A certain dog-girl's cheers join that of the crowd. She isn't fighting yet, but why not see the action right away? It'll be fun!

A young man in a cloth red and blue suit wanders into the stands, web patterned mask over his head as he sits down and looks out at the ring. "Well, I guess I'll be able to get an idea of what my foes can do beforehand... I'd feel bad about it, but I'm sure they'll do the same to me." For now he sits back and looks around absently, not watching things too closely as of yet. But he would cheerfully wave at the two walking up to the machine and shoot them a thumbs up. Now to watch and wait... And begin forming plans to deal with these two if he has to fight them, of course.

Sayaka approaches her entryway, taking a deep breath, alright, so it is a big public extravaganza and all, not going to be an issue. Though she's not so sure about revealing herself to everyone yet, having taken measures to avoid most of it so far, there was a LOT of money on the line, something she could probably use. Finally, the girl lightly jogs into the arena, white cape floating in the wind behind her as she keeps an upbeat, lighthearted tone and waves to the cameras I'm so glad to be able to meet you all. I've always looked up to these kinda heroes so I'm so excited to join them.

*Gin casually strolls into the arena, looking somewhat tired. With a yawn, he rolls a shoulder.* Not late am I? Sorry, I just woke up. Eh heh heh heh.

"What a spectacle, someone like me can't be expected to miss it!" A small section of the stadium stands is briefly flooded by a short bout of pouring rain, but as the rain ceases, the water floats to take shape. A throne, formed from the water itself, facing away from the main event slowly and dramatically turns to face the stage. The man in the throne grins as he sits back and lights a cigarette.

*The upbeat announcer greets the two contestants, and then begins powering on the Virtual Reality machine* Alright folks, the show is about to begin. Now would both contestants please step forward to the Virtual Reality machine? *In front of the contestants stands two pads glowing with a soft, blue light. As the light begins getting more intense, a projection comes on at the top of the machine, giving everyone in the audience a clear picture of the fight*

"Whoa..." QP looks over at the person next to her, at the stage, back at the person, then back again. "Are you seeing this? I can't wait for my turn in that thing!"

Alright!! a dumb grin crosses Sayaka's face as she walks forwards into the teleporter, pausing just outside of it to strike a cute pose for the camera, leaning on her right a little and winking as she announces Lyrical Magical, I'll do my best. She says before dropping the sword on her belt, the girl blushes for a moment as she reaches down to pick it up before heading into the Virtual Reality machine for real

*Gin walks into the teleporter.* Well, let's see how quickly I loose this. Sam (Comms): You're such a pessi- *Gin turns his comms device off.* No help from the peanut gallery, thanks.

Yet another man walks into the stands and sits, his glasses glinting in the light as he smiles and sits down, watching the two fighters. His eyes are a glowing red. "Nothing better than watching the competition on such a nice night." The voices in his head agreed.

A young man walks in, looking around his surroundings...Clad in the white armor he had designed and with his flying pod assistant floating next to him, he looks at the upcoming round. "...A Virtual World...? Someone within this world made a Virtual World...Not the first time I've seen one, but...this is vastly superior to mine..." 'Couldn't have Nori gave me one to train with though...?' He thought to his former Maid and Assistant, who helped train him in Combat to prepare himself for such possibilities...

Star sits down on the air and starts eating some chips. Well, this'll be interesting. I wonder if i can sponser this event...

*As both contestants step onto the teleporter, the blue light intensifies. The projector then shows a clear image of the fighting arena* Machine AI: BZZZT...VIRTUAL WORLD READY....NEXT LOCATION....PARIS Hikaru: ALRIGHT FOLKS HERE WE GO!! ENERGIZE!!! *As Hikaru slams a bright button on the console, both fighters disappear in a flash of blue light. They find themselves inside of a big room inside a building in Paris. The nighttime streets are empty, and in the distance, the Eiffel Tower* https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/guilty-gear/images/a/a7/Back_ggxxac_paris.png/revision/latest?cb=20111104163517 Let the battles begin! FIIIIIIIIGHT!!!! (Battle Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLWf0I08jA)

*Gin stretches, stifling a yawn. He looks at Sayaka.* So, you're a kid? Well, younger than me. Supposedly. Huh. Interesting. *Gin summons a katana made of ice. He points it at Sayaka and beckons her with it.* You can have the first move. I'm a nice guy like that.

