King of Fighters(Kirahutner and Kihia Avoa) Fire and Ice vs Everything Else

Simon was considering unleashing latent psychic powers as he considered possible ways to take down Hydroman. Which is to say he was seriously stumped on how he was supposed to beat a guy drenched in water without touching him. He could throw stuff but throwing was not his strong suit and Hydroman's cannon was likely faster then his rip-out-a-chunk-of-the-ground-and-chuck-it speed. There intense staredown could have lasted for hours in his water based foe didn't contract a horrible case of Yamchaka to the face, a rare but deadly ailment local to sphere island. Simon would be laughing at the situation if he wasn't taking advantage of it. When Yamchaka collided with Hydroman the poor water guy was knocked to the ground while the martial artists would keep going for a short distance before rolling to a stop. Both still had some fight left in them and Yamchaka was Simon's only safe means of attacking Hydroman so he was aiming to repeat the feat. He dashed towards the man from Midi(who was slowly getting to his feet), hurtled over him, spun on his heels positioning himself so that Yamchaka was between him and Hydroman.

The two of them were both on their feet by now so it was Simon's job to knock them down. He jumped up, raised his feet and delivered a full force drop kick to one sorry son-of-a-gun. Yamchaka cried in pain as the powerful kick collided with his chest and sent him catapulting yet again to be used as a projectile to crush his buddy from bosco. Simon landed on his feet and smiled as he appraised his handi-work. Both of his foes were most ungracefully toppled on top of each other in various states of pain. From the looks of it neither of them was about to get back up to continue the fight, a fact the onlookers and judges had clearly become aware of. After a second of waiting to see if they would get back up a judge called "Yamchaka and Hydroman are unable to battle! Simon and Kihia are the winners!" Simon let out a whoop and threw his fists in the air. There wasn't really any doubt in his mind ever that he would make it past the first round but victory was victory no matter what can it comes in. But it wasn't over as on the opposite side of the ring a gate opened and the announcer yelled out again "Now starting round two! Kihia and Simon will face off against the pet and master combination of Zephyr and his pet Monster Gorrillephanth!" Simon's expression changed pretty fast when he heard the name Zephyr.

Thunderous foot steps rocked the arena as something apparently huge moved towards the gate. Simon's fists were curled and his face was emotionless. He hadn't ever heard of the Gorrillephanth but he did know for a fact who Zephyr was. The phoenix dashed over to Kihia as a hulking shadow became visible in the gate way. Simon quietly said to Kihia "Remember how I said I researched the repeat contenders? Zephyr is on the list." As he said it a hulking purple monster entered the arena from the door it was easily three times as tall as Kihia, it had the body of a gorilla, the trunk of an elephant and wings of a moth and a weird fan like tail that Simon had no idea what to classify it as. Regardless he continued his explanation to the ice mage "Zephyr is bad news. Two years ago he actually made it to the King. He has a variant of wind magic he calls "Storm Mail." It lets him create like this tornado armor thing around himself that makes him difficult to harm and revs up the damage of his punches. People say he only got to the king because he just so happened to only face weak opponents until the second to last round where he fought a 'godly fighter' who had been butting heads with equal opponents every round. But still the guy has some moves. Keep your guard up and don't hesitate to use magic." As soon as he said it a man dressed in a black suit stepped out from behind the gorilla thing. He wore red gauntlets on each hand and red armor boots as well. Battle armor with a suit? Not a great fashion statement but somehow Zephyr made it work, if Simon wasn't about to shoot him with everything he had to shoot he would consider trying to be friends with him. But he was so that didn't matter much.

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Kihia stood and watched Simon rake care of Hydroman and Yamchaka, rather swiftly after the rather mysterious ailment people would later dub, Yamchaka to the face. He then lifted Icarus up and rested it onto his right shoulder. Kihia heard the cheers from the crowd as well as the Announcers commentary, as this all went on he walked back over to Simon and nodded in his direction. He was going to start to say something when the announcer started to announce their next opponents. Kihia’s eyes narrowed as he turned around to see the giant beast and its owner walk in right next to each other. He listened to the information Simon was saying, and grunted a bit as he slid Icarus off his shoulder so one end would hit the ground.

Kihia studied the two opponents that they were deemed to be fighting next, he stood there for a long moment. He sighed, “I guess that means we have to up the effort a bit…” Kihia lifted Icarus up running his left hand across the length of the weapon making it ring off the gauntlet. He then looked at Simon out of the corner of his eye, that’s when an idea sprang into his mind. He then turned slightly to his companion and said, “I just had an idea… What do you think of the idea of being launched right at them… right when combat starts…?” Kihia paused for a moment before continuing, “I can form a large great hammer head on my weapon… using it as a base I can launch you straight at them and come right behind you…” Kihia then fell silent for a moment, and waited for Simons Response.

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Now Simon had a fascination with dangerous ideas. In fact it could almost be said he was down right addicted to dangerous ideas. So given the chance to be catapulted at his enemies on a giant ice hammer Simon grinned ear to ear "Let's do it man!" As Kihia took a swing at him he jumped onto the head of the hammer attaching himself to it utilizing his zero walk ability. Then at the opportune moment he pushed off the hammer head as fast as he could launching himself sailing across the arena. Zephyr took a step forward likely planning to intercept Simon, but the phoenix would have none of that. His real target was the giant elephant thing, sure Zephyr was dangerous but really, it was a wild card that would complicate an already difficult battle. To dispatch both threats Simon would call on both of his signature spells, first as he sailed at them he glared at Zephyr and snapped his fingers. Instantly he was engulfed in a flaming explosion as a result of Simon's spell "Phoenix Rage." The martial artist was caught off guard and was knocked backwards landing on his feet and from the looks of it he was mostly unharmed.

But he was staggered and that was all Simon needed.

