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The medical room gleamed silver as droids whizzed around with their supplies. Jane sat with her head back, dark eyes on the white tiles overhead. She hadn't sustained any serious injuries in her fight, but the radiation buzzing into her muscles was relaxing and strengthening them. In forty-five minutes she would be fighting Lyle for the championship title. A smile made its way to her face as she realised that neither of them gave the slightest crap about winning. Of all the douchebags and ps
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Jane could hear the audience chanting as she paced by herself in the locker room. She hated having to wait for her fights. Half an hour intermission and all she could do was pace and wait. Even with what Blake said, Jane had a case of nerves in her gut. A hollow feeling of anticipation and fear. I can do this. I can do this, she kept reassuring herself. Part of her wanted this – to face the monster who almost killed her friend and dish out some justice of her own. Ophelia was bad, there coul
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Jane darted out and into the crowd of people. Countless people moving to find their seats or line up for a meat pie at the food windows. She raced between audience members who barely gave her a second look, not noticing that she was one of the contestants they'd come here to see. She was at the top of the stands, shadowed from overhead concrete, the fancy viewer boxes. Jane skidded to a stop when she saw her friends. Marine elated, her blue eyes sparkling. Leaf gave a weak smile – he looked
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A week later Jane was strolling along the perimeter of the training stadium. Surrounding her were rows upon rows of seats, inclining all the way up to the viewing boxes for the sponsors. It was strange to see it so empty, like she was trespassing. Occasionally she'd see the other three semi-finalists, but not today. With its flat circle of dirt in the middle, this structure looked like a futuristic colosseum. Jane paused and reached out, resting her palm against the barrier. Every night she'
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Jane's anaesthetic was re-applied. Her teeth were looked at. Healing radiation was being burned into her flesh, bones and skin by one of the medical droids. It was forty agonizing minutes before the elementals could address the majority of the crushers. To Jane it felt like an eternity. She was numb and underneath… petrified. She sat on the edge of her hospital bed. The treatment room was all white and smelt of disinfectant. Sectioned curtains and shiny metal cabinets on wheels. The two riva
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As Marine was carted off Jane felt herself grimacing for another reason. It'd been an hour since her fight, and the anaesthetic was beginning to wear off. If she said anything she'd have to leave for treatment, but she was going to stick it out as long as she could. Leaf was to fight Ophelia, and this fight would probably be the most dangerous of them all. From across the dojo Leaf was frowning with his green eyes lowered. Lorac watched on uncomfortably beside him. At least Leaf wasn't by hi
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The victor grit his teeth, but after a few passing seconds he was unable to endure the agony silently. Lyle screeched and clenched his bleeding shoulder, a med drone came and sprayed his injury with something to numb it. While the unconscious Dan had some on-the-spot treatment applied, he was then carted away. Lyle managed to walk, the droid hovering beside him as he left. Jane watched him go before her worries returned to her friends. She felt physically numb at that point. Bruises colourin
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The children started to scream while the older patrons put a hand to their chest in dismay. Some of the teens made obnoxious 'O' sounds. Someone ran to Jane's side while Chris stepped up and spread his arms. A med drone hovered by, past Jane, toward the more injured combatant. While Chris started calming the audience down and assuring them of the unparalleled healing skills of their machinery, Jane could hear it was Marine crouched beside her. "Jane! Jane, are you okay?" she sounded teary.
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On the day of the tertiary rounds Jane Flame entered the building with as much purpose as she could muster. Blake had arranged separate transports for the crushers who'd be fighting each other. Jane got to take a transport jet with her friends Marine and Leaf, that comforted her somewhat. The dojo was full of talkative people in the stands, several squeezing through and finding seats. A food vendor in a striped shirt getting flagged down with money. The crowd gave Jane her first wave of nerv
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This room was specifically designed for someone with Jane's power. She knelt down, panting with exhaustion. Physically, mentally and energetically drained. The matts and padded walls were alight in several places with scarlet fire. Blake had told her that the materials in this room were fire retardant. Although he'd said 'fire retarded' and she didn't know why. She wiped sweat from her forehead and flicked her lank ponytail over her shoulder. Panting. It was the fifth day of their preparatio
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"Well, we all survived." Leaf crashed back onto the sofa and gave a sigh of relief. Jane sat with one leg bent beneath her, frowning with concern as she pondered their predicament. Marine was seated with her legs crossed, smiling like she didn't have a care in the world. "I'm so bummed out about not getting to see the other fights!" Marine hit her knees with her fists, light-brown hair falling over her shoulders "You guys have to tell me what I missed!" The Zorgon crushers had their
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Trapped in her rabid state, Ophelia thrashed against the net but was unable to free herself. Lorac came to, but barely, as he was helped onto the stretcher and carted away. A second drone carefully carried the net, Chris waved a hand dismissively after his crusher. "She should return to being human again soon." Then he faced the handful of teens in the audience. "Last fight! Step up, step up. You know who you are." Jane cringed before getting to her feet. Ignoring the pit in her stomach
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"And then there were four." Chris looked stern, his hands behind his back. Those red-tinted eyes gleamed at the remaining combatants in turn. The audience was seven, the four who hadn't yet fought were serious and still. The shadow elemental raised his chin "This next selection will determine who is fighting who in the last two matches. Good luck." He spun away. Jane felt the dread descending upon her. A sense of doom. It absolutely was best to get these fights over and done with. The black-
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Jane leaned forward in her chair as Leaf returned to the audience, looking dishevelled. Behind him a med drone was getting Shaddi's body onto the stretcher. The other crushers assessed the Sprout clan-member warily, with sneaky eyes. Jane had seen her friend's power during practice, but it was the first time she'd watched him in an all-out fight. "Hey, great work! Congratulations." "Another Godrid down." He tried to smirk at those overhearing, but his smile was impish. He was shaken.
