Topic: All World Final Clash Tournament

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-17 05:06 EST
All World Final Clash Tournament

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- Controls -

LP: Light Punch (default: X Button)
HP: Hard Punch (default: Y Button)
LK: Light Kick (default: A Button)
HK: Hard Kick (default: B Button)

LP+HP: Light Punch + Hard Punch (default: L Button)
LK+HK: Light Kick + Hard Kick (default: R Button)

D: Down DF: Down-Forward
U: Up DB: Down-Back
F: Forward UF: Up-Forward
B: Back UB: Up-Back

- Taunt -
- Taunt an opponent by holding LK and pressing Start.

Special Encounters!!:

Daichi vs Corea: Corea shoots a barrage of bullets with a giant machinegun that Daichi evades before cackling maniacally. Corea shakes her fist at him.
Kit Otomo vs Lilith: Kit admires an apple before tossing it to Lilith. Lilith catches it gleefully.
Johnnie vs Jessica Wong: Johnnie throws his shirt to the center of the stage where Jessica reveals she had scanners and analyzers in place to break it down.
Alfonso Carlson Avery vs Dedorroh: Alfonso presents a saddle before Dedorroh. Dedorroh stomps destroys it.
Cassandra Black vs Seiri: Cassandra and Seiri fistbump.
Kamonbak vs Seiri: Seiri holds onto Kamonbak before he accelerates his vibrations to force her to release him.
Celestial vs Searcher: Searcher removes Celestial's hood. Celestial places it back on.
Mage vs Seiri: Seiri looks away from Mage. Mage lowers his head and murmurs a few Japanese words of prayer.
Dedorroh vs Final Moments Dyarhk: Dedorroh lets Dyarhk pet his neck.
Promahster vs Johnnie: They allow each other to charge up to their first two combo bars.
Johnnie vs Lea Cainn: They hug before the fight.
Lea Cainn vs Declan DonEvans: Declan reaches for Lea but she playfully evades.
Final Moments Dyarhk vs Declan DonEvans: Declan gives a thumbs-up up to Dyarhk. Dyarhk massages the back of his head, confused.
Corea vs Seiri: Seiri starts out beside Corea before kissing her cheek and walking to her starting position.
Aurast Dagger Sasc vs Seiri: Seiri disapproves of a bass riff Aurast plays before the fight.
Rohkan vs Jen: Jen bows to Rohkan. Rohkan nods.
Celestial vs Final Moments Dyarhk: Celestial rings a tiny bell around her neck shyly. Dyarhk blushes surprised (Dyarhk also wears a matching hoodie for the entire fight).
Kit Otomo vs Searcher: Kit beckons Searcher. Searcher flashes his Otomo's Membership Card and his teeth sparkle.
Cadence Valentine vs Jessica Wong: Jessica bends over and offers Cadence a peek down her sweater. Cadence turns red angrily.
Promahster vs Lea Cainn: Promahster starts off with Nadia and another of his wives by his side before beckoning Lea over. Lea shoots out a blast that frighten the women away.
Declan DonEvans vs Promahster: They respectfully regard each other in their professional garb. Declan in his church reds and Promahster in his gold armor.
Fox vs Lea Cainn: Fox starts laughing. Lea angrily casts an energy blast at him to get his attention.
Alfonso Carlson Avery vs Cassandra Black: Alfonso taunts Cassandra. Cassandra growls the name Avery.
Alfonso Carlson Avery vs Rohkan: Rohkan threatens Alfonso. Alfonso laughs and shoos him away. Rohkan cracks the floor with his stomp.
Alfonso Carlson Avery vs Searcher: Alfonso tries to kill Searcher by removing his eyepatch. A goddess quickly shields him. Searcher laughs. Alfonso shrugs.
Kit Otomo vs Lea Cainn: Kit admires an orange before tossing it to Lea. Lea catches it gleefully.
Kit Otomo vs Jessica Wong: Kit admires a banana before tossing it to Jessica. Jessica catches it gleefully.
Daichi vs Seiri: They perform several specials and counters on each other before landing in their neutral positions. A special hard rock track plays when they fight.
Final Moments Dyarhk vs Cadence Valentine: Cadence takes Dyarhk's hand and has him walk with her to her starting position.
Armand Belgarde vs Cadence Valentine: They taunt each other angrily.
Aurast Dagger Sasc vs Final Moments Dyarhk: They perform a secret handshake.
Nayun vs Rohkan: They both arrive on their motorcycles.
Nayun vs Final Moments Dyarhk: Nayun grabs her metallic arm while looking aside. Dyarhk murmurs a few Japanese words of encouragement.
Aurast Dagger Sasc vs Nayun: Aurast starts out with his doberman by his side before it departs.
Fox vs Declan DonEvans: Fox shifts into an attractive woman's body and bends over to wink and blow Declan a kiss. Declan covers his eyes and shakes his head. Fox shifts back and snickers.
Alfonso Carlson Avery vs Kit Otomo: Alfonso taunts Kit with his eye tentacles but prepares to fight when Kit merely unlocks his sword from its sheath.
Dedorroh vs Seiri: Dedorroh gives Seiri a kiss.
Declan DonEvans vs Seiri: Declan floats a mystic pedal of a memory over to Seiri before placing his hand in his pocket. Seiri reaches her hand to it before it disperses into sunlight particles.
Seiri vs Jessica Wong: They flirt with each other competitively.
Final Moments Dyarhk vs Corea: Dyarhk fakes a punch before caressing Corea's cheek. Corea holds onto his hand briefly.
Final Moments Dyarhk vs Seiri: They both perform the Kamen Rider Skull pose to each other.
Seiri vs Searcher: Searcher dramatically holds his sword up to the heavens that is stricken by lightning. Seiri golf claps with a grin.
Fox vs Johnnie: Johnnie winks at Fox. Fox looks surprised before smiling.
Nadia vs Lea Cainn: Nadia shoots a red blast out of her sword at Lea. Lea cancels it with a blast from her own.
Promahster vs Fox: Promahster holds his hand out to Fox. Fox smacks it back to him.
Declan DonEvans vs Corea: Corea plays with her hair. Declan murmurs a few Japanese words getting her attention. Corea smiles and thanks him for the compliment.

Alternate Costumes!!

Lea Cainn:
Wedding Dress Lea
Alfonso Carlson Avery
Prison Uniform Alfonso
Sky Captain Uniform Alfonso
Senior Uniform Alfonso
Aurast Dagger Sasc
Raoh Costume Aurast
Messy Business Suit
Declan DonEvans
Paladin of the Church of the Flower Moon
Belgarde Family Clothes
Rohkan
Post Apocalypse Leathers
Chorrusaegrem Knight Armor
Kit Otomo
Grocer Apron
Managerial Suit
Grease Monkey
Nayun
Biker Outfit
Yukata
Promahster
Master's Armor
Street Clothes
Seirichi
Tamujin Armor
Bedtime Clothes
Torn Adenna Ball Dress
Corea
Wong General's Bodysuit
Richter Belmont Halloween Costume
Space Bodysuit
Final Moments Dyarhk
White Shirt
Purple Shirt
Hoodie
Silver Rainbow Tunic
Huyglen Rancher
Cassandra Black
Glamorous Gown
Johnnie
Shirtless
White Jeans and Shirt
Shirtless w/ Red Pants
Nordem Sparks
Champion Clothes
Sweats
Shirtless
Blue Trunks
Dedorroh
Kokuoh-Go Skin
White Palette
Tetch
Jeans w/ Bikini Top
Nyijs Leathers
Nima
Pop Idol Outfit
Witch Outfit
Lilith of Liltu Outfit
Bathing Suit underneath Shirt and Short Shorts
Rahea
King's Clothes
Sneak Suit
Armand Belgarde
Blood Cloak
Glow Cloak
Cursed Cloak
Celestial
Hoodie Down
Hoodie Up
Hoodie Unzipped w/ exposed torso
Date Dress w/ bell necklace
Jessica Wong
Doctor's Outfit
Lab Coat
Evening Gown
Fox
Formal Teatime Fox
Lantern Vendor
Mage
Rave Clothes
Abastumanani Outfit
Daichi
King of Adenna
Flower Moon Toga

Stages!!


Critical Mass Huyglen
The Jazz Club
Belgarde Castle
Valentine Castle
The Epyllion Bridge
The Kurgan Underbelly
Motegre Scaffolding
Otomo's
Biodome Ruins
Biodome Arcade, Day
Alfonso's Sentencing Room
Solucun's Basin, Poolside
Jikangai Orrery
JECO Loading Bay
Wong Compound
Huyglen Fields
Tier 2
Adenna Treasure Room
Lea's Flower Moon
The Rave
Chorrusaegrem Throne Room
Tentegre High Rooftop
Adenna Arcade
Biodome Arcade, Night
The Kurgan Arcade Room
Siovanui Temple
Biodome Grand Prix
Nyijs
The Bone Well
Sparks Arena
Robin's Nest Boxing Gym
Solucun's Basin, The Illusio
Biodome Arcade, Night
Battlefield of the Fallen, Final
Chains of Ko'Rudoche
Kamonbak's Hilt

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-17 05:11 EST
Prologue

?They say that somewhere in the world the final spark of life in a man's eyes is lost every second,
and that few ever know true wealth from what life has to offer.
But once every hundred years, a secret prize decides mankind deserves a reminder of the riches to be had in life.
That is Megabolond, The Winged Sword, that makes itself available to a monitor to be gifted
to the last standing competitor of a Battle Royale assembled for it.
Winning the mystical weapon means being flown by it to the very heavens,
where whatever you dream of lies waiting for you there.
But by the end, can the victor say it was worth it?
These are the trials of the spirit, the warrior, and the omnipotent,
all of whom know and do not know the discipline to wield their distinct advantages.
Fighters will compete until one remains.
Only then will Megabolond shew itself.
Only then will answers be had.
Witnesses will be made all around the world,
chosen ones to retell the counts made during this most crucial time of man versus man versus woman versus god versus superpowered-man.
And where I stand, I would have so rather played my vidya games than chisel this tablet.?
- Aurast Dagger Sasc, ?Chosen? Observer


It was a quiet enough day in the domes and like any other when Aurast Dagger Sasc, brother to the King of Adenna, reclined unsafely in a lounge chair under the outdoor shelter of a peaceable cafe.

?There is nothing quite like enjoying a fine afternoon to yourself and with no obligations to cloud your mind.? Aurast took a deep breath and let it out before silently tipping his invisible hat to the young woman and child entering the cafe door next to him.

After a moment or so back in his serene isolation, a strong gust of wind shot out across the streets and roads and very easily tipped his rocked back chair over with him in it.

?Dohh!!? He frantically fought to remain among the non-fallen but was unable to do so.

When next he stood, he saw in the middle of the road what looked to be an ordinary swine, and upon checking both sides of the road, he approached it. Oinks were frequent and very ordinary by Aurast, who had little to no experience with pigs save to say he could distinguish it as being a mature one and not a piglet.

?What are you doing out here all by yourself, little guy? Did you make that blast that just came through here? I'll bet you did. Hahah, this place is funny.? Aurast chuckled while crouching down to pet the misplaced farm animal.

His hand no sooner touched the animal than was he transported to a place with it that was all of unfamiliar. He checked his new surroundings and found himself to be in space, overlooking the world of Biodome where the wine-colored skies gave it away freely.

Chatter surrounding him was bountiful, but that could wait. He had to figure out why he wasn't running out of air or turning inside out or anything while he checked his breathing by clutching his throat needlessly.

?Hey, you're alright,? Seirichi said, punching Aurast in the arm. She looked at him like there was and had always been something wrong with him. There was a lot of pain in his arm to respond to, but she was right, he had been fine.

Aurast looked at things with a great deal of tunnel vision. Just taking a step back and a moment to take in the remainder of his surroundings told him that they had been in a very luscious space station with attractive and reflective floor tiling and awe-inspiring glass that made up and even domed the room they were in to look out and see the vastness of space and the world nearby.

?What's going on here??? Aurast asked while gazing at the stars up above.

He was this time smacked in the arm to look at Seiri who thumbed twice over her shoulder to Dyarhk who had been conversing with Corea just a short distance away. Aurast picked up the meaning and walked over to the two with her.

?Ah, Aurast. I see you've come as well.? Dyarhk sized him up before placing a hand on his shoulder in a surprisingly friendly greeting despite the circumstances.

?Dyarhk, do you know what's going on at all?? Aurast asked, thinking the man might know.

?Sadly, no.? He shook his head.

?There are exactly thirty of us here.? Corea said quietly behind him for Aurast's benefit.

This got his eyes to turn and look around the gathering now. Such a cast of characters. There were women of heartbeat-bullying auras and presences, men of monsterish and frightening possession, a great tall warhorse, and even some members of historical villainy.

?This... this has to be a nightmare.? Aurast quietly whispered, shuddering.

?I am afraid it is very real, Aurast,? Dyarhk crossed his arms since there was no place at all to sit in this great viewing room out in space. ?Even in fantastic definition, I do not think 'nightmare' is the appropriate word. 'Festival' is more like it... but the question is: whose??

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-17 05:13 EST
Thirty people would, ideally, not take up so much room in this very spacious observatory known as 'The Promenade of Stars', but accounting for egos and suddenly there was very little room in the chamber.

?You!! How dare you cast a glance in my direction?!? Promahster demanded of the enthusiastic Searcher.

?Guilty as charged. But well worth it I think if it's a new acquaintance I stand to make. Nice to meet you! I'm Sea?? he began, holding out his hand to shake the other man's before he was cut-off.

?There await a hundred years of agony in forge-bathed chains for each word you insult upon my ears!? Promahster pointed out at him, who only blinked back before smiling.

?I always say that behind each death threat is a friend waiting to be made.? Searcher simplified matters, and again held out his hand, only this time it was swatted away angrily.

Tetch, watching over nearby with her wife, had heard enough. She stormed over and stuck out a finger immediately on par with Promahster's own that had been pointed at Searcher.

?You're a big man, aren't you,? She asked, not looking for an answer. ?You should pick on someone as mean as you are.? poking him in the chest.

?You conceive to lay a finger upon me?? Promahster asked unbelieving.

?Yes! My Ichi, Protector of the Weak!? Lilith cheered, jumping enthusiastically a total of two hops.

While the two powers argued with a meager onlooking crowd, Kit Otomo had garnered his own following, and for much softer entertainment at that.

?You see, managing a store that people will return to is not a complicated task. I do nothing special or extraordinary, I don't think. You must simply provide for your consumers with love and care, and responsibly maintain an inventory that's helpful. Don't stock it with things you think people need, stock it with things you know people need. Like a parent, you have to be a strong provider who knows what's best, and you'll be paid back in full with a returning clientele.? Kit nodded his grinning head after imparting such invaluable advice that sparkled just like the star glimmers that glinted around his smile.

Among his listeners had been Armand Belgarde, Jessica Wong and Jen the seraph.

?Love and care?? Jessica Wong queried with one eye open wider than the other as if she had never heard the concept before. ?Go on...? she added more quietly.

Over the way had been Lea Cainn and Declan DonEvans, the former of whom was casting lasers of furious anger from her eyes in the direction of her father, Fox, who was trying to steal all of Declan's attention away from her.

?Declan, we should explore this vast new space we've found ourselves in. Even I do not know what awaits us here,? Fox said, holding onto his arm and trying to tug him toward one of the large, extensive views of outer space.

Lea quickly grabbed his other arm and just as fast won him back in a briefly fought tug of war. She switched her face of warfare off and returned sweet to the man before her. ?Declan, do not listen to him. All you require is to stay here with me.? pulling his arm, and in-effect him, against her.

Declan sighed quickly, staring at her for a long while as he freed his arm to place it down on her blond head. ?You know he's just trying to upset you. You don't have to worry about me going anywhere, for what that's worth considering what's just happened.? He cast a look around the place again as his arm was again captured in a hug-like seizure.

?That is my daughter,? Fox began, releasing Declan and this whole facade in favor of a composed and cool stance looking off to the side. ?This is how I can confirm your love is real. It is ever-present. I am truly envious of you children.?

?Fox! Get out of here!? Declan rose his arm holding Yasuragi, the pink-blooded and double-edged katana of Lea, to which Fox brought his hands up in surrender while snickering like mad.

?I am glad though, Declan. Look how easy it is to see,? Lea cupped a blushed cheek of hers, ?Throughout history people have been difficult to read, but you and I are not.? She sighed dreamily before hugging him tightly.

?Hey! Don't be so relaxed! We don't even know where we are or what kind of situation we're in!? Declan protested during the losing battle.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-17 05:14 EST
Further in the crowd were Nayun and a prized warrior of the past now known only as Celestial. The two women shared a very similar likeness in how they observed one another and when conversation was started up between the two.

?I like your hood.? Nayun said in regards to her shrouded face, very monotone.

Celestial did not move, but she did reply. ?Thank you...I like your jacket.?

Standing where they pleased throughout the rest of the ?Promenade of Stars? was Dedorroh, ?The Warhorse of Prophecy,? the dreaded Alfonso Carlson Avery, and Rohkan. Three great powers each capable of laying waste to vast lands and in quicker haste than the plagues. In many rights, they were plagues ? or carriers ?of? them.

?Why am I here? Who moved me here? I do not like being moved places without my permission. I want to kill people who move me places without my permission.? Alfonso complained.

Dedorroh, The Warhorse of Prophecy, neighed, before huffing out of his nostrils.

?I?m not sure what has brought me here, but the scent of death and unmatched ability is running rampant in this room. This might be where The Supreme Dominance Identity has been waiting.? Rohkan clenched a fist tightly, noisily scratching the fingerless leather glove in his strong grip.

?I am Alfonso Carlson Avery... King of Biodome... Women are donated regularly before my airship for my amusement... Why then, was I put beside of an equine.? The Walking Prison complained yet again and with a dull expression and zombification over his lazy eye.

Rohkan cast a glance his direction when he heard the word Biodome spoken. ?Do you know where this is?? He asked out of urgency.

Alfonso looked over boringly at him. ?No. You never know. And this kind of thing happens all the time.? carelessly flinging his hand at him in annoyance.

Johnnie, much to Alfonso?s hatred, had been in the company of two other women by the wall and looking out over space. The women were Cassandra Black and Nima, the current Lilith of Liltu and a powerful magic user. What the two women found so appealing about Johnnie was the question of several male minds in the Promenade of Stars, but none would have the courage or justify the means to go over and investigate further. Though there were only 30 of them here, everything was incredibly problematic considering who they had been.

?No I don?t think you?re going through any crisis or anything, no,? Johnnie said with a disagreeing look heavy on his eyebrows. ?Everybody goes through that.?

