As soon as the trial starts, almost all the teams choose to stay together. Bezune, Kotai, and Kisaiju don't waste any time as they all go separate ways making it a wager on who can find their King first. Then Shizuko disbands his team, Mikoto gets irritated and jut goes the opposite way. Chiori not knowing what to do or who to go with. She contemplates for awhile and then goes after Shizuko. She finally catches up to Shizuko who's not happy to see her.
Shizuko: "Why are you here?"
Chiori: "Umm we can't be alone, and I don't know Mikoto that well."
Shizuko: "Leave me alone! I don't need your help! And I don't want your help! You're still so annoying!"
Chiori: "Look I believe you! I know you don't need me! But I need you, I can't fight alone and I don't know where Mikoto is, so even if I were to go with her, I wouldn't know where she is! So please Shizuko, just let me stay by your side!"
Shizuko just stares at the ground, but then he hears footsteps as he grabs Chiori and moves her behind him. It's Kisaiju as he walks towards them smiling.
Kisaiju: "You're not Ziku, but I guess you'll be a pretty good warm up."
Shizuko: "You must be dumber than you look if you think that you even compare to me."
Kisaiju: "Haha, out of everyone here, you're the most talk I got so far. I gotta say I like it!"
Shizuko: "That's because unlike everyone else here, I'm not an idiot and I believe I can whoop your ass!"
Chiori: "Umm Shizuko."
Shizuko turns around and just stares at her. Chiori lets go of his arm and backs away hiding behind a tree. Shizuko and Kisaiju just stare intensely until Shizuko makes the first move. He lifts his hand as he releases a fire blasts towards Kisaiju burning all the trees in the path. Shizuko looks and doesn't see Kisaiju, until he turns around blocking his sneak attack. Kisaiju smiles as they both engage in a hand to hand fight. Hand to hand fighting Shizuko is clearly the better fighter, so Kisaiju backs away to gain distance. As he's backing away he creates a a square with his hands trapping Shizuko in a cube. Shizuko tries to break out by using his flame fist and creating hand blasts. Doing this only increased the effect of the cube. It started to decrease in size and drain Shizuko's Chi. Shizuko falls to one knee and is almost completely drained, Chiori kicks Kisaiju making him break his hand seal which freed Shizuko. Once Kisaiju falls Shizuko creates a burst of fire that pushes Kisaiju back damaging him while also leaving him unconscious. Shizuko starts panting and then falls to the floor.
Chiori: "Shizuko!"
Kame, Aiko, and Shiro come across Omoi, Haruna and Tonamura.
Tonamura: "Kame! You'll fight me!"
Kame smiles and gets into his stance.
Omoi to himself: "We have to get Aiko."
Before anyone can make a move the climate begins to shift and change. Everyone tries to brace for cover as the climate goes from a forest to a glacier in a blink of an eye. The conditions of the glacier are nothing they've been through. The intense winds, the low temperature, and harsh terrain. It's almost torture at their age. Kame and Tonamura are trying to start their fight, but they can barely keep both eyes open as a blizzard begins. Hiroyuki and his team are walking trying to find their first obstacle or first opponent. Hiroyuki is the only one who is able to handle the extreme conditions of the glacier.
Hiroyuki: "Is this how fast you guys can go?"
Poku: "Hey! The weather and climate just changed! We're not as adapt as you are to this kinda weather!"
Senpu: "Yeah, just hang with us we'll push through."
Hiroyuki: "My bad you guys."
Kame and Tonamura begin their fight, just hand to hand. The fight is a good one as there is no clear winner. The fight immediately becomes one sided once Kame lands a hit that would appear to be a fatal blow.
Tonamura to himself: "Ahh Damnit he's tough! I'm gonna have to use it!"
Kame rushes towards him, jumps up for a round kick, but he's stopped and frozen in air. Kame is trying his best to move, but his muscles and limbs won't budge. Tonamura looks up at Kame and his left eye is purple with a symbol in the middle. Tonamura just stares at Kame watching him struggle.
Tonamura: "It's true. You Chikaras are quite powerful. Your thirst for battle will always be your weakness though. I'll kill you now, that way you're not in my way later."
Tonamura opens his eye wider and Kame starts to grasp for air as he's being suffocated with his bones being crushed all at once.
Tonamura: "Try not to struggle. It's easier."
Omoi creates a tornado from under Tonamura and forces him down to the ground with major impact. The impact causes Tonamura to lose consciousness. Omoi picks up Tonamura while Haruna puts the cuffs on Aiko.
Shiro: "Kame!"