Oh, really? Thanks mister. Sayaka grins and awkwardly scratches the back of her head as the world takes shape around them, letting out a bright and cheery line Alright, here we go. Lets all have fun and do our best!!! With that, Sayaka begins running towards Gin... about as quickly as one might expect from a fourteen year old girl who doesn't get out much, which is to say not very, when she gets close enough, the girl would take a small jump and attempt a similarly weak kick Sayaka Kick!!!

Hmm... *Gin slashes the ground as Sayaka jumps at him and raises his arm. Suddenly, a wall of ice rises from where Gin slashes the ground in an attempt to trap Sayaka's leg in the wall, trapping her, or at least block her attack, creating a wall between the two fighters.*

Just as Gin would have expected, the wall rises around Sayaka's foot a little bit past her ankle, leaving the girl dangling awkwardly from the other side of the wall, still her cheer is ever present O... Oh... T.. That's so cool!!! hehe... The girl blushes a little, as though finally realizing what happened Sorry, didn't mean to say something that lame. I mean... Cool and all... Kinda funny if you think about it though

In a private box in the stadium Dinivis walked in wearing a suit with Alice and his Daughter Mirei wearing kimonos. They all sit down and begin to watch the large holographic screen that covered the wall. Alice and Mirei ordering snacks while DInivis ordering sake. "Why didn't you participate Papa?" The young black haired girl asked while digging into her teddy bear backpack "Unfortunately I had a meeting with an important guest that day. Though I would have liked to be able to test the abilities of the others, I will just have to resign myself to watching." He said with a light smile The white haired Alice stared at the screen without moving her gaze as her eyes changed from a bright crimson red to an energy blue with a green magic circle and swirling runes. "Tis an interesting display. Would'st thou entertain me" She said as a small smile also appeared on her face

Cool... Heh. Not bad. *Gin thrusts his sword into his side of the ice wall. The side of the wall Sayaka is dangling out of shakes slightly before large spikes of ice grow out from all over of it in an attempt to impale Sayaka, with Gin attempting to end the battle as quickly as he can.*

As soon as the wall starts to shake, Sayaka frowns, so much for that little trick, the girl immediately draws a blade, a simple katana with a saber-like guard and slashes it through the wall, freeing up the pressure on her leg enough to simply slip out of her boot, pushing off the now expanding spikes to get into the air, the young girl sighs So much for that idea. Broadcast too so I can't even try next round. and with that, Sayaka performs a pirout, spinning in the air before tossing three blades at Gin, two to finish shattering the ice wall, and one last one aimed at the man's chest himself

*Gin sighs* So much for swiftly. *After the wall shatters, Gin snaps his fingers, causing the fragments of the wall to gather together into a small pillar, freezing the handle of the sword in it, stopping it just before it can graze Gin. Gin whistles.* Are you finally getting serious? Maybe I should do the same. Naaah. *Instead, Gin twirls his hand. The pillar spins around 180 degrees, pointing Sayaka's sword at the girl herself, before Gin points forward, sending the pillar forward in attempt to stab Sayaka on her own sword.*

Without healing and all, well, kinda rough on me, so I had to try any advantage I could get Once the pillar rushes towards her, Sayaka remains in the air for a few seconds, before suddenly creating a platform to her right in order to push off around the left of the pillar, before creating another to try dashing around it to the air above Gin, simultaneously throwing another blade towards the base of the pillar to break it behind her, if nothing else that should slow it down by forcing Gin to rebuild its base was hoping to face someone nicer though. Could have been a free win that way.

What? Thought you could've killed them with adorableness or something? Heh. That won't work with me I'm afraid. Still. Din't expect to fighting a sword juggler. *Gin stabs the ground around himself multiple times, creating a ring of icicles, striking the same point directly above Gin, in an attempt to impale Sayaka if she's directly above him or create a shield around him if she isn't, hiding him from view.*

Playing at being worse than she really is... Clever trick that one, he might even have fallen for it if he were out there. Of course, given that he's seen it now. Well, she won't try again. Then there's Gin, ice powers of some kind so that could be a pain to deal with. Maybe some kind of webbing that can light itself on fire for him? How would he build that...? Maybe a way to soak it in an igniter, and some kinda device to set off a spark in the suit? "Guess I'll need to hit the lab after this match, especially if Gin comes out on top. Not sure on counteracting swords or anything, unless... More hand to hand training, that might be useful. No telling if I get far enough to fight either though."

