After so long they had already reached the final round where everything would be at its highest, excitement, tension and all of that. This would truly be a beautiful sight to see of course.
Toriel and Axis would stare most attentively at the arena below them. "Axis look at that our little girl really made it this far." Toriel would say with a warm smile plastered onto her face which would quickly spread to that of Axis. "Yes, but of course I had no doubts, I hope you didn't as well?" Toriel would quickly shake her head. "Of course not, I couldn't doubt her even if I wanted to, but I just wonder how this will go." Axis would seem to be in thought for a moment. "I wouldn't mind if either of them won. It will only push the other even farther. Heck I guess I have a bit of a liking for our daughter's friend." Toriel would be quite happy to hear that and she nodded in agreement. Although there were those who did care about who won right behind them. Chara would now be there sitting in a circle with Frisk and Asriel. "So Frisk, you wanna back out now? Of course i'll understand after seeing what Sora did." Frisk shook her head and gave a determined gaze. "My determination shall never waver." "Suit yourself then." Asriel would then just groan hearing them talk. "Chara, Frisk why don't we talk about uh. How much nice-cream we're gonna get after this." Both of their heads would turn. "I love nice-cream.." They would both say as they completely forgot whatever else they were talking about. Then sometime later in the arena below once more in a perfect condition for their battle that would soon begin. Both of the kids giving each other the biggest grins and trying not to laugh like when you look across at your friend in school. Although once they compiled themselves more they would give each other friendly banter. "Mwehehehe I Sora King of Curses shall fell you fair maiden." Shiro would have placed a hand on her chest and stuck herself out giving her own dialogue. "I Shiro of… the blue moon, shall destroy such a cursed being with my divine being." "Bring it on then!" Although they would have just both stood there, both were waiting for each other to attack first resulting in awkward silence. "Sora come on goooo." "No you First Shiro!" Shiro would put a finger on her chin before a lightbulb went off then in her head with her then holding out her hand. "Rock paper scissors." "Alright.. Rock.. paper.. Scissors!" And as a result Shiro held out a piece of paper and Sora held out scissors. "Well I won hehe come on." Shiro would be a bit upset at losing, but hey that was only the beginning. Anyways with this finally being the time she fought Shiro she could finally show everything. Flames would erupt all around Shiro clouding her body in them before they then seem to lower in opacity with see through flames burning around her body, accompanied by this it seems she has used her hybrid transformation making more of her kitsune features pop out that being a tail and her nails becoming sharper. And within an instant she had closed the distance between herself and Sora suddenly standing behind him, but that is when Sora suddenly felt himself being hurt. He would have staggered in place slightly but not much, Sora realizes that if she used that before those other battles he had in the tournament he would have been done for, and he wouldn't have been able to even realize what happened. And so Sora made a quick turn around now looking over towards Shiro aiming to strike her, enhancing his body even further through increasing the amount of energy focused on his body, but swiftly it would seem Shiro had disappeared once more and he felt a blazing kick towards his back as he stumbled forwards. "Hehehe King of Curses, you are too slow for the blazing fox!" Shiro would proclaim as she began stepping around everywhere. Sora would utilize the taunting of Shiro to his own advantage, closing his eyes and focusing the energy of his curse, congregating and growing into something he would use. And that is when Shiro would try to come and do another quick attack towards Sora, but Shiro could begin to see her better this time able to react more clearly as he suddenly released the energy. "Cursed pool." This time he would utilize the output of his curse differently, instead of as a blast it was a pool of black that extended around him and once Shiro got within its vicinity she would be inflicted by the curse that was placed there, being a curse of weakening that would as its namesake begin to weaken Shiro to begin to make this even once more. Although before that could fully happen she would still blitz around with her flourishing speed and elegant movements making a trail of flames around Sora in the shape of a star which would suddenly erupt burning everything within. Sora would quickly jump out of the flames now as they encroached upon them. "Oh heck yeah Shiro! Do more cool stuff." "You too then Sora, this is supposed to be the peak!" Shiro quickly proclaimed back for him to be at his best. Sora would give a nod as he was patting off the flames that encroached around his body. Sora would now be nearing the same level of Shiro as he only went up with her level only going down. Sora would have maneuvered towards Shiro and would aim to do more physical combat sending a strike for her head which she would go to block, but it was only a feint as he suddenly kneed her in the chest and grasped onto her arm and tossed her down into the ground, but Shiro had not crashed into the ground instead landing on all fours effectively countering the throw. Getting back up to her two legs she would create mirages of herself with flames and came at Sora with a simple barrage of punches. Although this may be a good plan Sora was able to discern which was actually Shiro due to his grant intuition and would counter all of her blows with her own although he was burnt with each clash he would keep going on with nothing but a smile. As they continued to punch at each other some of their punches would have those electrical flashes that Shiro had experienced in her previous fights. And one of these shocking blows would land on Sora cleanly making him skid away on the ground with its force. This was looking worse and worse for him now, instead of bringing Shiro down he would need to bring himself up quicker. He would close his eyes for a moment as he honed in on his internal energy, but at this time after their clash occurred, it seems the flames surrounding the body of Shiro would burn away at the existence of the curse on her.
