Chapter 37: Chapter 33: Trouble In Paradise
"They have Come to Relax! But most importantly...!"
The day has come. Alice could be on her way to the airport with her family and they will not be able to see her for the next 14-18 days. In the meantime, the group of teens was going to train inside Omega whether it is training in a group using DOBI or inside of the Game.
Speaking of it...
Richard managed to dodge three Frisbee with spikes around it before these started homing on him.
"That's not good." The brown-haired boy using his speed ran away from them before these follow suit with increasing speed. Although they weren't fast they could pick up the pace with him but not entirely too outspeed the brown-haired leader of Team Omega. Nevertheless, the boy went inside a building to hide from them. Richard hid in one of the many office tables. He could hear the humming sound of the Frisbee trying to find their target. A few seconds passed before the boy could hear the weapons go away as the sound of the Frisbee fade away slowly. The boy sighed in relief. Boy, he managed to dodge that bullet...or is it Frisbee? He might be...to his surprise the Frisbee appeared in front of him as if it was anticipating him to come. Luckily, for the brown-haired teenage boy, a pink blast of energy obliterated the weapon before said weapon sliced his face off.
"Richard, are you okay?!" The concerned pink-haired teen asked.
"Yeah, you really save me there." Answered the brown-haired boy. Many spiked Frisbees surrounded them before they dodged them. One of them was blown by Aeris before one of them sneaked by.
"Core Shift: Wall!" Aeris was bracing herself but the brown-haired boy shifted to his wall form and the Frisbee shattered after colliding with the hard steel heavy fan. "Take This!" He did a mighty swing to send the remaining 6 packings.
"I guess we're even."
"Y-Yeah." The boy seems to have improved as a wall but still lacks the skills to be a competitive supporter or powerhouse. He, at the start, seemed to lack as a sniper too by Frederick's words but he seemed to have gotten the hang of that form. Magical is unknown as they have only focused on the others. Not to mention that is a new class so it might take a while before even she can be a master. Her childhood friend is amazing, so much...
"Anyway, is a good thing I'm not the only scouter here." He is correct they decided to have two for this match and the 4th member is...
"Damn, I thought he used his core shifts already!" Team Omega's opponent a black haired teen with silver with neon green shirt and pants wearing a backpack said. He thought that he used all of them and thought that speed was the option he took for the remaining of the game.
"Is alright we can catch them later Hud." Said a boy with blonde hair dressed in a gold gladiator outfit with a sword and shield in hand.
"There won't be a later time, boys!" Said a female voice before a mist surrounded them.
"What the!" Just suddenly a static line hit Hud eliminating him from the competition.
"Hud!!"
"Team Prime's sniper has been defeated." The cat lady announcer said. Because of the white mist, the gladiator who is the leader of the group was on his own. He did saw the shadow of someone until it was too late.
"Game over." Said the same voice. Now with kunai sword in his throat it the mist started to dissipate revealing that he was surrounded by two girls. The ninja knew as Yuma and the samurai known as Adel before Yuma with her speed slashed the boy eliminating him and giving the victory to Team Omega.
"Team Pride's Core has been defeated, Team Pride is eliminated. Final Result...Team Omega Wins!!!"
Teleporting back to the real world Adel, Aeris, Yuma, and Richard came out of the three glowing blue tubes.
"Great job guys." Said Frederick, in which Richard replied with a wide grin and a thumbs up.
"It was really fun!"
"Good teamwork."
"Yeah, thou I actually wish we had a powerhouse." The boy seemingly has forgotten...
"Is that so...?" That a powerhouse is behind him...and is on the same team as him...in fact she played a major role in their victory.
"Ah, I mean! I'm sorry Adel, it just I am used to seeing Alice being our default choice when it comes to powerhouse!" The boy quickly said panicking trying to calm the dark flare that the short-haired teen from Berlin was emitting. While she hasn't played many games she is still in a sense his mentor until Alice returned. She has made sure that the boy will be offensive but at the same time have a calm nature. While powerhouses are known for their brute strength you can't always be reckless in battle on that class. You have to have a strategy and be sure to strike a critical blow that will end the match instantly.
