Kuina activates the power. A vast energy funnels into her fingers and is aimed at James, who stands neutral like a statue, waiting for the strike. The attack hits his right hand. Kuina screams, "Take this! Be erased!"
Lika, flying nearby, feels the power and starts to cry. "So you chose revenge over me... I understand..."
Clara feels it too, her face falling sad. "Oh Kuina, I can't believe you chose that side..."
James begins to scream, "Ahhh my hand! Oh no! It's disappearing! Fuck!"
Kuina screams, blood spattering from her mouth as she channels the power. Piper shouts from the fence, "Come on, my goddess! You can do it!"
Kylie yells too, "Come on, Kuina!"
Mira only smiles as she folds her hands. Mortis is silent, watching Lysia, thinking to himself, "It is time I ask her to turn me human. The wish must come true, Piper."
Kuina smiles and screams. James screams as well. His hand starts to fade a little, and then while screaming, "Ahhh fuck! Shit... just kidding, not really... Did you really think that would be enough, Mortis? Wow, pathetic."
Everyone is shocked. Kuina keeps going, not stopping. "No way! You will be erased! Here! Right to your body, take this!"
Kuina aims at his body, but James stands like a statue. "It won't help... stop."
Kuina shouts, "How!?? How! It does not affect you?! What is this rotten power?! Ortus! Why did the system give me such a useless power!?"
Ortus smiles, "Not useless against everyone, baby..."
James lunges as if nothing happened. Kuina freezes. He slaps her hard across the face. She flies aside. The power has no effect on him. Piper screams, "No! How did that not work on that son of a bitch?!"
Kylie, stunned, "No way... it really didn't work on him. I can't believe he's actually that strong. Where are the days he was a pathetic weakling..."
Mortis yells, "Lysia! Turn me into a human! Now! It is time for James to fight a rugged man! This is long past a tournament!"
Piper slaps him on the head, "Mortis, quiet! This is not your time or your fight. What good would it do you to intervene? Kuina would not want that at all..."
Lysia looks surprised and shouts, "After the fight, Mortis! Not now! You must not interfere!"
Mortis spits, "Fuck! Screw you girls."
Mira scoffs, "As if you ever had any chance, fool."
Kylie laughs, "Totally..."
Mortis raises his leg and lets out a thunderous fart toward Mira. "Here's what I think..."
Mira gets angry. "You farted on my look?! Now I have to shower twice, do masks, shampoo, peeling, perfumes, creams, soaps, and a five hour shower to get your stink out! Piper, should I slap him now or will you? Choose..."
Piper folds her arms. "All the honor is yours, Miss Fireheart."
Mortis smiles. "Honestly Mira, you do not need all that... a little fart never killed anyone."
Kylie whispers, "LOCKTAM"
Mortis freezes. "Fuck! What did you do?!"
Kylie says with a neutral look, "You stank me out too, Mortis. You deserve punishment."
Mira charges a fireball. "Burn a little, baby."
Mira hurls the ball at his butt. Mortis screams, "Ahhh you bitch! Now I won't be able to fart for weeks! Shit!"
Kylie, Mira and Piper laugh and all say together, "Very good..."
Kylie's magic is canceled. Mortis rolls his eyes. Meanwhile, in the arena, Kuina struggles up from the slap. She is furious. "I will not give up! Here, be erased!!!!"
Kuina fires the erasing power at him again. It hits him but it does nothing. James blows the power away. It soars upward. Kuina is completely stunned. The girls are stunned too. Kylie shouts, "My Kuina! I'm glad you're okay. Just... stop. It's not worth the effort against him!"
Kuina pants hard, tired, wounded and bruised. "Fuck... I can't believe it..."
James leaps at her with speed. "This time it's really over..."
He pulls out nunchaku and aims them at her throat. Kuina tries to dodge quickly but he is too fast. It strikes her. She slams into the wall, boom. She spits blood from her mouth, half unconscious. James hovers, looking at her with neutrality. "Kuina, don't you prefer we talk like normal people? Why do you need this crap? It's a shame. Surrender now and I'll take you to my office. We'll talk there about anything you want, about the past, the present, the future, everything. But if you keep attacking, it will only exhaust you and strengthen me, because you see, my power is endless. I am stronger than you by mathematically incomprehensible levels. You are strong, I will give you that, but it is simply not enough. Even in ten more years you will not reach my level."
Kuina whispers barely, "How... the erasing power... does not affect you??"
"Because... I am immortal... and I too had a system, like yours, and from it I received the immortality, my final prize, before the system left me forever, because I became too strong even for it..."
Kuina looks at him, utterly shocked, coughing. "What the fuck... you're messing with me, right?"
"No, a decade passed... Kuina, a whole decade passed since you saw me. I was a boy, seventeen, eighteen, since the cop tased me and you were homeless in the street, we did not see each other. You remember me as the football star, the shining one, the arrogant, pompous, pathetic one who only hurt people, including you. And I understand, of course you want revenge. I made your life bitter, I abused you, cursed you, beat you. You must ask yourself why. But the answer? You will not get it here in the ring, only if you surrender. What I advise is that you forget the past, because people, they change..." James says calmly as he hovers.
