Drapion and Dusknoir stared each other down as the audience waited for them to pull out any of their respective weapons… But none of them budged for a while.

"What's going on?" Gliscor said before being interrupted by another referee.

"Kukukukuku! I'll be taking over for you right now~" A new referee said as he took Gliscor's place.

Everyone turned their attention to a hypno, who was indeed the referee that Gliscor was referring to.

"Ah, finally. My throat was getting parched from all the announcements, you can take it from here" Gliscor said as he left, probably to relieve himself after watching the things take place for a while.

"Kukukuku! Unlike Gliscor there, I looked these two up! Their weapons are… Nothing! Drapion there relies on almost anything he can pick up, or just using his fists! He will sometimes use his poison but we all know our local bully likes to use whatever is in hand to make a point! While Dusknoir there relies on magic! As for what kind of magic, I'll leave it up to you all… Kukukukukuku!" Hypno said as he snickered mischievously.

"Tch… So you use magic? Typical fucking nerd! Whatever, I dealt with bitches like you in the past, your magic will be useless once I get my hands on you!" Drapion said as he looked at the religious leader.

"And blasphemers like you should be put in their place… Very well, I shall show you what it means to question me, a god" Dusknoir said as he loosened his fists and radiating ghostly energy through them.

Pangoro looked at the hypno, not believing that this guy was a referee for the king.

"That guy… How could he even get hired as a referee!?" Pangoro thought, recalling an encounter he had with Hypno and sparing him once from his bounty.

"Kukukuku! Looks like we are gonna see what these two can do!" Hypno said, licking his lips excitedly.

Dusknoir suddenly outstretched his hand, sending the mummy wraps from his arms flying over towards Drapion.

Drapion leapt into the air but he was caught, the wrappings going all over his arms and legs, leaving him suspended in the air.

"It's over before it even began, unless you're a water type, you're not escaping this" Dusknoir said as he commanded the mummy wrappings to tighten painful enough.

Drapion didn't move… But he didn't seem all too concerned however, as his chitin-like skin didn't budge.

"You think you're like me? Think again, I don't need a fucking following, I'll do everything myself before I even trust pathetic worms to demonstrate real power!" Drapion said as something began coming out of his body.

It was poison, the mummy wrappings were becoming wet, and as Dusknoir pulled back, it was too late, the wrappings broke from how extremely wet they were from poison.

"No matter, you're not escaping me" Dusknoir said as the gold bands along his arms began to become elastic, elastic but still sharp.

"It is you who is the fool! I'm going to make a god my bitch!" Drapion wasn't taking any chances, and in an instant, burrowed into the ground.

"Kukukuku! Where did he go? Did he run away? Did the bully cower in fear?" Hypno said as everyone including dusknoir wondered where he was.

As Dusknoir anticipated where he would appear, Drapion suddenly shot up from behind him, intending to attack him from behind, clutching a rock to probably bash the back of his head with.

Dusknoir closed his eyes just as he heard the ground explode behind him, making Drapion phase right through him, and as a result, Dusknoir could see him just as he did.

"I got you now" Dusknoir said as he began to use the elastic gold bands again.

But before Dusknoir could even lift his arms up, Drapion had used his tail to sting him in the stomach, injecting him with his venom.

"Ngh…!" Dusknoir's eyes widened as he grabbed the tail from the pain.

Drapion pulled his tail away just as he landed, smirking as he had finally seeped poison into him.

"Heh, didn't think you were that easy to trick, fucking nerd! You thought I didn't think of that? Hehehe… Hahahaha! You were a fool! A god? You're a god alright, a god in bed!" Drapion mocked.

Dusknoir growled, and looked at the wound the stinger made as it dripped with purple poison.

"No matter, I will defeat you before the poison finishes me…" Dusknoir said with contempt.

"Kukukuku! Why of course! Should the contestants be poisoned, paralyzed, burned, or get any other ailments, they will be administered with first aid as soon as the match is over" Hypno assured everyone.

"Yes, because I will finish you off before that even happens. Your religion? MY religion now. And there will be only one rule in the new religion I'm making, and it's to give everything to me! You all want to me to give you a show? I'll show you what I can do if you give me every advantage you can!" Drapion said as he started to yell at everyone.

The crowd, getting excited, started throwing what they have into the arena.

All sorts of objects were thrown in… Broken appliances, signs, wooden planks, all sorts of junk were now littered along the arena.

Drapion saw a metal baseball bat and thought it was perfect, picking it up and pointing it right directly at Dusknoir.

"You stupid ghost, you see this? The whole crowd is with me, even though I don't even care about them. You know why? Because they know who is the real winner here!" Drapion said as he dug under the ground again.

"This again? You're predictable" Dusknoir said, concentrating again as a ghostly aura surrounded him to try and sense him.