"Ah say why don't we get something to eat? I know a certain leader of ours must be hungry." Aeris are you a psychic? Because as soon as she said those words the brown-haired stomach responded accordingly. After a moment of silence and being saved by his childhood friend for the second time this afternoon the boy quickly spoke.
"Boy am I hungry!"
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"So these are the ones who will represent France for the Omega World Team Tournament, Huh?" said a man. He was a tall 29 years old, dressed in a sleeveless black shirt, and yellow swimming trunks as if he was going to the beach for some reason. It has the logo of two palms and in beach sand with water behind. There are letters in front of it that said "Team Paradise". His shirt also has the logo but bigger and on the back say "Is The Way Of Life". He was a bit tanned with long black hair that was in dreadlocks. His eyes a very bright green while his personality is a bit shill but at the same time friendly you know someone you could hang out, ride the waves and become best buds along the way.
"Even if they are young they shouldn't be underestimated."
Said a woman. She was 24 years old with long blonde hair that reached her waist and light brown eyes. She was dressed in a short-sleeve white shirt, Short blue jeans that are at half knee-length, and Dark blue sandals. Like the one with the dreadlocks, the logo was on her shirt.
"She is right we shouldn't underestimate them, mahn." Another male said. This one was younger than the other two at the age of 21 with a big black afro style hair and brown eyes. He was dressed in a black sleeveless shirt and yellow with green long pants like those used by a professional basketball player that has the team's logo, and white sneakers.
"Shall we go?" A very small girl said in a childish tone. She was the youngest of the four at 13. She has short snow-white long hair that is put into two-sided ponytails and ruby eyes. She was dressed in a long sleeves pink shirt with the sleeves colored in gray. Her jeans were light blue while her slippers were crystal pink. Unlike the others, she has a necklace made of gold that has the name of the team inscription on it, and inside is the photo of all members. Like the others, she also had tanned skin. The group went inside the one place that was becoming now Team Omega's hangout place.
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"Man That hits the spot!" They wonder if they need another member. At this rate...their leader might already have taken two spots. Jokes aside, they wonder who should they pick as their default Magical? Should they just announce that they are looking for a member?! But they don't have any channel nor are sponsored...if you count working for Omega Corp. sponsoring I guess...Maybe they are...
"So how do we find our magical? I mean should we just ask people?"
"It will be easy but then we will have to look for hundreds if not thousands of players. Remember our leader is last year's Omega Singles World Champion." Aeris pointed out.
"Aw come on! Don't discredit yourselves you guys, we're a team even before we were!" Their brown-haired leader had a point they did became a team in Omega even before Richard, Alice and Frederick had the idea of teaming up.
"Even so, a former champion on a team is more recognizable than the team itself even if the team has experienced team players." For Adel, that's the sad truth of life. People only recognize those who either have a big channel on the Great Amazonia T.V., celebrities of all kinds, Or they have a former world champion on it or even a former team champion member itself. You're either famous by name or you're just a sidekick. Luckily, they have a leader that doesn't care about any of that. He is just a teen that wants to have fun in the game that he loves. Win, lose, draw as long as he has fun Richard is happy.
"We interrupted this program to give you this important news. We have an update about yesterday in the afternoon thieves. After questions to the Lieutenant of the P.E.P.A. Group, Lieutenant Azmia, we have now known that the group called themselves LeGrace the famous known group of criminal terrorists that work for an even bigger organization lead by former Soldier of The International Military of France and former P.E.PA. Admiral himself, Rusher "Cross" LeGrace. "Cross" a given code-name by P.E.PA. Left the group after the controversial Project M.I.S.T. Scandal where a group of scientists, admirals, and even some lieutenants and colonels used humans as experiments by inducing them with a chemical known as The M.I.S.T. For the protection of some viewers, we will not show the graphical images that were taken during said experimentation but we will be able to show some audios we advised that if you have children near you that you cover your children ears or send them somewhere if you do not want them to have nightmares or change the channel. For those with a weak heart, we also advise to change the channel and come back later in 15 minutes for the sports news and weather."
'What are you doing!? No! Turn it back on!' *screams of panic*
'We need it! This M.I.S.T. Give us more!!!'
'Who're you?'
'...I am one with him...I will consume everything and...anything...I am...M.I.S.T.'
