SEMI FINAL - Matrim G. Vs. Gabriel S.

[Keeper Of Secrets]

The now famous arena of 42 has been changed yet again, to compensate for the difficulty a pillar must face when in battle. As the dirt from the previous round had been swapped away, the field was covered in water, filling the arena up a few feet, like a shallow pool. The new cooling system, installed by Mr. Orange before his departure, was kicked into full gear, freezing the liquid. This created an ice arena of sorts, further testing the fighters capabilities.

The announcer cleared his throat before he began, "Theremaining rounds will be overseen by your own Director of Media... Mr. Damien Kross!"

[Damien Kross, Jester]

"Goooooooood evening fight fans! Welcome to the semi fucking finals!" I yelled, throwing my arms open to the crowd. "Thanks to some work done by that Colonel Sanders Orange asshat, we are graced with an icy arena! So, ladies and gentlemen, I will introduce the warriors. First up, being accompanied to the ring by his manager, Satan, the starter of fires and caller of bluffs, Gabriel Seran! And in this corner, our glorious one-eyed captain! You know him! You love him! You scream his name in the sack! Matrim Gallagher! I want a good clean fight. Let's get it on!"

[Matrim Gallagher]

"Thanks to some work done by that Colonel Sanders Orange asshat, we are graced with an icy arena! So, ladies and gentlemen, I will introduce the warriors. First up, being accompanied to the ring by his manager, Satan, the starter of fires and caller of bluffs, Gabriel Seran! And in this corner, our glorious one-eyed captain! You know him! You love him! You scream his name in the sack! Matrim Gallagher! I want a good clean fight. Let's get it on!"

Ice........ Fuck....... Well at least Damien got the introduction right. The bitches love me.....

Matrim thought about it, he was tougher than Gabriel, and while he would melt the water with his Qi... he could.....

I can control what ignites..... just the arms... just do the arms. The leg's won't be necessary.

Matrim got his footing on the ice, it would get slippery on the ice, but he was fine with that. He was from Alaska and was used to walking in the icy terrain. Sure pure ice was always hard, but it was nothing Matrim wasn't used to after White Wolf Lake before the explosion that took place, "So Gabriel, I'm thinking you should just give up without a fight. After all, if you win this thing, you have to work under me."

Matrim laughed, his fists gripping down as he looked over and grinned, his teeth clenching tightly as the laughing came to an end, "Or would you rather we just fight for the hell of it?"

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[Gabriel Seran]

Gabriel strode out onto the ice with and edge of confidence mixed with concern. He'd expected it'd come down to this though he didn't expect to get past Linda, that was a milestone for him that felt good, but now he stood at the edge facing down his rival. Gabriel kicked the ice lightly breaking off slight chuncks of it as he did. He'd have a certain advantage to this field though Matrim's strength overall somewhat nullified what advantage he'd have making it at the very least an even ended fight. Gabriel was less concerned about the commentator he knew that this fascist political system would fall soon enough and he'd be at the head of a new system. But for the time being he had to play nice and with a man thought to be superior, in power alone. What was his power? Nothing but self inflicted masochism rather than hard work and effort. Soon enough tey'd see the day when it all truly payed off.

"Ha not a chance... sounds to me like you may be a little intimidated though, haven't recovered since last time have you?" Gabriel gave a cocky sneer. He wanted the guy to mget hot headed. All in good time.

[Matrim Gallagher]

"Ha not a chance... sounds to me like you may be a little intimidated though, haven't recovered since last time have you?" Gabriel said and Matrim simply let out a small scoff. His arms ignited, from his fists all the way towards just by his shoulders, the sleeves of his shirt burned off immediately, singed around the shoulder area to make his shirt into a muscle tee. Matrim began making his way to Gabriel by sliding on the ice as if he was wearing skates as he made each step.

When he was close enough he slid feet first at Gabriel, aiming to slide towards his feet to take him out, if Gabriel dodged, as Matrim passed by he would punch Gabriel with one of his flaming fists, just to give Gabriel a bit of the heat. Matrim didn't like making the first attack, but it was just necessary sometimes. After all, he could dodge extremely well if need be.

