1 Part 1

Soul Game

Gavin sat at the large table, his foe placed a chess board down that was much bigger then your average board.

"Now then, we will be playing somewhat of chess. You may choose five of your creations to set on the battle field, but can not be alternate versions of the same person" The villain placed five chess piece replicas of his allies down on his side then waited...

"Hmm...Carsin...Marcia Mashida- " The man cut him off looking him in the eye with a serious expression.

"Please choose from more than one era of your creations" Sinto sighed from his opponent's impatience.

"Oshima….Gavason and…Dakkida" The foe looked at him then sighed.

"Do you ever choose anyone new? You've used most of them multiple times in your book, why not pick less over-used characters for a change"

"You had me choose which I did so stop complaining" The man sighed once more before each piece took the appearance of  the warriors that were chosen.

"Now then, let us begin the first round!" Gavin moved Dakkida forward as his first defense, his attacker moved one of his pieces as well. The two faced each other when suddenly the two were transported to a large empty area with nothing but a black sky and a huge chest board floor. Gavin watched in surprise as Dakkida along with his foe appeared before them.

"As you can see we'll be able to spectate the battles in person but they won't know we are. Dakkida put his hands up ready for battle.

"Are you my opponent?" Dakkida had dark hair with red eyes, along with a black hood over his head.

His foe nodded holding a scythe, He also had black hair, along with a dark cloak with a cape-like back to it as if he were so fancy rich guy. "let us commence with the battle…for I intend to win with ease"

"Don't get your hopes up, you're not dealing with some common fighter" Suddenly the opponent. Hurled His blade straight for his victim's head when Dakkida caught it with both palms of his hands.

"Humph, seems you're a little faster then I thought…but let's see you stop these!" this time the fighter hurled two scythes in the warrior's direction going to the opposite ways in an "X" formation. Dakkida managed to hit the weapon handle causing it to go spiraling away from him without injury when the second one landed a slice across his right arm. The fighter groaned in pain as blood ran down his arm and dripped onto the large white tile he was standing on.

"Bastard…looks like I'll need to go all out at this point, I was saving my strength for any more threats but seems he's no pushover as well" the hero thought. Dakkida built up energy in the palm of his left hand then tossed it up into the air.

"What his this guy up to?" The unknown chest player thought. Light covered the board nearly blinding the combatant for a moment…Once the light cleared, there were six of the hero instead of one.

"Hmph, seems he's using duplication as a form of advantage to get the drop on my pawn…not original but also not bad, we'll just see how this plays out"

"By the way, I would like to get the name of my opponent before we progress any further" the villain grinned then replied: "My name is Lugander, I'm a famous fighter from where I come from" Without another word he dashed forward keeping a close eye on each copy of his opponent. Once getting in melee range two duplicates went on the offensive, Lugander was able to strike one clone in the ribs, knocking the air out of him but clone two knocked him off balance even while flying then kicked him across the face, sending him sliding across the board.

Gavin smiled seeing his allies progress through the fight. He was confident that Dakkida was capable of winning. Lugander stood up wiping the blood from his lips.

"You asshole, I'm done playing nice!" He charged up a surge of electricity then shot it straight for his foes. It filed the board with blue light When all of a sudden one Dakkida was able to catch the surge of power and shoot it right back. Lugander was hit with his own bolt of electricity getting electrocuted badly. He let out a loud scream of agony before hitting the ground on his face. Dakkida saw his target's entire body covered in burns.

"Not really the way I wanted to end this but it's over" the duplicates vanished in seconds as he sat on a tile exhausted from the attack. Sinto grinned as his enemy's pawn burst into ashes on their chess table. The villain grinded his teeth in anger but quickly calmed down continuing their duel.

