Isabella announces the start of the semi-finales with a smile on her face.
[SEMI FINALES]
[ FIRST ROW ] [SECOND ROW]
Elaina vs Martin UltraX vs Onix
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Isabella then proceeds to talk with her husband.
Isabella: This will be fun, cannot wait to see who is gonna fight against my father.
Xiang Ye: You sure are a bit happy over the suffering of one or two people...
Xiang Ye said that in a worried tone.
Elaina and Martin both were already in place, prepared for combat. As it seems he tooken off his boxing gloves with no weapons or gadgets with him, just his ring.
Martin: I am gonna go all out just to win against you, Vans.
Isabella laughs quietly...
Isabella: Alright, let the third rounds and the first battle begin!
Martin's ring glows...
Martin: It is time...
Martin then turns into his power form, it's aura glows strong... Elaina was impressed.
Elaina: So we gonna commit transformation?
Elaina then started to Demonify and this leads to her revealing her horns which she had since birth and her skin color also changes alongside her eyes going darker, all of her stats were buffed 4x more then her usual and then she smiles.
Elaina: Bring it on!
Both rush at each other and clash at each other with immense strength, precision and speed. Elaina manages to punch Martin in the face and dodges his uppercut, however he kicks her in the chest and sents her back and then runs straight for her and starts barraging, in the last second she pulls her block and blocks all barrages and backs away from him.
Elaina then starts to run and quickly starts to run around him on high speed, Martin tries to punch her, but she was too fast for him as hse continues to run in a circle around him it is almost as if she is starting to make a tornado... Martin then makes a second guess and punches, this hits her, but doesn't throw her off balance as she continues to spin and then she jumped from multiple directions punching Martin from every side giving him more damage then he could endure and then for a final, she kicks him right in the chest and sents him flying, he hits the wall hard and then falls down to the ground, he gets up quickly and catches Elaina's leg as she tried to kick him... Seems like he is still ok.
Martin then pulls her closer and punches her in the face and chest and then spins around with her throwing her up in the air and jumping right at her. He is above her right now prepared already to attack.
Martin: Uraraka thousands of strikes!
Martin pulled out a knife and quickly moved all over Elaina slashing her with the sword, striking all non-important spots on her body and after that he finishes it off with a kick in the chest senting her down to the ground, she hits the ground hard and he lands a bit away from her.
Elaina slowly gets back up and into her fighting stance.
Martin: Still standing?
Elaina: Of course, you aren't as strong as you look... If you were to hit me in the neck with some powerful move ya would have won.
Then Martin just was already behind Elaina and...
Martin: Karate chop v2!-
As he was about to do that, he got punched by Elaina in the chest and then she started to barrage him multiple times and continued for longer and longer and after that she finishes it by senting Martin in the air and then she jumps after him and appears above him as her three knuckle claws appear on both hands.
Elaina: Time to call it a day.
Elaina takes a deep breath.
Elaina: Vans ~ Claw elimination!
Elaina quickly runs at the enemy and then with her claws shining, she starts moving at lighting speed slashing and hitting every hit on Martin as fast as possible before finishing and landing right infront of him enemy and then barrages him and finishes it with a kick in the chest and an uppercut. He falls on the ground...
A minute passes and he hasn't gotten up...
Isabella: Elaina wins (by luck)!
The crowd starts to be excited once more and that is about it.
Meanwhile, at the cooking challenge place. Vlad and 4 others were cooking like crazy to impress certain other high-ranking folks in Adumfor. it seems like they are trying to all get the best meal and the best spot possible, the crowd over that place is watching including Luke and Saniya.
Saniya: I hope he atleast gets top 3, to be honest I'm worried about this challenge itself.
Luke seemed to be curious why she was worried, but he decided not to ask her.
Luke: Well, that is that. It is just in general cooking might be his biggest strength.
Saniya: Yeah, he has been like that since childhood.
Luke then looked at the boy who was cooking on the other table...
Luke: But uh, I can sense a devil activity right now nearby.
Saniya's mood changed quickly...
Saniya: Where?
Luke: One of the four other boys, feels off...
Saniya: oh...
Back to the arena, UltraX vs Onix has started and Onix was using his supernatural endurance and tries to hit UltraX, but he kept missing the hits and his opponent kept backing off.
Xiang Ye: Onix's supernatural endurance seems to keep his opponent from attacking.
Isabella: But at the sametime, his opponent is making a plan to counter that.
Isabella drinks her tea.
Xiang Ye: However, this is a weaker version of the so called supernatural endurance, only after 20 hits, Onix is gonna be losing more stamina and soon his manifestation will fail him.
Xiang Ye looked down at Onix who was dodging some of the hits made by UltraX, leading the count of hits to 4...
Xiang Ye: The hits are only 4, but soon they will rise. That is why someone like Onix has to have a counter against all 20 hits needed to finally have a breakthrough.