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[Gabriel Seran]

All Gabriel seemed to get was a simple scoff. A reaction he'd expected now he was getting under the boy's skin normally a reaction like that was demonstrated when he no longer had anything witty to reply with which made Gabriel chuckle to himself. 'Good no more words from you, loudmouth' Gabriel stood dead center watching Matrim aim for his assault watching for his flaws. Now he had a plan in mind now he certainly was ready. The fire was his strength and weakness and now he would see this through to the end.

The blunt charge was idiotic and Gabriel knew clear well how to avoid it but he'd also remembered how strong Matirm was and how able bodied he could be. There could be a bit of backlash to this so from here on out Gabriel would have to play strategic. Rather than running on the ice to evade Gabriel dropped his weight into the ice using it to propell his speed even higher out of the way. The courseign heat singed at his body as he made the dodge but it was better than a full on strike, he'd felt that before all too many times and this time around he knew clear well to avoid that.

Sliding and jostling about the ground brought him up against the wall colliding with a soft thud. He exerted a bit of force to come to his feet watching as Matrim's heat melt the ice about him. Yes his strategy now would come full circle just timing was what mattered and he needed to remain unharmed as long as possible. Gabriel brought his hands up moving aways from the wall slowly as to not slip and so that he'd have more manueverability to evade.

[Matrim Gallagher]

Matrim caused ice to melt, he was too low to the ground. As he slid passing by Gabriel he only managed to burn him it seemed, or possibly just give him a taste of the heat that was Matrim's flames. Matrim didn't care because he had plans, just as Gabriel did. And as the water melted, Matrim got a really good one that involved Gabriel quite a bit.

He's going to try using the water.... he's going to electrocute me.... but if he's in the water with me, it'll hurt him too. The only way he'll make sure of being out of the water is to be away from me. All I have to do then.... is get out of the water myself. Simple enough.....

Matrim's eyes scanned the area as he stood up, pushing off the ice and causing a bit of it to melt as he did so. He began to slowly walk around the outer edge, away from Gabriel, his arms still roaring, but his legs not on fire.

He did something.... with the football field, he dug into the ground to do something..... does he need an electrical source? I don't think Isaac needed one for his Qi... Leon had so much electricity in him he had to contain it.... how does his Qi work? I already know the water shorts him... if he's in the water.... and.....

And that's when Matrim thought about it.....

"This is an ice rink...." Matrim said, "Has a cooling system and everthing....... don't know if you follow hockey. But this could be used for hockey, it's regulation through and through. You know what that means, right?"

Matrim put his hand down to the ice, melting it all the way through, the water evaporating just as quickly, "Not even an inch thick. Otherwise the skater's can't go very fast. The thicker the ice, the slower they are."

Matrim stood up, "Hardly enough for your Qi or mine to become a factor in the environment. So why don't we just settle this old school, I drop my Qi, and we duke it out. That sound good to you?"

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[Gabriel Seran]

Gabriel ignored his statement, there was enough of everything to come into play, every little detail it'd have to come down to something like that because in the end there was something more important Gabriel fought for something that the School Captain could never truly realize. Blinded by his own ambitions it was only logical that he would see this as a single fight, just another fight to decide who was strongest but strength came in more terms than merely what a man had in the blunt of his arm or leg alike. Strength came from one's heart, through their moral justice, through the will and might of courage and valor to stand up against whatever oppression you may face and be judged by doing so. He'd faced that through it all, Gabriel had seen that though his esteem never faltered everything came into play and everything mattered.

"I will do what is necessary Matrim Gallagher. Not what you intend to set as rules, I intend on besting you not for my own biased needs nor for my ambition. I intend to become the Student Body President so that I may stand against you at every turn and seek justice." Gabriel stood there unmoved as the room appeared to heat up.

