Chapter 58: Will of Steel
Tournament Saga
Chapter 58: Will of Steel
An hour has passed since the last tournament battle, the one between our heroine, Kira Altarmore-Heartstrings, vs the speedster pegasus, Triangle Strike. During this time, the minotaur child that both Ken and Kira had become acquaintance with was having his own inner turmoil. Copper Will knew from the beginning that he stood nearly no chance against the veteran fighters such as Colrath and the previous champion, after all, his namesake related to a weak metal long surpassed thousands of years ago. The young minotaur would be utterly crushed and molted like the copper he is.
However, seeing his newly acquired friends, Ken and Kira, decimate their opponents despite their age, changed his views.
Copper Will's own astonishment of those two twins completely baffled him. They practically took the book that described who fighters were, stamped it to the ground, tore the papers from it, and then reassembled it with new light.
Ken and Kira proved that it could be done, that it doesn't take experience alone to win battles. Sure they were powerful, but it is their resourcefulness, quick thinking, reflexes, and innovative actions that won over their opponents.
'Perhaps,' Copper Will began to think as he sat on a bench within the Tournament Fighter Area, 'Father will acknowledge me,'
"Hey, Copper!"
The minotaur looked up, seeing Ken Heartstrings before him with a carefree expression, monkey-like tail wagging behind him in joy.
Copper Will couldn't help but smile, Ken's personality was contagious, "Hello, Ken. What's up?"
Ken grinned, before saying, "I came to wish you luck! Kira is cheering for you too! Plus, you kinda looked a bit down over here... You do know you don't gotta sit alone right?" The hybrid boy said to him.
His eyes widened, "What? What are you talking about, minotaur's always sit alone! We have to show that-"
"That's silly, why would you always be alone?" Ken interrupted with his question. "Also, that's a bit contradicting-" He paused, his eyes wandering downward for a split moment which made Copper Will look in confusion. "Sorry about that, anyway, it's a bit contradicting because nobody should be by themselves and that a single person can't do everything."
Copper blinked, before replying, "In minotaur society, individualism is our lifestyle."
Ken tilted his head, "Individualism?" He said puzzlingly, "Does that mean you're all single?"
Copper Will sputtered over his words, "W-What!? No! It means we value being independent from everyone!" He corrected hastily
"Isn't that was single is?" Ken replied.
"No that's... A different thing."
"Oh okay..." Ken trailed off, "Even from your friends?"
"Friendship is a Equestrian idealogy..."
The hybrid pouted, "Not really, I thought we became friends back in the playground place? How is that from Equestria?"
"We became acquaintances, not friends, different thing." The minotaur child corrected, crossing his arms, "Plus, what is friendship even for?"
"Oh, lots of things! Like... Um... Well... Friendship is better than being acquaintances because you know each other more, and can trust each other to be there for you!"
"Not much of a difference really," Copper Will stated, "Thanks for trying to cheer me up at least."
"Your... Welcome?" Ken said with a puzzled expression, his tail wiggling behind him. "Anyway, as I said before, we're cheering for you! So go beat that Colrath guy and get to the semi-finals!" Ken finished cheerfully.
Copper smiled, "Yeah, I will. Colrath won't know what's coming to him!"
"Males and Females of all races, welcome to the Four Border Tournament fourth round!" The announcer yelled, "Today's a treat as the former runner-up champion from the last tournament is participating in this match, please give cheers for, Colrath of the Twelve!"
A humanoid, malicious looking, western-like dragon, stepped onto the tournament ring with his well-fitted arms crossed. He grinned, showing a row of sharp deadly teeth, his face held three spikes protruding from his cheeks and the back of his head, two horns struck outward from each side of his skull. Scales riddled his entire body with the exception of his front, which had a more hard-like tan carapace from the neck to the bottom end of his long powerful tail. Along his backside, a row of evenly separated spikes trailed down to his tail, and two giant draconic strong wings remain folded to his back.
