him. She then jumped once again and spun around, slamming a kick straight into his back and took down Shintaro. In a flash of light, Shintaro had disappeared and luz stood victorious in his first round, making the crowd go wild once again.

Rj kicked the club out of Crusher's hand and before he could counter attack, rj quickly flipped over towards him and delivered a series of fast and had kicks to his chest, sending him falling to the ground in defeat as the light flashed and he was transported out of the arena. The crowd cheered as rj was named the victor of her fight.

Draal was definitely doing well in his fight as his axe and the blades of his opponent clashed against each other. Draal then spun around and used his tail to send him flying right back into the wall. The troll then charged at his opponent and just before he was about to deliver the final blow, his opponent was transported out of the arena, declaring him the winner. Draal raised his axe and roared in victory.

Other victors continued to emerge, including Genosuke who managed to defeat his opponents with his single sword.

Hunter's and Fiyero's blades continued to clash against each other. Fiyero jumped back and threw two of his blades at the red masked ninja turtle, but Raph managed to block one of them with his sai and dodged the other one. Hunter blocked one of them with his sword and then moved out of the way of the second one. He then flash over Fiyero and kicked him right in the chest, making him so disoriented that he dropped his weapons in defeat.

"Say goodnight." Hunter said as he spun one of his sais around, preparing for the final blow and just as he struck, Fiyero was transported out of the arena, making draal the winner.

Jack blocked his opponent's blade as he swung at him again and then jumped up to deliver a finishing blow, but his opponent was transported out of the arena before the blow could be done. Jack stood with his sword in hand as the winner.

"Hey fuzzy, what's say we call this a draw and I'll spring for the other half of that haircut?" Kim teased as she spun her staff at Tjaluk.

Tjaluk growled in anger and then tried striking her with his sword, but Kim dodged out of the way just in time.

Kim then asked, "I five monsters bigger than you?"

Tjaluk definitely showed he was not in the mood for jokes as he kicked kim in the chest. Tjaluk swung his sword to strike again, but Kim jumped over him and then hit him hard with stone fist to his head, knocking him unconscious. Tjaluk was then transported out of the arena, making kim the winner. The witch hybrid smiled at her victory and blew air kisses to the crowd that was cheering.

Dani continued to block the strikes of Wulf's claws and then smirked as she got an idea. He simply waved at Wulf and then phased into the ground. Wulf looked confused and tried looking around for the halfa. He didn't however watch his back and Dani emerged from the ground and her eyes turned blue before she fired an ice blast from his eyes, hitting Wulf dead on and freezing him in a thick casing of ice.

Dani then conjure her sword and prepared to deliver the finishing blow to end the fight, and just as he swung his sword down, Wulf was transported out of the arena, leaving dani as the winner of the first round.

"You did well Wulf. Maybe next time you'll win." Dani said as he changed back into her human form.

Chris was still blocking Sakora's weapon and swung his staff aiming for his stomach trying to bring him down, but Sakora proved to be quickly than he thought and used his knee to hit Chris in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him and then hit him in the shell with his weapon, knocking him to the ground.

Chris looked back up as Sakora was about to deliver his finishing blow and said, "Oh shell."

Chris was then transported out of the arena and in the medical bay with all the other defeated warriors.

"What happened?" Chris asked as a healer walked up to him and checked him over for injuries.

"You have been defeated in the great tournament." The healer answered as he finished, finding Chris had no serious injuries.

"I don't believe it! Well that figures I'm more smarter than I am a fighter this is what I get for not training." Chris said in disappointment that he lost in the first round.

A horn then blew and the walls came down, revealing the winners of the first round. Donnie could see that kim,amity,willow,hunter,Gus,maria,Anne,Darrel,Dani and rj all made it through and quietly, wished them luck for the next one.

"Champions, I commend you on your victories thus far." The Daimyo announced. "And now prepare yourselves, for the next round Tier 2 will begin in ten minutes!"

A huge water bubble surrounded the warriors and transported them somewhere for the time being.

Meanwhile.

Mizar watched the tournament from his lair using the same kind of mirror he used to find luz and Apollo back on Earth when he challenged them to a duel.

The assassins that attacked both Apollo,Sasha and luz in the Pavilion of Past Champions suddenly emerged from the shadows and bowed low to the ground before him.

"You have failed me. Luz and her friends till lives" The Ultimate Ninja sneered without even looking at them.

"Forgive us young lord. We will not fail im you again" One of the assassins assured him, still bowing his head in shame.

Mizar turned around and face them. He then warned before ordering, "Good. Because the next time the price of failure, will be your lives. The task ahead is very grave and I can afford no further blunders. Prepare yourselves and your brothers. Now be gone!"

The assassins then disappeared into the shadows once again.

A large figure in a cloak then made himself known to mizar and suggested in a dark sinister voice, "Perhaps the destruction of luz and the realm defenders is premature my lord. Should you not secure the throne first?"