The memories flashed by him ripling in his mind in a constant stream of what he'd faced. Everything in his past everything leading up to this, it was a bit anti-climactic to say the least, but a road paved in blood and bodies much like he'd foreseen it to come, much like Aurora had said it would turn out to be. A war. He'd seen the chaotic whiplash of Reven as the beast seethed in his mind sowing doubt unto himself, he'd seen the pain he'd caused the lives he'd altered it was all horrifying to behold. He'd seen Olivia die in his grasp, he'd seen Reira's body at the hospital. Everything...

Everything mattered... It was all just another part of the path and now Gabriel was far from ready but rarely was there a moment when fate decided a path upon one's choosing.

A deep breath... The flutter of his heart pound in his chest. Silence, echoes and tamed chaos. Yes the fear was over he'd left it far behind in his last moments. He'd left it in the hands and hearts of those he loved.

A glare shown on his face... "Ready." and that followed a smile.

the sensation in his limbs grew with a numbing tingling feeling. he could feel the power around him flowing like a single entity. Flow as one spirit, fly as one heart.

Gabriel shuddered momentarily skidding on the center of the ice bounding forward into a blunt charge forward. Stupid? Not any longer. Gabriel slipped on the ice tilting the edge of his boot into the ice flinging up shards of snow up into Matrim's face with the momentum coming forward he'd clasp the fists he had bawled up into the ground and let his feet loose slamming their momentum aimed toward Matrim's upper torso pulling about swiftly till they were under him.

[Matrim Gallagher]

Gabriel slid at Matrim, his feet aimed toward Matrim's torso. Matrim saw this and got ready, his arms still on fire, never letting his Qi down he caught Gabriel's legs, taking the kick but taking it with one foot on the area that he had just melted off so that he wasn't pushed back by it that much. He twisted his body and would grip Gabriel's legs, his hands on the outside of his calves he would swing Gabriel into the sides of the ice rink, head first if he could. If it connected he would follow through with the motion to keep him going across the siding, and only after Matrim nearly completed a full circle would he let go of the boys legs to send him sliding across the ice had this all worked out.

"You don't seek justice," Matrim said, "You revealed yourself to me in that chess game moron. You want power, and since I have prevented you from having it, since I am an obstacle you will seek vengeance on me. That's what all this is about isn't it? You wanted so badly to defeat Linda and take the title of Student Captain. That's what this was, wasn't it? I wasn't such an obstacle when I was a measly Varsity Captain, but the second Linda passes on the torch to me I've been upgraded to a viable threat. Well I have news for you, I'm sick and tired of you. So let's end this here and now, yeah?"

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[Gabriel Seran]

Gabriel was caught up in the grip though the flames permeated against the clothes he wore scaring them with the black crusted insignia flame left upon their features. His body swung and nauseated though Gabriel took a gasp of air and tucked in close to sustain the lightheadedness from the zero-G's swirling about him. As Matrim released Gabriel lowered his elbow to the floor contracting by the force. The ice was hard and frozen against his features and bruised his bones but he slid into the wall without too much injury. He would get up and fight on like a true soldier.

Gabriel didn't laugh this was no game any more it was serious, "You memory must obviously be lost to you? Matrim, It is not I who was out for power I was the one that surrendered that day rather than sacrificing my troops to a totalitarian rule I gave the king away and you took it benevolently without question. It was you who took Linda's place as School Captain and used that power you had to damage the school and everything you held dear. It was you who risked everything for your own power, you even risked your own wife and child for your position, your power and your own title. You are the one who should who will have his end brought about.... Maybe not today but soon enough those around me will see the ambitious buffoon you'vwe become." Gabriel bellowed loudly at him.

The images remained in his mind. Reira, Her life wasted away now gone forever he could have saved her... he could have done something. Gabriel felt his anger tremor within him firing the voltage within his limbs. They seethed to breach the surface beging for the release to kill to murder him. Olivia jolted in his mind. The anger quelled with his duty. To make a better world, A one she had died in hopes of reaching. Something Olivia was never prepared to see, Gabriel was going to see it through. To the very end.

His fists clenched as he marched across the playing field. Playing was the wrong word for it no longer was this the game he'd imagined it to be now it had become war. In all essence of the word, it was a battlefield.