Kame lays on the ground wheezing. Shiro picks him up and lays him next to a tree, trying to help him catch his breath and recover. Meanwhile Omoi has taken Tonamura and as they stop to regroup and gather their chi. On the other side of the glacier Ziku, Kireina and Isamu try walking through but neither one of them could see anything. Then they see a silhouette in the distance walking towards them.
Ziku: "Someone's here!"
The silhouette gets closer and they make it out to be Kotai. Kotai smiles as he sees Isamu and immediately rushes towards him, he gets close enough to grab Isamu, but Ziku shoulder tackles Isamu out of the way and gets grabbed instead. Kotai bear hugs Ziku, crushing his bones. Ziku's energy starts to drain and he's losing consciousness. Kotai increases his muscle mass, tightening the hug, crushing Ziku even more. Back where Asuna is they are watching everything from the hidden cameras and it's displayed on a monitor for all to see. It even got broadcasted to the village for many people to see. Natsumi can see how Ziku is doing and exactly what's happening. She gets worried and decides to go to the academy grounds where the trial is being held. She isn't the only mother to show up though.
Kotai: "Hahahaha! Hahaha hahaha!"
Kireina finally acts, she makes vines and pull Kotai away from Ziku, while also trapping Kotai binding him to a tree. She goes to pick up Ziku and check if he's ok. He coughs up and blood and raises up.
Ziku: "I'm fine, just put the cuffs on him."
Kireina puts the cuffs on Kotai and then goes help Ziku tending to his injuries.
Kireina: "Are you ok?"
Ziku: "Yeah, I'm fine. Where's Isamu?"
Isamu walks up holding his right arm.
Isamu: "Right here. When you hit me you broke my right shoulder and I flew into a boulder."
Ziku: "I'm sorry, I didn't have time to hold back, I saw Kotai going for you and I made the assumption that you're our king."
Isamu: "Me?!"
Kireina: "So now what? If you can't fight we've lost this trial if his teammates come for him."
Ziku: "I can fight!"
Ziku struggles to stand up, but when he does he immediately falls back down coughing up more blood.
Kireina: "You idiot! Stop pushing yourself, if you need to rest just rest! You're no help to us like this!"
Ziku just lays down, Kireina goes to him and picks him up putting his arm around her and Isamu goes on the other side to help hold him.
Kireina: "Ziku you're so heavy!"
They put him down against a rock. Once he is against the rock the climate changes and goes from a glacier to a desert. It gets extremely hot and dry with the most extreme conditions.
Isamu: "This can't be good!"
Kireina: "Ugh it's so hot!"
Ziku: "This weather."
Ziku clinches his chest in pain and just decides to lay down until he's able to move. Isamu walks away from his team and just heads in one direction without looking back.
Kireina: "Isamu! Where are you going? Isamu!"
Ziku just stares at him watching him walk away.
Kireina: "You're not going to say anything?"
Ziku: "I'm trusting my judgment and letting him be."
Kireina: "But."
Ziku: "I need you to trust me in trusting Isamu."
Kireina looks into Ziku's eyes and sees how confident he is. She looks away and blushes.
Kireina: "Ok, I believe in both of you."
Hiroyuki and Senpu start talking as Poku just watches them from a far.
Hiroyuki: "When this weather and climate changed, I noticed a huge decrease in my chi. It's like this weather almost nullifies my power, I don't feel even close to full strength!"
Senpu: "I'm going to be honest. That scares me, cause as of now me and Poku are pretty weak."
Poku walks over to them.
Poku: "Is everything ok?"
Once she says this Bezune walks up.
Senpu: "Hey where is your team?"
Bezune: "I don't do teams."
Senpu: "Aren't you worried about losing this trial?"
Bezune: "This trial means nothing to me. I want to be on the top, to do that I have to beat who's on the top. "
Hiroyuki and Bezune stare at each other. Senpu steps in front of Hiroyuki and gets into a stance.
Senpu: "Beat him? Why don't you beat me first? Man that sounded less weird in my head."
Bezune: "Step aside Senpu, you're just a stepping stool."
Senpu: "Stepping stool!"
Senpu stretches his arms and wraps them completely around Bezune. Senpu smiles as he lifts him up and slams him into the ground. Bezune gets up and brushes off his clothes, he looks at Hiroyuki and walks towards him. Senpu tries to grab him again, but Bezune dodges them grabs his arms swings him around and slams him on the ground. When Senpu gets back up Bezune is in front him and places his hand on Senpu chest. Bezune releases energy that launches Senpu across the desert leaving him in tons of pain. Poku goes after him to see if he's ok while Hiroyuki and Bezune just stare at each other.
Bezune: "Hmm I can sense Chi. And yours is decreasing as we speak."
Hiroyuki: " Yeah, these conditions are my weakness it's like it completely nullifies my ability draining my chi the more I struggle."