"Sometimes I am glad I have stayed here in France instead of following Pops' steps," Frederick mentioned. If this was what he will end up being one day if he ever joins the army...then he rather wants to get a normal job anywhere else.
Richard, on the other hand, was in deep thought. He doesn't know why but he has this feeling...what that Kula girl mentioned...Freedom? Is this the "Freedom" she was talking about?
"It makes you wonder how dangerous our world is, despite the advanced technology that we have today." Just how dangerous can those two be?
"Richard?" He looks to see Aeris looking at him in concern.
"Hmm?"
"Are you alright, Rick? I know that audio also creeps me the hell out, but..."
"Oh, I'm fine! You are right it was kind of creepy." The group was looking at their leader. Not even a single word was said during this...It wasn't that they had no idea what to say, far from it they could press further a bit but it might turn to an awkward conversation and might lead to animosity which is the last thing they need right now. Something was bothering him they just can't think of it what it is. It could be anything honestly, from the legendary pieces to the previous incident they got in. Maybe the pressure of a leader is getting to him.
"Huh?" They all heard a ringtone. Some of them didn't recognize it, however, Frederick and Aeris did because that is the ringtone that a certain red-haired teen uses or to be specific chose for them to use as a ringtone...Probably because it has the...
'Nyahm!' That.
"Is Alice isn't it?" Frederick said to him saving him from further embarrassment as some people were looking at their direction and even Adel, Yuma, and Genre in a way were raising their eyebrows for the brown-haired teens' choice of ringtone.
"Y-Yeah." that's all he said before picking it up and as predicted the red-haired Japanese beauty's frame appeared on the holographic screen.
"Hey Everyone!"
"Oh hey Alice, what's up?"
"Nothing much just minutes away from departing. So what are you doing?"
"Not much waiting for dessert." Alice got a feeling that food was going to be on his topic.
"Figures." Richard tilted his head confused. Nevertheless, pass it to Aeris.
"Hello Alice, hope you have a safe trip."
"Thank you, Aeris. Adel make sure to not give him an easy time, okay?"
"Oh do not worry about that I'll make sure he never forgets." The way the short-haired Berlin native said it in a way that tensed her leader. She is still taking being somewhat ignored by him to harsh, HE WAS SORRY!!! Alice, on the other hand, had a question mark multiplying on her head but shrug it.
"Reap what you sow." Genre simply said sensing the tense Rhythm of the brown-haired boy and the high presumably angry Rhythm of her Alpha partner.
"O...Kay, try not to kill him, the last thing we need is finding a new leader." Alice told. She had a feeling that if she didn't say this Adel might just have sent Richard to the hospital or even the morgue.
"Anyway, We went into a game today."
"Oh really against who."
"It was a free for all, we won."
"It was awesome!" Chimed in Richard through the background.
"We manage to win it after devising a strategy to lure the last team. It wasn't easy to scout their whereabouts so Aeris thought that they will go after Richard if he went "unprotected" by us." Yuma explained.
"Oh I see, so by splitting and leaving Richard alone they thought they could defeat him before you guys got there."
"Pretty much, they kind of underestimated how good he is when he gets into it," Frederick told her.
"If it wasn't for Aeris getting there in time It wouldn't have worked. Also, Yuma scouting was crucial in the match. Not to mention Aeris took down an entire team on her own along with Adel." Richard said crediting his team. Typical Richard there.
"Sorry to interrupt." said someone. They looked at the voice to see Team Paradise...well three of them.
"Hey!! I can't see!! I can't see!!" Said the girl with the side ponytails jumping desperately and impatiently to see Team Omega up close. She decided to grab the dreadlocks of the bright green eyes man in a comical matter and started climbing on his shoulder using his dreadlocks as leverage. "Hi!!" said the girl smiling while she grabbed the man's neck.
"Er, Hi?" The brown-haired said confused about the group that is now in front of them.
"Um, guys?" Alice said not being able to see who they were talking too until Aeris rose the C.C. So she can take a good look at it.
"Team Paradise..." Frederick ponders for a moment before realizing who they are. "Aren't you the winners of the representation tournament in Jamaica." Someone climbed up on the shoulders of the man with the dreadlocks. Unfortunately, she uses his very own dreadlocks to climb there.