"You Matrim Gallagher I release you of your service to the student body here!" Gabriel slid into a low kick from the left of his body shifting quickly using all his speed but with the top of his body her threw a downward right fist into Matrim's jaw. If he chose to deflect the kick he'd get hit in the face. If he chose the fist then he'd end up tripped. unless of course he could see something else? or Creativity?

[Matrim Gallagher]

"....It was you who risked everything for your own power, you even risked your own wife and child for your position, your power and your own title. You are the one who should who will have his end brought about.... Maybe not today but soon enough those around me will see the ambitious buffoon you've become."

A devilish grin appeared across his face. Gabriel didn't understand Matrim one bit. He thought he wasn't going to give up his title, it wasn't that... no it was much more basic than that. He sought immediate vengeance. It wasn't ambition and power that blinded him, it was his own need to get revenge on Gabriel for doing such a thing. Because he really was not going to give up a title since it was his only bargaining chip with Gabriel, he very well could have still shocked Reira even if he did seem to be bluffing. In any case.....

"You Matrim Gallagher I release you of your service to the student body here!" Gabriel said, and attacked. Matrim let out a small 'heh!' and as Gabriel attacked Matrim had the perfect counter....

He doesn't know does he........

The leg came, and Matrim could tell where this was going. He immediately reacted, throwing his left fist foward he would aim to bend into the kick slightly, his left arm would wrap around Gabriel's left leg, and as Gabriel's punch was thrown Matrim would twist to the right so that he was almost horizontal from the waist up. Matrim's right hand would grab Gabriel's right arm and pull Gabriel over so that Gabriel would be pulled off of his feet, the momentum of the punch fueling this. Matrim would then roll to the right, aiming to bring Gabriel over, who would now be in a strange sort of shoulder carry of sorts, leaving most of his lower right side behind Matrim's back, the rest would be above Matrim slightly.

Matrim would then drop down, bringing Gabriel down hard on the ice with the force of the drop and momentum from his punch carried into this as well as Matrim's own weight, his Qi still going and burning all it touched. If this worked Matrim would arch his back by pushing against his feet to put more weight against Matrim to keep him pinned long enough to say, "It wasn't ambition, it was vengeance." and then he would let go and roll to his left, away from Gabriel's upper body, and away from Gabriel after the second or third roll.

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[Gabriel Seran]

The force of Gabriel's kick came in fast finding himself tied up in a firm grasp. He couldn't let himself be tied up, without a second thought he rolled inward towards Matrim's grasp avoiding the common human emotion to evade he was going forward into hell never allowing for his back to be turned for an open breach. His free leg would wind up as Matrim lifted him and at the appex would fire a solid kick to the jaw and without a free arm himself it'd take some effort to avoid. As he was thrown to the ground on the other end of the assault Gabriel felt his body buckle under the sudden clash against the ice canceling out the flames that had been caught on his clothes. The rapid switches of heat to cold were going to be a pain in the ass.

Gabriel rolled off his ass fast coming to his feet with a sudden falter, if he was indeed going to be eaten here he'd give it his all. Though his Qi, he thought on using it but resisted, it was not honorable not a true way to fight and what had come out of using it? Ryuu, Emily, Ethan, and many more suffering and sent into recovery from it. Indeed the thing wa powerful but it came with too many reprocussions, however much he wanted to beat Matrim here he did not want to see him killed. It was a hard realization but this wasn't the first time he'd had that thought. He'd saved Matrim before, at the risk of everything he could have accomplished his goals and taken the cusp of power, but power and good earned with such disgraceful means meant nothing.

"Vengeance? What vengeance would that be Matrim? for burning your grass? For challenging you to chess? or was it just that I showed you how much the student body you reign over disapproves of your rule? There was never a time when I actually cause harm to you, you are blind School Captain to everything around you and have never once realized that it is you who is the true enemy..." to yourself

Gabriel resumed a fighting stance coming into a spread legs position contorting his arms up at ninety degree angles shoulders angled down and a certain weariness was about him as though this fight's waiting was the most damaging part of all.

