Jayr POV - Dragon Ball Universe, Null Realm - Age 780
Suddenly the light produced by the sun-like lightbulb floating above the fighting stage focuses on us as the Grand Minister calls out, "And lastly the honored guests from Jayr-sama's Universe." which makes me stop for a moment as a confident smirk forms on my face, and say in an excited tone, "It's finally time. The Tournament of Power is truly about to start!"
At the same time, I hear a nervous Krillin comment, "Every one of them all looks pretty formidable," followed by his wife, Android 18, who chides him, "Don't lose your nerve!"
Gohan, who realizes that the Tournament of Power is truly about to begin, quickly advises, "Once it starts, gather and strengthen our defense. If enemies approach, work together to beat them. Got it?"
In response, an annoyed Vegeta only says, "Enough already." followed by Broly, who looks a little confused and only mumbles something before Goza says, "Gohan, the plan is good, but I don't think that it is one that takes advantage of our team composition and characteristics... For example, Father and Vegeta-san will surely rush out as soon as it starts, and being too close to a teammate may force Cell, Broly, and me to hold ourselves back too much. On top of that, there are just too many warriors fighting at the same time, so the situation will surely become too chaotic for such a plan to work. It's better if we keep things simple and focus on defeating our opponents and supporting our closest allies."
Shortly after that, the Grand Minister announces, "And now, some gracious words from Zeno-sama. Silence, everyone."
Soon the Zenos quickly show themselves and cheerfully says in perfect sync while dancing around, ""Everybody, thanks for coming! We've been really looking forward to this! Everyone! Make it exciting for us!"
The Grand Minister then quickly thanks them by saying, "Thank you for those wonderful words."
After that, the nine universes participating in the Tournament of Power continue staring each other down until the Grand Minister makes his entrance on top of the stage's main pillar and announces, "And now, I shall explain the rules of the Tournament of Power once more. The time limit is 100 taks. The central pillar will descend as time passes. When it reaches the floor level, the tournament is over. Killing is forbidden. Just knock your opponents off the fighting stage. Even incapacitated warriors are safe until they are knocked off the stage. Skills to prevent falling, such as floating, cannot be used. However, warriors with wings can still fly. No matter how wounded, using items to heal is forbidden. That is all for the rules."
Shortly after the Grand Minister explained the rules, the tension starts to quickly rise and seeing that, I quickly tell my team to wait for my signal before I leave the fighting stage heading toward Zeno's viewing room where the Zenos and my family are waiting for the tournament to start.
Once I'm there, the Zenos and my kids cheerfully greet me back before I smile and ask, "Hey, do you guys want to see something cool before the tournament starts?"
Hearing that, the kids and the Zenos quickly nod excitedly, so I raise my arm and yell loud enough for everyone in the Null Realm to hear, "It's showtime!!"
At the same time, I smirk, pull out my D-Ark, and immediately start to manipulate my Spiral Cosmo, inputting it into the D-Ark while at the same time, I also use a part of the Spiral Cosmo to simply genertate a very familiar sound of an eletric guitar riff of the song Brave Heart.
As I feel the D-Ark absorb my Spiral Cosmo and Emotions and transform it into Data, sending it to my Digimon Partners through our bond, I also start enjoy the most iconic song that comes to my mind when I think of evolution.
Meanwhile as the sound of the electric guitar echoes in the Null Realm much to the confusion of the warriors from the other universes, the bodies of my Digimon Partners starts to shine in the light of evolution while they call out.
"V-mon, evolve...!"
"Wormmon, evolve...!"
"Patamon, evolve...!"
As the music continues, their bodies quickly grow bigger and change shape, making the Zenos exclaim, ""They are transforming too!? So cool!""
Soon after that, the lights fade away as my Digimon fully evolve to their Adult level and call out the name of their current form.
"... XV-mon!"
"... Stingmon!"
"... Angemon!"
As I continue to play Brave Heart using my Spiral, I take a quick look at their Adult forms.
ExVeemon is a blue humanoid dragon Digimon with a horn on its nose.
He has a white chest and jaw, with a V on his chest, and two separated lines coming out of the bottom of the V to make it look like an X.
He also has a yellow V on its head, three fingers on each hand, three toes on its feet and has small horns in place of knuckles, in addition to a blue tail and white wings.
