[center][h3]Team Frenzy Plant - Indigo, Zander, Hyun, Demetri, Xyster[/h3][/center]

No small amount of satisfaction had greeted the representatives of Frenzy Plant to find that they had been one of the first teams to ascend to the building's top.  If any insipid onlookers nestled among the crowing audience had believed for an instant that the soldiers were all brawn and no brains, they would now find themselves laughably mistaken.  After Xyster had finished her joyous shrieking, she stood beside her teammates and joined them in a proud, smiling silence that lasted until every other team had made the cut.

Though Indigo had kept a keen ear out, it had proved impossible to hear into the other towers.  Of course, it mattered little.  All she'd wanted to do was to potentially hear the riddles of other teams and see if she couldn't guess them before they could.  Instead, she focused her powers of observation on the  wizards of the opposing teams.  Each new squad that made the cut would find itself under the dashing blonde's analyzing gaze, reading their appearances and behaviors like books to be memorized.  In a contest of this importance, no soldier would waste any opportunity to gain an advantage, and despite her appearance Indigo was every inch a soldier.

A moment after, Sheldon abandoned the building by way of slide.  Other wizards headed in its direction, like Lazarus, Sasha, and Shujin, and Xyster started toward them.  [color=E0115F]”Wait.”[/color]  The group froze.  Zander marched to the edge of the building and bade his allies join him.  [color=E0115F]”A slide is all well and good, but I think the soldiers of Frenzy Plant could stand to do something a little more...memorable.  Don't you?”[/color]  He drew his sword and held it skyward.  [color=E0115F]”Wailing Thrust!”[/color]

With a shrieking sound of warping metal, the blade began to grow.  It extended upward until it was ten stories high, though its weight remained unchanged.  Grinning, Zander maneuvered it downward and over the edge, jamming it in the ground far below.  He leaped from the building onto his sword's hilt, and the blade began to shrink, elevating him right back down toward the bottom in a needlessly extravagant way.

The others were quick to pick up on his methodology.  Immediately after the Ruby Knight began to descend, Xyster and Demitri dashed for the edge and leaped without forethought or ceremony.  They plummeted to the ground, spread eagled, and at the last moment Demetri extended a burning fist into a ground pound.  He hit the earth in a fiery explosion, and rose from the smoldering embers unharmed but for a few smudges of ash, and smiling wildly.  His Dullahan friend landed nearby, her head beneath her feet.  A few screams from the audience proved useless as her invulnerable head soaked the impact; her body hopped off of it, performed a bow, and then picked it back up.

Hyun went next, drawing both katanas and flourishing them skillfully.  As she jumped, she pivoted, and embedded her blades in the wall of the building.  Using them to slow her descent, she arrived at ground level in a shower of sparks, and with a cheer from onlookers.

A moment later, Indigo touched down as well.  She had used Nosgoth to sprout a pair of batwings and flutter gracefully to earth.  She banished the books, and the wings, and curtseyed to the crowd.  [color=007FFF]”Be sure to cheer for us tomorrow!”[/color] she called to them, and blew a kiss.