Chapter 5 : The tournament
"Myles. Wake up, we're here already."
I wake to my mom telling me to wake up and feeling her fingers delicately going through the strands of my long hair... wait, LONG HAIR?! I immediately sit up and run to the nearest mirror where my horror was confirmed. I, someone who preferred their hair short, had hair going just past my ears.
"HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!"
"It occurred when you were sleeping." My mom explained, "As to how, I don't know."
"Ok, well it's nothing a haircut wont fix." I said with my hopes up.
"About that," My mom says in a tone that dashes my hopes immediately, "we tried cutting it, but ever since you summoned your weapons your hair wouldn't get cut. It just stopped at shoulder level."
I sigh. Well anyways at least its not too long. Now that my attention is away from my hair I realize something else.
"Why am I wearing a full body cloak? I thought we were going to meet the other royals?"
"We are," My mom answers, "however no one knows you are a boy."
"So we're going to keep my gender secret."
"Yes"
"Okay, but I want a mask."
After getting and putting on the mask, we leave the room and go to the courtyard where everyone is gathered. After looking around I realize there are more races than I thought. Instead of just humans, elves, demons, and dwarves, I also see dragons, beastmen, and nymphs. Like me there are 6 other people wearing cloaks.
"Ahem." The Human King starts, "I am King Roland, and I sincerely thank all of you for accepting my invitation. We will start the tournament soon so please relax and wait. Thank you."
He steps down from the podium he had been standing on while the human nobles applaud him. At the mention of a tournament I look up at mom with a questioning look. Apparently I'm not the only one, as King Roland steps back onto the podium and explains.
"The princes and princesses will battle each other using their soul weapons until one remains. The winner will be rewarded of course."
Well that answered my question. Another question I had was answered a couple minutes before seeing the king had a son, that made 8.
Fifteen minutes later King Roland speaks again. "LET THE TOURNAMENT BEGIN!"
Loud cheers erupted from all races present and we changed locations to an arena filled to the brim with spectators. Once there, 3 out of the 7 of us that have the cloaks on take their cloaks off. These were the ones whose races fought in as little clothing as possible, like take the dragon princess, she was wearing bikini armor and was so close to causing a nip-slip. The races that took of the cloaks were surprisingly all female, with their races being dragon, nymph, and beastman. I noticed a majority of the audience looking expectingly at me until mom gave them the death stare.
The match-ups came out and this is what they looked like:
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Myla VS Bella Lexa VS Maria Sam VS Logan Mary VS Max
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I looked at the roster but didn't see my name. The closest thing was a girl named Myla.
"You're Myla."
"Thanks for the clarification."
What really got to me was the fact that most of the names were female. Did that mean the others guys got transmigrated into girls? Well that's not what had my focus right now, was the fact that I was about to go up against the only one who knew about my "incident", Bella, or as I used to know her as, Isabel.
"LET THE FIRST MATCH BEGIN!" yelled an announcer, "MYLA VERSUS BELLA!"
I start to walk to into the arena and see out of the corner of my eye that the dragon princess was also walking to the arena. How unsurprising, a couple of days before we got isekai'd we had all asked each other, "If you could be any race in a fantasy world, what would it be?" With Isabel replying under her breath that she would be a dragon. I was the only one who heard her and she realized this when she saw me grinning at her. Now, if I'm correct she's going to pull out a scythe.
"PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR WEAPONS AND BEGIN!" Screamed the announcer.
She immediately rushed towards we with a scythe in her hands, looks like I had been right, and tried to slash me, and she did. At least that's what it looked like to the audience, when in actuality she had only slashed an afterimage. I had activated a skill I hadn't seen due to me having it since birth.
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(Sprint)
Increases users speed for 10 minutes. Amount increased varies with race:
Dwarves: 16% increase
Humans: 25% increase
Demons, Nymphs, Beastmen: 50% increase
Dragons: 60% increase
Elves: 80% increase
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This skill is definitely favoring elves with the 80% increase. My agility is 20, with a 80% increase that makes it 36 agility for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile,
(POV: Bella)
It had been 15 years since we had all seen each other. I had been anxiously waiting for the day when we all met up. I had imagined a touching reunion, but that bastard King Roland set up a tournament for us to fight each other. After looking at the roster I realized almost all the guys had become girls. I had been excited because that meant my opponent was Myles, at least that was until I had cut him, or her, in half. I was horrified, I just stood there thinking what a horrible friend I was when I heard my father.
"Bella behind you!"
I instantly roll to the side in time to hear 2 gunshots. Wait, two gunshots? He was supposed to get a sniper. I take a look at the gun in Myla's hands and realize it. The guns are the same brand as the one he used for "the incident". The cloak is in shambles so with a sigh she takes it off to reveal, a male body?!
"Hey Bella!" Hey shouts to me, "You got a hair tie?"
That's when I notice his hair.
"No!" I shout back, "Why don't you use that mask as one?"
He appears to think about it then takes off his mask and ties his hair into a ponytail. It's not too long with an inch of hair poking out from the D.I.Y. hair tie.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN," I hear Queen Aurora announcing something, MEET MY SON, MYLES SULAND!"
(POV: Myles)
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN," I hear Mom announcing something, MEET MY SON, MYLES SULAND!"
The crowd roars at the appearance of a male elf. All the royals that I came here with have a shocked look on their faces, well that's to be expected. The adults are shocked because I'm male and an elf, while the kids are surprised because all of them except the big guy, who I'm guessing is the dickhead Max, were turned into girls. Well not that the gender change was going to affect Marco and Alex sexual preference, in fact their being gay was turned into them being straight now that they were girls.
While Bella is distracted thinking how lucky she was that I hadn't died, I fire a shot into the air to wake her up. She flinches and starts to pay attention. She rushes me again and slashes every way she can, vertical slash, horizontal slash, diagonal slash, while I'm dodging while finding the right timing. Then I see it, a horizontal slash slower than usual. Instead of dropping to the floor like I had been doing, I jumped up using the scythe as a step, and surprisingly go 50 feet in the air. I go towards the ground headfirst and decide to shoot while falling,
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
*BANG*
I shoot 3 more rounds and Bella falls to the ground unconscious. A couple of seconds later I do a Spider-man landing.
"WINNER! PRINCE MYLES SULAND!" The announcer screams.