[Matrim Gallagher]

Gabriel attempted a kick, and it was all too easy to dodge, his moves while being fast were obvious to Matrim, and Matrim found them almost childish in comparison to some of the people he fought, a simple movement of the head, bending away kept himself from getting kicked. The boy was now away from Matrim afterward, getting into a fighting stance....

"Vengeance? What vengeance would that be Matrim? for burning your grass? For challenging you to chess? or was it just that I showed you how much the student body you reign over disapproves of your rule? There was never a time when I actually cause harm to you, you are blind School Captain to everything around you and have never once realized that it is you who is the true enemy..."

"You don't realize it do you?" Matrim asked laughing a little as he couldn't help but break out in a huge smile, "You were right about us pillars all along. But the burning of the lawn, the personal attacks on me, all of it has lost you any credibility. All it took was for you to do one stupid thing and everyone turned on you in an instant. I formed an alliance with Militia, I developed ties with the Reapers.... and I even became the Student Captain. Everybody has grown to love me, and as such they don't realize what they got themselves into. You see Gabriel, I love a good challenge. I thrive for the next worthy opponent. You piss me off because quite simply, you are a waste of my time, a pathetic repeat. I've seen your type come and go but I have looked into the true face of horror itself. I have become heartless."

Matrim stayed in the same spot he was in, charging his Qi, getting it ready for a second ignition so that his legs would be back. It was time to end this once and for all, "I've killed my own mother, I've killed my own girlfriend, I've watched everyone I love die, and all I have learned is that they all died because I spent time protecting them. It made them all weak. I hope I have made you a little stronger with all of this... because I'd hate to kill you when you aren't giving it your all!"

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[Gabriel Seran]

Timing meant everything. And this was as he'd seen it that moment at the steple before the school as he stood up for them, stood up against them for their own good. Yes Matrim was right in that sense but then again he was wrong in the fact that Gabriel didn't acknowledge that very fact. Again timing was everything and now was not Gabriel's time to make a change he could see how unready he was to step out before a crowd and sign everything away for their sake he was still weak and needed to grow into the man he was born to become. Gabriel resumed a neutral stance again halting away from his defensive pose.

"Not at my all..." Gabriel laughed, "Well then it seems as though you wanted it this way in the end right."


A surge pulsated from Gabriel's limbs flowing into concentrated beats, first the limbs and then tensing into a tingling sensation through his body till it coursed into his center becoming more and more focused till he felt his heart tad rapidly in his chest screaming to be let loose. His metal limb coursed with static finding that the energy was being held elsewhare.

"Matrim, this will be the end of both of us..." Gabriel said slowly marching towards Matrim sure his speed would come to nothing in the end as it always seemed to be.

The Static was now pulsating from everywhere dancing through his body and at it's strongest point till it became an ever consuming glow of pure energy. This would be for everyone even the ones who hated him.

Strength: 98
Dexterity: 92
Constitution: 51
Intelligence: 27
Wisdom: 21
Charisma: 46

[Matrim Gallagher]

All the kid did was charge his Qi and come at Matrim with a slow walk. Matrim looked at him carefully, the fact being that Matrim was a bit more skilled than this kid, and Matrim knew how to hit this kid hard and how to twist his body just right. His body could handle the electricity just fine enough, and as his legs set flame the ice below him melted extremely quick, turning to steam and burning away before Matrim's feet even came into contact with ice. He walked forward, and decided that it wouldn't matter if Gabriel had his Qi active or not. Because in the end.....

Matrim could do this.......

SHORYUUUUUUKEN!

Matrim would take a quick jump forward, coming in low, ducking down and putting all his weight on his right foot, he would shoot upward, his right fist aiming to uppercut Gabriel, only that wouldn't be the only part of his attack, as he came up he would twist his body counter clockwise, toward the left, his left foot up and the bottom of the foot faced toward his back so that when he twisted he could slam that foot into Gabriel, placing it slightly above the waistline right into his bladder. If Gabriel hadn't taken a pee in the last twenty minutes, chances were he'd wet himself from this.

Not to mention that Matrim's legs and arms were both on fire now.

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