THE GRAND FITE WEEK FINALE!
The winners of the week are here to see who is the strongest. Some whispers of friendship have permeated amongst the rabble, but unless that friendship involves decapitation or disemboweling, this ain't the place for it! This is FITE Yer' Mates! So Sarah, Jonesy, Jaxx, Eddie and James, Alex the Janitor and WarMech-Z, get ready to FITE YER' MATES!!!
Jonesy and the two linked competitors move to opposite sides of Jaxx, while Sarah, Alex, and the Warmech stand in a group in front of him. Jaxx laughs.
"How expected."
The fite begins.
WarMech-Z launches up into the air, firing upon Jaxx with lasers, Crash Bombs, and oh? What's this? My my WarMech-Z, you dirty rotten scoundrel! You are firing your machine guns, Metal Blades, and Bubble Lead as well! This of course results in immediate congratulations, because around here parts of a robot's body aren't really weapons, it's his own self! The bullet, bombs, bubbles, blades, and beams all sail directly towards Jaxx, who doesn't attempt to dodge. Instead, he grabs all of the ammo, even the laser, and spins around, hurling them back at WarMech. WarMech-Z turns on his fan, trying to blow away the ammo, but only manages to prevent the Crash Bombs from hitting him.
WarMech-Z tumbles out of the air in a fiery mess as Eddie and James take advantage of the distraction to restrict Jaxx with the cord that runs between them. Jaxx's hands are forced to his side as Eddie and James begin to strike him repeatedly with their axe and lance. These blows manage to make Jaxx bleed, but before they could do any real damage, Jaxx snaps the binding.
"That cord was a ridiculous idea anyway."
Grabbing both ends of the now broken cord, Jaxx begins to swing Eddie and James above his head. The two spin faster than the eye can see, but what the eye can see is a beam of ice coming out of the twirling turtle and freezing Jaxx in place. The suddenly frozen Jaxx stopped swinging and the roadie and reptile are flung loose from his grip. Both slam against the wall at other sides of the arena, Eddie colliding with Jonesy who was trying to rush towards Jaxx to join the assault. The two tumble back, Eddie getting nicked by the psionic blade.
Alex positions himself behind Jaxx and was about to ram Excalibur into the frozen Jaxx when the ice shattered. Jaxx's own blade is drawn from his chest and slammed against Excalibur, producing sparks of unholy and demonic energy. Alex jumps back and tries again, once more being deflected by the Devil's blade. Sarah takes advantage of the flynning to close the otherwise dangerous distance between her and Jaxx, casting protective spells on herself and Alex as she ran. When she was within range, Jaxx disappeared.
WarMech-Z was busy trying to regenerate from his wounds when Jaxx appeared in front of him.
"It's a shame you were so easy too kill. You look pretty badass."
WarMech-Z was about to point out that he was alive and might be kicking once his legs healed, but Jaxx suddenly grabbed the mech from behind with one arm and slammed the Devil's Blade into the machines optics with the other. The mech's insides begin to overheat, and both minds that make up the machine realized they had no hope of winning anymore. So, they aimed their weapons skyward, firing all their ammo upward in hopes that a rain of various weapons would be able to do more than they had tried to do in the fite. The fan, powered still by the wind crystal, whipped up a mighty tornado, but Jaxx seemed unaffected by the wind. The tornado blew past them, going towards the other competitors.
"Are you done?" Jaxx says, as the blade of the devil finally finishes off the combination robot.
Sarah and Alex had finished properly buffing themselves. They had failed to harm Jaxx the first time, and WarMech-Z paid for it. The couple was now properly prepared though, so they ran towards Jaxx, prepared to avenge their fallen ally.
"You mad? You would be. You goody-two shoes knew this was coming, but you need someone to blame. I was too happy to oblige"
Jaxx taunts the two blond fiters charging towards him. Sarah was using the hammer to launch thunderbolts towards him, but he deflected them effortlessly. Alex tried to cast some earth magic, but the earth that pushed up from beneath Jaxx was held down by his incredible strength.