Mizar however was completely offended by the suggestion and sneered, "You dare question me?! Do not forget your place councillor!"

The hooded figure then bowed his head and then said, "Yes my lord. You know I only try to serve you and as your councillor, I must advise patience."

That was definitely one suggestion that mizar didn't like the sound of. He destroyed the water mirror with his hand before speaking with anger and determination, "More patience? I have suffered enough in the name of patience! I have bowed before them and I have begged their forgiveness as my father and Little brother wished. But now my time has come. I will take the throne from my father and my little brother know how to be a warrior in my image and I will become the supreme Daimyo of the Battle Nexus. I will then make the realm defenders, pay for their insolence to me, with their lives."

In his eyes, mizar shown anger and hatred towards luz and the realm defenders and a hungering need for revenge.

"Let the next round, Tier 2 begin!" The Daimyo announced to the roaring crowd of thousands.

Just like before, a light shown on the arena and the walls appeared. Emerging from the ground came the competitors.

It was Sasha, jack and luz facing off against each other in one part, rj and garnet facing off against each other in another part and Maria was going to face draal. other in another part and willow was going to face gus.amity was going against Darrel,Anne was going against dani.Apollo was going against kim,maria was against draal.The other competitors found themselves appearing against their new opponents as well.

The Daimyo smiled behind his mask as he saw that Anne,jack and luz would be facing off against each other in a three person battle.

"This hasn't happen in a long time. I wonder what the outcome will be." The Daimyo wondered in his head before banging the gong.

It wasn't even thirty seconds in the fight that Sakora was defeated by his opponent and was transported out of the arena. Garnet turned around to face rj knowing she was now she opponent, but was unsure of what to do.

Give me all you got garnet and don't hold back rj said.

Rj makes the first move. She a lightning bolt from her hands, which Garnet leaps over. Garnet goes in and swings her gauntlets at her, though rj dodges and manages to counter with a few punches. Which don't really do much. Garnet kicks rj and knocks her back. Storm stands up.

Say to the winds!"rj taking out a wing glyph.summoning a strong winds that allow her to lift Garnet into the air. Rj then forms a light blue energy in her hands and launches it at Garnet.

It hits, and freezes Garnet into a block of ice. Rj flies up to her now frozen opponent with electricity charged in her hands.

But Garnet breaks out, interrupting rj and knocking her back. Garnet grabs her leg and spins around midair, throwing her into the ground. Storm gets up from the attack and sees her opponent is still helplessly airborne.

She fires A lightning bolt directly hits Garnet from the sky, slamming her down into the ground. Garnet manages to get up from the attack easily. Garnet then grabs a column of the ruins, lifts it above her head, and throws it at rj. Rj summons another lightning bolt from the sky that this time hits her and gives her an electric charge, which she uses to destroy the column before it hits her.

Rj launches a lightning bolt from her hands at Garnet, who this time deflects it right back at her with the flick of her wrist. Rj avoids it, and Garnet then runs in with her gauntlets drawn. Storm floats out of her way and behind her, dealing a strong kick that knocks her forward. Garnet stands up as rj lands. Rj summons strong winds spell again. This time Garnet uses her gauntlets to get a strong grip onto the ground. Unfortunately, a nearby tree didn't have such a strong grip and was ripped from the Earth and directly into Garnet. Rj looks down and sees her opponent defeated... until Garnet lifts grabs a bolder and throws it at her, garnet leaps up into the air and has an aerial fight with rj. Rj eventually gets knocked to the ground. Garnet lands, summons her gauntlets, picks rj up by her stomach, and launches the gauntlets off her hands like a rocket into a part of the ruins, which crumbles down on top of her.

Rj takes a wind and lightning glyph slamming them together.She summons lightning bolts sending them at Garnet,but she manages to dodge all but the last one. Garnet stands up, her sunglasses now cracked. Rj summons bolder using an earth glyph and hurls them at Garnet. The Crystal Gem runs toward the tornado, using her gauntlets to punch all the bolders out of her way. Rj then charged her hands with electricity and shot two bolts at Garnet, which hit. Garnet managed to break through them and grabbed rj's head with her gauntlet. She then jumped really high and Then dealt one very strong blow to rj's stomach, which sent her plummeting to the ground and landing in a crater. Garnet lands on her feet, and the weather around her clears up and garnet wins she said.

On the ground rj smiled at her friend and then said, "Yes I suppose so.

With Maria.

Maria spun her staff and then stood ready to face draal. Draal held his axe in anticipation and grinned at Maria.

"I'm kind of sad to have to be the one to knock you out of the tournament draal." Maria said.

Draal retorted back as she walked up to him, "I think perhaps your mistaken maria. I feel sorry to have to be then one to knock you out of the tournament!"

He then swung his axe down, maria dodged down and attempted to kick him but missed and then draal knocked her back in the chest with the end of his staff, sending her to the ground.