Copen eyes the guy in the red and blue suit...He seems...rather someone technological...While he mentally notes what the fighters are doing...he also eyes the tech that the man has, particularly on the wrist and head... "He seems to be high tech..." He mutters to himself, as he looked on at the match. "Who 'seems to be high tech' Boss? " The floating orb asks him, motioning in a quizical way. "Nothing really, Lola, Let's first concentrate on looking on this battle..." "Aw, C'mon Boss!" The orb whined, slightly immaturely, "Can't you tell me?" "Not now Lola, let me concentrate..." Copen asked politley, though visibly on the brink of yelling at her, "Ok, fine boss..." The orb admitted defeatingly, hanging herself down in a dissapointed manner.

*Gin doesn't seem to be doing anything inside his ring of Icicles. At first, at least. As Sayaka moves to the chandelier, an icicle appears from the ground under the chandelier, striking up towards it.*

with the massive icicle forming under the chandelier, Sayaka grins, hadn't expected it to be made easier for her, one sword is tossed to shatter the chain on the opposite side of the chandelier, causing it to swing towards her and Gin, before throwing another to shatter the main chain attaching it to the ceiling. Thanks for the help. now that the chandelier begins to fall off-center, the icicle would push it out of the way, accelerating it towards Gin and Sayaka. Once she reaches the chandelier, the girl would push off another platform to reach where the chains once met and, aided by Gin's icicle, tries to throw it at the ring of ice where Gin was last seen

*The Chandelier crashes through the icicles, breaking all of them. However, all that remains in the circle is the sword Gin was using earlier. A chuckle and a snap of fingers can be heard from somewhere behind Sayaka before the remains of the icicles float up as sharp smaller shards of ice and fly at Sayaka like a storm of bees whose hive had been disturbed.*

*As the storm of ice shards dies down, Gin's chuckle can be heard from somewhere.* Having troubles? You should know where I am. It's pretty obvious. After all, where else could I be with my powers? Hmm. Truly, a riddle, right? * A line of Ice spikes fshoots out, traveling from behind the remains of the pillar, the remains of the wall and Gin's now destroyed circle of icicles, each arching in different directions, but all converging on Sayaka's possession from differant sides.*

Are you... Giving me hints? Its a little infuriating, but Sayaka takes a deep breath, no need to freak out. For now, she focuses on the ice spikes, just to be safe the girl jumps off the ground, towards the massive icicle where the chandelier once was, though that still leaves the matter of all the ice headed towards her, Sayaka pulls out a pair of blades from the air beneath her cloak, an audible click resounding as the weapons expand into a pair of whip-like chain blades she rapidly brings in a sphere around herself in order to block the worst of the shards, once they're reduced to little more than diamond dust, she can take the moment to get near the massive icicle where the chandelier once was

Nope. Not there. How frustrating, am I right? *The ground around the Icicle, including the icicle itself, explodes into smaller, piercing ice shards before firing into the air at Sayaka in another storm of ice shards.* You know, you don't look dressed for winter, do ya? Heh heh heh.

Sayaka creates another platform between her and the explosion, rather than hoping for it to hold out, she uses both it and the force from the explosion to propel her upwards, leaping over the railing to the second floor in order to look around. Oh come on, this isn't even a fight anymore

I don't know about that. I'm fighting you. But if you want me to come out... *Gin stands up from beind the pillar Sayaka toppled over earlier in the fight and waves at her before reforming the pillar back to it's full form and kicking it at Sayaka.* I'll be nice to the little sword juggler and say "Hi".

Hey, don't just treat me like some brat Her opponent finally coming out, Sayaka throws a trio of swords, narrowly missing the middle part of the pillar as it crashes into her Ugh, come on already!! The girl shouts in frustration as the pillar rapidly approaches the nearest wall, in a seemingly desperate move, the girl would throw another pair of swords directly at Gin, first aimed at his right leg while the second is thrown towards his chest. Meanwhile, the "misses" from earlier strike the ceiling above Gin, sending a rain of rubble out from over him with little more than a few early chips of concrete as warning

*Gin summons a new swords and slashes the ground, creating another ice wall to block the sword.* Is that really the bets you've... hmm? *Gin is distracted from his mocking as he fells some small rocks fall on him, looking up he sees the rubble fall on top of him. After a minute or so, he emerges from the pile of rubble, cracks from his ice armour causing his body yot look like it's covered in cracks, which slowly fix themselves.* That was a cheap trick.

