The tournament: Steal

Hagrid watched as the white skinned man stood before him. He had dealt with vampires, hags, goblins, werewolf's, giants and all other kind of magical creatures but he had never seen anyone like his opponent now. This man was armed to the teeth and looked rather dangerous with his dangerous smile. 

Hagrid was not afraid off this man. The half giant stood towering over this opponent and apart from his strength, he had some magical abilities. 

His boar hound Fang growled angry. Normally Fang was a bit of a coward but today, the boar hound really was in his element. 

The host had walked up to Hagrid as he had been walking through the forest, that looked a bit like the forbidden forest back home. Wondering if there were any strange creatures here as well, Hagrid had been visited by the small man with the top head that reminded him of professor Flitwick. The man had told Rubeus that his first fight would take place on a dune near the beach. The small man would not say what opponent Hagrid was about to face and the big man wondered who is opponent would be. After having watched the battle between these two green men, it could only be very exiting. He had his crossbow with him, his pink umbrella and of course Fang so Hagrid was prepared to win this first match and continue to the second round.

Hagrid already knew what prize he wanted when he won this tournament. He would chose to have more magic and in fact to be able to use magic again. Half of his life, he had to watch as all sorts of young children learned magic while he sat on the background, unable to perform even the simplest transfiguration.

'Fang, are you ready boy?' Rebeus asked the dog. A growl answered his question and Hagrid stepped closer to his opponent. 'I have fought gods. You will be crushed.' his opponent yelled with a vicious smile.

As soon as they got the signal, Hagrid fired off his crossbow. The bolt flew through the air and hit the opponent in the stomach.

'Aaahh.' Kratos yelled in pain. He pulled the bolt out of his body and watched this big and bearded opponent. This man also had a dog that should be watched but this would not be a problem as he had dealt with multiple opponents before and he had some weapons especially made for them. Knowing that his bow would be useless, this opponent would be close in before he would even be able to use the bow, kratos choose to use his blades of exile. 

Swinging them around, he was able to keep his opponents on a distance and still deal damage. 

Swinging these swords at Hagrid, Kratos managed to tear the moleskin coat and the thick hide of the half giant. As Kratos kept attacking his opponent with the blades, he aimed both of the swords to hit Hagrid. After they hit however, Hagrid grabbed the chains of both swords with his hands. 

With a sudden power, Hagrid pulled the chains with all his power and Kratos, who was not about to let go, got pulled towards Hagrid and received a fist in his face that forced him backwards again.

'I'll get you.' Kratos spoke angry. At that moment Fang jumped into action and bit Kratos in the arm. 'you hell hound, son of Hades.' Kratos yelled out as he kicked the dog away. 'Go get him Fang.' Hagrid encouraged his dog. 

Equipping his nemesis whip, Kratos waited for the dog to attack again and as Fang jumped to bite again, Kratos stabbed his whip in the chest of the dog. Fang howled in pain and received a kick from the Spartan before the latter finished Fang off with impaling the throat. 'FANG!' Hagrid cried as tears filled his eyes and rage consumed him. Hagrid pushed the nemesis whip aside and slammed his fist in the stomach of his opponent. Another fist hit the face of the ghost of Sparta before Hagrid threw him to the ground. 

Kratos stepped up quickly and drew his sword, the almighty blade of Olympus. 

Hagrid saw how his opponent pulled a large sword and countered by taking his pink umbrella out of one of his pockets. Wanting to let the sword dissapear, Hagrid moved the umbrella, however nothing happened and Kratos slashed the umbrella in halve. Hagrid stepped backwards as the sword came at him again. He jumped away and managed to get only his shoulder slashed in the process. Kratos lifted up his sword in the air again to take his opponent down once and for all but Hagrid stepped in before the sword came down and grabbed the wrists of the Spartan.  The two struggled for a bit, where neither warrior was able to overpower the other before Hagrid gave a head butt that knocked Kratos away. The now disarmed Kratos had to step aside to avoid another blow and barely managed to block a third attack of the fist.

wanting to distract his big opponent, Kratos pulled out the head of Helios and aimed it at Hagrid. This tactic had the effect Kratos was wishing for as it suddenly blinded Hagrid. Not wanting to lose this edge, Kratos attacked again, this time with the claws of Hades. 

Using the claws, Kratos slashed the face of his opponent several times before he summoned all his power and teared the soul of the grounds keeper out of the body and into one of his claws. Hagrid fell down with a surprised look on his face and he did not stand up again.

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'Congratulations my friend.' The host spoke. 'That was a astounding battle.' 'I faced a weak fool. Use a real warrior next time.' Kratos spoke. The host was a little taken aback by this but found his happiness back soon after. 'You already have a price in the form of the soul of Hagrid, however, I also will grant you a copy of Fang the Boar hound, who will listen to your every command.' After the host had spoken, the man tapped the ground with his cane and a big dog with ferocious teeth appeared. 

Kratos looked at the dog. He never really had one and was now wondering what he should feed this dog. This dog also was not the strongest tool that Kratos used in his fights as he had his souls that could help him a lot more then this dog. This Fang did have his uses however, as it could take some of the attacks and distract the opponent.