?Really?? Nima asked with a sad sort of concern, ?But I cannot keep a relationship for longer than a month. I know some people stay together for... their whole lives!? The bosomy witch threw her arms out.

?There are countless men of evil throughout the galaxy,? Cassandra said closing her eyes and crossing her arms.

???and women.? Nima interrupted with a soft, hopeful little smile.

Cassandra cut her a look before returning to her stature, ???and women. And finding any that are even a little bit of good...is next to impossible.?

Nima frowned hearing this. It was incredibly depressing, and she did not gravitate towards that sort of scene at all, so she returned her attention on Johnnie and in a very happy way. ?You know so much about this! I feel like you?re in-tune with my...I don?t know, ??my soul!? She jumped and clapped her hands together. ?We should go out!?

Johnnie smirked right then, looking her down and up quickly. ?You have absolutely no idea what you?re looking for, do you?? he flicked his cigarette downward at the window ledge before placing it back between his lips with a sharp stare upon the white witch.

Nima drooped her shoulders again and sunk her head while Cassandra watched her and Johnnie only nodded, having just understood what her problem was.

?I cannot believe I, a King, am being forced to sit through this concert of idiocy.? Daichi said by Johnnie and the two women with a most displeased look on his face.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-17 05:15 EST
More near the front of the 30 was Nordem Sparks, The Fists That Changed the World, and Kamonbak, both of whom had a cross-armed aura about them; especially Kamonbak, since he had no arms to cross being that he was an odachi, so the exuded aura was especially significant.

?Can?t say anything like this has ever happened to me before... but I can?t say it hasn?t, either.? Nordem said to the sword while keeping his eyes to the many stars overhead.

?There is no sense in getting rambunctious or too excited. Nothing like this happens without a reason; it just remains to be seen.? Kamonbak wisely stated. It made Nordem laugh a grin out.

?You?re pretty sharp.? Nordem quipped, and when the sword replied he only smiled brighter.

?Ha. Ha.?

Two more groups remained, and one had been the group of the noisy Cadence Valentine and the much quieter Battle Prophet, Mage.

His enormous in length All-Killer sword had been drawn and held out while a stern look wore on his face down to the jumping up and down, tantrum-throwing little girl.

?You will give me your sword! Give it! Give it! Give ???

Mage released the sword which made the young vampire disappear seemingly, though weak struggling had been noticeable beneath the sword on the floor.

The final two in the room were Rahea, an elder of Adenna, and Nadia, a wife of Promahster. They made agreeable company by one of the other window spaces and with that breathtaking view of space no matter which view you had been at.

He removed his ninja veil to speak and, in doing so, exposed a sharp-pointed white beard. ?For an old person like me, things like this are exciting. I?ve lived a long life. Anything that comes at me now is just a chance to reach greatness again. Nothing to lose, and everything to gain.? He gazed off into space with his lively eyes showing in the center of such wrinkled brows and cheeks.

Nadia was colored impressed, and quietly smiled to his wise and elderly assertion. ?You sound very brave right now in the face of this unknown situation. That is surely admirable.? She laughed lightly to hide her own fear of the predicament.

Rahea looked at her, ?You have nothing to be afraid of. We all will depart when we are ready...and not a moment before. I do not think your moment has come yet.? the old man smiled which lifted his beard and sides of his mustache, both of which were comforting to Nadia.

Oink!

Everyone looked.

In the only space that even remotely looked to shew a way out did two great sun-colored doors open. From behind them stood a clean pink pig, and it did ?speak? for quite some time. When it ceased, a great silence filled the room of 30.

Alfonso Carlson Avery, who stood among them, stepped up with a maleficent grin on his face. ?I don't know what has you all spooked by Bacon Bits here, but he doesn't scare me,? He said, removing the eyepatch from his eye to expose the kraken-like tentacles of ship-captain poetry.

When he moved to consume the pig, and by all rights easily should have, the pig discharged a great reserve of energy that quaked out in a visible and hot ring of wind while hot steel-colored yellow. This was something everyone anticipated but Alfonso, who, after the clearing, was visibly scorched, smoking and lifeless on the floor with a confused smile permanently upon his face.

?Attention, everyone,? the pig began in a tongue everyone could understand. ?You must all be wondering why you have been summoned here. I am here to tell you just that.?

?Pig...? Nayun quietly whispered, drawing the attention of the shrouded Celestial her way.

?That is right. I am a pig,? it spoke, surprising Nayun. ?I am sure some of you are already piecing together what is going on with your unique abilities. Mage,? the pig looked to him. ?You must already suspect what is happening.?

Mage finally lifted the sword from the utterly pinned Cadence. ?Yes, my Future's Gaze has shown me several things I have already seen unfold.?

The pig nodded. ?Anyone else?? it looked around.

Fox rose his hand with a confused sort of look. ?Kind of??

Daichi tipped his chin up. ?Same.?

The pig nodded in understanding to them both. ?I see. My name is Winkie, and like you all, I too have been selected to be here. A legendary tournament is to take place; a fight to the death where you thirty will each vie for the ultimate prize: to be escorted to The Last Great Heaven.?

Kit Otomo lowered his aggravation-ridden face into his hand.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-17 05:17 EST
?Seriously?? Seiri asked, raising one eyebrow and striking a lean.

Nordem Sparks and the soul-attached odachi Kamonbak both inclined their attention toward the pig at his words just then.

Searcher smiled excitedly.

?I know many of you are already thinking this. There is no resigning from this legendary tournament. Only the option of victory and defeat are available to you, so claim the prize or be a stepping stone for the one who will,? Winkie said while sitting down before everyone. ?As this tournament's moderator, I have been bestowed with super-strength and the power of speech, as you are undoubtedly aware.

?You are all figures of legend in one way or another. While most are but shadows of the fish swimming in the moonlight, you all may disturb and even jump in the unchanging waters of reason. Whether you cause great waves or meager ripples in the flows of fate, you each possess this unique ability to alter causality. This is your contendership for the All World Final Clash Tournament.?

?The All World Final Clash Tournament?? Kit Otomo repeated, wanting to make sure he had his facts straight.

?That is correct, Kit Otomo,? Winkie said, ?I see in your face that the name of this occurrence here is not entirely unfamiliar to your ears. You would be right. Though you must have been young, the stories your grandfather told you were anything but unheard. Your grandfather was indeed the last moderator of the last Final Clash tournament.?

Kit's eyes widened in surprise at hearing this.

?The ancient sword handed down to you by your grandfather is proof enough of his qualification to moderate the tournament. But each moderator is different, as is each tournament tree of competitors. It is interesting that an Otomo has crossed over the sidelines this generation.? Winkie noted, having gotten up and walked closer to the congregation now, Kit in particular.

Kit was speechless while this was told to him. It was spoken with a confidence of the knowledge he spewed, and it was believable, and that entire concept was intimidating, not unlike the stories of Kit's grandfather had been.
But it was the same thing that intrigued Kit to pursue an exciting life like his grandfather had led. And yes, his grandfather's ancient sword. He thought about it and how it might apply to this. If he truly could not vacate this life and death competition with powerful beings, then it would be time to call upon its services in aiding him in surviving this great challenge.

Winkie nodded and oinked to the look that he had seen on Kit's face before moving through the crowd, not leaving anyone out in his assessment.

?Are there any questions? If not, then we will begin.?

Johnnie kept his arms crossed and his mouth quiet, but his eyes wandered from the 29 others, curious of their reactions and responses.

Promahster laughed, ?This idea is preposterous. To propose that someone as important as I must abide by your rules and your game. It is of an insult I cannot even begin to explain. Hmph.? he crossed his arms, smirking angrily off to the side.

?It is unfortunate that only one can rise out of thirty, but it is the way of the Final Clash, and always has been.? Winkie explained.

Tetch snapped a pointed finger out at the pig. ?This whole thing is stupid. I cannot believe we've listened to you for as long as we have! And I will put a stop to all this, very easily, with just a little of the tender loving care of a butcher.? she rolled her sleeve up as demonic red light filled the eyes of Winkie.

?I discourage any and all such action. Or was the defeat of Alfonso Carlson Avery not example enough?? the pig pointed its cute and tiny hoof at the ashy form of Alfonso still smoldering on the floor making a stupid face.

Tetch growled, but she knew the pig was right to some degree, and it was Lilith's hand that wrapped around her bicep and lowered her arm alongside that sweet smile of hers.

?Save your hostility for the tournament, my Ichi. What is the worst that could come of playing? You will surely rise to the top and carry me there with you, and nothing can prevent your whim.? Lilith said, soothing the Siovanui woman. Tetch growled, but complied more or less.

?I don't like this,? Seirichi whispered to her company: Aurast, Corea and Dyarhk. ?Just because my mothers have an alliance does not mean they will be able to keep it if these rules pit them against each other.?

?Do you really think we cannot oppose this system? Even if the thirty of us banded together?? Aurast asked, concerned.

?It is as the pig said... look at Alfonso. In Biodomal ratings, he is among the highest of power levels. And he was dispatched that easily. I would say we are at the beck and call of this theatrical show.? Dyarhk explained to Aurast very stoically with a hand massaging his cheeks.

?I am not saying what I will or will not do when the time comes,? Corea spoke up, surprising all three of them, ?but if we must play, then I will do so.? It seemed her resolve had been very solid.

?I take that as a no, then,? Winkie said in regards to his call for questions before starting the proceedings. ?The tournament will start now. There is one more player among you that has been chosen to be in service of this generation of Final Clash, like I have been made moderator, and Kit Otomo's grandfather before me; you,? he pointed his tiny and cute hoof at Aurast who responded with a horrified look, ??have been selected by this process to be a witness to all of the thirty fighters' matches, including your own.?

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-17 05:17 EST
Several of the 30 made some preparations for the likelihood they would be entering combat at any moment. Lea Cainn and Declan DonEvans, caretakers of each other's swords, exchanged katanas. Alfonso sat up, still smoking, and worked on diminishing that grimace from his face.

Aurast gulped and looked on in shock, but remained quiet.

?You reek of the Submissive Identity.? Rohkan mumbled in disgust.

?You are a lucky man! I wish I could observe this legend in the making!? Searcher complimented Aurast's direction.

?You'll just have to make the best of this situation, Aurast. We all will.? Dyarhk shot him a thumbs-up.

?Wahh-hah!? Aurast cried to everyone. ?I don't want to do this! I don't even know what witnessing all these fights means! Does anyone else want to do it??? He pleaded for a replacement for him.

Before anyone could speak up, Winkie had, ?You cannot relinquish your duty, just like I cannot. There are frightening repercussions in place for violators of the official rules.?

?That sounds kind of important, man!? Aurast replied in a pleading sort of way. ?Is there anything else we should know so we don't explode or something??

Winkie closed his eyes in understanding with the rules. ?I have told you all all that you need to know. The rest lies in your performances in the tournament. This is likely the only time that you all will be together before the first rounds begin. I would take this time to cherish life. And tie up any loose ends.?

Promahster looked over to his immediate right and stared for a moment at Aurast before smacking him across the face, eliciting a very high-pitched shriek in retreat from the taller man.

?Very well,? Winkie rose his front legs up like two arms. ?You are ready. The first round begins now! Eliminate your opponents, or they will eliminate you. Mercy exists in some other tournament, but not this one. Jeopardize your prize at your own risk. Maintain its purity by maintaining the rules. The prize can only be paid in the lives of the fallen... so I suggest the lot of you start employing tripping tactics,? a glare. ?Good luck!?

Everyone shot cautious looks at one another.

The tournament had begun.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:03 EST
Fight 7: Lea Cainn vs Nayun Lortz

The randomization of opponents had happened, and there was a very brief window in which those who were being teleported were taken notice of. In blinks of light flashes, pairs of two at a time disappeared from the Promenade of Stars until there was no one remaining in the chamber but Winkie.

Appearing in the chemically clean and sterile compound of Jessica Wong, Lea Cainn and Nayun both arrived in teleport fashion, courtesy of Megabolond's sheer will. Nayun looked around the setting with an entirely perplexed demeanor, though she would never speak on it. But Lea seemed to understand these circumstances far better.

?Wohh?nahha-hahh!!? Aurast screamed, arriving on the scene much harsher than the matched women had. Dropping from the air some ten feet up and landing quite poorly and with such an unpleasant thud. He couldn't help but moan in pain and twitch even when his brain had told his arm to help push him back up. Such was often the fate of the chosen observers of the All World Final Clash Tournament.

Lea walked into position some distance from Nayun, wearing her obtrusive and long-skirted dress and preparing the Yasuragi katana that Declan had traded with her beforehand over the hip of her clothing.

?I do not know this place.? Nayun stated, glancing boringly around.

?I do not think that it matters,? Lea stated with a very soft grin. Drawing her famous pink-blooded blade and piercing it directly down into the fabric of her skirt. A simple lever-action downward produced a cut into the dress, and a final flip of the weapon back to her person left her dress now showing some leg and providing a much broader range of movement. ?Are you ready? The sooner we start ? the sooner we finish.? She smiled happily, eager to return to the congregation of fighters even as she focused blood red eyes upon her opponent. Slowly and with form she resheathed the blade.

Nayun accepted this battle-ready gesture and readied her hand in wild west fashion over her katana's own hilt.

'I know I am not wrong in suspecting this person before me is incredibly dangerous. I cannot afford to miscalculate. If this fight goes on for longer than ten seconds I may very well lose my life. I will have to end it before then.' Nayun thought, never taking her eyes off the woman in-front of her.

?Why didn't you answer me? I asked if you are ready?? Lea asked with a frown and look of confusion. Most people answered her, so it was odd.

Nayun dipped her chin, it was time to fight. Her skill was typically superior to the regular swordsman, but that did not apply here, therefore she had to implement beyond what she was capable of. On Lea's body Nayun could spot the nine critical points on the body, and she would try and strike at them all at the same time with her phenomenal speed.

In a moment, she was off.

As her sword began to shine out from its sheath, glinting half its steel halfway out, she noticed the stepping forward leg of her opponent and it confused the situation greatly. Nayun's wide eyes tried to make sense of how to react to this, but she had to decide quickly, and decided to commit fully to her attack.

Her pointed tip moved toward the nine different critical points of her body, but it was a wide swiping of her opponent's sword that impossibly reached her first and sent her launching back to the best of her abilities. A last-millisecond abort.

Landing what she thought was safely, Nayun looked down to her chest where a glowing slice illuminated her. She looked horrified.

?You're pretty fast. Thank you for making this fun for me.? Lea smiled after sheathing her sword back to watch Nayun become consumed by the light like an infection.

?I don't understand...? Nayun observed this upon herself.

?You don't have enough time for me to fully explain it, but you are being deconstructed at a very quick rate. That light is how quickly everything you are composed of is attempting to travel across space, but it will disintegrate before ? ? Lea stopped when she saw that Nayun had been entirely consumed and nothing remained of her but a few last vanishing light particles.

?Nnnnnnnnnnn?oooooooooooooooo!!!? Aurast cried, dropping to his knees beside of where Nayun had once been, and now there was nothing. He punched the floor of the Wong Compound training room. ?What kind of sick game are the idols of our ancestors playing on us!!? tears fell to the floor from his cheeks.

Lea blinked at his over-dramatic performance.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:05 EST
Phasing back on-board the All World Final Clash spaceship, in the Promenade of Stars, some of the Tournament Fighters that have already completed their fights took notice of Lea's return alone.

Kit Otomo was here, proving he had won his fight with Lilith already. He quietly sat on one of the many window ledges off to himself, twirling his unsheathed sword standing on its tip over and over. A moment of silence was doing him quite well.

Corea and Rahea, both callers of home to Adenna, knew that the sight of this woman, Lea Cainn, meant that her opponent, Nayun, had to have been slain. But it was not until the woman ran over to Declan giddy and opened her mouth that Corea began to weep.

?Declan! I won my fight!? Grabbing his hand and pulling it into her.

She remained very happy while those around her: Rahea, Kit, and Celestial all remained respectful and quiet of the fallen, each of them having dispatched their opponents as well.

?Yeah. Me too.? Declan replied, turning his taken hand into a mutual handholding. ?At least we get to wait a while before the second round starts. I think we can return to the planet for a while, but we'll be called back eventually.?

?Will you take me somewhere fun when we get back?? She asked, returning their held hands back into one favoring his in her possession. It just happened naturally.

?Of course.? he dipped his head, eliciting a fit of eagerness and happiness from the Flower Moon Princess.

Corea continued to mourn over her children's fallen babysitter.

Kit did look up briefly before returning his look back down to the idle spinning of his sword.

Winner: Ellea Shanoa Cainn

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:07 EST
Fight 9: Johnnie vs Jessica Wong

Special Encounter!! Johnnie vs Jessica Wong: Johnnie throws his shirt to the center of the stage where Jessica reveals she had scanners and analyzers in place and break it down

Johnnie walked several confident paces through the scorched forest of the fairy world of Huyglen before turning in his tiny Adidas-equivalent shoes to face the woman behind him. Jessica Wong had watched his backside with intrigue as he put distance between her and him.

Not even the great lightning bolt of a disturbed atmosphere crashed down and split a tree near them would disturb these two opponents who had been transported to a planet in its exciting, final moments. A planet core going critical had caused the great lakes around this forest to fissure and create deep whirlpools and where the water was not swirling down, accompanying tornados danced out a waltz on the smoother waters.

?It's a bit windy here,? Johnnie says to break the silence.

?That's not going to be a problem, is it? If such a thing was able to provide a disadvantage to you then I would have to reconsider selecting your genetic makeup for observation.? Jessica presses her glasses more up the bridge of her nose while smirking.

?No, I don't think it's going to be a problem.? Johnnie returned to her, now realizing how she operated. He stood very slanted but perfect to his ready stance before a fight. He removed his shirt and his belt, tossing the shirt away and flicking the belt in preparation of using it.

Jessica seductively exhaled what looked like faint frosty breath, but it soon manifested together and assumed the form of a fog-like keyboard panel that hovered before her. Johnnie wasted no time in attacking when he charged forward. That belt might as well have been a sword when he lashed it out at her. Jessica more than easily typed silently and singlehandedly upon that panel to rush out a defensive wall composed of microscopic nanotechnology and other valuable components of the surrounding forest such as earth and water.

It was a surprise that did not stop Johnnie who continued with his onslaught of attacks, each defended by a different summons of an earthly shield. After Johnnie's offensive had weakened, Jessica effortlessly switched on her own offensive and used more water based components to increase their water pressure and chill them accordingly to create cutting edges.

Johnnie was on the offensive now.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:08 EST
Weaving out of the way only worked so many times before he was being forced to leap back, and even then he still did not get away unharmed. A bloody line went across his bushy chest that he looked none too happy to see. But it was well time for an interactive stage change.

