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Week 5 - Semifinals




Sephiroth (FF7) Sephiroth vs Piastol Piastol (SoA)

Imperial
4 people approach Piastol before the match. The blue haired legend of the brood, Ryu 3. The Dragon Emperor, Fou-Lu. The Endless Goddess, Myria. The Magic Emperor Ghaleon.

". . ."

Fou-lu placed his hand on Piastol's shoulder. "Thou mustn't allow one winged angel to gain a fourth championship title."

". . ."

Ghaleon's eyes narrowed, he hadn't forgotton what Piastol did to him the last time they were in the ring together. "If you lose to him my reputation will be shot. Do you have any idea how many people I will have to murder to regain my feared status?!"

". . ."

"Ryu, stop trying to talk. It's not working and definately is annoying. And Ghaleon, noones feared you since you became magical girl ghaleon."

". . ."

"Don't mimick Ryu, Ghaleon."

Myria levitated over to Piastol. "I couldn't care less who won between the two of you. The only reason we want you to win is because Sephiroth has more championships than you. If he wins he'll have the same amount as me and if for some reason I'm not in the next season he might actually be the first to five. There will be hell to pay if he achieves that." Myria entered a small bit of killing intent into her aura.

Ghaleon's aura flared up as well. The very sky itself became black.

Fou-Lu's aura was roaring. It was a dragon's roar.

Ryu 3 looked from Myria to Ghaleon to Fou-Lu before he shrugged.

"KAISER!!!"

A golden haired Ryu flared his aura as well. All of the above was directed at Piastol who to this moment still haven't spoken a word.

"The match was a week ago." Piastol said as she walked passed them all. "I've already won."

Ghaleon, Myria and Fou-Lu all turned to glare at Ryu.

"IT'S BECAUSE IT TOOK US THAT LONG TO CONVINCE A MUTE TO COME WITH US!"

Sephiroth: 18
Piastol: 55

Seiji
The time has come at last. Piastol sits in the ring as Sephiroth slowly walks his way in up the three steps and firmly places his feet in the ring. He mock swipes his enormous sword masamune which causes a smirk to cross Piastols face.

"I'm glad I'm up against a man as renowned as you are."

"Then I shall end this quickly, Ryu." Sephiroth has a mental defeciency. He's defeated the greatest of the ryu's, ryu 3, two times. He believes anything with blue hair a ryu. Thus he believes he has a chacne.

"I'm not Ryu,"

"Do not be modest. Accept your fate, wal-"

"Tempest Dance!"

"What?! Ryu doesn't have that ability!"

"I'm not Ryu,"

"Wal-"

"Tempest Dance!"

"Gah!" Sephiroth fell to the ground. "You cheat!" He spat.

"I'm not a cheat. I'm the strongest of the duelling league. I've had a pretty tough season this time around and before you say I won effortlessly it wasn't actually that easy. It's just that I'm so good that I can MAKE things look that easy." On and on and on and on.

By the time her speech was over the arena was empty. The champion title was tossed at her feet as they feared handing it to her, thinking it would result in her bringing them into the conversation.

miasmacloud
Uguu~ My glamorous, glittering Queen Piastol, you are a person, no, God of far greater standards than what this measly voting site brings you. And now, this... this... silver-haired thing actually desires to test the power of my beloved queen? Who is this Sephiroth but a mere stump in the road to Queen Piastol's next victory and championship? But whatever, this silver-haired thing shall be slain by the Angel of Death, Queen Piastol. She moves with such elegance and swings her scythe with such grace, that there is no being who could possibly dream to withstand her. The way the light reflects off of her scythe when she kills, shining onto us the glory of Piastol... Hark, the sound of her clashing steel as it is the fall of the Kabbalah Tree. My lady, my idol, my life!

Dunefar
Sephiroth is really unlucky this week. After coasting through his other mismatches, he's finally ran into someone who can kick his bishie ass. For all his tricks he can't do much when he eats a Tempest Dance before he can fly or cast Wall. Just imagine it, Sephiroth floats down, ready to figh-TEMPEST DANCE TO THE FACE. SCYTHE MAIMING ON AISLE FIVE NOW STAT! How can you argue with that?

Chisa-chan the Wanderer
Sephy: Has a giant attack, reduces all damage by half with wall.
Piastol: Also has a giant attack, and at least triples Sephiroth.

Even with wall, tripling still is going to deal more damage. And since Seph's status rape isn't working here, there's nothing preventing her from another championship.

Imperial
The write-up pretty much says it all. Piastol walks up to Sephiroth and proceeds to whoop candy a$$. She walks back to where she was positioned at the start of the battle. Time seems to resume and Sephiroth feels that he's lost 80% of his HP. He can't figure out why or how but that's when he puts up wall. Then. . .its Piastols turn again.