"Fine, deal with my next warrior. Kizawa Sanga!" Sinto watched as he moved his figure across the board up to Dakkida. A grin formed across his face, "Your poor Dakkida must still be exhausted from our last fight. So I doubt he will manage to stay at his best or even defend against his next opponent"

Dakkida appeared once more on Sinto's side of the board. The boy removed his hood waiting for his new combatant. Kizawa emerged on his side of their board, he had massive gold armor, with half a normal face showing with a demon-looking half on his other side.

"Time to show you what true power is" Dakkida felt a little uneasy by his voice, it seemed like an echoing whisper as if going with the wind. Kizawa flew straight for his opponent pulling out a large great sword with red energy swarming around it. Dakkida pulled out a small dagger, throwing it straight for Sanga's forehead. Just as it seemed to make contact, his weapon spun out of control in a random direction. Dakkida sighed in annoyance but remained calm to assure he remained focused not  letting his technique falter in battle. Sanga swung his great sword with incredible force, luckily Dakkida split into two dogging it seconds before impact. The warrior struck his enemy in their ribs while his duplicate kicked the sword out of their hands.

Again the host frowned with an angered look but said nothing. Blood could be seen running down Kizawa's mouth but didn't change his plain expression on his face. He kicked one of them in the gut, sending them across the board into the barrier keeping the fighters on the board. His duplicate vanished from Dakkida's lack of concentration. He coughed up blood on his hands and knees. His body shook from the intense pain.

"One last attack…before I'm out of strength" Sinto's participant put his hands together with a clap as if praying, suddenly a purple aura swarmed around him…

"All out attack!" suddenly Dakkida managed to create 10 clones of himself, five attacked from the left while four attacked from the right. The last duplicate stood in front of the real Dakkida to keep him protected from any incoming attacks.

"This is getting interesting" Sanga commented while both dogging or deflecting every attack that came his way. Kizawa released electricity from each of his fingers in both directions, nearly all nine clones were taken out but two that managed to doge at the last second. Both duplicates struck their target on both sides of his torso.

"Damn it!" their opponent yelled falling to one knee. "This is bullshit, I'm much stronger then you idiot" Kizawa Sanga took off making his way past the clones up to the last one protecting Dakkida. They were knocked off balance while their foe went for the final blow. Just as he threw his fist forward, Dakkida stopped his concentration stance throwing a fist right back. Both combatants struck one another in the face with great force. Both fighters staggered in opposite directions until hitting the floor laying there motionless.

"No!...how could that have ended in a tie!?" Sinto's host smacked his defeated warrior's figure piece off the board infuriated...

CHAPTER 2 : Battle goes on but something is off

Gavin took Dakkida's piece off the board then moved Oshima up a space. "four against three" Sinto commented.

(I can do this) the hero thought to himself. The mysterious host moved a piece a tile away from Oshima's chess piece.

"Next match: Gavin Oshima vs my warrior : Kenzo Shin" Oshima crossed his arms as his outra Trimo manifested beside him it's eyes glowed a pale blue while having dark blue skin. Trimo wore gold armor with a red cape blowing in the wind. Kenzo wore a black cloak, it appeared as though he didn't have any irises or they were white, blending into the white of the eye.

"Show me what you can do" Oshima taunted with his outra standing there with a red aura around his body. Shin frowned and pointed his finger at the outra user. Black crows with no eyes swarmed him.

"What is this supposed to do?" the warrior mocked with a grin on his face. Suddenly Trimo spiraled around aiming both hands out beside them, a fierce blaze of gold flames lit up half the board setting all the crows on fire. All of them fell becoming piles of ashes. Kenzo starred him down.

"How dare you hurt my pets, you will pay for this" the cloaked villain took in a deep breath….then unleashed a wave of fire headed towards them, Trimo opened his mouth, inhaling all the flames attempting to reach his user.