Simon ripped from thin air a large chunk of blue metal. As he drew near the monster he yelled gripping the metal in both hands "Phoenix Forge!" It was instantly wreathed in flame, the fire flowing through it shaping it into something else. The monster charged pulling back it's fist. The flames cleared revealing the metal to now be shaped into a large greatsword larger then Simon now only a few meters away he dubbed the blade "Arondight!" He swung the blade meeting the beasts fist mid-air. They seemed to tie and they were both knocked back. The phoenix landed on his feet and charged again again coating the blade in flame "Phoenix Kenshido! Full Throttle!" Simon pressed off the ground using the full force of his god leg magic and blasted as much flame into the blade as he was able then suddenly he seemed to vanish. Then the world around the Gorriliphanth filled with flashes and streaks of fire.

The behemoth monster howled and fell to its knees causing Zephyr to turn his attention to his monster companion "What the!" In a blur of movement too fast for the eye to follow Simon wailed on his foe with his blazing blade. The only evidence that he was even there was the occasional shadow and the constant show of fire that was Arondight. Zephyr didn't take this sitting down using the flaming slashes in the air to track Simon he activated his storm mail around his arms and charged into the flurry of blade strikes to strike at what appeared to be empty space. But the punch was met with the clang of steel, Simon's sword dance stopped as he was stopped suspended in air blocking Zephyr's punch with the blunt of Arondight . The fairy tail mage grit his teeth "Shit you're pretty sharp." Zephyr grinned "Heh you're pretty fast. I think I'll enjoy this."

Kihia watched as Simon unleashed a flurry of potent and powerful attacks, creating an opening for him to be able to attack the massive beast, which after a moment Zephyr had engaged his windmail spell and managed to bring Simons Onslaught to a temporary halt, however what Simon had done was not only a fair amount of damage to the beast, but he drew the attention of both opponents completely on himself… leaving Kihia only have some of the spectators watching what he was doing. At the moment Simon had been halted by the sudden attack from Zephyr, he quickly increased his speed by kicking off with more force, he slid across the ice going straight for the beast whom was trying to recover from the sudden onslaught. As he closed in he swung the ice hammer upward while sending a portion of his magical power to the hammer causing it to glow a brilliant white light, drawing the attention of the beast a moment to late…

The ice hammer head now five times bigger than it was originally, impacted the beasts chest with a gigantic amount of force, the sound of breaking bones and ice rang out from the impact. The beast was sent skyward has the ice hammer shattered, Kihia didn’t stop there however he quickly spun in place taking a deep breath, as he came full circle he looked up and called out, “Call of the Frozen Angel!” A typhoon of ice and snow erupted from his mouth torrenting upward colliding with the beast and making it let out a painful roar as it carried it upward. Suddenly the beast careened off to the side and started to fall limply to the ground. His spell continued on for a moment before hitting a field of somekind, Kihia paused for a moment when he realized what was going on. He then remembered the warning from their client as the roar from the crowd intensified. The reflector field… how could I have forgotten… the next second the spell reflected back right at Kihia, threatening to hit the entire group.

Kihia quickly thrusted Icarus into the ground and thrusted both of his hands up, “Simon I have us covered!” He then focused on the redirected spell and spit his hands apart , using his cryokinetic ability he split the spell into two smaller typhoons of ice, he then controlled them to fly around the group before heading straight for Zephyr, however Zephyr quickly countered by taking a step back from Simon, “Nice trick but that won’t be enough! Now face my ever circulating blades of wind! Cyclar Hurricane!” Kihia watched as Zephyr extended out both of his hands towards the incoming typhoons of ice and snow. He then lot out two powerful Cyclones that tore through Kihia’s spell and then redirected towards the ice mage. Kihia grunted and grabbed Icarus dramatically lowering his stance as the two wind cyclones collided above his head and created a small explosion the clouded his vision.

Simon was surprised that the monster had even stood standing at all. But it's feat of endurance was short lived as Kihia quickly and dramatically finished it off. Now the phoenix was more confused then anything then by what happened with Kihia's ice blast thing. Regardless it seemed to pass rather quickly without injuring Simon so he didn't pay it much heed. Instead as Kihia avoided Zephyr's attack Simon provoked Zephyr from the other side "Oi wind guy!" Zephyr turned to face Simon, and prepared another wind blast saying "The time for talk has passed. Not that it ever came." Simon dropped Arondight and threw his arms out, the kid had a plan that naturally he had no intention of explaining to Kihia first "Listen you big dummy. This is round two of six. If we duke it out magic-ablazing now no matter who wins neither of us will win the next round. There just is no way." That got the wind mage thinking, at least enough for him to dispel the stormmail around his arms. He raised an eyebrow and said "Go on?" Simon grinned "Alright cool. I get it's a little late saying this as we have all already flung around some magic but I think we should have a no-magic fight. Just strength and skill vs strength and skill. That way whoever wins has a better chance of continuing in the tournament." Zephyr seemed to consider the possibility but it was obvious he had a concern as his eyes glanced back and forth between Kihia and Simon "Easy for you to say in a two versus one scenario."

Simon shrugged "I think you're looking at this the wrong way. This is your best chance to win. Me and Kihia here are mages first and fighters second. You on the other hand are a fighter first and a mage second. No magic is a bigger handicap for us then it is for you." Zephyr didn't show any change of face "Yet you still clearly want it that way. I'd say that alone shows that I stand to lose more if we go your way." Simon bit his tongue, he wanted to yell at the smug stubborn guy but he had to keep his cool, getting mad would only hurt their diplomacy "Come on Zephyr. We don't want to keep the crowd waiting. It's simple I want a no magic fight because I need my magic to fight the king. So do you. This is a win win plan dude." Zephyr glanced at the stands, Simon was tempted to take the opening to attack but that would ruin the plan, he appeared hesitant but he finally nodded "Alright no magic it is! En garde!" Zephyr charged and pulled back his fist ready to strike "I don't need magic to beat you down!" Simon met his charge "That's my line! But I'll send you flying with this attack" The phoenix mage rushed Zephyr pulling his leg back "Mega rocket kick!" Zephyr moved his guard lower to block the incoming kick as Simon punched him in the face. The confused fighter was knocked back rolling to a stop several feet away "What the? You called a kick attack!" Simon shrugged "I can name my punch mega rocket kick if I want!" It was true, Simon could name his attacks anything he wanted.

