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"Welcome to the Jungle, We Got Fun and Games!"


Announcer1: Hello Everyone, and Welcome to the Big Event. Todays Show is going to be a great one. Don't you agree Tony?

Tony: Its going to be GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!!!

Announcer1: Well said Tony, this battle will be one for the records books as we have Neo..

Tony: NeoGeo, Neo Geo 8 colored buttons and 2 joy stix!

Announcer1: Vs Cayio.. who thankfully has no catchy and annoying song tied to his name.
Onto the arena, What we are looking at here is nothing out of the ordinary from the 1st Cell Organization, but big combat fans will notice this is a dramatic change from those boring flat arenas you tend to see.

Tony: Thats right Rich, today we are looking at the Jungle..
Rich: Don't start that &%$## again Tony

Tony: What we got here, is the rain forest stretched across an entire planet the size of earth's moon. Yet strangely enough, despite the small size of the planet the gravity on this battlefield is triple that of earth.

Rich: Fascinating stuff Tony, But i feel we must mention, though the combatants may feel the gravity to be heavy and restricting, the plant life on this planet are at home with his gravitational increase. So feel free to swing on those vines like Tarzan!

Tony: Watch out for that tree! BAM!! Oh yeah!

Rich: Now we will have a word with the designer of this death trap, Amunu

Amunu: Get that camera away from me

Tony: So what inspired this..*gunshot*

Rich: Oh my god, he shot *gunshot*

Screams and thunder of feet as people flee.

Amunu: I am sorry *gunshot*, but we are currently having some technical difficulties. Please enjoy the fight.

Battlefield Donated by 1st Cell Industries. Keep that Camera Out of Amunu's face you Moron! *Ding!*

(Kaiou)
Kaiou emerged from a pool of darkness on the ground cast by the canopy above. The myriad sounds of the jungle filled his ears. Instinctively, he was home. Being half Feral, specifically a tiger, he felt a a certain oneness with the jungle. As he stepped out from the shadow pool it closed instantly behind him. He looked around at the animals that were all around. There was never a lack of animals in a rain forest. They stared at him with a mix of fear and confusion, they could sense the darkness that was in him, and that was, in a sense, him, but could also tell he meant no harm, to them at the very least. He walked past a few of the floor dwelling creatures on his way to his intended target, his opponent for this match. There was no preamble or build up before hand, he was already in his Shadow King "mode", not at full power, but at the full strength of his powers. His ears flicked around, toward the sounds of the jungle, and searching for one that wouldn't seem to belong, another person.

Kaiou could feel that this place wasn't like Earth, he felt heavier. Fortunately the natural shield on his bones relieved the stress of the gravity from his skeletal structure. He stepped over a tree root and pushed a branch to the side using nothing but his power, keeping his hands at his sides in a relaxed manner. He made sure that his shirt tails didn't get caught on anything as well. His tail was curled around his waist like a belt and his eyes were a fierce orange. His expression wasn't that of anger or particular happiness, more thoughtful and ready for the impending battle. As he rounded another tree he caught the sound of a woman's voice. He made his way toward the sound steadily, choosing to walk through the forest as opposed to phasing or teleporting.

He stood before the woman as she pet the bird and raised a curious brow at her, uncurling his tail from his waist. He crossed his arms and looked her over. His tail swung lazily back and forth as a large cat as it stalked, though he was well within sight of the woman at this point. "I take it you're my opponent." He said in a raised voice to gain her attention. His voice, though not all that deep, just about a normal tone, startled a bit of the wild life as he had interrupted their relative dulcet silence. He looked the woman over, determined not to take any chances with taking the fight easy because she was a girl. His friend usually got himself unnecessarily injured doing things like that.