The planet going critical caused a large split to run through the forest and uprise it and unleash torrents of ocean water up, causing both opponents to retreat to one of the few remaining land masses that still rockily remained afloat. Golden lightning rained down constantly, as did heavy rain amidst the entourage of hurricanes in the distance.

Johnnie wrapped his belt around his fist and prepared a boxer's stance while Jessica's evil smile made out much clearer than her rain-spattered glasses. She placed a hand on the hip of her labcoat and welcomed with curiosity the effort that Johnnie had just then launched forward with.

A combo of several movements and punches spun Johnnie into scoring his first hit, punching with his magic-imbued belt right into the gut of Jessica Wong. She shot forward and hunched, coughing out saliva unnoticeably with all the rain. Johnnie maintained strong post-punch stance into her, but something was amiss.

What Johnnie mistook for coughing was actually laughing. He also mistook her taking hold of his arm for support after that heavy blow when she was actually inoculating it with her special genetic takeover virus strain.

She stood back perfect and unharmed to watch Johnnie retreat and behold his arm that was quickly discoloring to erosion. He frowned angrily, but Jessica only cackled even audible over the raging storm.

?I'll save enough of you to pull samples from at least!? she hollered over the loud thunder, making sure to time her fancy line without time for him to say anything back as longer able to. What remained of him that Jessica pursued was locked in hanging back container walls that rushed Johnnie only when there was no chance of him being able to refuse.

Sealed, the container shrunk and shrunk until it blinked up like a starlight line back to her lab leaving Jessica alone.

The only other lifeform still alive on the planet had been Aurast wailing and moaning holding onto one of the last trees that was fighting to keep its roots held in the earth just about as hard as Aurast was trying to hold onto it.

They both arrived back on the Promenade of Stars drenched, something that Jessica has her microscopic tech simulate wind and blowdry her back to a dry and most pleasant appearance. Aurast however had no such powers or allies with such powers, and had to drip and remove twigs and leaves from his person of his own labor.

?Why can I not just die?? He complained to himself, draining a large amount of water by wringing his shirt.

Searcher chuckled at his expense.

Winner: Jessica Wong

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:10 EST
Fight 8: Rohkan vs Armand Belgarde

A poetic horn blew in the undisturbed, clear skies of the ethereal realm of Nyijs. A monolithic stone tower stood peppered with vibrant-colored moss across it. A lone white bird soared in these vacant skies, blurry almost as the seemingly white sun beamed upon its feathers. There were unmolested lands here that it flew over, distant and littered with trees and mysteriously risen constructs and bridges and steps.

In the distance and in the shade and shadows were the quietest zones of this place. Howling whispers of the winds quietly forewarned that you should not enter their domain, and warn they did with just cause. Everywhere that the sunlight touched was a tranquil and peaceful place, but everywhere that there was shade and shadow there was danger.

Within the single hallway of the temple that displayed gargantuan statues of the Siovanui idols that were imprisoned here, Armand Belgarde walked out from the darkness and toward the steps where the sun did begin to shine through and call out to those within to come out into the warmth.

His long flowing cape behind him, his hanging sword at his waist swayed until he stood to the right side of the top of the stairs. To the far left side of the stairs, Rohkan did walk up them and join Armand on the level ground.

?Zzzzzz...? On a risen altar of stone between both sets of stone stairs slept Aurast, quite well mind you, before startling and sitting up to take in the sight of the two men facing one another. It hit him all too quickly that he was in the center of another fight about to take place. He immediately stopped massaging his eye sleepily to hop down in a noisy echo.

?I will obtain the Supreme Dominance Identity.? Rohkan told Armand, unblinking.

?And I will outlive all other lifeforms. That you must find that out today and not as an old gray hound is only a matter of convenience.? Armand said.

The sword the elder Belgarde drew was shining and handsome, whereas the armory-plain one that Rohkan drew was very indifferent and common. But the wielder of the weapons would show in this match, and not the other way round.

Armand pointed the tip of his blade at Aurast who yelped squeakily in response.

?You there. You will witness our nourishing these old stones with an offering of blood.? Armand said. Aurast trembled but did gulp and nod. ?Very well then.? Armand returned his pointed weapon to Rohkan.

?Only the Alpha takes the initiative!? Rohkan shouted before dashing out with risen veins in his neck and face, pumping the most concentration imaginable into his microscopic and focused pupils. When their weapons clashed they did so very noisily, even going so far as to shatter the upper half of Rohkan's sword.

Armand knew he had the advantage now, but he did not necessarily feel it. The berserker rage that his opponent fought with did not allow him to capitalize on the advantage in weapons. Still, he was able to not go on the defensive and trade cuts with parries evenly with him.

Armand fought with his science and skill. He was a master swordsman and planned for the shot he would take to gush the blood of his foe throughout this temple perch. After Rohkan's next swing, he would lunge for his neck and put an end to it. True to expectations, Rohkan did swing how Armand foresaw, but when Armand made his lunge, Rohkan did something most unexpected.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:12 EST
Allowing the stab into his very hand, the course was guided off, and Rohkan's own broken sword was left open. A most vicious looking frown was adorn his face before he stabbed the misshapen weapon into the vampire's own throat. Because it was not ideal for cutting in its state, it made the cut that it had made all the more gruesome by how it remained imbedded in the center of his throat. In a unison with the spray of blood, Armand similarly gurgled and moaned, but he did not fall. That would only come at the assistance of Rohkan who kicked his knees to fall.

Looking down to his opponent now, he removed the attractive sword from his hand with such perfect skin. A finishing downward stab was given to the center of Armand Belgarde's chest before leaving it there and then Rohkan holding his arms out, expecting to be returned to the chamber and awaiting the other opponents.

?I have bested what you saw a fitting match for me. Who now will you give me!? I will show them the same as this man.? Rohkan pointed to the corpse of Armand.

?Savage!? Aurast shouted, but Rohkan coolly turned and regarded him.

?I would hope I were not your next opponent... if I were you.?

Again Aurast yelped, but their attention seemed to go elsewhere when the temple itself began to rumble and sprinkle down chips and pebbles and grains of stone from the foundation itself. Coming after these opening numbers were larger pieces of the tower, crashing down and blasting large pieces of stone in quaking bangs.

The temple began to fill with light as this went on, and before the whole thing could come crashing down, the remaining two, Aurast and Rohkan, were returned to the Promenade of Stars.

Rohkan walked over to a spot after regarding the others very briefly, but Aurast looked more in shock; sad, even.

Seiri, whom had Corea resting her head on her shoulder down against one of the back observatory windows, noticed that her friend Aurast did not look so well, so she turned to Corea and kissed her crown and whispered to her that she would be right back.

Getting up, she went over to Aurast and stopped before him some steps to regard this unusual demeanor he wore. ?Aurast... are you alright?? she whispered.

Aurast took a deep breath and then another and then a third. He didn't make eye-contact with Seiri yet. He only tried to make sense of what to tell himself before he would even consider telling Seiri what it was that was ailing him.

?Hey,? she smacked him on the arm. ?Tell me.? Asking seriously out of concern now.?

?I couldn't save him...? Aurast murmured.

?Who??

?Agro...? he began, ?Being in that place I was just in, Seiri... you wouldn't believe it... the memories that resurfaced before me. He didn't have to sacrifice himself, Seiri. We both could have made it. And dammit... I could have saved him, too. I don't know why I hesitated when the bridge collapsed.?

?What the hell are you talking about?? Seiri asked a bit closer, and a bit angrier.

?Shadow of the Colossus, Seiri... Shadow of the Colossus.?

Seiri listened to him and couldn't believe he had said what he had. She sniffed as a preparatory step to kicking someone's a*s. Aurast was most deserving of it after leading her on like that... like someone in the family died, which was not beyond happening in this setting. But then it hit her, perhaps she should tell him this ahead of kicking his a*s. ?Have you never beat the game all the way, Aurast??

?Huh? I've gotten to the sixteenth colossus. But I can't beat that guy. He's a superd*ck.? He replied.

Seiri smacked him on the arm again. ?The horse comes back at the end, stupid. Trust me, me and Kara went through that whole thing together. Try finishing what you started, like a real man.? She hmph'd at him before wrapping her arm around his head and tugging it into her boobs for the drag back to Corea.

?Are you serious?? Agro! You're alive! You son of a b*tch ? you're alive!!?

Winner: Rohkan

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:13 EST
Fight 4: Kit Otomo vs Lilith

Special Encounter!! Kit Otomo vs Lilith: Kit admires an apple before tossing it to Lilith. Lilith catches it gleefully.

Phasing into the Adenna Treasure Room, Kit Otomo, successful store owner and aspiring sky captain, decided he would take a look around.

His hand was never far from his grandfather's sword, but sometimes he had to let his guard down in favor of some good old-fashioned exploration. This place was one such place where it called for such a lowering of defenses. The abundance of gold and treasures surrounding him was difficult to take your eyes off of.

He slowly walked down a golden-paved path in-between statues of less-brilliant gold only because it was so much thicker. Each of these giant golden idols were like the protectors or guardians of the jewel necklaces and bracelets and chests of gold bars and coins and more of the same around them.

What had not yet been spoken for were the weapons here. There was a mask with two different-colored jewel eyes that half-near tempted Kit to taking from its display perch on the wall between two statues, but he contained himself. It read too much like a Cave of Wonders scenario, and the last thing that Kit was going to become was a fez-wearing monkey.

Kit traveled next to a grassy prelude into a fountain chamber at the treasure room's end. It was here that white stone statues all faced him with their white stone swords pointed high. The fountain was a similar white stone, and it was filled with a cover of lush green foliage in its dark-colored waters, though they did not impress the reputation of contaminated waters in the slightest. In-fact, Kit was interested in splashing his face, and had moved to do so before he sensed the presence of a threat.

Kit sprung back suddenly, evading an airborne polearm but not in time enough to do so for his grandfather's precious blade. The polearm had hit it at such a point where it had not injured Kit, but was enough to disarm it from him and send it some great distance from him.

A cute, almost foul woman's laugh filled the treasure room, like how a bad singer might sound trying to sing something that only a good singer could; in that regard, this woman failed miserably in her attempt at sounding maniacal.

Nevertheless, Kit nervously held his wrist, unsure to move or he might be met himself with another of those polearms. This was all possible since he had not even seen his foe yet. All he could do was remain attentive while the woman's ubiquitous laugh filled the treasure room.

?I have already won this fight, it seems. All that remains is for me to pluck the life force from your very form, young man. I will see my Ichi at the end of this tournament. Ho ho hohhh~!? the woman continued to try and laugh menacing, but even Kit processed that it did not work in the slightest. Still, he remained silent and for her to reveal herself.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:14 EST
?I will wager you are terrified, aren't you? That is understandable. Do you know who I am and what all I have done? It is enough to quiver any man's knees. Just my very presence in the same room as yours should be enough to send you over the edge. Not only that, but I happen to know this room extensively, since it is from my universe. Now that you know what a huge advantage I have, I will bet you would like for me to end it swiftly for you? If it is a quick and painless death you are after, I am not beyond offerings of such mercy.? Lilith said, very egotistically and very comfortably from a hidden location.

Kit, a bit angrier now, continued to look for his opponent to reveal herself; all the while keeping the location of his grandfather's sword known and making sure that if he was going to go after it, that he would be able to.

After a long enough pause, Lilith pouted her bottom lip out. ?If you are not going to say anything then my taunting and teasing you and offering you mercy is not fun! Say something!? she got a bit angry, and realized that he had drawn this out in her. She pulled it back, and put her sweet face on. ?Very well... I will send out my weapon to face you. Maybe beholding one of my personal items will be enough to get you to beg for your life.?

Stomping out from a treasure nook was a Goliathan man wearing only a skirt, and brandishing a mighty blade over his shoulder. His movements in that confined space were slow, but when he had turned to face Kit in the more open hallway with the second balcony only just above his full height, he stopped and left his top speed in this newer space completely up in the air until he would move again.

Kit pieced it together; he must have been the one who threw the spear. But he couldn't be certain. He looked around again a few more times, trying to formulate a plan while that wrist of his was starting to hurt just a little bit now.
'Damn.' he thought while he shook his wrist. 'That shock absorption hurt that much?' Truly, he couldn't play around with this match. It would be the end of him. But he was still keeping quiet.

Lilith couldn't take it anymore. She ballooned her cheeks out of sight and chose not to remain there any longer. She stomped out, walking upon loose coins and jewels carelessly and with her mean eyes upon Kit all the way to standing before her giant servant. She slammed her hands down upon her hips.

?What is wrong with you!? Can you not speak?! You are supposed to be horrified! I am Lilith! I have just as many people in fear of my name as my beloved ? ? Lilith began saying before becoming surprised by the man suddenly bolting off another direction with very impressive speed.

Kit wore a very serious face, dashing for his grandfather's sword. He had guessed right if he was still alive now then he would definitely make it all the way to his sword. He dove for it and behind one of the large statues long before another of the decorative spears slammed into the wall of the fountain between two of the other statues.

?How dare you run away when I am talking to you!? Lilith pouted.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:15 EST
Kit panted behind the statue, trying to inch closer to get a glimpse of the two confirmed opponents. While this brief ceasefire was going on, he noticed a coin and procured it, considering before kissing it with closed eyes and then tossing it into the fountain.

When it splashed, he shoved off and moved to a closer cover against a decorative wall corner.

?What kind of man does not speak to a woman when she is talking to him! You are all the same. It is no wonder I only have eyes for my Ichi. I will turn you into a display here after my loyal servant Skirt here has finished with you. Yes, you will fit in quite well with all of these unmoving statues when you too become ? huh?? Again interrupting me?! How dare you! Skirt, I want his head. Skirt ? Eek! Skirt!!? Lilith panicked as her eyes went wide at the inhuman sprinting of Kit in her direction. She tried to back up, but backed up right into Skirt's leg. She quickly went around him and ran to a safe distance behind him.

?Get him, Skirt!?

The large guardian heaved his mighty sword back, but as Kit has expected, he was only incredibly strong and not very fast; not as fast as he was. Kit was already past his legs when the large servant's weapon came crashing down nowhere near him.

?Eeee!!! Skirt!! Don't fight me, you fool! Fight my servant!! That's what he's there for!? Lilith again shouted, but her next noises would be a gasp and a gulp as Kit was suddenly upon her with that deadly-looking sword in his hand.

Kit gazed into her eyes face to face, considering the honest terror that she had shown despite asking for him to show his this whole time. He very briefly consulted with his grandfather had done, and what he would do now in this situation. It was a horrible time to ponder this, and in this brief hesitation, Lilith considered casting a spell.

The magic became visible enough that Kit suspected what she might have been planning. A knockback blast or a more lethal one. He didn't think twice and stuck the sword into and all the way through her stomach. The grunt from Lilith was very brief and nothing followed it, just as Kit had hoped and planned.

Kit placed an arm around the woman's torso to keep her standing as long as she felt like it, and then help her to her knees when she felt like that. Lilith gazed intimately over his shoulder, saddened by the look of Skirt frozen with his weapon charged all the way back, just moments from flattening Kit, but Kit had gambled everything on taking out the controller. He gambled right.

?Skirt... you're... useless.? She whispered over Kit's shoulder before lowering her long beautiful eyelashes down over her eyes. Kit helped lower her to her knees, taking one himself.

Lilith could look at this man who had slew her now and hopelessly smiled to him. ?Are you really going to let me die without saying a single word to me??

Kit stared at her for a short time. ?No, I'm not.? he said, returning a faint smile to her.

Lilith reached a hand up to his cheek. ?If you see my Ichi back on the ship, and you should because she could not possibly get defeated, tell her that I love her; and that I am sorry I cannot join her any longer.?

Kit grabbed her hand from reaching his cheek and held onto it. ?What is her name??

?She is... my Ichi.? Lilith said with a smile, one she would wear to the bitter end. Her head lifelessly turned to the side. It was then that Kit carefully removed his sword in a sudden movement and laid it down to better lay the woman down.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-18 23:16 EST
When Kit stood, he still disregarded the enormous servant behind him as he was collecting his thoughts and recovering after taking the life of a woman who did not seem at all that evil. But it was the decision that he felt he had to make, and undoubtedly he would be questioning that decision later on.

The servant was disappearing into black ash at that moment, and it was something Kit only noticed as he turned around and looked somewhat cautious in going around him to reclaim the scabbard his grandfather always kept his sword in.

Heading down the quiet treasure corridor, he again went on guard when he saw another person around the corner, pointing his sword at him.

?Don't kill me! Don't kill me!? Aurast pleaded. ?I'm the guy that was chosen to witness all the fights, remember? I got here when you guys did!? he begged for understanding, and it seemed he found it when Kit still kept on-guard until he had passed him, and then continued on his way back to those fountain statues.

?Hey. Hey! That was gruesome, man. You gutted her without batting an eye,? Aurast said, keeping up with him at a reasonable distance, and looking back to Lilith's body when he had mentioned it.

?There's no time to bat an eye in this tournament. If you do then that's a hesitation when your opponent hasn't hesitated. That difference is life and death. It's not pleasant, but it was either her or me, and I made my decision.? Kit slammed the sword home in its sheath.

Aurast was quiet a little while as he said that, but ultimately sighed, understanding him. ?I see. There's a lot of places to hide here, that's why you couldn't find her. This place is also apart of my universe. That's why you haven't seen me until now. I know all the hiding places, too.? He chuckled, but it didn't sound genuine. He was just trying to dispel some of that awkward tension of recent-death.

Kit appraised Aurast now that things were a bit calmer, but sighed silently before passing him.

?Hey, where are you going?? Aurast asked.

Kit flicked a coin back to Aurast. ?I'm going to walk around until I get called back.?

?What's this for?? Aurast asked after catching the coin.

?Make a wish and toss it into the fountain. It worked for me.? He said.

Aurast curiously watched him depart before looking down the coin and analyzing the treasure in all its detail.

Winner: Kit Otomo

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-19 21:40 EST
Fight 2: Searcher vs Nadia

?And now... Gate 4, you are clear to undock.? A large intercom voice filled every sound in this quiet and hushed space station known as Tier 2 off in a distant solar system in the orbit of a planet known as Tirraru Supreme.

It was a planetary shell that was very new and connected to a much older shell that, within it, contained a small planet. These two swiss cheese-like shells existed in adjustable orbits that could control the planet's weather, increasing agricultural output to very high and favorable percentages.

It was Jessica Wong owned, as the ?Wong Lobby? and large letters ?WONG? read on the outside of this Tier 2 shell. As with all of her technology, it was very next-gen, and one such loading bay gave away this fact very plainly before the eyes.

It read Loading Dock 408, but it was only a name designed to draw attention away from itself. There was no loading about it. It was a production factory for revolutionary mech units. Large conveyors ran constantly and transported these beautiful machines alongside of shoulder holders that ensured they were in optimal stability.

