"Hmph, it doesn't matter. We will monopolize all the attention with this!" scoffed Rachel as she stood up from the waiting booth.
Of course, another reason that Diego was doing so was to push the matches faster. Doing a 1 vs 1 combat would be too time-consuming, and they wanted to have the tournament finished today.
As the teams were ready to fight, Shinobi managed to slide his way next to Aisha.
"Careful I have a bad feeling about the gus" whispered Shinobi.
Aisha scoffed as she turned around him, "Seriously? The girls are just a showoff. Take care of her and the brother will crumble easily. Plus we have our leader, he can easily handle this."
Shinobi bristled a bit before pushing that emotion away, "I am serious. This is YOMI we are fighting against. Those two are direct disciples of YAMI's One Shadow Nine Fist."
Aisha's face seems to soften as Shinobi's statement until their leader, Lucas interrupted the moment, "I don't care."
Aisha's face turned to Lucas with adoration, "Leader, you are always so calm!"
Shinobi's face turned ugly for a moment before he took a few deep breaths calming himself down.
"Are you already!?" yelled Diego in his mic, "Let the next match of the D of D begin!"
The Capoeria team quickly surrounded the twins, trying to take advantage of having more people. As Lucas calmly analyzed the situation, he realized the Shinobi was quite right to be wary of male. Shinobi, despite all his buster within the team, had earned the right to be vice-captain of the team. He was the second strongest of the team, his analysis almost as good as his.
As Lucas was thinking such things one of his other teammates initiate the attack, aiming for Ethan. It was a sensible tactic, as the kick wasn't head on where Ethan could see it, but from the side. Theoretically, it would be where Ethan would be slowest to react.
They had vastly underestimated Ethan though. Without hesitation, Ethan grabbed the eg, threw his attacker on the ground, and began pummeling him down. The others couldn't even move to help their teammate.
Ethan made sure that his opponent was no longer a threat before tossing him away and taking his spot back against Rachel's back.
"Little brother just in the previous match I told you to be more Lucha didn't I?" Rachel said.
"Sorry sister it has become a habit to take out my opponent as fast as possible" replied Ethan.
Lucas began to quickly plan the attack. He would obviously take on Ethan, as this would be a fight to look forward to. Yet he also couldn't simply throw away the numbers advantage they had. Plus, he had to agree with Shinobi's analysis. These were direct disciples of YAMI's One Shadow Nine Fist. The cream of the crop, a cut above all other disciples.... except for that monstrous person at Ryozanpaku.
"Aisha, with me against the male. Eliot, take the girl" snapped Lucas. He chose Aisha to accompany him not because he was trying to woo her but knew Shinobi would be distracted if the two were teamed up together. He easily pieced that Shinobi liked Aisha, though Aisha didn't know it yet his efforts were clearly visible.
He also knew Aisha looked up to him with adoration, but he couldn't return the feelings as he didn't have the same feelings for her.
"Roger" replied all three of them. Even Shinobi didn't argue with his order.
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Despite having the numerical advantage, the Capoeria team was quickly put down. Eliot was the first to be knocked out via a pile driver from Rachel. Lucas used Jogo to try and find a weak point of Ethan but was unable to hit them. Especially when Ethan stabbed a pressure point in his leg, numbing it and disabling it at the same time. Despite that, Lucas tried his best to defend himself, only to fall down next from a well-timed cross chop. Aisha was next to fall to the ground when Ethan aimed a well-placed kick dislocated her leg.
As she saw a fist coming for her head, Aisha closed her eyes in fear, expecting the pain to come, when she heard Shinobi scream her name. Aisha heard flesh smacking into something but didn't feel the pain or impact. Aisha slowly opened her eyes to see Shinobi standing in front of her protectively, glaring at Ethan.
Shinobi had managed to use Rachel's throw to boost himself towards Ethan, ignoring the pain that he had suffered from Rachel. Then, with a quick flip, he landed a dropkick right into Ethan's arm, who had raised it to block the attack. The impact sent Ethan skidding away from a little, but standing upright.
"Shinobi?" breathed Aisha in pain.
"Get some rest" stated Shinobi as he stared down Ethan and Rachel, "I will handle this as best as I can."
"But-" started Aisha but Shinobi interrupted her.
"I know I am nota match against them. But we still have to show the world that we can still do. Plus, I made a promise to myself that I would pro-... just watch."
With a roar, SHinobi bravely charged forward towards a grinning Rachel and serious-faced Ethan while Aisha watched him. Strangely enough, Shinobi seemed to fight with ferocity and grace that seemed to match or even exceed captains' ability. Sadly, that wasn't enough as Rachel managed to slide kick into Shinobi, tripping him forward just to be smacked into Ethan's lariat. Shinobi was sent flipping in the air before landing flat on his face, his eyes rolled up to his head.
"That's over" stated Rachel as she turned to deal with the only remaining member of the Capoeria team, Aisha.
Aisha whimpered as she tried to stand up only to stumble once more. Rachel smiled as she suddenly used her little brother as a pillar to jump off, ready to body slam into Aisha. Just as she was still in the air, she noticed someone coming for her fast and quickly adjusted her position, quickly bringing her arms up to block the kick that was aiming for her head.
"Who dares to interrupt my spotlight?" growled Rachel as she landed.
Aisha looked up, thinking that it was captain or one of the other team members had managed to get up, only to see Shinobi standing once more in front of her.
"Silvio?"