Slam and Jam 2

Alet starts to gain her consciousness back. She opens her eyes and she tries to stand up and process what just happened. She is surprised after seeing Io on the other side of the arena already look exhausted. She saw Jam’s throwing his ball toward Io. Alet then casts a dirt wall once again to save Io from Jam’s attack. After Jam realized that Alet already stood back up, they suddenly changed direction toward Alet. This situation makes Io feel irritated. He throws his scythes and sticks it in Jam’s and Slam’s shoulder and pulls it.

“Hey! I’m also right here!” He uses this opportunity to get close to Alet.

“Io! What just happened?” Alet asked.

“Well, you just got hit by-” before he can finish his explanation he sees Alet already sent flying toward Slam.

“!? Since when did Jam do that!?” He still can’t believe that just happened.

Io eyes start to widen as he sees Slam already swinging her hammer downward to crush Alet. He threw away his scythes and ran as fast as he could. Alet, who has no idea what she must do to avoid Slam’s hammer, closes her eyes.

“Is this the end for me? Well, at least I can fight alongside my partner…” Says Alet inside her mind, already accepting her fate.

“SCATTER PUNCH!” Shout Io as he throws his right hand toward Slam’s hammer.

A loud sound was created from his punch. Slam and Jam are shocked after seeing Slam’s hammer scatter like a broken glass. There is no way that hammer would break easily like that. Her hammer was manufactured by the Manusha using unbreakable metal. Her hammer was also casted with a shield spell from Slam herself to prevent her hammer from breaking.

“What is that power!? My hammer never breaks once.” Slam can’t believe what happened in front of her. She retreated from her position and started to plan the next move with Jam.

“Alet! Are you okay?” Asked Io worried.

“Huh? Am I still alive?” She opens her eyes and sees a scatter glass next to her.

“Yes… yes you are.” Io’s voice sounded shaking and he hugged Alet for a while.

“Alet… let’s finish this match.” Io starts to calm a little as he helps Alet to stand back up.

Alet is still in confusion, she is still trying to process every information. While Io already faces toward Slam and Jam, their faces show a tense expression. They run out of ideas on how to fight Io and Alet back since Slam lost her weapon. The announcer didn’t stop the match since the rule didn’t give them a break in between. In a simple way, everyone has to fight to the death. Slam didn’t have any choice but to fight Io with her bare hand.

Io charges toward Slam and finally, they start to show their weakness. Slam gets hit by Jam’s ball from the side.

“Hey! Watch it where you throw it!” Slam shout toward Jam.

“What!? You know our drill. I strike first then you get to strike after.” Jam shouted back.

“How come you always get to strike first? I want to do it as well!” Slam loses her temper.

They start to fight against each other.

“Wow! What a twist! Looks like we got something going on there!” Said the announcer after seeing Slam and Jam fight each other.

Io and Alet standing there in confusion, they plan to use this situation to their advantage. After a while Slam grabs Jam and she throws him outside the arena, since Slam has more physical strength, Jam can’t prevent himself from staying inside the arena. Jam finally falls out from the arena and counts as defeated.

“Finally… I get to do what I want!” Slam sound relief after throwing her partner outside the arena.

Without wasting any more time, Io is already in front of her, ready to throw his punch. Alet knows that Slam would block that punch and survive, then she throws a fireball towards Io’s hand that is about to throw the punch. Once Io landed his punch, the power doubled up resulting in Slam sent to the edge of the arena. She can’t balance her body and falls out joining Jam on the bottom side.

“And we got our winner! The Angkara!” A buzzer comes off as a sign the match has ended.

“That was the funniest win I have ever seen. Once again, congratulations for the Angkara! Now, for all the fighters, please head back to the changing room.” Add the announcer.

Io and Alet look at each other. Not for long they burst into laughter. They keep talking about it while walking to the changing room.

“That combo was awesome! We should do that more often.” Said Io.

“Haha yeah. We are lucky though, they giving us a free win.” Says Alet with a smile on her face.

“You know, we should be careful as well. They just show us that internal problems can be our true weakness.”.

“Hmmm…? Are you telling me that we have a problem?”.

“Ehhh… no… I mean yes. No… NO! Not at all haha…” he started to sweat since he remembered about the seasonal problem from yesterday.

“What is it? You are hiding something from me. Also you act really strange on the battlefield.”.

“I-I do? What do you mean?” He still sounds nervous.

“You won’t explain the situation to me. And after Slam’s hammer is destroyed, you hug me for a while. What is happening?” Asked Alet.

“…” He tried to avoid answering her question.

“Hey! Answer it. Just like you said before, internal problems can be our weakness.” Her face started to get serious.

“Okay I’ll tell you. But not here… I’ll tell you later at home.” he avoids making eye contact with her.

“Sigh... Now let's head home and get some rest. But before that…”.

“B-before that?” He gulped.

“We have to celebrate first! What do you say?”.

“Oh yes. That is a great idea.” He was relieved.

They head to a pizza restaurant nearby. Since none of them like to drink to celebrate, they change it to have some food instead. After having some pizza, they head home.

“Fuah… that pizza was good.” Said Alet as she takes off her shoes.

“Yeah right, The cheese is just perfect!” Io answer as he closes the door.

“I’ll take a bath first. And after that we can discuss our next opponent. Can’t wait to end this tournament.”.

“Okay, but let's discuss it after I take a bath as well.”.

“Sounds good!”.

After a while, both of them sit on the sofa. They are surprised after reading a notification from the tournament. Inside there is an announcement that Io and Alet will fight every leader of the races. In their next match they will fight against Flyn and Fiona. And for the final, they will fight Reine.

“Damn… This is going to be super hard.” Alet showed a little worry in her voice.

“Yeah. But don’t worry. At least we got a week to get ready. I’m sure we got this.” Io looks at Alet with full confidence.

“Yeah, but now I’m kind of nervous… What if I mess things up and we fail?”.

“Come on now… It has not even started yet. Let's train as hard as we can for a week. Aren’t this what you- I mean we want? To prove everyone that a Siluma can live together with a Capla?” Said Io trying to calm Alet.

“Yeah you are right. Let's do our best!” Alet gets her spirit back.

Io replies to her with a smile.

“Oh by the way, what about the thing you wanted to say before?”.

“Uhh… That's… Sigh… It's my problem actually.”.

“Uh huh, what is it?”.

“You know, about the incident we had yesterday.”.

“The towel incident? Yeah I remember it. What’s up with that?”.

“At first I want to apologize because I didn’t knock on the door first.” His face shows that he is about to say something afterward.

“Apology accepted, and second?”.

“Second… I’m in my season…”.

“Huh? What!? Now!? Hold on, how long will it last?” She is surprised and jumps off the sofa.

“Hmmm… about a month.” He spoke nervously.

“A MONTH!?? Oh gosh we are doomed.” She falls to the sofa.

“I know. Don’t worry, I promise I will not do anything strange to you… All I need is distraction.” He started to explain.

“Alright, go on.”.

“So all we have to do is keep ourselves distracted with as many activities as possible... You can think it is like an energy that I have to deliver into something else.”.

“Sign… All right then… Let's do that.”.