"Ouch!" Yuma told with a sweatdrop, the others followed suit.
"Zelda!" The man with the dreadlocks yelled glaring at the childish girl who puffed her cheeks.
"I couldn't see, not my fault!" Sometimes she can be...!
"Sorry about that, My name is Ayana Chantal." The woman with long hair said.
"Hello, dudes I'm Noah Zackary." The one with the afro style told the group of teens.
"He is Arcus Barrington and The girl on his shoulder is Zelda Destiny."
"We heard from you. You were very dominant in your tournament."
"Yep, we also know about you. You are being hyped all over the world as the team who has a name that has a big legacy behind it." It is a name based on the previous team who happens to have the title of the best championship team to ever be built. But why would they come here?
"Well is nice meeting you all I'm Richard Kurosagi..."
"We know, you're Frederick, and Aeris, Yuma, Adel, and Genre!" Zelda told signaling to everyone, well everyone except a certain red-haired dark skin.
"Hmm, there seems to be someone missing in your group," Arcus said.
"Oh yes, she is right here." Aeris lift the C.C. As Team Paradise see Alice.
"Hello there, I'm Alice Hishikawa, I, Er I'm kind of out on my way to Japan."
"Japan?" Why would the girl go there? Albeit, it is where the World Tournament will be held but is still July...late July to be exact.
"I kind of...had to go, family issues and all." The red-haired explained. She seems to say it in a very forced voice like she didn't want to even go there...hmm well they won't ask any further don't want to be rude to her.
"I see, well hope you have a safe trip."
"Thank you, Miss Chantal."
"So why is Jamaica's Representation Champions doing here?" The black-haired boy asked.
"Oh, that's easy!! We want to challenge you to a game!" Zelda Enthusiastically told the group.
"Zelda!" That was supposed to be a surprise. Upon realizing her "botch" the little girl cover her mouth in an oops motion. Unfortunately for her, her balance wasn't cooperating with her and she flails her arms away before she held Arcus dreadlocks must to the painful and dreadful fate of the man.
"MY DREADLOCKS!!!"
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After a painful minute of Zelda, Team Paradise sat down next to Team Omega.
"So you came here to challenge us to a battle?" Richard asked as they were walking towards the game Omega.
"Yes, mostly we were going to ask you to play a game with us as a preview to the Omega Team World Tournament. However, someone was a little impatient." Arcus said and glared at Zelda. Zelda puffed, and cross her arms like a childish girl.
"Ish, not my fault." Zelda simply pouted before looking away with puffed cheeks.
"Regardless, I don't think we would've had trouble since our leader is a little of an Omega battle maniac."
"Come on, I'm not that obsessed," Richard replied before everyone had looks of skepticism, eyes rolls, and looking away in another direction. "Aeris, I am not that obsessed, Am I?" Now he was just losing a bit of hope.
"Well, Um, you really love the game I give it that...Er, you want to improve too, and want to be a great leader." She was really trying her best to skip the question. However, the more she gave reasons the more it looked that he was indeed a bit obsessed with the game...maybe too much, this makes the boy sulk in a corner.
('Is it really that fast to destroy his spirit?') Chantal sweat-dropped she never knew that last Years Omega Singles World Champion could be so...sensitive about being seen as a battle maniac in a game.
"Richard's Rhythm...is diminishing." Said the blonde-haired small girl who took a spoon of a sundae. Chantal got more sweat-drops since the sundae was very big. How can someone as small as she is can eat a six-floor sundae with no problem?
"In any case, we can go after Genre finish her sundae," Yuma told them. She knows that it will be unwise to rush the blonde-haired teen to finish the sundae...that is the last thing she or any one of their friends or even opponents should do.
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Harry is watching Team Omega and other teams enter the game and getting ready for teleportation. He has trained to master his new form to a point that it has evolved into a new more powerful stage that the last time he and his rival met. He is sure that he can now defeat his rival even if he transforms into that dragon form he saw his rival have during the rescue of his sister.
"Brother." Speaking of her...
"Linnet." His sister has been visiting Emuna's home more often. Not like he cares who his sister see but he feels like it might be a bit safe to keep her on a curfew, especially when her friend is the owner of a legendary piece.