"...Did you get that Lola?" "Yeah, I got that...But when are we going to fight Boss?" Lola said eagerly, she bounced up and down excitedly, wanting to go to battle, "When we're called up...besides, our opponent will come eventually...Don't get impatient." "Of course I am patient! What am I, a horse?!" She said, very annoyed, albeit in a bit of a furious tone... "C-calm down right now...you're talking over the fight, everyone will hear!" Copen said, putting his hand towards Lola in a sense to conote that he is embarrassed at the moment. "Ok, fiine Boss..." Lola whined as she temporarilly transformed into her P-doll mode and pouted before reverting back and started looking back at the fight...

Oh, like your disappearing act was SO fair Sayaka grins, too busy being self-satisfied to actually get moving and avoid getting smacked into the wall by the pillar, to avoid being completely crushed, she quickly slashes a hole into it in order to get around the pillar and back to running towards Gin, now that she's actually trying she'd be much faster than at the start, crossing the arena in about 45 seconds, throwing a few swords into the ceiling behind Gin in a similar manner to her previous maneuver, this time more to prevent him from running effectively Alright, obviously I can't do that much from afar, so here we go.

*With a smirk, Gin slashes the ground once more, waiting for Sayaka to get closer. Noticing the swords flying at the ceiling like before, Gin snaps his blade into and throws the pieces to intercept Sayaka's swords. As Sayaka get's closer, Gin motion his hand similar to when the girl first attacked. This time, however, we attempts to either create a wall between the two combatants or trap Sayaka 's entire body in the wall.*

If nothing else the blades are definitely knocked off course, striking absolutely nothing relevant, Sayaka notes the motion from earlier, Gin usually slashes to get ice started, so once she feels a slight chill beneath her the girl immediately strikes the ground at her feet to buy enough time to flip back just outside of the wall, dropping a sword within it as she does so. Of course this weapon just gets entombed, blade pointed downwards Scared to face a little girl head-on? Really for the moment, Sayaka simply tries to dash around to the wall's left to get around it, a pretty obvious thing to do really, bringing out yet another weapon from beneath her cape to scrape along the side of the barrier

Well, if nothing else, you're quick on your feet. *Gin spins to face Sayaka before rushing to meet Sayaka, bring his blade down in a vertical slash with his blade.*

Well, yeah, but its really nothing that special, to be honest I'm probably one of the.... Having honestly expected more wall to have to get through, Sayaka's not properly prepared for the sudden slash, she ducks lower to the ground, the blade cutting deep into her right shoulder, that arm's probably not going to be of much use for the rest of this fight Gah!! Gritting her teeth, the girl tosses another blade with her left directly towards Gin's face, before sweeping to knock his legs off the ground, if the sweep were successful she'd follow it up by using her left hand for a frontflip to bring her heel crashing down on his chest or back with more than enough force to shatter a normal person's ribcage. At this point it seems she's done talking, a bit too much of a distraction

*Gin uses his sword to deflect the thrown blade, but it distracts him enough to get knocked to his back. As Sayaka brings her foot down on his chest, his armour around the area shatters, but takes enough of the blow to allow his actual bones to remain unbroken, if badly bruise where the foor impacted. With her leg down, Gin attempts to grab it and quickly freeze it before striking with the palm of his other hand, using his Cryokenisis along with the force of the hit in an attempt to try and shatter it into pieces.*

Ah crap. *Gin takes the blow, wincing in pain as the blade pierces his lung. As he watches Sayaka black out, he tries to get up, using the wall as a leaning post, breathing weakly.* Heh. Yep. OK. Probably dying right now. Heh heh. Well, in that case... *In a quick and painful manevour, Gin removes the blade from is chest and stabs into Sayaka's head, hopefully impaling her brain in a lethal jab, before sliding back down the wall, trying to freeze his wound shut but failing to do so before blacking out himself.*

