The Second Lylat War!

Chapter Seventeen

Round Two

Like predicted Lily was armed with two stun batons to which Mathias was prepared to meet her with his stun staff. Now Mathias and Lily went back and forth for a good amount of time as they both struggled to land blow on each other until Mathias let her knock his staff baton out of his paws so he could stumble back with fake fear activating his shield shield and switching a sword and shield stance he also grabbed his regular stun baton.

Mathias then performed a quick shield bash before hitting her with a few stun shots from his wrist blaster which she blocked but was just the right distraction to allow him to jab her in the chest just so lightly with his stun baton but enough to cause her to loose balance and fall on her backside. Now because of it's location of the blow it was determined a fatal blow and Mathias took the win. Now unlike her brother Lily accepted his outstretched paw as and complemented him on his victory.

With his victory he went to swap places with Joy and with a nod to Krystal who went to the staff lounge to watch her daughter fight Mathias went to the observation tower to help Joy in her fight. Everything was going fine until the door o the observation tower was whipped open and James, Marcus, Lue and Sam all rushed in and started to attack Mathias this of course distracted Joy to the point she stared at the observation tower and almost lost the fight.

"Joy focus!" snapped Mathias as he struggled to fight off the four attackers. "Don't worry about me I'll be fine just win your match!"

Mathias then switched off the Mac so she couldn't hear anything else but his words were enough for her to snap alert just in time to avoid a match ending blow. She then focused on winning not for herself but for Mathias. Now when Joy froze and looked up at the observation tower it caught the attention of Krystal and Fox who shot each other a glance before they stood and both started for the observation tower. As for Mathias he mostly tried to be defensive and even took a few hard blows to the ribs thus making it very hard to keep fighting but he had to.

Since they were all trying to Fang beat him Mathias was able to easily trip up and defeat Marcus and Sam who specialized in range fighting and thus where no match for he melee combat style. As for James and Lue they were more balanced in their combat style so it was still two on one but before too much damage could be done the doers bursted open once more but this time an angry Fox and a very angry Krystal where standing in the door way.

The four boys fled out other exits to which Fox went after them while Mathias was on his paws and knees holding his side in pain. Fox finally gave up and return as Krystal was unmuting the headset mic and finish couching Joy to victory.

"Mathias I'm sorry they attacked you and for that they will be disqualified from the tournament." sighed Fox as Mathias slowly and painfully got to his feet still holding onto his side.

"Yah but these injuries may also take him out of the tournament." sighed Krystal coming to Mathias' side.

"I'll be good enough to fight in a day or two. As for the others on has already been eliminated but let the other three still fight. If they wish to gang up on me let it be in a sanctioned fight at the finals if they can even manage to make it that far." replied Mathias before looking at Krystal and asking, "Did she win?"

"Yes which means she'll have to face off against her brother in the next round. So there is a slight chance you might have an ally in the final round." replied Krystal with a smile.

"How do you know he'll even make it into the final round. He may be skilled but he will have a great disadvantage with those wounds and we really can't postpone the next round just because of his wounds." confessed Fox. He was done playing games this boy had more honor and respect then his own son and it was time James was taught a lesson.

"Sir I'll be fine I've been taking beating all my life and I've survived so far. Besides as long as I keep my eye on the prize I can't loose." replied Mathias as he shot Joy, who'd just entered the room, a smile.

Fox turned to see who he was smiling at before turning back to Mathias and saying, "Wow boy I think you best watch what you're focusing on or you might find yourself in a whole different set of problems."

"Oh come on Fox it can't hurt besides I think it might be a bit too late to stop that train." replied Krystal with a smile as Joy rushed over to Mathias and have him a huge hug until he winced to which she let him go.

"Wait what!" asked Fox shocked "How long..."

"Dear have you been that blind not to have noticed them growing closer and closer everyday since the day they met." asked Krystal with a smile as Fox just looked back and forth between Mathias and Joy.

"I think we broke you dad." teased Mathias as he wrapped one arm around Joy and held his side with the other and smiled at Fox who looked to Krystal for help.

"Don't worry dad we have only held paws and hugged each other. Fox wanted to wait until the semester was over before asking you if we could advance our relationship a bit more." confessed Joy with a smile.

"Plus I think there was the fact he didn't want to give James any other reasons to want to beat him up." added Krystal as she took Fox's arm in hers and kissed his cheek.

"Speaking of James please tell me you're finally going to punish him for his actions?" asked Joy looking at hr parents as the four of them started to leave the room with Fox still trying to process the whole Mathias and Joy thing.

"Joy your father was going to disqualify three of the four boys who attacked me since the fourth one had already been eliminated but I told him to let them stay in and we can settle it once and for all in the arena during the final battle royal." explained Mathias before sneaking a quick kiss on her cheek which made her blush and Fox, who was with Krystal behind them, well his eyes got so big that the girls thought his head might explode. As for Mathias he just smiled.

To Be Continued...