Week 2 missing comments: Darksol/Ronnie was a tiebreak.

[superaielman]

Sania>Ragnar
Ronnie>Darksol

[superaielman]

Claude>Gilder

[Clear Tranquil]

Snowe > Sten

[Taishyr]

Maya>Rydia, Hallec>Ashley

[VySaika]

Bartre > Maria

[hinode]

Dycedarg > Seed

[SageAcrin]

Violetta>Ted:

All True Runes have a will.

A mind of their own, if you will.

All True Rune bearers try to forget this, to live their lives normally.

But sometimes?

Sometimes, it just bites them in the ass.

---

Violetta was confused.

Ted had frantically raised his hand to the sky, over and over.

But nothing had happened.

What could have gone wrong? Was he stupid enough to not rest before this battle, and run out of magic points?

Ted, later, would wonder the same thing.

The Soul Eater, however, would be content in it's victory.

It had refused to kill a hot woman with a big scythe.

That's all it really cared about.

What? You thought it was a deep, dramatic rune? Pfft, don't judge people because of their eating habits.

Sergius>Leopold:

An old man, sitting down at the lake, with his beloved pet.

Everyone's seen this, or at least heard of it. Perhaps seen it in a movie or read of it. Regardless, it's not uncommon.

Of course, the dog drying up parts of the lake to eat the fish is a little weird.

As is the man blasting his own catches with holy energy to both catch, kill, and cook his own catches.

And the giant mecha blowing up the lake when they're both done for kicks is pretty odd too.

But ultimately, Sergius and Leopold parted pretty amiably. Leopold always wanted to have one of those classic, idyllic days by a pond-even as a normal dog, he'd been too scary for most-and now, he'd gotten one. It was worth giving up a match.

Ronnie>Darksol:

Darksol.

Fire.

...No longer dark...

Sol?

Sadly for Sol, using his instant death attack was considered just too wierd to really count as a win.

[Taishyr]

Eileen > Alen

The fight seemed normal enough at first.

It took a slight turn for the bizarre when, right after Eileen and Alen threw their best magics at each other, the entire battlefield was instantly terraformed into random geography.

What made the situation even stranger were the tanks that the two started piloting at the same time.

Unfortunately for Alen, Copper Flesh still applied to the tank, and so napalm and crazy nuke spam destroyed him instantly.

[superaielman]

Claude>Gilder


Outgunned: The story of Gilder's life. He has a pirate ship, not too bad. Vyse has an armada of badass pirate ships complete with his two slavishly devoted female crewmembers. He brings a powder gun? Claude brings a 27th century phase gun, complete with the mythos- Claude after all is the one who saves the Eternal Sphere from Indalecio's madness. Gilder may look good when he gets his one puny shot off, but the counterfire.. well, there's a reason why Gilder is a lover and not a fighter.


Sergius>Leopold

What you expect from a bloodthirsty space pope and a Rhapthorne possessed dog of evil? A long, brutal fight? The power of Aura magic against Leopold razor sharp claws and teeth? Or perhaps something else?


...

"My son, you're willing to throw this fight for my.. services on this matter? No, no problem at all. Avoiding needless bloodshed is a good thing.. heh heh. Let us go."


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Melody>Connie


"Ah, so that white haired lass is the one you're interested in."

The 'lass' was Connie of Suikoden fame, who was trying and failing mightly at her attempts to damage Melody. The fight was already over, but that hadn't stopped Melody from cruelly tossing an elixir on Connie and making her suffer some more. Leopold's growl made everyone need him shy away. He was not pleased with what he was seeing.

"There are far more effective ways to deal with heretics than mere executions. You go tend to the lass, while I speak to the crowd and arrange a fitting punishment."

---

"MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DL UNIVERSE. I HAVE SEEN ENOUGH FROM THIS FIGHT. MELODY VILENTE HAS VIOLATED THE HOLY SCRIPTURE AND PURE IDEALS OF OUR ORMUS RELIGION BY TORTURING AN INNOCENT ANIMAL. SHE HAS BEEN JUDGED A SINNER, AND MUST BE PUNISHED!"

"Tuxedo Zidane is here to save the day!"

".....My son Leopold, if you could?"

"OH DEAR GOD!"

"He doesn't listen to the words of a sinner, Zidane. Oh yes. MY CHILDREN, GO FORTH AND SMITE THE SINNER MELODY!"

Sergius had meant 'his children' quite literally. An army of pissed off children had come to the arena to watch the fight, only to see Melody bully poor Connie. Relm, Porom, and a dozen others charged Melody and beat her as only pissed off women can do to another woman. (They were safe to do so, with Albedo being slaughtered by Sephiroth at that moment.)

---

The former prophet turned demon woke up, in a full body cast. A small shack surrounded her bed; a window showed her the view of the DL hospital/clinic. She knew where she was. Melody had been put in the Dog House in the most literal sense of the word. Her recovery room was the one where the puniest of puny and wild animals recovered at.  A small bell lay on an otherwise table. Melody rang it, hoping it would bring a nurse. It did.

Alonso burst through the door, resplendant in a nurse's outfit. "Ahhh, Miss Melody! It's time to change your dressing! Try to be strong- we had to put extra effort into the work so there would be no scarring, so we used glue instead of staples. It's going to hurt a little when I remove the bandages!"

The screaming started well before Alonso peeled off the first layer of gauze.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Sania > Ragnar

The gleaming pink armor.

The graceful legwork.

The lithe, manly precision dancing.

Yes, Ragnar McRyan truly was a god. On that Dance Dance Revolution machine, he truly showed his unparalled elegance and power, truly befitting a god. Yes, Ragnar was a god of DDR.

Too bad the match was just a typical slugfest instead of an inane alternate contest this week. As such, Sania simply blasted Ragnar off the arena with a single Petro Wind after his performance. She admits that she wouldn't ever be able to pull that kind of flexibility off, though. Hats off to Ragnar McRyan, our dancing hero!