Nemesis, Vol. 3

Game of Assassins

"Now that our break period is almost over, who is enjoying graduation so far?!" The announcer asked the audience.

"Yeah!!!"

"I can't wait to see more of that Hannah girl."

"Or that Shogayaki kid, they are really talented for youths."

"Now now, we still have two other very talented youths in Yuki and Anastasia! Yuki is the only student who wasn't in the top 8 that is still here and surprisingly made it all the way to the semi-finals! Talk about an underdog! I think we all expected Ichi and Hannah to make it this far since they are ranked number 1 and 2! But Anastasia is here as well even though she wasn't even in the top 4! Let's hope she takes down that brat Ichi..." The announcer said.

"Boo!!!"

"What? That kid broke my microphone... He's a brat! The two classes are making their ways back into their respectful dugouts now!!" The announcer said as the two classes began re-entering the stage area from the inside of the stadium.

"We start off with Ichi Shogayaki!!! Facing off against Anastasia Volkov!!! I shouldn't announce their classes because we can all agree that these kids are agents now!!" The announcer said as Ichi and Ana both took to the stage.

"I don't know if I can kill her..." Ichi thought.

"I'll kill him in front of his own father, maybe then he'd be able to feel pain..." Anastasia thought.

"Begin!"

Anastasia quickly goes in for a punch with her right fist, which Ichi slaps her arm out the way.

Anastasia then uses the momentum from her arm being pushed to swing her left leg around from behind to Ichi's left side.

"What?!" Ichi thought as he was kicked by her left leg and was hit to the side by this.

"She's good..." Ichi thought.

"I'll make your family feel pain... Kyo."

Anastasia activates her kyo which immediately creates a snow area within the stadium. Anastasia snaps her finger and multiple snow clones of her are generated around her

"I must've lost the real one within all these snow versions of her... Which one of you wants the pleasure in going first..." Ichi said. 

One of the clones immediately goes in for an attack, and Ichi easily dodges it before dealing a knee in the gut. The clone falls apart into snow.

"That was an obvious diversion... that means the real one is probably behind me" Ichi thought.

Ichi swings back and hits another snow clone away.

"Well... Who's next?" Ichi said before all the clones rushed at him at once.

"Now you're making it fun..." Ichi said as he dodges one and punches another. 

He then uses the one he dodges and kicks it into another. Ichi then immediately jumps up and tries to use one of the clones as a step, which it just implodes on the contact with his foot.

"What?!" Ichi said as he fell over. He swiftly gets up but it's too late, one of the snow clones grabs onto Ichi's left leg, and another one quickly grabs his right.

"What the!" Ichi said before another one comes up from behind and puts him in a hold.

"You easily diminish on contact, this isn't a good plan." Ichi said as he looked back at the third clone holding him. Anastasia then snaps twice, and the clones that have a hold of Ichi revert into snow. Ichi tries to break out of it but can't.

"What the hell, this isn't the same snow from before is it?" Ichi said before Anastasia reveals herself in front of Ichi as the remaining clones are all gone now.

"No. it's another form of my Kyo, it's hard snow. I specifically made those three clones that way for this reason." Anastasia said.

"So these three were the only ones that could've put me in this hold... How foolish." Ichi said.

"You'll eat your words Ichi..." Anastasia said as she cracked her knuckles.

"Give me your worst..."

"If you insist." Anastasia said before punching Ichi in the gut.

"I'll have to time this perfectly... If I'm just a second off I can lose..." Ichi thought. Anastasia is now repeatedly punching Ichi, a couple in the gut, and a couple more in the chest.

"Kyo..." Ichi said before flames spread around him and freed him from the hold he was in. Most of the snow around Ichi is gone from the heat.

"Phoenix flame wing!" Ichi said as he swung his right arm, aiming the blast right at Anastasia.

Ichi then notices a sharp pain in his chest as Anastasia is blown back by his flame blast and is using her snow to block the flames from touching her.

"I'll have to end this quick..." Ichi thought as he held his ribs in pain while looking towards Anastasia.

"All I need to do is finish this... he's not even close to what he was at in the beginning..." Anastasia thought.

Ichi holds up his fist and says "Phoenix flame sphere!"

"I gotta get the upper hand..." Ichi thought as a flame sphere began to develop in front of his fist.

"Does he actually think I'm going to let him hit me with that..." Anastasia thought.

Anastasia looks around and thinks "I don't have much to work with here... I'll have to defeat him with what's left."

"Here goes nothing." Ichi said as the flame sphere is nearly complete. Ichi goes in a pose where his left hand is out and his fingertips are down while he is still holding onto his left rib with his right hand.

"Phoenix flame claw!" Ichi said before his hand is suddenly surrounded by a fire shaped claw.

Ichi then bolts at Anastasia, preparing for combat.

"Dammit... I need a better plan than this..." Anastasia thought. Ichi swings at Anastasia with his flame claw, which Anastasia easily dodges. Anastasia then bounces back in to counter

"Gotcha." Ichi said. Ichi immediately jumps back from Anastasia's attack and the flame sphere is now right in Anastasia's face

"What?! He timed the sphere perfectly within his attack?!" Anastasia thought. The sphere rams into Anastasia and shoots her out the stage.

"We have a winner!! Ichi Shogayaki!!!" The announcer said.

"He failed. How pitiful. He'll need to make up for his failure." Saijo said.

"I hope that she learned her lesson with this defeat... had she gone down that path I don't know if I would be able to stop her." Rollan thought while watching as well.

"Now we're down to the last match within the Semi-Finals!!! It's Yuki Madota!!! And Hannah Glatten!!!" The announcer said.