2DISCLAIMER: Only things I own are my OCs.
The day began like any other day. Kasugano Tsubaki and I were watching out for Amano Yukiteru and Gasai Yuno.
The four of us are [DIARY] owners, but these [DIARIES] are no ordinary diaries. They tell the future in specific ways.
*BEEP*
Yuno, Yukiteru, and I took out our cell phones to see the update in our future. Tsubaki, however, opened the scroll she kept with her.
The message today was, without a doubt, messed up: "FRIDAY THE 13TH"
"What does that mean?" Yukiteru asked us.
"You got me" Damion answered the other male teen.
~~ Deus Ex Machina's lair ~~
There were two entities in the lair: Deus Ex Machina and The Reaper.
The Reaper is one of the many minions of Death. It is the entity that brings kills anyone or anything it wants, excluding itself.
"What is so important about this day!" Deus yelled to The Reaper.
"If you've followed the superstitions of the humans, you'd know why it's a big deal" The Reaper answered the god of machines.
"Is that why you're interfering with the tournament? You sent the remaining competitors an unauthorized message!" the machine god demanded with outrage.
"Precisely, but I've brought in my own 'competitior' for the day" The Reaper chuckled evilly.
"Show me this 'champion' of yours and maybe I'll let him in for the day" Deus demanded
"I asked The Reaper to bring me here to confront, again, my long-time friend, rival, and arch-enemy for our traditional Friday the Thirteenth confrontation" The 'champion' calmly said to the machine god.
"And what is your name, human?" Deus Ex Machina asked him.
~~ With Damion ~~
Soon after strolling the city, that morning, only Damion's [Diary] beeped with an update.
"One old rival/best friend/arch-nemesis confronts Damion… Fight escalates to all-out war… Result unknkown" The message read.
"What the fuck does that mean?" Damion cursed aloud after reading the 'future'.
~~ Deus Ex Machina's lair ~~
"I see. You are interesting enough. You have my permission to enter my world" Deus said to the newcomer.
Behind the newcomer was an emerald-blue dragon about the human's size.
"Your 'pet' is welcome, too" Deus added.
~~ Morning in the city ~~
*BOOM*
One of the nearby buildings exploded around the third floor and two shadowy figures flew out of the explosion.
"Is that another [Diary] holder!" Damion asked aloud.
"Given the circumstances, I HOPE it is" Yukiteru responded with the same hopefulness Damion asked in.
They were dead wrong as the shadows that jumped out rebounded off the next building and flew directly at Damion and his friends.
*CRASH*
The miscreants that landed left a small crater in the spot they were on.
"Nice to see you again, Damion. Or should I say 'The 13th!" The figure said as though with evil intentions.
"You must be…?" Damion answered, somewhat confused.
"Guest diary holder number 14. Long time no see, Damion!" The miscreant said somewhat cynically.
"You must be the asshole mentioned in my [Diary]" Damion shot back.
"Do you know him, Damion-san?" Tsubaki asked the 13th (Damion).
"Drake!"
"About time. Cut the chatter and let's settle the score" The guest 14th [Diary] holder, Drake, said before rushing Damion.
Yuno, Yukiteru, and Kasugano had to flee the scene for their safety, so they ran.
"Don't even THINK about going after my buddies, Drake" Damion threatened as he parried the punches Drake was throwing.
"I couldn't care less about them, YOU'RE the one I'm after" Drake evilly said, now throwing kicks into the flurry of attacks.
One of the kicks, however, landed on Damion's left knee.
"Disabling your opponent's vital spots, very clever" Damion said aloud as he now moved that in a way that doesn't involve extensive use of his injured knee.
*BEEP*
"Time out!" Damion said, holding his hands in the 'T' formation that says 'Time out' without being said.
Damion whipped out his [Diary] and scanned the future that arrived.
"Holy powers used, at disadvantage due to lack of methods to counter magic… guest 14th clearly has the upper hand… beating him and his holy magic seems impossible at the moment" Damion read the 'future' quickly.