His yellow reptilian eyes scouted the ring, before he said, "Mpfh,"
The announcer seemed to have produced a handkerchief out of nowhere, rubbing the sweat down his neck, "Terrifying yet awesome appearance as always, next we have the young fighter, a minotaur, give it up for Copper Will!"
The orange furred minotaur child stepped onto the ring, and looked up to Colrath, who was twice his size in height.
'Uh, whoa, he's big. You could stack both Ken and Kira on top of each other and he'll still be a inch or two taller.' Copper Will thought, gulping as a small bit of fear for what his opponent could lay down on him in this match.
He clenched his fist, 'No, I can do this, I can win. Ken and Kira won their matches, I can do the same." The minotaur child reinforced his thoughts.
Copper Will raised his clenched fist in front of him, one in front of the other, his legs spread evenly, hooves firmly on the ground as his legs bend slightly.
"Let the fourth match, begin!"
"Yaaaaahhhhh!" Copper Will yelled, charging forward, hooves beating on the ring harshly, fist raised as he thrust it forward with all his strength at Colrath.
"Futile," Was the only word that came out of the dragon's mouth.
A fist came in contact with a barrier a few feet away from Colrath, Copper Will's eyes widened, "A barrier? Darn it!" He cursed as his rolled to the right to avoid a strike from the dragon.
*BANG!*
The ground that was hit by Colrath's fist exploded outward, arena parts flying everywhere.
Copper Will stood back up, 'He's powerful, how can I beat him if he has a barrier and such strength?'
"You're going to lose this match," Colrath stated with a monotone expression. "It is best you surrender, I have no desire to harm one whom I know is weaker than me." Colrath finished.
A barrier simmered back into existence as Copper Will's hoof strike hit against it, the minotaur tried landing a combo on it, perhaps repeated attacks would shatter it. However, this action proved for naught as the barrier seemed impenetrable.
"Oof!" Copper Will sounded as he felt pain erupted from his abdomen, glancing upward he saw Colrath's fist at hit him in that area. Copper Will tried to grasp it, but a barrier disrupted his counter attack, 'Even when he's attacking me that barrier remains up!?' He thought.
Next thing he saw was another punch coming right at his face before he was flying through the air, and then skidding along the rough stone ring's ground. He caught himself, and back-handspring upright, proceeded to try and find a weakness in his opponent.
He couldn't find anything.
"If you're trying to find a weakness, forget it. Even I tried to find a weakness in my barrier technique." Colrath begin, smirking proudly, "Only the most advanced anti-barrier magic can destroy it completely, and you are no unicorn."
Copper Will narrowed his eyes, his own magical energy couldn't provide enough of a physical augmentation to bring fruit to his skills. It was a common fact that magical energy is a weak physical augment, it can provide a tiny bit of more strength to the body, but that was it. Unless you add some other energy like chaos magic, but that's dangerous. He knew from first glance on how Ken and Kira used their energy that it was not magic. Magic never provided such boost to physical abilities, it was something else.
Still that didn't stop the Minotaurs from trying. they were all so proud on how they were experts in physical magic augmentation. It's not like their inner magic could do much else, there are only so few techniques that allowed for outward magic for any race besides those of the Unicorn ponies.
Copper Will unfortunately, was no exception, "Any barrier will break if enough force is applied to it!"
"Please," Colrath dismissed him, "You would have to become at least fifty times stronger in order to break even half of my barriers."
"Barriers, more than one... Wait, Colrath of the Twelve, implies twelve barriers then..." Copper Will found himself lacking encouragement, how could he destroy twelve of those seemingly invincible barriers! It's not like he has a super form or something!
'Cow, I wish I had that ability that Kira used, it looks useful... What was it... Kaioken, no wait, it's Kaio-ken.' Copper Will thought as he slowly moved closer to Colrath's position.
"I'm going to finish this quickly alright, I apologize for any injuries." Colrath said, before he then rushed the young minotaur.