Bezune: "Well I'm not going to fight you if you're not at your best. Guess I'll go look for Kanju. Just know, after the tournament there will be a new Top dog!"
Bezune walks away and Hiroyuki just watches him. Hiroyuki gets tired and just falls to the ground. Then Poku walks over with Senpu holding his arm around her shoulder. She sees Hiroyuki and rushes over to him. She lays Senpu next to him and tries her best to help both of them.
Mikoto is walking trying to complete the trial. She hasn't ran into anyone or even stopped moving. She just walks with a blank expression on her face. Even through the hardest of conditions nothing seems to phase her. She stops moving because she can sense people heading towards her. On one side it's Jiro and his team , on the other it's Kanju and his team. Mikoto just looks at them and continues walking. She didn't want to fight or even talk because Senpu wasn't there for capture. So there was no need. Mireko watches as her sister just leaves. Then she turns around, folds her arms and closes her eyes. Yumi reads the mind of Jiro and finds out that he plans to fight Kanju by himself. Bokutso and Limbo back up. Yumi backs up as well letting Kanju and Jiro fight each other. Kanju places his magic circle and pulls out a small sword. They both begin to fight; Jiro shoots fire towards Kanju, but he sliced down the middle extinguishing his flames. Kanju jumps up and slices the air 4 times creating waves of fire that hit Jiro.
Jiro: "Why.. why can't I absorb these!"
Kanju: "Because they're your flames. When I sliced through your attack, my sword absorbed some of your fire. I unleashed your own fire towards you."
Jiro pushes the waves of fire away and tries to think of a plan. He then attacks Kanju with the same attack, but when Kanju slices it the second time, Jiro appears behind Kanju and kicks him. When Kanju goes flying Jiro chases after him and connects a combo leaving Kanju laying on the floor. He jumps up and rushes towards Jiro. For the rest of the fight it came down to who was the better hand to hand combatant. Both of them seem evenly matched when it comes to fighting, but then Bokutso got bored and decided to jump in to hell Jiro. When he got close Mireko lifted up her hand and he went flying back. Limbo walks up to Mireko, she tries to push him back too, but it doesn't work. He keeps walking towards her and she's confused as to why she can't push him away.
Limbo: "Your ability doesn't affect me. As of right now, I'm a non-physical being of energy."
Mireko smiles.
Mireko: "So your attacks have no affect on me either. Your ability seems to be only good for diversions."
Limbo: "If I didn't know any better. I'd think you called me useless."
Mireko: "Useless? Haha that's a mean way of saying it, so I like it."
Limbo: "You're different from your sister. For one thing you actually talk."
Mireko: "Yeah she's the more serious and strong one. Don't let that fool you, I can be serious and strong as well."
Limbo: "Ahh, is that so?"
Limbo ends up forgetting the situation and reverses his molecules, so now he's able to be hurt and be damaged by physical attacks.
Mireko: "Yeah, wanna see?"
She repels him towards her as she knees him in the stomach and then pushes him away. She smiles and then walks back to stand next to Yumi.
Yumi: "Did you just, beat them both?"
Mireko: "Huh, I did didn't I?"
Bokutso stands up and goes after Kanju again. Mireko tried to stop him, but once she puts her hand out, Bokutso increases his muscle mass and becomes too heavy for Mireko to push. She struggles to repel and push him. Her not being able to do anything to him makes it easy for him to get close to her and grab her. He grabs both of her arms and just sits her down. Her being in total shock, she was unable to move. Which allowed Bokutso to help Jiro with Kanju. Jiro didn't want the help, but Bokutso was only thinking about passing. He places the cuffs around Kanju and lifts him up over his shoulders. They continue forward while Mireko and Yumi can only stare. Both of them in fear of going after them, now that they know they don't stand a chance. When they are out of sight, a few moments go by and Bezune appears. He looks at Kanju and closes his eyes. He just walks forward without saying anything with Mireko and Yumi just watch him.
Omoi and his team have captured their targeted King and all of them are waiting for Tonamura to recover. He wakes up and doesn't remember anything that happened. He doesn't even remember fighting Kame.
Tonamura: "What happen? Is it over? Did we win?"
Omoi: "No, we were waiting for you to recover so we could keep going."
Tonamura: "Oh, my bad. What actually happened?"
Omoi: "It doesn't matter, as long as we have Aiko. We captured our target so all we have to do now is finish.
Tonamura to himself: "Do they know what Aiko is? I know my mission is Kame, but if I get Aiko, we could have that ultimate power Master has been talking about. Capturing Aiko will give us the power and capturing Kame eliminates the possibility of failing. Two birds with one stone."