Kuina looks at him coldly and with indifference. "Forgive me, but I cannot believe a word you say!"
Boom. James punches her in the face in a flash. "You are so pathetic! Listen to yourself! Stop thinking everything revolves around you because it does not. I told you the truth and you look to believe something false. So what happened happened. Move on. Look, you have girls, power, a system, potential, and you are brainwashed by revenge you'll never achieve. What kind of stupid person are you? Wake up, Kuina! Just wake up..."
James turns and looks at the girls. "Am I not right? Girls, it is time you tell her to give up and move on, to live calm and beautiful lives, to kill criminals, to do what she wants, and stop chasing me for revenge, because it will not work..."
Piper looks at him with disgust. Mira looks at him angrily. Kylie looks at him sadly and says, "Just surrender him! Stop this fight!"
James smiles on one side of his mouth. "Surrender? What example is that to people if a god surrenders..."
Kuina leaps at him, trying to punch. She lands a hit on his right side, but Kuina's hand shatters and breaks. She screams in horror and pain, "Ahhh! Fuck! Fuck! What are you made of?"
"Come on, I already told you it's over. Why continue? Why is revenge so important to you? You suffered because of me. Believe me, I have already paid my penalty. You have no reason to punish me..."
"I can't... no matter what you say... it's stronger than me. My desire to crush you, humiliate you, annihilate you as you did to me... it just overwhelms me. Ten years I've trained, sweated, suffered, come to another world to get stronger, and then out of nowhere you, a god, and everything shatters in my face. You and the fact that my father died the day I ran from home. All my revenges simply do not happen because of shitty reasons... fuck!"
The arena crowd begins to shout, "Stop talking! Keep fighting!" "Yeah! Fight already, losers!" "Pathetic!" Piper gets annoyed. "Shut your mouths!!" Piper shoots at them a huge wave of water. Everyone gets wet. "Hey!" "You bitch!" Piper smiles. Mira waves a hand. "Respect, baby." Piper gives her a high five.
Kuina screams, "Shut your filthy mouths! Filthy crowd! Fuck off! This is not your private show anymore, you hear?!"
Piper shouts to Kuina, "My goddess! I am getting wet from this talk... Make me your children already..."
Kylie smiles, "Good offer, Piper..." Mira rolls her eyes, "Only I will give my queen children, not you..."
Ortus shouts from above, "Continue the fight already! You're boring..."
James looks at Kuina, "Forgive me, now I will end this. But do not worry, come to my office. We'll talk properly and you will understand everything. Maybe then you will give up this idea of revenge..."
Kuina screams, "Quiet! Conversation ends here! Now it's time to die!"
Kuina fires magic at him. James is already behind her and gives her a heavy blow to the neck. Kuina is stunned. She faints and falls to the arena floor. James counts, 1,2,3,4,5... The match is over. Ortus shouts, "And Kuina loses! James, the victorious rage!"
The crowd cheers. The girls are stunned. Kylie quickly flies to her. "Kuina, Kuina, fuck!" Kylie tries to rouse her. She turns her, gives mouth-to-mouth. Piper approaches. "Oh no, move, Kylie."
Piper sprays a huge amount of water magic onto Kuina's face. Kuina coughs and rises quickly. "What... what happened?"
Kylie smiles, "You're... okay now. The match is over..."
Kuina asks, "What ended? I lost? How?"
Mira says, "You fainted. Five seconds and the match is over. It's the tournament rule, but maybe it's for the best, baby."
Kuina stands up fast. "Fuck! For the best? Mira, stop trashing my head. Where is he?"
James flies up and looks at her with a smile. Kuina gets angry and tries to fly at him in rage, but Kylie stops her with a comforting hug on her back. "Enough already, my baby, that's enough. You're truly brainwashed by revenge, but there are other things. Maybe listen to his offer, talk to him about everything, and understand what happened. Maybe it will change your mind..."
"Now even you are against me, Kylie? Like Lika and Clara? Who abandoned me..."
Kylie kisses her back. "Against you? My baby, I am the most on your side in the world and I love you so much..."
Kuina sighs a little.
Mira says, "They did not abandon you. They went to Molly. By the way you promised to keep her alive, so it's time, baby. We need to check on her, then everything else..."
Kuina says, "Right, but Clara can already do that... I'm very worried about Mortis, but I must close this account. It's an opportunity that will not return..."
Mortis intervenes and shouts, "Kuina! Stop already! Wow, you are driving us crazy. Fine, I wanted you to erase him, it didn't work, but damn, that's enough. The match is over. You will speak with him later. But you keep digging and digging and not listening to a single word the girls say. Enough already! Really. You will not avenge him, understand this shit already. You will not get revenge. Spell it out for you maybe? I'm flying to Lysia to ask for my wish because starting today Mortis is no longer a unicorn but a rugged divine human, strong and godly. We'll talk, Piper. Sorry but you'll have to get used to the new me. I decided this..."
Kuina is stunned by his announcement. She looks at the floor. Piper is stunned as well. Mortis flies toward Lysia. Piper hesitates. "Do I go after him or stay with my goddess?"