*Back in the real world, everyone observes the powerful duel that just happened. Amazed, Hikaru then takes the mic* AND THEY ARE DOWN FOLKS!! WHAT A MAGNIFICENT FIGHT DON'T YOU SAY? *The crowd goes wild with cheers and applause. Hikaru then types in a few commands into the console* Virtual AI: COMBATANTS DOWN....DEPLOYING MEDICAL DRONE....RETURNING TO REALITY.... *A small drone appears over the lifeless corpses of the combatants, firing down a ray of light at their bodies. Within seconds, each broken bone, each cut, bruise, scrape, even the missing leg of Sayaka is healed, and they are both brought back to the stadium* That's the fight folks! These two gave it their all! Now onto the results... Due to the double knockout, the fight has been reviewed by our judges, and they have decided the winner of this fight is... *Drumroll* GIN!!!! *As the winner is announced, the crowd erupts in cheers. While some who were rooting for Sayaka to win, they knew for a fact she put up a very good fight. The crowd then begins to chant both the combatants names*

"Huh...so the ice man goes to the next round..." Copen mutters to himself as he looks back to Lola, "Lola, did you get that info?" he asks precariously, "Yeah, I got it...gotta say, his ability is almost the same as that one ice guy we fought before, you know?" Lola said, thinking back to earlier, before they ended up here, "...Tenjian..." Copen found himself muttering... Though both of them have powers of ice, they fight very differently... Tenjian also had Chakrams and Sickles...whereas Gin only had his sword and free ice powers... "I'll get that adept...and wipe him out of the earth!" He found himself muttering even more... "Boss..." Lola said, thinking of the time where her only best friend other than her boss, her master, Copen, was discovered to be an adept... He didn't kill her, just only left to not get her involved in future conflicts... Whatever the case...her master's first round may be against a possibly more deadly foe than Gin...

To QP, that last part of the fight was... not exactly appealing to her, to put it lightly. She joins the cheers regardless. This dog-girl probably won't go to that extreme. Even if death is healed in virtual reality, killing is the last thing she wants to do. Okay, eating chocolate is the absolute last thing. Either way, she'll just do what she always does and just have fun in these fights.

OOC: I promise I won’t break the rules, and you can quote me on that. With that out of the way… IC: “How disappointing,” deadpans Rosie, briefly turning away from the screen to check her cherry-shaped earrings in the mirror. She completely misses the part where the healing AI’s return Gin and Sayaka to reality without a scratch. “He should’ve suffered more than her before they both fell. No matter, they made my job that much easier.” She walks up to a screen with the bracket and fight schedules. Apparently, Rosie’s set to fight a goddess of chaos tomorrow at noon. It seems the organizer has heard of her ill-obtained reputation for “godmodding” and decided to put her in an unfair matchup. Not that she cares anyway; a goddess is nothing to Rosie but a bug on a windshield.

Niko in the distance plays "Crawling in My Skin" as he yells. "HEY! I FOUND YOUR THEMESONG!"

Flicking the cigarette away, the man and his pristine white suit stand up from the throne. As he steps away and places his hands within his pockets, the water follows after him as if it was a flowing river with no regard for gravity. "What a shame. I had high hopes for the soulless whore. Let's hope this false Goddess has a better performance."

Well, that was fun, and I won my bet. Now then, I suppose I'm going to have to fight that godmodded tomorrow. Ah, but I have something to do a bit after that time. Maybe I can get an extension to the time? Oh well, it doesn't matter much anyway, I plan to fight fairly and squarely. So long as it's a fair fight, I won't have to pull my punches. I have respect for fighters, and more for those who fight me. Star suddenly disappears in a puff of smoke, most likely preparing for her fight.

"It was as you predicted huh?" Dinivis says as he glances over to Alice as she eats a meat bun having already lost interest in the fight soon after the chandeliers first chain broke She continued to eat the bun without reacting to DInivis or the fact the fight ended. He simply turned his gaze back to the screen wondering who the next combatants were going to be. Hoping to find something different among the contestants. Something he might be willing to place in his employ if given the chance. His daughters eyes never left the screen as she excitedly fidgeted with her hair.

"We're done for today Lola..." Copen said, as he got up and started walking towards the door "Aw c'mon...we didn't even get to fight yet!" Lola whinned as she caught up to Copen... Suddenly, on Lola's scanners, she detected a septima nearby, but dismisses it as one of the passerby that happen to have a power too... "We aren't even fighting until friday..." Copen replied, seemingly undetered by Lola's whining "That long?! Seriously?!" Lola said, obviously impatient to fight when the time comes... "Especially since our opponent is a Dragon, by chance...so let's train for the night..." "You mean that GYM place from earlier?" "Sure, why not..."