Traffic lanes of these conveyors ran through one another like various complex stitches. And while the glossy paint shone on these magnificent weaponized space vehicles, there was a space of engineer walk that two tiny figures slowly came out onto.

?Wow. Look at this place.? Searcher said, grasping the rail.

?Do not make light of our fight. One of us has to die, that is why we were brought here.? Nadia said, and though she had a six foot black blood claymore drawn on him, she did not seem at all confident. This man's demeanor was throwing her off.

?That can come later. Look how amazing this place is.? Searcher said in full smile before hopping the rail to the other side and going to obviously investigate the blue and white suit that had been rolling ever-closer on the conveyor's tread.

Nadia, a prized wife of Promahster, looked down briefly in confusion. She was not used to this sort of interaction.

Searcher held his tongue out one side of his mouth thoughtfully before leaping up and grabbing onto a protruding part of the machine that read ?JECO? on its side. He pulled himself up and did more of the same in scaling the combat vehicle all the way up to its open chest where he noisily began admiring the cockpit system (even though he knew nothing about the technology).

?Whoa!? Before climbing into the thing, the belts stopped suddenly and threatened his balance, but he regained it. He looked about from his new vantage point with his grip on what was similarly a pilot's zero-gravity launch-bar. But here in this gravity setting, he used it to keep from falling down. ?What was that?? he asked.

Then a large rocking blast came to the side of the machine. It was much clearer to see where it came from this time: the opposite direction that the craft had been knocked in. As it rocked close to where it had been, Searcher established a new point of inspection and looked down to see the woman looking up at him with her sword still out.

?Did you do that?? Searcher asked.

?It is time to take me seriously, you. We have to fight.? Nadia called up to him.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-20 08:50 EST
Searcher seemed to be in contemplation. He looked over his shoulder and back down to the woman a few times before calling down to her with a sigh. ?Okay. You sound serious. Shall I come down or you come up??

?Don't bother. I can be up in a second.? Nadia said, phasing out of sight and phasing right back in a blur before him on the extended arm of the unit. ?Now. Enough of these games. Face me.?

Searcher blinked honestly before looking to what she had been standing on, ever mapping out where he'd go next and where he'd stand and where he'd go after that if any number of things happened. ?Alright. Let's at least tell each other our names, though.? He walked out on the arm's shoulder and stood there figuring that was a good enough spot.

The woman saw no problem with that. ?My name is Nadia.?

Searcher smiled. ?What a beautiful name. Who gave it to you? Your mother? I've known two Nadia's before, and they were both wonderful people. And I can safely place you in the same category ? ?

? ? Enough!? she interrupted. ?Tell me your name!?

He blinked a few times at the surprising interruption. But when asked his own name, he returned to his happiness. ?I am Searcher. I am the Inspiration of Heroes, did you know?? I don't know why, myself. But I hear it is because I go on so many adventures. I would be happy to tell you the story of a few of them after this if you have the time ? ?

Again, he would be interrupted, this time by a very deep-sounding voice of a powerful origin. ? ? No more!? Her hair ceased the brief free-floating it had been doing, resonating with the power and fury from within her that had slipped out. ?You now know my name, and I yours. Now we can begin. Prepare yourself. Draw your weapon.?

?Okay.? Searcher replies, removing his sword from his side by the golden hilt, and exposing the electric blue orb separating it and its crystal-white blade.

Nadia smirks, seeing this. ?I do not suspect there will be any shortage of unique swords in this tournament.?

?Swords that are not unique would not win tournaments like this.? Searcher replied, dropping into his ready stance and beckoning her toward him. ?Allow me to inspire you.?

Nadia clenched her teeth before moving forward after him then. But the first move went to Searcher when he cleanly cut the arm from the JECO Unit and leaping back to the undamaged torso of the suit.

Nadia lost balance quite badly, but not for long. Initiating her high speed ability once more, she vanished from the falling arm before it crashed and appeared before Searcher and brought the two into a sword lock.

?As I thought,? Nadia began. ?You are no here human.?

?I suppose I am not. I do not do what most humans do,? he began steering the lock in his favor. ?But apart from that I am exactly the same as they are.? he shoved her back.

The conveyors picked up again and the suit they were upon began moving through a dark garage passage and out the other end, but before that both of their swords had illuminated the darkness their two colors of red and blue.

?I cannot lose to a cheery fool like you.? Nadia complained.

?Well you have not lost yet. I will tell you this advice, talk like you will win, and you will. Talk like you might lose, and defeat is almost certain.? Searcher lectured before their distance was closed once more.

Nadia took an impressive lead, sending Searcher back several steps and even cleaving his golden shoulder armor off of his person.

With his shoulder exposed, he stared on at the woman before him while a gust from this spacious hangar blew his short black hair. The suit they rode upon came to another stop along its predestined tour in-front of a unit that was being welded by robotic arms from the ceiling. Searcher nor Nadia took any notice to this, never taking their eyes off the other.

?You're fighting for something a lot more important than just your life... what is it?? Searcher questioned seriously over to her in a softer voice.

?No! No more talk! Fight me!? Nadia demanded.

?No!? Searcher quickly fired back out. It surprised Nadia so that she gasped quietly at his insistence. ?We are fighting to the death... are we not?? He angrily glared. ?You owe it to me to tell me what you'd kill me for. Tell it to me so I can try as hard as you deserve. Until then...? he stabs his sword down into the JECO Unit very powerfully and takes two steps back, showing his vulnerability proudly.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-20 08:53 EST
Nadia gazed on wide-eyed. ?You fool. Pick up your weapon!?

Searcher rose his chin and closed his eyes.

?I'll cut you down easy without your sword!? She threatened, but he was calling her bluff every second he remained unmoving. He was either calling her out with a trap, or he was a fool, and Nadia was banking on him being the second, and it was making her angry. Her sword-hand shook until she decided to lower it. ?My husband...?

Searcher opened one of his green eyes at her.

?I am fighting for my husband...? she whispered, almost ashamed.

?No you're not,? Searcher said defiantly and unafraid. He slowly opened his offensive eyes. ?You are fighting for recognition.?

Nadia gasped, wide-eyed.

?You were an amazing woman when you were younger. You stood out from your peers. And then you took Promahster's hand and faded into the background with the rest of his wives. Now you're fighting just to remain seen. You hope by winning this tournament everyone will know your name and who you are, and not just being another of Promahster's wives.? Searcher placed his hands out cane-like upon his sword pommel.

?You don't... you don't know me. You don't know me at all,? Nadia clenched her teeth angrily and similarly clenched the grip she held around her sword. ?You don't know what it's like.?

? ? I may have only not heard you tell me, but I know what it is you are going through. You would not say you are unhappy with your life, and you would not change anything...however you still feel useless. It is not necessarily for your love that you are making this attempt at a brighter state of existence, but for yourself as well. Because what is life if ? ? Searcher, unable to finish, looked on at the enraged Nadia.

? ? Shut up! So what if you're right. You're not my friend. You're my enemy. Talking like that doesn't make any sense. Why are you doing it?? she frowned angrily. ?Proving to myself that I'm not just a hand on a stronger arm is something I have to do for myself, and right now, you're in the way of that.? she switched stance, but still aimed upon him.

Searcher dipped his chin and closed his eyes while he reached to his shoulder and pulled some of his broken armor nearer his vitals before taking his sword back out of the JECO arm.

Nadia rushed then, and there was not much space that needed covering (though this was still a large machine). She moved for a passing slice in samurai duel fashion, but Searcher employed another swordsman culture's religion, and drove the sword through her front and absorbed all of her momentum.

He would hold her there for a while, entirely held by the grip of his sword. But it was not something he wished for her to remain on for very long, so he did push her off of the blade, and send her falling down off the side of the arm.

Before crashing, she would be caught by her opponent, Searcher, and still moan out suddenly with the pain from the fall force. He held her there and made her face visible by her hair with one of the few assisting gestures he could give her now. Blood had not yet formulated at either corner of her mouth, but they both knew her time was short.

?I guess... I am not meant to be in the spotlight.? Nadia whispered with a defeat-admitting grin.

Searcher listened and gazed on at her, keeping her supported up as he crouched well down into an uncomfortable position to make her own as comfortable as possible.

?You said I stood out from my peers. I did. But I stepped up to a level I could not compete with. I shame myself, and I shame my husband...because I was not strong enough to make him proud.? she closed her eyes.

?Wait,? Searcher said, telling her to prolong her death just a moment longer. ?Do not leave this life feeling such failure. But just consider for a moment...your husband did not select you for the formidable power you possess, but rather the person that you are. That, I think, is what set you apart from the others... in his eyes. And do not die thinking otherwise, Miss Nadia, for you will die a fool.? he grinned on her level of strength with a very timid softness. It was something she could understand.

?Thank you.? she whispered and she nodded before turning her head lifelessly and dispersing into fading sparkles of light.

"Immortals always die different..." Searcher murmured.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-20 09:01 EST
Searcher reached his armored hand for her last remaining glimmers, but they were all gone, and with his newfound isolation, Aurast revealed himself up on the ceiling maintenance catwalk.

?Good job! Now can we get out of here!?? He shouted.

Searcher took his sword back up that connected gold hilt and white blade by blue electric ball and looked up at him. ?I presume we will return to the observatory momentarily. What are you doing up there?? he asked.

?Watching from a safe distance, of course.? he replied, nervous and unmoving from a large steel pipe he hugged onto tightly.

?Afraid of heights?? Searcher asked.

?You tell me!? Aurast replied, assuming how he must have looked was answer enough.

The two would soon dematerialize from the space dock and return to the Promenade of Stars on-board Megabolond's spaceship. Aurast looked weary like an overworked warehouse staff and Searcher bothered with a very emotional quandary. The two split up and headed for peaceful spaces to think and recuperate in privacy, but Seirichi didn't look to leave the golden-armored man alone just yet.

?Hey, you,? she said, having returned from her match as well. ?Cheer up. You're not dead.? she came along side him and walked with him wherever he was going.

He looked at her curiously. ?Why do you want to cheer me up?? he asked honestly.

?Because! You're just not dressed for the whole depressed look. Whatever you did in your fight you did cause you had to. Don't be a little sissy about it. This is survival.? Seiri explained with a constant sort of happy. This whole tournament was a subject she understood.

Searcher, young and still easily influenced, processed what she said and nodded all along to it. ?Thank you.?

She happily turned his hair into a mess, ?I like you.?

He grabbed her hand after some time of it becoming annoying and causing one of his eyes to close with aggravation. ?IYes, well. That's nice.? returning her hand to her while she laughed.

Winner: Searcher

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-20 09:05 EST
Fight 6: Declan DonEvans vs Jen

In the Promenade of Stars, Jen gazed her angelic-glowing eyes upward as she felt the sensation of transmission removing her from this setting. Likewise, Declan DonEvans removed himself from the wall, cross-armed, and was also removed from the spaceship.

The two appeared next in a tavern locale with very few patrons actually occupying the seats at the bar and tables. One woman with various facial piercings and cues to a lack of social skills looked very much at peace here and enjoying frequently drinking from her cup.

An attractive woman with beautiful dark skin leaned against a wall of precious stones and watched over the proceedings of this place like it were her own. She gave off that impression. And the smile she wore showed a pleased sort of look at how things were going on this, another workday at a fine drinkhouse.

Emerging from the back room, Jen lit the eye-easy dimness of the main room with her heavenly glow. Among the bar audience had been Declan DonEvans, planted within the crowd but making no signs of hiding it.

He stood from his chair at an unoccupied table beside ones that were occupied and made his fists on either side of him. His sword lay on the table in the meantime. ?I guess we will fight here. Bartender. I apologize. I have no money to pay for damages, and I am fairly confident that there will be.? He picked up the sword.

Jen focused her fully white eyes upon him and walked over to a space where those around her would evacuate. ?I will say a prayer for you after you evacuate your mortal coil.? She said to Declan.

?That is where you are wrong ? to suggest this body of mine is mortal.? Declan narrowed his red eyes on her.

?I will not lose to any man. My destiny is beyond this battlefield.? Jen said coldly, summoning a flaming sword from within her light-emitting robe.

A wrinkling frown of anger showed on Declan's face, but he'd give her the benefit of not challenging her confrontational words.

?I will ? ?

? ? Hit me with your very best.? Declan taunted, still cold.

? ? ..? No man should be in a hurry to rush his fate.? Jen replied.

?I would rush it. I will not value time any differently. I have things to do, and I will do them. If you say I cannot, then be on with your attempt at stopping me.? Declan said, very casually holding onto his sheathed katana.

Jen stared on at him and did not avert her pressure. ?You have accepted your fate, it seems ? ?

? ? Attack already!? He blasted, angrily.

Jen did just that next, firing a strong beam of white energy that was met with the held-out sword of Declan.

He did not even blink in the face of so much debris flying past him. And when the attack stopped he unsheathed the weapon, holding both sheath and sword in each hand now. ?Do something like that again. Or not. It does not matter. I will prove to you who Death is here for.?

Jen clenched her teeth and attacked again, this time physically. She rushed that flaming sword to meet with Declan's own, but she would take the advantage and stab into his chest. No sound whatsoever came from him, nor a loud shout from the look of him. But it was apparent that the stab did do something.

Declan smoked briefly for the duration that the sword remained in his chest, and when Jen removed it, he crashed to the floor.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-20 09:06 EST
Silence filled the ?Been Sinnin' Inn? and Jen did look around to give the look of what these people should see of someone who can cut down a man of such unknown mystery. But while she did this, the red eye of Declan down in-line with the floor gazed boringly on down the rest of the floor until he would heave in a deep breath.

?That was nothing I haven't already gone through in more severity.? he pushed up and did so casually. When he looked her again, he looked her deathly serious. ?What I am filled with has more life than creation itself. It is an undying flame. So if you cannot douse it, then that means I am meant to stifle your own.? he swung his sword back.

? ? No! Wait!? Jen cried.

Declan swung the blade across her with his anger, and when the cut had ended, so had the celestial second-in-command of Rohkan's armies.

He stood straight and resheathed Nokosu quietly. Gazing around at the patrons who then slowly began to clap until the lot of them were applauding.

Declan tried to talk over them, ?Sorry for disturbance. I'll be leaving soon,? reaching down to take up the flaming sword. He then impaled it in a table strongly enough to stand on its own. ?This should fetch a decent amount of money for the damages we caused. I would sell it.? His departing words, which seemed to get a needless nod out of the dark-skinned beauty of a proprietor.

?I gotta tell you man,? Aurast began, standing up from one of the tables, clapping, ?It's freaky whatever your power is... and she won't even get to know what it is.? He looked down at the remains of her. ?I'm half-surprised she didn't explode into light or something... leave no traces behind, you know? You superguys usually do stuff like that.?

?If you know what my power is... then I trust you. No one knows what my power is.? Declan said, sticking the katana in the back of his belt.

?Freaky and scary. Mm,? Aurast tisked, trying to pull the sword from the table before his hand was smacked by the quiet young woman with all the facial piercings, who had remained very quiet up until now. Nevertheless, Aurast recoiled with the surprise.

?What awaits us poor performers now, I wonder.? Declan said, gazing all through the rafters while awaiting the transportation ? as if looking for where the transportation might even begin from.

?Who knows, man... I just go with it. When it's time to go, we'll ? ? Aurast began, just as they would be taken away and sent back to the Promenade of Stars.

Aurast arrived, and there was only a handful of second round fighters present right now. He slowly went down to a knee and then placed a hand on the polished floor of the spaceship, and then allowed himself to almost hydraulic-like descend down to a laying position and enjoy this peacetime between witnessing matches.

Declan walked to a windowless wall and investigated the hole in his sleek black clothing that had been both cut and charred by the flaming edge. It showed no blood or puncture wound now, and only showed his ordinary chest. He struck lean like he had before he was sent here and awaited the return of Lea.

Winner: Declan DonEvans

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-20 09:52 EST
Fight 15: Alfonso Carlson Avery vs Dedorroh

Special Encounter!! Alfonso presents a saddle before Dedorroh. Dedorroh stomps on and destroys it.

Ring!

The second school bell rang at the Tentegre High School in Biodome.

It was just like any normal day in high school, but something was amiss with the legendary Warhorse of Prophecy standing in the hall while students passed around him.

Dedorroh glanced around, huffing and impatiently replacing his front hooves around with such little space to move in around so many kids. They all moved around him and in the same dress Dedorroh had had on: an average third-year school uniform. None of this made sense, so Dedorroh decided he would blend in, and walk in amongst the students, and investigate this further as he went on. He huffed ?no? to a student peddling in used iPods that had offered him one. This horse was on a mission of discovery.

Likewise, Alfonso Carlson Avery ?King of Biodome,? had been dumped off in an advanced class of some sort that had just closed its doors. He sat slouched in his chair and casting unnerved glances around from corner to corner of his eyes. Why these teenage students or the adult seated at the teacher's desk hadn't suspected him of being too old was beyond the Walking Prison at this point.

?Okay, class is in session.? the female teacher said, remaining at her desk.

Alfonso again looked around his desk seated nearer the back. He flexed and unmade a fist outstretched across his desktop at the pencil indention space. He took note that he was wearing a school uniform only after he'd instinctly undone the majority of the golden buttons from the jacket.

?Wow! He must not care he's breaking dress code!? a student said, inspired.

Alfonso grabbed the sides of his desk and stood up, moving to the front of the class and then to the door before the teacher stopped him.

?Class just started. Are you going to the bathroom?? she asked him.

Alfonso just looked at her. ?No?? and then proceeded to leave.

?Wow! He must not care about getting absences!? a student said, inspired.

Outside the classroom, Alfonso looked around. The undershirt to his uniform nagging him, he gave it a few tugs to loosen it around his throat and then proceed down the hall where all the ?bad? students were also taking their time away from class.

Placing his hand in his pant pockets, an errant white headphone hung out the side of his fist and told his curious-made face that there was an mp3 player in that pocket. If he didn't get to the bottom of this soon, the whole school was likely to go up as a victim of his aggravation. But that was when he gazed through a crowd of students and spotted the 26-hand greathorse.

He walked over to the horse and leaned against the lockers with him.

?So you're my opponent... a horse.? Alfonso grunted, looking down the hall while he talked to the equine.

Dedorroh huffed.

?I am Alfonso Carlson Avery, and no one will defeat me, especially not a horse,? Alfonso gave his one friendly gesture towards a hall monitor. ?But we cannot do this here. After lunch... the rooftop...?

Dedorroh huffed.

Alfonso then shoved off the lockers and proceeded down a new hall and left Dedorroh watching him.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-20 09:55 EST
Ring! Ring! Ring!