Kaiou raised his eyebrow at the naked woman and sort of squinted, only leaving one eyes barely open so he could make sure she wasn't attacking hi, though she was all blurry at this point. From what he could tell, she had taken a defensive stance. She wasn't making a move yet, and he wasn't all for making the first move. But, from what he could tell, neither was she, so he would have to provoke the fight to get things going. It would be sort of hard when he couldn't see, and with all of those animals screeching and howling at him. He couldn't understand what they were saying, but they were loud, really loud. It was grating on his hearing, but he would be fine enough for right now, he could still hear. They were just annoying him. He thought for a moment about what exactly he was going to do to get the ball rolling on this fight and observed the girls stance. She didn't seem to be affected by the planets gravity, which led him to believe either she was from this place, or she was used to it. It would be time to test that.

Kaiou uncrossed his arms and the darkness began to stir, but it wasn't threateningly, just rustling, for now at the very least. He raised his right hand to about chest height, letting his left fall to his side. His palm was facing upward and his fingers were tilted toward the ground. With a sudden flick of his wrist, three waves of darkness shot straight toward the woman. The slash waves were all in a row indistinguishable from one another, each one shrouded by the one before it. They shot from the ground like shark fins as they headed straight toward the woman. The attack wasn't meant for much other than to insight a reaction from his opponent, to test her movements and skill in such a high gravity environment. The attack wouldn't even cut, not like she would know, it was purely concussive. Once he got a reaction, he would make his next move.

Kaiou could feel himself sinking into the muddy ground. This 3 times gravity nonsense was going to get old and he could tell. As his attack neared, he could hear his opponent say... Something. He couldn't make it out, the birds were starting to make even more noise, squawking like maniacs. From that, he could kind of guess that she had some influence over them, or connection. It was fairly obvious that they were trying to hide her sound. He wasn't really looking at her, and they were being noisy, so his hearing was impaired. Fortunately for him, there was smell, and she definitely didn't smell like trees, mud, or any of the other types of animals, not completely at least, she smelled like a person. Other things about her smelled sort of off, but she was almost unmistakable. Through his squinted eye he could tell the blur of movement. She went left. They always went left for some reason. He couldn't really tell, but from what it sounded like, there was a tree involved. These birds were going to have to stop all that noise if he was going to keep up without his eyes.

She was pretty quick, but he could at least tell what tree she had gone up from smell. He looked up toward where she was and then toward who she had left to fight in her stead. He opened his eyes fully and pointed his right index finger toward where Shaii had once stood. In an instant the light converged onto his finger like unto a black hole and a black bubble formed around Shaii's little friend. It wouldn't hurt, jut put him out of the way. Next were the birds. Using their shadows, he engulfed each in a ball of darkness and sent them elsewhere in the jungle. In that instance the sounds became quieter. There were still plenty around, they were in a rain forest, but he could at least pick out specifics. Next came his actual opponent. Much like what had been done to the birds, darkness surrounded Kaiou and he disappeared. Following where he had last smelled the woman, he emerged from darkness, born from seemingly nowhere, near her, releasing her "friend" in the process. He would likely suffocate in there and he wasn't out to kill anyone if the situation didn't call for it. He stood before her on a translucent platform of darkness, made even more invisible by the shadows cast by the over hanging canopy. "You aren't going to opt to run away this whole fight are you?" He asked sincerely, crossing his arms as he stood in the air

(thought the bird was left behind)

For a moment, the cacophonous sounds of the forest animals hit Kaiou, blurring his vision and causing him to lose concentration. He fell, purposely, to the ground from his platform. For a moment he was gone, briefly going into the Shadow realm to regain silence. It was there that he covered his ears, not with his hands, but with his energy. The darkness around his ears acted as earmuffs, filtering out the vast majority of the noise being created by the crowds of animals. In what seemed like no time at all, Kaiou was back in the jungle, and flipped to his feet, righting himself. with the sounds of the animals muffled to that of background noise, he was free to think clearly. He landed in the mud, his feet sinking in and stopping at about halfway to the shin from the height and the gravity. His bones were fine from the shielding on them. As he rose to upright position from hunching over from the fall, a mass of darkness covered him from above. It spun like a black hole or a galaxy, though it was simply a wall, blocking the brown objects that were raining down on him and disappeared as he regained his standing position.