Stingmon is an insectoid Digimon with a humanoid body structure.
His body is covered in a green and grey exoskeleton, and he has pincers on its feet, "Spikes" on his forearms, and claw-like fingers on his hands, in addition, he also has two insect-like wings on his back and two long antennae on his head.
Angemon draws inspiration from the mythological Angel, particularly the pop culture version.
Humanoid in body and covered in holy white clothing, he has six, white, feathery wings commonly associated with angels, long blond hair, and his upper face is covered with a silver mask that has the Christian cross.
The DigiCode on his ribbons is written in Dijimoji and reads "Digital Monster.
He also wears a long blue loincloth and four matching straps on his right leg and left arm.
Seeing their new forms makes the Zenos happily clap their hands and comment.
"Wooh! Patamon and the other transformed!!"
"Incredible! They look so different from before!"
Obviously, the Zenos and my kids aren't the only ones reacting to Patamon, V-mon, and Wormmon's evolution as the Gods of Destruction, the Supreme Kais, and the warriors from the other universes also focus on them, but the ones with the most interesting reactions are without any doubt, the Guide Angels, especially when they focus on Angemon.
"Oh my...!"
"This presence..."
"There is no doubt about it... he is also an Angel!"
"So this is what the angels of another universe look like...?"
"He looks very different from us, but I have to admit that those pure white wings look incredible on him..."
"He gives off such a pure and divine aura..."
"To think that the cute, small creature from before became such a handsome Angel..."
Shortly after my Digimon Partners fully evolved into their Adult Level, the notes of the evolution theme echoing in the Null Realm also fade away and are quickly replaced by another set of musical notes characterized by an electric guitar riff followed by some rhythmic sound of drums.
This one is even more iconic as it is the classic opening theme of Saint Seiya, Pegasus Fantasy.
At the same time, Rigel, Algol, Juan, Isaak, Orphèe, and Kiki all set their Pandora Box on the floor of the fighting stage before they immediately pull the chain causing them to open revealing their Cloths in their Constellation Form.
Then with a burst of Cosmo, the Cloths immediately disassemble into multiple pieces before they equip themselves on their Saints' bodies following the usual sequence of legs, waist, arms, chest, shoulders, and finally head, while most of the people present admire such spectacle for the first time.
Algol's Perseus Cloth has a headpiece that covers the forehead and temples, leaving the rest of the head uncovered. It is basically a thin metal band, which ends in a large silver plate on each side, something like wings, and in the center has a small diamond-shaped plate.
The shoulder pads are totally asymmetrical and remind a bit of gladiator protections, the right one seems suitable for defense, and the left one has 3 spikes that could be used offensively.
The chest protection is relatively simple, and it covers only the upper part of the chest.
The arm pieces are practically cylindrical and protect the hand, wrist, elbow, and forearm.
The waist protector is a sort of skirt that covers the entire pelvis and groin, and the leg pieces are very simple.
As a complement to the armor, he wears the mythical Medusa's Shield on his back.
Juan's Scutum Cloth is made up of four shoulder pieces, a pair located in a superimposed way on each shoulder, plain arms and legs pieces that reach the elbows and the upper thigh, a plain chest piece that covers only the upper part of the chest with a small purple gem in the midle, a waist piece made of a belt and protection to the side, and the head piece is a simple tiara with two horn like extenstions.
Obviously, the Cloth also has a shield which has a design similar to a Scutum used by the ancient Romans on its left arm.
Isaak's Dorado Cloth is slightly cyan in color, and its headpiece has a structure similar to a "V" in the center with two protectors on its sides, similar to fins.
The chest piece is simple reaching the end of the mouth of the stomach, the shoulder pieces is made up of two pointed shoulder pads overlapping each other, the arms pieces is basic with a long fin that extends from the hand to the elbows, the waist piece is basic with a small protection in the pelvic area on the back of the Saint is unified to the breastplate by a protection in the central part of the back, the legs pieces are basic, and they too have on their sides a fin.
Rigel's Orion Cloth is one of the complete among the Silver Cloths.
The shoulder pieces have a plain design, with a horn located at its ends, in the right knee pad also have one of these horns, the arms pieces have a unique design made up of two layer and the second one has a horn at the height of the elbow, the chest piece has an almost "simple" design that arrives until the mouth of the stomach.
