Arena Red Side Barracks

Once again, Yuto paced back and forth, but this time Aleyos wasn’t phased. Instead, he was more worried about his performance in the arena. He went over in his head how things could go. If their plan worked smoothly as they discussed, they would have this match in the bag, however, his focus was suddenly cut short when Yuto punched the giant door they had to walk out of in the next 3 minutes.

“She’s not going to make it,” He repeated once again.

Aleyos took out a ring and placed it on his right ring finger, “Relax Yuto, she’ll be here. Just get your head in the match.”

Yuto stared at Aleyos as he gently slid the ring on his finger, “You brought it with you?”

Aleyos nodded, “Whenever I’m about to face something as big as this, I put it on for good luck.”

“It was your mom’s right?”

Aleyos’ mood changed as he started to have memories of his mom’s voice. “Yeah.” He replied. Aleyos had no doubt in his mind that his sister would show up. He knew that out of the three of them, she wouldn’t miss this for the world. This very moment was the kickstarter for her dream to one day kill the God that murdered their father and mother. With that in mind, he knew he would see Aleyah walking down the hall toward them and surprisingly, that is exactly what happened.

“Sorry, I’m late!” Aleyah cried out. She stopped in front of Aleyos and Yuto. Her brown hair shined in the light and revealed her blue eyes that were lighter than Aleyos’. Yuto grabbed ahold of Aleyah’s hands. “I’m so happy you’re here!”

Aleyos began laughing and passed Aleyah a pair of gloves, “You’re going to need this.”

“Thanks.” She took them and had put them on.

All three members of Team Trinity was prepared for this match and walked toward the door that led them to the arena. Aleyah tightened her gloves, “Are you both ready?”

“You bet,” Yuto said with an eager look on his face.

“Let’s do this,” Aleyos replied.

The door opened and a bright white light shined on their face. They took their first steps into the arena, into their fate.

Soul Witch Arena

The members of Team Trinity and Team Delta walked on the platforms of their respective sides. All three members from each team were ready to face against the opposing side in order for them to join up with Sentinel. After months and months of training and studying, their efforts led them to this exact moment and with the sound of that buzzer, it was time to show it. The buzzer went off and the mythic user took the first move.

“Mythic Gate Open, Dusk Soul!” He cried. His whole body burst in a glow of blue light and his yellow uniform turned into a hood suited for mage or wizard. He wielded a staff with a crystal ball on top to complete his transformation. His other two members followed and shouted out their souls; the nova Solar and the eclipse Sagittarius. The nova user had two small shields that were attached to the sleeves of her arm allowing it to slide up and down. The eclipse user had a crossbow also attached to both arms that could reload by itself.

It was now Team Trinity’s turn to transform and with such unity and power, all three of them shouted at once:

“Nova Gate Open...”

“Eclipse Gate Open...”

“Mythic Gate Open…”

Aleyah started to glow red, “Searing Soul!” Her gray uniform turned into an outfit suitable with her dual blades. Aleyos followed up with his Champion soul transforming his uniform into a glowing green outfit that worked best with a double-ended spear. Finally, Yuto concluded the transformation with his Awakened soul. He held a bow without arrows and wore a new outfit as well.

The match finally started with Aleyah rushing in toward the Delta’s side. Team Delta’s eclipse user aimed his crossbows at her. “Sagittarius Soul, Archer’s Stampede!” He shouted. A massive amount of green arrows shot out of his crossbow and went straight toward Aleyah, but she didn’t stop. She grasped her blades and swung them in front of her, block each arrow that came her way.

Meanwhile, Aleyos and Yuto were still back at their starting post. Aleyos started to run and climb up the block that was to their right. “I’m taking the high ground!”

Without looking at Aleyos, Yuto nodded and strictly looked at the eclipse user that was shooting heavily at Aleyah. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He lifted his bow and with his right hand, he pulled back the string and a shining blue arrow started to draw itself. He opened his eyes and the arrow was complete.

“Awakened Soul, Eternal Arrow!” He released the arrow and it left a blue streak of light as it went toward Aleyah which was in front of the eclipse user. Knowing the arrow was coming, she jumped up and flipped forward in the air making sure that Yuto’s attack was coming by surprise.