In a place around the arena now where Alphys was and other scientists would be getting particularly interesting readings. It was similar to what Alphys had captured on the day that Frisk, Chara, and Asriel had let off some strange energy themselves that seemed to distort things around. When those flashes of lightning came off of them it was something like that, could this mean that..
Back at the fight now Sora would opt for his plan B which he of course had from the beginning.. As he would proclaim himself instead of it being on the spot thinking. Seeing that Shiro had encapsulated her magic throughout her body in a way to make her power explode it seemed to be at least 10 times of what she was previously and growing. So if Sora could do something similar to that he would achieve the same thing. Sora would remember that saying something along with a sign could improve his ability, the sign part he learned in his last training. And so he would designate a sign towards this new way of using his power and that would be the ok symbol as that was the first thing he thought of. Now as for why Sora was not currently being beaten into oblivion is because Shiro is his friend and is quite curious at what Sora may be able to muster if she fully allows him to showcase his potential. Sora would now begin to speak whilst holding up an ok sign with his hands. "Consuming Darkness, Absolute Void, Nothingness Incarnate, Chaos King," With this chant of seemingly just things that Sora thought sounded cool finished and with this chant being completed a darkness with a purple tint would have erupted around Sora in a similar manner to the flames that would appear around Shiro. And so Sora would have gotten into a defensive stance, due to the fact that as soon as he had finished now Shiro would close the gap between the two. Shiro would have realized that Sora was likely around her level now so she would need to use more skillful tactics. Shiro would opt to do another straightforward attack, but instead of blocking it Sora would have evaded it spinning around the body of Shiro and elbowing her in the back causing her to stumble forward which was promptly finished off with him extending his leg forward slamming the tip of his foot into her back a stabbing sort of attack that made her stumble forward to the ground though she landed on her hands and looked at him with a pout. "That really hurt Sora!" Sora would then seem distraught as his face would slightly shake and he stuttered until he had an idea. "I'll- uhmm.. Give you candy after this?" "Okay!" Shiro said, but in the middle of him talking she had sprung off of her hands and right towards Shiro effectively drop kicking him in the face which he would halfheartedly block. Shiro landed on her hands once more and rolled to her feet. "Alright Sora come on then!" Although funnily enough he was already there, a seeming purple glow coming from his eyes for a moment as he executed such speeds utilizing some of his stored kinetic energy and kicked one of the legs of Shiro from below her and at the same time tossed her up into the air sending her spinning before leaping up after and doing a half backflip kicking her down in the chest. Sora's eyes then returned to normal, this was a shocking display of him using some of the kinetic energy in a different way than he usually did showing a sort of growth he attained further in battle. Shiro bounced right off the ground and to her feet again showing a sort of resilience as she would huff. Although she would have a smile. It could be seen that Sora now had the flames of Shiro burning all over his body as she spread them to him after being hit. This was slowly burning away his curse aura around his body which was stopping himself from being burnt. "Well played Shiro." "Hehe, thanks." Sora would then give a bit of a serious look towards Shiro. "Don't think I am done yet, I'll give you a finale to remember." Shiro would then gasp before looking intrigued and smirking. "I shall add to this display.. And crush it." The two would have then seemingly tossed balls of energy between them, one being of a purple darkness and the other a blazing flame with a red glow. The two energies combat each other and only are fed more and more by each user with a strong drive for victory despite the connection between each other, one of them had to win. As Sora tried to use a curse of reflection the curse placed by the energy was only burnt away by the flames causing an infinite stalemate. The longer it went on the more each of them grew in power, Sora's increasing faster, but Shiro's already starting at a higher spot. That's when suddenly it happens again, an electrical flash is formed between the two orbs going both ways back towards each of them as it begins to grow out of control far bigger than the last times it has happened creating that same phenomenon with the same energy. The overflowing and rising flash of energy would explode across the entire arena in a blinding light, no one could see anything or know what happened at all. But for the two inside of the arena grounds it felt like time had just stopped for them as they floated in an endless sea of a strange black void with a black yet clear sticky substance filling it. Looking within this void there would be something glowing; it would look like their very souls, except in this space they seemed gigantic and way bigger. Within the sea of Shiro's there would be something. That girl that was in her head made their appearance here and would float beside Shiro with a look of awe at the soul for a moment before looking back at Shiro. "So it's happening young. It is a tad bit soon for this to happen now, but the sooner the better. You need to become strong." Shiro would seem surprised seeing her head and would squeal. "E-enigma? What are you doing here, what do you want! Actually never mind tell me what this is." Enigma would have seemed to fold her arms and turned away with a pout acting slightly immature for the age she seemed. "Wow, you seem so appalled to see me, but want me to tell you? Well since I'm so nice I still will, alright. Well Shiro we are currently in the sea of your soul. You know those flashes that kept happening? That meant you were close to your awakening and it was happening quite quickly with bursts of your power slipping