The Contest of Champions

3 - Gods can Fall

They say all stories have 2 sides to them but who knows, sometimes the side of the victim is less moral than the side of the victimizer.

Year 2023: New York City

In New York city of Year 2023, A battle is being fought. The civilians have been evacuated and the ones fighting in the battle are the 6 Mrakilin versus an Unknown Battle-ship from another world. The World's Military is kept a bit further back, on standby since their weaponry is unable to damage these robotic enemies.

William, skilled with the blade, takes out as many of the android army as he can on the ground, Serani provides support by stalking the fight on a rooftop and using her Guns to shoot anyone that comes close to her or the Mrakilins. Arcano traps and destroys the Flying drones in a Time Bubble, Seno and Ares use Magic and Weaponry respectively to easily destroy the troops.

Only the Mothership remained and they all knew, to bring in their best to destroy the ship from within.

William opens his communication, "James! Get into the Mothership!". The sound of a Jet is heard in the sky, The Mrakilins look up at the sky and the Jet Back door opens mid-air. James stands on its edge, with his Blue Protective armor. James smiles and Jumps from the Jet towards the Mothership. His speed increases exponentially while falling and as he makes a Gun shaped sign with his right hand, a huge ball of speeding wind forms in front of him and he releases it from the his hand, the ball of wind travelled at immense speeds, piercing the Mothership, lowering its shields for just a moment to allow James to get inside the Mothership.

All the Military and the Mrakilins saw in awe, the man that was James Mrakilin

Day-3

The contest of Champions resumed from the one day break due to the Vashrak Incident. Vashrak, if found anywhere outside the stadium would stand trial and face the Judgement of the Velorian Justice System but if inside the Stadium, according to the old rules, Vashrak is not to be detained.

The next match was about to start in 15 minutes. Everyone was getting to their seats and the Mrakilins sat on their throne. Most of them were worried, not knowing if Vashrak or James Mrakilin would show up and kill them.

Suddenly, right before the matches began, A portal opens up in the middle of the Colosseum. The crowd is worried and scared. Vashrak steps out of the Portal and once he does, the portal behind him closes. He looks at the Mrakilins in their thrones and they look at him back, with fear. Only Seno was more intrigued than scared, wishing to face Vashrak in a duel.

"Oh great Mrakilins" Vashrak began, "I want you, any one of you to face me, in a duel." Vashrak stated.

He continued. "Prove to the citizens of this nation that you are the strongest, that you are capable of protecting this country. Or are you scared?"

William thought about it for a second but Ares quickly jumped through the glass window, flying with his spear towards the Unarmed Vashrak. He lands in front of Vashrak and the crowd goes wild.

"The Battle of a Lifetime, The Challenger Vashrak versus the Great Guardian, Ares Mrakilin!" The Announcer screamed, exciting the crowd. Ares bowed down towards Vashrak and whispered in a low voice so only Vashrak could hear, "Hello James.". Vashrak smiled at Ares and stood ready for battle.

THREE, TWO, ONE, FIGHT!

The battle began, Ares pounced with his spear towards Vashrak but Vashrak side stepped his pounce and punched him away.

"Getting lousy with training sessions are we, Ares?" Vashrak taunts Ares. Ares stops himself from being thrown back by piercing his spear into the ground and goes,

"NOT ONE BIT!" with a huge grin on his face.

Vashrak runs towards Ares but just then, Ares activates his ring's power, 'Warlord'. A barrage of blades, summoned by the skill, are being thrown towards Vashrak who tries to dodge them as much as possible but a blade hits Vashrak on his left shoulder and just as he looks at the wound and back, Ares's spear is just 8 inches away from his head.

In Ares's viewpoint, he's already won, there was no way Vashrak could dodge fast enough to avoid the incoming spear from damaging a vital part of his body. But just then, somehow, the spear is repelled and gets thrown behind Vashrak.

The crowd was shocked. How did this even happen? But William knows...

"James's Skill....." William tells himself

Vashrak readies his fist for a punch. Ares does not care about what just happened and charges towards Vashrak, emanating a orange aura, readying his own punch. In a split second, the 2 Titans clash and both are punched back into the wall, both hurt, but not majorly injured. The clash created a huge sand-cloud, rendering both combatant's blind, even with their super-vision.

"Plans on giving up yet James?" Ares shouts

"Why did you kill me?" Vashrak asks but the voice's origin is unclear. Ares tries to taunt him more. "You did it to yourself!" Ares screamed back. Vashrak did not reply. He felt something was wrong, Vashrak was doing something and he had to be ready. He summoned his Spear back into his hand and jumped into the air, clearing the sandcloud with his jump. In the leap. he saw Vashrak, with his right hand, made into a Gun sign, pointed towards him. In front of the hand, Air was being sped up into immense speeds

Ares knew what this was, so did the other Mrakilins. Ares, thrilling for this fight shouted, "My strongest versus your Strongest! Let's do this!".

Ares unleashed all the most powerful weaponry his interpretation of the 'Warlord' skill would allow towards Vashrak. And Vashrak released his most powerful attack that his interpretation of the Skill would allow. He unleashed The One-Hit Rokio towards Ares.

When these two Skills clashed, A bright light blinds the audience and the Mrakilins alike. When the bright faded away, the people looked for their victor, Ares. But when they shifted their views from the sky and to the ground, they saw their 'victor' lying on the ground, in defeat, with Vashrak standing next to him.

Vashrak looks down at Ares, takes his red ring and asks, "Why Ares, WHY! WHY DID I HAVE TO DIE!?". Vashrak's voice grew deeper and started to break a little. He spoke with weight in his heart.

Ares, with his defeated body, looks at Vashrak and goes, "It was you... in that war...that we fought... 500 years ago..."

Vashrak froze, his eyes widened, his soul crushed, he'd realised why his best friends, his whole world had betrayed him. Vashrak opened a portal and walked through it quickly.

The crowd, the people were now worried. 'Were the Mrakilins grown too weak? Or have threats grown stronger?'. Ares was quickly taken in by the Mrakilins to make sure that he was still alive and breathing.

Serani takes Ares to her surgery room and after a few minutes comes out.

"Ares is fine. He needs a few weeks to heal up. The ring did most of the major damage healing when he had it on so, give it a few weeks."

The Mrakilin group was shocked and worried. They'd killed James Mrakilin in fear of a crime he had not committed yet and now, he was back with vengeance in his mind. And It all began from a war waged by a man who did not belong in this world, 500 years ago.