Below the chest piece extends to the point that allows it to unify with the waist piece, which presents four protections, two to the sides of the same one that protects the pelvis of the Saint.
The protection in the later part of the same one allows for unify with the lateral protections of the waist.
The helmet possesses in its center three united tips through the front part of the helmet, the lateral horns possess a greater size than the central horn, and lastly, the legs are the most plain.
Orphèe's Lyra Cloth is an armor that covers almost the whole body, white in color with gold and liliac ornaments, the chest piece protect the whole upper body and is connected with the waist piece, the shoulders pieces a double layered and oval in shape, while the arms and legs pieces are more basic.
His Cloth is also equipped with a lyre that Orphèe uses not only to display his magnificent musical talent, but more importantly, to unleash his deadly techniques.
But without any doubt, the most eye-catching Cloth is Kiki's dazzling Aries Gold Cloth.
Like all the Gold Cloths, the Aries Cloth covers most of its wearer's body, leaving only a few places unprotected, and has decorative reliefs all over the Cloth.
The shoulder pieces are rounded an coonected with the chest and waist pieces, forming a whole unified protection, but the main charateristic of his Cloth are its horns thus making Kiki look majestic and at the same time simple.
The arms and legs pieces are rather simple in design but cover almost everything, leaving only the fingers, the upper part of the biceps, and the upper part of the thighs unprotected.
The head piece is an helmet that covers the entire head, from the back, top, forehead and cheekbones, on the sides it has some kind of wings, a three pointed front crest with a bluish syrconia inlaid in the center and a top bar, a thin line of ornamentation that was widely used in Greco-Roman helmets, back ends in a curved and stitched shape.
(Image Here - Aries Kiki)
Watching that scene, Zeno-1 can't help but clap his hands while cheerfully commenting, "Whoa! Those armors are so cool!!" followed by Zeno-2, who does the same while agreeing, "Un! Un!"
At the same time, Seika sighs and comments, "Haa... All this fanfare is truly a tactically bad choice... Now the attention of all the other team is on them." followed by Tio who says, "It isn't all that bad... Husband is simply having some fun."
Robin nods and comments, "Indeed. On top of that, this also shows the confidence that Jayr has in his team," followed by Alvida, who laughs and says, "Hahaha! This is how it should be. My lover isn't the kind of man who does things halfheartedly. When he makes a move, it is always an earth-shattering one!"
Shortly after that, Saori also calmly analyzes, "Don't forget that even if all this show is pretty eye-catching, during it, Jayr didn't reveal much of the capabilities of his team. I mean the Saint need to don their Cloths to fight anyway, and Patamon, V-mon, and Wormmon only evolved to their Adult Level. Overall, they can still take their opponent by surprise," followed by Eri, who calmly states, "Jayr knows what he is doing. Let's just enjoy this tournament, after all, even if our team loses, nothing bad will happen."
At this point, seeing that my team is ready, the Grand Minister floats in front of us and asks, "Now, Zeno-sama, Jayr-sama, we shall begin. Is that all right?" which makes me nod with a smile while the Zenos excitedly reply.
"Hurry!"
"Hurry! Hurry!"
Hearing that, the Grand Minister turns around and announces, "And now, warriors of each universe. Prepare yourselves."
After a brief pause to raise the tension in the fighting stage even more, the Grand Minister raises his right hand, and swinging his arm down, he yells, "Let the Tournament of Power begin!"
The Tournament of Power finally begins, and every warrior rushes to face another warrior, soon engulfing the entire battle stage with lights and battle sounds creating such a beautiful and enchanting spectacle that even I can't help but let out a whistle of appreciation while my wives also admire this spectacle with clear wonder in their eyes.
At the same time, my kids and the Zenos can't help but giggle and exclaim.
""Whooooa!""
"""Ooooh"""
The 7th Universe Team sticks together in the ensuing chaos as they are standing very close to the central pillar while Goku comments in an impressed tone, "They're goin' at it!" before he spots Top fighting with Magetta and exclaims, "Oh, there he is!"
Goku then flies away to fight him while yelling, "Top! Fight me!" but he is interrupted by Ganos as the two immediately start to fight.