The lunch bell.

All the students ran from their classes to the cafeteria and some to their lockers where they had lunches waiting for them. Some went outside to eat there, some went further to go down the street and eat off campus for the lengthy hour lunch break that was given out at Tentegre High.

Up on the rooftop, Alfonso and Dedorroh faced each other on the fully vacant space that left the former looking completely dumbfounded.

?How come we are the only ones here?? He asked.

Dedorroh huffed.

?Whatever this strange phenomenon, it is unimportant. We have obviously been selected as opponents. Why you are in this tournament is beyond my understanding...? he made lazy his one eye and let out a deep breath, unsure of how to go about this in a cool way because it had been a horse he was up against after all. ? ? but I'll have to make the best of it, I guess.?

Dedorroh huffed.

?Very well,? Alfonso pocketed his hands again before sleeking his hair back into its usual awesome flame-like shape. ?Shall we get on with it??

Dedorroh again huffed.

?Begone, beast!? Alfonso cast out his hand in annoyance, which summoned of its standalone presence, the Dreaded Hangnail of Zeus polearm to spin like a needle on a compass superimposed over a violet occult diagram before firing powerful lasers that knocked the horse back.

Dedorroh could take damage and not show it, and that was precisely what he had done here, looking unharmed in his comeback to the Walking Prison as he began to build up a sprint and then full-on charge into the eyepatched man who caught him by the muzzle.

The Huyglen horse did succeed in pushing back his opponent some many yards, but ultimately he was stopped, and Alfonso was able to toss him aside.

?I will not be beaten by a f*cking horse!? he pointed out to the large animal, angrily.

Dedorroh watched him, huffing all the while trying to formulate a new plan. That was when his father, Andorroh, came to him in a premonition and told him that he had really not gotten this weak, had he?

It got Dedorroh thinking before he was reminded of his special technique. He struck ready pose before Japanese symbols lit ablaze before him and forewarned of the special maneuver.

?Huh?!? Alfonso watched this in a stupor.

The Warhorse of Prophecy raced into Alfonso before turning still in motion to deliver a powerful moving back-kick to Alfonso with both hind legs. Alfonso went flying straight into the chain-link fence at the back, denting it greatly.

He lay there like a dead man for some time before weakly bringing his head back up to gaze upon the horse again. He looked dumbfounded still that this horse was capable of doing what it had. He rose, slowly, and took his time returning to an acceptable space of the roof to continue their fight.

He removed from his pocket the smashed iPod and showed it to Dedorroh before tossing it and its headphones bound to it, aside. ?I'll make you pay for that.?

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-20 09:59 EST
The battle was ready for its third round, and neither of these greats looked to be backing down. They clashed again and looked on such equal footing that this fight wouldn't be ending anytime soon. This was why Aurast, garbed identically in high school uniform, was enjoying a cup of instant noodles around a few of the only other students up on the rooftop.

?Wow! They're fighting on the roof during lunch!? a student said, inspired.

This made Aurast huff a smirk, seemingly knowing something the student didn't. ?I'd be more impressed that two grown men and a horse managed to sneak into the student register.? Aurast said, slurping up another fork-spun bite of noodles.

?There are a lot of things that you will experience in life that are sort of, spectacular, like this. This is one of those times when a man is fighting a horse on the roof of a school.? Aurast slurped up some more chicken-flavored noodles.

?Why do you think they're fighting?? a student asked, inquisitively.

Aurast closed his eyes but continued to slurp hot wet noodles into his mouth. ?The reasons these two warriors are fighting are known only to them. We can only assess from the level of passion we are seeing displayed before our very eyes that they are fighting for great causes that we cannot even begin to understand.? he chewed his bite now as it seemed he had now garnered a small following.

Dedorroh panted, but was clearly still on a battle high and at his full potential. More so, he was fed up with the battle's duration. He wasn't used to having opponents this strong or matches this long. His hoof-induced quake told of his aggravation before he charged Alfonso to finish this.

Alfonso hadn't quite regained his bearings. He wasn't the brawny wallcrusher that his opponent was. But he summoned stance quickly enough, fueled by his own aggravation, ?Enough of your games, you primitive automobile!? Alfonso shouted, removing his eyepatch.

Like something out of a hellish painting, Dedorroh galloped upon tentacles and evil night into Alfonso's very eye that ate him. It was a spectacle to behold, and one that the children all seemed to be frozen before; all except Aurast. He had seen this before: a strong effort made by a fearsome Tournament Fighter, but nevertheless cut down before one more fearsome.

?Ha!? Alfonso shouted victoriously, ?Ha Hah Ha Hah!? he danced around the now empty roof. ?No equine gets the better of Alfonso!?

?Wow. I guess it's over.? one student said to Aurast and the others.

Aurast passionately nodded with his eyes closed while tossing his Cup Noodle container into the grated trashcan. ?Just like life, really. It is gone before you know it, and can be taken away in a moment just as fast. And just surviving a life-threatening ordeal always means respecting life all the more,? observing Alfonso, still celebrating, overhearing 'stupid horse'.

?What a monster,? another student chimed in, having observed the tentacles that came out of Alfonso.

?Look inside yourself, Hiroshi,? Aurast said, beginning to head back to class, but he stopped to address this. ?There's a bit of a monster inside of us all.?

The door opened suddenly, and to everyone's gasp, it was a face they all recognized and froze before.

Alfonso slid onto the scene with the students in similar panic, ?It's Koji, the hall monitor! He doesn't have any friends! So you know he'll write you up worse because of it!?

?Scatter!? Aurast shouted, sending the tiny mob to the other rooftop exit.

Winner: Alfonso Carlson Avery

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-23 22:33 EST
Fight 14: Cadence Valentine vs Tetch


The sounds of the harpsichord eerily invites the onlookers from the forest through a view of black needles as tree limbs, grown to gargantuan size by the haunting full moon, to Castle Belgarde ? estate of the Belgarde bloodline.

The castle was a tall one, and equally long as it had been modified time and again from different generations who discovered mystical furnishings suited for their own rooms and halls and entire wings.

The central lobby was one that furnished the most light because it saw the most life. Where souls that were warm and not lost did not wander were places of this castle that were darkest. Entering the castle brought you into this foyer that stood before the grand stairway up to the second floor of rooms. A deep blood red carpet covered every space of floor, and perched statues of horrible things made you feel uneasy if you were to consider touching them.

It was a look of a place that told no one lived here, and yet that harpsichord played throughout the large open space and filled the domed ceiling high up and was awarded an echo by it. It was the sort of instrument best-suited for a place like this, and whoever it had been that was playing it did so with a certain melancholy that was not at all hard to believe.

In the lobby from the right side which would eventually lead to the dining room, a swirling white opening began to form, and out from it walked a very airsick-looking Techichi. She held onto her head while frowning as one might at annoying turbulence and without a dietary supplement to take to properly sate an upset stomach.

?I will never get used to boom tubes,? Tetch grumbled before learning of her new location. ?Who died in here??

Her attention was won anew across from her where an identical travelway was opened from the Promenade of Stars, from Megabolond and his ridiculous tournament, and produced a young child, a girl, hopping forthwith and having the opposite of Tetch's reaction to the castle.

?That blood,? she cutely sniffed. ?So this is the headquarters of my Belgarde enemies! Hmph! It is a pathetic townhouse compared to my illustrious Valentine mansion...? she said with distaste of her surroundings, but an eye of her closed and offended pair did open, unable to ignore a certain gargoyle. ?...But I would not mind taking this.?

Tetch watched her as she tried to physically move the statue with hand on her hip. She huffed out from her luscious lips. ?This cannot be my opponent.?

Cadence's attention was won by the Siovanui women then. ?Oh~? Are you who I must defeat to progress in this tournament?? sizing her up before grinning evilly, ?You do not look so tough, eheheh~! You are very pretty, though. I will make you into my BEST hairdresser! And you will brush it ten times a day~!? Cadence held out all ten of the fingers on her hands to show the enthusiasm of her idea to the woman.

Tetch scoffed at the idea, but found her confidence humorous. ?Brat. I've got granddaughters that are tougher than you, and dogs who are smarter.? she looked off to the staircase, thinking she sensed a presence, but thought little of it.

Cadence ballooned her cheeks in an attempt to turn them red and make fiercer her eyes look. ?How dare you say such mean things to a little girl! You are a horrible adult!?

Tetch laughed, ?I only care about my kids. F*ck everyone else's.? she made a c*cky grin and similarly c*cked that hip out further in her stance to further antagonize the young Valentine.

?I take back my offer to make you my hairmaiden! You will die instead for your insults!!? Cadence pointed out her pale and delicate little finger, but Tetch shut her up.

?Sshh,? she quickly hissed while looking again to that staircase. ?...Who's there??

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-23 22:34 EST
?...Who's there?? Tetch asked to the shadows.

?Oh; perceptive.? a man praised while stepping out from behind the statue of a noble figure apart of the balustrade of the stair rail. He wore firm-fitting pants and a very loose and open shirt as if only one-to-two buttons had even been fastened upon it. ?Let me first say: Welcome! To Castle Belgarde. I am Beck.? the man said, bowing slowly, in-effect showing the scars laden all over his body as he also descended the stairs somewhat.

Upon reaching a certain stair, Tetch changed demeanor entirely, going from an indifferent stare to an unamused look. She didn't feel comfortable when someone stepped across the line of her comfort zone, and this man, whom she did not yet know, had done just that.

She made a fist, pulled it back, and punched it out to the air, which sent a powerful blast toward the brown-haired man. On the spot, he had to react, as well. His response would be a simple hand raise which he used to nullify the Siovanui's attack, surprising both her and Cadence on the lobby floor.

Beck looked between the two ladies with disappointment. ?Oh dear. Please, ignore that you saw that. I am merely here to watch and make sure that you do not thrash the castle.? he said while sitting upon the eleventh stair from the bottom, which was not very high up considering how little distance there had been between steps.

?Pff,? Tetch blew at him before returning her attention more permanently upon Cadence. ?Seduce my wrath at your own risk.? it would be all the warning she gave him, and then she would charge the young girl.

?Oh~!? Cadence squealed excitedly at Tetch. ?You do not want to waste time either! I like that! This should be fun~!? the youthful body of the vampiress giddily exclaimed as Tetch rushed forward with her fists.

The Siovanui swung at her full-force, holding nothing back, and swung a missing right and missing left as well right after that, both of which Cadence swerved out of the way of. The second punch of Tetch's was much more aggressive than her initial punch, and covered a much larger swing. To evade, Cadence leaped back on the glide of hundreds of bat familiars that dispersed into the castle when she landed.

Beck followed the winged creatures up the floors and balconies with his eyes.

?I thought you said you didn't want to waste time,? Tetch said to the vampire with a mild annoyance.

?I will finish you quick enough, you wicked adult! You and your sacrilegious chest!? Cadence spoke the matters that had been the real issue here, and source of her power she now exposed, vanishing into a cluster of creatures of the night.

Tetch had not the time to look around but a few times before Cadence appeared from behind her, diving her fangs down into her neck like a puppy who has scored his first playful bite. A silly little grin could even be seen while she remained clamped down.

?AAH!!? Tetch growled in response to this bee sting on her neck, amping the level up to eleven and calling upon her Siovanui strength. Her eyes were replaced with light and the white heat of her body soon began to output its signature red color.

?Oooooooowww~~!!? Cadence recoiled, unlatching her teeth and backing away, covering her mouth which was burned. She regarded Tetch angrily, who was still powering up.

While the two prepared for their next round, Maximilian could be seen descending the stairs behind Beck and sitting beside him. He casually asked for her hand with his own; something that she refused by first ignoring and then pushing back toward him. But at his next asking, she aggravatingly dropped her hand into his, which he converted into finger-lacing.

?If someone so little can have balls so big she thinks she can challenge me, then an example needs making.? Tetch said with those light-filled eyes, impossible to track, but obvious whom they shined upon.

?N-No fair! You have superpowers!? Cadence protested.

?You are not the first to make that face,? Tetch began, coldly, ?and no one who's made it has gotten to make another after it.?

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-23 22:36 EST
Tetch rushed after the young girl again in this charged up form.

Cadence looked worried by what she may have been capable of, perhaps sweating lightly, but she was not without plans. She laughed quickly in a sudden moment, deciding to enlighten upon Tetch the trap that she had laid for her.

?Ho ho ho~!! You play right into my hand! Feast on her and leave nothing left, my servants~!? Cadence commanded, calling down her vampire bats to Tetch. It was a laughable move as they began to incinerate upon reaching a certain proximity to her, but not all did so. Some got further than others.

Some of Cadence's bats managed to actually reach Tetch's body, and then they would incinerate there. But there were more; always more. Ones that reached her body and were able to linger there for a time, feasted, not upon Tetch, but upon her energy. They ate full meals that turned their entire forms to a molten color. They feasted on her energy until it burned them away from the inside.

The bats were numerous enough that they had slowed Tetch, and this allowed for an even greater conjure from Cadence, calling in her entire bat familiar army. The bats that dispersed into the air paved way for the ones that got to leech less-fiery energy, and fall to the floor and turn to ash there.

Those bats paved the way for the ones that leeched on the warm, non-lethal Siovanui power. This made them strong, and they would hold the woman, and even more bats could swarm her now, and they completely engulfed her, turning a large black swarming horde of the foyer.

Cadence watched the enormous cluster wriggle like a thousand hatchlings clinging to the abdomen of their eight-legged mother. Cadence knew how long to smother her enemies, and after a time, lifted the summons of her familiars.

What was left was the drained form of Techichi, removed of her armor-like skin that her Siovanui strength made, and covered in bites. She twitched, but remained conscious enough to look disgusted at how she had been beaten.

?It is a pity you will not live to pass on the important lesson you have learned just now... Adults are not the only power, and you do not deserve to call yourself one! You do not deserve that chest you wear!? Cadence scolded the twitching woman, unable to even defend herself verbally.

Cadence sighed, ?I guess I should have called my swarm off sooner so I could educate you properly on your wrongdoings. But I guess it matters not.? the cute little girl crossed her arms.

Beck stood and slowly clapped his hands.

Cadence looked to him.

?I have to say I've never seen a move like that before. You Valentines sure a powerful line of vampire. Ah,? Beck noticed Aurast coming out of the dining hall with a sandwich on a plate. ?I see you found everything.?

Aurast partly confirmed this with the smirk he wore, which partly denied it as well. He lifted the bread on his sandwich, ?Pretty much. Your mustard is a bit strange ? nevermind it was in a pot. That had me lost for about ten minutes.?

Beck smiled, amused.

Max looked at him with shock, ? ? S-Strange!? T-That is an expensive Hirmandaise mustard made with white wine from the distant shore! P-Please... ask me to prepare you a snack instead next time,? the waste of a rare, rich and expensive product was evident in her eyes, so much in-fact to have given her a noticeable stutter temporarily.

Cadence lifted her chin in their direction, looking entirely too adult, and entirely too serious for her little girl body. ?I smell nothing particularly fascinating about the woman beside you. In the servant clothes she is in, I can see why. That man over in the doorway is human. But you... I pick up no trace of anything. Who are you?? Cadence curiously regarded Beck.

Beck shrugged politely as Cadence's transportation ceremony lit the lobby and began to transport her and Aurast back.

?oOi!! Take the sandwich, too!! I haven't gotten to eat it yet!!? Aurast shouted to the portal itself.

?I'm just a refilling cup for this one you called servant, that is all.? Beck gestured over to Maximilian.

The short black-haired chef of Belgarde castle regarded him coldly, but admitted that the mysticism surrounding Beck and his abilities was lost even to her. Still, her relationship with him had been an old one, and now was a time like any other when she would, and did elbow him.

?Oof!? he recoiled, but recovered to wave to the surprised-looking Cadence. ?Farewell!? He made sure to pass the same gesture over to Aurast.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-23 22:38 EST
The young vampire was back in the Promenade of Stars then, overlooking the large room of very few people. Aurast soon joined her, and again with unfavorable landing skills.

Cadence pouted that there was not a large ceremony to praise her victory, which she was quite proud of.

The energy toll she'd expended did not particularly show, but further attack from Techichi would have buckled her. Thankfully, her own strength had been her undoing, and Cadence's flesh shield had had plenty enough flesh to absorb up the Siovanui's damages. Her strategy had been simple: Smother. It had helped she was very upset with the woman, but it all boiled down to knowing how to defeat your foe in the end, and Tetch was never known for tactics. She counted upon her wife for that, who unfortunately, was not present.

Cadence looked sad.

What she really had wished for was that her many maids and caretakers had been here, or that they had all been together back home and applauding her at the dinner table over a spot of very fine sipping tea. Like the Belgardes, she loved her castle, and loved spending her time there. A vampire will never feel at home like they do in their ancestors' house.

?Well..?? she asked the crowd quite loudly, the echo carrying across the amphitheater-like space and to only the five or so gathered. ? ? will no one congratulate my victory??

Dyarhk sat there, blinking with surprise there against one of the large space-viewing windows. He looked to Kit, who was minding his own business. He looked to Jessica Wong, who was much more obviously ignoring her. He saw that no one was putting up any sort of effort to congratulate the girl. True, she had just killed her opponent, but that was not what mattered right now. Dyarhk always viewed people as such, and not as what they had done. If they were truthful enough to him in the moment, then he would just have to believe them, and this Cadence girl looked sad and lonely, and that was simply something he could not let stand.

He pushed up and began going over to her, which caught her attention.

?Hey,? he rose a hand in greeting to spend the time walking over to her as well as identify himself as a friend. When he reached her, he crouched to become eye-level with her, and then he just stared at her for a moment. ?So, you won your fight. Congratulations. I'm sorry no one else here is in much of a congratulating mood, but I can see why they wouldn't be.?

Cadence pouted, ?That is obvious. So why are you pretending to care? Hmm??

Dyarhk stared at her some more. ?Do you want to come over and sit with me? You can tell me your name, and about your friends.?

?I don't have any friends. Only loyal subjects who answer my every command.? Cadence's arms had already been crossed, but she repeated this gesture. Her pouting was so thick it was easily understood that it was more show than anything, and she abandoned it all in favor of a more genuine emotion: surprise, when Dyarhk took her hand and began leading her back to where he was sitting.

?Nonsense. Everyone has at least one friend.? He tells her, walking happily with her back to his spot. She would look up curiously at him for the whole trip over.


Winner: Cadence Valentine

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-24 01:25 EST
Fight 5: Mage vs Rahea


It was dark. The air was wet. Hot steam was rising out of the manholes in this shady area, and Mage and Aurast stood together before two sunglasses-at-night wearing bodyguards much bigger than them guarding the steel door to an entertainment facility.

