Isolde > Gilgy
"So, you meant to say..." Zeppel confusedly eyed his teacher colleague as she absentmindedly shuffled through the flasks.
"What?"
"I asked how that weird fight thing you were invited to went. You seemed to start saying something but suddenly stopped."
Isolde let out a slight chuckle. "Oh, you mean that. It was actually pretty simple. The judges decided I'd give him a class assignment for the match instead. Bizarre, but I honestly don't care. The fighting would have been a waste."
"Oh!" Zeppel retorted. He seemed rather surprised, actually. "So, what happened?"
"I simply asked him to retrieve a living Teddie Bear from a certain ghost. I guess you can deduce the rest from there. Now, please leave. You're breaking my concentration."
With that, Isolde turned her back on her nosy work colleague. Zeppel, as he left her quarters, shivered a bit. "So cold..."
What happened was really rather predictable. Gilgamesh, trying to win out the scavenger hunt, tried to yank Pamela's teddy bear out of her hands. It didn't hit him how amazingly poor an idea that was until the bear grew to be twice the octo-armed swordsman and began to chomp his limbs one by one. While this usually isn't that bad when you're in the Duelling League (hey look revivers at every corner!), it gains a few disturbing connotations when the nurses assigned to treat you are Melanie and Jessica.
While Gilgy surprisingly didn't gain a bear trauma with this last endeavor, he now cannot see bags and labcoats without curling into fetal position and whimpering. Chisato figures this will bring weeks of entertainment for Behind the Scenes. Nate approves.
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Lady > Jessica.
Well, well. Lady and Jessica Albert. Both are quite consummate beauties in their own worlds. Both are desired and feared, holding world-destroying magicks within their very fingertips. Quite a spectacle, right?
So, what happens when you pit one against the other in a mudpit fight?
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Yuri and Edge gazed at the brutalized arena stands in utter disbelief. While the rumors talked about quite a wreck to be seen, the fast talk couldn't quite convey the level of devastation they were witness to. The arena floor had nearly mile-wide cracks, and strewn bodies of just about every male NPC to inhabit the DL were cluttering the stands, most torn in tiny pieces, some lucky that they were just ripped in half. The few remaining chairs and furniture were still burning faintly, and a mountain of ashes could be seen among the ruins. There was even a small mudpit where the battered remains of Zidane and Sten were dropped.
"So... what the hell happened here?", Edge hesitantly asked, scratching his head.
Yuri sighed. "Zidane thought it was a good idea to cheat the arena quirk of the week's paperwork loads so we'd see Lady and Jessica mudfighting it out. I mean, it's not that I disapprove of your plain ol' fanservice, but you sorta don't want to mess with Godlike girls."
"So, the two of them just blew out the arena because of that?"
"Actually, not quite. They didn't even seem that phased, although they didn't like it. Just... when the fight was about to start, Sten started chanting 'VA. VA. VOOM!', and the whole audience caught it on. After that, Jess sorta went nuts, and Lady infused her with Malice for laughs. The rest... well. You see what just happened here."
Edge blinked. "... okay. So, what do we do now?"
Yuri shrugged, and looked away. "Eh, I don't care. Probably this is one of the times I'm glad I missed a womanizing scheme. I just don't want to see Alice's look when she gets home, though, the infirmary will be clogged for weeks."
The prince of Eblan sighed. "... I guess. But hey, who won the fight, then?"
"... who cares, everybody just died. I guess Lady won by technicality due to standing still for the whole affair while Jess went to strangle Vigoro with her whip in her frenzy, but I'm not keeping count."
"Fair enough", said Edge, scratching his head.
Just another day in the Duelling League, after all.