Maria groaned a little in pain. Draal then said teasingly, "Stay down little one or you may get hurt."

Maria then jumped back up, not ready to give up and shouted, "Thanks for the advice draal! But you better take it yourself!"

Maria then charged with a battle cry, ready to take down the ex-gladiator.

Luz,Sasha,Jack circled around each other, knowing that they would have to fight each other in a three way battle.

"I didn't expect this to happen." Luz commented and then asked, "Does this often happen Jack?"

"Not often. From what I've heard, it is very rare that three warriors must fight in one battle to determine who will go on to the next round." Jack answered.

"Well however the case, it just like you said Jack. We have to fight each other." Sasha said.

"Fate often has such a wry sense of humour." Jack said and pulled out one of his swords.

He smiled at the two of them and said, "Now come, let us all fight as friends and may the best swordsman win."

Luz summons her armor pulled out her sword, spinning it around and stood ready. Sasha pulled out both his swords and stood ready. The three opponents eyed each other and waited for one of them to make the first move.

Jack then charged, followed by sasha and then luz. They both leapt in the air and the sounds of three blades clashed against each other before they landed. Jack pulled out his other sword and the three continued their fight. Luz blocked sasha's sword with one and then blocked Jack's with the other. This was definitely going to prove to be a very interesting match.

The Daimyo smiled at rj's niece as she fought her opponent. He then commented to rj, "You should be proud that your sister raised such fine warriors and nieces."

"Yes I am proud, though they can be a little too wilful at times" rj said.

The Daimyo sighed in frustration thinking of his own son and said, "If only fathers could make their sons understand, we are only trying to protect them from their own inexperience."

Rj nodded and said, "I know exactly what you mean old friend."

A guard then came up and handed the Daimyo a note. The Daimyo read it and said to rj, "Excuse me, I must attend to a small matter. Will you join me later when this round is over?"

"It will be my honour Daimyo." Rj said and bowed to the Daimyo who bowed back and then headed for the palace.

The crowd continued to cheer as more warriors won their matches against their opponents, including Genosuke. The only ones left were Maria, draal,luz,Sasha and Usagi.

Draal ran up again and swung his axe, but Maria jumped back and dodged the attack before speaking, "You're gonna have to be quicker than that suck eater!"

Draal then managed to hit her in the chest with the end of his axe and sent him slamming against the wall. Maria growled in anger and jumped back up. She then charged at him and ducked underneath as he swung his axe again, but he missed. Maria then threw his a fireball at him, but he blocked it with his shoulder armour.

Maria landed on her feet and then charged again, but draal was ready and grabbed Maria by her arms and flipped her over his shoulder, maria groaned in pain as she landed on her back and before she could get back up, draal grabbed her and held her in a head lock, with only one of his arms free from his grip.

"You have been a worthy opponent maria clawthorn. This is a battle I won't soon forget." Draal said to the struggling witch.

"Yeah! I guarantee you won't!" Maria retorted back,she turned into a dragon and then grabbed draal by his shoulder acting quickly, flipping him over and slamming him into the ground.

Draal landed on his back, as maria then transformed back normal then Leapt to deliver his final blow with a powerful strike with her staff. Draal was then transported out of the arena with a scream, maria's then hit the ground where Maria once was and the crowd roared in excitement. Maria stood up and smiled at his victory.

Now all that was left was Jack,Sasha and Leo. The three of them continued their fight, all three of them proving to be powerful and skilful with their blades. Luz tried to do a leg sweep, but sasha jumped up and dodged the kick and their swords continued clashing.

Jack then leapt at luz, but the witch hybrid quickly moved out of the way and allowed sasha to clash his blades with the samurai. Sasha dug her swords into the ground and tried to spin kick Jack, but he jumped back and dodged the attack. All three of them were unaware that mizar and his councillor were watching from the top of the main building.

"My lord, I strongly advise against this rash course of action." His councillor advised him.

"Your council has been heard and overruled. Now keep silent! I command it!" Mizar ordered.

"Yes, my Daimyo" The councillor replied, his eyes flashing a sinister green for a moment.

Mizar pulled out a blowgun and said, "It is time for both luz and realm defenders to suffer for their past effrontery."

He loaded the poisoned dart into the gun and then aimed at it at Sasha. He waited for the right moment and then with a sickening grin, he fired it. The poisoned dart flew until it hit its target, right near sasha's neck. Sasha stopped as she felt the pain coming and began to stagger around, dropping her swords. Luz and jack had noticed this and stopped, now really worried about him.

"Guys…..I….I…." Sasha began to say weakly, but then suddenly fell to the ground unconscious.

"Sasha! No!" Rj shouted as he watched the scene.

Luz and jack gasped in shock and so did the crowd at what happened. Luz put away her sword and held sasha in her arms and began to shout, Sasha! Come on wake up! Sasha! No…..Nooooooooo!"

TO BE CONTINUED…