Damai gave Kaya another crystal necklace but this was a different colour to the thought transmitters, compared to the purple crystals this was a bright blue colour, when she put it on the strange noises Damai and Monya were making changed into words, she could now understand what they were saying “that is a translation crystal, it was part of the gift father gave me, it translates foreign languages so you can understand what is being said, the only downside is that it does not translate what you say, so others would not understand you but both me and Monya here can understand human language so you can speak normally” Kaya was again shocked at the crystal and the Ape beastmens ability to craft.
While everyone was waiting for the organisers of the tournament to arrive the three of them continued to speak, onlookers only understanding Kaya’s words. Monya took more time to accept Kaya than she did with Damai, but after a while they became friends and Kaya got over the initial shock of speaking to a Magma Monkey.
As the group talked they realised that they all disliked ‘the two that ran’ and Kaya hoped she would get a chance to beat them down, she became just as outraged as Damai when she heard what the man did and told both Damai and Monya the names of the two. Damai and Monya burned the name Brilik into their minds.
The tournament organisers finally arrived with a white board showing the tournament table and a small box with a hole in the top “contestants gather round please” was said, so Damai and Kaya left Monya and joined the rest of the group in the middle “okay, you will each draw from this box, you will pull out a ball with a number on it and the number will decide your position on the board and In turn your place in the tournament” Damai and Kaya hoped they wouldn’t have to fight each other.
“First will Claire come up please” Brilik’s companion walked up and got her number “Alright number 5, you will be in fight 3, next is Roggan, please come up” a big man twice the size of Damai walked up, his hand barely fit in the box “number 2, fight 1 four you sir” and like this the selection went on and by the end of it the board looked like this.
tournament placementsFIGHT 1DamaiVSRogganFIGHT 2GladiceVSJackie ChunFIGHT 3ClaireVSKayaFIGHT 4AnonymousVSBrilik
“The first fight will take place in half an hour, please prepare yourself and now onto the rules there are only two but we have to inform you of them, First killing is not allowed if you kill your opponent you will be disqualified and thrown in jail and secondly any items that affect your body and could possibly give you an advantage are not allowed, if you have such items then show them to me and I will tell you if they are allowed or not” only Damai showed any items and when the organiser saw the rings he stared wide eyed at the young man walking around with them on as if it was nothing. ”Th-these are allowed, but because they pose more of a disadvantage you can take them off whenever you want” Damai nodded and walked back to Kaya, who was chuckling at the organisers reaction.
Damai observed the other contestants, Roggan was the large man, he had two large axes strapped on his back and wore spiked armour that you would see a gladiator wearing, Gladice wore a long robe and had glass bottles filled with a variety of substances, her face was expressionless but her eyes sent shivers down Damai’s spine and not just him but Kaya felt it as well. Jackie Chun just seemed to be an old man in a white and black GI staring at all three of the women with a strange expression, Kaya looked back at him in disgust although Damai had no idea why. The one known as Anonymous wore a hood that covered his face and he had two daggers strapped to his waist but other than these, he had very light cloths on, when Damai looked closely at him, Anonymous seemed to be shaking.
Claire had a wooden staff meant to aid in magic casting, it was shorter and weaker than Damai’s bo-staff, she wore simple robes and had an arrogant expression that sickened Damai. Brilik wore armour that covered most of his body and on his back he had a great sword, everybody could tell it would be hard to do damage to him and like Claire he wore an expression that made want to vomit, Damai looked away but not before seeing the mark on Brilik’s hand that was similar to his own. Little did Damai know that they were all observing him as well, they all saw the organiser’s reaction and were all intrigued but they were also very wary of him.
After a while of talking and exchanging tactics with Monya and Kaya, Damai was called out with Roggan to the main arena. They walked out and Damai was caught off guard by the sudden amount of noise and all the attention focused on himself, he hesitated for a moment but recollected himself and continued on to the starting points in the arena.
“LADIE’S AND GENTLEMEN, WE ARE NOW STARTING THE FIRST FIGHT OF THE TOURNAMENT” and with that the already loud stadium, which surrounded the arena, burst into an entirely new level of noise, Damai froze for an instant in shock and by the time he managed to regain himself the audience had quieted down and the announcer had begun to speak again “OUR FIRST CONTESTANTS ARE IN THE ARENA, ON THE RIGHT IN THE MONK GI WE HAVE DAMAI, THE MARTIAL ARTS PRODIGY AND AN F RANK ADVENTURER” even more cheer’s burst forth but this time he kept calm “AND ON THE OTHER SIDE IN THE SPIKED ARMOUR WE HAVE ROGGAN, THE CLEAVER AND A D RANK ADVENTURER” and once again the cheers came. ”WE HAVE THE CONTESTANTS ADVENTURER CARDS ON THE SCREEN BEHIND THE ARENA, TO GIVE YOU INFORMATION ON THE THEM”
“NOW CONTESTANTS FIGHT” in an instant Damai had focused on Roggan only, completely blocking out the audience, Roggan charged at Damai with surprising speed for someone so large but it was nothing Damai couldn’t handle, he jumped to the side and thrust his staff into Roggan’s stomach three times in succession without KI or Mana, Roggan felt nothing and his confidence rose, he sliced his axe towards Damai who blocked it with just a Mana strengthened staff, but he was pushed to the ground by the force of the blow. On his back with Roggan above him Damai quickly pushed off the ground with his tail, he sprung towards and dived for the large gap in between his legs, while doing this he wrapped his tail around one of Roggan’s legs and using his momentum pulled him over, this time Roggan was on his back confused at what happened and before he could get up Damai struck him in the stomach again with all of his strength and it was reinforced with both KI and Mana. Roggan thought that it would be as weak as last time so he didn’t bother putting up any defences wanting to demoralise Damai, he was instantly in agony, he gave an almighty and desperate scream and fainted from the pain of the blow. The crowd who were expecting the same thing as Roggan were speechless and for a brief moment it was quite in the stadium.