"Daddy said that he will leave for America for a few days, so we will be taken care of by his secretary." So Inès was going to watch over them until his father returns. There is still something that he needs to know, something that involves not only him but Richard Kurosagi as well.
"I see..." Linnet looks at the monitors to see Richard and his team.
"Are you looking at the dog? You know you shouldn't be bothered by him." That is true but...he needs to study more about his rival and his team. After the world tournament, he needs to demonstrate that he is the best in the world on both singles and team formats.
"You will understand one day when you have a rival." Linnet looks at him with question marks on her head before shrugging it off. Sometimes she doesn't understand her brother.
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Back inside the world that is known as Omega, The teams were set and teleported to the Arrow Forest.
"Richard we need you to stay with one of us. I suggest you go with Aeris since she can support you if needed. Yuma scout the area and tell us the whereabouts of our opponents especially of Team Paradise." Adel said to the group. She might not be the leader but she can come up with better strategies to keep them on longer games instead of luck chance even now that the format is World Representation until September where it will convert into World's Championship format.
"Got it!" Yuma uses her speed to scout the area.
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On the other side of the forest, Team Paradise was already taking care of players.
"Zelda you should keep yourself like that for a bit while. You can't underestimate Kurosagi." Arcus was dressed in a white sleeveless shirt, black jeans, and white sneakers. His weapon was a thin sword with a hilt that has a spike underneath it. Noah was a warrior with twin swords that are made of gold on his back. He was dressed in a brown shirt, short black pants, and brown shoes while his afro is cut short. Ayana was a Shawoman. She was dressed in a dark purple dress not too long so it will not get in her way of the fight. Her weapon was a staff with a crystal colored cubic on the top of the staff. Finally, Zelda the smallest of the group was an elf warrior dressed in a pink sleeveless shirt, light blue jeans, and pink with white on the bottom sneakers. She also has a Ruby medallion on her neck and her weapons were two small daggers.
"Okay Leave it to me!" Zelda's excitement was growing every minute. It is the first time that she has fought on European ground and it will be the first time she will face a former World Champion.
"Team Nova's core has been defeated, Team Nova is eliminated. Team Kanta's scouter has been defeated." The list went on until only two teams remained. To no surprise to the audience watching on the monitors and the other players that try their best and now are in the spectator's seats, it was Team Paradise vs Team Omega.
"Hmm, if I were Team Paradise where will I be?" asked the brown-haired himself.
"Richard."
"Hmm?! What is it Aeris?" Being with the brown-haired boy has slightly distracted her from the battle. She was saved once by the brown-haired but quickly even it out by saving him from being sniped by a bullet. How did she manage to do that without at least having the scouter trait is beyond Richard himself.
"Say after this would you help out on buying new clothes?" The pink-haired worded it that way so he doesn't know that it was actually to choose a new swimsuit. Aeris had one but for some reason, her top became a little bit too tight and so she is forced to buy another one. Yuma said that it will be great to have a boy's opinion on her choice. She just wishes that she stopped teasing her.
"Oh, er, sure I really don't mind." The boy answered. Hmm, come to think of it he should buy a new pair of swim trunks just to get ready when Alice returns back from her mother's business trip. Would she like it? Hmm, maybe he will need a girl's advice.
"That's great! I mean, how about um, tomorrow?" The blush on her face could become pinker than her hair even if she wanted to.
"I'm okay with that, I now thought that I needed to go buy a new pair of swim trunks." How lucky can she get, right?
"Okay then is a date!" She quickly retracted. "I mean, the date is set for us to shop that's what I meant!" The girl nervously laughs. The boy seems to buy it.
"Yeah."
"Aeris, Richard there are three targets coming south of your location." Thank god for Yuma! She really owns her big time. It is embarrassing as it was when she slipped the date word without thinking. So they were coming their way. Is logical since Richard is their core.
"Got it!" Just then both teens hear a whistling sound coming from...above? They look to see Arcus and another girl. She had loosened long white hair and she was about a few inches taller than Aeris, thou not by much. She was the one whistle singing with a leaf.
"Hello." The girl told the two teens before she leaps out of the branch and descended fast. Richard instinctively took his dagger from his back and blocked the girl's twin gold daggers that shined brightly creating a crater as a result. Aeris was going to support her brown-haired childhood friend however she was intercepted by Arcus with his thin sword.