'Soo dog.'  kratos spoke, trying to remember what the name of the dog was. 'O Athena, what should i do now.' he muttered as he walked away, closely followed by the dog.

Angst walked as fast as possible between the different warriors. He pushed a young man in red aside and just in time avoided colliding with a black haired man, who was wearing a robe with a snake on it.

He finally reached his destination and clapped the masked man on the shoulder. 'What is it?'  Jack of Blades asked as he turned around. 'O it is you.' he cooled down after seeing Angst in front of him. 'I have to fight.' Was all Angst said. 'Where and when?' Jack asked. I have to be in the forest, in the afternoon.' angst spoke. 'I'l be there.' Jack finished the conversation.

Selena jumped from tree to tree while she looked for her opponent. She was very happy that her first battle was taking place in a forest and when she won, she would be one step closer in finding Batman.

Suddenly she saw how a man was standing beneath her. This rather ugly man had some sort of Grey skin and black hair which did not fit at all. She waited patiently until the man had walked underneath her and then jumped out of the tree to land soundless on the ground.  Years of acrobatics and thievery had made her one of the most silent and deadly thieves in the whole of Gotham and maybe even the world. 

She approached her target slowly and when she was almost on top of him, he turned around. Catwoman first used her claws to slash the man in the face, that revealed a burn scar around his left eye and a small beard. 

After having slashed his face, Selena slammed her elbow in the face of her opponent and followed up with a knee to the crotch. She then gave a backhanded hammerpunch directly to the face. 

Angst had enough of it. This cat girl dared to attack him? He would show her. Using the powers he had once stolen from Mewtwo, Angst pushed the girl backwards. The girl, just like a real cat, managed to keep control of her body and while she got pushed back, she managed a back flip so she landed safely on the ground. 

While Angst pulled out his mace, Catwoman took her whip. The woman took a deep breath and ran at the opponent, who merely looked at his mace.

'So, You want to find Batman back?' he suddenly spoke. At this, Selena froze at mid-run. How could this man know about her intentions of finding Batman. Even that Red Robin kid did not know that. 

The man smiled with a vicious grin. 'I know what happened to Batman, I was there in the first tournament.' Her mouth opened with surprise as Selena took everything in. 'What happened to him?' She asked. However, instead of getting a answer the man said that she would need to find out for herself. 'Let me win and you will get answers. Let me lose and you will never find out what happened. 

Standing there in the forest with her whip in her hands, Selena had no clue on how to act. She could let the man win but somehow that did not make sense. The man was toying with her. Even if he knew what happened, he would never reveal it only be getting a victory. like all men, he was a jerk and he would abuse this power. There would always be another way. 

'I might forfeit the fight if you tell me please.' Selena said as she walked up to this strange man. 

When she was near him, she laughed. 'I will never let you get your victory.' she spoke before her whip slammed into the hand of the man. The mace dropped to the ground and she followed up with a kick to the groin again and then a knee in the face. 

'You bitch. You will regret this. Nobody lures a god.' Angst spoke in an angry voice. 

As Catwoman attacked with her whip again, Angst teleported away from the dangerzone and appeared behind her. Catwoman turned around as fast as possible but before she could attack, she got gripped by telekinesis again and slammed against a tree. 

While attempting to climb the tree, Angst suddenly unleashed a flamethrower out of his hands that took the woman by surprise and burned body. While she was trying to put out the fire on her body, Selena never noticed that her opponent had taken out a sword and only realized it when he was seconds from impaling her. Not able to move out of the way in time, the sword entered the chest of the catburgler and came out the back where it hit a tree.

As Angst pulled his sword back, the woman fell down against the tree, dead.

'That was a gruesome fight.' The host said, without his trademark smile. 'You have butchered this woman and you won. Therefore you deserve a prize.' it seemed that the burning and then impaling of the woman was something that even the host was not happy about but it was not against the rules. 'You will get a copy of the whip that Catwoman uses.' The host spoke but before he could use his cane to create the whip, Angst was already moving. The man walked up to the body of his opponent and picked the whip up, which lay next to the tree. 'Don't bother.' Angst spoke to a surprised host. 'I prefer the real one. She is not using it anymore.' he added with a smile. Angst then walked away.

That the host did not act after he had taken the real whip, which was rather odd. this did prove some suspicions but not all of them. Still the information could be useful.

'Why did you allow this girl to get close to you?' Jack asked when Angst had joined them. Both he and Amon had watched the full battle and had seen the power that Angst possessed. 'I first thought she might be an ally but I found out that she could become a liability so i killed her.' Angst gave as answer. 'Very well.' jack spoke, who was clearly not convinced yet.

Jack stepped away and into the sunlight and when Angst tried to do so as well, he got grabbed by his shoulder. 'i know that fire.' Amon spoke in a cool voice. 'Where have you learned fire bending?' he asked in the same cool tone. 'Ahh. I forgot that you come from a bending world.' Angst smiled. 'This little bending was a trophy from the last tournament. I took it from a young man named Zuko.' 

Amon fell silent for a few seconds. 'Fire lord Zuko?' He asked, clearly amazed. 'The one and only.' Angst said. 'He was in my tournament, lost and I took his bending powers.' the Grey skinned man explained. Impressed, Amon walked with Angst out of the forest.