""Oh cow's breath!" Minotaur exclaimed as he ducked, avoiding a claw to the face, he then tried to uppercut in retaliation, but that barrier blocked his move. He found himself in deep trouble as a cut appeared along his shoulder, than his leg, then his chest, it was the dragon claws of Colrath that were inflicting the wounds upon the child's body.
'Grr, I can't beat him!' Copper Will said, wincing with every attack dealt to him.
A image looked to him from a bed, "Copper, my dear, t-there is something I h-have to tell you,"
"Mom, don't die please!"
"It is too late, I only have so much time... Copper... My child, my beloved child..."
'No, I can't, not now, focus, focus!' Copper Will thought to himself as he avoided two strikes to the face by reeling back. He then tried tackling Colrath, the barrier appeared by the dragon still was pushed back by an unseen force.
The minotaur child eyes widened, "You're still affected by the law of motion,"
"Reduced yes, but still in effect. I didn't expect you to try something drastic like that, but I won't be caught off guard again." Colrath replied in that emotionless tone of his.
The humanoid dragon raised both his claws, and light green magic formed within them, then he started firing them like baseballs at Copper Will, the bolts of magical energy impacting against the ground and causing minor explosions. Copper Will dodged them, but one was too close and the force of the explosion caused him to crash to the ground.
"There is a ability... P-Passed down from my family side from... Generation to G-generation..."
"A-abilty?" A four year old Copper Will said.
"Y-yes, this ability passed on to you... In your blood... Copper..."
Copper will rolled back, avoiding a downward kick from Colrath's clawed foot. He charged forward, and tried to punch at his chest, but the barrier once again blocked it and he was sent back by a counter attack from the draconic being. Colrath breathed deeply, before releasing a searing hot fireball from his mouth. Colrath, not having time to block, prepared for the worst by crossing his arms in front of himself protectivly.
'Oh, this is going to hurt.' Copper Will couldn't help but think.
The fireball impacted against him harshly, flames burning against his outer orange fur coat and catching the hair strands on fire, the heat threatening to go into his skin as he struggled to breath through the smoke that generated.
"One day, you will be more than your namesake, one day, you will become what... The forefounder... Of our family was... Katchin wielder, but... Until then... Become Steel."
Black smoke surrounded the position where Copper Will resided, his form hidden from Colrath and the audience watching, within the audience, two twins looked onward alongside their mother toward the tournament ring.
"Come on Copper, you can do it! Beat that dragon up!" Kira exclaimed, swinging her fist around to demonstrate.
"Yeah!" Ken agreed, "Destroy his stupid barriers and punch him right in the face!" Ken yelled.
"Ken!" Lyra said to her son.
"Uh," Ken stopped, "I mean his chest, punch him real hard!" the hybrid boy corrected himself.
Kira gasped, getting his brother and mother's attention. "Look!" She said, pointing toward the ring.
Lo and behold as the black smoke dissipated into the air, revealed to be Copper Will, his entire form, his skin, now a tempered metal with no damage or dents upon it. Even his eyes seemed to have transformed into a metal like substance, similar in appearance to steel.
"Let's try this again..." Copper Will said, glaring at Colrath.
The humanoid dragon was not impressed.
"You believe this new ability will change the fact you cannot beat me?" Colrath said, confident in his own abilities.
The minotaur child shook his head, "No, I can't beat you, but I can at least destroy one of those barriers! If I can't do that, then there is no point of me being here in the first place!" Copper Will exclaimed.
The Twins cheered, Ken yelling, "Send him into next Tuesday, Copper!"
Colrath sweat dropped, "Why doesn't anyone cheer for me?"
"Because they're too busy cheering for the underdog!" the metal furred minotaur replied with a grin. He stretched a bit, flexing his steel-transformed body, before looking to Colrath. "Now, let's finish this! Hiaaayaa!" Copper Will roared a battle cry as he charged forward, his heavy footsteps making noisy clanks on the ground with each step.