Kihia stood back up as Simon had engaged Zephyr in conversation and come to the firm agreement to keep magic out of the remainder of this round. He watched as Simon landed a firm blow on Zephyrs face sending him recoil back. Kihia looked down and closed his eyes as the snow from his breath attack finally finished settling around their fighting area. Kihia took a deep breath of the now chilled air, having a surge of energy seemingly flow through him as well, he then took hold of Icarus with both hands and opened his eyes. He saw Zephyr beginning to lunge towards Simon in attempt to punch him, at that very second Kihia sprung back into action.

With speed not seen with him before, Kihia dashed forward kicking up a plume of snow as he went, he ran right up behind Zephyr in a blur, spinning around and hitting Zephyr with his elbow knocking him off balance Kihia then quickly swipped Icarus at Zephyrs Legs knocking them out from underneath him. However Zephyr quickly rebounded by placing his right hand on the ground and spinning around trying to kick Kihia. Whom managed to block the blow with his right forearm, his frame shacking slightly with the force. Zephyr then jumped back to his feet, “You are also fast even under all that armor, but not fast enough to beat me!” Zephyr then unleashed a brutal assault, punching and kicking at Kihia trying his best to land a good hit. Kihia however held strong going on the defensive with Icarus when suddenly a upward kick sent the weapon flying, Kihia taken aback only for a split second when Zephyr renewed his barrage.

Kihia took a few blows before he could take a defensive stance, catching and blocking blows with his arms and hands. He then caught both of Zephyrs fists and held strong grunting from the strain. “You hold a good defensive stance boy, but without your polearm there is no hope of you holding your own!” Kihia frowned at this comment and gritted his teeth, then suddenly he thrust his knee forward as the crowd roared. He kneed Zephyr full force in his stomach breaking his stance, and then Kihia started his own offensive.

Hands flat he relentlessly jabbed at Zephyrs body with his fingers, his hands seemingly acting like spear heads he struck home multiple times with potent accuracy, finally following up with a kick straight into Zephyrs chest sending him sprawling into the snow. Kihia then adopted a low defensive fighting stance as he waited to see the result of the exchange. That’s when Zephyr got up seemingly chuckling, “Man you are tough… To bad that isn’t nearly enough to beat me- what in the?” Zephyr cut his self-short when he noticed his gauntlets had numerous cracks and fractures in the armor with them falling apart in pieces. “This Gauntlets costed me a fortune! You are going to pay for breaking them you and your friend!!”

Simon couldn't believe it "Kihia you jerk! Those gauntlets were really cool!" The phoenix was greatly dismayed at the destruction at the beautiful weapons of pugilism. Zephyr growled at him "You have no place to complain. They were my gauntlets!" Simon shrugged "I was planning to steal them after the fight. So we both lose here." Zephyr howled "You're just as bad as him. I'm going to knock the wind out of you." Simon paused "Wait was that a wind pun? Because storm mail and stuff..." Zephyr never answered with words, his only rebuttal was a punch at Simon's face. Ever quick on the draw Simon countered with a perfect vertical axe kick deflecting the punch on the upswing and coming down hard on Zephyr's head on the downswing. Zephyr only grunted before launching a barrage of punches. Ever adamant in his strange fighting style Simon continued to counter with only his feet, blocking and deflecting attacks without taking his hands from his pockets. Zephyr grunted "Use your hands damn it!" Simon replied "Okay."

He didn't.

After a second Zephyr ever confused said "I thought you sai-" Simon sucker-kicked him in the face "I lied." Zephyr stumbled clutching a hand to his face to stop a bloody nose "Enough with the bloody cheap shots!" Simon charged "Alright have it your way!" Simon jumped into the air above him going for his patent-pending guillotine kick, Zephyr naturally assumed since Simon was telegraphing his kick that he was going to get sucker punched. As he prepared to counter that Simon kicked him in the back of the head with a flip kick. Zephyr hit the ground "I really don't like you." Simon laughed "Come on dude I telegraphed my move. There wasn't anything underhanded about it. I made it look like I was going for a kick then did a kick. Did you want to be sucker punched? Again." Zephyr hit the ground "Screw you dude. That's it, no more mister nice guy. I'm going to show you my ultimate move!" The two fighters squared off, Simon was ready for anything, anything except what happened. Zephyr did the splits sending an uppercut into Simon's family jewels, who in return cried in pain as Zephyr slid up from his splits putting an uppercut into Simon's jaw. The phoenix fell on his back with a cry "As a man I hate you. As a dirty fighter I applaud you."

Kihia watched as Simon chewed him out a little over the complete destruction of Zephyrs Gauntlets and then followed that up by arguing with their opponent about what would have happened to the Gauntlets after the fight. To which Kihia’s right eyebrow twitched and he sighed in slight embarrassment. The he watched as Simon and Zephyr engaged and fought all out back and forth for a moment, dirty blow after dirty blow, when suddenly Zephyr hit Simon in the most unfavorable of places as Simon fell back Zephyr jumped back and began to gloat a bit when suddenly Icarus from being hit upward, came down and with a giant ring echoing out, it struck Zephyr directly in the head. The weapon stood their vertically for a second, as Zephyr reeled back from the unexpected blow. Then it tilted starting to finish its fall to the ground, however Kihia jumped up and caught Icarus and landed back on the ground. He then looked back over his shoulder and watched as Zephyr fell to the ground unconscious.

