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Chapter 42 - (CHAPTER 41: THE BIG DAY)

"Huh…" Chara woke up from her bed, rubbing her eyes.

"Huh!" She stare at the used scented candles on the table.

"Huh!!" She screamed towards the romance movie still running in the television.

"Argh!!?" She scream, seeing the selfie of herself and me doing the Poky challenge.

"Arrghhhhhh!!??" She literally almost fainted reading the notes left by Klara. "Part time couples!? Lovers!? This is insane!!" She almost ripped the note into shreds, but luckily, she managed to held her temper. "What have I done…" She covered her face in her palm, pacing in her bedroom. This is embarrassing! Way too embarrassing!!

"Ring-"

"Gah?" She rushed towards the ringing phone on her bed and picked it up, on top of it written "Sensei Zeo". "Er…." She hesitated a moment before picking it up. "H-hello?" She asked out, still a little embarrassed. "Hello? Chara? Where are you?" I asked out, with a hint of anxiety. "The final discussion is about to start! We are all waiting for you!" The final discussion? She take a quick glimpse at the calendar, Klara thought she could laze around a bit during weekdays but she forgot to inform her about this! "I-I am g-going!" With that she hung up the phone and began packing.

"You are late." I stare at her rushing into the meeting room we've reserved. "S-sorry." She apologized, walking past me before taking a seat at the corner of the room. "So" I stare at her, she take a notebook out to cover her blushing face. "Regarding tomorrow's arena, I had some basic information, this, is the basic simple sketch of it. As you can see, it is H shaped, with a bridge in the middle connecting it, with five flags for you to capture. The flag will be automatically capture is you stay within it for some time, the process will be interrupted if an enemy enters the area…"

"Where is Zeo?" Mia walk down the stairs as she yawned, doing a stretch, raising her hips like a cat. "He is out, as always. Competition is yesterday." Yui answered while she flipped the French toast in the pan. "Hope he will win…" Hizuki mumbled under her breath while she helped beside Yui to prepare the breakfast. "So that he could spend more time with us again…" Kasumi set up the utensils as she pointed out their true reason, the rest remain silent, doing their own job.

"WELCOME TO THE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL CAPTURING COMPETITION!"

The announcer greeted, what in return is the student's weak cheer. They had seen enough of this shit, they already knew EXACTLY, what is going to happen next. "Let's invite the four teams participating this very special competition! Team Class S! Team Class A! Team Class B! And finally, Team Class Z!" The last one totally took the crowd out of surprise as they gasped.

"Welcome!" With that the teams stood onto the stage. "…!" Hanna beside me waved the gigantic banner in her hand. "That's my man!" I shouted beside her. Kasumi, Mei, Yui and Hizuki joined too alongside the many students of the worst generation, cheering for them. They waved their hands at us, Rain opened his arms wide, Brook flexes his diamond body, Chara look at her feet in embarrassment while Suga winked before tossing a gum in her mouth, ready for the match.

"So round one! Class S against Class B!" The students groaned; they already knew what is going to happen next. Feels like watching the same movie over and over again. Just as expected, Class S won overwhelmingly. The entire Class B was wiped out, all the flags captured, just within a minute. "Congratulations for Class S! As expected from the elites!" The announcer didn't forget to lick their ass clean. The students cheered sarcastically, the claps scattering, like the crowds were masturbating right now.

"Now! Round two! Class Z against Class A. The worst against the best!" Damn, didn't forgot to add salt to injury, that announcer really is well paid for this shit. "Fighters ready!" He asked, Rain, Suga, Brook and Chara took their position on their side of the map, while her opponents took the position on the opposite. "Fight!"

"Remember, they will hand you these rings." I clicked the PowerPoint, showing the image of a specially made ring. "These are teleportation rings, when your body is at certain state of injury, it will send you out of the field. This gave us one pro and one conn. The good news is that with it, we can fight a little more bravely and play some risky moves since this is pretty much a game. But the bad thing is that, just like real life, we only had once chance. There are no restarts button, retried or redo, so made it count. Now, back to our tactics and strategy…

"Chara, I wanted you to go head first as a runner, capturing the flag in the middle to gain control."

Chara formed into a puddle of water, darting her way towards the centre, capturing the flag in the middle of the map. This sudden action causes the opposing team to be surprised, since they didn't even expect them to be act as quick as this. It was moments before they finish capturing the two flags on their side of the map, but by that time, the team had already started to invade. Upon seeing this, one of their opponents leaned back to charge before tossing a baseball towards them. His ability is to make every single ball he touched into explosion, so that ball shooting towards them is a hand grenade.

"Brook, be a tank. Block down the hits that other may not able to held up with."

"Bring it!" Brook jumped past the rest with a gigantic leap before landing right in front of the trajectory of the baseball. "Diamond Shine!" the moment the ball touched his body, it detonated with quite a force, but as the dust settles down, he is still there, shiny as ever. "What the-" He continue to toss, but those baseballs were like bb pellets, in face of the unbreakable diamond, these all means nothing. Calmly, he walked towards his opponent, as he desperately tossed, but in the end, he is already in front of him. "Texas…" He opened his arms wide, what a familiar move. "Smash!" with that he slap his hand as hard as he could. What a Dan move, the hit is not as strong, but enough to kick that unlucky guy out of the arena.

"Suga, do your area control. Try your best to provide problems and obstacles for the enemy team."

"Honeycomb great wall!" Suga dodged a few projectiles from the enemy archer hiding behind her teammates while pressing her hand onto the ground beneath her. With a rumbled, various sticky, syrupy yet sturdy walls were set up all across the arena. "Gah!" An opponent still tries to stick up using the wall as cover, but one touch is enough for him to get stuck, and struggling only causes him to be in more mess. "Candy stick parade!" She waved her hands, candy sticks started to form behind her, sharpen at the tip. She pointed them towards the trapped guy before snapping her fingers, causing all of them to shoot towards him like bullet. "No!!" He scream desperately, before being impaled and transported out of the arena. Two down, two to go. "I got the flag!" Chara shouted at Rain, who is right in front of the pack right now. "Go get the last one!"

"Rain, be the attacker. Tried to knock out or get rid as much enemy as possible with your ability."

"Gravity…" He place his two hands together, charging while a purple sphere formed in between his fingers. "No you don't!" The archer aimed before shooting a barrage of arrows towards her. "I got this!" Brook rushed in front of him before opening his body wide, the arrows all snapped upon impacting his diamond skin. "Doomsday dome!" One of the remaining two student flicked his finger, using his physic power, he created a dome, covering the capture area, trying to protect it. "Buster!" He the beam was shot towards them, it was a direct hit, but instead a gigantic, dramatic explosion, there is nothing.

"Hey…" It was moment before they realise the purple strings, or lights covering the captured area. "Get in here!" The "physic engineer" shouted to her teammates. She get his signal and immediately rushed towards it, but too late. When the last strip of purple touched the floor, the "cage" was complete. "Moon…" For a split moment, the gravity within the circled area was turned off, without gravity, the archer had nowhere to go, as she struggled, floating and drifting mid-air. "Fall!" With that, comes a gigantic press. The ground in the circled area was crushed, creating a deep crater, destroying the bunker and everyone within it. The two gasped while being teleported out of the arena. Although technically with the ring they didn't die, but they still feel the pain. And the sensation of your bones being crushed into crumble and piercing your flesh isn't great.

"They Won! Class Z! Won!!"