Ch.6
Alexis and Ryu begin to date and everyone still can’t get used to it. As the time passed Ryu appeared to be dominated by Alexis since he changed a bit for her .But finally the two weeks are up and all the fighters are fired up for the competition to gain a new rank. Serot was still on the loose and it seemed he was heading towards a southern states, it was announced as of early this morning mentioned the loud speakers of the school hall way. Ryu is getting his new kimono out for the competition since it went on for some days, meanwhile the pre-eliminations rounds were beginning. Cross turns a corner as if looking for something evidently, bumps into Ryu with his new gear set. “I see you’re ready for all this. I don’t think you’ll get any challenges after the demonstration you made in the dojo some weeks ago,” Cross tells Ryu in a wired tone , “ Well I’m hoping I get challenged at least once I want to go all out now that I’ve got this thing residing in me. You get me?” replies Ryu, and Cross answers “Yeah! I know exactly what you mean I was getting bored of just normal training” the two best friend chuckle at their statements but still avoid their rival eyes as they look at one another . “Hey you idiot, you haven’t changed a bit. Why don’t you go back to middle school?” shouts Dayan from behind them. “Great, I can’t believe I thought about putting you in my squad. Now I have a werewolf pet,” replies Ryu as he starts to laugh. “Now, now guys. I’m for one am honored to be in your squad” announces Ray flicking his hair back like a super model. “1…2…3…Um isn’t someone missing?” ask Ryu since that someone appears right behind him and tells him softly in his ear “Me! Amazed you missed me” declares Randy holding a box with him. Ryu being surprised finds himself in back of Cross and giving Randy a confuse look about the box. “So, you brought me chocolate?’ asks Ryu, trying to taunt his most intellectual squad member. “Well you see it’s not really for you. I got called in today into Roy’s office and he gave this to me. He told me not to open it until I was in front of my squad’s elite. So here I am thrilled to see what’s inside. I can hardly control myself,” of course being the kind of guy Randy is you can tell he is saying all this in a sarcastic way. Randy begins to open the box now in front of everyone calling out jacket size and one by one each reach out. It turned out that they had squad jackets made just like Ryu’s except each had their own guardians on the emblem. “Wow! This gets cooler by the day, but why did they have to match me up with you lame-os?” asks Dayan as Ryu stares at him. The five begin to walk towards the school arena on the 4th floor where there’s an indoor stadium that the entire school and spectators could watch the tournament. It was a nice day for a fight you can say, the sun was out, it wasn’t too dry or too humid which made everyone loosen up a bit. “Please sir you’re going to have to follow me , you have to watch the tournament from the Elite quarters,” tells a tournament official to Ryu as he arrives “Um ok?” replies Ryu and he waves farewell to his friends. “Alright listen up; we have to win if we want to keep this stuff. I’m going to challenge Ryu myself at the end so don’t be surprise,” announces Cross to the squad leaning against the wall waiting for his name to be called so he can go into the arena. The other members watch him closely until Dayan blurts out “Hey me to Jack, you’re not the only one. I want to see if I can serve under him or I’ll gladly take over,” “Hey me too” says Ray a bit cheery. Randy looking at them lets out a cruel remark “Shut up! I can’t concentrate on the screen,” but of course Randy felt the same way the entire squad wanted a piece of Ryu. Far away a plan was taking place that could change the tournament rules a bit. It was Serot who had arrived at Melaz, Florida and had heard about his brother being in the tournament and he planned on meeting him there. “Dayan Rinehart vs. Oscar Chead, please fighters report to arena 4” announced the loud speaker in the locker room. “Well guys I guess I’m up” says Dayan in a soft tone while stepping out of the locker room the loud speaker comes on again and dictates “Cross Ceror vs. Syusk Hernandez, please report to arena 2, Ray Triba vs. Renji Moritebu please report to arena 3 and Randy Sotolongo vs. Ruald Peterson please report to arena 1,” “ Well that’s new but cool that we all get to go in all at once” comments Dayan as the four accompany one another until they’ve reached their side .