The bell ringed out signaling the end of the match, as the announcer went on and on about the match and Zephyrs embarrassing defeat, the medics came out and put both Zephyr and the beast onto stretchers and carrier them off. Kihia walked over to Simon and extended a hand to help the mage get up. Whether or not Simon accepted the offer Kihia said, “That was a well fought fight Simon… you showed great skill and dexterity as well as cunning with your movements… it is truly an honor to be fighting alongside you…” Kihia although being a rather reserved person knew of the honor and grace of having the title of Wizard Saint bestowed upon you by the magic council, whether he himself would ever deserve that title, he didn’t know, his only main interest was to protect the honor and members of Lamia Scale, a vow he would sacrifice his very life to keep. Kihia’s eyes closed for a second as he looked up to where his spell had bounced back right at him, So that’s the trick to keeping the onlookers safe… a magic reflecting barrier… perhaps I could…. Suddenly Kihia was snapped out of his trance when he heard the announcer begin to announce the next match, “Just to make sure you are aware… worry not of my magic expenditure… I can assure you I can last longer than most…”

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Simon was surprised by Zephyr's down fall. But not at all upset. After that literal low blow Simon would be okay with never seeing Zephyr again, ever. The phoenix took the hand offered to him with a laugh "Honor in fighting along side me? That's a new one. I'm more used to "I expected someone taller." As Zephyr and his beast were taken away on stretchers Simon rolled his shoulders and stretched himself out trying to work out his soreness from the last fight. His regenerative flames danced all over his body slowly working away his injuries, he was a bit embarrassed when they lingered around his lower regions. He tried to play it off by ignoring it. "Anyway you did good. I don't really care if that thing with your ice stick was intentional or not it was pretty sweet." Simon walked over to the spot where he fought the gorilla elephant thing monster and found where he had dropped Arondight. "Man I don't even remember dropping you." He scooped the blue metal blade from the ground gripping it in his right hand "Almost half-way there. Alright I'm ready to rumble. What about you Kihia?" The frozen knight would have a grand total of no time to answer as a bell ringed and an announcer boomed:

"Ladies and gentleman! We bring you today's creature feature! Two savage giants here to wreak havoc! Can Simon and Kihia stand up to the onslaught from the incredible might of the arena's grim reaper team: Behemoth and the Braga Dragon!"

Simon slung Arondight on his back "Alright this sounds like it's going to be a party. Try and save your magic still Kihia, the real fight starts next round." A different gate opened on a far side of the arena and two giant shadows loomed in it's darkness. Simon sniffed the air and was appalled by the suddenly sickly smell of blood. The behemoth looked like a massive purple lion bred with a gazelle and a fish easily three-Kihia's tall and ten-Kihia's long. The Braga dragon was twice as long flying a few Kihia's above the behemoth, Simon thought it looked like a giant eel with wings. Something gave him the feeling that being called an eel was a berserk button for the monster. Simon was getting excited, fighting giant monsters is pretty much what he lived for. Although he was a little upset that he was going to have to hold back. "Kihia I've got a plan to put these suckers on ice. Naturally that requires some ice. I'm going to go be a distraction. While I keep them focused on me I need you to do whatever it takes to get them frozen together. I need them stuck to each other. I want to take them both in one large attack but we can't risk the mana if it won't take both of them at once. Get it? Got it? Good." Simon gripped Arondight with both hands and charged roaring at his giants foes who roared in rebuttal. Now he was really rearing to go.

Kihia looked at the two monsters as they walked towards the two mages, he heard Simons concern with his magic expenditure, which Kihia simply shook his head. ”As I told you before Simon… you need not worry about my magic consumption, my equipment more than makes up for it…” Kihia then looked at the two oncoming beasts with an intense look in his eyes. He then took a deep breath and exhaled, Though they are beasts they are probably not senseless… strategy here is key as our opponents seemingly eclipse us both in size and possibly power… He then opened up his eyes when he heard Simons idea and request, at this Kihia actually smiled. “I might have something up my sleeve for that…” He then sheathed Icarus onto his back and nodded, he then put his fists together has he started to channel his magical power to them, “May the Grasp of the Eternal ice fuse with the Blast that comes from the Very fist of an Angel… Frozen Angel’s… Eternal Grasp…” Kihia’s arms then turned into holy Ice as he charged at the two beasts.

Kihia then opened up his arms wide as his forearms extended and his hands grew to an enormous size. He then swung his arms forward as both hands got to either side of the beasts, when a flash of light moved down both arms of ice and to the hands, “Now Freeze!” The two sources of light erupted from each hand and enveloped both of the beasts making them roar out in pain and surprise. Then suddenly the magical power that erupted from Kihia’s frozen hands started to freeze over into a giant block of ice that covered most of the monsters as well as connected the two arms of ice. Kihia then stood there holding is stance grunting under the strain of trying to hold both of the beasts at bay, the crowd roared with excitement as Kihia maintained his focus, “Simon, if you are going to pull of your attack do it now! I don’t think I can hold these two for long even with this spell fusion… so hit em hard… and hit em fast…” Kihia finished those words as he felt the beasts start to fight the spells hold causing the ice itself start to creak and groan from the strain, Hold on… atleast for a little bit longer… We can handle this…

Simon was impressed by Kihia's fancy ice show. All the glowing and heavenly light was honestly kind of awe inspiring, a sentiment that the audience apparently agreed with as they went into an uproar of cheering at the display of magic. Simon laughed "I guess they were really hungry for a magic display. You know after our little fist fight with Zephy." He popped his knuckles and rolled his neck "Oh man they're going to lose their minds when they see this. Thanks Kihia." The phoenix charged at the two frozen monsters clenching his hands into fists "I've wanted to do this since forever." Jumping above the behemoths, Simon analyzed his targets. Their own mass would work against them in this attack, and on top of that their frozen state would make them particularly susceptible to the coming blow. Then there was the factor that his spell was super freaking awesome; all that added together summed up to loads of damage in his eyes. So flipping in the air so that his head was pointed down he seemed to freeze in the air.