Isabella: UltraX, his family is really full of annoying limiters, they limit the power of Adumfor for almost 200 years now, to a surprise he is not trying to hit too hard to not break Onix's body parts. Of course, he would be using weaker attacks to keep Onix at bay, but these weaker attacks if they hit still count as a hit.
The fight progresses as UltraX lands more hits reaching the count to 9 and then Onix proceeds to catch and barrage UltraX and then he sends him back a bit with a kick and after that he attacks UltraX with second barrage, but he vanished and appeared behind landing his 10th hit and then backing further away.
UltraX: So you are not a father/son successor type, good to know.
Onix: ... What are you onto about?
UltraX: Well just like that one hero with a certain manifestation, you are successor of the legendary number 3rd hero who retired 20 years ago, the master of endurance.
Onix looked down and then back at UltraX preparing his next attack.
UltraX: A student with great power, yet slacking off their training.
UltraX takes a deep breath as Onix tries to rush him.
UltraX: Yet the greater part about it is that the next 10 hits will not miss.
As Onix reached him suddenly he backed off as the wind felt like razor sharp hitting 10 times in non-fatal spots and continues to hit afterwards, just a minute later it stops but it seems like there was a crack in the endurance of Onix, he was bleeding from his right shoulder and left arm.
UltraX: Did I say 10, I meant 1000.
Onix was surprised.
Onix: Only 2 cracks... Nothing more, you think I'm gonna faint or get knocked out by 2 of your airforce attacks?
Onix thought it was airforce, but it seemed to be more different in a way.
Onix: Alright let's finish this!
Onix rushed quickly and grabbed UltraX and then throws him around a couple times while screaming "Oni, Oni, Oni, Oni!" and then sends him flying and then he jumps quickly and vanishes, reappearing above him.
Onix: Now you shall learn the meaning of reality, Ivanov scum!
Then he goes and punches him senting him down, then he reappears under him kicking him senting him up again and vanishes to appear again above.
Onix: I don't possess any other abilities besides by supernatural endurance, I am just really fast and hard when it comes to fighting stronger foes.
Onix takes a deep breath.
Onix: THE SMASH!
Onix then charges up quickly and lands a hit on UltraX- however, that is not how it happened. UltraX grabbed the right arm which was used for this move.
UltraX: You're in my range to activate my counter. Drag down!
UltraX then proceeds to do 180 around and sends down his opponent with huge strength as the wind forces him down harder.
UltraX: Now, face the rock.
Then as Onix looked to his left a giant rock smashed him senting him flying and the rock fell down in the middle while he hit the wall hard and then UltraX lands near the giant rock in the middle.
UltraX: Good thing the arena battlefield they added these 4 giant rocks, really useful.
After that Onix got off the wall and rushed at UltraX, then he attempts a punch, but his opponent dodges and leads to him hitting the rock and then UltraX proceeds to realise that his manifestation is deactivated and hits 3 karate chops in Onix's neck leading to Onix to fall down against the rock and on the ground.
UltraX: You have got atleast more hits by my wind upping it to 1000+ something... It was fun while it lasted to be honest, wish to have a rematch with you Onix.
Xiang ye took a deep breath
Isabella: UltraX is declared winner and he will be moving onto the finales to decide who will fight George Thorns!
The public seemed excited about it and after that obviously the queen & king ordered a 1 hour break so people can have time to do other stuff or just take a break.
Obviously the people took a last glance at the screen to see...
[FINALES 1/2]
Elaina vs UltraX
George Thorns vs ???
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And after that they left to do their own thing, now to the cooking challenge. All candidates were almost done with their food of choice. And the timer was also ticking closer and closer giving a little stress to the candidates.
More minutes pass and...
Judge 1: Alright, Alright everyone!
Judge 2: The cooking session is over!
All of the candidates have finished their food and put it on the table in the middle.
Judge 1: May candidate 1, Jude come over with his meal.
The person named Jude proceeded forward with his Borscht, a traditional russian food cooked with a classic recipe. (atleast 2 of them)
Both of the Judges after that tried that and seem to like it.
Judge 1: 7/10
Judge 2: 10/10
Overall it was 8/10, pretty high for a russian cooked food these days, just like 1950.
Judge 1: Alright, canditate 2!
Judge 2: Machina Uchinoia, come forward with your meal.
The woman called grabbed 2 plates which had her meal and walked forward. This woman is the mother of Elena Uchinoia and she seems to be the one taking on this challenge.
She then puts down her meals, Bunny chow a South-African traditional dish. Both of the judges proceed to try it out and...
Judge 1: 3/10, don't like it as much.
Judge 2: 10/10, South-african traditional food is amazing!
Overal it was 6.5/10 for this.
Judge 2: Alright candidate 3, Kujo Radichi. Heard your meals from Japan are amazing.