Tonamura closes his eyes and then opens them. Having that same symbol as before. This leaves everyone in front of him immobile with all of them struggling. Tonamura walks to Aiko and looks into her eyes this makes her lose consciousness and fall down, but is caught by Tonamura. He leaves with Aiko on his shoulder and gets far enough to where no one can sense him. Some time pass and everyone regained control of their body being able to move, but it's hard cause of the condition it left them in. Omoi tries moving forward but his body is super heavy and al his muscles are twitching. It almost seems like he doesn't even have control of his limbs. He lets some time go by and he's fully capable of walking and moving normally. It seems likes Haruna still needs time as it seems the affect is different for everyone. He decides to stay with Haruna and wait for her to recover. Omoi places her next to a boulder, but once he does the boulder breaks and she falls, he catches her and then the ground starts shaking. He picks her up and carries her in his arms running after Tonamura. At this point Kisaiju, Kame, Shizuko, Hiroyuki, Ziku and Kanju are all up on their feet. Some are fully recovered, others are half way there. All of them and their teams start to move forward, still some aren't fully recovered, so most teams are going slow. The ground continues to shake with all teams unable to balance. The ground ends up creating walls and pillars causing the teams to get separated. Then the climate starts to shift and then the teams really get separated being moved in different places and being shifted to new parts of the climate. Ziku ended up with Kotai walking trying to find his team. Instead Bezune turns a corner and the both of them stare at each other.
Kame and Tonamura cross paths again and it's completely intense as Tonamura puts Aiko down preparations to fight. Shizuko, Hiroyuki and Kisaiju all meet at one point. All of them with an intense look on their face, but neither one at full strength. Mikoto and Yumi end up turning the corner to meet each other. Mikoto with a blank stare and Yumi with fear in her eyes. Kanju ended up being separated from his team and Bokutso. But he still had the cuffs on. Limbo phases through a wall trying to grab him, but Kanju dodges in time. Kanju is nervous since he isn't even close to half strength and can't use his abilities. Isamu ends up running into Bokutso and is completely frightened knowing he has no chance whatsoever. Jiro is confronted by Omoi as neither of them say a word it's just intense silence. Senpu and Shiro meet, both of them nervous since they both forgot each other's abilities. Poku turns corners slowly not knowing what to expect, when she suddenly runs into Chiori who is completely scared cause she's alone. Both of them not wanting to fight, but know it has to come down to it. Mireko, Haruna, and Kireina all meet in one area. This confrontation gets real intense since it looks to be a showdown between the strongest females of the class. All the confrontations are silent but intense, as all the students get ready to battle. All of them begin to rush each other, but they come to a complete vault when they here a loud, obnoxious bell. And a voice on an intercom that says: "That's enough! You all fail!" All of the students look with confused faces as the walls and pillars come down and they are seen close the end of the trial. The teams that captured their assigned King are told that they didn't pass cause the condition was to capture the King and also finish the trial. Which none of them did.
Shizuko just stares with the most angriest expression. As everyone else either is confused or they have blank expressions.
Omoi: "So if we all fail? What happens now?"
Aizu: "The trial, although was a failure, it was also a success in fulfilling what we wanted to see from all of you. Also it's not completely over. The tournament starts in 3 days."
Kanju: "That's right, I completely forgot about the tournament."
Asuna: "In this tournament there are no teams. You are alone, with only your skills and abilities. This tournament is where you really prove yourselves."
Mest: "Oh and if you need to recover we have the medical team ready if you are in need of urgent care. I suggest all of you go."
Ziku: "Is this tournament going to be spectated by the public?"
Aizu: "Actually Yes! Glad you said that! The trial was already broadcasted, so the public and your families have already seen what you guys can do. The tournament will be broadcasted as well, and spectated by the villages higher ups and the people who decide to watch in person!"
Ziku gulps. Shizuko is traumatized cause he knows his father seen him and he already feels embarrassed and knows his dad is disappointed.
Aizu: "Alright you are all free to go. Like Mest suggested, you should go recover before the tournament."
Almost all the students are in the recovery room.
Aiko comes up to Ziku looking at his injuries.
Aiko: "Are you going to be ok?!"
Ziku: "Yeah, Just have 6 broken ribs and a fractured left arm. No big deal."
Omoi: "But you're left handed!"
Ziku: "Oh yeah huh. Hahahaha this tournament is going to be a challenge then."
Shiro: "Are you ok Kame?"
Kame: "Yeah, it is like I'm al better now. Of course my chest hurts just a little, but I'll push through!"
Tonamura: "Why is he excited?"
All the students that suffered real damage are bandaged up. Some are already fine. Most didn't even suffer damage at all and are already out training. The tournament begins in 3 days. Most of the students are excited, most are cautious. They wonder if 3 days is really enough time get back to full strength.