The eclipse user was indeed in shock and halted his shooting by crossing his arms in front of him, trying to block the impact of the arrow, but it was unnecessary. An orb surrounded him and protected him from the shot. It was their leader, the mythic user, that shielded his teammate from Yuto’s attack. The crystal of his staff was glowing and was aimed at the eclipse user. His attention then turned over to Aleyos who was running toward them from above on the blocks.

“Go after the eclipse guy on the block.” He told his nova partner.

She gave him a nod and climbed their block to meet with Aleyos. He then looks back in front of him, but couldn’t spot Aleyah. Instead, he saw Yuto aiming at his partner who just went up the block to clash with Aleyos. He pointed his staff at Yuto, “Dusk Soul, Clouded Judgment!” Yuto’s vision became blurry while he pulled back the string of his bow. Without hesitation, he released the arrow and shot at Delta’s nova user. The shields that were upon her shoulder, rolled down to her wrist.

Aleyos and her met at the ends of their blocks and jumped toward one another. He was above her and tried to stab her with his spear, but she blocked it with one shield while she also blocked Yuto’s shot with the other. To get her balance, she twirled and slid on the block that Aleyos was once on and now faced the area she just came from. Aleyos used the other end of his spear to catch his footing.

“Thanks for the try Yuto.”

“Sorry about that Aleyos. Their mythic user blinded me. How’s the distraction coming Aleyah?”

“Push the eclipse user back more and I’ll give you a distraction,” she replied.

“On it.” Yuto twisted his bow horizontally and placed two fingers on the string. He started to pull the string back and this time, two arrows appeared. “Awakened Soul, Storm Duet!” He released the two arrows and a spark of electricity followed behind them as they aimed for the eclipse user.

“I don’t think so. Sagittarius Soul, Archer’s Stampede!” The eclipse user cried out again. He aimed his crossbows at the electrified arrows and shot at them hoping that his mass amount of arrows would clash with Yuto’s.

Yuto gave a smile and pushed out his arm. His hand glowed blue and was surrounded by lightning. He lifted his arm and the arrows followed. The glow allowed him to control the direction of his arrows. After dodging the barrage of green arrows, Yuto dropped his arm and the two lightning arrows he shot went directly down toward the eclipse user. The collision caused an explosion and knocked him off his feet.

“Go Aleyah!”

Aleyah jumped off the block she was on tried to slice the guy on the ground, but before she could eliminate him, he regained consciousness and blocked her two blades with one of his crossbows. Pushing her off of him, he aimed his other crossbow at her and shot multiple arrows to force her back. With every step she took, she blocked an arrow with her blades.

“I need back up over here!” The guy yelled.

“Yeah, you do,” Aleyah replied with a smirk on her face.

The leader of Delta looked over to his eclipse user. He waved his hand and it glowed blue. He then began to write a symbol in the air and when he was finished, it turned green. “Dusk Soul, Regeneration.” The green symbol made its way toward the eclipse user and the closer it got, the smaller it became. When it reached him, a green glow popped off his body and his bruises and scratched disappeared. He got up and the mythic user walked next to him to help him against Aleyah.

Yuto took note of Aleyah’s situation and aimed his bow at her area, “I got your back Aleyah.” He shot an arrow back to back from each other so that he could hit both the eclipse and mythic user. Before they could make contact, however, Delta’s nova user rushed in and blocked both arrows with her shield.

“Time to return the favor, Solar Soul, Gleaming Torch.” Her shields’ started to light up and it brightened the field. Yuto covered his eyes and went behind the cover in front of him. “Your nova user is ours!” She cried out.

“Hey Aleyos, I can’t assist Aleyah. You ready yet?” Yuto asked with a desperate tone.

“Just got there.” Aleyos was above everyone without anyone noticing. He had made his way to the top of the arena and jumped from each lamp to get to the middle one. “Get ready guys, things are about to get a whole lot lighter.”

Aleyos aimed his spear directly below him towards the ground. His focus was on his spear as it began to charge with green electricity flowing around it. His eyes were closed and to him, it felt like time had stopped. This was their trump card. He read and analyzed the whole arena in just a second and was ready to make his move.