They looked so helpless, bound by incredible heavenly ice, completely at his mercy. Simon almost felt a little bad, key word being almost. "Kihia you brought the ice of heaven. Now I'm going to bring the fires of hell!" Simon's right leg was suddenly consumed in brilliant blue fire, but the crowd hardly noticed paying far more attention to the sky as it was suddenly dyed a bright red. "This is the ultimate attack of my Phoenix Fire. So watch closely folks this is a once in a life time spectacle!" Simon said that but odds are he would use this move again in the fight with the King, but the crowd didn't know that. Then the blue phoenix fire turned red and more shocking traveled up Simon's leg expanding to consumed his entire body. The boy's entire form was swallowed in a ball of fire that just kept growing and expanding like a miniature sun. The magic reflector shield of the arena was pushed upward, being muscled out of the way by the great ball of fire. The security force monitoring the shield would later describe this effect as completely impossible but Simon didn't rightly give a damn. Then the ball of fire unfurled revealing Simon to have taken on the guise of a phoenix. But this was not his typical eagle-sized bird of blue fire, he was massive, this red fire monstrosity was bigger then either the Behemoth of the Braga Dragon. Gasps of surprise escaped the onlookers which only served to fuel Simon's fire. It took an ungodly effort to keep the heat of his fire from touching Kihia's ice but Simon was no amateur and he refused to allow his fire to raise the temperature of the ice even one degree.

He cawed loud enough to be heard around the island "Now behold! Giga Crush!" The massive phoenix stomped down on the frozen monsters below it crushing them both under it's colossal talon. The frozen bodies of the beasts cracked and crunched but their ordeal was far from over as the impact unleashed a massive lava geyser consuming the behemoth and braga dragon, the plume became so huge that it would hide Simon from view. It was a miracle no one else got hurt. When the lava settled it would leave a huge lava pit in the arena with the skeletons of the arena's "grim reaper team" slowly burning away in it's intense heat. When he became visible again Simon was back to his human form and guided his fall from the air to land next to Kihia. He laughed, and half whispered to Kihia "Oh man that was sweet. Just between you and me, the whole giant phoenix form thing doesn't normally happen that was just some pyrotechnics to play it up. If I have to use it again it'll more likely just visibly be the lava plume. Just as a heads up." Sure he was blanatly contradicting himself using extra magic to flare up his attack despite constantly telling Kihia to be frugal, but he had fun and fun is what's it is really all about right? He offered the ice mage a high five as he continued to feel ecstatic "We're so freaking cool. I gotta give you credit though, those were some tough dudes they probably would have survived my attack if not frozen. Temperature shock of that level is one nasty customer. I mean the whole massive impact and lava explosion were probably a factor but credit where credit is due and all that."

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MP: 85%

Giga Crush Cooldown: 11 posts

I've had that spell for almost a year now and only just now got to use it. So happy.

Kihia watched as Simon transformed himself into a giant Phoenix and after a moment came down on the two frozen beasts in a giant eruption of lava that incinerated the two beasts. After a moment Simon came back down and commented that he had added a bit of visual flare to that casting, this only caused Kihia to smile. He stretched his arms now back to normal and then accepted the hi five from Simon, He then nodded towards Simon in thanks when he gave some of the credit to the spell Kihia had also used. “Indeed… For Elements that are considered to be opposites… if used correctly… can be a very powerful combination…” Kihia then took a deep breath as he was about to say something else when the announcer cut him off.

“Laaaaddiiiiiieeessss and Gentlemeeen! We are entering into round four of our Islands beloved and ancient fight fest, so far Simon and Kihia have fought exceptionally well! Fighting Opponent after opponent in their matches, in the first round they took on both Hydroman and Yamchaka, however the age old team lost their team work when the new dynamic duo threw a wrench, or more specifically Yamachaka, into their plans. Then they faced the Legendary Zephyr and Gorrillephanth, however the mighty beast fell with a flurry of attacks from both Simon and Kihia, followed by some no magic based dirty fighting between Zephyr and his two opponents, however even then the mighty Zephyr was no match against these two! As for their latest match, if we even could call it that, they were put up against the arena’s Grim reaper team: Behemoth and the Braga Dragon, however the matched was cut, actually cooked dramatacially short as the beasts were first put on ice and then blasted by a blazing inferno by Fairy Tail’s famous Phoenix!”

The Announcer then paused as the crowd roared with approval before the announcer continued, “Now for the fourth round, they are up against Johnny Cage the famous kick boxer! And the fearsome Asura Tiger! But that’s not allllllll! The organizers have decided for the rule of the Labyrinth to be put into effect for this match to decide the quarter finalists!!!!” At this Kihia’s brow furrowed and he looked at Simon, “Rule of the… Labyrinth…? Why do I have a feeling the Master has been giving lessons in random events and mazes…” At those words the ground started to glow as walls of stone came up forming a giant maze, with one wall forming between Simon and Kihia. “Oh… great….”

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Simon was stunned speechless. "Johnny Cage?" It was a dream and a half come true. The Wizard Saint was a little nameless kid again sneaking into a noble's house back in Ca=Elum. No his goal was not to steal money or food but he wanted to steal a glimpse at the lacrima television he knew the noble owned. Why was he endangering life and limb for the sake for a little tv time? Simple. Because it was worth it, so very very worth it. Word on the street was that a new movie was going to be airing in a few minutes and who was starring in the movie but the little nameless boy's all time favorite movie actor: Johnny Cage. As the wizard saint charged recklessly through the maze his younger self wiggled through an air-vent to get into the best place for him to watch Citizen Caged the karate film that would soon top the charts nation wide. The boy would think as he saw the man walk on screen that he had to meet him in person regardless of the circumstances. Funny that those circumstances would be in a stone maze in an international fighting tournament but hey beggers can't be choosers. Well actually Simon was quite the chooser when he was a begger, as in he chose what houses to rob but that's not important now.

