Episode 20: Liege Cup Winner Semis

Episode 20: Liege Cup Winner Semis



It's been 10 mins since the Winner's Quarters with the 4 remaining trainers as they all get ready to the roaring crowd. Down there, we see Cordelia and Hera getting into the ring whereas Cherche and Marche are entering as well, the sight of a Daton and a Ragnarok being quite an odd one for Jalen who is stoically sitting down and watching the fight about to go down.

As the monsters get ready to throw down, He can hear some footsteps coming towards him and Marth. Looking over to his left he sees that it's Edelgard, Rin and Aymr on the other side minding their business. Edelgard stands next to him with a cautious look. "...Jalen.." "..Edelgard" He responds to her cooly as the match starts in the ring.

"...Mind if I sit down?" She gestures to the bench. "We have some things to discuss...." He look at her with a raised eyebrow and sighs. "..Make yourself comfortable."  He scoot over a bit as she sit down and watch the match with Hera dodging all of Marche's attacks around the ring. "....So...Kana have told us about the future..."

He take his hat off and rustle his hair as she continues. "...About the war that tore our nations apart, how Nohr and Hoshido brought gods down to aid them..." She glances over to Rin and Aymr with a sorrowful look. "..Our deaths..."

".....Yeah....shit got really fucked up..." Jalen mutters with his hat back on as she turn back to look at him. "That's putting it lightly..." She responds. "..According to Kana, me and Rin were pretty good soldiers in the army..but we paled in comparison to you." Jalen groans and roll his eyes. "Believe me, I'm not too proud of my future self's war crimes..." "Heh...I can't blame you, hearing that you slayed over 1000 people in one battle can be...quite hard to swallow."


Within the ring, it's 30 seconds left and Hera is quite winning due to her faster speed and better accuracy. Annoying both Cherche and Marche with the Ragnarok struggling to hit her one time."...So why are you in this tourney? You don't seem like the kind of guy who cares for this kind of matter.." Edelgard get down to one of her main reasons for talking to Jalen as he look up to the crowd and point out to where the kids are at. Where Lucina and Severa are cheering on their mom, the latter being very loud about it, next to Kana eating his popcorn and Alexis looking bored. "You see that older girl next to your son? Her mother is a Nohrian and I'm hoping to use this tourney to meet her for reasons.."


"Uh-huh..." Edelgard responds, somewhat shocked by his more altruistic answer. "What about Prince Chrom? If You win this,  you will become his partner..."Jalen glances up at the royal box where he sees Chrom cheering on for Cordelia with 20 seconds left on the clock as Hera dodges another attack from Marche, clearly wanting to run the clock out. "Well.." He shrugs and answer back. "I suppose I'll manage that when I get there."

"I see..." She gets up and walk back to her side of the dugout. "Well, we will duel in the ring with our monsters...We'll see who's convictions of winning is higher. Good luck, Jalen."

".....Hm..." He grunts as he watches her walk back as Cordelia and Hera are crowned the winner and will head to Grand Finals to wait the winner of this next round between Aymr and Marth. He spare a look up and see his uncles looking down at him with various negative emotions. He scowl harshly at them before he walk to the stairs with Marth to enter the ring. He end up walking past Cherche and Marche who both look down on losing..

Meanwhile on the other side of the arena, Cordelia and Hera walk towards Rin, Edelgard and Aymr who are making their way to the stage. "Hresvelg...I would imagine that I'll be seeing you in Grand Finals..."

"You shall, However this won't be an easy fight for Aymr.." Edelgard tells an unamused Cordelia who frowns at her answer as Rin speaks up. "Don't give us that look, we're gonna win. But to assume that we're gonna walk over Marth out there is a fool's idea."

"Tch...You're technically a commoner so I would not expect you to feel the stake here of losing to one of your own kin.." Rin closes her eyes to calm herself down and not smack the color out of Cordelia's hair in public and instead breath in as she walk past her, brushing her shoulder against her own. "I'll be out there, Edie."