Gohan tries to remind Goku about their teamwork strategy, but Android 17, Android 18, Vegeta, and Broly also fly away to fight.
At the same time, I also focus on my team and see that they all spread out, taking advantage of the chaos to make themselves less conspicuous.
Rigel, Juan, Algol, and Isaak casually exchange some blows with their opponents, however, it is clear that they are still studying their opponents and holding back as they are mostly making use of their martial arts to fight taking advantage of the defensive propieties of their Cloths to block blows and deflect Ki Blasts.
XV-mon and Angemon are taking advantage of their wings to fly above the stage, waiting for the perfect chance to strike an unsuspecting opponent, while Stingmon, who is more specialized in close combat fights, carefully flies around them, ready to protect them from the attacks of other flying contestants.
Kiki is currently exchaning blows with Harmira from the 2nd Universe, but it is clear that he is mostly focsing on keeping an eye on his allies ready to teleport to their side and protect them in case it is needed.
Koby seems to be the most nervous among the members of my team as he is constantly looking around, but at the same time, he is easily dodging all the attacks heading in his direction with minimal movements, showing his mastery over Observation Haki.
On the completely opposite side of the emotional spectum, Orphèe is clarely the most calm and casual among the warriors of my team, simply because he is now sitting on top of the central pillar casually playing his lyre with his eyes closed and a calm smile on his face as if what is happening below as nothing do to with him.
Of course, I'm not the only one who noticed him as the warriors on the fighting stage also did and tried to attack him with Ki Blasts, however, all the attacks casually got deflected once they got close enough to Orphèe without him seemingly doing anything but continuing to play his lyre.
Suddenly Narirama, a modified robot warrior from the 3rd Universe, begins spinning himself in order to knock some fighters away, and Heles the God of Destruction of the 2nd Universe comments, "It's not beautiful to attack before Ribrianne and the others transform!" followed by the Supreme Kai Pell who says, "Maybe they should have done the same thing as Zeno-sama's honored guest and transformed before the battle actually started..."
Watching the ruckus unleashed by Narirama, I take a moment to focus on him.
Narirama is a large automaton who appears mostly symmetrical except for his headpiece.
Most of his parts are maroon-colored, with silver detailing around his edges, while his shoulder pieces and pelvic parts have gold-colored rivets near the edges.
His midsection, upper arms, and upper legs are dark bluish-grey, and he has a beige-colored headpiece, hands, and feet.
His claws are a shiny, dark grey, he has gold-plated abs as well as a gold-plated spine.
The front part of his upper torso has movable intakes in the center, from where Narirama can fire his Energy Cannon.
The back part of his upper torso has panels that open up to allow him to charge the aforementioned attack.
Just above the back part of his pauldrons are compartments where he stores his Super Suction Cups.
The lower part of his rear has a propulsion mechanism that enables Narirama to move at high speeds, as he does not appear to use his legs for walking.
His headpiece has a single antenna on the right side, and he has a singular blue optical sensor.
(Image Here - Narirama)
Seeing Narirama continuing to push his opponents away, Champa exclaims, "It's dirty, but that spinning is impressive!" followed by the Supreme Kai of the 3rd Universe, Erye, who pridefully chuckles and says, "Hehehe. Super Survival Mode. It's the greatest survival tactic!"
The God of Destruction of the 3rd Universe, Mosco, beeps loudly, making the Guide Angel translate, "Mosco-sama says: 'Knock all the warriors off, sweep them away, and knock them off!'"
Following that, the Supreme Kai of the 3rd Universe, Erye, proudly states, "Thanks to this, we of the 3rd Universe will be the ones to survive!"
Suddenly, the spinning Narirama is stopped by Hit who stomps onto one of its arms making Champa exclaims, "Oh! Hit! Nice hit!" followed by Basil, one of the Trio of Danger, who does the same and stomps onto Narirama's other hand making the Supreme Kai of the 9th Universe cheer, "Haha! Well done, Basil!"
Basil, known as Basil the Kicker, has red fur, yellow eyes, and wears a torn muffler, black gloves, and red boots.
He resembles a Maned Wolf, which has the appearance of a fox sporting long legs.