What mattered was when he rounded the corner he saw him. Six foot five, bleach blonde hair just longer then a buzz cut, enough muscle to make a vulcan envious he could be identified even from the back. Simon swore his heart stopped "Holy shit it's really you." The man before him turned around to look at him revealing the word "Johnny," tattooed to his chest and in Simon's opinion the coolest shades in the world. "Well shit I didn't think I would run into a fan here." Simon's jaw dropped "You sound just like you do in the movies!" Johnny grinned and put his hands on his waist "Course. You know what I say. The man you see in the movies is the man you see on the streets." Simon clapped his hands together "Oh man as a kid that's what I always loved about you! You're movies don't have any special effects because..." "I am the special effects," finished the movie star. He popped his knuckles and rolled his neck, "You know you're kinda famous yourself. You know the whole Wizard Saint thing and all. I'm surprised someone like you would be a fan of someone like me. But the whole, "When I was a kid," thing makes me sound old. Aren't you like only fifteen?" It was everything Simon could do to not jump for joy when Johnny called him famous, it was like the master calling you skilled, the dragon calling you hot, it was like God calling you holy. Years of practice in controlling his emotions were put to the test as Simon tried to keep things under wraps to aid the effort Simon tried to focus on Johnny's last statement by saying, "Oh sorry I didn't mean that. I was like six when Citizen Caged came out and you were nineteen right? One of the youngest block buster stars ever! Heck it was your third one! So you'd only be like twenty eight, I mean unless that time warp story thing I saw in the news was true." Cage burst out laughing "Oh yeah the time warp! That was some funky stuff to be sure. I mean you should try disappearing for five years with no explenation, people get some crazy ideas. But yeah biologically I'm twenty three but the news never believes me, says I went into hiding when I really was sent into the future by a hater." Simon lit up like a christmas tree "So it's true!" Light gleamed off his legendary shades as he confirmed "Every word. I do get steamed about it sometimes though. I spend my whole life proving that I'm every bit the man in real life as I am on the screen but still no one believes me."

Kihia sighed as he was now separated from his companion, in a giant maze to boot. Kihia didn’t wait around, as he went on and started looking for one of the opponents or Simon, he was hoping he could meet up with the Wizard Saint to be more effective in this round, however, sadly luck was not on his side this hour. He was standing at a four way intersection trying to decide which way to go when he heard a low feline growl echo from one of the path ways. Kihia immediately turned that direction and adopted a low fighting stance and waited. He then saw a massive three faced tiger slowly walk down the corridor, staring straight at him.

“You must be the Asura Tiger… you just had to be my opponent…” at this the tiger roared and began to charge, Kihia quickly reacted by reaching down and punching the ground. “Plain of the Ice Angel!” A sheet of ice erupted from his hand and covered the entire visible area of the Labyrinth, he hoped that it would slow the massive tiger down, sadly however, it did not. An animal that knows how to run on ice… this is not my day… As the Tiger reached him Kihia kicked forward and ducked down and slid under the massive tiger as it missed its prey. Sliding underneath it Kihia quickly punched the ground to stop as both of his fist started to glow… “Supreme fist…” He then jumped up and swung at the stomach of the massive tiger hitting home, “of the Frozen Angel!” his words echoed out as a giant flash of magical power erupted and impacted the tigers stomach which called its rear end to flip upward and crash against a wall on the opposite side. Kihia then dashed forward, rearing back his right fist as he approached, when suddenly the tigers tail swatted him down on the floor.

Simon felt a pang of sympathy for his childhood hero that really did sound devastating. "I swear I believe you Mr. Cage! Like I said just how real you were was one of the things I most loved about you growing up. I guess I always had hero worship issues. I'd flock to legendary names and heroes, it's part of why I came to Fairy Tail. But time and time again they'd disappoint. It seemed no one was what the media painted them to be. But you were real, the real deal. That made you my real hero." Simon would deny it every happened but he was kind of crying a little "Then you just vanished without a word. I was crushed. I'm sorry you didn't ask for my life story. But I guess the bottom line is in that time I became my own hero. I became the man I wanted all those "legends" to be. I became a powerful mage, a wizard saint and then you returned and I feel my faith in heroes kinda restored lately. I need to thank you for that, for being a real hero and encouraging me to be one too." Johnny grinned ear to ear the way movie actors do and put his hand on Simon's shoulder "That's a real heart warmer kid. I've been showered in fan praise for years but that really hits home. From now on you've got the right to call my Johnny." Simon had to pinch himself he thought he was dreaming he quickly wiped tears from his face "Alright Johnny. Thank you that means a ton to me." Cage took his hand off Simon and backed up a few feet "Alright but now it's time to fight!"

Simon was as giddy as a kid in a candy store. How would you feel if you got to fight your favorite action movie star? Johnny made the first move performing his famous shadow kick, a rapid charge followed by a high kick. Now while the shadow kick was a nasty surprise to most combatants it was a technique Simon had seen a million times before. Now while a smart fighter would counter the attack based on his past knowledge, this was a Fairy Tail mage, Simon instead chose to mimic the attack meeting Johnny head on. Their kicks collided knocking them both back a few feet, Simon and Johnny both taking on fighting stances that were most certainly both picked not for any functional purpose but because they looked cool, "Nice kick kid. But can you do this?" Johnny ducked into a high speed uppercut that connected with Simon's jaw. The phoenix was knocked into the air and landed on the ground a distance away. Simon sprung to his feet wiping blood from his mouth "Nice my turn." Simon charged mirroring the move as Johnny made no apparent effort to counter it. However the movie star didn't exactly go flying like Simon did. He took a step back and rubbed his chin "You're kicks are impressive kid but you're punch needs some work. Alright come at me for real. I'm not here to play copy-cat fight you know." Simon bit the inside of his lip when he became aware of the ineffectiveness of his punch "Alright but no crying when you lose." Light reflected off Johnny's glasses "Same goes for you."