Machina goes back to her place while Radichi Kujo proceeds to bring out his sushi and puts the two plates infront of the judges, they try them out.
Judge 1: Something good, 9/10.
Judge 2: It's nice, but not big fan of fish... 4/10.
Overall 7/10, decent.
Judge 1: Candidate 4, Vladislav Vans (Nikolov)... Come forward.
Radichi Kujo walks away while Vladislav comes forward with Tarator and gives out two coups of it to the judges and the judges try them out.
Judge 1: 8/10, but cold soup... Just typical Bulgarian dish that is cold.
Judge 2: Healthy, good and nice. Pretty good for vegetarians as well. 10/10
Overwall, Vlad scored 9/10. Proud with his possible victory he went to his spot early.
Judge 1: Candidate 5, Arixion.
Arixion walked forward towards them with his Black Risotto, a Croetian dish and gave two plates to the judges like everyone else did... The judges try it out.
Judge 1: Amazing, Amazing! 10/10!
This reaction was giving Vlad the feeling like he will be...
Judge 2: Good job, Arixion a proud citizen of Croetia as a half-breed has mastered the traditional food there, we are proud to hear that all of the candidates have improved, equally and strong 10/10.
Overall... it was complete 10/10... This reaction surprised the other candidates and the public... And of course the tv up there displayed the positions of all 5 candidates for this year...
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[PLACEMENT]
1. Arixion [10/10
2. Vladislav Nikolov [9/10]
3. Jude [8/10]
4. Kujo Radichi [7/10]
5. Machina Uchinoia [6.5/10]
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Saniya was not impressed, the judges always disliked the cooking methods of the Nikolov family, their secret was what ruined the first place chances. These judges are sceptical of Vladislav, last year he ended in 4th place and the year before he ended in 3rd place but 3 years ago he got 0/10...
This memory haunts Vlad and does not motivate him to keep going, but to give up... Seems like maybe next year will be his lucky chance... Maybe.
Issy and her friend were just leaving the area...
Issy: Damn this future husband of Elaina sure keeps getting better and worse at the sametime, is he the child of the prophecy?
??? takes a deep breath.
???: I don't know, we watched all 3 of them already... But he is a hero, I don't think he is the one.
Issy: But do you rememeber the news of a traitor in the hero ranks?
???: The one who keeps Anderson away and hides her, yeah... I think we all know who it is.
Issy: No, not him, I meant that cocky bitch who is the number 3rd hero alone.
??? was surprised...
???: No way...
Issy: That is right, the traitor is also hiding in 1 of the top 10 families... It is that bitch.
???: So that bitch is the leader of the anti-hero organization promoting the motives behind their attack against the Assassin syndicate and villians.
Issy: As long as we keep low reputation with a villian as popular as you dear, we might be able to save ourselves the trouble to fight them.
??? smiles.
???: Issy, I think I do not want to avoid them... I wanna battle one of their strongest assets. I heard one of the strongest anti-hero has the power of the so called admin access, the strange manifestation that was created by an accident by one school kid.
Issy looked down.
???: Issy?
After that they continued down their path while someone was following them.
Back to the arena, Elaina vs UltraX has started 5 minutes ago and now it is with Elaina rushing right against him, but he grabbed her and threw her in the air then throwing a rock which hits her chest senting her further away and then he jumps right above her kicking her straight to the ground and landing away from her location, she quickly gets up.
Elaina: Man he is tough... First attack and he inflicts a high amount of damage.
Elaina was breathing heavily already as her body looks beaten up already.
Elaina: I need to get beast instincts or my other move to deal with him... But getting close or a combo against the Ivanov kid... Was told to be harder then it looks.
Elaina rushes against him, so does he rush against her. Both of them clash against one another and Elaina manages to grab UltraX arm with both of her hands and then quickly she proceeds to throw him in the air with a bit of struggle, not as high as expected but she jumps quickly and reappears above him.
Elaina: Asa Kuja-
UltraX grabbed Elaina.
UltraX: Barrage counter, woman.
Suddenly he started to punch fast and it only became faster barraging Elaina hard on the chest and the face and finishing it off with a kick senting her further into the air.
UltraX: Air cutter, 10%!
The wind suddenly became sharp around Elaina and it started to do small cuts all over her non-fatal spots and then it stopped only for UltraX to be above her and kick her straight down and she hits the ground hard.
UltraX vanishes and reappears near Elaina and grabs her just to spin around with her and throw her against a wall... She quickly gets off the wall still standing, despite taking more damage she seems to be transforming on her own slowly into her demon form.
UltraX: Elaina, now it is your best chance to surrender!
Elaina starts to transform faster...
UltraX: You do not want another attack, nor to lose yourself to your demon side!
Elaina finished transforming and summoned her three knuckle claws on both of her hands.
Elaina: Shut up!
