Season 31, Week 2
Rhapthorne
(Dragon Quest 8)
 
The Lord of Darkness, Rhapthorne, has emerged from his throne to take his chances in the RPGDL Arena. And what a truly worthy opponent his faces in the first round! The pygmy turned giant demon will have his hands full with the timid summoner Lady Yuna in a match that will light up the Arena. Rhapthorne will use his strength and size to take her apart while she will summon her Aeons to help her win the match. But Rhapthorne is a powerful demon, and no Aeons can put a dent in him. Eventually he will work his way to Yuna herself, and a puny little girl like her will not last long against the Lord of Darkness.

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After a close victory over the dashing Yuri Hyuga, the High Summoner of Spira returns to her preferred type of opponent - would-be world-destroying monsters. The demon already has a horrible experience with summoned monsters from his own game... and with all due respect to Call Team, Yuna's aeons far exceed Guv's beasts in power and obedience. Rhapthorne's lacking agility banishes any doubt of a quick win on his part, which leaves the demon as just a snack for Anima. Although Spira may be safe, there is still much evil to be purified in the world of the RPGDL, and as long as it remains, Yuna will never lack for work in the Godlike division.


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Yuna is pretty considerate.

She knew her Aeons were getting kinda bored with all the rampant slaugther, so she let them try something..different.

Which is why Anima, Yojimbo, and Ifrit decided to play a nice friendly game of Rhapthorne Baseball.

Ifrit jumped up behind the giant blob of demon king and 'pitched' him by ramming as hard as he could, where Anima grabbed Yojimbo and prepared to swing for the fences.(No, Yojimbo was not happy about this, but it's Anima, what are you going to do? Besides, he does it all for the money, anyway.)

And what do you know? Anima may have a future in the major leagues. She connected on the first try and sent Rhapthrone flying through the arena and out of sight. The judges ruled it a knockout and everybody went home and started preparing for the holidays, except for Yojimbo, who had to recover from his massive headwound.

Far, far away, a young Rabite hopped happily through the forest, nibbling at some grass. All of a sudden, he saw something in the sky!

Hey, guys, it's a shooting star! Quick, come look!

And all the Rabites indeed gathered around, and looked upon the increasingly large mass heading towards them.

This is a good omen, young one. Quickly, we must prepare for a great feast to welcome the meteor and all the good tidings it brings! said the eldest Rabite sagely.

Pretty soon there was a massive party going on. Word traveled fast, and pretty soon every Rabite within a 50 mile radius was around. The infamous Black Rabite even showed up, and quickly started signing autographs(he'd learned quite well how to use a pen in his mouth, it seems). What do you know, the Rabite who had seen the meteor first said, It's coming even closer! This is a joyous day indeed!

All the Rabites were quite excited that day.

Until about 2,000 tons of blubber crashed down on them and mashed them all into a fine pace, and the fire from Rhapthorne's painful reentry set the forest on fire.

Meanwhile, a group of the smartest DL'ers sat down and prepared for their weekly card game. Mewtwo was just about to deal when he suddenly paused for a second. I feel a great disturbance of psychic energy. It's as though a group of smelly, foolish creatures just cried out in anguish and were suddnely silenced.

"...so what?" Citan said, polishing his glasses.

Mewtwo rolled his eyes. Excuse me for trying to make conversation... he said, beginning to pass the card around.

The Moral Of The Story: Fatty falls down.

Rhapthorne: 21
Yuna: 67