Game. . .Blouses.

Barubary
Now Lord Sephiroth fights his greatest oppenent and truly an awe inspiring battle... but none can truly best my lord Sephiroth... none have the power or the potential. Piastol is truly the last obsticale in my lords way when she falls... Lord Sephiroth will stand supreme as the true god of the godlike arena. He will take his place as the greatest fighter of all time and then none will ever question his rule again

legendaryflyingfailure
Last week I explicitly listed the people who can in fact survive the planet they are standing on being blown up. They were carefully selected and labeled in order of likelihood of survival. Let me refresh everyone's memory for a moment.

1. Sephiroth
2. Kefka
3. Yuri Hyuga

Lamda Zelweger was not on this list.
Lamda Zelweger has been removed from this season's DL.
Piastol is not on this list...


Do you see where I'm going with this?





Raquel Applegate (WA4) Raquel Applegate vs Legretta Legretta (TotA)

superaielman
"No. We're not attacking Piastol this week."

..."no?! Are you crazy? We have Piastol on the ropes, geezer."


"I mean no. I'm deadly serious, Edge. The Godlike finals will be packed with overwhelmingly strong Godlikes, some champions and some not. Even not considering that you've personally pissed off about half of them, consider this. This is no half empty arena or middle match. This is the finals of the strongest division. Both of the fighters have multiple titles. Our best attacks will be torn apart by the crowd. And then we'll have to deal with the judges. For just this week, play it cool and plan. We'll have another whole season to tear apart Piastol."

"Season?"

"I've fought both. Seph is outclassed in a big way by Piastol. She's going to win and make him very, very sorry for all the troubles you've given her this season."


"Bah, damn it. What's the point if we can't end it now? I don't want that manless freak to take down a title."

"Think. We'll have another whole season to make her miserable. Ramriez has been handled. Galcian.. they're still trying to piece him together after last week. Rydia's been avenged. Let it go for a brief while. Besides.."


"Besides?"

"I have a.. downgrade pool.. to worry about. I'm going to go scout Miss Applegate and Legretta. I don't expect trouble from them, but preparation is how you win battles. Go spend some time with that lady friend of yours who can do far better."


"..You know what, geezer? Fuse is gone. Galcian is dead. How about we break off our little alliance? I'll go look for myself. I'll deal with Piastol myself, you loser!"

"Fine by me, boy. Just don't go crying when you get cut to pieces by Luca or Kefka."

--

Orlandu walked off from his meeting with Edge. In spite of the Ninja's harsh words, he was fairly sure Edge would listen to him and not press the matter. Rumor had it that Demifiend was being brought in to provide security. He wouldn't get close if he tried.

Ah well. It was fun to teach a pair of villians like Ramirez and Galcian a lesson..

---

Edge fumed at Orlandu's words, pacing around his room while looking at what he said. The more that he picked at it, the more likely he thought the Geezer was correct. Messing up a Godlike finals was a big challenge even for him, and the prize of failure.. Edge shuddered. The rulers of the DL universe would make him wish he was Dario caught in a forest fire by the time he was done.

Plus, Rydia had finally healed back up and promised to be extra nice to him for beating down Galcian. With a rather lecherous smile on his face, Edge began to jog to Rydia's quarters. Yes, Piastol could wait another season.

---


Raquel was surprised when Orlandu showed up in the arena. She was going to have to try and go through him to reach Godlike. In spite of his help last week in dealing with Galcian, she hasn't expected him to show up.

Orlandu merely waved and sat down in the front row, ignoring the buzzing crowd around him.

A bullet flying by her got her attention back to the fight. Legretta was a serious threat, with powerful attacks and a brutal limit that would make even Raquel flinch.


She had one small problem. Her attacks all required taking some damage to unlock. Two moonlights gave Raquel the FP to use intrude twice.


Poor Legretta didn't even make it to the second Intrude before passing out.

Raquel Applegate: 48
Legretta: 19




Philia Felice (ToD) Philia Felice vs Juan Juan (S3)

Gatewalker
"Are you sure this is going to work, Philia?" Clemente was a little nervous about this plan, mainly because it started off without him even being drawn while Philia attempted to wake up her sleeping opponent.

Philia smiled at her swordian's concern, "Of course it will. You were there for the interview too, you saw it just as well as I did. We'll shut down that Waking Rune's power and then beat him like the Light he is without it."

Clemente wasn't so sure about that, but he kept his doubts to himself as Philia put her plan into motion.