As if on cue, Drake glowed white and ran straight for Damion.
"Time's up!" He screamed before tackling Damion.
The white aura surrounding Drake seemed to seep into Damion's skin and it felt more like poison than holy magic being used.
"What is this?" Damion muttered as he jumped back to recover from the holy magic tackle.
Damion's body suddenly felt like it was being sapped of strength.
"SHIT! Is that what the power of the holy is supposed to do!" Damion thought to himself as he began running around Drake in an attempt to stall him.
As Damion struggled to adjust to his strength being sapped, he had a feeling that something worse was going to happen.
"Your time is running out, Damion!" Drake screamed as he gave a round-house kick to Damion's backside.
That was when Gasai Yuno stepped in and tackled Drake.
She was holding a miniature hand-held chainsaw that looked like it could cut through reinforced titanium.
She swung the weapon, while it was turned on, at Drake wildly. Drake, however, had a hard time keeping up with her because of his overconfidence that he had Damion cornered.
"So, you want to play, do you?" He threatened the chainsaw-wielding girl.
"I will protect Damion!" She stated loudly, holding the chainsaw in Drake's direction.
"This is my fight, Yuno. Thanks for your thoughtfulness though" Damion whispered to her before pushing her behind him.
With new resolve, Damion lunged at his enemy and smacked Drake across the face with such force that could shatter steel into dust.
The blow sent Drake flying at least ten feet into the air before he began falling back down, flying several meters away from Damion.
"Guest 14th isn't much of a challenge, is he?" Yuno thought aloud as she saw Damion recover from the powerful punch.
"What is that guy's beef with me anyway? He could've taken you, Yukiteru, or Tsubaki hostage to stop me, but what bothers me is why he chose not to if he's a [Diary] holder" Damion answered with a serious tone.
The moment he muttered those words was the moment Drake ran full-speed at Damion with murder in his eyes.
"You bastard!" He screamed as he engaged Damion in some close-combat with his fists and feet.
This new tactic almost caught Damion off-guard, if not for his quick-thinking on his feet and wits to match the speed of his thoughts.
It was then that Yukiteru decided to join the fight and throw a few darts at the guest [Diary] holder.
"Yukiteru, leave this fight to me" Damion struggled to say while making every attempt to avoid being struck by the 14th. The punches and kicks were getting harder and harder to keep up with as time passed, mainly due to the amount of energy needed to anticipate, and respond to the incoming attacks.
Then, at one moment during the attack, Damion slammed his foot into Drake's stomach area without getting hit himself.
This stunned the guest [Diary] holder temporarily, as he clutched the spot where he was kicked.
"Let me ask you this. Why didn't you use under-handed tricks like taking hostages in your fight against me?" Damion asked him.
"You should understand that this is OUR fight, and that there's no need for anyone else to get involved. Damion, we're fighting to see who's the better fighter" He spat in response before recovering enough to return to his assault.
Fortunately, Damion saw that coming and used his [Guardian Diary]'s power to create gauntlets for him to use in the fight.
"Ah, the Guardian Diary. It's power rivals that of a certain someone's diary that reveals the future to protect himself" Drake sneered as he saw the gauntlets form on his enemy's hands.
"So, what's your [Diary]'s power? Damion asked, guarding himself for a sudden attack during his conversation.
"The [Warrior Diary]!" Drake yelled before his [Diary] transformed into short swords for both hands to wield.
The two charged at one another, gauntlets smashing into swords, kicks being traded. The two were looked like they were going to murder one another.
"Damion-san" Yukiteru said, silently cheering for his friend's victory.
*Beep*
Damion's [Guardian Diary] beeped once to indicate a change in the future.
Quickly bringing it out and jumping backward, he glanced at the message quickly.
"Fight escalating, second opponent joins fight… Situation is critical"
"Where's your partner, Drake?" Damion asked him. After asking, he quickly looked around as though fearing a sneak attack.