"......You really need to watch what you say, or else something bad happens.." Edelgard levels a glare at Cordelia, who don't back down from it one bit as she huffs and crosses her arms and walk off. "Honestly, You confused me so much with how long you've been with her...whatever, don't lose out there."

Out there on the ring, Marth stands in front of Jalen as Rhiannon is joined on the sidelines with Edelgard as Aymr step into the ring, her footsteps leaving loud noises as she make her way in front of the Garu. Both of their trainers stare at each other, Jalen with his hat covering his eyes partly and hands in his jacket pocket with Edelgard throwing her ponytail behind her head with Rin adjusting her glasses.

"...So how will this go down?" Up in the crowd, Lucina turn to both Kana and Alexis with them being into the match. "Well...Aymr is very bulky and hard to beat...But Marth just seem more ruthless." Kana mutters with Alexis being silent, watching the ring with focused eyes. "Who cares?" Severa yawns and slouches in her chair. "Both of them are gonna lose to Mom.." Looking over with a smirk past Lucina's disapproving stare and Kana's annoyed expression, It would seem that Alexis is paying her no mind. "(Nohrian Scum...)" She thinks to herself as the bell ring out.

"Aymr, Charge!" Edelgard shouts her first order with the dragon beetle lowering her left shoulder and zooming fast towards Marth with the dust kicking up behind her. "Dodge and keep her in your sight, Marth!" For once, Jalen will have to be more defensive with Marth dodging the attack via cartwheel to his left. He watches Aymr turn her body and pivot right before Jalen, her wings fluttering hard, but don't kick his hat off with Aymr glaring at Marth.

"That was just a test..." Edelgard informs his trainer.. "I would had been disappointed if Marth got hit by that...Aymr, Lariat!"  Aymr raise one of her arms high and rest it horizontal to her body away and fly in towards Marth to swing hard at him, The Garu, listening to Jalen again, prepare to jump over the attack and does so...but Edelgard only smirks at this. "Wrong move, now use Thwack!" Aymr raise her other arm and slam it down on Marth, knocking him on the ground with a lot of force.

"....Not bad...." Jalen removes his hands from his pockets with a small frown..  "Marth, Wild Kick!" Marth, rubbing his head as he slowly gets up, suddenly crouches low and rise up with his right foot extended and connected on Aymr's face and backflip away. This attack didn't do a lot of damage to the dragon beetle as she grunts and rub her face with her claws, a bored look she gives to Marth who frowns.

"Aymr's DEF is amazing! You gonna have to do a lot more than that to hurt her!" Rhiannon fistpumps as Edelgard nods. "Aymr, no quarter shall be given to your foe, he's a wary one!" Aymr bangs the ground with her claws and roars loudly at Marth, trying to scare him. Jalen merely scoffs as both him and Marth aren't scared by this display. "Marth, Burn Knuckle!"  Marth ignites his fist and charge forward with his signature attack...

Marth's attack connects, but unlike where it's a usual match-ender...Aymr only grunts in pain as she is pushed back by 3 yards with Marth's fist stuck on her chest. Edelgard thrust her fist forward, seeing this as the best moment to end the match now. "Checkmate! Aymr, use Beaclon Bomber!" Aymr spread her arms and grab Marth before he could get away, flip him upside-down as he begin to scream..and take a big leap to about 10 feet in the air...Edelgard and Rin both raise their arm up high and soon bring them down as they scream. "NOW!!!"

Aymr roars as she come down with the power of gravity and her own strength to crash on the ground with Marth's head on it. Costing a lot of damage to the Garu with 30 seconds left on the clock. Aymr roll back and get on her feet as Marth fall down on the ground in a lot of pain.


"Wow, Kana...Gotta admit that your moms trained their monster quite well.." Lucina nods as Kana smiles with pride. "Yeah, it shows that both me and Armads have a long way to go to catch u with them..." Severa meanwhile glances over to Alexis with a smug look. "Looks like your pops won't even share the honor of being in the same ring as my mother.." "....." Alexis only shook her head and chuckles as she points down at the ring. "Never count my old man out.."