through the cracks as you ready to elevate to a new level. This is called 'Soul Awakening' as it is the first time. With this you have become more in tune with your soul, at the same time your soul has ascended to a higher plane. Yeah sounds complicated, but you'll get it with time." Shiro would have been confused, but then she would have remembered Alphys had spoken about something like this. "Wait, how come I was the first to do it, wait did Sora do it too!" Enigma would give a soft hum and then spoke. "The only reason you have done it first, is because it has only recently become a possibility. This world has finally broken the threshold of power needed for a soul to even be able to awaken. Well it happened some time back. Anyways, still it is peculiar you did it before Frisk and the others right? Well I believe that is nothing but your hybrid potential, and maybe a bit of your knack too. As for Sora, well, he has, yet I cannot explain to you how. His perseverance to not be left behind by you perhaps? Or maybe it is the great link between you two formed through experience. Who knows. Anyways go get em Shiro." "W-wait!" Shiro would say although Enigma was walking away into the infinite darkness until she disappeared from sight. Now Shiro looked back up to the soul which was about finished with its change. Although it took not only a change in status, but a change in appearance as it flipped to be straight up compared to its upside down status to match that of a monster. The right-side up red soul would now have a bit of a white accent or gradient to still represent the monster part of her. Yet the monster and the human part now seemed in more perfect unison. As for Sora there of course was no one to talk with him there so all he would see is his perseverance soul have more of that black curse around it.. His very soul now accepts his curse more to see it as less of a curse and more of a gift? And now for at least the people on the outside it would seem that it ended in almost an instant as they could see everything once more.
Alphys would look onwards as she had finally witnessed it, her theory becoming manifest as an awakening had ensued before her very eyes. Alphys was practically shaking around with excitement, he would have to tell Gaster about this later ooh this would be so much fun to look into! Although for now she would just sit down and look on more for further research and study making sure to record everything.
Back onto the event the two would look at each other blankly for a moment as they would have to further think about what had just happened between the two of them, although it was certainly something great! And unanimously in sync the two simultaneously came out of it. Shiro would hear a whisper in her ear tell her something and she would listen to it closing her eyes and taking a deep breath as she pointed a finger gun towards Sora "IGNITE" A flame would erupt from her finger, but it was not orange or red, it was instead blue with a slight light red glow in attribution to her soul. This flame would shoot towards Sora at a speed not comparable to what her attacks could reach prior, yet Sora was able to keep right up with her as a purple glowing blade would erupt from him manifest from his perseverance energy, without a specific construct, well at least he didn't know about it yet for his soul he just made a blade. This blade would have then hit the flame with its brunt side as black flashed from it as he infused it with a curse of reflection once more, but this time the flame could not fully burn through the curse, rf the sword due to Sora's own growth and so it was reflected back at Shiro with a weakened power. Though the reflection mattered not as Shiro simply grabbed the flame and ran towards Sora to slam it right onto him with her hands, yet Sora would react in due time with his blade once more causing a point blank explosion to both of them. As Sora was blocking it did minimal damage to him, and the same for Shiro as she was naturally resistant to flame, especially her own. Sora would dash right after Shiro after the explosion happened, not wasting any movement and going for a slashing attack which Shiro blocked with a flaming blue blade she created from her flames able to mold them better. The blades of the two would clash over and over again until well Sora's got erased from the flames of Shiro, but just as Shiro was about to do a horizontal slash to the side of Shiro to try and end the battle. Sora was gone. Sora had built up more kinetic energy and used some more that he had in store to enter the state of the purplish glowing eyes once more able to have a far faster movement speed. Yet this seemed like more than he should have. Within this awakening he has been able to take more energy from usual and even the natural energy within the air. And with this an instantaneous blow was executed on Shiro as she had been knocked out from a single attack ending up on the ground as Sora would actually seem shocked… "Wait, I won? Really?! Ah Yeah! Wait Shirooo are you alright." Sora would have picked up Shiro taking her out to the medical department. Although after that there was a ceremony giving out awards to the participants, the top three of course received special trophies for their accomplishments. Everyone had a fun time as some people began to file out now. As the cast we know were about to leave something would suddenly happen. First within the room Alphys was something would slide under the door, Alphys remained there even after the others left just to do a once over of her research there. Alphys heard the clank of the object and turned around to see it as her eyes widened quickly aiming to escape the room while holding her hands over her head as a loud explosion would ensue. Yet no one was there to hear it. More explosives would be slipped around to where the rest were. Although quick to recognize it they would all run away disoriented as explosions began to occur all around forming a rather thick smokescreen. There was some energy about it as well, not just a normal explosion. A very specific powerful explosive while at the same time not being too big. From within the smoke from around the area there could be seen glowing light. They were not alone definitely, the place had been infiltrated by a surprise attack.