Kihia bounced a few meters away from the spot he was at when he had been hit, before he stopped sliding on the ice he punched the ground releasing yet another powerful blast of cryogenic magical power propelling him forward back towards the Asura Tiger and threw his right fist forward as his feet touched the ground the blast of magical power erupted from his hand and launched at the tigers head. However as it approached the face that looked at it suddenly inhaled bring the blast of magical power into its mouth. It then got up as its fur turned white, the front face then faced Kihia and exhaled as a plume of snow came out of its mouth and assaulted Kihia like a blizzard.

Kihia took the spell only for a moment then he started to inhale, as the attack from the Asura tiger started to be consumed by Kihia. After a moment the entire blizzard was consumed and Kihia himself feeling a bit better. “Well that’s a fancy trick you have there… seems like you can absorb elements and take on their base elemental properties… Sadly for you… That trick backfires against someone like myself.” Kihia then understanding what he had to do sent magical power to his forearms turning them both into holy ice, “Twin Glaives of the Frozen Angel…” His arms then were molded into two large glaive blades and he skated in right next to the Asura tiger before it could react and unleashed a relentless flurry of slashes, however this wasn’t to lethal has they were just skin lacerations, the tiger then roared out and tried to swipe at Kihia with one of its massive paws, Kihia however saw the attack coming and thrusted both of his arms through the paw which made it stop and the tiger to let out a massive roar in pain that echoed throughout the Labyrinth.

Johnny rolled his shoulders "Say you're a wizard saint right? So where's the spell slinging and magic madness?" Simon shrugged "I'm trying to conserve magic power here. We've still got quite a few rounds left ahead of us. I can't afford to face the king without magic." Cage frowned then charged Simon who in turn readied himself to counter whatever Johnny threw at him. The only thing he wasn't ready for is what he actually did. Johnny pulled back his arm surrounding it in a green energy before slinging it at Simon's head. Surprised by the apparant magic Simon crossed his arms over his face to block the hit, but the blow had a bit more kick then expected and sent Simon flying into a wall. "What the, you can use magic?" Johnny bounced back and forth on his heels "Damn right. Now take me seriously or get out of here!" The blow shook Simon a bit but he could still move "Right here I go!" The phoenix stared down Johnny, raised his right arm level with him and snapped his fingers. Then with a sound like a thunder clap Johnny was swallowed in a ball of fire "Phoenix Rage!" Mr. Cage cried in pain but grit his teeth and forced himself forward through the flames. He was greeted by a flying jump kick from Simon that he opted to dodge with a matrix back bend. Simon flew over him landing on his forward foot first before spinning on it extending his back leg into an impromptu spin kick.

Johnny was in no position to counter as the kick connected with his bent-backwards head knocking him into the wall of the labyrinth. Johnny recovered quickly but Simon was already on him in a flurry of God Leg enhanced kicks. However Cage had no intention of going down that simple blocking each blow with his arms before he broke the combo by head butting Simon's forehead to knock him back. Simon was dazed struggling to keep his head on straight when he took a magically enhanced round house kick to the gut. The phoenix was knocked side ways crashing through the wall of the labyrinth. He pulled himself to his feet and grit his teeth from pain, his gut hurt and the back of his head took a nasty hit agaisnt the wall, "Man you're somehow even better in real life then on camera." Johnny stepped through the hole in the wall "I told you once I've told you a thousand times, I'm the real deal." Simon rubbed the back of his head as he stalled for a little time allowing his regenerative flames to doctor him "But I'm no push over either." "Yeah but you are stalling for time. Waiting for your partner to finish up and help out?" Simon grinned an evil smile as he filled with elation, all his life he had wanted to say this line and the time was finally nigh "No. I've just been waiting till you were in the right spot." Johnny froze, the last thing he should have done. This was going to be fun.

Kihia strained as he started to try and hold his ground against the might of the Asura tiger. Surely he had quickly gotten the upper hand with his last spell, however impaling both glaive blades into the Tigers paw was now seeming a very bad idea. The Tiger was infact trying to crush Kihia under the very paw that he had impaled. Kihia was brought to a knee as he braced himself trying to prevent himself from being crushed, he grunted and then started to strain his arms to swing them open. At first he was unable to and the Tiger let out a growl from the added pain of the blades applying force into its paw, “I will not be stopped here… I have to help Simon win this tournament and keep my word…” Kihia then started to stand on both of his feet once again slowly pushing the massive paw upwards, “I cannot fall here, for my obligations to this job and more importantly to my Family at Lamia Scale!”

Kihia then swung his arms wide, slicing through the paw making the massive tiger rear back in pain, “I will make this as swift as I can make it…”He then jumped right at the tiger aiming right at the tigers chest, he then spun around and let out a powerful kick against the tigers chest making it reel backward as Kihia drew back both of his arms, He then thrusted both glaive blades forward into the tigers chest penetrating deep into its ribcage. The tiger kept falling backward until it hit the ground landing on its back with Kihia on top. Neither of them moved for a long moment until Kihia stood up lifting his blood soaked glaive blades out of the Tigers chest, his arms then glowed and then morphed back into arms, however they were still holy ice, “I have a feeling I will need these blades again soon…” Kihia then jumped of the tiger and stood there catching his breath, “I wonder how Simon is doing, if he found our other opponent or not…”

When Simon would later recant the stories of his awesome battles this one would go a bit like this... "Alright so get this. So I'm fighting Johnny Cage right? And he just smashed me through a wall with this awesome kick. Then while I'm getting up he climbs through the hole. But as he does that I start talking to him so he stops. Now he's awkwardly half in and half out of this hole in the wall. This is where I got him. So here's what I do... Simon raised his arm level with Johnny and snapped his fingers "Phoenix Rage!" Then like before in the fight with Zephyr, Simon thought it was Zephyr's fight, Johnny was consumed in a blast of fire which just so happened to be strong enough to bring the wall of the labyrinth down on top of him. "God I love that spell." Johnny grumbled something underneath the rubble. "Alright good fight Johnny. That was fun." Johnny mumbled something else that probably wasn't "Good game kid."