"I am your opponent, Miss Russo," Arcus mentioned. Aeris dodge left, right, side-stepped and ducks under every one of his offense before snaring his thin sword with her veils.
"Very well." The pink-haired teen kicked him backing him away. She is good Arcus admits for being a supporter. Then again, she was the leader of her very own team so it shouldn't come as a surprise.
Zelda and Richard, on the other hand, were fighting dagger to dagger. Sparks and whooshing sounds can be heard through their fast-paced battle.
"You're pretty good!" Richard complimented. "Thou, I don't know who you are." Zelda just replied with a giggle.
"Yeah, I get that a lot when I am in this form. Thou, I don't mind being like this instead of my child self." Child self? What is she talking about? It took the boy a few dot bubbles to realize who he was facing.
"EH?! YOU'RE ZELDA!?" The response was a slight laugh from the white-haired teenage girl.
"Yes."
"Whoa, how do you become...like that?!"
"IS...A...SECRET!" Said the now mature teen with each attack until she roundhouses kick him to a tree.
"Ow!" The boy groaned before he eek and dodge the multiple swift slashes from Zelda. Zelda knows she needs to finish the fight quickly before her ability wears off. Arcus needs to defeat that girl quickly or else their chances of beating them will go down.
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On the other side of the forest, a battle between the remaining members of each team ensued.
Adel slashed another mud human-like that groaned and dissolved. It seems like her opponent can bring inanimate objects to life as proven by the way that she has to cut down a tree branch at this moment that was moving its way toward her. She was outnumbered so she needs a strategy to defeat her opponent fast before she becomes overwhelmed by these zombie-like creatures. She had to dodge a red wave coming her way that almost catch her by surprise.
"How long can you keep this up I wonder," Chantal told her. She hopes Noah doesn't underestimate his opponent. From what she can tell this one is a powerhouse considering that the short brown-haired girl could destroy her shaman zombies with a swing of her katana. This battle will take longer than she thought it will be.
Yuma, on the other hand, was the one with the upper hand. She was right about the three people going south to where Richard and Aeris were but it was only a distraction. They had a shawoman that can summon zombies. As soon as they appeared they vanished. Yuma's Kunai sword almost graced Noah before this one tries but fails to hit the speedy kunoichi. The black-haired teenage Japanese decided to use her shadow clone ability.
"Not fair." Complained Noah as he dodged Yuma and her clone. Yuma would've rolled her eyes at that comment but she was in the middle of a fight. Noah using his twin swords created an arc line that almost got the black-haired teen by surprise. She has to be careful about that attack, considering that despite defeating previous opponents she didn't do so unscathed. You never know how you are defeated.
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The battle between the adult dark elf and the traveling assassin rages on as both speedy competitors could only clash their weapons as only the sparks and sound of metal hitting metal could be heard and seen before both competitors landed on a tree branch.
"You're very good at this." Said the dark elf catching her breath a little. She does not have much time left, it will be troublesome if...
"You're not bad yourself." Replied the young assassin. He has a feeling that there will be stronger opponents in the world tournament. Plus, they might join a regional here and there just to play on the world's format. The more Richard thinks about it the more his battle blood boils inside him. He is so excited that he is mentally shaking with anticipation for the future. Zelda jumped out of the way of the brown-haired boy's way before leaping very high landing on a tree branch.
"Whoa!" The girl has a great leap. Zelda's thoughts were different thou, she doesn't have enough time to keep this form. She needs to find a way to find an opening against her fast opponent before time runs out.
"Core Shift: Magical!" Zelda's small daggers transform into a giant blue staff. The top was shaped in three circles each being smaller colored golden with a red dot in the middle. Two ribbons appeared on her head.
"That's awesome I can't wait to see what this form can do!" The boy said before using his speed to climb a tree which in response Zelda whispered something before a crackling sound is heard. Zelda with her lighting spell ready points her staff where the boy was. Richard knowing this he uses his speed to impulse himself to move to another tree...and then another one. The result of this was burning trees and a spreading forest fire. Once Richard reached a tree branch that leveled him on equal ground with his opponent he slashed diagonally resulting in a white line. He charged a White Dragon Strike Fang while climbing on the trees. Zelda dodged said move and move to another tree branch. She looks at the result and it surprised to see some trees having a white line before these ones split in diagonal shape falling down and shaking the ground upon impact.