Aurast leaned over to Mage, ?You've already see nwhat's behind this door, right? You should be used to this by now.? Handing the bodyguard forty Bison Bucks.

Mage kept his focus ahead, shrugging and popping his neck simultaneously, which also shrugged the giant All-Killer behind his back. ?Doesn't matter how many times I've seen this ? ? Mage spoke back with far less secrecy than Aurast had employed. The two large bodyguards opened the doors, exposing a mob of flesh dancing to rave music. ? ? I'll never get used to it.?

Aurast walked right on in, whereas Mage was given a beefy hand to his shoulder.

?That'll be twenty bones for that, too,? he pointed to the All-Killer.

The moment Mage glared angrily was when Aurast ran back time enough to take the second bodyguard while he had engaged the first. Both men easily chained combos together to chop down the strong doormen and push their unconscious forms to the dirty ground.

?That was more of a fuss than I thought we'd make,? Aurast caught his breath, keeping a curious eye on the bouncers' unconscious forms while Mage headed on inside. ?Hey, wait up!? He ran to catch up.

?It doesn't matter... we'll be out before the fuss gets bigger... I've seen it.? Mage sharpened his eyes on the crowd he was beginning to push into.

Similarly, Aurast was grabbing shoulders and pushing through people. ?Hey, yeah! With your Future's Gaze, right? Why don't you tell me who's gonna win??

? ? I do.?

Aurast looked worried suddenly. ?...Aren't you not supposed to tell anyone what happens because it could happen differently then??

? ? Yep.? Mage replied back just as quick, notably shouting as they had been since entering.

? ? Then why'd you tell me?!? Aurast shouted, abandoning the tremendous effort that was following him in favor of finding a new place to watch this fight, whenever it would happen. He didn't know who Mage's opponent was yet, but he'd find out soon enough. While the element of surprise was still waiting to be sprung, he figured he'd buy some laser toys and acceptably hump a pretty girl before the place was spread in a wide panic.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-24 01:26 EST
If it was one thing Mage did not like, it was rave music.

He had very little taste for music at all, and what he did was for a flavor only he found pleasing. He stuck out like a Greek god in a modern-day metropolis, but this was fine. It was the quick road to meeting one's destiny. All he needed to do was follow what his Future's Gaze had shown him, and having told Aurast a fragment of his vision had made things interesting, so it wasn't just another game of Simon Says with your fate.

This place was to be one of the only moments in Mage's life where he got to have uncertainty, something most people take for granted.

Hunting in the concrete jungle was vastly different than hunting in the regular jungle; and hunting in the laser-light jungle was harder than both of them combined. It also put Mage at a disadvantage to be the one on the move out in the open, but that too was something he wasn't used to having, and preferred.

Mage partly knew what he was looking for: a man with spiky white hair.

This helped with the selection process since there wasn't much of that here.

He was able to bypass the dreadlocks, the darker heads, and the bald heads. Ever in his way, he moved around a hatted man who was also ruled out. But with the All-Killer at his back to the man, he strangely stopped convincingly dancing.

Still, and the only one in the rave to be so, he removed his hat and exposed his head of spiky snow white hair, tossing the party crown into the mob. He was Rahea, an elder of Adenna and master of ninja arts. Because he was a countryman of Mage, he was also well-educated on his skills and abilities. At several different points of the rave, he'd changed appearance to purposefully fool Mage's Future's Gaze, and now it looked liked that had worked.

He removed a hidden blade from his back and approached the Battle Prophet, stalking him to the stomach-churning bass and crescendoing beat. His gloved hand without fingers reached out, ready to be teamed with his knife-hand, it crept closer to Mage's shoulder, then over it, and clutched his chin to pull him back into him.

Mage had fallen for Rahea's trap. He was pulled back into the elder and poked twice on the right side of his chest; a seemingly undamaging move until Mage would get away and realize he didn't feel as unharmed as he thought.

Still, the crowd had not caught onto the fact that a life and death fight had broken out.

Mage, injured, struggled to not let Rahea out of his line of sight. The ravers were jumping onto his feet and shouldering and shoving into him, worsening his condition as he tried to get the All-Killer around to his front and into his hands. Weapon size would be another of Rahea's distinct advantages so far.

The elder Adennian saw that his younger opponent was heavily crippled, and began on the move to finish him off. It was not many dancing persons over to get to Mage. The All-Killer out, even if he were at full strength, did not have the space to swing it fully, and time was running short.

Rahea swung that knife hand at him, something Mage had to deflect with his arm, shove Rahea back in a close-quarters exchange he won, and yank a person into his path for him to retreat and formulate some new kind of plan.

This did throw a wrench, or person rather, into Rahea's plans. It bought Mage some extra time to get to the wall.

Now, Rahea was a good man. He was ruthless when it came to doing what he had to for his city, as Mage was, but his reasons were always very noble. This situation was supernatural. His life had been picked and dropped into a scenario with unnatural circumstances. With so much unknown, that had easily turned him against the countryman he was pitted against, he would turn against these dancing innocents as well, pricking necks where they would cause the most spray.

Screams began to conjoin and combat the music, but the music was still far too loud and entrancing for the whole mob to realize in anytime soon.

?HHHH ? HHAAH!!? Mage shouted, summoning the power to swing the All-Killer fully back behind the stereo hookups. Severing all soundboard configuration, the DJ was the first to make a confused look, and then in the absence of musical sound, the screams were able to be given their appropriate attention.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-24 01:28 EST
A mass evacuation began.

Now it was difficult for Rahea to remain on his path to his opponent with the fleeing partiers going the opposite direction. But once the building was emptied, no one stood in his way, and he could run full speed at Mage.

It was unlikely he could get in an effective fight with his weapon, and he would probably only have the first swing to base any faith upon at all, so Mage reeled the sword back in waiting of Rahea. He did swing it, and it was dodged, and that would be the All-Killer's last performance. Mage abandoned it.

With those puncture wounds near his armpit, he was on the decline and everlasting crouch when not defending outright. Making matters worse, Rahea gave no recovery time, attacking his stamina now even though he had not been scoring on him directly.

?Still fresh in your old age...? Mage commented.

?I have to be! ? Some people can see into the future.? Rahea said, no joking at all in his words, but rather a statement of a serious problem. He came after Mage again, forcing him to his enforced bracer and draw his own knife. Somehow, one way or another, a fight between Adennians always came down to the knife.

Rahea observed him, and Mage observed him back.

?Your stance hasn't changed.? Rahea critiqued like the teacher he was known for being.

? ? Because it hasn't failed me yet.?

? ? Because your opponents have failed you. I will show you the flaws in your martial art.?

Rahea came at him with an overhead stab that was caught, and Mage's follow-up thrust was caught at a much lower attack position aimed at Rahea's waist. Now, in this lock, it was Rahea that looked to be on the suffering end.

?Better position doesn't mean anything if you're weaker than I am, old fool.? Mage painfully applied his strength upon Rahea who shared a similar painful expression. Mage's arms were larger, and they were younger, not to mention his size was also considerably larger than Rahea, who was a shorter man.

Mage scored a tipping puncture on Rahea, and signaled to him the time for a plan change. He backed the short distance out of Mage's knife and, limber thing he was, pole-vault-like rose on Mage's arm.

Rahea wrapped his legs around the limb and spun with it, his knife in a position with this hug to eviscerate the entire inside of it. Both men hit the ground in martial art form that the one who knew what he was doing had likely severely injured his opponent. Mage was not out yet, but indeed got up much slower than Rahea.

His leather armguard had partly protected him, and it had partly failed him as he could only move a few of his fingers ? he also took notice to blood pooling in his hand and then running down to the floor in tiny lakelets.

?You faced me anyway... knowing in full I would best you even with your Future's Gaze.? Rahea announced.

Mage kept a straight face, holding onto his arm now with his knife-hand. ?I fought you anyway ? knowing I would win.?

Rahea reverse-gripped his much smaller knife compared to the boar-hunting type blade Mage wielded. ?Your Future's Gaze has never been wrong before... did you break your famously unbroken law, just for this??

He had, but he'd never tell Rahea. It wasn't that he didn't want him to know, but Mage had always suffered knowledge, and wanting the higher state of being that came with a lesser one. In a way, he was fighting both Rahea and his set future, and he was determined to beat them both. ?The fight is not over, Rahea.? Hoping to shut him up and lead him off this track. If that did not, rushing him would.

Fortunate for Mage, Rahea took the bait and led the assault.

The much quicker Rahea made quick work of the slower Mage. The Battle Prophet barely got a second defense in before his weapon hand had its tendon slashed and the knife dropped noisily to the floor.

The killing blow came after Mage's neck, but the musclebound specialist from Abastumanani still had excellence and glory to display in holding back his stab for a second time.

The two men wrestled in the power war for this second time now, and it took them to the floor where it continued in rolls. Letting blood pool into his useless right hand, he flicked it into Rahea's face and distracted him with time enough to place him on the bottom of their fight.

Considering a stomach cut that was more cut than anything else, Rahea was largely uninjured. It was what brought this wrestling match to a mutual and both men on their sides. Rahea was so close to Mage's neck, but the stronger man's grip on his forearm would not let it come closer.

Rahea stiffened his grip, and in a show of formidable wrist strength, launched the knife the short distance that his hand could not travel with it. It was a guaranteed weak move with very minimal strength behind it since it only flew with wrist strength. But it was enough to get the tip of the knife into the side of Mage's neck.

Sickly his blood vacated his throat and his sounds painted the picture almost as well as an internal camera ever might have. These weren't the kinds of deaths that lasted long. Mage fidgeted to his back and kicked some, but that would be all.

Rahea stood up, a little bloodier than entering this fight.

The only other source of light in the room other than the open doors had been the glow-jewelry covered Aurast, who was walking over to stand before this scene. Rahea looked at him when he came over.

?So... it was an all-Adennian match.? Aurast muttered.

?Aurast... did Mage tell you his Future's Gaze prophecy?? Rahea asked with a had-to-know tone.

Aurast blinked, but nodded. ?He did. Why??

Rahea looked back to his body, deciding to return the All-Killer to his hand with some effort. ?Help me with this... Let's finish it, and he can finally have the peace he wanted.? dragging the weapon over to the Battle Prophet with his help.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-24 01:30 EST
They had time enough to do this just before they would begin being transported back to the Promenade of Stars.

For the first time, Aurast arrived on both his feet. Ironically, he wasn't able to enjoy it.

The air about Mage's death followed them even to space where there was none. Jen, the second in command to Rohkan, had yet to fight, and saw that sinful guilt weighed heavily on this man. All the winners thus far that were still in the room paid attention to him in one way or another, be it brief, or a lasting stare as he walked to where he would wait until bid otherwise.

Not even Aurast accompanied him to where he was going, vouching instead to go and sit with Seiri, who had been petting the same side of Corea's head there on her shoulder.

?Damn this game...? Aurast muttered. ?Awarding us with heaven, eh? All it awards is sadness.? He'd continue walking over to her.

Jen continued to watch Rahea, even as he began to walk far, far away from the company of any other. She decided sooner rather than later, she would have to call out to him if he was to be able to hear her advice at all.

?You should not mourn the loss of your friend. Death is only an intermittent move.? She said.

?I do not mourn his death. I envy it,? Rahea said, never breaking his pace. ?The dead are the winners in this tournament. Damnation is the only prize awaiting those in this room.? He left.

Everyone heard him, and everyone thought differently of it.

Aurast nodded, making some sense of it.

?Save a horse, ride a cowboy.? He said, thinking it the perfect time to say something cool.


Winner: Rahea

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-04-25 07:59 EST
Fight 1: Promahster vs Celestial


Red warning alarms and danger alerts sounded off on the outer space compound of Tier 2, the exterior shell station of the planet Tirraru. A sophisticated hub, it possessed swiss-cheese like holes in its full encompass of the planet, and controlled sunlight exposure to whatever points of the planet it desired to optimize agriculture and seasonal harvests.

The station's sophistication was state of the art, and it was no lie to say when the alarms were sounding off, that something was wrong.

?Detection: Threat Level 4 (out of 5), NanoDefense utilities at 91%, expected to run out in 00:14:49 ? ?

There would be an end put to the talkative computer's diagnostic reading. The red rectangular screen that served as the Tier Station's physical brain was primitively punctured by a knightly badelaire.

?You will speak only when given permission to,? Promahster enlightened upon the spark-spitting machinery. ?This place is quiet with boredom and it should be filled with an all different silence: the silence of fear.?

He returned his weapon to his hand without the need of taking it himself. It flew into his hand like a magnetic call and was artfully whipped to a downward point as he continued down the space station maintenance corridor that would eventually shew its observation windows, onlooking the great Spirit Core that powered the station.

It was like a golden star, or miniature sun of the same gold color. Also it was rock-like, and not at all a fire or light body. It has physical form, and was constantly being cut by golden lasers pivoting on flexible steel arms around it, antagonizing it, stimulating it to continue producing a high output of usable energy.

Promahster smirked at the sight of this, having been to more advanced worlds and universes where things like this were common.

?Humph!? He scoffed at the Spirit Core. ?Cowardly space-men playing with minerals. You have forgotten the valor and courage of combat. Thinking you are safe out here where only your optimistic dreaming has carried you. You are not worth my time.? The badelaire of Promahster flew from his hand, acting on its own, and spun itself out to cut into the refortified wall to protect the maintenance workers from the Spirit Core radiation.

It was obvious when the hull breach occurred.

The peaceful light of lit metal that was this station wholly turned to red with the blinking warning lights.

?Detection: Threat Level 5. Detection: Threat Level 5. Power Core Exposure Levels Critical. Detection ? ? Another computer brain from an entirely different sector of the tier spoke overhead on the high quality speakers.

Promahster, insulted, glared angrily up at the voice he'd thought he silenced.

?With all your knowledge to swim with stars ? you are still so ignorant.? He stated, unamused and very upset at this act of what he thought was defiance.

?I sense the presence of thousands of souls in this steel ship. I think they will have to serve as a lesson for those who speak out of turn in-front of my omniscient presence.? Promahster touched a simple wall of this ship and began to glow his very own golden color. At his center at at his fingertips where he touched the ship did he glow the brightest of gold, and soon did this energy-like color begin to wave and fluctuate like flame, passing down his arm and to his fingertips.

The metal he touched began to crinkle, and damaged far worse was what looked to be the whole tier. Power failure began to affect the station, and the lights died just in time enough for warnings to speak up again, a third computer this time, in the wake of two deceased maintenance A.I.s.

Promahster had to laugh at this. ?You still speak out of turn?? continuing to channel his awesome power into the tier and overload systems and circuitry. But this would all stop when his attention was won anew by a shadowy figure rushing him.

Promahster looked only just in his new challenger's direction with a heavily insulted glare. ?Unforgivable...? he murmured.

Swiping his hand out, the badelaire whooshed to sever her at the waist, but she had leaped at him and closed their distance in an even quicker instant.

Both opponents vanished before a collision could be made.

Where they were not seen, their invisible pathways were marked by their damage, denting and erupting small and controlled explosions in these maintenance corridors until blasts opened up even more of the Spirit Core to the personnel interior.

Promahster reappeared perfectly balanced atop a gigantic power cable. Likewise, his opponent stood atop the one parallel to it.

?Humph!? Promahster smirked. ?A woman? And you would knowingly attack a being of my omnipotence... foolish.?

The woman stood before him, plainly dressed but also stealthily with a face shrouded by a hooded coat. She kept her chin low so as to shadow her face as much as possible, but she would speak out to the man. ?I ask that we continue our fight without communication. You severed the air supply, and what air remains has now been exposed. I will have to end this as quickly as possible.?

?Oh?? Promahster tilts his head. ?You are bound by mortal chains? Air? Nourishment? Rest? This is a shame. These are all things that are ultimately provided by greater beings, such as I. I emit the energy... the rest of the universes are warmed by it and do not freeze to death. You cannot protect even your own meaningless existence. This is why I am a ruler, and you are a peasant.?

?Are you quite done? We are wasting air.? she said to him plainly.

Promahster beckoned her. ?Whenever you are ready to die. I will at least let you choose its quickness.?

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-07 05:25 EST
Their fight had turned into an explosive one, quite literally. A Power Core needed constant containing, let alone a Spirit Core, and those connections had been severed entirely and ensuring the fate of this space station.

Zero gravity flame tag-teamed with conflagration in quadrants that still had gravity, both assisting in helping bring this floating colony to guaranteed ruination. Escape shuttles had been launching since the start of the Threat Level 5 detection, and were still blasting off nearly every other second, all the while Celestial and Promahster continued their race about the large Spirit Core.

Promahster had brought out the heavy guns since his opponent had decided she would evade him. It angered him greatly that she moved with an air and looked with a face that assumed victory was still within her grasp. This was something he wanted to prove to her just how wrong she really was by the second.

?Who is wasting the air?? Promahster asked her now, aggravated by her very badly.

Celestial continued to run though, leaving behind her racing footsteps and leaped positions very large explosions where Promahster's blasts hit.

Promahster clenched his teeth seeing he was still failing to eliminate her. ?How long do you intend to keep up this foolish game??

But there was no answer from the silent killer.

There was a pattern that Promahster began noticing. She would continue to go from one end of the core the other, just out of his view and causing him to go around to bring her into sight again. It was not strategic by any means to him, only annoying.

It reached a point where he would cease his own expenditure of agility and move above the entire core now to have a constant vantage point of Celestial. This stopped her running immediately and bought her gaze up at him before he would begin hailing bombs of sunlight down at her at tremendous speeds.

Instead of continuing her lapping of this monolithic installation room, she hopped the necessary ledges to reach an opening back into the personnel space. She was up to something, and planning on leaving him out of the loop to spring the trap on him when he would be least-suspecting. He wasn't happy about this.

The quiet corridor empty with its many occupants already gone to the escape pods, Celestial only had the sounds of her boots pushing hard against the unscathed white floor. Because it was quiet, it was safe. She had to use that advantage before the circumstances changed.

Undisturbed one moment, and exploding through the wall the next, the scene changed from a healthy white hall to a white hall painted thick with red warning lights. Promahster had had enough of the racing games, and bright like the core he had floated around, so too was he.

He gave up pursuit of Celestial who still ran on just to inspect his own glowing arm, and he did not look upon it like it was something that could be forgotten or overlooked soon. It was slowly but surely growing brighter.

?What is this..?? he whispered low but full of rage.

Promahster was not a man who was accustomed to all worlds advancements, and such high-powered core technology had gone underestimated and exposed him to its powerful gamma rays. All of the cells in his body were charged, and charging those around them more, and they would charge those cells back x2 afterward. He looked to be turning into a god... until his skin started to peel.

