The next opponent Bluey was to face was another legendary grade magical beast. It was a baby ice phoenix.
*Phoenix Cry*
The moment the match started the baby ice phoenix created a blizzard inside the barrier making it hard to see the battle going on inside.
Phoenixes, much like dragons are considered to be somewhere between unique and legendary rank from birth and become legendary or higher as they mature. They are among the few who are born strong as almost all newborn beasts are rare grade or lower upon first being born.
A unique trait of the phoenix species is that they undergo a series of death and rebirth as a form of evolution. Once they hatch, they will start to gather as much of their assigned element to grow their body. Then once they have gathered too much for their physical vessel to handle, they turn their own body into an egg of sorts as they incubate a new physical form that is better equipped to handle such large amounts of elemental energy. Then once it is ready to hatch, the old vessel will crumble away into dust and a new version of itself is born, complete with nearly all the power of its old self as it begins gathering more energy to repeat the process. Which is why regardless of how young a phoenix might appear, it could still be overwhelmingly powerful.
*Phoenix Cry*
*Smack*
*Thud*
Not long after the blizzard had engulfed the stage, the sound of Bluey smacking his opponent rang out and soon after, an unconscious baby phoenix could be seen with its beak pressed up against the barrier as it slowly slid down to the floor.
"AND THE WINNER IS JOHN DOE!"
"And?" Nox said giving the announcer a look.
"And cock-a-doodle-doo!" The announcer muttered begrudgingly upon seeing Nox take a step towards him.
"That's right!"
…
Nox's POV:
"Nice work there Bluey or should I say Cock-a-doodle-doo!" I cackled as I entered the private room to find the next pair of intruders.
"There you are!"
"What up, Baby-face! Fur-beard!" I greeted the two alien lovers.
Out of all the intruders that have invaded my room today, these to old men are the only ones who have any sort of right to be here as they're sponsorship is the only reason why we didn't have to go through a bunch of crap like fighting other newbies in the preliminaries or filling out the species box in the registration forum.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!!!" Fur-beard screamed in my face.
"I'm thinking: Wow! How did you get so much fur in your beard? It's even hairier than before!"
"You know very well, that is not what he meant!" Baby-face chimed in.
"Oh, has that reporter released the news already? She works fast!" I said, thinking that the word of that playboy's wrongdoings has finally come to light.
"We are talking about how you gave the enigma that is Bluey an even more ridiculous sounding name then you already did!"
"It's not that weird! Plus, it was Bluey's idea!" I said, throwing the blame on the rooster in question.
"LIKE WE WOULD BELIEVE THAT! HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE LUNGS! HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO SPEAK?"
"He spoke to me through the unspoken bond between beast and trainer!" Or in other words telepathy.
"You have only been together for a month! You can't possibly be communicating that well, and even if you could, there is no way anyone would want to be called cock-a-doodle-doo! Much less a supreme being like Bluey!" Baby-face said while rubbing his eyes.
"The story behind why we picked that name is long and complicated! Filled with numerous hardships, too painful to recount! *sob*" I said, giving them a crocodile tear.
We actually just thought it would be funny to hear the announcer yell cock-a-doodle-doo every time we won a match, and it certainly has. Bluey was laughing his feathery butt off, when I grabbed the microphone and started shouting it to the whole world.
*sigh*
"So, what now? You know who your next opponent is going to be, right?" Fur-beard said with a serious face.
"Nope! I have no clue!"
"Huh? It's Tsuki Ren!"
"Who is?"
"The crown prince of the moon!"
"Hm?"
"He won the last three consecutive tournaments with ease!"
"…?"
"His beast is the mythical grade Jade Rabbit!"
"Hey, anyone want a drink! There is some juice in the-!"
"LISTEN!"
As my annoying sponsors were being a royal pain in my ass about this royal prince, I felt jealous of that little traitor who was drinking all the juice bye himself while I was stuck listening to these geezers nagging. I could even see him give me a smug smile as he ate the last bottle of juice.
"ARE YOU LISTENING TO US!" They screamed in my ear, taking my attention away from the greedy juice thief.
"Yeah, yeah, my next opponent is a snob!" I said.
Come to think of it, Bluey doesn't even have tastebuds. He drank all the juice just to piss me off. To think, my baby snake grew up into such a mean chicken. Where could he have possibly learned such bad behavior.
"HEY, LIST-! *muffled*"
"Not now, Fur-beard! I'm thinking!" I said, as I manifested a muffin I could shove into the old man's face.
"Hey! What did you give him! He is choking!" Baby-face whined.
*bang*
*gasp*
I pondered who it could be as I kicked the old man so hard in the stomach he coughed up the muffin, that I just fed him.
"Hm? Who could it be? Oh, I know! It has to be him!"
*Knock**Knock*Knock*
"JOHN DOE! PLEASE REPORT TO THE ARENA FOR THE SEMI-FINALS!" An official yelled outside my locker-room.
"Okay, it has been fun, but we have to go now! See you later alligators!" I said as I left the locker-room behind.