Without delay the next battle was issued.
"Zinjo versus Atrog! Fight!"
After the signal sounded out, Atrog dashed out gaining momentum as he sped up. Zinjo didn't move from the spot but lowered his body a bit, taking a wide stance. Atrog, arriving in front of Zinjo, punched out. Zinjo already in his steadfast stance, received Atrog's fist with a palm. Zinjo took a few steps backwards trying to stop the Troll, as Atrog kept puching.
Atrog saw his punch being caught, with a bit surprise in his eyes but still pushed on. The Trolls take pride in their physical strength after all but after a few meters they came to a standstill.
A surprising feat, after all he can accelerate and is in general even faster and stronger than his fellow Trolls. Seeing that they stopped moving, Atrog punched with his other arm, which was caught as well. Atrog suddenly pulled Zinjo towards him, opening his mouth in an attempt to bite him. An untypically beastly move for Atrog as he usually gives off a more collective and calmer demeanor, but a very typical move for the beastly Trolls.
The bite of a Troll was not once seen in this tournament, but most knew of its destructiveness. They have very strong jaws, which overlaps with their eating behavior, as they eat anything of the corpse of their prey. It is mostly for eating but they also use it as a weapon. The reason why they didn't use it beforehand, was that Trolls go in a bit of a frenzy when they taste blood. If that happened, they couldn't be sure that they didn't kill their opponent.
Understandably after he saw the bite approach him, Zinjo was a bit flustered. He used his other 2 free arms trying to push him away from the Troll. Atrog saw this and closed his mouth before taking a step back. With Atrog's pull and Zinjo's push, Zinjo lost balance and slightly fell forward.
Atrog let go of Zinjo and interlocked his fingers of both hands, rose them above his hand before striking towards Zinjo's head.
Zinjo knew he couldn't evade this, so he quickly tried to block it with his four arms.
However, the blow was too heavy for Zinjo, breaking through his defense and landing on top of his head. His defense did take some force out of it, but he was still dizzy because of it. Of course, Atrog wouldn't let him recover. He followed up with a kick towards the Myrmidon on the ground, sending him flying across the stage.
In the air Zinjo reorientate himself before landing on his feet again. He held his side where he was kicked at a moment ago and a small drop of blood ran down from his head over his cheek to the ground.
They stared at each other before the Troll began to speak.
"Shouldn't you transform already? You will lose against Atrog this way!"
His voice was rough very low, and it sounded like he growled at Zinjo the whole time.
"Oh, sorry, but it's reserved for the Saiyan Broly."
"For him? Hmph, only if you can make it to the finals!"
Without saying anything further, they started clashing again. Both close-combat orientated, and both incredible strong.
Clashing against each other dozens of times, destroying the stage in the process. Zinjo tried to tilt the balance of this fight with a few ki blasts but Atrog met them with his own ki blasts.
Atrog is truly a prodigy amongst the Trolls for his ki control. Most Trolls focus on training their physical strength as to compensate their lack of talent in matters of ki. Therefore, making strong close-combat fighters amongst them but on a mid to long range, their weakness would be obvious. Atrog, however, was very talented in ki control, relatively seen to his fellow Trolls.
But it still couldn't close the gap, both were extremely close in terms of power level but the exchanges on mid to long range, was tilting the battle towards Zinjo. Still Zinjo couldn't seal the deal as Trolls had a high regeneration.
After a few minutes of intense fight, Zinjo jumped back creating great distance between them.
"Atrog, I have to say you are a tough one, but I have to end this now. Aaaaaaaah."
Bringing his four arms in front of him, facing towards Atrog. Red spheres appeared in each of them, charged them up for 2 seconds while Atrog was madly sprinting towards him, he knew he couldn't let Zinjo do as he pleased, or it would be his defeat.
But it was too late. Zinjo shot out his spheres consecutively as they were creating light beams behind them. Atrog redirected his charge, trying to evade them. But they weren't flying in a straight line but slightly correcting their paths midair. He evaded two but the other two hit their target, sending him through the air outside the ring.
Having lost Atrog downheartedly went to his fellow Trolls as they welcomed him excitedly. Surprisingly after seeing his fight the other younglings had reverent gazes, as they looked at him. Although he lost, he showed them what Trolls with ki blasts were truly capable of and it ignited a spark in the others to do the same.
"A spectacular fight between the young prodigies! Now we finally have determined the 3 finalists who will battle in a one on one against each other for the place of the number 1. Becoming the champion of this tournament! The first battle will be Broly versus Alea. The following battle will be the one who lost between the two of you against Zinjo and ending this tournament will be the winner versus Zinjo. Let the fight begin!"
They walked towards the middle of the stage before they stood 10 meters apart from each other.
Alea started to smile as she started talking.
"I am not going easy on you and neither should you!"
"Hahaha. Funny. Taro said the same thing, maybe you guys should take other last words before your defeat."
"Don't worry it won't be. At least I have prepared something for the tournament unlike that idiot. Hehe."