The massive tornado the mech had made roars towards James, who was hobbling towards the battle. The landing had sprained his ankle, but he wasn't overly harmed. Too bad he was about to spin around again, because the cyclone lifted him up into the air. James pulled into his shell in a move that definitely was not Withdraw, but prevented him from feeling the pain of the strong winds. He was hurled out of the tornado towards Eddie and Jonesy, who had taken up arms against each other. They had mutually agreed beforehand to have an honorable fite, ending with a literal knock out rather than gory bloodshed.
James sailed towards Eddie, but a quick Hydro Pump helped move his course towards Jonesy instead. Jonesy tries to smack James away, but the speed of his propulsion from the vortex was greater than her reflexes. James glanced off her helmet, sending Jonesy to the ground and James into an odd ricochet.
Jaxx and Alex, meanwhile, were flynning again, Excalibur and the devil's blade uselessly deflecting each other. Sarah once more placed herself behind Jaxx. She and Alex had planned this assault style, allowing Sarah to hurt Jaxx without being within his reach. However, the area around Jaxx was not a good place to be currently. The last shots of the WarMech were falling back down, some falling rather uselessly (the leaves) while other began to tear into the flesh of the three fiters. Jaxx grimaced as Bubble Lead plops down onto his head, but he didn't try to dodge. Alex and Sarah, though, were scurrying about like mice who thought the floor was lava.
Jonesy had got up and swung her weapon at Eddie, slicing Eddie's Separator. Part of one of the axe's blades is sheared off by the blue blade of the halberd. Eddie quickly spun the axe around, slamming it into the pole of Nemesis. The weapon flies out of Jonesy's grip, landing in the dirt. Jonesy tried to go retrieve it, but James has returned and is blocking the path. He readies his cannons. Eddie readies his axe. Jonesy readies her fists.
After the rain of ammo, Alex and Sarah resumed their assault. Jaxx was hit by thunderbolts in his back and Excalibur in his front. He began to bounce between the young fiters, getting hit by one and then the other. Jaxx began to spin in a circle, trying to hit them with his blade, but Alex managed to knock it away with Excalibur. The Devil's Blade fell to the ground, leaving Jaxx wide open.
Alex leaped towards Jaxx, trying to stab into Jaxx's stomach. Sarah leaped towards Jaxx, Thor's Hammer poised to pound the Sentinel's head. Electricity crackled from her hammer, and holy magic made whatever sound it makes from Alex's sword. Jaxx grins, and a split second before the two would have hit him, he disappears.
Even though Jaxx was gone, Sarah and Alex had been moving towards the same point too quickly to stop in time.
"There, no revivals today."
He tossed the blackened corpse of Alex aside. Sarah still tried to revive it, but the spell is useless.
"Don't worry doll, I can undue it. But you'll have to kill me first."
Sarah looks at Jaxx. He would pay. He would pay dearly.
Jonesy would be dead right now if it wasn't for her armor. Long white gashes in the otherwise red armor betrayed the fact she was not trying to dodge the axe blows. Dents in her armor showed the points where a lance had struck uselessly against it. Eddie and James looked very different. Purple bruises showed where strong punches from metal gloves had rocked them. Their mouths, opened in grunts or screams, revealed missing teeth. They had underestimated Jonesy's strength, and their dental health had paid for it.
James abandoned his lance, trying to use Nemesis himself. But something about the weapon wasn't right. It had a strange essence in it, one that Eddie might have recognized as the one that transformed him immediately in their fite against the robots. But now, the essence seemed to allow James to raise the weapon with ease, but it also made him act strange. James charged towards both Jonesy and Eddie, trying to hit both with the weapon he shouldn't have been able to wield.
Sarah's hammer was a blur as it swung about, never stopping as it tried to make contact with Jaxx's head. He floated about, each time making sure to be just an inch out of the way of the blow to help further aggravate the mage. He wasn't even swinging his own blade. He was having too much fun.