Ch.7
Ryu now sitting with Roy looks at the screens and he can see everyone fighting and some of the upper classmen nearly tearing apart the arenas. He notices that it’s been so far a long time since the tournament had started and he hadn’t observed his friends in any of the fights. “So how’s the Elite life treating ya? Do people challenge you a lot more now?” ask Roy as he takes a seat next to Ryu on the couch. “Well, after you trained me and I got back to school I did have one challenger. I did away with him so quick everyone was stunned and amazed, but of course the guy was a rank 4 fighter, still wondering why the other top ranks haven’t made a move against me?” announces Ryu, Roy observes him as he is saying all this and responds, “Well you see, I had the same result except that those people that didn’t challenge me at first are the ones that freaked me out later on. Since they saw my abilities they trained to be the same and maybe even better than me. You’ll see.” All of a sudden the screens began to display Ryu’s squad at the semi-finals already; at first he is amazed by how quick it had all happened but begins to get irritated since he couldn’t see any of their previous fights. Ryu begins to get annoyed since the five of them used to train together but never showed one another what they were really capable of doing. First it was Dayan who appeared standing in front of a 6’7 feet guy with a muscular physique and black hair and eyes. Dayan’s opponent looked like an alien of some sort but neither of them was fooling around, Dayan quickly shot three jabs at the guy and jumped back, and Ryu was able to catch the name of the guy Dayan was fighting. His name was Doug Rivera and was a rank 6 fighter. Both fighters eyes were locked onto one another, the crowd seemed to be thrilled by the show, but then Dayan’s mouth began to move and Ryu couldn’t keep up with it, Doug smiled at what Dayan said. Dayan clenched his fists and his legs began to shape into something different, his face was being taken over by new spots of hair. Doug on the other hand had a gold plated armor on him with a Greek sword to match his armor. The two had transformed and were using Armorth; Dayan looked like a werewolf with silver hair and Doug a gladiator. The two began to speed things up of course Dayan not having any heavy armor on was much quicker but Doug’s Armorth covered him well. This lasted for five minutes has the two exchanged blows and charged one another again and again. Ryu all of a sudden read “White-Fang” from Dayan’s lips, has Dayan disappeared from view. Doug’s armor was ripped from the back and the front, Dayan was moving now at a quicker pace than before, having the upper hand on speed, giving Doug the final blow, the hit connected leaving Doug with a black spot on the surface of his skin. The match was over, Ryu was amazed by these two fighters and missed Cross’ and Randy’s matches. He was able to find Ray now with red hair and with an orange armor; he looked almost feline especially with a whip that had thorns. Ray was fighting Enmor Solace another 6th ranked fighter. But the fight didn’t last like Dayan’s had; Ray seemed to have no control over his guardian and reappeared in back of his opponent with his whip spinning rapidly letting go of a red lightning. The matches were over; Ryu’s squad had gone to the semi-finals to challenge one another now. Of course there were other fights going on like Pilot’s squad and Roy’s squad as well. But Ryu then noticed the two small-fries that attacked him and Cross the day he met Zepar. “ Hey , you set it all up , didn’t you” as he screams to Roy , who was now wondering what is all the commotion about, looks at the screen and realizes he has been caught , “Well no need to get angry , I simply had to see if you were a Flux or a Kenton and it proved true . It has happened where there have been times when we’ve had Kentons be Elites of course” Roy tells Ryu. “You see it is also hard for you to be in a life or death situation that is controlled, like it was in that attack .I did it for your own good,” Roy states trying t
o calm Ryu down. Kiter’s squad has also gotten to the semi-finals but Ryu’s thought get interrupted by an announcement on the loud-speaker which requires for him to go to arena 5, he was being challenged.
