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Ryu vs Beatrix
Taishyr Swords flashed through the air, blasts of fire coiled across the field and slammed into pure holy energy lashed out by the Knight of Alexandria. Beatrix smiled grimly, before lancing forward through the haze and thrusting upward, impaling the young dragonkin. "Heh. Gotcha..." Beatrix murmured as the hero's eyes blanked in shock. "A good fight, though." And then Ryu's hands slammed around Beatrix's neck. --- "So... Ryu the Fourth, who's actually the first or something like that, turned into... the Wyrm form?" Lucca asked with a degree of skepticism. Ryu the Fifth nodded. "I guess I get it from him, you know? Or something. Hell if I know how I'm related to him. Still, apparently he's got the same form, and, well... you know why I don't bother dueling in the Arena." A slight shrug. "How long will it take them to heal Beatrix?" "Well, they need to find a part of her first. Sounds like they're banning that transform for him from here on out, too. Probably wise." Ryu: 32 
Cecilia Lyne Adelhyde vs KOS-MOS
Taishyr GNOSIS-slaying robot. Magical Crest girl with a holy parasol. Iron Chef cooking contest. Sadly, the holy parasol also doubles quite nicely as a sauteeing pan, while KOS-MOS attempted to blow up the oven due to suspicious readings. As a result, Cecilia moved on. Cecilia Lyne Adelhyde: 36 
Lavos vs Teepo
Gatewalker "Oh Teepo!" Myria called out to her servant as he was heading out to his match, "Here, I got you a present. Just a small reward for all your years of loyal service." Teepo accepted the small giftbag with a flourish, "I am not worthy, my lady." The goddess smiled, "Go on, open it." The young dragon did so...only to find a small bottle of cologne, "Ah...thank you?" She kept smiling, "It's a very special scent. Nothing else like it in the world. I do hope you'll wear it for your upcoming victory." "Of course, my lady! I am honored to receive any gift from you." As Teepo applied his gift, Myria made her way up to her private box, giggling the whole way. - - - - Hrist and Jade looked down on the match in what can only be described as disturbed horror. Teepo was running in circles, fleeing from Lavos at top speed, though ultimately getting nowhere within the confines of the arena. For her part, Lavos was chasing him, though it didn't seem as if she was exactly trying to kill the young dragon at the times she managed to catch him before he squirmed free. Unlike her servants, Myria was laughing hysterically at the whole thing, "Hehehehe, he's so cute when he's terrified." Putting two and two together, Hrist's eyebrows went up into her hairline, "M'lady...you didn't..." A lilting giggle was Myria's only response as she put on her best innocent face, "La la la~" Lavos: 42 
Seymour vs Heat
Taishyr This match wasn't decided by power, or by sexy hair, or by intellect. Not by demonic potential, underlings, or cup size. No, this match was decided... by Ghaleon. Specifically, Pretty Princess Ghaleon. Fortunately for Heat, he hadn't eaten anyone in a full week, and so he was slim enough to take the role of Prettiest Princess. Ghaleon is currently attempting to beat TimeLord to death with Seymour's corpse, killed by mortification. Seymour: 9
Saturos vs Lucian
Gatewalker Saturos cringed as the dreaded Round Rip Saber slammed into him, sending the sturdy adept sprawling across the floor. Returning to his ready position, Lucian raised his sword, ready to repeat that performance...and blinked at his blade shattered in his hands. Saturos stood up, brushing himself off as he regarded the enherjar with a curious, if somewhat baleful, gaze, "Are you mocking me? Is this your idea of a joke?" Shaking his head, Lucian took a few steps back, "No, no, I...I must have..." hanging his head, he sighed, "I...must have grabbed the wrong weapon. I feel smart right now." Never one to let an opportunity like this pass without capitalizing on it, the Mars Adept shrugged and advanced on his now helpless opponent. This was going to be quick. - - - - - Turning the Ice Coffin over in his hands, Jet shrugged, "I guess it's a nice sword. If you like swords." Opera sipped her drink and shrugged, "I can always get Claude to look it over later if you want. I...think we should just slip it to one of his castmates so he can get it back, though. I don't want to make any more enemies then are strictly necessary." "Eh, sure. I'll let you handle that part. I stole the thing, you can put it back." Scowling at Jet for a moment, she snatched the sword, "Jerk. I'm not so sure we should have done that anyway. I mean, Saturos isn't even one of us, really." Letting her have the sword, Jet knocked back his own drink before replying, "Eh, and Menardi asked us to keep it that way. I kept him out of the pool, he's on his own from here." "Still, was that really the right thing to do?" The sullen ARM user's only reply was a silent shrug. Saturos: 24 
Kevin vs Zeno