"So powerful." Whispered the girl in surprise. She knows that experienced players as a former world champion or a team that has been together for years are able to have feats that can easily destroy the earth's core if they fought in their Omega Forms in the real world. She is learning one right now and she knows that she will have an attack that goes beyond the destruction of Earth's core and more leaning to Neptune or even Saturn levels of destruction. For now, she has to be careful because this was easily and earth core level attack but higher...very close to a Neptune level attack. She was so distracted in her thought that she almost got slashed in half thou she didn't escape unscratched.
"Darn," she said as she started bleeding from the wound inflicted on her arm. It wasn't worse thanks to dodging but she knows that she took damage from it and that can be crucial to the game since now she cannot go risky and trade blows or she will lose the war of attrition.
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Things weren't going too well for Aeris now. Not having the ability to switch her class has made this match against Arcus a very difficult one. With some of her clothes tattered and some cuts on her arms and leg, she knew that she might be 1 to 2 hits away from getting eliminated from the game giving a 4-3 advantage to Team Paradise or worse. Thankfully that was not the case currently because she didn't hear any of their team members' positions being called by the MC so they were good but the problem of not being a core was that she couldn't scout to make sure. She can only use her veils which aren't the best course of action for her, right now. She only has one chance and that is to use his weapon against him...but she has to be precise and she can't miss because well, she will be "dead".
"Dancing with you has been very fun Mrs. Russo. However, My friends might need my help, especially Zelda, so..." He twirls his sword like a helicopter creating a whirlwind. The pink-haired girl had to use one of her veils to ground herself from the strong force. She might use this to her advantage...
"Here goes." Releasing her grip on the ground, Aeris used the wind to go to the air before using her veil to tie itself to a tree trunk making her swing around faster. Repeating it 3 more times allowed her to get close enough to be a distance that her veil could take Arcus' sword.
"What?!" Without any hesitation, the pink-haired warrior used one of her veils to tangle itself into the sword and the other grabbed into Arcus. With the momentum of the whirlwind, the black-haired Jamaican was lifted out of the ground. Once the wind stopped both players descended at a high speed giving Aeris a chance to impale Arcus and eliminate him from the game after using her other veil as a sharp spike.
"Team Paradise's Powerhouse has been defeated." As much as the pink-haired wants to take a rest her work is not done even worse when the next thing that happened was...
"Team Omega's Powerhouse has been defeated."
"Team Paradise's Scouter has been defeated."
"Team Omega's Scouter has been defeated." Yuma and Adel were eliminated. They seem to have managed to defeat one that meant one of them was strong enough to defeat one of them or even both if one of her friends was in the current state she is in. On the bright side, they took care of their scouter meaning it will be very difficult for the remaining teammate excluding their core to find her. She hoped that the opponent didn't find Richard and that he finish this match soon.
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Hearing their partners being eliminated has changed the way their fight has transpired a little. Zelda was about a few seconds away from going back to her small body. Her foe was very strong too, She will have to train more if she ever gets a chance to fight him again.
Dodging a handstand sweep from her opponent her Medallion started to beep.
"Darn it!" She backs away before she raises her blue staff before a ray of light blinded the brown-haired boy.
"Huh?" Where did the opponent go?! Wonders the brown-haired leader of Omega as Zelda hide already on her small normal self.
"Arh, I needed more time!" Pouted the childish leader of Team Paradise as she thought of a strategy to stall. As if God heard her words Chantal's undead mud clones sprung into action only for this to be cut by the boy. This fight took a couple of minutes which was plenty enough for their small leader to have her ability back.
"There you are!" Richard went to charge at the woman responsible for the clones but he has to use his speed to dodge some of the undead mud clones. Dodging all attacks and continuing to counter-attack the brown-haired boy proved to be very difficult. Chantal was saved thankfully by a blue orb from their leader.
"Zelda." The little girl appeared with the staff in hand.
"Richard!" The boy groaned before getting up and having his pink-haired childhood friend on his side.
"I guess is time to finish this."