Sarah realized what Jaxx was doing though, and decided to let the hammer spark out wildly when it was close to Jaxx's face again. Although she ended up having to drop the hammer from the shock, Jaxx was also disarmed when the shock shocked him. The Devil's Blade and Thor's Hammer fell to the ground, but Sarah did not retrieve her weapon. She lifted the Devil's Blade, and retrieved Excalibur in one quick movement. She stood before Jaxx, dual wielding both a weapon of light and darkness. Jaxx didn't betray his worry, but it was all too obvious that this did not bode well for him.
Sarah swung forward with both blades, but Jaxx was still to fast. He dodged easily, reverting back to his trademark long-range punches as his preferred method of attack. The blows glanced off her Protect spell though, and the shell itself seemed to be strengthened by the blades. Sarah began to float, but not because of Float. The blades were working together, creating a powerful neutral strength. The force sensed Jaxx and his neutrality. The blades hungered to absorb the neutrality. Sarah flew forward, pulled towards Jaxx by the blades.
Jaxx tried one of his lightning quick movements, but to the blades, his motions were slow. They had no trouble lodging into his sides. The Devil's Blade plunged into his right flank, Excalibur into his left. The swords froze him there, and he struggled to remove them, but he found them sapping his strength. Sarah landed in front of him, looking up at the Sentinel struggling to remove the swords. She walked back a few steps, and began to cast a Holy spell.
"This is for Alex."
She quickly turned around, fearing he wasn't actually dead. The spot on his forehead was the same one that the sheep's skull had rested on. Jaxx's lips begin to move, but it wasn't his voice.
"Sarah, would you like to know true Despair?"
Despair had almost too much to work with now that it had Sarah in its grasp. A mom who had abandoned her at birth, a lover whom she had just accidentally killed herself, a general aversion to unnecessary violence. Despair had to think a while for what the best approach would be, and it believed it had the perfect scenario.
Sarah found herself in the arena. The sheep skeleton was behind her, shattered and useless. Around her, the bodies of her friends lay. Alex, Jonesy, Eddie, WarMech-Z and James were all dead. Jaxx was nowhere to be found though, but she didn't register that. She noticed the crowd though. Apparently, the sheep skeleton had went on a rampage, devouring the spectators. Erebus, Sine, Designate, Saberwulf, even Celestia and Fang Four were bloody messes. Sarah began to try and heal people, but for some reason, she couldn't remember how. She tried a Life spell, but her arms shot up uselessly without a spell to accompany them.
She tried again and again, she tried Cure, Holy, every spell she knew. The spells weren't working. She couldn't remember white magic.
She looked for her sisters, and predictably found their corpses. She looked for healers, and found everyone dead. Even the host and referee were dead. She was the last one left. She was alone. In the world of Despair, Sarah broke down crying.
Back in the actual arena, Eddie and Jonesy had teamed up in a desperate struggle to subdue James without killing him. Eddie used Clementine to heal himself and Jonesy, who had both received nasty wounds from the wild James's rampage. James noticed the guitar's powers, and tried to lash out at the instrument, but he was intercepted by Jonesy.
Jonesy, Erebus's girlfriend. The essence in James saw something to cling onto. James began to realize that Jonesy had taken his best friend away from him, and she did it with no shame. She wouldn't even have Erebus if he hadn't warmed Erebus's heart as a Squirtle. James was tossed aside as soon as a pretty face distracted Erebus. Well, Erebus wouldn't have a broad if he could take her out, and then he could just blame it on this "essence" everyone was talking about. Yes, that sounded good.
James quickly used his cannons to blast Eddie away with water so he could have Jonesy to himself. Jonesy reached out and tried to grab her weapon back, but found the halberd slicing off her arm's armor. She pulled back in time to save the arm, but it was now exposed and comparatively weak. Jonesy begins to circle James, trying to keep her armor-clad left arm between James and herself. James lashes forward with Nemesis, only for Jonsey to knock it away and kick down at the turtle's legs. He fell to his knees, allowing Jonesy to grab the cord on his waist ring and pull him in to a headbutt. James fell back unconscious, but the essence had no trouble taking full control of the body.