Elaina quickly got behind UltraX committing some kind of similar move named 死 and it strikes senting huge blow of wind almost as if it would force UltraX back, however as the people looked closer he caught her fist. He proceeds to hold it with his left hand and his right hand does a menacing stare while doing his punch.
UltraX: Вие!
Then he proceeds to punch Elaina hard and then he lets go of her hand and rushes at her to start barraging her hard for the next 5-7 seconds before stopping and kicking her back a little and standing in his fighting pose.
UltraX: Where did you learn that technique?! It's forbidden in today's world!
But to UltraX again, it was clear he will not get an answer as she was in a beserk state.
Garrick and Willow both seemed worried that this fight could go on and bring the public in danger, but they seem to be ready.
Willow: First time for a beserk state?
Garrick: Yeah... She never done that before, she was able to control her emotions and not let herself fall into such state before. Is it the result of a stronger opponent or someone who can make her go beserk by just being himself?
Garrick was worried, confused and questioned why is this happening while Willow was focused on her son as a rock with letter was caught by him just now.
UltraX removes the letter from the rock and threw the rock away opening it...
[ "Son, do whatever you must but do not fataly injure Elaina Vans..." ]
UltraX then shatters the letter to pieces as Elaina rushed at him attempting to barrage him, however he dodges the insane beserk barrage by her faster then his usual dodging. However, she stabs him with her claws deep into him and starts "happily" beating the shit out of him...
Few mintues she lets go of him as he fell to the ground...
???: Damn, you really fell for the clone gadget.
Elaina got punched by 4 UltraX clones and sent into the air by them and they vanished as the original UltraX appears above her.
UltraX: You must be contained till you calm down, woman!
UltraX grabbed her.
UltraX: Copycat technique ~ Electroshock+!
Elaina got shocked pretty hard by all this electricty that after a couple of seconds she faints and after few more seconds she untransforms and was let go as the shock ended with her falling down to the ground. UltraX lands near her.
UltraX: Glad I copied Elijah's manifestation for this move, could regret it if he learned that I used this trick again and copied his manifestation without permission, even if it's only one time.
Isabella takes deep breath.
Isabella: Even despite this fight going off track with the poor girl in beserk state, the winner-
UltraX appears infront of her.
UltraX: Stop talking. I only saved her from what could be called an endless beserk state. She was only in phase 1 so it was easy to stop.
The public listened closely.
UltraX: As of now, I step down from the tournament arena challenge and declare Elaina Vans the winner, let the girl rest and the next round against the old man George shall be held tomorrow!
This was a surprise, for the first time in history a victory was declined in Adumfor bringing mixed feelings about this whole thing... UltraX vanishes.
Isabella: Guess he is right, but no matter how much we should proceed I must have to disappoint you all and say that this challenge will end here and the next year George will fight with the next winner.
Xiang Ye: As it is the current state, we cannot risk the poor girl to fight after such huge unleash of beserk state phase 1! We shall cancel the challenge for now and announce it as a tie between UltraX Ivanov and Elaina Vans!
Hours later at the streets, Vlad after hearing the news of how it went he was surprised as he was sitting on a bench with UltraX.
Vlad: So it ended in a tie cause of that huh...
UltraX: Yeah, I'm sorry but... I was not expecting her emotions to control her actions so badly all of the sudden, but I discovered why such collected and cocky woman fallen to beserk...
Vlad: Wait you know?
UltraX pulled out an empty injection with leftover liquid that was dark red.
UltraX: This drug was injected into Elaina before the round by someone. This someone was someone that knew about phase 3 beserker maybe because of the news about Elijah or another big beserk state incident outside of Adumfor... Whatever it was, it wasn't for anything good.
UltraX gave that injection to Vlad.
UltraX: I already showed it to your parents, but they want it back to sent it back to New York so...
UltraX takes a deep breath.
Vlad: Interesting...
UltraX: For certain, we still got 5 more days of the festival. However, I have to go back to my mission soon so me and my family will leave early.
Vlad: What is your mission?
Vlad looked with curiosity.
UltraX: The control devil has been located in Germany with a devil host as a partner. So it is like 2 devils encounter and stuff, it is only spying mission so I have to work with Yurika again.
Vlad does get a flashback by the control devil mentioned of...
Vlad saw a woman outside his window with hypnosis type of eyes yellowish-red of sorts...
Flashback ended.
Vlad: Alright.
UltraX got off the bench.
UltraX: Well, catch ya on the flip side Vans!
Vlad: Goodbye, UltraX Ivanov.
UltraX walked away and Vlad got up and walked in the opposite direction of him and that leads to him back in the mansion as he entered in he talked with his parents and gave that injection back so tomorrow it could be sent to New York and he gone upstairs entering the room to look at Elaina.
Vlad: Elaina, do not worry you are safe now...
Vlad closes the door.
End of Chapter