Pre-Competition Gathering

Leon had Zen fly him to Rose Thorn City. He unsummoned all his beasts other then Ariel and Zen. Zen shrunk and wrapped around his neck while Ariel disguised herself again.

"The Gatheing should be about to begin, I came right on time." Leon thought.

He used his competition token to enter the city and walked to the hall the gathering was held at. It was at the hall of Eternal Bloom. It was had a large out door garden extending as far as you could see. But it also had an indoor garden with a wall of glass separating the outside and inside.

Leon used his token to enter the hall. Over their he saw tables set up and a stage for fighting on. Most people had already arrived.

Every One had noticed Leon's appearance and looked at him. Leon looked around and found where his team was sitting, he also saw the substitute team.

Then from the other teams Leon didn't recognise many people. From the blood teams he didn't recognise any one. From the Nature team he recognised Veronica, Orion and Hera. He had seen Orion and Hera at Flowing Blood mountain when waiting for the Blood Emperor's Arena to appear.

He knew Orion by name but he just recognised Hera as the person with him who tried to see through him.

Leon looked around once more and didn't see Bly, "He most likely couldn't make it this far with out the Blood sparrow."

Orion also looked at Leon, he couldn't tell why but he recognised Leon somewhat. Hera with him was confused, "What happened Orion, is something wrong with Leon Flamesmith?"

"I don't why but he reminds me of someone. I just can't remember..."

"Let me check, my nature sight has grown stronger recently." Hera looked directly at Leo, her eyes didn't turn green like before had a slight glow to them.

Leon looked back right into her eyes. He smiled as fire lit up in them and burned right into Hera's eyes. Her a covered her eyes in pain, Orion was confused, "What happened?"

"He used some type of technique to burn my eyes."

"What?!" Orion's sudden shout made everyone turn to his direction. Orion stood up and shouted at Leon, "Leon Flamesmith, you dare attack my teammates!"

"You should tell your teammates to keep her eyes to herself, it isn't nice to stare." Leon said as he moved to his table.

Orion grew even more furious, "Although the gathering hasn't officially begun, I challenge you to a duel!"

"Oh? you want to fight? I shall accompany you them."

Leon jumped on to the stage.

Orion walked up to the other side. The other nature continent team members didn't stop him.

The fire continent team weren't particularly stressed. They knew how strong Leon was.

Orion took out a sword and pointed it at Leon.

Leon looked at him, "Are you sure you don't want to summon a beast?" And then smiled.

"I don't need a beast to fight you."

"Really? Then I don't need to be here any more." Leon said as he started walking back. of the stage.

"You dare turn your back on an energy!" Orion ran towards Leon however before he knew it he was set on a red fire. It quickly burned through his skin, he fell to the ground and started rolling.

Leon shook his head as he walked off the stage. Leon had set him fire using a fire spell cause ignite. The flames were special they were the fake Vermilion flames. He however made sure they didn't damage him to much just make him feel pain.

The Nature Team members ran to Orion. One of them summoned a flower like soldier beast with a giant bell flower on its back. The humanoid beast poured the water in the bell flower onto Orion putting out the flames.

Leon sat down on his table and laughed, "Pathetic."

As soon as Orion was freed from the Fire more burst out of his body rekindling it.

The Nature Continent team looked towards Leon who was sitting and saying hello to everyone on the table.

Veronica walked up towards them, "Leon Orion had suffered enough stop the Fire. This is a friendly competition any more if this and it can be seen as breaking the rules."

"Fine." The fire on Orion stopped. The person with the beast summoned dropped water on Orion again. Orion quickly healed and woke up. He stood up and left for the table.

The fire continent team looked at Leon. They had seen the Fire before, It was the Fire Leon forms his fire swords with, but they didn't remember it being so ferocious.

"So have you all been? Where did you all go?"

Jolene started, "With Odin's help I was able to find the perfect contract beast! I'll show you guys later, it's amazing!"

Abigail then added, "Me and Flavia trained at the World tree forest."

"Where was Flint?" Leon asked as he looked at Flint. The three had formed a group when they separated.

Flavia had an embarrassed look as she said, "Flint disappeared the moment we entered, he was kidnapped by a high ranking beast. We looked for him but couldn't find him."

Flint coughed a little and said, "I escaped from the beast but was lost, I found my way to BrownRoot City where I met up with Flavia and Abigail again."

Odin nodded, "I was almost kidnapped by a beast at the World Trees forest as well. However I broke through to the next level and killed it."

Brandon, "You all were at the World tree forest? We were there as well, we even went to the boundary, it really felt like if you took another stop you would die."

Flint looked at Leon, "Leon what did you do in this time?"

"Me? I spent the time exploring the Nature Continent."

Soon the whole table continued to discuss what they did. The table next to them was the substitute team. They had reached the Nature continent. They had their own table and talked amount themselves.

Soon the door opened a person entered. She wore the uniform of the Nature Team, had green hair and a strong aura. She was the captain of the Nature Team.

"Hello everyone sorry to keep you waiting, I'm Meadow Worldtree." She looked around the room and found the strongest people here, Leon and the captain of the Blood team, Austin TrueBlood.

"So now I'd like to start the Gathering. I hope everyone can get to know each other, there even is a battle stage for spars and friendly battles." Meadow said.

Soon food was served and people started sparing. The spears weren't particularly interesting as no one really gave it their all. The captains didn't get asked to fight or ask others to fight either.

The last few battles ended and Meadow got up, "I think we should end the spar here. I hope to see you all at the day of the competition."

Everyone left the hall. Leon left with the group. Soon everyone's decided to go back to the World tree forest.

Flint looked at Leon, "Leon are you coming as well?"

"No, I have something else to do, I'll see you guys again in Flower Dance City in four months."

Leon then left the city with Ariel. He was going to Grassland City. It took him a few hours of riding Zen and he reached the city.

Leon got off and changed his clothes. He then summoned all his beasts, including the Cherry Blossom Treeling.

"I will be sneaking into the base of Pandora. Thinking it as an evil organization trying to rule the world. Now they are the key to getting the Leaf of a life tree. I want you all to disguise into a weaker version of yourselves if I summon you."

The beasts nodded.

Leon removed formless aura and turned back to his white hair and grey eyed self. The Treeling was surprised as this was the first time seeing Leon like this.

Leon then made a few changes to his looks and unsummoned the beasts other then Ariel and Zen, who wrapped around his neck. Leon had used formless aura on Ariel and turned her hair white to match his.