?So... that was your game,? again he whispered, but this time he resumed pursuit flying.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-07 05:26 EST
Celestial had a new goal. What she had calculated was Promahster already defeated, but she still had to survive the aftermath because she suspected that things would not simply 'cut off' after she had won, and the station may be in a very dire situation by that point.

? ? huhh!!? Celestial received her first hit of the fight with a tackling Promahster through yet another blasted hole in the wall. Her speed was accounting for very little now with him dying every second, but becoming stronger with every second as well.

?You've concocted something clever ? I'll give you that. But it doesn't change anything, woman. It just means I have to defeat you quickly. I don't see this being a problem any longer if I win... and if it is, I don't expect to go down alone,? he smiled.

Celestial grunted once more when she tried to get up, being told by her body what hurt only when it was called upon to function like the rest of her body. Her leg wasn't in the best of working conditions after that superman-like tackle, but she was still okay, and had to find a way to stay like that a little longer.

?Being beaten like this isn't how I imagined going. If I could I would spit in the face of my author. Not even the writer of my fate knows a thing about me,? Promahster spoke with disgust.

?I feel similarly,? Celestial, though emotionlessly, agreed.

?You have impressed me with your tactics, woman. While there is still time for either of us, I offer you the privilege of marriage,? he held his entirely light hand out to her, and her silence spoke for her denial. ? ? Very well...? curling the fingers of his hand in, he then brought the arm in to himself and back, lunging out at her with a punch fully charged.

The station broke apart more with every detonating-hammer Promahster swung down upon it. Celestial dove out of the way of another fatal blow and faced him after returning to her feet. He wasn't an opponent any longer to run from now that his speed, as well as his other attributes, had all jumped to superhero ridiculousness.

But there was a problem with Celestial's escape plan. She hadn't intended to meet with another of his fists there, but that was exactly what she found.

? ? Uh!? she cried as she rolled backwards several complete flips and slid many yards in-between them. He had gotten a little stronger than she initially gauged.

?Not only are my moves quicker, but my mind is as well. My perception has greatly increased. Before my brain cells incinerate, they're telling me things that haven't happened yet,? Promahster held his hands out with a grin, one that Celestial did not return.

?You must not be able to see yourself. The core's energy must have nullified your pain receptors at this point ? ? Celestial began.

? ? They are not nullified. They are just notifications in the background. I know how much time I am working with, and you cannot waste any more trying to talk!? he would charge at her again, the last of his skin burning up and his figure becoming a frame of light.

Celestial was able to defend the first punch, going over her shoulder and singing it like a fire, and his other fist punching her across the face with time enough for a kick to slide her back to the stone circular bench arrangement in the Wong Lobby.

She coughed this time. His impact power had gotten that strong. She opened her left eye while her other told her it just needed a second. Like an angel assassin come to carry out the will of god, the figure of Promahster coolly walked toward her with his arms outstretched at his sides, crumpling the metallic station walls as if for fun.

Beginning to disperse, he spoke, ?This is a power you could not even begin to perceive. I will bet you did not plan this far ahead when you ran me around that core. But that is fine. I have no say over what will become of me in the end. The hilarity of this situation is a prime example of how futile it is to say otherwise. But at least before I go I will know that I doomed the one who unmade me,? he clasped Celestial by her face very endearlingly, but with strength enough to force this gesture upon her.

Immediately his fingers and palm began to scorch her face and apply burn marks to it. She clenched her teeth to this, but the pain was lessening with each second. He was evaporating into the pure energy that had consumed him and was losing that power that made him so strong exponentially.

Celestial knew she just needed to let it run its course and be held in his clutch a little while longer. His threat would not be realized. With the dying down of the muscle and the brightness of Promahster, Celestial was slowly lowered to the ground fully and she could rest as her opponent was now more a shade than anything else. But he would have one last trump up his sleeve.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-07 05:29 EST
The power remaining that he was still composed of, he pointed out with his hand and blasted high and well over the giant christmas tree in the center of Wong Lobby. It plowed into an oxygenation intersection that provided air to all of the station, and in a fiery rage, the flames resulting from it inhaled the best of breaths that could be taken in the whole space station.

Promahster was gone now, and though he had not taken his enemy, he took her air with him. The station was doomed for crash now, and as the only one left on it, she fought up and began sprinting for the loading wings prepped for departure.

All of the ships were in unique and hilariously ironic tragedy for Celestial. Ones that were operational demanded crews; crews that were not there. Many had already taken off, same as the escape pods (of which there were none remaining), and some that were fine otherwise had fatal launch requirements missing, likely brought on by the damage to the station. But there was one ship ? one ship that was still operable... and a man left on this dreadful empty space colony that could fly it.

?Huhh?? Oxygen failure?!? Aurast shouted, looking aside to the warning screen on the large docking bay wall like a 'wreck up ahead' electronic sign. He turned to read this sign with paintbrush in hand from the nose of his shuttle that he had just completed painting of Betty Boop upon, ?It's time to go!?

He leaped down from his scaffold and ran to the adjustable bridge that connected shuttle to undocking, and from the outside it could be seen that the man inside was flipping switches and turning things on.

?Hold that shuttle!? Celestial shouted, but it was unclear if the man had heard her cry or not.

Revving to launch speeds, flames began to accumulate at the rear thrusters, and the bridge was slowly but surely automatically ascending to its standard position to allow the shuttle to freely depart from the station.

Celestial ran as quickly as she could, boarding the inclined bridge as it was still in motion and leaping from it before things got too out of hand and landing inside of the shuttle with a hard thud of head against hull repair kits that were on the shelves directly back from the boarding entrance.

?Just in time. I was about to leave without you. Hurry up and strap in, Chewie!? Aurast shouted while keeping his eyes glued to his instruments. He was a focused-looking man. He reached above, taking his hands off his flight control column to flip overhead switches with aviation knowhow until it became known that he did not have a clue what he was doing by turning an interior light on and off.

Celestial blinked at his name-brandishing but was distracted by the closing door. Air-sealed, she rose and came up to the pilot's cabin and took a seat behind the passenger one, as was advised to her by the quaking of the ship by the station's instability.

?Don't worry ? I've gotten out of tighter predicaments than this,? he said to her, ?Congratulations on your win, by the way,? looking back at her for only a second, very in his element behind the shuttle controls.

?Thank you,? she replied procedurally and not with much in the way of caring. She looked around, feeling very unsafe that they were still docked in the aflame station, and not trusting her apparent pilot's abilities, ?have you ever flown a craft of this type before??

?Nope! Always wanted to, though!? he replied quickly, but looking frustrated with his controls. ? ? And I'd love to get onto that if I could just fine the damn unanchor controls,? he complained, flipping a large number of switches in a short number of time.

Celestial buckled herself in, looking worried.

The computer's voice had quite a bit to say at the massive input of commands Aurast had made:

?Fuel reserves discar ? ?
?Active guidance system switched off ? ?
?Cryo-sleep beds initiat ? ?
?Chaffs deplo ? ?
?Hull maintenance magnets activa ? ?
?Communications channels clos ? ?
?Cargo sidecar dislodg ? ?
?Docking anchors unlatched... ?

?Ah-hah!? Aurast cheered, grabbing the steering column once more. ?Alright, don't get c*cky, kid! We're not out of this yet!? Finally, he had control over the vessel, and began to guide it out of the space fire and out to the cool and un-ablaze space.

Celestial looked at him in a very confused way as if questioning his mental health before replying, ?I do not think you are qualified to operate this vehicle,? spoken concerned.

?Everything's fine! Honest. The only thing we're missing is a cat named Harry Dean Stanton, really,? he looked back at her to flash a smile before returning to his long-dreamed fantasy as a star captain, focusing upon the frontier out ahead with just the peek of a tongue out the side of his mouth.

?Come on, you old bus! Don't give out on me now!? he shouted unnecessarily, but for flavor.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-07 05:30 EST
The ship coasted out very easily from the docking bay and relaxed into open space with no foreseeable destination. Aurast took a deep breath and unbuckled both sides of his harness to massage his face, ?Well, another close call avoided,? he sighed very exuberantly, ?Time to plot a course and prepare the cryo beds... It's probably a long way's to the next port,? he spun over a little in his chair.

?You have no idea what you are talking about, do you,? Celestial proposed very unamused.

Aurast looked caught red-handed, frowning to her, ?What? Yeah I do!? he frowned stronger, but Celestial was having none of it. Ultimately, however, she ended up sighing as well.

?I suppose I have to thank you for nevertheless managing to guide us out of there,? she admitted begrudgingly. Just as she feared, and had planned not to do, she inflated Aurast's ego ? as evidence by his high-spirited smiling.

?It was no trouble, Miss. It's an honor for any starfleet captain to safely guide souls on-board his vessel to their destination. I just regret you are stumbling upon a ship so bare! No matter ? at the next port I'll gather myself a crew... get a few ladies who are skilled at killing people and piloting the 2600 graviton cannon... a navigator with a tiny rear-end, also female... a medic, and a young boy to groom for command after my tragic but cinematic death,? Aurast said, reclined and gazing up at the overhead panels.

Celestial sighed silently, dipping her chin down and then rising suddenly. ?I am going to await recall to the Promenade of Stars. I advise that you do not follow me,? walking down the lane and to the back regions of the ship.

Aurast wanted to follow her, but sensed an unusual threat in her words. ?A-Alright! ...D-Don't wander too far, though!? was all he could tell her before reclining back in his chair some more, watching the stillness of space as they naturally moved through it; and he would only stare so long at his push-to-talk corded walkie-talkie before he picked it up and began speaking indiscernible science-fiction babble into it, pretending to be a seasoned captain.

Celestial did not go far before reflecting upon her fight that had just ended. Her opponent had been a lot stronger than she had been, and defeating him with minimal use of her skills set got her wondering about the sequential rounds of the tournament, and progressing well in those as well. Of course... she was also wondering about the unpredictability like had been shown here, and failing as well. ?If I do not win my next fight, what then? What awaits me in death in this strange game?? she quietly asked.

Down the hall back to the captain's cabin, Aurast could be heard replying to her enthusiastically. ?By Grapthar's hammer! You shall be avenged!?

Celestial ignored this, considering him a threat to be avoided with considerable enthusiasm at this point. But returning to her thoughts, she tried and predict where all this was headed. She had already been given a most unusual fate after death, so for a repeat of that to occur was out of the question. Death was the unknown ? it was leaving all that you were to someone else to find and take possession of. That left only one option: victory. She would win this tournament.

?Huh?? Celestial questioned, looking up to see that a mystical twinkling golden sand was phasing her current form from this ship and presumably, back to the Promenade of Stars.

?No! NO!!? Aurast could be heard from outside this room Celestial was in, the same most likely happening to him. ?Never give up..! Never surrender!? fought he did to cling hold of his steering column and captain's chair as he began to phase through the objects.

Celestial quietly closed her eyes and accepted the transportation.

?No!! I never got the coordinates to the Galactic Leyline! Stop! Jim! Do something! Goddammit, Jim!? Aurast manically tried to operate his controls, but it was too far past the point. He vanished with Celestial.


Winner: Celestial

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-08 06:38 EST
Fight 10: Final Moments Dyarhk vs Nordem Sparks


The man on the cliff face did not have much in the way of proper climbing gear, such as high school keychains that were secure clamps before they were fashionable jean-wear, or a chalk bag to give that added grip to his descent of this large mountain side.

The man turned to gaze over the space he was attempting to set foot upon once he reached a stable resting spot. Revealing his face as the irrepressible Palliator, and the man whom will not be refused a hug, Dyarhk squinted his eyes over the visor of his only free hand to look upon the brightness of the golden bough that was the Biodome Ruins.

A subterranean underworld ? as in ? a world underneath the world that it existed beneath. The old world, the world that was built over; primitive and lacking, but its payback was fertile grounds and beautiful plains, clear waters, and sunlight somehow from a buried country. It was unoccupied, it was untouched, and it beautiful.

Dyarhk happily looked onto this that so few men probably had gotten to. While the other fighters had been transported to places of their (and others') own realms and continuities, being sent to the world of Biodome to fight had to of been a different thing. He was not transported with an opponent. He was not transported with anyone. He was alone.

?Hm.. umn... hn!!? he grunted, testing the stretching capabilities of his arms as he gripped extended fingers barely around a rock ledge to progress his climb. It was take risks or remain rimrocked, and you did not want to run out of moves when it came to mountain climbing.

Fly over an ocean after you've sailed across it and see how you feel. Effortlessly crossing a great obstacle is a sick thing, and it feels sick, after you've fought and slaved and know what it is like to go it through the old means. Touching land has two night and day differences when you're doing it from a plane or doing it from a tiny boat. Walk away from the plane like nothing happened, or catch your breath on shore and look back at the ocean you crossed and appreciate the journey.

Mountain climbing was one of those humility-teaching sports. The old and wise giants of all planets, extremely quiet most of the time, have the most to teach if you will simply spend time with them. Grab their nooks and guide yourself and be guided. Sit upon them and overlook the heights you've achieved. It is an emotion there is not a word for, truly. But to try, one might say it teaches understanding.

Dyarhk patted the mountain face as he came down to a standing position, but still had much more mountain to go. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, exposing the gravelly gray stains on his hands from groping stone. His eyes could not feast enough upon this view. It was funny for him to get sent here, because such sights were often years what woke him up in every morning to confidently embark out to realize.

It was a welcome discovery to come down from this mountain's apex and see this land he could not wait to set foot upon and grab with his hands things that were not so hard. But by the time that option was available to him, by the look of things, he may miss this mountain very dearly. It looked as if he would climb for another day still, and he wondered with his occasional breath how he would do so without water. Yes, this beauty he was surrounded by was welcome because it helped to put it in the company of a horrible realization: he was alone.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-08 06:39 EST
It was not hard to believe. Being surrounded by those thirty persons of impressive aura and profile meant that extravagant wonders were possible ? but he always knew this. What surprises lied in store for him, he resolved long ago to adapt to. This was no exception. He would descend the mountain, and he would walk the land. The faint hope that his opponent, if things were going according to plan, was somewhere out there was not a lost or dead hope. He would search for him at the bottom of the mountain. But first came the preservation of life.

Dyarhk had overshot his predictions. He thought that it would take the full day when he set foot down on solid ground sometime late into the night. He lucked up with the mountain to open up very accessible ways and not continue the more complicated and slower process of climbing down he had experienced higher up.

The cold of the mountain's peak was similar to this night chill down at the base, but not so bad. Water was still his primary concern, and he had spotted a fall when he first arrived here. Remembering the fixed point he had stared out to at that height, he appropriated it to his current level and started off in that direction with a sweat-stained shirt.

The sounds of rushing falls were easy to follow, and the sloshing through tall grass and weeds sped up when the distance to it had been little to nothing. He took a knee and then hit his other and dove a hand in to quickly be followed by his other. His god-given drinking cups were washed and then he had relentlessly quenched his thirst, unafraid of the consequences that could go as dire as dysentery and eventual death. He didn't want to risk a fire to boil the water just to make certain when it was this place that he was unsure of. He wiped his face with his wet hand and then his mouth before looking around thoughtfully. Unseen green eyes that never lost any of their liveliness.

It was dark, but it was not pitch black. There was no moonlight to speak of, however. The youth of the night was quickly aging and the reasonable response to this was to seek shelter for the duration of it. Seeking shelter out in these conditions unfortunately meant constructing shelter. And while there was still some form of visibility available, Dyarhk meant to put it to good use. A tree graciously lent its limbs to man as they had done since the beginning of time, and Dyarhk had to resummon the crocheting methods he'd not used in a very long time.

A space beside a tree, over the hour, turned into a simple tent beside a tree. What wildlife, if any, was unconfirmed, and he was uneducated on this place. These were dangers, and if they existed, they knew the darkness. He did not. Again, he rejected the idea of a fire to call all of his natural predators to his location. Tomorrow he would build a fire. He would fashion a weapon. He would hunt for prey, and scout for edible vegetation. Tomorrow he would search.

He laid in his simple tent that just barely fit him and turned on his side, laying an arm out and gazing through the small opening in the mostly tightly-woven wall of leaved branches to put him to sleep.

The morning came and the natural light returned to this lush, vacant jungle. Dyarhk started his day patrolling the straight line he was cutting through the woodlands to hope to see the other side by what his mind was inaccurately gauging noon to be. The tree canopies were tall and thick, but bore no fruits; a discouragement. But he may have just been missing the fruit-bearing trees. Evidence supported this when he found creature tracks laid in the soft mud. This was great news. Tiny as they were, he looked to his side to do the math on the distance to the clearer plains, and designed to build some rabbit traps.

More stained and unclean now than yesterday, Dyarhk rose with his ever itchy nose and wiped it with his arm, walking ahead still into this survival game.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-08 06:41 EST
Nordem Sparks, star boxer of Robin's Nest Boxing Gym, woke up in the Biodome Ruins in perhaps the most favorable location: in the ruins themselves. With only his running shoes of his athletic equipment with him, his street clothes were being worn when he was called to answer the fateful tournament's call. A warm motorcycle jacket kept him protected from the night's chill. A controlled appetite increased his stamina. He was an athlete of old, and knew how to last above all else for a career, and he was successful in it. But what favored him, especially, had been the resourcefulness of his location.

Nordem unzipped his jacket and hung it in passing on a stone post about chest-height. He was the only man standing in a city fought and defeated by time, and after muscling buckets of water over his back from the river, he began to explore the city. Each time he returned to where he started, he added a little bit more to his rock-drawn chalk drawing of cartography work, and a pile of useful things he found along his way.

A gold-iron sword lay in the pile, as did some clothes, a drinking cup, a spear, alien flatware, and every wooden chair he came upon. This was particularly useful, because when he returned at nightfall with a speared boar, he was able to birth a strong fire on a temple roof with a magnificent view. Eating cooked meat on a bronze plate, he gazed out to the still secret-containing jungles, wondering ? hoping someone saw his fire.

He was not the only one to have a decent meal. That same day, Dyarhk rabbit traps yielded results when he too bit into cooked meat, albeit beside a tamer fire than Nordem's, of which neither saw the other's. Rabbit's hind leg meats also paled in comparison to boar meat both in quantity and in flavor (given their culinary knowledge and resources). But it was energy, and it served its purpose.

Dyarhk noticed his shirt sleeve was torn and did not looked pleased at the realization that his clothes were not holding up. Being alone was not fun either. If there was one thing a person like him needed in life it was other people to talk to, and he wasn't about to start talking to a sports ball.

?Oh well,? Dyarhk said, tossing the meat-cleaned bone away from his camp. ?Hopefully tomorrow turns up something.?

Sixty Eight Days Later...

The Biodome Ruins had undergone a drastic makeover in treehouse d?cor. Entrances into the city were corresponded to with welcome signs and guidance arrows telling the way to where one could find Nordem Sparks, new ruler of the city whose name was forgotten.

