Back at the fighting arena…
Damian is standing opposite Dia, holding a long hammer-like weapon and they are both staring at each other.
"Quite interesting what you said back there to Arsey about being born with great abilities from birth and so you already have a place established for you in life as one of the mighty ones," Damian says to Dia. "However, you're wrong. The fact that you were born with great powers doesn't in any way guarantee your success in life. If you don't train or work hard, you'll die a loser," he adds.
"Humph!!" Dia sighs. "Says the one born with astonishing abilities and is among the prodigies thanks to that," she replies.
Damian sighs. "I see, a spoiled brat like you cannot really understand. Notice I haven't used my quake manifestation at all yet. In this battle so far, all I have used are normal hand-to-hand combat techniques and this hammer-like weapon. This level of power wasn't achieved by me being delusional or thinking because I was born with a unique ability I should expect to be the greatest. It doesn't work that way Dia. Allow me to enlighten you," he says.
Dia takes her fighting stance and replies, "Come. I'll show you that you can't defeat me without your quake manifestation." "Manifest: Diamond style: Diamond shield," she says and instantly, out of thin air, diamond-like dust appears and forms a thick shield of diamond around Dia.
"Shoot!! Mini Lance!!!" Dia utters and immediately, multiple mini lances with flat round heads, made of diamond, shoot out from the shield with full force and proceed to hit Damian.
Damian still rushes towards Dia and with his Earth style: Grasshopper, he hops around in a zig-zag manner, evading the diamond mini lances. When he gets close to the diamond shield, he tosses his hammer-like weapon high up into the sky and phases into the ground. Quickly, inside the shield of diamond, he sprouts out of the ground and lands a resounding uppercut on Dia's chin, sending her flying up. She bounces off the top of the diamond shield and returns back to Damian who strikes her stomach with a punch, pushing her backwards. Dia, however, is fast to open up the diamond shield and so screeches out of the shield without hitting it. Swiftly, she closes it up and forms mini lances on the inside setting them against Damian.
Damian, once again, goes into the ground and pops out in front of Dia. Dia anticipates this and controls a mini lance to form from the shield and fire at Damian as he arrives at her location. But Damian is sharp and flips when the attack is inches away from him, evading the mini lance and causing it to slam Dia on her stomach.
"Argh!!!" Dia cries out, spewing out blood.
At once, Damian rushes to land a kick on the right side of Dia's face, knocking her unconscious for a second. As her consciousness returns, he lands another kick on the left side of her face and follows up the attack with a punch to her solar plexus which lifts her off the ground. With his other fist, he lands another one which lifts her even higher and continues striking till she is now well above Damian. He then turns and begins walking away, leaving her to fall to the ground.
"This fight is over," Damian says, walking away.
"Not…yet," Dia stutters, struggling to stand up and gasping heavily.
"You have a natural strong body, I'll give you that but it truly is over," Damian replies, still walking away.
"I…said—," before Dia can complete her sentence, Damian says, "Ignite."
Suddenly, a seal appears on the ground beneath Dia and instantly explodes.
BOOM!!!
After the explosion and the dust settles, Dia is seen lying flat, facing the ground, unable to move. Echelone begins his countdown.
Tesla watching the match, smiles. "Humph, the ignition manifestation activated by using a seal, smart move, Damian. However, that was quite fast to have planted the seal without her knowledge. Even without his quake manifestation, he's still very dangerous," She notes within herself.
"Like I said," Damian says, stretching his hand as his hammer-like weapon returns to him. "You see Dia, I didn't need to use my quake style. I only used my family's ignition manifestation just to give you a little honor however, I could have ended it any other way. You must have always thought you were at the top of the food chain, looking down on others without backing up your pride with power, but as you can see, the difference between your power level and mine, at the moment, is just like the gap between heaven and earth. Of course, this was achieved not just by relying on just my abilities but also working hard to improve and get better day by day. That is how prodigies are made in my opinion," Damian says, walking away with his weapon in hand.
He then halts, turns to look at Dia and says "A bit of friendly advice, you might not like it now but someday you'll appreciate this. Dia, with your abilities, you should be one of the best in defense and hand-to-hand combat seeing as you are blessed with the ability to manipulate huge amounts of diamond, a feat that only a few in Diamond City are capable of. Train well because arrogance with weakness is shameful, repugnant and miserable. I do hope to be shocked by you whenever we meet again. Till then, bye now."