"There's no shame in admitting defeat, Jalen.." Edelgard tells him across the arena with a calm look. "With 30 seconds on the clock, I don't think you'll be able to make a comeback with Marth...." On the sidelines, Cordelia nods with approval...at least someone out there is doing her job. "(Once she wins, I'll beat her and then I'll be Chrom's partner in the Prince Cup.)" She scowls at Jalen's from behind Edel and Rin, his face covered by his hat. "(Go on then..give up...)"

Jalen sighs and adjust his hat. "Hey, Marth, you can stop playing around now.." Marth instantly gets up and rubs his head with a scowl. This alarms everyone in the crowd excluding Alexis and Alm. "That was not an attack one can walk off!" Up in the noble box, Chrom gasps with shock along with his sister. While King Hector raise an eyebrow in interest. Over on the other side of the room, the Hales are quite disturbed.... "..I'm getting some serious Sidney vibes..." Franklin mutters as the other 2 nods..they have seen moments like this where their younger brother would make crazy comebacks...and it seems his son have inherited this trait.


"Dude! Just how tough is that Garu!?!" Rin shouts to Jalen with Edelgard looking somewhat concerned, Beaclon Bomb was used to instantly win matches and have a 100% win rate ...Well, used to judging by how Marth isn't KO' by this attack. "Damn...Aymr don't have any more Guts...she's a sitting duck out there.." Rin sighs as Edelgard shakes her head and place a hand on her shoulder to console her. "Calm down, Like I said..Marth don't appear to have any attack to hurt Aymr...we should be able to tank the last 30 seconds..."

Marth look back at Jalen who nods at him. A wild smirk forms on the Garu's face as he turn back to Aymr and cock his fist way back as if he was gonna throw a baseball. Jalen rubs the brim of his hat and smirks.. "I got a question to ask you 3..." Aymr, Edelgard, and Rin look confused while in the Noble Boxes, the Hales are sweating hard at this, knowing just WHAT Marth is gonna unleash on her. "Im-impossible...to know that attack so soon.." Gregorio stutters as Franklin chug down his wine as fast as possible while Marcus shakes his head. "It would seem that Jalen's better than we all could imagine.."

Chrom look over there and raise an eyebrow. "(They seem more alarmed than anyone in here..do they know Jalen?)" Whatever it may be, it doesn't concerned him one bit. In the crowd, Alexis blinks with confusion on her face. "No way...you're telling me he had this attack this early?!?" "What attack are you talking about?" Lucina ask her. "...You'll see..."

Back on the arena floor...Marth suddenly run very fast with his fist extended similar to Burn Knuckle, but this time when he connects his fist, he grabs his wrist with his free hand and charge a crazy amount of energy to his fist. Aymr can feel that point overheating and is alarmed as fuck as Jalen points towards her trainers.

"Are you ok?"

Soon a loud and big explosion of fire erupts from Marth's fist as he sends Aymr rocketing out of the ring and into a wall. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!??!" "Holy...shit..." Rin screams loudly as Aymr stammers out of the wall with Edelgard holding a hand to her face as they watch their monster fall on her back KO'ED.

"....."
The bell rings out to a silent crowd that erupts to cheers at the sheer power Marth showed off as he walk back towards Jalen while holding his hand and shaking it.. "...Damn...still not completed, huh?" He frowns as he hand him a sandwich with a slice of Maximum Tomato in it for his monster to eat up and heal.  While eating the whole thing will make Marth super strong, just a slice is enough to heal injuries as seen with his hand turning back from a shade of burnt skin to regular skin..

"We'll get to it eventually...but for now..." He turn his head to an furious Cordelia with her Daton growling next to her across the ring with the announcer saying that there will be a 5 min break before grand finals wth Aymr escorted off and to the Medical Center with her trainers behind her. "...We got a date with a bitch.."