Opening his eyes, he yelled out. “Champion Soul, Universal Arena!” and tossed his spear down where he was aiming with such a force that it broke the sound barrier. Once it made contact with the ground, a magic circle appeared below it and stopped its movement. As it stopped, a green wave of energy came out of it and covered the whole arena.

Each one of Delta’s members started to lift up in the air stopping all of their attacks in the process.

“What’s going on?” Asked the team leader.

“Our victory, that’s what’s going on!” Aleyah stated.

They all looked across from them and saw Aleyah crouching on the wall as if she had been sticking to it. With her blades at her side, she pushed herself off of the wall and floated pass the leader. She sliced him with both swords and landed perfectly on the ground. Their leader gave out a shout of pain and his mythic armor disappeared. He had gone back to his normal form.

Both the eclipse and nova users watched as their leader gently landed on the floor weakened by Aleyah’s attack. They then realized what Aleyos’ move did. It had loosened the gravity in the arena causing the flow of attacks to change.

Yuto jumped backward out of cover and landed feet first on the gate where they entered from. He looked up, which would be straight based on his angle, and aimed his bow at the nova user. “Awakened Soul, Enhanced!” He fires an arrow and after release, it opens a small gateway.

The nova user looked at Yuto and desperately tried to regain her balance while floating, but she couldn’t. So instead, she lifted her arms across her body to protect her from any attack Yuto was going to do.

Yuto launched himself off the gate and entered the small gateway he created. A new gateway opened in front of the other gate on the other side and he flew out of it. This time he was behind the girl and because of this advantage, she couldn’t block in time. With the speed was moving at, he elbowed her to the ground. She lost her solar form and returned to normal as well.

Finally, the eclipse user was left and at this point, he had got a hang of moving himself while floating in the air. He flipped upside to face both Yuto and Aleyah and aimed his crossbows at them. Before he could take a shot, Aleyos was already behind him with his spear poking at his back.

“You might want to give up,” Aleyos suggested with sincerity.

The eclipse user gave out a sigh and changed back to his normal form concluding the match in Trinity’s favor. Aleyos slammed his spear on the groundbreaking the arena effect he had on. Both Aleyah and Yuto landed on their feet and gave each other a high five.

“We did it!” Yuto shouted.

Aleyah, Aleyos, and Yuto took their leave with smiles on their face.

Sentinel Meeting Room

Cyn and Theon turned to Vahlia, who was still staring at the screen as Team Delta got up and took their leave from the arena.

“That was quite the match,” Cyn said with amusement.

“What do you think? Are they worth the effort?” Theon asked Vahlia as she glanced over to him.

Trinity Locker Room

Aleyos, Aleyah, and Yuto awaited a response from one of the four strongholds. With their win, they were sure they would be invited to either Orion or Valkyrie, but they never considered who came knocking on their door.

Three knocks came from the other side of their locker room’s door. This was the moment they’ve been waiting for. After years of training, studying, and practicing, their efforts were finally going to pay off.

Aleyos responded back to the knocks, “Come in.”

The door opened and walked in was a guy in a long white lab coat wearing goggles up on his head. He had curly orange hair and blue eyes that seemed very welcoming to team Trinity.

“Team Trinity that was a marvelous match.” He stated as he stopped a little past the door.

Aleyah stood up from her seat and Yuto walked away from his locker and stood next to the both of them.

“Thank you,” Aleyos replied.

The guy took a bow, “My name is Lenos Sawano and I’m a representative from Sentinel. We’re interested in having your team join our Strike Force.”

Each of their faces lit up with amazement. They never thought that Sentinel Stronghold would ask their team to join them. Sentinel was well known for their amazing work on the field against the forces that fight against humanity.

Lenos tucked his hands into his pants pockets and gave them a smile. The light behind him made him shine and it seemed as if he was their everlasting guide taking them to a new world.

“So what do you say? Will you three join Sentinel?” He asked once more.

Yuto looked at Aleyos and they both looked over to Aleyah. She was their leader in Trinity so whatever she decided, they would follow. Lenos did the same and turned his focus to her as well. They all waited for her decision.

Aleyah walked forward and she took a deep breath, “Team Trinity will gladly join Sentinel.”

Both Yuto and Aleyos walked beside her and they stood as one. Lenos nodded and turned around. At that moment, each of their lives would change and the start of their new journey was just beginning.