On the seas of the Color Kingdom, a lighthouse is located on a sandy shore where two married people, Mike and Bell, live. They are about to face a big problem.
"Mike, I could see the dragons approaching us."
Mike, the husband, was sleeping on a bed when his wife woke him up and said, "Are they here for revenge for what we did to Alucard, or are they here to collect our debts again? Like that went well the last time they tried."
Bell saw something or someone that made her drop a plate she was holding, breaking it. Mike heard this and stood up and said, "What's going on, Bell."
"H-h-he is here!!!"
"Who are you-!!!!"
When he sees the person approaching with dragons, he summons his shotgun and leaves the place to confront this person. He didn't go alone. Bell went with him when she stopped being afraid.
After leaving the place, she summoned her swords, the Heavons' Holy Sword and Hell's Unholy Sword.
"How has it been, my fellow students? I heard you two caused my son's death! But don't worry. I'm not here for that."
A man in the middle wore fancy, old-fashioned clothes with a ruby cane. His nails are painted black. He looks like he is in his 20th. But he is way older than living humans. His teeth were sharp, and one of them was gold.
On his side was a woman with orbs floating around her, and she said, "Mr. Dracula, these were not the only ones who killed your son."
"Oh, shut up, Healer! I'm not here to avenge my son. I am here for these two, so listen to me and leave. Leave me and my pupils alone. I can handle them by myself."
"Sigh, I will let you handle them, but you must bring them back to us, not kill them! Understand?!"
"I was planning to do so before you told me, Healer!" Except for Dracula, everyone left, leaving him with his students.
"Before I capture you two, I congratulate you on your marriage. Sorry for taking my sweet time to say that. Now that's out of my way. Mike and Bell, I didn't forget how you betrayed the Seven Dragons of the Sea and killed my son, but I'm not for that. I'm here for the order of Immortal King."
Mike throws his shotgun at Dracula, and Bell swings her blades toward him.
But he didn't care what was happening. He was talking and avoiding every attack they were throwing at him.
"For that reason, you are coming with me!"
'Shit, he's still strong as before.' Mike and Bell, though.
He brings his staff above his head while avoiding attacks. The gem started glowing when he enchanted something in Romanian. Black clouds were forming around the lighthouse, and when he stopped, a thunder hit where Mike and Bell were.
***
On the day the Rankers' Tournament started, James was inside the stadium's waiting/training room, a single bracket broad pinned onto one of the walls with no names. And only sixteen available spots.
"What bullshit is this! Why on earth would there be 16 spots on this bracket when hundreds of participants are in this game?!"
"Hey, stupid! Would you happen to know why 16 spots are available in the bracket? Is it because-!!!"
"Don't call me stupid!" The huge and hairy man threw a punch at a person who was wearing a fedora, covering his eyes.
The man with the hat dodged the attack by jumping up, holding his fedora, and making sure not to fall.
"Sigh, I called you stupid because you didn't listen to me."
"I didn't want to show one of my strengths yet, but oh well." He spins in mid-air, constructing fire from his foot, then smashes the hairy man's head with his foot. He did all that he still was holding his hat.
He landed on the ground and said, "Should I explain to all of you, stupid people, or are you here to fight me?"
A woman with white hair in the distance whispered to the person next to her, "He's strong. We should keep a close eye on him."
'Oooh, I must fight him now that I know his strength.' Samuel thought.
'I need to avoid him at all costs!' Tim thought.
"Nobody wants to fight me?"
Then he turned to Ross and said, "Entering here, I sensed you were a strong fellow, so I am excited to fight you."
"You are strong as yourself, Mr?"
"Justice!" Cleaning bots came, put a stretcher under the hairy man, and carried him out in the middle of Ross and Justice's conversation.
***
"Hello, everyone from the Milky Way. Welcome to the Rankers' Tournament A of 2123."
A man with fancy clothes was the one who was introducing the game while horns were playing slowly. He was in the center of the arena with a microphone.
There were anti-flow metals around the middle of the arena to prevent Flow from spilling out. A big screen with jet boosters in the air showed the speaker's every movement.
The battle part of the arena and viewer seats had no roof over them. They could see Armora's roundness and the dome that gave them oxygen.
"Before I explain the rules to our first-time viewers. First, we must introduce our sponsors and VIP guests who came." He points toward a special place, and cameras come where his finger is.
"Everyone, a round of applause for his majesty, King Romeo the Second." The audience applauded and whittled when hearing his name.
"Thank you, thank you for all your support." The king said.
"Next to the king are the people who didn't let the Color Kingdom be a weak country, his arms, and leg... The Primary Colors, the Ghost of the King, Jett Amadede, the Blazing Sun, Amber Amadede, and Mother Nature's Favorite, Hazel Amadede!"
Everyone also clapped when they called their names. The Primary Colors didn't say anything. They just clapped.
"Before I go on, I must thank our main sponsors, Kliman Family Investigation Group..."
He presented all the sponsors and VIP guests and then changed the topic.
"Wow, these names were mouthfuls." People laughed.
"Now, you all newcomers are dying to know the rules of our four-year tournament. Here you go!" He snapped his finger, changing the screen and floating to the tournament rules with prerecorded voice reading.
[In this tournament, the gladiators can't exterminate their opponents. If they do so, they become disqualified from the game and can't participate again in the next Rankers' Tournament A or S].
[However, the gladiators can hospitalize their opponents without killing them!]
[Players are allowed to use any weapon and powers].
[If a gladiator drops on the ground and cannot move for about five seconds, they become disqualified]
[All hundred participants will fight in free-for-all until only 16 gladiators get chosen from the perverse game to move on to the next match. From then, we sign who would fight who].
The rules ended, and then the fancy-dressing man said, "Now you all know the rules in this game. Let's start Ranker's Tournament on a count of three and drumroll, please."
"3" Crowd, we're counting down with drumroll.
"2"
"1"
"Open the gates!"
After the man said the gates were keeping the gladiators out of the center opened, the announcer vanished in thin air.
Swords were clashing with each other, and guns were firing everywhere.
A couple of men surrounded the woman with white hair, "Grily, a woman like you should not be allowed to practice in this tournament."
"You guys are just cowards for looking for someone weak!"
"What did you say, you bitch!" Men attacked the woman with white hair, but before their attack touched her, an electric was developing on their skin.
"Wha-wha-what is this?!"
She said when she was behind them, "Thunder Spear!" After saying that, the people who attacked her were shocked and dropped to the ground. They didn't move for five seconds, making them disqualified.
In all this chaos, robot doctors checked if the men were dead or alive. They checked and found none of them were dead, so the woman with white hair was safe.
"Wow, that was a great showcase of power from Miss. Delia." The announcer was sitting on a comfy chair in a safe room.
People were dropping off the tournament left and right, and robots were coming and going.
James, Junon, Samuel, and Tim, we're fighting with a couple of people on their own and making them drop out of the tournament.
Ross was dodging a woman holding a giant ax before she could swing a big attack. Suddenly, a man went flying, hitting her with his head.
"What was that?!"
The distance between fighting was Justice was slowly approaching Ross.
Bang!
A bullet flew toward Justice, but he grabbed it without twitching and then flung it back to the person who fired it, wounding the leg. Then he started running to Ross.
He kicks James multiple times. "Wow, you are fast to defend, but how about this!"
He speeds up his attacks, making his feet fire, but James still dodges them without the help of the nanobots.
'Crap, he's fast for my senses to catch up.'
Then James got hit in the face, flinging him into the crowd. The nanobots did activate, but it didn't help.
'All this training, and I can't hit him back.'
To be continued.