First, as soon as the judge called a start to the match, she lobbed one of her patented Philia Bombs right next to Juan, causing him to wake up with a start from the loud explosion. And as the Waking Rune kicked in and his eyes turned red with rage, Philia merely smiled and enacted the second phase of her plan, lobbing a thermos full of piping hot liquid at him, "Go Folgers Coffee!"

Juan, as she hoped, caught the thermos and drained it's contents in record time. Then as if by magic, all of his rage seemed to melt away as he let out a massive yawn and looked over at the green haired girl in front of him, "Hmm, uh, Philia right? What's going on?"

Drawing her swordian at last, Philia took a deep breath and got ready to fight, "This is the Middle finals. So...prepare yourself!" Not giving him any more time to think, Philia quickly called down a double dose of electric death on her now wide awake foe.

Electric death which Juan sidestepped with what appeared to be no effort at all, "Oh, I made the finals? Cool. And you even brought me coffee, too. Now I'm gonna feel bad about beating you. Oh well, you ready kid?"

Clemente could barely believe his ears(or whatever passes for the ears of a sentient weapon), "Are we ready!? We just tried to hit you with lightning! I should think that would mean that we're ready!"

Thinking about that for a second, Juan shrugged and nodded, "Guess you've got a point there. Alright, my turn then."

And that's where Philia's 'brilliant plan' began to fall apart. While Juan's greatest claim to fame is that Waking Rune, he is not, as she thought, a 'scrubby Light' without it. Oh no. Without the Waking Rune active, he may have lost the sheer might that let him punch trucks into low orbit, but gained something far more valuable for a master martial artist.

You see, Juan is the man who trained the Second Fire Bringer army, including such notable warriors as Hugo, Chris Lightfellow and Sgt. Joe in combat. Juan is the man who Emily, a former Heavy finalist and now a ranked Godlike, calls Master. When fully alert and in control of himself, he was a man that even Godlikes would think twice about picking a fight with. And Philia had just handed him a cup full of liquid alertness and then challenged him to a fight.

When the ensuing beating was over and done with, Juan collected his championship with a bow and then went off to take a nap to celebrate, while Philia eventually woke up in the DL hospital.

She hasn't even looked at a cup of coffee since.

Philia Felice: 15
Juan: 43

Browbeat
The "sleeping fist" technique is the deadliest of all... ... I think...

Should that fail, ZZZZZNOT ASLEEP!! EXTERMINATE!!! EXTERMINAAAAATE!!!





Palom (FF4) Palom vs Frank Goldfinger Frank Goldfinger (SH3)

SageAcrin
Old FRANK never could fight this battle in the traditional, Brazilian NINJA fashion!

A volley of stars, a bash to the head, never!

His opponent was a small child! How could FRANK ever do something so horrific as to hurt a little boy!?

There was only one way to truly win this battle!

To teach Palom the truth of his way!

The way of the Ninja!

Surely, Palom, with Frank's mighty training, could easily destroy all his foes in the name of JUSTICE!

He would be the greatest Ninja the world had ever seen, with FRANK'S help!

---

"...Palom, you went along with it?" Porom said, stunned, staring at Palom, now donning a ninja outfit.

"Well, he did throw the match for me. For some reason." Palom shrugged. "It's not like the idiot would have beaten me anyways, but I really didn't feel like torching his sorry butt anyhow." He added, staying far enough from Porom to avoid a rod-smack for his insulting speech.

"...This really isn't like you. You'd normally just burn the i-er, the person you don't like." Porom said happily. "Have you finally started listening to me?"

"...Eh. Uh, yeah, that's it, sis!" Palom said, highly insincerely.

---

Porom took a few hours of thinking on Palom's words before she found the flaw in her reasoning.

She found the drowned Frank an hour later.

Palom: 37
Frank Goldfinger: 24

Time Eclipse of the Heart
~superaielman


Lezard Valeth
Ghaleon having been cured of his wounds hears a familiar music.....

"What's that music? That sounds like...."

Instantly gaining speed that a character have in an event sequence, he went straight to the match and pounds them to dirt.

"Overdrive", TL mumbled before he passed out.

This unfortunately had a very undesirable effect.

"What is this?" Ghaleon shouted as he sees the latest 'Magical Girl Ghaleon' show which features TL's music for the opening sequence and Seifer's rap for the ending.

Ghaleon once again goes out to kill the very first fan of 'Magical Girl Ghaleon' he sees. Unfortunately he ran into a group of prominent duellers such as Zophar, Profound Darkness, Sephiroth, even Piastol and Myria who sends him back to the hospital....


TimeLord: 16
Seifer: 17
Ghaleon: 32