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"I must say, I like the girl's panache." The white-robed Blake commented to the other elementals, stroking his cloudy beard. Chris was shaking his hooded head. "Alright. We're officially half-way through the Initial Rounds!" The scary figure turned to address the audience. "Four have advanced, four have fallen! So far the winners are Marine Finn, Lyle Zappos, Dan the man, and Claire Anvil." As he was talking Jane noticed the strange boy Dan appearing at the entryway to their enormous whi
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There was a sharp intake of breath from the audience. The black-robed Elemental strode toward the downed girl, the medical droid creeping closer in preparation. Chris ducked down and pressed his fingers to Joy's neck, paused for a moment, then lifted his head to answer the question everyone was silently screaming. "Alive." He stepped away to let the droid prepare her stretcher. "Wow for all the strength of her power, one direct attack and she's down…" Leaf murmured to Jane. Dan didn'
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"Well damn." Leaf spoke up in surprise. "He was better than I gave him credit for." "Yeah… wow." Jane blinked. Chatter started up again amongst the teens. "He wasn't quite as gutsy as Marine, but when it came down to it Lyle was level enough to weigh his options and come out with a win. I hope…" Jane didn't finish the sentence. She hoped when it was her turn to test her metal… she wouldn't choke. "And thankfully, that absolute monster was knocked out of the contest in these initial round
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When Marine was escorted out of the enormous cube-room, hobbling on her dislocated knee, her friend Jane slumped forward and rested her chin in her hand. The audience of teens were bubbling with excitement after the fight. Even the ones who didn't look the type to chatter, ever, were teeming with curiosity. Leaf let out a sigh from beside her and Jane cast him a glance. "Worried?" "I wouldn't say worried. Maybe nervous." His voice was low as he glanced toward the others, not wanting the
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Before reaching the plastic chairs there was a loud beep from the screen, echoing about in the cubic white room. A series of repetitive clicks sounded out and the teens turned to see the screen split in two, each side was rapidly flicking through numbers and photos. Suddenly the left half of the screen glowed and the photos flicked by more slowly. It was like a lottery machine, in the corner the number stopped on '02' and showed a girl with light-brown hair and bright blue eyes. It was Marine Fi
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Jane gazed around the enormous room as she entered. It was blaringly white and cube-shaped, about one-hundred metres in length. She shielded her eyes and blinked as they adjusted to the brightness. Behind Jane her two friends looked around in similar astonishment. The three of them were following their Elemental, Blake, and leading his group of eight Crushers. Up ahead they could see two other Elementals, Chris and Zac, already waiting with the other eight contenders. "Keep up, Jane." Blake
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The strategy room was centred around a long mahogany table. The two elementals were the same yet opposite: both tall, clutching staffs topped by crystals and dressed in simple robes, and yet one appeared young with untidy hair and wearing white, while the other wore black with his hood concealing most of his wrinkled face. The dark elemental hunched over the long table, over his stack of folders. Very important folders that were numbered one through eight. The younger elemental stood straight as
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Sixteen artificial teenagers with superpowers must do battle in a tournament for the glory of the elemental wizards that created them.
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That's great! I have another completed Demon Crushers story and some incomplete ones. In this universe there are various elementals with their own crushers and planets.
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CHAPTER NINE: EPILOGUE Downstairs the four crushers sat around with plates of food. Various salads in trays with small amounts of meat. The meals were rather luxury, and for a taskmaster like Lysander this was basically a pizza reward day. Their elemental would never give them junk food. Nope, to him it was always healthy eating and training at dawn. Douglas forked through a bunch of leaves, olive and white cheese. Popping it into his mouth and chewing thoughtfully. "So you're not groun