(Image Here - Basil)
Seeing that scene, Saori casually comments, "The idea wasn't that bad... if this was a normal martial arts tournament. It's absolutelly foolish to think that simply spinning like a top would be enough to win this kind of battle." followed by the Zenos who chuckle and say, "Plan failed." "Failed plan."
The Grand Minister also comments in an amused tone, "It appears that the 3rd Universe's scheme has ended in failure."
At the same time, my daughter yells in an excited tone, "Look, Daddy! That butterfly lady is about to attack Stingmon, Angemon, and XV-mon!"
Hearing that, I quickly focus on my Digimon Partners and see that the female warrior from the 10th Universe has surrounded herself in a blue energy aura and is now charging against Angemon while flying.
Rylibeu is a butterfly-like humanoid alien. She has pink skin, pointed ears, green eyes, and two antennae on her head, and she wears a green tunic.
(Image Here - Rylibeu)
Stingmon immediately notices the approaching Rylibeu and, without any hesitation, he moves to intercept her, calling out the name of his technique, "Spiking Finish!"
Stingmon hits the enemy with a powerful flying kick which blows her back before XV-mon takes advantage of this opening and yells, "X-Laser!" firing an energy wave emitted from the "X" pattern on its chest that hits the still stunned Rylibeu knocking her off the fighting stage with a decisive blow revealing to all the other warriors that the defeated warriors are instantly transported to the stands to spectate.
At the same time, the Grand Minister announces, "Rylibeu-san of the 10th Universe has dropped out," before he turns around, facing us, bows, and says to the Zenos, "It's time for the GodPad."
Immediately, a tablet appears in the Zenos' hands as they exclaim in sync, ""Yay!"" before they quickly tap on the symbol rapresenting the 10th Universe, and then on the picture of Rylibeu turning the picture into a black and white one showing that she has been eliminated from the Tournament of Power before Zeno-1 comments, "Yeah, she's gone." before Zeno-2 asks, "Let me go next." to which Zeno-1 immediately agrees, "Okay."
The 10th Universe God of Destruction, Rumsshi, berates Rylibeu for her careless attack that left her too open to the opponent's counterattack, and for the fact that his universe is the first to have a fighter be knocked out.
While this is happening, another of the 10th Universe warriors, Napapa, is now exchanging blows with Basil, who taunts that the second warrior to fall will be him.
Overall, Napapa has an appearance resembling that of a sumo wrestler on Earth of the Universe 7 with a more enlarged mage hairstyle than sumo wrestlers.
He, akin to Top, has extremely robust lower arms and fists compared to his upper arms and lower body.
He has a pig-like nose and pointed ears, and pink skin, which is also similar to a pig; he also appears to wear a thong-like mawashi attire for his clothing.
(Image Here - Napapa)
While this is happening I take a quick look at Goza's team and see that Android 18, Vegeta, Android 17, Broly, and Goku are fighting their respective battles, while the remainder of the 7th Universe: Gohan, Piccolo, Krillin, Goza, and Cell are surrounded by Botamo, Comfrey, Shosa, Dercori, and Lavender.
The 7th Universe fighters assume a Manji Formation, following the plan, and they initiate a combo attack: Cell uses Solar Flare to blind the opponents while Piccolo fires a Special Beam Cannon, Krillin launches a Destructo Disc, Gohan fires of an Energy Beam Barrage, and Goza unleashes a Masenko to attack the fighters.
However, the fighters remain unharmed by this combo, making Gohan comment that they are indeed worthy of entering the tournament.
After seeing that, I quickly focus back on the battle between Basil and Napapa, where Basil dazes his opponent with a barrage of kicks, and while his opponent is dazed, he speeds into the sky and begins charging energy collected into his calves and feet.
Then, he swings his legs in a kicking motion, launching a pair of red and gold spheres of energy that flung forward to his opponent, who uses his huge hands to block them.
However, Basil spins one more time and with a kicking motion, he launches a third sphere of energy at his opponent that joins the previous two and with their combined power starts to push Napapa back toward the edge of the fighting stage with his feet skidding across on the floor tearing trenches into it along the way.
Napapa doesn't give up and, punching the ground, he stops himself from being pushed back even more before deflecting the three energy balls high in the air, saving himself just in time as he has reached the edge of the fighting stage.