"I see you didn't lose any speed despite having a increase in weight," Colrath said as he dodged Copper Will's first punch, he then swiped his tail at the minotaur child, who responded by raising his arm to his right side and blocking the appendage. Copper Will struck outward with his left fist, a barrier forming but the power behind the blow had significantly increased.
A tiny crack appeared.
Colrath's eyes widened, before narrowing as he cupped both his fist together and slammed them on top of Copper Will's head. He winced as his scales met with the strange metal armoring, but it did its job.
Copper Will went face first into the ground, but he pushed himself up and tried to tackle the dragon fighter. Of course, that barrier appeared again to defend this blow, but the minotaur suddenly stopped himself. This caused his back to straight up, arm to be raised back, before he slammed it into the barrier.
More cracks appeared.
"Come on Copper!" Kira cheered, "Break it!"
"You can do it!" Ken exclaimed.
He kept his fist into the barrier, it shimmered continuously as the cracks started to spread. Colrath opened his mouth, and started to release a stream of flame onto the minotaur. Sure his new ability prevented Copper Will from getting burnt, but the shear heat generated by the fire was becoming more unpleasant by the second.
"I might not be able..." Copper Will started as he grimaced in pain from the heat, "To defeat you... But I will. Break. This. Barrier!" He raised his other arm, holding it back before hitting the first barrier with all his strength he could muster, every once of energy he had left went into his action.
It shattered, the barrier breaking apart from the point of collision, tiny red crystal magic shards flying outward, almost hovering, into the air before evaporating.
Copper Will smiled, he did it. "How's that for a weakling?" He said, before his eyes rolled to the back of his head, skin returning to normal, and the minotaur child falling unconscious.
Colrath stepped back, "One out of twelve broken... I underestimated you, which means I should not underestimate my next opponents either." The dragon said, looking to the stands toward the hybrid saiyan girl, Kira.
The announcer cheered, "Now that was fight! The winner is, Colrath!"
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i hate this chapter
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5422087 :D
Merry almost Christmas :D
Goku punches the barrier... the arena explodes :P
5422444
Hahaha!
5422449
Heh, by the way, is Copper Will supposed to be a reference to Yamcha or Krillin?
P.s Merry Christmas!
5422463
Not purposely.
5422475
Meh, when I think of Copper Will I think of Krillin. He knows he can't win, but he certainly tries.
Copper Will is the Krillin of this fic.
5422911 really? I'm getting more of a Chaotzu feel. Still useless but at least stronger than Krillin. I'm pretty sure that Spike will be the Krillin of the series.
5436459 Spike a fighter? Pigs will fly!
5438409 Hence, him being the Krillin of the series.
5442321
I think you mean Yamcha if I ever decide to bring Spike in.
So far -
Ken & KIra Altamore-Heartstrings - Goku
Copper Will - Choatzu?
Spike - Krillin
Discord - Frieza
I can't wait to see the substitutes of the Z Fighters. Come to think of it, does the Z in Dragonball Z mean anything?
5443026
It's more like this in my opinion.
Chris - Goku
Ken and Kira - Gohan
Copper Will - StIll working on that
Discord - Frieza
Ziek Foreton - Dr. Gero and Androids
Lyra - Chi Chi
Idk much, I haven't thought much about it. Too focused on our munchkin heroes. Also, I personally believe the Z in DBZ means Z-fighters.
5443063 That makes a lot of sense! Y'know, it would be cool if Chris and Lyra met in pony.
5443072
The future of SoE is full of surprises, Chris and Lyra have met briefly in Discord Saga, but not long enough to get to know each other.
5442759 Krillin=Yamcha, Tomato=Toemato, whats the difference... Well other than when Krillin got dumped the girl took his money and when Yamcha got dumped Bulma took back her money.
5444367 Going to need a sensu for that one