Sonic: Adventures of Areion

Episode 47: The Final Stretch

Areion was back in his room shirtless performing pushups while on his hands and building up quite a sweat, after performing about a hundred pushups that he flipped up to his feet and cracked his shoulders. He looked up the clock to see that there's thirteen minutes left before it hits five o'clock.

"Better get myself cleaned up before heading over to the arena." Areion said before heading over to the bathroom and took a quick shower then out on his ninja suit to make the final fight special. The chestnut made sure that he was fully perforated befor exciting the room and began making his way towards the arena "Man, I still get the jitters thinking about this final match."

"Can't blame ya, you've come a long way form the beginning of this tournament and here you are now at the finals and facing a strong opponent for the title, and speaking of strong opponents, see who's ahead of ya." Emerl said.

Areion snapped out of his thoughts and looked ahead only to quirk an eyebrow upon seeing Killua leaning against the wall of the hallway with his arms crossed and eyes closed which suddenly opened to look at the slightly confused but wary teen.

"Fancy walking into you here, well as I can say is may the best fighter win."Areion said.

"...are you truly from the Ryuga clan which I heard a lot about?" Killua asked.

"For you to ask me that, which clan are you from since only they would be aware of my status."

Areion noticed Killua clench his fist tightly upon hearing the question before replying in a controlled tone "I have no clan, not anymore since I'm nothing more than an outcast to them."

"Who?"

"The Raiju clan."

"From what Tatsuo often told about them is that they care more about power than comradely." Emerl said with Areion frowning in thought.

"So why did you partake in the tournament?" Areion asked.

"To test the limits of my strength as well as showing them how far I've come along since my banishment but not so they they take me back because they don't deserve me."

"I see...we'll you've definitely proven yourself strong to be able to get this far, no one can deny that."

"True but I was truly looking forward to fighting you." Killua said with a smirk "Not only do I get to face the very first returning member of a rival clan but I get to rub in their faces that an exiled member of the Raiju got to fight you first."

"Heh, talk about bragging rights." Areion smiled in amusement, then he heard the crowd cheering loudly from where they were "In that case, let's go out there and show the world what we can really do!"

The lynx nodded in silent agreement before both ninjas went their separate ways to wait for the upcoming match with anticipation, that was when Emerl decided to voice his thoughts to the chestnut.

"It will be interesting to see how far you can push each other to one's very limit." Emerl said thoughtfully.

"Same here." Areion thought.

Apparently, they weren't the only ones as every singer spectator in the stadium is chattering with excitement as they can't wait for the final match to be underway, many from all over the world that weren't able to come to the stadium are already watching live from their homes. Soon enough, Scratch hovered from the arena in his stadium before speaking out to the crowd.

[Hello and welcome to the World Fighting Tournament championship match, we bore witness to all fourteen matches amongst sixteen fighters which shuttles down to two finalists... Killua Zoldyck and Areion Ryuukaze!] as Scratch spoke, the Holoscreen began displaying short clips of the matches before till now.