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“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WHAT A SURPRISE DAMAI HAS SHOWN US, 2 RANKS LOWER THAN HIS OPPONENT AND HE STILL WON.” And with that the crowd exploded at the unexpected result, Damai walked out of the arena happy with his victory. He decided to watch the next fight to find out about his next opponent.
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Among the large crowd, in a V.I.P section sat a silent supporter of Damai and she had tears of joy streaming down her cheek, she could sense the blessing on her sons hand as well as she could see the tail he used to obtain victory. She decided that she would visit him at the end of the tournament.
Meanwhile her companions were looking at the high priestess and could see her tears but they also could see one of the biggest and brightest smiles she had ever shown. They were all extremely curious to find out what had made her this happy but decided that it would be rude so they patiently waited until she was ready to tell them.
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The second fight had been funny to watch, Gladice was going on about experimenting her concoctions on Jackie Chun while he was making strange hand movements with a creepy laugh. Jackie was winning throughout most of the fight, easily dodging her potions and jumping around, Damai could tell that Jackie was toying with Gladice but that changed when she threw an acid bomb at Jackie, he had delicately caught it and spun matching the bottles speed, he then threw it back, causing her own clothes to dissolve leaving Gladice in only her underwear, the almost naked women completely distracted Jackie, he lost all focus and charged the women from the front while laughing crazily, Damai noticed most women in the arena release killing intent, but Gladice was able to retaliate by grabbing one of her many concoctions that fell to the floor when her clothes dissolved, she threw a small brown bag that hit Jackie squarely in the face, the bag burst releasing yellow powder.
Jackie had no defence against it and he took the paralysis bomb in the face, Gladice then lined up all of the potions she had left next to Jackie’s frozen body, she spent time deciding which potion would deliver the most pain, she then poured potion after potion onto Jackie making him pass out in extreme agony………eventually.
The third fight had Kaya confused, she had won but she believed it to be too easy, she had won with only half an effort, she had at first been troubled by the spells been shot at her but she used her own Mana on her sword to deflect them, she then ran over to Claire who seemed to attack in desperation with her magic staff, Kaya cut it in half then punched Claire in the face. Apparently this knocked Claire out but Kaya didn’t buy it, she had travelled with the women before and knew that she was much stronger than this but she couldn’t think of a reason for the woman to throw the match but she was still furious that the woman had thrown the match.
It was found out in the fourth match that Anonymous had gotten through the prelims through sheer dumb luck and the reason he was shaking was because he was terrified. The fight between him and Brilik was remarkably short as it only took one hit to send anonymous flying.
The announcer told everyone that they had a break until tomorrow morning, so Damai and Kaya went to see Ben and Freya. They found the two of them at the meeting place they had decided upon beforehand, they were in a small café in the centre of town close enough to all of their respective guilds. Ben seemed depressed when the two walked in, they asked him what happened “no nothing happened, I’m just a little upset that I’m the only one who didn’t pass the prelims, I was close but I was in the same block as Claire, she got me angry and I casted spells wildly, ultimately I lost in a bad way, although I felt really satisfied when I saw you punch her in the face” Kaya chose to not tell Ben that Claire had probably thrown the match.
The four of them spent the rest of the day talking and showing Damai more of the city, Damai and Kaya told the other 2 about Monya and they were shocked to say the least, Freya was the angriest out of the 2 and told both Damai and Kaya to make Brilik suffer. After everyone had calmed down they started to think up strategies for their upcoming fights, for Damai they decided he needed to use speed to dodge the potions and attack, a hit and run tactic he was to use but he decided he would not take off his rings unless he was really pushed. For Kaya her plan was to use full force, they knew that Brilik was a fighter type and charges in however he was not good at defending, so Kaya was to attack as much as she could to prevent Brilik from attacking. The group believed that this would, not knowing that Brilik held back whenever he was with them. Damai and Kaya went to bed earlier than the other 2 and they mentally prepared themselves for the next day ….they couldn't have known the events of the fights to come.