Regardless the movie star didn't have the strength left to escape the rubble and the announcer called their victory. "Another round to Simon and Kihia! They have defeated Johnny and the Asura Tiger! They will be advancing to the next round. There they will be fighting... Oh these guys." Now that was a quick way to confuse anyone. Murmurs went over the crowd and Simon looked around confused. As a few cleaning mages cleared away the labyrinth along with Johnny and the Asura Tiger the announcer said "You know, THOSE guys." Then it clicked, the entire crowd groaned and so did Simon. Remembering from his research of the tournament regulars he wanted to shoot himself. "How the hell did those guys get this far?" The announcer shrugged in his booth "By all accounts it doesn't make any sense. So here they are. Those guys." Simon smacked his face as the gates opened to let in those guys.

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#2 'Normal Dice' :

Kihia watched as the labyrinth crumbled down around him as the announcer called out that Simon to had won against the other opponent, he then watched as the arena caretakers took to the field and started cleaning up the arena. While this was going on Kihia walked over to Simon and did a slight bow to the Wizard Saint, “Nice Work Simon…” He then continued to listen to the Announcers banter as he went on as he went to announce the next two opponents. When he said It’s those Guys, even Kihia who had done little research on the usual line up knew exactly who the announcer meant. “Ikeria Help us…” He watched as a pretty boy in a red outfit seeming walk out into the arena with a great deal of pride in each step, and a man came up walking unsteadily behind him. His face was flushed and Kihia could smell the strong smell of booze coming off of him. Kihia sighed and looked at Simon and drew Icarus, “As soon as the starting bell sounds starts…. Get Behind me….” Kihia then sent some of his magical power to it and a Glaive blade formed on it. He then closed his eyes and waited for the bell, it then rang out.

Kihia then opened his eyes and sent more magical power to Icarus, making the glaive blade glow, he then swung downward towards his opponents as a giant flash of light erupted from the blade. He then angled Icarus up and called out, “Ice Make Ringed Shield!” Kihia then planted the shield into the ground while watching what played out,

As he expected the two easily dodged the wave and laughed as they waited for the impact of the reflector field. When it hit the energy wave reflected back and hit the shield, making it glow for a second before it diffracted the blast back numerous directions hitting the reflector field over and over again slowly feeling the arena.

Simon was not stupid. Being not stupid he adamantly refused to not jump behind cover when instructed to jump behind cover. While some viewed it as cowardice Simon was of the belief that large allies were there to be hidden behind. After all what other purpose did their size serve? As the reflector shields around the arena made a mess of things and their opponents Simon calculated a plan to quickly dispatch their foes. Those Guys were a pair of ridiculous fighters who held no credibility in the arena. They had a constant tendency to walk into the arena, make a stupid fuss then get their read ends handed to them. How it was possible they could have survived so long escaped his under standing. He considered some form of foul play and decided to use his magic sensory to analyze them in an attempt to discover any form of unnatural modifications to their bodies. It was hard to get a read on anything with the ice blasts bouncing around but Simon did realize one things for sure and it was surely jaw dropping.

When the ice died down and the two pathetic fighters, despite being hit heavily, seemed mostly fine Simon jumped out from behind Kihia and pointed an accusing finger at the duo. "They're insects!" Simon was very confident in his deduction having said it as if that explained everything without any further information. Every seemed to just stop and stare at Simon and his unexpected deceleration to which the announcer replied "Yes we are aware of their insect like fighting ability. It's why everyone is surprised they're still alive." Simon groaned, and those guys shared a nervous glance, before he explained "No literally they're bugs. Like parasites. Some kind of magic parasitic insect has taken them over and are using them as meat puppets." This was definitely cause for nervous murmuring in the crowd.

Those guys seemed to reach an unspoken agreement and screeched at Simon and Kihia. Then surprising to anyone who wasn't Simon a pair of monstrous insects exploded out of the lame-o duo revealing their hideous true selves. Those guys collapsed to the ground, apparently dead, tragic but not really. Simon grimaced at the hideous massive bugs "Man I love being right. But did I have to be right about this?" The winged insects flew at Simon and Kihia to which the prior of the two replied by crossing his hands over his chest wreathing them in fire; the flames glowed brightly for a couple moments as the bugs got painfully close before Simon threw his arms out yelling "Phoenix Flare!" A moderately sized fire blast caught up the parasites sending them flying into the reflector shields. The flare didn't stop either as Simon's famous spell was know for having a long duration for a "giant magic blast" class spell. Using surgical control of his fire Simon was able to direct the reflections off the blasts off the shields to prevent the magic coming back down. Instead the fire blasts and their targets were caught in an extreme game of flaming pong. "This is going to take a minute. I'm taking the chef's approach of a low flame over a long time. So you know if you want to prep the next guys go ahead." Even now Simon was still firing the flare fueling the attack, he figured it was over kill to keep it going but saw no reason to let up. Before long the continuously reflecting and continuously increasing stream of fire was obscuring the arena from audience view and vice versa. Rather nonchalantly considering the spell still in progress Simon asked Kihia "Think they're dead yet?"