Taishyr Last Resort. Werewolf fighting talent. Mud wrestling. Origami cranes the size of small planets. The triumphant return of BITGOYSWB, which resulted in the destruction of more than a few galaxies. Organized pinata duels at midnight in every open field of every world. Sock puppets. Dragonite evolving into Yoshi. The earth reversing its spin without anyone noticing. Man, that was an epic match. Too bad you missed it. Kevin: 9 
Fayt Leingod vs Nel Zelpher
Ayra "Now Fayt, remember that you have agreed to cooperate with us." said Nel with a threatening tone. "What?" asked a surprised Fayt. "That was ages ago!" "There has never been any time frame mentionned. By having agreed to my terms when I saved you from prison, you are bound to cooperate with us until the end of time." continued Nel with an hand on her dagger. "That's insane! That's coersion!" exclaimed an outraged Fayt. "Shut up Fayt!" interupted an annoyed Cliff. "Whenever she asked you something, you always eventually do it. You just happen to whine and cry for days before you do it. 'What about the UP3???' or 'If I build that machine people will get hurt but if I don't people will get hurt! What should I dooo???'" "But..." commented a flustered Fayt. "Gah! Stop whining and throw the match already! I don't want to hear you being all emo again for another week! You'll do what she asks eventually so just save us the pain!" "Fine!" said a dejected Fayt as he turned away, with Cliff clasping his shoulder and saying: "Atta boy!" As the pair were leaving, Nel used a communication device that she had previously 'borrowed'. "Tynave, mission was a success. Cancel plan B." She let out a long, disapointed "Awww" as she lowered the sniper rifle she had taken from Irvine. "Farleen, cancel plan C." Farleen sighed as she looked down at the microphone she had borrowed from Yuna, before asking in her sweet nail-against-chalkboard voice: "Can I please still sing that song?" "Negative!" answered Nel as she hastily turned off the communicator while Tynave instincly dove to the ground plugging her ears in fear. Fayt Leingod: 19 Bardiche
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Poo vs Angela
Taishyr Angela was expecting an easy match. Short, simple, painless. Angela had prepared a Soft just for Poo, too. So when a disembodied floating head appeared in front of her before she even got to the arena and told her it was going to take her legs, Angela understandably freaked out. Hearing that his ancestor spirit got completely shredded by a panicked Angela screaming "YOU'LL NOT TAKE ANY OF MY ASSETS!!!" demoralized Poo enough that he threw the match, anyway. Poo: 10
Ena vs Lucia
Taishyr Lucia has lightning! Lucia has healing! Lucia gets eaten in one bite! Look, when you spend half your time running around the arena and casting weak magics instead of actually fighting, maaaaaaybe trying to slay a dragon isn't the best idea? Ena: 23 
Kornell vs Caellach
Namagomi "I'll knock some sense into you! This ain't gonna be pretty...Kornell BUSTER!" And with a mighty throw and those famous lines, Kornell managed to dispatch Caellach...the other combatant obviously not used to being uppercut several feet into the air before being brought down over his back, as he slumped on the ground "So, what -is- his obsession with that 'buster' thing anyway? You'd think he was pretending to be one of those superheroes," Billy asked from the judges' box. At least the match had gone rather normally... "Oh. He always wanted to be in a fighting game. We heard it all the time while he was actually helping Emelious," Violetta replied. "Buster this, buster that...would you believe how annoying it was? We had to take away his minions after he was using them for additional 'practice'," she continued, rolling her eyes. "Fighting game? ...huh." "That's not the worse of it. He sent out multiple requests for his 'idea.' Unsurprisingly, they were all rejected. Not even Luther would touch them." "So, uh, is that why he disappeared all of a...?" "Yeah, he got tired of everything we were doing with Xorn and just up and left. I wonder how he's--" "Don't even ask." the president of Sphere Corporation cut in. "He's been sending them out as soon as he got in the League. I swear, if I have to put up with another flood of proposals for 'Grandia Gear X Plus Slash Octothorpe' or whatever he keeps calling it, I'm going to lock him in a closet with Belzeber..." Billy's mouth dropped in astonishment. "...that's...what it's called?" Violetta buried her face in her palm, embarassment and shame about how someone as -great- as Emelious could've chosen someone like Kornell welling up within her. Luther took this opportunity to excuse himself before he could be seen. Kornell: 28 
Eiko Carol vs Volke
