Chapter 13 - Round 2

And after everyone had been mostly recovered from the first couple rounds. There would have been a display showing the current people going on to the next round now.

And now starting in the first match once more it would be Sora who pulled off a pretty tactical victory in the first round, but even with his great showings the crowd was rather wary about his chances in this. People were leaning more into the favor of his opponent who was Satoru Gomari. Who now stood on one side of the Arena along with Sora opposite of her. About their leaning towards the girl it was due to her raw power displayed by them that let them surpass their opponent. Sora of course had seen their fight and would be a little nervous of them, but at the same time it only riled up his excitement even more for it as he was curious, what was their soul? Hopefully they're pretty cool or something like that. Though alas with enough thoughts passing by the round would have started..

Within the seating with the King and Queen there would be some discussion. Asriel leaned over to Frisk and Chara to join in on the anticipation in the tournament. "So do you think Sora has it this time again?" Chara would have her determined opinion already and made a quick response. "Of course Sora's gonna beat that whatever girl, did you see what he did? He's certainly gotten to be quite excellent." Though Frisk seemed to slightly shake looking at the two on the field. Then shaking her head from side to side. "I don't know about this one. Their soul is very strong; it seems more potent than Sora's by a landslide. He's gonna have to do something even crazier than he did the first time." The other two would grumble now, that did make this seem a little bit less hopeful, but of course Shiro would pop up into the conversation. "The dark lord Sora would never lose." They would then look back all with a confused expression. "Dark lord? Where did that come from?" Shiro would then think.. "Uh well I just thought of it and it seemed cool!" They would just shrug, but then Asriel would say. "Hey sis, give me a cool name too." Shiro would have given him a little bit of a look as she was analyzing him over once more. "Asriel Mc Flufflybuns." Asriel would seem shocked as the other two would just snicker. "Is that really it?" Shiro would nod her head with a smile. Asriel would have now slightly drooped his head.