As he rose he caught sight of the boulder that was dropped on him, or was to be dropped on him. He raised his right hand, his fingers tips pointed toward the boulder and covered in darkness. The boulder landed squarely in his palm, his claws sinking into the rock to secure his hold. His eyes began to shine a deeper color of orange as his demeanor became darker and more fierce. "I suppose not." He said, answering his own question. As he held the boulder above his head he rose from the mud as if leaping up. He glared down at the woman, taking note of the surrounding animals. He totally called her on the power. His fingers flexed and the boulder began to crack where his hand was as he swung his arm around and launched the boulder down at the woman. Using the momentum of the throw, he turned his body, spinning horizontally in the air, and kicked out several waves of dark energy, meant to cause the animals around to scatter as it was intended for them and not the woman, yet.

With the last spin, and as he was descending, giving a sense to how fast he was going as the gravity was higher, he swung his foot straight down, this time aimed for Shaii. His foot met the ground, sending up debris on either side due to the force. From the point of contact, another shark-fin like wave of dark energy was fired, tearing through the ground in the wake of the boulder. Digging his claws and heel into the ground, Kaiou launched himself forward after the two projectiles. With the chatter of the animals reduced to mere background noise, he was free to hear the movements of the woman, and track her scent. And with his eyes no longer closed, he was able to track her whether she tried to confuse him or just dodge. There was still something off about her, but that wasn't his concern at the moment. This entire sequence of action was in rapid succession, no space left for error, Kaiou wasn't going to take this fight easy.

As the ball began to close around Kaiou, he used the shadow energy surrounding his hand to cover his whole body. To an outsider, it would seem like a pointless gesture as the ball still closed around him. But, what it did was take him immediately to the Shadow Realm, and only him. It was his way of teleporting. From there, and in the same instant as the ball would have closed on him, he reappeared behind the new guy that had appeared to catch the ball, a few yards behind him. The area began to darken as he emerged from behind the newcomer. "This game is over." He said as the jungle around them became darker still.

The sky became darker as day turned to night and Kaiou fully emerged from the portal he had created. The trees and environment became darker as Kaiou began to converge the world they were on with that of the Shadow Realm, his domain. His kingdom. He stood fully and looked at both the newcomer and his opponent. Or who he thought was his opponent, he thought things smelled funny. Kaiou stretched his right arm out across his chest and swung it outward, sending a wave of darkness at both of them. Again this was merely a distraction, though if left on its own it would impact with the force of a speeding bus. From the ground in front of Kaiou, two red eyes shone. If his opponent were going to have a partner, than so would he. The eyes began to rise as a formless mass of darkness that soon formed into the shape of Kaiou, except pitch black save for the eyes and a haunting sharp toothed smile.

"Shadow, knock yourself out." Kaiou said coolly to his dark alter ego. With this world now combined with the Shadow Realm, Kaiou could use such a technique, separating his dark half from himself. At the free rain to "knock himself out" Shadow smirked a twisted and wicked smile. "You bet I will." He said cruelly as he faded into the obscurity of the darkness that now pervaded the area. In the next instance, Shadow was beside Shaii, is mouth still shining white in a wicked toothy smile. "Hey there." He said as he swung his right claw down at her. His claws, being made completely of darkness like the rest of him, extended and edged themselves into hooked wedges. They were sharp enough to shred steel with like tissue. His aim was to shred this girl apart in a twisted shower of gore. Unlike Kaiou, Shadow was much more twisted and murderous.

