Victory, fellow Defenders! Victory! The word shall mean great things for four lucky and talented fighters at the end of this week! Four weeks of painstaking trials and tribulations have come to a pivotal climax, and now, only the bravest of the brave shall be left standing! Onward, fellow Defenders of Earth! Onward to victory! Before we enter the main event, I feel it necessary to direct you to Last Week's Happenings. Here, you'll find out if the just and honourable Cyan was able to take down the pro-wrestler Rico Banderas in Light. Interested in Heavy? Then go see how the White Witch Rosa fared against the Fiery youth Elc. Or if the bigger Godlike game is more your fare, go view the results of the climatic Chaos and Sephiroth battle. These are results you wouldn't want to miss, dear readers, so head on in and start reading! Now, dear readers, prepare to enter the Season Eighteen Finals! The son of the Kaiser is ready to send Light reeling this week. Having wrestled his way to the top, fighting off swarms of worthy foes, Rico Banderas has but one last challenge: can he face down the Goddess Althena, and give her a taste of the People's Elbow? In Middle, Fiora, the eldestof Ilia's three Pegasus Sisters, has made her to the finals just like Florina did several seasons ago. Now, facing a similar foe, will Fiora do what Florina could not? Will the might of a seasoned Esper prove to be too much? The Seed of evil has been sown in Heavy, and only the dedicated white witch Rosa can de-weed the monstrosity. Will her holy magics be sufficient to prune the blight of Heavy? And finally, once more, Sephiroth has made his way to the finals. Will he become one of the coveted Godlikes with multiple titles? Or, will the might of Virgil, the enigmatic Man in Blue, prove to be too much for even the super SOLDIER? Go on, Defenders of Earth! Don't hesitate! Cast your vote and support your favourite! Make sure you stop by and cast in your nominations pools in the The Nominations Topic on the RPGDL Forums! You need to make an account first, but it's fast and easy to do! Sign up, tell us who you want to see in next season, and help us build the RPGDL the way you want to see it! As is the custom around here, I will now be turning things over to the beautiful and backstabbing Chisato Madison, as she prepares for the Finals Week Edition of Behind the Scenes: Alright, what’s the haul? Seventy-three more cartridges have been collected. That puts the total at…three-hundred ninety-two cartridges of Fire Emblem Eight confiscated from DL fighters. Yeesh. And they’re buying even more. If this continues, we won’t be able to stop the spread of the game! It’s kind of like the Black Plague. Except not as ugly. Or as deadly. I mean, it just rots the mind, not the rest of the body. You’re one to speak of rotting. I change my bandages every night, thank your very much. When was the last time you scrubbed under your… Ok boys, stop it. You’re both pretty: deal with it. I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! I feel happy and witty and… We already know. Anyway, let’s start the show. This is Chisato Madison, from Behind the Scenes, welcoming all of our dear viewers back for another wonderful show! Once again, we remind you this show is PG-13 rated. If you’re watching this with your parents, good for you. If not, go find their credit card, and call 1-800-43… Enough. Rico, Luna, out, now. Hmph. Not exactly a very good introduction. What were you expecting? Haven’t you watched this show before? Point. So, Rico, you have any special wrestling moves you intend to use in this fight? The Rico Rocket. And that is? I run into them really fast. Simple yet effective. Anything else? Nope. I work in very straightforward ways. That’s very nice, but what about the lovely Goddess over here? What, me? I don’t know any wrestling moves. Would you like to learn one? I call it the “Gugnir”. All you have to… PERVERT! Argh! Now that looked like it hurt. Short but oh so sweet, though. Alright…guess it’s Middle up next. Let’s welcome Kyra and Fiora, this season’s Middle finalists! Fiora! What? Nothing, I just like the name. So, how does it feel to have the same chance your sister did at a Middle championship? Think you can succeed where she failed? I suppose we’ll have to see. We’re fighting a vaguely similar opponent at the least. And if you lose? Back to making swimsuit calendars I hope you lose then…I need a new one for 2006. You sick man. Says the woman with a “Best spearmen of 2005” calendar on her trailer wall. My personal life has nothing to do with this. Now, Ky…no, please tell me she isn’t. She isn’t. She clearly is. RRRRAAAAWWWWRRRR!!!!! MY GAMEBOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYY!!!! Does this bode badly for us? Only time will tell! So let’s bring out Seed and Rosa! Seed, you first: what’s up with your name? …my father was a tree. And boy do we have a surprise for you, today! Seed…I am your father. You walked out on mother and I after I was born! I had things to do, son. But I’m here to be with you now…just give me a chance to prove that I love you. You can’t! You can’t, you can’t, you can’t! Waaaaahhhhhh! That was...random. Even by this show’s standards. Insulting the show… Oh girl, you’re in trouble now. What? How? You people do it all the time. We’re staff though, we have an excuse. Morte, finish this up. It’s time to give this little wench a test of her healing magics. Eep. So, let’s finish this up. Bishie boy number five-hundred ten and pscyh case fifty-three, come on out! What kind of introduction was that? Not a good one. I didn’t expect any better, though. Bunch of loser is what you all are. You’re going to hurt poor Odin’s feelings if you keep up like that. Who cares? Now, where’re the Realians you promised me? Oh, yeah, go see Odin. Perfect… Say, why the Realian obsession? High cholesterol. They do a good job of lowering it. Aren’t you on Lipitor? There are major interactions with atorvostatins and Realians. Really? Yeah, like heart palpitations and frequent joint pain. How do you know so much about medicine, Sephiroth? Eh, the villain thing doesn’t pay like it used to. Just a side job with Bowman. How did the beating up of Rosa go? Keeled over in a minute. I doubt she’ll make champ. Of course, compared to Chisato, I doubt anyone stands a chance. And that’s the end, folks. Tune in next week, when you’ll find out the answers to Exdeath’s blood test, and…well, that’s about all the relevant stuff. See ya’ next week!