In the Arena when the round started Satoru would point a finger at herself, her face would have been filled with pride and happiness and a cocky grin to go with it. "I won't even need all my power to beat you. You aren't anything compared to me." As she said this power of her's flared up now. Sora seeing this would have had his mouth agasp now that was so cool. He had to do something cool too. His mind would think of something quick as a smirk appeared on her face now. He crossed his arms and turned his back to him and slowly started turning his head over his shoulder. "Fuhuhuhu! You dare undermine me. The great Sora King of Curses. I am only revealing a small sliver of my power." Sora would then suddenly do a dramatic turn. Dust would flare up around him as if a testament to this power. The girl would giggle, she found it amusing and got into a fighting stance along with Sora now. "Alright then buddy let's go!" As soon as she said this she focused her soul energy throughout her body focusing on her fist as she would have come right towards Sora who would have also went for a straightforward rush at them the girl going for a brazen strike towards the face of Sora, but she would have then suddenly seemed shocked. Wait, she wasn't hitting anything. And with that realization came an almost kick in the face. Sora was on the ground holding himself up and twisting his body into a kick towards her face. Though with the quick reactions of Satoru she avoided the kick towards her face and then grabbed onto his leg suddenly tugging him up. When she did this she followed it up with a kick in his gut sending an explosive power off which sent the self known King of Curses flying. Sora would crash into the side of a wall as stars would swirl around his head with him sliding down the wall. He shook his head and stood up now affirmatively. Wow that girl was strong, but so was he. Sora would point his finger towards the girl and said "Curse Blast" A simple incantation he had created to increase the power his attack would have. And a black energy would shoot out of his finger in the form of a small blast. Satoru would have avoided it by moving slightly off to the side; she was quite confident that she easily avoided it with her then running right back towards Sora. Although this was intended and Sora expected this so he would have made his attack turn around to go for her from behind. When the attack was just about to hit, Satoru would have done a backflip over the attack as it flew straight at Sora. Wait what! He had thought she didn't notice, but she sure had a knack for it. The girl in the air would have gone rather high actually and was currently descending upon Sora. In a flash Sora would do an action, holding out his hand for the curse coming back at him and absorbing it right back. His head turned up towards the girl as he ducked downwards and sprung upwards with a punch towards her gut digging it in with a twist pushing her away. As a bit of a surprise though the girl was hit by a second impact which was the curse itself. The curse being a simple curse of damage as she held onto her stomach for a second as she was quite winded. The proclaimed superior though was showing her worth as she quickly recovered from this state standing up. "Let's get crazy." After saying this she would extend her hand outwards as her special soul energy would shoot out as it suddenly dragged Sora in. "Waaaa!" Sora would squeal because he was confused as heck how this was happening. Sora would have pointed towards the energy that was bringing him in and shot a blast of perseverance energy at it fueled by a curse that knocked it away stopping the effect. Yet this was all Satoru needed as it had gotten Sora shaken up. The girl ran right at him flipping above him and came down quickly with an axe kick towards the back of Sora as he was on the ground. In time he turned around and raised his hands up to partially reduce the damage it would do, but it hurt his hands a lot. The girl then jumped off of his hands going pretty high up into the air and pointed her finger back down at him. Sora knew to expect something with her weird soul. That's when the thinker Sora had an idea. Touching his own body now he placed a curse of reflection on himself. Due to this the attack that was coming towards him would bounce right off of him and back at Satoru. Although this was not a bother to her at all, the girl simply grabbed the attack that came back at her and spun around as it kicked her back slightly. Although with this spin she then landed ontop of Sora with a smash towards his face holding the energy. This time it shattered right through his curse completely ignoring it and causing a massive explosion of course controlled for the safety of everyone there, well except Sora. The girl now stood ontop of him looking up, reveling in her attack; it seemed she had won, but suddenly she jumped off of him and away. She may be prideful, but she is not stupid. After seeing the previous fight of Sora's and analyzing her opponent she knew he had the perseverance soul and a bit of a grasp on the power it held of course it wouldn't end so easily like this. That's when Sora would stand up, for the first time feeling a strong resonance with his soul of perseverance more than any other, this was indeed the toughest situation he had gotten into. And there to help him his soul would respond in turn as the evolution of Sora in the moment would come to shine with his aura seeming to grow as his power was. He was getting stronger not weaker as the fight dragged along. Sora now in his beat up state stood knowing he had to be quick as even if he was stronger he was already hurt a lot, he would utilize his growing power to speed right towards his opponent yet she was already ready and had tossed her energy behind Sora which would drag him backwards. The energy suddenly changed color and exploded shooting him back towards her, but something was wrong. Sora seemed to have a blank expression reacting a lot less to the explosion, the damage it caused this time was not the same as before. Sora pushed right through it and used the acceleration to slam himself into his opponent, boosting himself additionally with his energy to push and slam them into a wall. Sora was on his feet in an instant, and in the next instance he had sent his opponent flipping in the air with a technique utilizing a martial arts style known as Aikido. When their opponent was about to hit the ground Sora caught them and sort of hugged them tightly and had a beaming grin on his face as he held the girl. They seemed a bit confused looking back at him. "I won!" Sora would proclaim, and the girl would see that he had, but to her it was in more than one way. "You have I guess Sora. Thank you for this, it was really fun. And since I know your soul it is only fair for you to know mine. The soul of emptiness or space rather. I always have felt odd with this, there was no one around me that I could ever relate to or made me really feel anything, but you Sora. You have given me the best time of my life." A gleam came off of her face which made Sora feel all the more better as she held her up over his head. "Huzzah! Sora saves the day again." Many would be confused in the crowd because of this, but hey it seemed the battle was over and he had won which caused the crowd to jeer and cheer with delight especially one voice that had gone beyond them all being Shiro who would have given Sora a stern talking to had he lost. When Sora met up with everyone else in the stands he would be hugged instantaneously by Shiro. "You did so good out there you looked so cool! But I thought you were gonna lose for a second. You better not though." Sora rolls his eyes. "You better not either, Shiro." "Alright mister King of Curses."

Now it had been time for the introduction of Shiromida's second battle within this tournament against an older looking boy named Raxar Appleseed. He looked pretty calm and relaxed, the boy in tune with his surroundings standing with his eyes closed. Shiro standing there would be filled with an opposite feeling. She was a bit on edge due to his calmness and would be very on guard. A couple moments would pass until the battle was announced to have actually started. Shiro would have made the first move with the other boy who just stood there while she rushed at him on all fours. When Shiro was about to strike the boy would have just spun to the side as Shiro went right past, but not only that a tree slammed into her gut? A tree had grown below in the arena somehow and now she was like a cat stuck on top of a tree for a moment. Though looking down now she saw her opponent still standing there. And so she jumped off of the tree with a blazing speed as flames erupted from her. And that's when many vines would come from the ground attempting to stop and attack her, but what was seen as Shiro was nothing more than a mirage of flame.. Shiro was now right behind her opponent with a powerful punch coming covered in flame as it smashed into the back of the opponent. Accompanied with the burst of flame there was a strange electrical flash that followed after and the attack made an instant knockout. Everyone was surprised, especially Shiro. Really that was it? It felt a little lackluster to her and everyone else, but hey at least she got it done. Sora would definitely have something to say.. "Come on! How come it was that easy!"