After saying this, Damian leaves the fighting platform as Echelone has already finished his countdown. Dia is a bit conscious and so hears everything Damian says.
"Wow!!! As expected of the Earthville prodigy, Prince Damian, easily putting out Arsey and Dia. We have our fourth winner of the day!!!" the commentators announce.
"Up next, Group E: Tesla vs Armstrong vs Pamla!!!" they scream.
The participants and Echelone gather at the center of the fighting platform and Echelone starts the battle, jumping back to his tall chair.
"I'll end this real quick," Tesla says, looking at Armstrong and Pamla. "Well, I'm not heartless so I'll give you both a choice and that is that you can forfeit the match," she suggests and shrugs.
"What?! Who do you think you are?!" Armstrong shouts with anger.
"Look Armstrong, yes you have great arms of steel which create powerful force and enables you to use some steel manifestation; Also Pamla, yes you can use water manifestation and also a special flammable oil manifestation but let's be frank, both of you are in no way any match for me. So the best calculated solution here for you two will be to forfeit the match," Tesla replies, smiling.
"I see. Tesla you're indeed a powerful opponent, however, in this match, I'll show you how strong I can be," Armstrong responds angrily.
"You're joking, if you think—," before Pamla can finish talking, Tesla appears by her side and is no longer smiling.
"I'll be going on full power from here on," Tesla says. Rapidly, she lands a very powerful kick backed up by sparks of silver lightning on Pamla's abdominal region, which sends her flying out of the fighting platform and crashing into the arena's wall, instantly knocking her out. As Echelone is about to begin his countdown, Tesla, in the blink of an eye, appears in front of Armstrong. He is shocked by the immense speed and with a mighty momentum, Tesla, having lightning clad on her hand, throws a powerful blow on the huge and muscular Armstrong's stomach. This sends him soaring out of the fighting platform expressly, with a booming sound, smashing deep into the wall of the arena. Everyone is silent at this crushing display by Tesla and Echelone counts down. The impeccable victory goes to Tesla.
"Humph!! At least I warned them. Unlike the others, I'm not here to play and do kumbaya, I'm here to win. I'm Tesla Silver after all," Tesla says, walking out with confidence.
"Amazing!!! What a showcase of unparalleled supremacy from the prodigy of Stormville, Tesla Silver. This, my people, is what we call, flawless victory!!! Our fifth winner for the day!!!" the commentators shout.
"That's Tesla indeed. Once she's serious, there's no stopping her," Farads Hertz, King of Stormville, says, smiling as he watches the tournament.
"That's right, she possesses enormous power and skill just like her father and grandfather. I wonder if any will prove to be too much of a threat to her in this tournament. Hmmm, maybe Damian Ignition, he also seems quite formidable," Luxxi Hertz, Queen of Stormville, states.
"I see, intriguing. Her grandfather, right?" Goryu, King of Galedom, comments and chuckles.
"Next up, Group F: Maka vs May vs Kalium!!!" the commentators broadcast.
Maka and Tesla cross paths as Maka steps out into the fighting arena.
"And they'll say I'm the heartless one," Maka comments.
"I wasn't heartless, I gave them a fair warning. Besides, I did not come here to have fun. Playtime is over, now is the time to get serious," Tesla replies and walks away in the long passage, out of the arena.
"Either way, heartless or not, that's good for me. Now let's see what I have here," Maka says to herself as she steps onto the fighting platform.
At the Kings' and Queens' viewing room…
"Your son put up a remarkable display, now it's time for your daughter. You must be excited, right Gray?" Phoenix says to Gray, King of Earthville and as usual, Gray remains silent.
Back at the battle Royale arena, after Echelone signals the start of the match, May, Maka and Kalium, gaze at each other.
"So I was planning on having some fun in this battle, torturing and all of that, however Tesla has shown me something better. Besides, there seems to be more fun waiting for me in the next round," Maka declares, changing her gaze to Serena, who is watching from above in the participants' viewing room. Her eyes meet with Serena's and Maka smiles.
"What are you saying? I'm sick of hearing you prodigies make a fuss about yourselves," May quickly replies.
"Manifest: Earth style: Grasshopper!!!" May screams and hops with speed from an earth boulder which formed beneath, heading straight to strike Maka with a punch.
To May's surprise, Maka catches her fist and holds it tight.