Nordem had the choice of dying out, or turning into a survivor, and a man like him doesn't really make that choice consciously. Survival is an instinct to men like him, and survive had been what he was busy doing from sun-up to sundown. He had lost none of his vitality, as evidence by where those arrow-indicative signs led, and they led to the loud sounds of hammering punches.

A hard leather bag had been cured out of a boar's pelt, and Nordem swung mercilessly upon it in keeping up with his identical workout back home with use of all his gym equipment. It could all be reproduced here ? just differently. He caught his breath with his hand on the bag he was appreciative of for the resistance put up by it. His golden beard prominent when it dripped heavily after he'd scooped a refreshing drink of water from one of the chalices he found.

His muscles were glazed and radiated health. He was doing fine, and though he didn't know why, he maintained a hopeful watch out over expansive forestry he had come to hunt in and explore over the months. Every day he checked the walk he was sure would be the only one that another soul out here would take to come to the city. It was where the most signs were posted, and every day Nordem was let down a little by it. He was not easy to discourage, however. After checking for possible neighbors coming for a visit, he would begin his morning jog around and through the city.

His running around a ghost city was as eerie as it sounded. His constant and consistent sounds made by his worn shoes were the only thing spoken in the area, and nearer the end of his jog, only his breathing accompanied his tired and heavy feet. Another part of his daily workout completed, another day nearing completion.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-08 06:42 EST
Nordem chalked up another marking on his rock wall calendar.

?.......Sixty-eight now,? he murmured to the wall in the noontide, tucking his lips in and pointing his beard out slightly before bringing his physically perfect arms up and docking his hands on his hips. ?Wonder what I'm going to do for Christmas,? he joked, managing a smile sixty-eight days out in the isolated wilderness in passing.

? ? Hhuh! ? Hhuh! ? Hhuh!? Nordem stopped to wipe the sweat from his brow, only afterward leaving his makeshift ax hilt to go and reset the blocks of wood he was chopping. He chose to cut his wood with one of the better vantage points of the wilderness down the hill. His lumber yard was quite impressive now, as was the acreage he had deforested, and when he added another half-stack to the 9 complete rows he had, he was done for the day. The woodcutting portion of his outdoorsy workout completed, he moved next to head on to dinner.

Nearing sunset, he climbed the stairs to the largest stone temple in the ruins, and what was procedure now was all apart of the nighttime ceremony he carried out by the book. He lit the two torches at the opening arcs at the top of the steps and on the large temple throne, lit the enormous brazier that he kept fed with his wealth of firewood, and moved on down the top-entrance into the temple innards where a lavish dining table was set up.

Its components were of no fine materials, but the stock he had collected was very rich. Over the months he had discovered the land's fruits, herbs, vegetables, spices, and medicinal resources derived from the plant-life. He was well situated in this city. A man could eat well, eat healthy, sleep warm and protected, and tend to his wounds if he received any. When Nordem had fights, he went into them with the utmost preparation, and that was the same careful planning that he applied to everything he did. You may have laughed at his diet and refrigerator and pantry organization, but you wouldn't laugh when it saved your life.

A strained fruit juice made from one of the citrusy red fruits was poured into one of the grails he had procured from a deeper temple. Nordem prepared to take a sip, but halted to light two wall torches with the one he had come in with from the brazier platform.

He sighed, ?I'll clear the whole damn forest at this rate before anyone walks out from it,? taking a sip from the drink, cool and refreshing and lifting his spirits. He sat down and began to fix a plate with his amenities all there prepared on the table. With a mouthful of food chewed over a long period of time, he swallowed and lulled into a relaxed state in his uncomfortable chair that was the most comfortable of all his chairs.

?If only I'd had my Elvis records in my hands when I was transported.... ..and a means to play them on with a replenishing energy source,? Nordem procrastinated, admitting his favorite musician that he had kept secret, ironically, to no one.

He rubbed his temple, however ? the more serious of subjects returning to light. ?I'll keep lighting the fire. Denial's one thing, but it's healthy to think someone's out there,? looking to the door, he thought of a friend, or someone he could call a friend, coming through it. Then the thought of an enemy coming, and coming when he was sleeping. It was that thought that made him grab the largest knife on the dinner table, something he did regularly, and take it to bed with him into the next room for a night of uneasy slumber.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-08 06:43 EST
Far out in the forest on a sunny day, the wind blew majestically at the foliage and said to all who felt it that they would miss it when it was gone, because the humidity had been something fierce. But it was immaterial to the larger picture: Dyarhk had spotted the ruins.

?See? It's just like I thought, Skittles. I knew some long lost civilization had to exist out here after we found that old bridge,? Dyarhk said, sporting a rich black beard as he reached out to get the attention of the very large silverback and point to the tall temples in the very far distance.

The gorilla looked about at Dyarhk's beckoning, and showed to be on very friendly terms with the Palliator to allow him to touch him and be so near him without threatening his territory. Quite the contrary from that, he nudged him several times in a very friendly sort of way.

?Hah?ah! That's right, my friend. If there's anyone else out here, that's where they'll be,? another point, this time with his nod. The temples merely remained to be reached at this point. Dyarhk reached into the full leathers he now wore, complete with a black fur mantle, and pulled out a cured leather flask and uncorked it before throwing his head back with a shot of shine he'd manufactured over the months.

?Gah?!!? he cringed, handing the flask out to the gorilla, Skittles. ? ? A celebration, my friend. It is a good day,? telling his monkey-friend to take a sip, but he ended up having to help him. The result was a knockback of nostril power blown out in distaste by the silverback, and angry roaring thereafter, but Dyarhk was unafraid, laughing instead.

?Hahahaha, yeah, you won't be getting far after a swig of this stuff... Rar would be proud,? that last bit he said melancholic, a nostalgic grin worn upon his face as he recalled his dwarven ale master friend that had inspired his newest wilderness hobby. ?Has to be 180% proof! I don't drink this stuff lightly myself, but today's a special occasion ? special occasion,? he took one more swig before exhaling left and right like he just ate the hottest pepper in the world ? like it killed him.

Back down the hill, Dyarhk met with Skittles' tribe and looked all too ready to tear-up, but he was holding it back.

?I guess this is goodbye for now, Skittles. I go it alone from here,? Dyarhk looked back to the temple way full of hope and inspiration before Skittles suddenly hugged him and lifted him into the air. ?Ho ho ho! It's not the end of the world, buddy! We'll meet again ? I'm sure of it,? being sat down, he smiled to his friend, patting his muscular forearms.

?I'm sure sorry for all the harm I've caused you. I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me one day. But take pride in the fact that we came out with a quality product like this,? he showed his collection of leather gourds that sloshed around, filled with liquids. ?Goodbye... my friend. I could have never beat the Black King Panther, Skrillex, and taken its pelt without you... ? ? he reached to his shoulder affectionately where the black fur mantle was worn, feeling also the memories of the battle that took place for it, ? ? Take care of Rachael, okay? You've got yourself a good woman. Don't ever take her for granted, okay?? he grabbed onto the monkey king's head and made him lock eyes with him, speaking of course about his queen, the gorilla behind him with the rest of the tribe.

Dyarhk didn't get twenty paces before some rallying gorilla cries turned him around and brought tears of joy down his cheeks. He shot his arm into the air with a waving hand on-top and held his lips together tightly to smile instead of bawl. With that he'd be off.

Coming up to the city, it did not take long before he saw the many signs and notices laid before him. It shocked him greatly, and only then could it fill his heart with happiness and excitement! There was someone else here! ? And who could walk with news like that? He adopted a sprint and ran into the center of the city to look around all he could and try and find the city worker that put up those signs, and he couldn't find him soon enough.

?Helloo!!? he shouted into the city, but there was no answer. The stillness of the place remained, and Dyarhk's excitement did not go down. Maybe he was still sleeping? Maybe he was out? Maybe it was a her? ?Helloo!!? he called again, and then it slowly started to dawn on him, the possibility, that maybe whoever it was had already moved on ? or worse, they were already dead.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-08 06:43 EST
Dyarhk clenched his teeth now in an wholly opposite mood. He knew firsthand that there were horrors out here in these woods. What if one of them got to this person and didn't fare as well as he had with the black panther boss, Skrillex? He had been lucky that a legendary ape had been there to do battle with him... perhaps this person was not so lucky. A dire realization.

He took off at a frantic pace in search of the person, calling with his hand cupped out to one cheek, ?HELLO? HELLO!!?

Nordem had been on his morning jog when he thought he heard one of the calls coming from just two blocks away. The city was not advanced, but it was very large, and enough distance had been between him and Dyarhk that the calling could have been and was easily mistaken for nothing at all.

?Is anyone out there!?!?

Nordem stopped jogging entirely this time to stare at what he thought was another human's voice. How long had it been since he heard one? Was that truly what it was? He was in a drunken state almost, ignoring the present for a time just to process this thing that he hasn't had to worry about for so long. But reality sunk in, and he was reminded that this had been what he was staying here for ? this was what he was waiting every day for. He took off, heading back to the city central where he would turn the corner and come within the line of sight with another humanoid object.

The two paused when catching glimpse of one another before energetically waving and shouting loud greetings across the road.

?Hello, friend!? Dyarhk shouted.

?Greetings! and welcome!? Nordem shouted back.

The two closed the distance between them and slowly but surely began to recognize the other.

?Nordem?? Is that you??? Dyarhk asked, in-effect giving himself away.

?Dyarhk! I've seen that beard few enough times!? Nordem said, taking the man's hand that was produced very automatically and shook it strongly, but that was too little for the Palliator, who embraced him fully in a large hug.

?I can't believe it's you! I've been wandering for weeks! I don't know how many ? ?

? ? months!? Nordem corrected.

?Months??

Nordem nodded.

Dyarhk took a moment to process this. He had a sense of time, but without recording any of it, being on the move that he was, those sixty-eight days caught up with him fast. ?I don't believe it...? quietly, going over to the wall to place a hand against so he wouldn't fall down.

?Almost ten weeks this weekend,? Nordem brought him up to speed, crossing his arms as he looked him over and the panther pelt he had on. ?It looks like you've been dealing with your fair share of trouble,? reaching and rubbing his fingers through the fur of the mantle.

?And you've come into some estate, it seems... Nordem... I've so much to tell you,? Dyarhk began, but Nordem would redirect them.

?Come, my friend. I have food and water in my house,? placing a hand on the shoulder of his past Adennian neighbor, he walked him to the tallest temple in the ruins.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-05-08 06:44 EST
The day wore on, and the two did talk for quite some time, bursting in laughter, correcting one another when one knew something about the geography or wildlife that the other did not. The findings Nordem had made about the civilization's culture for example, Dyarhk knew nothing of but had vague ideas about. Likewise, Nordem knew little about the expansive wildlife beyond boars and giant tigers he regularly hunted.

?I can't believe it, Dyarhk... how'd you keep your sanity all this time?? Nordem asked.

?I developed a passion for distilling my own blend of liquor,? Dyarhk replied, presenting to him one of the leather gourds that resounded a liquid slosh from within it.

?Liquor? You mean you've been moonshining out here?? Nordem asked.

“Yup. I've had a lot of time to reflect out here ? alone with nature. I realized all the things I'd never done, and wish I had... and one of those had been entering the ale business with Rar Deephand. So I decided I'd make my own out here with all this free time I had,? Dyarhk said, laying all of the gourds on the table.

Nordem took one curiously, unplugged it and took a smell before recoiling ferociously. ?What proof is that???

?Almost 200, but I'm not sure. That's just an educated guess. It's drinkable, if that's what you mean. I didn't want to poison myself with alcohol poisoning, so I tested it on the local wildlife. I killed a lot of monkeys before I got it right,? Dyarhk said sadly.

Nordem stared at him wide-eyed.

?I had a severe lack of instruments... but you know how I get when I put my mind to something,? he shrugged, ?no radiators or condensors, and you never think you'll need Mason jars until you pick up moonshining in a prehistoric wilderness.?

?True.?

?But I refined it into a strong craft. The colder creeks ended up giving me my best liquor. I made two distilleries in total, so somewhere out there are two makeshift wood furnaces that'll be funny for someone else to stumble upon one day. But I was on the move, you know ? looking for you,? Dyarhk grinned, ?A lot of things came natural, though. You learn best by doing. Like looking for the taller water weeds and good cold water. Getting a good grain-based wash. I'm telling ya, Nordem,? Dyarhk slammed his fist down on Nordem's dinner table, ?I could make a fortune if there was a market down here.?

Nordem shook his head in disbelief, turning one of the whiskey gourds around with his fingers delicately in deep thought. ?I can't say I'm surprised you kept it together out here. You've got the same tools I have.?

?How'd you keep it together, Nordem?? Dyarhk asked, pointing to him with his hand wearing a panther-fur bracer.

?Keeping training. Keeping hope,? he grinned softly and Dyarhk matched it. ?That and a few other things. Come on,? he gestured with his head, ?I'll show you,? standing up and guiding him to the door.

He led him outside and down into the main street, looking around and again noting the broad vacancy of a place that had to once have boomed with thousands of citizens. The concept was a bit difficult to swallow.

?What do you think happened to all these people, Nordem?? Dyarhk asked, walking alongside him.

?I've been through enough of these temple's catacombs and studied enough hieroglyphics to suggest that extraterrestrial life may have come here and disrupted life in this part of the planet,? he said, looking to him and expecting the criticism and doubt that came with all claims to alien life.

?Aliens? Really??

Nordem stared back at him, ?You're really going to tell me that's a stretch given what's happened to us lately??

?Well ? no,? Dyarhk quietly answered as the two rounded the corner.

?Ah,? Nordem said, holding his hand out to present what he wanted to show him. ?This is what I wanted to show you.?

Dyarhk looked overcome with surprise, but after seeing it, and thinking about it for a second, it really shouldn't have come as that much of a surprise to him. It was a boxing gym made with stout vines and stone corners, and it looked to be accurate and official measurements at that. If anyone knew what the size of the ring was like by heart, it had to be the man standing next to him. Dyarhk chuckled just for a second, seeing the wood plank that read ?Sparks Arena? on the display where sponsors usually were plastered on unused ring space.

?Get a lot of opponents out here??

Nordem laughed, grabbing one of the ropes. ?Sure don't. But I'll get in and bob and weave. Having this far cry of the real thing has helped me keep my sanity. I'll jog past it, look at it, and it'll remind me of home. It's helped alright,? he said in thanks to the ring, gripping before releasing that rope.

Dyarhk placed his hand on his shoulder, ?I can't tell ya how happy I am that I found ya. You know how hard it is having a conversation with a monkey? Very. At least now I got some good conversation until we can figure a way out of here.?

Nordem laughed, though it seemed a little hard for him to initially. ?You should have improvements in dinner, as well. A fresh boar's been cooking a few feet deep in the ground in a hot stone oven and wrapped in banana leaves. I think we'll even bust out some of your special blend whiskey, too,? he grinned to him at his own plan.

The Palliator was the surprised one. Not only was it usually he who proposed the convivial plans, but Nordem was a star athlete in perfect health, and he wanted to drink alcohol? ?You... drink, Nordem??

But he had already been started back to the corner they had come from with every intention of going and checking on tonight's dinner. He turned to look at him and give him his reply with a grin, ?If you had asked me sixty-eight days ago I'd have told you no.?

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-07-24 13:11 EST
Unofficial Round 1 Results and Stages
(Some have scores, some do not. I hadn't started recording in the beginning.)

Legend:
Red = Eliminated
Green = Advances
1. Promahster vs Celestial 5-4 Stage - Tier 2
2. Searcher vs Nadia 5-2 Stage - Jeco Loading Bay
3. Daichi vs Corea 5-2 Stage - Solucun's Basin, The Illusio
4. Kit Otomo vs Lilith 5-1 Stage - Adenna Treasure Room
5. Mage vs Rahea 5-3 Stage - The Rave
6. Declan DonEvans vs Jen 5-2 Stage - Been Sinnin' Inn
7. Lea Cainn vs Nayun 5-1 Stage - Wong Compound
8. Rohkan vs Armand Belgarde Stage 5.5-3 - Nyijs
9. Johnnie vs Jessica Wong Stage - Critical Mass Huyglen
10. Final Moments Dyarhk vs Nordem Sparks 5-1 Stage - Biodome Ruins
11. Fox vs Nima Stage - Chains of Ko'Rudoche
12. Aurast Dagger Sasc vs Kamonbak 5-1.5 Stage - Bridge of The Epyllion
13. Cassandra Black vs Seiri Stage - Huyglen Fields
14. Cadence Valentine vs Tetch 5-1 Stage - Belgarde Castle
15. Alfonso Carlson Avery vs Warhorse of Prophecy Stage 5-2 Stage - Tentegre High School Rooftop

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-07-24 13:17 EST
Unofficial Round 2 Results and Stages


Legend:
Red = Eliminated
Green = Advances
1. Celestial vs Searcher 5-4 Stage - Kurgan Arcade Room
2. Corea vs Kit Otomo 5-1 Stage - Otomo's
3. Rahea vs Declan DonEvans 5-4 Stage - Motegre Scaffolding
4. Lea vs Jessica Wong 5-1 Stage - Valentine Castle
5. Final Moments Dyarhk vs Nima 5-3 Stage - Lea's Flower Moon
6. Kamonbak vs Seiri 5-3 Stage - The Jazz Club
7. Cadence Valentine vs Rohkan 5-0 Stage - Robin's Nest Boxing Gym
8. Alfonso Carlson Avery sat out this round on the edge of the tournament tree.

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-07-24 13:22 EST
Unofficial Quarterfinals Results and Stages


Legend:
Red = Eliminated
Green = Advances
1. Searcher vs Corea 6-4.5 Stage - Siovanui Temple
2. Declan DonEvans vs Jessica Wong 5-3 Stage - Jikangai Orrery
3. Nima vs Kamonbak 5-3 Stage - Bone Well
4. Cadence Valentine vs Alfonso Carlson Avery 5-2 Stage - Sparks Arena

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-07-24 13:27 EST
Unofficial Semifinals Results and Stages


Legend:
Red = Eliminated
Green = Advances
1. Corea vs Declan DonEvans 5-1 First Round's Stage - Eye of Alfonso
2. Kamonbak vs Alfonso Carlson Avery 5-2 Second Round's Stage - Adenna Arcade

Alfonso Carlson Avery

Date: 2012-07-24 13:32 EST
Unofficial Final Results and Stages


Legend:
Red = Eliminated
Green = Advances
1. Corea vs Alfonso Carlson Avery 5-3 Final Fight's Stage - 32. Battlefield of the Fallen

Alfonso Carlson Avery
All World Final Clash Champion