"Now!" Drake shouted.
A shadowy figure dropped from above and landed behind Drake.
"Let's get him, Kai" Drake commanded to the figure behind him.
It was an emerald-blue dragon about the size of a typical teenager in height.
"So you're his back-up huh? This might be trouble" Damion muttered silently as he backed off slowly away from the two enemies in front of him.
Drake and Kai charged at Damion, full speed and they had him in a pincer attack that was supposed to prevent escape.
Damion is in trouble if the onslaught continues like this. With Kai blocking an escape route behind him, and Drake attacking from the front, all Damion can do is keep fighting from the front AND the back until either Kai or Drake go down.
Damion realized this a short time later, and came up with a way to get out of the sticky situation. However, he also knows the weakness in this tactic: Taking your attention away from one target to focus on another.
In other words, the strategy is a last-ditch effort to up the fighting performance and make a quick get-a-way after one enemy goes down.
"Here goes everything" Damion thought to himself as he mentally prepared himself for the trump card for the situation.
He began by turning his back on Drake and focused on the dragon blocking his escape. He started by punching and kicking the dragon on the head and face.
One by one, the punches and kicks were reeling Kai left and right from the onslaught of attacks. Damion was also wary of a support attack from Drake from behind at any moment.
Sure enough, shortly into the plan, Drake rushed in and tried to knee-kick Damion in the back.
Damion was aware of the flaw in the plan, and dodged to the left while still focusing on Kai.
The dragon, however, didn't have much time to recover in the short timeframe that he wasn't attacked.
Just after Drake's attack was evaded, Damion gave Drake a quick shove to push him back a few feet.
Then he returned to trying to knock out the dragon.
It took about a half-hour for Kai to go down, and Drake was furious about his partner being downed.
"Damn you, Damion" He cursed as he gave chase to Damion.
Damion tried to flee from Drake to come up with a better plan to take down the challenger 'guest' who suddenly attacked him.
Unfortunately, Drake was faster and quickly caught up to Damion.
The speed in which Drake managed to corner Damion was unbelievable.
Tsubaki, Yuno, and Yuki were keeping watch on the fight by using their [Future Diaries] from a safe distance away from the main event.
'Damion is trapped by the guest and has his back to the wall literally. The pet of the guest is down, so that should make the fight easier' their [diaries] read as they kept watch on the action both on their [diaries] and in front of them.
"You should be thanking me that I'm only interested in hunting you down. Otherwise, your friends would've been long gone by now" Drake mocked as he took up a fighting stance with his fists up defensively.
Damion grunted angrily and knew that was merely a provocation to make him charge head-on.
"How can I beat a guy like him? He won't use my friends as hostage or use under-handed tactics to beat me" Damion thought to himself as he pondered a strategy to beat the 'guest'.
Then, an idea popped in his head.
"Hey! Let's strike up a deal" Damion said to Drake.
"A deal? Sounds interesting" Drake answered back with interest.
"Why not settle this another day? Like in the future?" Damion suggested.
"Screw that, I came here to settle it NOW!" Drake shot back a little angry.
"Shit, there's no other way to convince you otherwise?" Damion asked him desperately.
"Give up and die!" Drake shouted as he now lunged at Damion.
"Fine, I give up, but I'm not about to die!" Damion shot back while running away from Drake.
That seemed to do the trick as Drake suddenly stopped.
"It's my win this time" Drake commented before he and Kai suddenly disappeared.
"Glad he's gone" Damion said with relief before returning to his friends.
~~ Later that evening ~~
"So, what was it that he was fighting you over?" Yukiteru asked him.
"That's still something I don't know. When I surrendered, he just said 'it is my victory' and he just left after saying that" Damion explained to his friends.
"Either way, let's hope he wasn't a contestant in this tournament or else he might wipe the floor with us" Yuno muttered with a sigh of relief.
END OF CHAPTER