"I'll support you." The brown-haired teen nodded. Aeris using her buffs decided that he should get a bit more power. With his ability to do more damage the boy used his speed to battle the mud clone army while Aeris sharped veils rip through the remaining ones. Zelda sensing that her time cooldown was up transformed back to her adult self just the exact moment their weapons clashed. Jumping and grabbing on her shoulders he twisted his body to kick the head of one of the mud clones cleaned off. The Pink-haired one while all of this was happening was attacking Chantal with her veils. She used them like a helicopter rotating blades with her graceful spins you will think she is a professional figure skater. Knowing that it will be a matter of time before they get overpower Aeris rushed toward and use her ability to buff her defenses. However, she was more careful as she dodged left and right and destroying the mud clones with her veil as blades. Chantal blocked one of her veils before backing away from Aeris followed up attacks. Raising her staff the ground creates a gray aura and in seconds more clones appeared. The clones charged but Aeris made quick work of them. She got hit by Chantal thou but not enough to take her out which was a surprise since Aeris thought she will be eliminated. Nevertheless, she continued and try to stab her adversary with one of her veil that has transformed into a spike. This, however, was a mistake a costly one to Chantal since she didn't expect Aeris to use this as a diversion to get an unnoticed veil that traveled underground before stabbing the long blonde shawoman with the bladed veil.
"Team Paradise's Magical has been defeated." Aeris sighed. Talk about surviving with 1HP!
Clashing with the brown-haired leader of Omega was the last child standing Zelda. With her team down her only out of winning this game was to defeat Richard Kurosagi here and now.
"Core Shift: Scouter!" Back to her small daggers, the snow-white haired teen went a bit more aggressive on her offensive attacks. With the speed that they were going, it was very difficult for Aeris to keep up. Blurs with sparks were on the trees as the weapons dance like the waves crashing on nearby rocks on a beach. This went for 5 minutes before they got each other on the same tree.
"I think we should end this once and for all," said Zelda as she swung her two daggers. "Paradise Wave!" Richard blocks the blue wave created but was launched in the tree trunk.
"Ow!" The boy jumped high and used the trunk as impulse much to Zelda's surprise. This allowed the boy an opportunity to deliver the finishing blow except, he didn't think it will be enough. Luckily, he had a supporter who will save him. Aeris finding Richard and Zelda used her veils to buff Richard's attack and with that, it was enough to slash Zelda diagonally with so much force that she was replaced by fireflies when she descended down.
"Team Paradise's core was defeated. Team Paradise's eliminated. Final Result: Team Omega Wins!!" The MC announcer said before the remaining players were teleported back to the real world.
"That was awesome!" Richard said with excitement.
"Aw!" Zelda whined. She wanted to win but he was a very strong opponent. Next Time...NEXT TIME SHE WILL SHOW HIM!!
"You'll get him next time." You damn right she will!
"We had fun," Arcus said.
"Yeah, that's all that matter, mah," Noah added.
"I won't lose!" Their leader was determined which means that she will be now encouraged to ask for more members...that is good!
"I will like to fight you again in the O.W.T." The brown-haired boy told them.
"We would like it too, I guess we will see you there in November."
"Yeah!" Zelda just climbed on Arcus' shoulders...the unfortunate way.
"YAHHH!!!" Dreadlocks climbing can be very painful for the person with the dreadlocks.
"I will get stronger you see, and I will be sure to take booby pink over there too!" Booby who? He doesn't...Aeris, on the other hand, had to blush and kind of cover her chest out of reflex at the mention of her bust size. Yuma has to snicker to that.
('Good thing Kurosagi is clueless.') Yuma thought as she understood the somewhat insult of the snow-white haired small teen.
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Walking outside the city of Paris were Rusher and Kula. With their mission failing they will have to wait until the pearl is moved elsewhere. Attempting to get it will be very foolish now that the security was tripled and it seems that Majestic 12 was involved too considering that a familiar face was inside the shop/museum. Kula knew patience will get them to their destination and with the bug on the pearl, it will be easy.
"We should go back to HQ." Rusher said before they reach a remote area. He pushed a button and slide stairs appeared out of thin air.
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Richard_Omega
Richard_Omega "Rusher and Kula...Where will they go after reaching HQ...?!"
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