"Heh…using a reverse tactic on me?...I won't lie about that being a good move" Shin thought about his next move…

(Hmm…what move would be effective against him? Maybe mixing them together could work)

Meanwhile both players watched in curiosity of what their character's next move would be. Shin made multiple small daggers out of energy that levitated above him, the combatant sent all daggers split into two groups of eight, one aimed at Oshima while the other was aimed at his outra. A smile grew over Shin's face when he saw both targets preparing to dodge their incoming projectiles. Shin abruptly shot a blast at both groups causing them to burst like fireworks. It's user fell back landing on the edge of the board with burns all over their hands from blocking. Trimo created a forcefeild to absorb the brunt of his enemy's attack.

"My turn" Trimo replied. While his user got back up, Trimo filled their fighting arena with a blinding flash of light, when it cleared there were three of Trimo instead of one.

"Ah duplications…but that won't make the slightest difference" Both Trimos went directly for Shin while Oshima stood still with his arms crossed. Kenzo dodged nearly every attack that came his way, suddenly he punched one of the duplicates in their chest causing it to vanish in a flash of gold light.

"One down" the evil warrior commented still deflecting Oshima's duplicate outra. At that moment a sudden pain washed over Kenzo, looking down they saw a blade made out of fire and energy sticking out of his chest soaked with blood along with some guts.

"This…can't be" Shin hit the ground in a pool of his own blood. Trimo retreated back inside Oshima's body.

"Good only two left and I have two that haven't been played yet, I'm confident I'll win…but can't let my confidence cloud my judgement to where I could lose this fight) His outra user sat on a black tile waiting for his next opponent, after about a minute or so the villain moved his 2nd to last piece up. Oshima looked toward the enemy side of their board to see a new foe had appeared, he stood up brushing himself off. The warrior saw a skeleton dressed in a white cloak standing on the opposite side of their fighting arena.

"Who are you suppose to be, the fancy reaper?" His target was silent, slowly raising his palm toward his foe. A blue light shot out headed in Oshima's way, the fighter raced up the board as if to take the blast head on. But just as it seemed he'd get hit, the warrior managed to dodge it by sliding to the left seconds before impact. The foe's attack went out of bounds suddenly disappearing completely.

"By the way, I never got your name" Sinto's fighter commented. His foe looked at him not turning away for even a moment, then replied: "Takaya Manobu, I'm a great necromancer capable of winning or bypassing nearly any situation I'm put in front of" Oshima smirked then dashed ahead once more, Takaya began shooting a series of blasts in the hero's location but just barley missed each shot. His foe in a last attempt unleashed a dome of electricity around himself in a defense reaction. The outra user managed to stop himself just a foot away from the attack. Lightning flung from the top of Takaya's electrical sphere aimed at his combatant's location, luckily Oshima ascended over it seconds before it hit. Manobu frowned releasing more bolts of power, but still the fighter dodged each one until he was inches away from the target. Trimo emerged from his user's body.

"Now Trimo!" his user commanded. The other made a fist, punching straight through the dome's electrical field. Takaya began feeling drained while Trimo kept his fist with his enemy's defensive attack. Suddenly his sphere faded as he fell to his knees.

"W-what happened?" the necromancer questioned.

"Is it not obvious? I drained the power of your attack, and guessing by the fact you just collapsed…I'm assuming you were putting a lot of energy into it" Takaya gave him an angry look.

"I hate ending battles so q-quickly, but it's time to finish you off" Manobu announced. He began charging all of his power into his fingers for an all-out attack.

"Oh please, your power's probably so drained that your technique will be like you using it at about 25% of your maximum power. Basically it'll be pathetic"

"I'll show you pathetic!" Takaya unleashed a powerful bolt of lightning that moved almost instantaneously. It hit Oshima's outra head on, filling the arena ablaze with light. When it faded Manobu collapsed out of power while Gavin only had mere burns, his outra was badly hurt but healed fast making it not so important to worry about.

"Come on! How is this happening!? I only have one fighter left…whatever I assure you that my last one is unbeatable!" The man angrily moved his last piece up to his foe and sat there crossing his arms.

