The Tournament to Stop The Apocalypse, A Hololive Fan Story

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Gura hurls her trident at Chloe and it slices through her stomach. But, the trident phases through as the clone dissipates then on the side of the clone, Chloe catches the trident and after spinning for momentum, she hurls it back at Gura. Caught off guard Gura can't dodge and is pieced in her own stomach. "D-Damn You!!"

"If you were a good fighter, you would've known someone like me would pull a trick like that!!"
Chloe shouts back in defiance. "D-Dammit... I thought her armor was shattered... how did she manage to-" her thoughts are cut off as blue fades in again, "You idiot!! Have you not been paying attention this entire time!? Even after she got her armor destroyed she still absorbed a bit of force from your strike from earlier!!" Blue explains, "hold on, are you saying that-" again red's thoughts are cut off but this time by Chloe charging at her. Gura reaches for her trident but Chloe throws two kunai recovered from earlier making Gura stop her movement. Chloe jumps and summons two clones who toss her at Gura.
"Huh!? They're solid now!?" Gura asks herself as she blocks Chloe's punch, behind her another clone sneaks in and stabs her back. Gura stomps her foot into the ground and a small shockwave blasts Chloe and her clones back.
"You're all over the place!! Do you not have any idea what you're doing?!" Blue asks, "oh shut it!! You're all brains I'm all brawn we both have downsides!!" Red replies in frustration.
"What's wrong!!" Chloe breaks through Gura's guard and rapidly slashes at her with a kuna, "Earlier you seemed a lot more aware of your surroundings, aren't you a tad bit of an amateur to anything other than raw power now?" Chloe says as Gura is backed against the wall of the arena. Gura rolls to avoid Chloe's rapid stabs but is caught off guard when a clone closes in on her. She bursts up into the open water and Chloe follows. Finally she's able to summon her trident again and she charges at Chloe. Chloe closes her eyes as she avoids Gura's strike by using her firm hold as a platform to boost herself above Gura. Once Gura passes about an inch, Chloe extends a blade in her heel and stomps down on Gura.
Gura stops the storm with her hand but the blade slices through. She still holds the foot firm and grabs onto Chloe's leg, but Chloe quickly kicks with her other foot and Gura is forced to let go and push Chloe's body with a punch. Chloe is rotated upside down and meets Gura face to face as Gura draws her trident back to pierce Chloe.
She thrusts it into her face but it phases through Chloe. "What!?" She shouts but Chloe comes bursting through the water and uppercuts Gura.
Then, she grabs onto Gura's foot, flips a few times, and tosses Gura into the ground, shattering her trident. Gura opens her eyes to see a clone next to her and realizes what's about to happen next. She quickly summons a trident but before she can use it Chloe lands on her stomach with her knee, digging it into Gura's earlier wound. Gura screams and a shimmer of blue returns to her eyes as several spikes around the two form. They come out of the ground and close above the two resembling a shark biting down.
Chloe tries to back out of the shark but it's solid and Gura's red returns as she summons a trident again and thrusts it into Chloe's chest, aiming for the core of her armor. However, Chloe swaps with the clone that was next to Gura when she landed and manages to narrowly escape.
Chloe feels as if she's standing on something and before she can think, the red Gura inside of the shark turns back to water and blue rises from the ground holding her trident, with no clones left to swap to Chloe desperately uses her redirect attack but forgetting she doesn't have armor she thinks to herself, "it's over..."

the fist connects and to everyone's surprise. Gura is sent flying as a great shockwave pushes all the water around Chloe away from her. She looks back to her bare arms confused as to what just happened as Gura lands back into the water slamming into the sand crouching and holding her trident. She rises and stares proudly. Chloe looks up to Gura and resumes her stance "decided you wanted to go back to brains?"
She remarks and Gura stands still, "you've made me realize something y'know, as lame as you yourself as a fighter is, you taught me that no matter how strong I want to be, I'll always have that godly inheritance, so..." Gura continues, "I'll take it gladly, her brawn isn't enough without my brains and my brains aren't enough without her brawn, but, she is me and I am her this is MY power and unlike yours it truly does belong to me, so I'll accept it wholeheartedly...!!!"

Gura's trident fades as a continuous shockwave pulses around her. She blinks to her red and back to her light blue repeatedly as she struggles the highlights begin to glow along with her eyes.
A row of 7 Tridents begin to form suspended behind her head and both her blue and red fade to white, before returning as a bold deep blue as they appeared before the assault on Atlantis. The shockwave ceases as she drops her head forward. A final trident forms In front of her and she grabs onto it with a firm hold, with a bold ring filling the water. She holds the trident downward with the handle pointed up behind her and opens her eyes, as bold a blue as the water around the two. She points her trident at Chloe with a smile, "It's finally time to get serious, you little shrimp!!"