Jonesy barely managed to recover the halberd when James stood back up and blasted her with both water and ice simultaneously. She was launched backwards, but before the Blastoise can try and go reclaim Nemesis, the Separator's broadside slams into James's broad side and pushes him down to the ground.
James is about to stand back up when the loud bleat of the skeleton sheep reaches his ears. The essence trembles, remembering the teeth of the ungulate digging into its ethereal form. James stands up and changes his focus to the sheep, wildly firing both water and ice at it now. The blasts cause the bones of the sheep to separate, but they began to fly towards James at an alarming rate. James tries to run, but he doesn't get far. He is surrounded by a sphere of floating sheep bones, which then hurtle towards him, puncturing even his tough shell.
Meanwhile, a white mage has stopped sobbing in an alternate realm.
Sarah stood up, her eyes red, but her heart hardened. She may not be able to do anything, but no one who had died here would want her to cry over it. She looks at the dismantled skeleton of the sheep. It began to reform.
"You. You killed everyone without remorse. I thought you were just a cute little sheep, albeit a bit odd. But no, you are coldblooded. I saw what happened to Jaxx in his fite. I know what you are doing. This can't be real. We aren't that weak. We could take you down. I could take you down."
Despair struggled to change the situation or at least stop the mage, but it couldn't. Around Sarah, a massive airship formed, atop which she stood wielding both Excalibur and Thor's Hammer. This was no longer Despair's illusion. For Sarah, this thing just got lucid.
Back in the real world, the sheep ran about chasing the unseen essence. It needed a host, and quick. It considered Eddie again, but the roadie had done pretty poorly when it had possessed him last time. It saw the woman in Firebat armor. It knew Nemesis was a powerful weapon, so it would probably find a great host in someone who actually was supposed to use it. It floated towards Jonesy as fast as it could, but it found itself suddenly bisected by the flat teeth of the sheep skeleton.
The essence abandoned its other half to the sheep as it tried to float towards Jonesy. It was too weak to continue though, causing it to sink into the dirt uselessly.
Again, the sheep appeared to be chewing cud. Jonesy and Eddie knew an opportunity when they saw one. Eddie, this time by his own volition, shifted into his demon form, allowing him to carry both his axe and Jonesy up and above the skeleton. The two briefly considered how to go about attacking it, seeing as how the body was wiry and hard to land on. The skull was the obvious answer.
Back inside of the alternate realm within the sheep's nonexistent gullet, Sarah's airship flew towards the skeletal sheep, eventually pinning it against a wall. Despair tried to remove the wall from the illusion, but Sarah kept it there, her will beating out the embodiment of Despair. When the skeleton was pinned, Sarah leaped down and slammed her hammer and sword into the sheep's skull, destroying the skeleton effortlessly. Sarah began to stab into the ground, tearing the illusion apart with the weapons formed of her will.
Despair struggled to fite the young mage, sending combatants after her in an attempt to distract her. Jaxx, the Lord of the Night, even a zombified Alex fell too swiftly to her superior strength of mind.
Back in the real world, the sheep had finished eating and had noticed its flying foes. The two were forced to dodge about in the air as it attacked with floating bones. Tiny bones pried off bits of Jonesy's armor so they could dig into the vulnerable flesh beneath it. Eddie's axe and guitar were knocked too the ground, where bones began to try and break them apart, but something made them fall limp. Something was making the sheep skeleton weak, its movements became jerky and its bones began to disappear.
Eddie and Jonesy saw their chance. They didn't know Sarah was weakening its power from within, but they did know that the skull was left wide open for Eddie to drop the marine on. Jonesy landed on the back of the bony ungulate's skull. She readied Nemesis, but the skeleton around her tumbled as more and more of it disappeared. Jonesy stumbled, but thankfully, Nemesis plunged directly into the back of the sheep's skull.
Jonesy lands ungracefully on the ground. What she didn't know, was that the beneath the ground, the tiny bit of the essence that the sheep had separated was waiting for her there. It immediately squirmed into her. Its influence was weak, but enough to make Jonesy ready to fite the two remaining competitors. Eddie lands next to her and helps her out, only to find Nemesis swung at him.