While Shadow focused on Shaii, Kaiou looked over the newcomer, briefly. He reached out his right index finger and pointed at the new man. Darkness converged on his finger tip as an intense beam of dark energy was fired at the man. At such a high concentration of darkness, the gravity of the beam was intense for something its size. Unlike a beam of light or other energy, that would burn the air and create plasma, this one would suck air and ambient energy and light into it like a black hole. Instead of burning through it's intended target, the beam would hit the target with mass equal to that of a meteor, condensed into a beam the diameter of basketball. As fast as this beam was moving, it was still only meant to judge a movement. The way the newcomer had entered the field was similar to his way of teleporting.

Shadow looked at the fungus growing on him and smirked, if you made him frown that was when you were in trouble. Being only made of darkness, rotting wasn't something he had to worry about. In fact, rotting, poison, any of that were all null factors to him. As the rot "consumed" his body, he would pretend like it worked. It was only natural for a cat to toy with its prey. As Shaii transformed into the plant, Shadow fell to the ground and faded into it. Two red eyes formed from beneath Shaii's plant form and from the roots (if she has them) to the top of her plant form she was covered in darkness. The form of the darkness was like a suit, covering her plant body, thorns and all, in a shield of darkness, like a constricting wrap, inescapable it would completely restrain her, for a minute at least, as the shield wrapped itself around Shaii completely and within the next instant from the time where Shadow hit the ground.

Shadow himself reformed on top of the shield, sitting on where Shaii's head would be in the instant the shield was formed. He formed sitting with one leg hanging off and the other crossed under the knee of the former, his left hand resting across his lap and his right supporting his head. His smile grew wider and within the shield, thousands upon thousands of cutting edges formed, slicing the contents of the shield repeatedly without breaking the form of the shield until almost every space was filled with bladed constructs of darkness. An iron maiden made from darkness. Shadow chuckled a bit and focused on the creatures that this new opponent had made in the darkness. He laughed a bit to himself as the creatures fired their beams, and Kaiou's, at him. That was as stupid as firing the beam at... Well him actually.

Kaiou didn't move at all as the beams headed toward him, his own stopped dead inside of the portal that the new opponent had transported it through. his opponent used shadows, and he was the Shadow King, this was his realm, and what he said went. Why else bring an obvious shadow user here. As the beams from the toucans closed in on him they were stopped dead in their tracks. Then, in that next instant, they would form together above him into one single point above him, into the size of a baseball. Since they were all composed in the same way as his, the gravity would intensify even further. That much energy, condensed in that size, would create dense matter. The ball would be about half the gravity of the planet, condensed into the small area of the baseball sized object. With that, he used his power to force the object into the air using his ability over all darkness and jumped from his stance in the mud into the pull of the singularities gravity. While this object had an immense amount of gravty to it for something so small, eventually the planets gravity would regain dominance, but not before the object served its purpose. Kaiou was taken from the mire and placed himself just above it on shadow platforms, constructs of darkness.

With that happening in a quick, fluid motion, Kaiou's next step was to handle the attacker’s movement. They were now in Kaiou's kingdom, halfway at least, and this meant that the shadow pockets through which transportation via shadows were under his command, and with that he could close them and open them at his discretion. His opponent had shown that he could manipulate the darkness as well, and that was all he needed to work with for now. First, Kaiou sent the singularity of darkness at his opponent with a sideways flick of his right wrist. The object was wholly under his control and would remain out of reach to his opponent, and would be unable to be manipulated by his opponent. With a simple upward flick of his right wrist, the singularity was multiplied, creating three more of the same exact density as the original in an instant. Each singularity would constantly sit just out of reach of his opponent and orbit around him in each cardinal direction, and each pulling with 1.5 times the gravity of Earth. As soon as the singularities were created, Kaiou twisted his wrist and pointed his finger at Null. What would look like preparation for another attack was not. Instead, Kaiou had forcibly closed the shadow pathways beneath Null, preventing him from getting away via shadow, not that it would have mattered. The singularities were locked on Null's presence; they wouldn't leave his side no matter where he went.