章節 103: Silent but Deadly

Major Valen casually picked up the guy that he had used as his bitc... err... training partner, and tossed him aside.

"He lost already" Major Valen said scornfully, and nobody seemed to disagree.

"Alright! The rules are simple! Last man or woman in the ring wins! No striking, only throwing, grappling, or getting someone to submit with a hold." Major Valen barked. "Oh, and I will be joining in the fun..."

Once Major Valen said this, everyone gave him a wide berth in the ring. Gray, Yurika, Geoff, Paul, Xyra, and Stacia stood together and a few other people formed teams with each other.

"You pups that form teams, I'll be coming after you first, this is a free for all."

Of the nearly 100 players, one team had 18 people in it, this was the team Major Valen was eying.

Major Valen blew his whistle and shouted "BEGIN!"

The groups of players didn't engage each other right away as they really weren't sure what to do.

On the other hand, Major Valen stormed at the group of 18 people and without hesitating, picked the closest one up by his shirt and hurled him out of the ring like a human discus. This wasn't technique, this was just raw strength.

The remaining 17 players on the team then surrounded Major Valen, but none of them were brave enough to approach him. One of the guys finally yelled out "We need to attack him toge–", but he wasn't able to complete that sentence as Major Valen targetted him and grabbed the guy by his face, and pushed him on his back.

"You better submit boy!" Major Valen knelt on the ground next to the guy and started squeezing his head.

"I submit I submit!" Major Valen released the guy and he scurried away out of the ring.

"He calls it a battle royale, but why is it starting to feel like us versus Major Valen." Geoff whispered to Gray.

"Just be lucky he isn't allowed to strike, just thinking about the amount of clipboards we'd be hit with scares me." Gray whispered back. "Hey, let's use his distraction and start clearing house."

Gray liked to consider himself honorable, but it was a lot of merits... and honor alone doesn't win battles.

Gray snuck up behind his first victim that was close to the edge of the ring, wrapped his arms around the guy's waist and threw him out of the ring with a suplex.

As Gray was on his back near the edge after throwing the guy, one of his friends charged at Gray to push him out of the ring.

"Coming through!" Geoff suddenly yelled as he ran straight into the guy that was charging at Gray, causing the guy to bounce away and stumble out of the ring.

Geoff pulled Gray up and they high-fived.

Unfortunately for Gray and Geoff, a team of 8 saw them do this and felt disgusted.

"What's the plan Gray?!?" Geoff exclaimed as the team of 8 started moving towards Gray and Geoff.

"Operation enemy of my enemy is still an enemy!" Gray grabbed Geoff and they started to run towards another team that was trying to grapple with another team.

It seems nobody took the concept of a free for all seriously, but this worked for Gray anyways. He gently bumped into someone from both of the teams to get their attention as the team of 8 was running towards him and Geoff. Gray suddenly shouted heroically "To arms brothers! The enemy approaches!"

The 2 teams that were fighting each other turned to see the team of 8 that was running towards them, believing they were the target. All 3 teams started to engage each other and it slowly devolved into a series of submissions as everyone was too far from the edge to throw each other out.

Gray and Geoff pretended to be struggling with each other and they rolled around, pretending to almost get the other one to submit before they would trade positions.

Meanwhile, Paul merely watched Gray and Geoff and thought to himself "Is our leader really this shameless?" while standing next to Stacia who was to nervous to try and attack anyone.

Yurika was a teal twin-tailed terror, she never engaged a group larger than 4, but she could easily cause two people to submit at the same time by using a combination of leg locks, arm locks, and submission holds that were obviously not taught in the class.

Yurika got in trouble when a group of 5 cornered her near the edge. She jumped at the first guy, wrapped her legs around his torso and spin around him and pushed him out of the ring with her feet, another guy grabbed her arm to try and throw her out. Yurika twisted her arm, spun, grabbed his arm, and pulled him out of the ring, but a third guy used this chance to rush her and was going to body check her out of the ring. Yurika dropped to a knee and the guy tripped over body, as he was falling she stood back up and flipped him not so gently out of the ring. As she was standing up, the last two guys both grabbed one of her legs each and were going to toss her out. She could only use her ultimate move... Monkey Steals Cherries double-edition. She reached out and grabbed both of their "cherries" and before she could even demand they submit, they had released her legs and screamed "I SUBMIT!"

Major Valen pointed at Yurika and said "Disqualified!"

"What for?!?" Yurika complained

"Striking, I'm sure every other guy here will agree as well!"

Yurika looked around and saw all the guys looking at her with fear while covering their 'cherries'. She hung her head low and then walked off.

Gray thought "Whew, glad she didn't use that on me."

Eventually Paul was overwhelmed when a group of 4 went for him and Stacia, Stacia didn't fight back though and just stepped out of the ring. "I'm sorry Paul, I don't feel comfortable hurting people!"

Whether by trickery, skill, or strength, eventually all that was left was Gray, Geoff, and Major Valen.

"Dude, I have no idea how we're going to beat him." Geoff admitted to Gray.

"Neither do I!" Gray said as he clenched his teeth.

All 3 of them were sweating like crazy, Major Valen has several bruises on his arms where people had tried to hold on as he flung them out of the ring. Gray and Geoff were only marginally better since even though striking was not allowed, that didn't mean it wouldn't accidentally happen.

Gray leaned in to Geoff and whispered "I'm bigger than you, so run behind me when I dive at him, then push us both out of the ring!"

"I doubt that will work, but let's give it a shot, I'm tired anyways!" Geoff whispered back.

Gray ran straight at Major Valen, then he suddenly pretended to see someone to the side of Major Valen and said "Oh! I didn't know you were still here Verona!"

Major Valen turned to look at where Gray was looking and Gray jumped straight at Major Valen. Major Valen turned back towards Gray at the last second, caught him, then whispered to him "That's the oldest trick in the book."

"It was worth a shot!" Gray said

Major Valen took a step towards the edge of the ring to toss Gray out and at that same time Geoff ran at full speed into Gray and Major Valen. Surprisingly Major Valen was caught off guard, and he stumbled towards the edge of the ring. Gray was unceremoniously thrown out of the ring while Geoff was doing his best to keep pushing Major Valen. Major Valen stomped his foot down to stop himself and grabbed Geoff to throw him out as well, but he looked down and saw the foot he had stepped down with was out of the ring.

"You got lucky boy!" Major Valen said to Geoff as he released him.

Geoff jumped excitedly and cheered for himself, he had beaten Major Valen! He had help, but he still managed to beat him!

"Why isn't anyone else cheering?" Geoff said to himself.

Geoff turned to look at Gray who was lying on his back and saw that Gray was laughing slightly and he couldn't figure out what was funny.

Suddenly Geoff felt a shove from behind and he was sent out of the ring.

"Winner! Corporal Erita!" Major Valen barked followed by rounds of cheering.

Xyra was glad she seemed to naturally disappear from people. All she did was sit on the mat near the edge and not say a word. Nobody noticed her, nobody paid attention to her, and even the 5 others on her team forgot about her.

Geoff turned around to see Xyra standing their smiling. She held out one hand and flashed him a 'V' with her fingers.

"I guess our team still won anyways, right?" Geoff said in a defeated tone.