Gatewalker *Orcha's pub, two days before the match* "Excuse me, Mr. Volke?" The assassin for hire didn't turn to face her, but Eiko was pretty certain he heard her anyway. It wasn't exactly crowded in here on a Tuesday morning. Despite his lack of response, she took the fact that he wasn't throwing knives at her yet as encouragement and continued, "Well, I've talked to some people and they all agree that you don't do anything without being paid for it. So...I was wondering if anyone was paying you to fight me?" "Ten." Eiko blinked, "Ten?" "Ten thousand." "You're being paid ten thousand to fight me?" "..." Under normal circumstances, Eiko would start getting upset at being treated like this. But frankly, this guy scared the crap out of her, so she kept her temper in check and continued with her, well, what amounted to a plan, "So, um, if someone's paying you ten thousand to fight me, could I pay you not to? Like, maybe twenty thousand?" "Fifty." "...you want fifty thousand?" "That's what I said." Eiko smiled, "Do you take gil?" - - - - - - - - - - *The Middle arena, day of the match* Guy yawned, "Man, it's been twenty minutes already. Is Volke coming or not?" Jade shrugged, "Who knows? Frankly, I'd expect a bit more punctuality out of a professional with his reputation." Tear flipped through the pages of a incredibly large book, "Hmm, well, it says here we have to give him a full hour before we can call the match." "It's an hour now? Man, I swear the rules in that book change every week." Jade chuckled, "It's every six days actually. And the rulebooks are all magically connected to the master book, who's whereabouts are unknown. When it is changed, they all change." "Really?" Tear mused on that a bit, "I wonder who has control of the master rulebook?" Guy snorted, "I'm more interested in why every six days. Hey Jade, why is it every six days?" "It's because..." the necromancer was silent for a moment, then sighed, "Guy, you explain." "...I'm asking you. How can I explain something to myself when I don't know the answer?" "Figure it out." "I reaaaaally hate you sometimes, you know that?" Eiko Carol: 32 
Florina vs Magdalen Harts
Taishyr Magdalen waited in the arena ten minutes before trying to leave. That was of course when Florina accidentally ran into Magdalen with her pegasus, sending her flying over his head and out of the arena first. All three are in the hospital with moderate injuries. Florina: 14
Cleo vs Wil
Taishyr "That has absolutely no right to have worked." Alen muttered as Cleo walked off the battle floor, triumphantly waving to the crowd. "Hey. Titania made it work." Cleo grinned, flashing the throwing sword with "WEAPUN TRIANGEL ADDVANTIGE" scrawled on it with a crayon to the audience. "And who am I to deny Peppita her right to scribble on something?" Cleo: 39 
Yukari Takeba vs Taya
Taishyr "GREAT SPIRITS OF DESTRUCTION!" Taya's voice boomed out. "HEED MY CALL! JUDGE ALL THOSE BEFORE ME UNWORTHY, AND SMITE THEM IN THE NAME OF THE THREE SAINTS - SAINT PETER OF THE RISING FLAME, SAINT BOWIE OF THE JUDGING BOLT, AND SAINT-" And then Yukari's arrow went straight into her face. Moral of the story: In-battle quotes are nice and all, but it's hard to argue with an arrow to the face. Moral of the story 2: So go learn from Rita how to go "blahblahblah ATLAS!" already, silly mages. Yukari Takeba: 17 
Alenia vs Kid
Gatewalker *Tifa's Seventh Heavan, the day after the looting of the BtS studio* Kid chuckled as she had another drink on Alenia's dime, "You sure you don't want none o' this? We got some pretty good stuff in there." The Queen's Knight turned her nose up at the offer, "I wish nothing to do with your filthy spoils. The loss of those insufferable fools is quite literally the only gain I desire from this." Kid couldn't help but just bust out laughing at this, "Suit yerself. Spite's all fine and good, but won't put any gold in your pocket." "I have a prestigious position as a Queen's Knight, as well as...well, significant funding from my patrons in the Godwin family. My pockets are quite well off enough." "No such thing, sister." Kid drained the last of her drink and stood up, "Well, been great doin' business with ya, 'specially since you're lettin' me keep all the goods. I tell you what though, I feel like I need to pay you your share somehow anyway, so I've got an idea." Alenia's interest was mildly perked, "Oh?" Kid grinned, "Well, I don't like to beat up on my business partners, and I've got a couple other guys I owe a favor or two to anyway, so 'ow about this. I set up our match as a doubles match between you and your pal Zahak against a couple guys I know. Don't worry, they're both Lights too. I figure you and Zahak fight best as a team, right? Give you a chance to show that off. If you guys win, you move on. You guys lose, I move on. How about it?" The Queen's Knight laughed, "Allowing me to fight with Zahak? Well, I'll take your offer, and offer my condolences on your first round loss now." - - - - - - - - - - - *The Light arena, day of the match* "We did it! We shakin' DID IT!" "That was our most fantastically fantastic performance ever!" "That'll teach those shakin' knights to take us lightly!" "Indeed, we have proven ourselves as most powerfully powerful warriors this day!" Rei chuckled as he watched Solt and Peppor attempting a victory dance while Alenia and Zahak were out cold on the ground, "Well don't that just beat all? Suppose I'll call Kid and let her know she won..." Alenia: 5 
Mukumuku vs Peco
Taishyr "Chipchippa? Chipchip... CCCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" And with one nibble on Peco, Mukumuku fainted. And thus the sleeping hero was victorious. Apparently raw Peco is highly poisonous. Whould'a thunk? Mukumuku: 9 |