Oshima saw a man with a crystal in the center of his forehead, he had dark blue hair with rainbow colored eyes. Also he wore a cloak as well but had no hood.

"So who are you?" he asked starring at his last opponent.

"My name is Hiroka Shingo, the strongest warrior in my universe" Oshima and Trimo stood side to side charging up their power then shot a blast of fire at their foe, just as it was about to make contact with Hiroka's head it instantly evaporated in front of him.

"Damn, let's see how he fares against our full power" Both Gavin along with his Outra released a wave of both flames and Lightning. Once again the flames evaporated around him while the lightning was absorbed.

"You'll have to do better than that… let me show you a hint of my true power" Hiroka's crystal lit up with multiple colors sparkling all around it. The man looked around but so nothing had changed.

"Now come, try to attack me" Oshima sighed and flew  upward going straight towards his opponent, just then the hero stopped inches away from him.

"W-what is this? My outra won't manifest in front of me!" he looked at Shingo who was giving him a smirk just standing there with his arms crossed.

"I see you've noticed the effect of my technique, it blocks the part of your brain that gives you the ability to create your outra. So what will you do now without your outra?" The user frowned and through the strongest punch he could. But utterly it was caught by Hiroka's hand, he being crushing it in his palm, luckily the young warrior managed to jump back gaining distance from his foe.

"M-my hand!" his hand was so damaged from the force of Shingo's grip that he couldn't move his fingers probably.

"W-why did it have to be my left hand!?" he complained once more. Oshima tried to shoot an energy blast but nothing came out.

(Shit, is it because of my hand or the fact I can't summon my outra!? Hiroka laughed as he shot a beam out his fingers, the thin beam of blue light went through the hero's chest and out his back. Blood went all over the floor as the poor warrior hit the ground fatally wounded.

"Good by hero" Shingo fired multiple beams through the combatant's chest once more and watched him lay there a

In a pool of his blood. The valiant hero finally died laying motionless.

"Three warriors to go" Hiroka commented…

Next fighter from Sinto's team was Gavason, a merged warrior of Gavin and Jaycen. He had dark hair and red eyes, he wore black clothing similar to what a ninja would wear.

"Hmm…I would like a true challenge, since I am the last defense on my master's team, I'll allow you to use all three of your remaining warriors against me" the host  once again banged his fist on the board.

"No, that is a stupid idea I forbid you to have a one on three match!" his remaining warrior ignored him signaling the other remaining warriors to join the fight.

Carsin and Marcia appeared alongside their ally.

"This'll be a tough opponent if we're having a three on one" Marcia commented.

" we can do this" Gavason responded gripping the handle of his sword on his back. Shingo laughed under his breath. Gavason went head on while Marcia and Carsin split left and right to go all out. Even with their tactic, both Marcia along with Carsin were pushed back by an incredible force of power. The two warriors staggered back across the board nearly falling off the edge while Gavason was kicked back causing him to roll down the floor then lay there with bruises all over him.

"Well that didn't work" the fused warrior commented laying on a tile.

"I have one last plan" Gavason told them. They listened then nodded. Marcia used her outra's power to stop Hiroka in time while both allies made two clones of themselves making it six in total. They went for the attack, beginning to strike him over and over with an onslaught of blows. After about two minutes Marcia withdrew her outra causing their foe to be able to move again. At first it seemed as though their blows had no effect but that's when Hiroka put his hand on his chest before he fell to his knees.

"Impossible, you were able to damage me this badly!?" Gavason grabbed the man's head and kneed his crystal, causing it to shatter.

"No, no, no!!!" Hiroka yelled feeling his forehead. He threw a punch at his foe but was easily caught by Gavason's hand and crushed, loud cracks rang out of his fist before the fused warrior let go.

"How is this possible?" the host responded. "He was invincible up until his crystal was destroyed…you mean to tell me that my character was only strong because of that tiny crystal on his forehead!?" He flipped the board and walked out of the room.

(The End)