User blog comment:ExtremeSSJ4/OC vs OC (August 2013)/@comment-3146930-20130830185019/@comment-3146930-20130831183030

Dredd, Aisling, and Jessica all appeared in a dimly lit room. The terrain was uneven, with rocky surfaces and barriers scattered around the large area. As the three contestants looked around and at each other, they were filled with a strong will to fight each other.

Aisling pulled out her ax and took the hat off her head and slipped it onto her arm, transforming it into a shield; Dredd pulled his sword out from the place he kept it on his waist; and Jessica pulled out a set of throwing stars. Jessica seeing that Dredd only had a sword, thought she could easily beat him later and decided to focus on Aisling instead. Plus, there was something about him that unnerved her, but she wasn't sure what it was.

She tossed a few stars at Aisling, who raised her shield and lowered her body to deflect the attack. Jessica then pulled out one of her Sais and locked Aisling's shield with it, but Aisling slipped the head of her ax behind Jessica's foot and pulled, causing Jessica to fall backward. Aisling then rose to her feet and took a few steps backward.

"Don't only focus on me," Aisling warned, motioning to Dredd who was just watching the fight. This caused Jess to consider the fact she was fighting two people and she couldn't focus on just the one. She turned in Dredd's direction, but extended her hand and slowed time around Aisling, deciding to take on Dredd quickly and then knock out Aisling to end it.

She rushed to Dredd, who quickly charged at her. Jess made a swing with one Sai at Dredd's chest, but at the last second he pushed himself off a rock and jumped behind her, giving her a push that sent her falling forward. She caught herself and turned around, clashing weapons with Dredd. Now that she was up close to him, that feeling of uneasiness intensified and she just wanted to get away from him. She jumped back, but then on reflex jumped to the side just in time as an ax split the rock she had been standing in back of.

"That's not possible," Jess said as she felt that her time orb was still active, but dropped it. She then made another orb around Aisling. However a golden light appeared and Aisling simply ran out of the orb.

"Super speed," Aisling commented before going after Jess again. Jess tried to lock Aisling's shield again, but this time she moved it in such a way that Jess' sia bounced harmlessly off. "Plus I've been studying your technique. Pretty good actually, maybe some god and Titan training in there."

Aisling got ready to fight, but her vision seemed blurry. Jess then dissolved black dust that littered the ground around her feet. The dust then took the shape of hundreds of spiders that crawled up her body and encompassed her weapons. Aisling screamed and tossed her weapons to the floor, then Jess rushed over and gave her a strong jab in the stomach, knocking her out. Aisling then vanished in a puff of smoke.

Jessica turned to see Dredd ready to attack. Jess tried to make an Orb around Dredd, but he always seemed to move in just the right way to avoid it, like he was ready her movements. He would jump to avoid an orb, so Jess would try to capture him on the way down, but he would move in midair, or jump off a small barrier, or even slip through small openings in whatever as if it where nothing. It was as if he grew up in a wasteland like this. Not only that, but Jess was starting to get tired, so she decided to get in close.

She tossed a star at him, which he easily avoided, but then Jess latched her Sai's around his sword and stripped it from his hand and hit him in the gut, causing him to fall back. Dredd didn't plan on staying down and began to rise to his feet.

"Not this time!" Jess yelled and froze him in time. As she stood frozen, Jess took in a deep breath in order to focus. All she had to do now was hit him over the head. As she got closer, she couldn't help but look at his red and brown eyes that drew her in. Then her friends from the Godslingers West broke through the edge of the room and came up to Jess. "What are you all doing here? Is this entire tournament a trap? What's going on?"

But they didn't move. Jess then looked around and saw that everything had stopped moving, as if everything but her was frozen in time. "What's happening?!"

Jess tried desperately to unfreeze her friends. She could feel deep down that a time orb had fallen, but everything was still frozen, even Dredd. Her powers had gone out of control and there was nothing she could do to control it. Then everything went dark.

In reality, when Dredd and Jess made eye contact, she saw visions of her friends and everything else being frozen in time forever. Jess would never be able to interact with anyone again, and that scared her enough to accidently release Dredd from his time prison.

"So that is what scares you," Dredd mocked before punching her hard in the stomach, knocking her out. Jess too then vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Good job, knew you had it in you," Dredd heard and turned to see Ares enter the room.

"You put this thing together?" Dredd asked. "Why?"

"Entertainment obviously. I collected some of the greatest fighters and put them all under one roof. I even plucked you out of time to do it and believe me, that took some big favors," Ares mocked. "Well, see you later."

With that, the world around Dredd dissolved into nothingness and he began to fall into darkness.