He heard something in front of him, and shot his arm out at the very thing that came out.

"Caught you! …!" Dusknoir said, before he realized it was Drapion's tail that had baited him to catch it.

Before Dusknoir could try to make himself incorporeal again, Drapion had come out from behind him, hitting him in the back of his head.

Dusknoir felt dazed feeling… Ectoplasm come out of head, painting Drapion's chest in his ghostly blood.

"Kukukukuku! Is the god all talk? He has not made a single blow since the match started!" Hypno said, with Dusknoir's followers seemingly not phased at all, while the rest of the crowd was completely siding with Drapion as the winner already.

Dusknoir clutched his head, the blow was vicious, and tried to use shadow ball at point blank range against Drapion.

Drapion side stepped, with Dusknoir missing completely, painting a streak of ectoplasmic blood across Drapion's ankles in the process.

"Disgusting, you should apologize for bleeding on me, you freak!" Drapion said as Dusknoir coughed up blood, wiping it away with his arm and tried to swipe him with a shadow claw weakly.

Drapion dodged, and this time, a streak of blood (ectoplasm) streaked on his arms this time.

"You don't know when to give up do you? Lame ass bitch, you're not a god at all!" Drapion said, all too glad to give him another swift beating as he wound up his arm to deliver another blow with the metal bat.

Suddenly, Drapion's arm disappeared right where the streak of blood was smeared on.

"W-What…!" Drapion yelled, alarmed and shocked at seeing his arm suddenly vanish, along with the bat.

"Kukukukuku! His arm disappeared! What could have possibly happened! Can Drapion turn things around?" Hypno said, leaving everyone shocked as well.

"What did you do… What did you do! You bastard! You… My arm… No… I'll kill you!" Drapion yelled, picking up a wrench from the ground and tried to deliver another blow, only for the wrench and his other arm to disappear as well.

Dusknoir went from being pained and weak looking, to standing up with a composed manner.

"I can't exactly reveal my tricks up my sleeve, but this seems to be the one that requires the least effort to take you down. As humiliating as it was, I need to preserve my strength, and what better way than toying with you by taking away your arms… And soon your legs…" Dusknoir said, his eyes widening not in shock, but like it was a threat.

"...! No… No, I won't let you do that!" Drapion screamed, his confidence disappearing and replacing it with wild panicking.

Dusknoir didn't even need to move a single inch as Drapion ran up to him, ready to drop kick him with his remaining legs, before it too disappeared, leaving him writhing on the ground like a useless doll.

"No… NOOOOOOOOOO!" Drapion yelled.

"... It's over" Dusknoir said, as he didn't even turn to look at what happened to Drapion.

"Kukukuku… Well we can't know for certain if he will escape… So let's make a countdown folks! 10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5! 4! 3!" Hypno and the audience counted down.

"No… Nonononnoono! Damn you… Damn youuuuu!" Drapion began writhing, trying to get to Dusknoir, to bite, to butt his head against him, anything at this point!

"2…1… And Dusknoir wins!" Hypno announced, making the crowd cheer at the unexpected victory.

Hypno stepped onto the arena to interview Dusknoir, who was immediately treated by the medics of the arena, curing his poison.

"Kukukuku! Tell us, what made you decide to use this strategy? I could use it on someone myself one day, kukukuku!" Hypno asked him.

"A simple strategy. As soon as I knew he had poisoned me, I grabbed his tail and imbued some of my power into him. And then it was only a matter of either letting myself get hurt or coughing up blood from his poison that I would use it to my advantage to make his arms and legs disappear. He is not an amputee if you must know, but I just merely placed his arms and legs into a pocket dimension. Look at where his arms and legs should be" Dusknoir pointed at Drapion.

Sure enough, there was some sort of ghostly energy in his wrists and ankles right where his hands and feet should be, proving that he didn't actually lose his limbs, but were just magically transported somewhere else.

"Kukukuku! How interesting! And why did you choose this method?" Hypno asked him.

"My most powerful magics shouldn't be revealed so quickly, especially when my opponents can exploit them when they know everything about me. So I decided that I will use my magic in a limited amount, but I can now imagine that this technique won't be as useful anymore, but at the very least it's a technique where it's too situational towards physically adept opponents. An illiterate, idiot like him with too much self respect for himself with no creed is not fit to be a king" Dusknoir explained.

The crowd cheered along with Dusknoir's followers, while Drapion cursed Dusknoir's existence, not only for defeating him, but also insulting him while he was down.

"Kukukuku! And with that out of the way… It's… PUNISHMENT TIME!" Hypno yelled, as the crowd grew excited over what Dusknoir was about to do.

Final Votes:
Drapion - 7

Dusknoir - 18