Ah, spring.
The sounds of laughter fill the air, in the arena.
Children run screaming.
Grown men whimper and cup hands over their ears.
Women weep.
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"...<i>someone make it stop!</i>" Tidus shrieked, over the horrible laughter. "That is the most horrible thing I've ever heard!"
It turned out Dhoulmagus' signature attack, a hearty, insane, vaguely shrill chuckle(What do you mean, that's not his signature attack? Of course it is.), had proven to, for once, not be useless.
As Rika, taking it as a strange form of challenge, proceeded to giggle at higher pitch.
Dhoulmagus, never one to pass up something if it's completely bat-droppings insane, took her up on the challenge.
By this stage in the match, the noise-unfortunately amplified by the microphones the combatants had been given at the start of the match, and moreso by Dhoulmagus' clones and the fact that Rika had Saner'd herself to drive up both the laughing speed and pitch, now resembled a cross between your average <i>Alvin and the Chipmunks</i> record driven up to fifteen times speed, a jet engine, and Lavos' shriek.
Then Lavos, sensing a kindred spirit, joined in from the stands.
Ultimately, and blessedly, rocks fell and everyone died.
Quite literally. The stadium above caved in, killing Dhoulmagus instantly and seriously injuring Rika. Rika, by default, won.
She was still giggling when she was being wheeled out, though. I hope it didn't break her mentally.
Then again, if she got into that contest, maybe that's not a problem to start with.
