Season 20, Week 5
Ryudo
(Grandia 2) 		 
After a long and arduous Season of beating on hapless women and children, Ryudo suddenly finds himself facing down the final opponent of every young adventurer/mercenary; a giant multi-headed dragon. And while this foe has the impenetrable hide its race is famed for, Ryudo still has some tricks up his sleeve. For all his wit and sarcasm, Ryudo is best-remembered for his fearsome Sky Dragon Slash...which is understandably a source of worry for the draconic Fiend of Wind - just the sort of mental edge a clever combatant like Ryudo can easily ply into a decisive, if bloody, victory in short order. It’s a long shot, but you have to bet big to win big, and the Middle Championship is definitely big.

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 The power of technology once again falls in the wake of Tiamat's attacks. Now that the future is reduced to so much -scrap-, there's nothing really left to challenge the Fiend of Wind before she goes to claim her rightful title. Oh, the Geohound Ryudo may try and carry out one of the various contracts out on Tiamat, but without the power of Mana Eggs or his friends, he's only left with a sword and harsh words against a creature that was only stopped by the strongest efforts of all four Light Warriors. The skies will crack and Thunder will fall on Ryudo, but without a kind White Wizard to repair the damage...well, you can see why Tiamat's already started laughing all the way to victory lane.

Sei
Myth and legend is filled with tales of swordsmen slaying terrible beasts, and emerging bloodied, yet victorious after a hard fought battle.

Plays and books spoke colorfully of mythical monsters reeling away and disappearing in a flash after being touched by the mystical sword wielded by a determined warrior, leaving no trace of their existance to the awe of the formerly despairing spectators.

Ballads of heroes vanquishing evil has been created for centuries, since the first bard decided to glorify the efforts of great men and women long past, who had defied all logic and reason, and banished the foul demon that lorded over the land.

And besides, he had the Granasaber and destroyed a whacko that tried to be god. How hard could a Fiend be?

After one of Tiamat's head caught his sword in mid-swing between one of its teeth, threw him up into the air, and began using his body to play an impromptu game of volleyball with the rest of her heads, Ryudo learned that the answer was "very hard".

Ryudo: 24
Tiamat: 37

Adumbro Deus
Ryudo simply doesn't have the raw power to stand up to Tiamat without Sky Dragon Slash, and he can only keep that up for so long.... After that, he's, quite literally, toast.

Ryu Hayabusa
Speaking backstage on the mike, Tiamat had a few choice words for Ryudo.

"I think he's just a no-good, dirty little punk!" Tiamat roared. "I know you're watching this, Ryudo! You and your geriatric chickenhawk friend are about to taste the full brunt of my WRATH!! I hope you're hungry, cuz you're about to get a nice hot bowl of smackdown soup! I've found things under my toenails that had more power than you! Once I'm done, they'll be scraping you off the walls with a teaspoon! That's right, Ryu-do! Or should I say, Ryu-doo-doo!! BWA-HA-HA-HA!!!"

"It looks like Tiamat's really mad, folks!" the Announcer said. "Ryudo, do you have a reply?"

"Bah!" Ryudo said. "He talks pretty big for an overgrown Pokemon reject, but can he really hack it? Tell me Tiamat, how did it feel to get your heads pulled out your ass by a bunch of superdeformed generics with less personality than sheet rock? You bitch, I'm gonna fry you like an egg on a hot skillet! Face it, you're just a washed up mid-boss from a game older than Skye here. Heck, I could fight you, but I would just be wasting my time. Instead, a tag-team of Solt, Jogurt and the gay teletubby would be closer to your skill level - if they were all unconscious! Word!"

"Point and game!" the Judges proclaimed. "Ryudo has won!"

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Tiamat howled in anguish. He knew he should've never agreed to a smack-talking contest in place of a real fight. Meanwhile, Ryudo exchanged some high-fives and headed down to the cafeteria for an ice-cold chocolate milk.

Tiamat later got his revenge, when he jumped Ryudo in the parking lot and beat the crap out of him. But the title still went with the Geohound.