Kylie still hugs Kuina. "Don't listen to him, Kuina. He's wrong. You are not digging, you are simply broken and that is perfectly fine."
Mira gives Kuina a kiss on the cheek. "I love you Kuina, but Mortis is right... even very right. You are obsessed with this. You have to let go a little..."
Kuina looks pale and indifferent, talking to herself in her head. "Why do his words... cut so deep into my heart... Why does it feel like he is right but also wrong? Why can't I let go? Fuck..."
Piper hesitates. "Okay, sorry Kuina. I have to stop Mortis from doing something he will regret."
"My goddess, I love you, but I must stop Mortis from doing something stupid. See you soon."
Piper flies quickly toward him. "Mortis you bastard, wait for me! Don't do it!"
Ortus stands next to Arito, James and Lysia. "The tournament is over, violent ones. Tell Prestik he should return quickly before I kill him. Bring your wishes to whoever needs them and we'll see each other..."
Mortis shouts, "Lysia! Now! Turn me into a human already!"
Arito says in a gentle voice, "I will look for Lika, talk to her and give her what she needs..."
Ortus tells Lysia, "Give Mortis what he asks and go back to work. James, go to your office and wait for Kuina. I will make her come. You will explain everything. It is time to put an end... although I enjoy this..."
"Of course you enjoy it. You are to blame for all this crap..."
"And I am not apologizing for a moment, baby."
Piper fires a huge water spell at Mortis. It hits him and he falls to the ground. She rushes over. "Wait, idiot! Let me tell you something!"
"Enough Piper! Think of me, not yourself. Right, you got used to Mortis the unicorn, but now it is time for Mortis the human, who will feel belonging and rugged..."
Lysia descends. "Okay, finally time to talk..."
Ortus descends into the arena. Kuina still stands frozen with Kylie hugging her and Mira beside her. "Kuina, James is in the red castle ahead, that's his office. If you want, go and talk."
Kuina regains herself. Her gaze turns furious. "Go fuck yourself!"
Kuina fires magic at her. Ortus deflects it with a finger. "Oh, that's so cute, but weak... just go. Kylie, come with me. I have a mission for you."
Kylie, stunned, "A mission? What mission?"
"I'll explain. Don't worry, something small."
Ortus grabs Kylie's hand and leads her away. Kylie blows a kiss into the air. "Bye Mira! Kuina, see you later."
Mira lifts Kuina's chin and looks at her gently. "Kuina, look at me. See my eyes, blue, beautiful but thirsty for your love. Do not fall for me now. I love you a million times. I will come with you if you want. The fact you lost doesn't mean I'm running away anywhere. I love losers too, hehe."
Kuina touches Mira on the cheek. "My Mira... thank you, but I feel bad. I prefer to go to him alone. I will settle this somehow. I promise. And I love you very much."
Mira gives her a kiss on the mouth. Wet, French, elegant, sensual. "Great, that's what I wanted to hear, my sexy redhead... and now I'm going to take a shower for a bit. Talk when you are back?"
Kuina whispers, "Yes, of course."
Mira flies off. Kuina remains standing on the arena floor. The crowd starts to leave. The area empties. Kuina looks up at the sky and says, "Lika, Clara, Molly, I love you. Don't think otherwise..."
On the other side, near the church map area, Lika and Clara arrive. Molly's mother sits next to her body. Prestik lies old on the ground to the side. Clara says, "Oh hey! Who are you? We came for Molly."
"I am his mother... and Molly is dead if you do not see it..."
Clara stands by Molly, puts a hand on his chest. "No more. I feel so much love from Molly now, different from the last time I tried to heal him... wow, things have changed..."
Clara activates lethal revival energy. Prestik wakes up quickly. "Huh?"
"Clara? But I thought Kuina would come and revive him..."
Lika yells at him, "You are the one who killed her in the first place! Shame on you!"
"Oh someone is angry. I thought you were gentle..."
Lika folds her arms and rolls her eyes.
Clara smiles and gives Molly a kiss on the mouth and pours life energy in. Molly's mother gasps in shock. "She... puts her lips there? That's forbidden!"
Then after a minute, vast yellow-white energy fills the air. Molly opens his eyes. "Huh, Clara? Lika? Huh? Mom?? Prestik? What's going on? Where am I?"
Clara tears up. Lika tears up and hugs Molly. "My Molly, I missed you so much." Lika kisses his cheek. "I will not let you die again. I love you."
Molly's mother shouts, "Stop! A daughter must not kiss another daughter like that!"
Prestik says, "Shut up and hug your daughter."
Molly's mother is frightened and embraces him. "The important thing is that you're okay, Mortis..."
Molly blinks. "I'm fine... thank you both. I suppose thanks to you Clara... Wow I feel full of sexual desire and adrenaline..."
Clara hugs him and kisses his cheek. "Meow Molly, the main thing is you're here..."
Elsewhere, Ortus leads Kylie to the castle. "Kylie, without confusing the matter, your mission now is to make Kuina want to be a god, here with me in the kingdom."
Kylie raises an eyebrow. "Are you serious? Why?"
"Because I love her. And I cannot make her leave and throw away her potential..."
To be continued