"Alright, if that's how it going to be, then LET'S DO THIS!"
Eddie flaps his wings and takes off to retrieve the axe and guitar he had dropped. Sarah tested her magic by curing herself. It worked, and she relaxed. She was worried her victory against Despair could have been an illusion of Despair's doing, but it seemed real. She stood up, seeing Jonesy and Eddie. Jonesy seemed a little too willing to continue the fite. She sighed, and prepared to fite the blonde marine.
Jonesy felt odd, but she knew that Erebus was watching, and he'd love to see her win, right? She should try her hardest, give no quarter. If she lost, Erebus would worry.
These thoughts motivated her actions, and even the essence only barely had to pry at them to make her fite. Eddie had retrieved his weapon and instrument, and flew back over his opponent, swinging at her helmet with his axe.The helmet took the blow like a pro, but Eddie's position above her allowed Jonesy to jump up and grab the roadie's leg. Eddie shook off his boot, causing the marine to fall back down with only a hand full of footwear.
Sarah began to cast protective spells on Eddie from afar, hoping to help without having to dirty her hands too much with violence. She really didn't want to hurt Jonesy, but she worked her way towards her discarded hammer just in case.
Eddie came by for another pass, but this time, Separator didn't make contact at all with Jonesy. Instead, the weapon was sliced in half by Nemesis. The two halves of the axe slipped from his hands. Eddie looked down with shock, but that brief moment of looking also let him see the marine jump up again, pulling him down by both legs.
Eddie landed on the ground and felt his right demonic wing get stabbed with the halberd. Jonesy slammed Eddie down by jamming his wing into the ground. Eddie tried to move his wing, but the halberd was too deeply lodged into the ground. Jonesy got on top of him and tried to slam her metal fist into his face, but his own arm reached up and grabbed it before she could.
"Usually I'd be happy to have a pretty lady on me like this, but I think..."
He was cut off when Jonesy's bare arm slammed into his mouth. Eddie decided to bite down, causing Jonesy to pull away. He pulled his legs back and kicked, barely able to move the armored marine off his body. He tried to stand up, but doing so caused Nemesis to rip a big hunk out of his right wing.
He flapped his wings, but the wings were now drastically different in size. He couldn't fly anymore. Eddie pulled out Clementine, his trusty guitar, as Jonesy tried to begin her assault again.
"Sorry Jonesy, you and Erebus better not hate me for this!"
Eddie backpeddled as he played a very specific song. Jonesy charged towards him, but found her progress impeded by a magic spell. Holy appeared in front of her, causing her to stop and try to run around it. Sarah used a few more holy spells to give Eddie time to play his song.
The song ends. Nothing seems to happen. Sarah looks at Eddie, worried that something went wrong.
Then the roof breaks away. A massive zeppelin, made of a post-transition metal with an atomic number of 82, crashes through the ceiling and onto Jonesy.
The two nod, ready to tell the host that they were not going to fite any further. They were ready to accept a friendship victory for the both of them.
That's when the essence squirmed into Eddie. Eddie recognized the feeling, and before Sarah could announce their decision, he begins to speak.
"Sarah, I feel it. That essence is in me again."
"What? No! Come on, lets announce friendship before it can take over."
"No Sarah. I can already feel it. You have to kill me now."
"What?! No! We are so close!"
"Just do it Sarah! Kill me, before this turns into a bloodbath! I don't want to hurt you either, so end this before it gets bloody!"
Sarah begins to tear up. She didn't want to be in this fite, and she definitely did not want to kill Eddie now that the end was so close. But he was right. That essence would make this fite worse than hers with Draco if she didn't stop it now. She raises her arms in the air as she casts one last Holy spell.
Eddie flashes her a thumbs up and a grin as the Holy spell begins to tear him apart.
"Jumpropeman. Get down here. We need to have a talk."
"Gezora doesn't think Jumpropeman will be able to do any talking..."
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