The candidates for the Dragon, Tiger and Horse clan made their way down towards the arena.

The candidate for Dragon Clan was a girl with short pink hair. Her hair was tied into two buns. Her wore silver plated light armor. The candidate for the Tiger Clan was a guy who had short black hair. He was topless, but had ripped shorts. The candidate for the Horse Clan was also a girl who had long brown hair. She had a maid outfit on.

“So the Dragon Clan sent out you Riri?”

“That’s right Pantero, was the Tiger Clan short on members so they sent you out?”

“Really funny, you know damn well how strong I am.”

“No I don’t actually, enlighten me will you?”

“Always with the jokes. What does Dragon Clan want with the prize that they were willing to send you out Riri?”

“Sorry, I can’t disclose that with you, but if you’re willing to give up, I’ll give you a pat on the back later.”

“That’s it? I’d prefer spending some time with you instead.”

“Ugh, don’t make me throw up.”

Pantero shook his head.

“Stella, you’re awfully quiet right now.”

“...”

“Not a talker?”

“...”

“What a bummer.”

Mourno stepped in.

“A-are all the contestants ready?”

All three of them nodded.

“Let the Group Two battles begin!”

Without hesitation, Riri and Pantero charged at each other first. Pantero threw the first punch towards Riri’s face. She dodged Pantero’s first punch and threw quick two punches of her own towards his chest. The punches landed and caused Pantero to fall back slightly.

“You got faster Riri.”

“More like you got slower Pantero.”

The both of them engaged in battle again. Riri started moving faster than before. He threw another quick punch. Pantero anticipated the punch and grabbed it.

“This’ll hurt me more than it’ll hurt you Riri.”

Pantero smirked and started kneeing Riri in the gut repeatedly. The knee sent her off her feet and into the air, but his grip kept her close to him as he brought her down again for another knee to the gut. He kept doing this over and over again.

“Give up Riri?”

Riri’s body was on the ground almost lifeless.

“Well I guess that’s tha-”

“Not bad Pantero...”

Pantero instinctively let go of her hand and backed off.

“Why’d you let me go? Afraid of commitment?”

“Funny joke Riri, you’re holding back.”

She got up and brushed herself off. Her expression that was writhed in pain before, suddenly became calm and collected. She jumped in midair towards Pantero and did a spinning overhead axe kick. Pantero was able to put both his arms up in time to block the kick, but the force was much stronger than he anticipated. The kick broke his block and nailed him in the head causing him to crash into the arena stage with a destructive force. Cracks formed in the arena from the impact.

Riri slowly turned her attention towards Stella.

“After seeing what I did to Pantero, do you still want to fight Stella?”

“...”

“Always the talkative one aren’t you.”

Riri made her way towards Stella. Pantero who was on the ground reached out and grabbed her ankle.

“You’re still conscious? I’m impressed.”

“You underestimate me Riri.”

She stomped on his hand.

“Let go fool before I break it.”

She stomped on it with a greater force, but he didn’t budge.

“Is your pride causing you to act so foolishly?”

“Come on, how can I go out without a bang?”

She tried to pull away, but his grip was strong.

“Spirit Equip! Panther!”

Pantero was quickly able to land a punch on Riri’s face causing her to fly across the ring. When the dust finally settled, Pantero’s body wasn’t altered a great deal besides growing a tail, but instead he was wearing Panther-like equipment, the most notables were his bonetooth necklace and claw gauntlets.

“A near perfect synchronization it seems.” Riri murmured under her breath.

She slowly got up from his blow.

“I’ll give you the first victory, making me have to go into my form so quickly, now get into yours so I can win this thing already.”

She cracked her neck and stretched abit.

“Don’t cry when you get hurt, you asked for this. Spirit Equip! White Dragon!”

Her back slowly grew wings as her equipment started to turn into that of a dragon’s. Her light armor had beautiful dragon scales on them now while she gained dragon claws for her boots and gloves. Her body slowly lifted off the ground as her wings started flapping.

“The only way you two can beat me now is if you knock me unconscious. Though, knowing what I know about both of your forms, that’d be a herculean task since none of you can fly.”

She laughed and soared through the sky showing off her ability of flight.

Pantero showed an unamused face and looked towards Stella.

“Stella, are you seriously not going to do anything here?”

“...”

In a blink of an eye, Stella’s form also changed to that of a Full Mastery Equip. She grew a white horse tail and had equipment that resembled her spirit animal. She quickly made her way towards Pantero. She jump and used his face as a launch to get higher into the air towards Riri. She got close to her, but Riri moved to the side with her wings.

“Come on Stella, you know horses can’t fly. Good attempt though. You got pretty high.”

Riri laughed.

“...air stampede.”

Stella kicked her foot in the opposite direction of Riri at such a velocity that it propelled her towards Riri. It was almost as if she had just kicked off of an air wall. Shocked and caught off guard Riri didn’t have time to block Stella’s roundhouse kick that sent her flying back down, crashing into the arena.

Stella could be heard saying some words as she descended down from the sky.

“Horses can’t fly, but a Pegasus can.”

END