"I'm not done talking," Maka says, grinning while May struggles to release her fist from Maka's grip.
"Maka Ignition, daughter of the great King of Earthville, King Gray Ignition and the fearsome Queen of Aquaville, Queen Isabelle Flo, the mistake that they both decided to keep," Maka says, mocking May.
May is shocked that Maka knows this since only a handful of people know this.
"Don't worry only you and I heard what I just said. I won't tell anyone, hehe," Maka giggles.
"I'm not a mistake!!" May furiously replies and frees her fist from Maka's grip.
Kalium swiftly appears at Maka's side and, spinning his sword, unleashes his attack. "Manifest: Lightning style: Lightning tornado," he says.
Lightning in the form of a small tornado is released and heads for Maka.
"You all should allow me to finish my speech!!!" Maka yells, emitting a vast amount of red aura. The wind pressure around her becomes so vigorous and the force from the aura shifts the direction of the attack away from Maka. Kalium and May find it difficult to breathe.
"I think I should try a bigger lightning tornado," Kalium says to himself.
"Enough of this, Manifest: Attribute: Elephant Stomp," Maka says and stomps her foot on the ground. A powerful shockwave is discharged, scattering the ground and cracking it largely, even the pillars shatter. The force of the wave pushes Kalium out of the platform, slamming into the wall of the arena and falling to the ground, lying unconscious. May, however, uses her grasshopper technique to jump high into the air, evading the wave.
From above, May executes a water manifestation, sending water with the speed of a bullet from her mouth, at Maka.
"Manifest: Water Style: Water bullet," May says. Maka calmly and easily dodges the attack. Once May lands on the ground, she unsheathes a short sword strapped to her waist and hurries to battle Maka meanwhile Echelone finishes the countdown for Kalium, rendering him unable to continue the match.
May, continuously, swings her short blade at Maka to cut her while pushing forward but Maka effectively evades the attack, stepping backwards.
"If I can just use the flowing waters technique like Lady Suiryu, I'd stand a chance," May says within herself while pushing on.
"Hoo, are you seriously trying to use me to learn?" Maka angrily states and grabs May's arm. Forcefully, she slams May into the ground and stomps her foot on May's belly using her elephant stomp technique. The excruciating pain from the attack is so much, May screams and coughs out a good amount of blood.
"Well, this isn't fatal," Maka utters, smiling mischievously as she stomps her foot again, this time on May's knee. The crunching sound of the bone cracking accompanied by agonizing pain causes May to cry out.
"Stop, please! I give up!! I give up!!!" May screams as tears roll down her cheeks like a river of water. Maka begins laughing out very loud and Echelone tells her to stop the battle as May has conceded for it to be ended.
"My my, what a bore. Humph!! Thought you'd be more fun. What a letdown, that's too bad," Maka says and exits the stage.
"Wow!! What brutality!!! Our sixth winner for the day, the beast prodigy, Maka Dusa!!!" the commentators declare.
May remains on the ground, crying and unable to move. What comes to her mind is the look of disappointment from her parents, Gray Ignition and Isabelle Flo. She remembers Maka calling her a mistake and also her elder half-brother, Damian's elder brother, Drey Ignition, calling her a blunder and a pathetic failure too, saying had it not been for his mother, Derene Ignition's intervention, she would have been disposed of at birth. With all these imaginations and memories in her thoughts plus the severe injuries suffered, May has no will to move and remains there weeping but is soon carried out of the arena by the medical team. Damian watches from the participants' viewing room and is furious not at May but at the whole situation, though his facial expression remains calm. Immediately Maka gets into the room, Damian confronts her.
"You didn't have to go that far, Maka. You could have easily knocked her out and won," Damian says.
"Well, it's a battle and I can do as I like and win as I like," Maka replies.
"Very well then, pray that you don't battle me because I'll not spare you a single bit and let me warn you if May is severely wounded such that she's unable to use her legs anymore, I'll be coming not just for your legs but your entire being," Damian warns and walks away.
"Interesting, I'd like to see that," Maka responds, though she is scared in her mind.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have seen the frightening power of these prodigies, flawlessly ending battles in a flash. Well now it's time for a spectacular match, one I'm sure will keep us thrilled and in anticipation to the end. A battle among three prodigies, the golden Group G: Dayve vs Gerrar vs Erraz. An epic battle is about to begin!!!" the commentators scream.