Ch.8
“Hello brother long times no see” voiced a 6 foot figure from the other side of the special room from where the Elites watch the tournament, “Indeed , brother , but tell me what brings you here?” responds Roy standing up and looking into Serot’s blood-shot eyes “Honestly , you have learned to control Armorth better than before . I’d like to thank you for waiting all this time until my young comrade left,” “Well you see, he is one of the reasons why I came here to talk to you about,” Serot takes a seat and begins to talk, “You see I’m wondering why out of all the 9th graders in this school and all over the world did you pick this one little brother. Do you think he is the one to have as a lab rat or can he be the one you’re looking for to try finding the sphere? It’d be a shame if I had to break out of that dump and came all this way, for you to tell me that I might be wrong.” Roy tries to relax since he knows Serot has become stronger than him but still lacks brains and decides to see what happens, Roy then begins to speak “Well brother, I see you haven’t forgotten of the stuff we dug up years ago that predicted a Armorth user would obtain the power of a sphere that’ll give him power to promote evil or good in the world. These being the case I also believe that you should conduct a bit more of research for me if you truly want my answers. Go to South America to the temple of Iris, nobody really knows where it’s actually located or if it exists. But go now Serot or you might put us both in jeopardy by your simple intrusion.” Serot tiered of being the henchmen replies to Roy “I always do the research and get in trouble. Don’t ever forget I remember you were the one who put me in that prison Roy,” but Roy knowing it was going to come down to this , makes a shrug and voice a simple comment to Serot that made him be on his way “ You killed those kids , and lost control of your guardian.” Now Serot being gone, Roy stood their alone in the room, while a small tear rolled down his eyes he muttered the words “That was the day I lost my brother.”
Ch.9
“Baby,” Alexis calls to Ryu, “I wish you the best of luck,” she lets him know and gives Ryu a good-luck kiss. “Don’t worry about it. I’m dying to test my strength,” remarks Ryu softly, “Well you better not lose!” Alexis states looking straight into his eyes, like a mother sending her son into the battlefield, Ryu gives her a farewell kiss and keeps moving towards the arena. And now the finalist in today’s 9th grade division is Cross, Ryu hears as he is a few steps from arena 5. He admits it to be a bit shocked to hear that Cross is the finalist, but he is more concentrated on who has challenged him. Stepping into the arena, filled with spot lights that nearly blinded him he sees the image of a 5’5 feet figure in the middle of the ring. The person is turned back and Ryu still can’t see who the guy really is until he reaches the middle and the figure turns around and his eyes are burning like a blue flame and his muscles are more ripped than ever. It all goes hazy for Ryu, since he has seen this person before but can’t seem to put the two images together to become one. Ryu doesn’t recall seeing this person shirtless in fact he is the only one from his squad, that was wearing a long sleeve shirt, he recalled. It’s funny because on top of all this he hasn’t seen the squad member smile for a while, especially not with that wicked smile he has on now. “Hello Ryu honey,” mentions Cross with a soft grin, “You see I couldn’t let myself ruin the surprise, especially that look on your face it’s remarkable. Of course I had to train a bit rough to be able to beat the squad you put together. I have to admit bud you do know how to put a team together,” Ryu then responds “I see, so I take it you’re the one that figured out how to use his Armorth on the second day huh? So are you going to tell me what this is about?” Cross now takes a step forward to be more up close and replies “Well you see. I wanted to see if you had what it takes to be an Elite. Plus it doesn’t take from the fact that we’ve been rivals every since that day, we were attacked. You weren’t the only one that met his guardian.” This all begins to sink into Ryu but the announcer’s voice cuts right through his thoughts “Now begin,” and the two boys take corners. Cross calls upon his Armorth and turns black with a small sort of armor on his body, an angel painted on each fist, his hair now blue to match his eyes. Ryu does the same and this time Zepar’s face is imprinted on his right hand and the armor appears, Ryu’s hair also turns red to match his eyes. Both friends look into each other’s eyes, as if fire and ice were being pressed together. One dodging the attacks of the other, none have hit their target, Ryu jumps throwing his left knee towards Cross’s chin only to be blocked by a fist and tossed back. Finally Cross tells himself I got him, “Nice one,” declares Ryu “But it’s time we show our real strength don’t you think?” Cross now looks at him with a smirk and implies “How did you know?” “Well you’re my best friend; I’m doing it too,” answers Ryu. Both fighters begin to enrage, now it’s finally going to come to an end they think, the ring begins to receive tiny holes from the pressure. The spectators watching all this thrilled of who is going to win as they can’t see the kid’s next moves, watching from above is Kiter trying to get a clue of how strong Ryu is. “Black sun” screams Ryu a black ball begins to grow at his palm and charges at Cross , in the meantime Cross takes a step back and makes some type of summoning and mist begins to appear all over . Ryu now blinded by his enemy begins to move fast along the ring tossing his black sun attacks were he pleases. “A thousand swords of ice” speaks Cross like a whisper, Ryu now realizing something is wrong looks up high above to find his buddy and gets hit by an icicle to his left arm.