Clash The Greatest Tournament

By Shawn Stack

Clash the virtual game where players control holographic avatars to duel and battle each other with. Max, a 14 year old boy new to Clash, has gotten the strong angelic avatar, Sandalphon, and fights with him in the local tournament. Max will see how strong Sandalphon really is when having to battle the toughest avatars the tournament has to offer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shawn Stack
• Release date: Jan 24, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458118974

Shawn Stack

Shawn Stack, a young author, from Michigan.

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Clash, the greatest tournament

By: Shawn Stack

Published by Shawn Stack at Smashwords

Copyright 2011 Shawn Stack

ISBN: 978-1-4581-1897-4

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Max meets Sandalphon!

Chapter 2 - Sandalphon’s first battle!

Chapter 3 - Max’s first tournament battle against the top ranked opponent!

Chapter 4 - Before the tournament started!

Chapter 5 - Introduction to the tournament!

Chapter 6 - Start of the tournament!

Chapter 7 - Conclusion to the first tournament fight!

Chapter 8 - The champions notice Max!

Chapter 9 - Big man on campus!

Chapter 10 - The Clash club!

Chapter 11 - Fight between the two avatars with the most muscle!

Chapter 12 - Lizzy: the strongest middle school Clash player!

Chapter 13 - The surprising conversation!

Chapter 14 - Field trip to the power station!

Chapter 15 - Battle for title of the strongest middle school Clash player!

Chapter 16 - From foe to friend!

Chapter 17 - Max and Lizzy: more then just friends?

Chapter 18 - Max takes on the first champion of Collis!

Chapter 19 - Gervasee’s revenge!

Chapter 20 - Lunch with girlfriend and Davis maybe coming home!

Chapter 21 - Secret of the Clash arm bands!

Chapter 22 - Max fights to make it to the finals!

Chapter 23 - Degoth shows his power!

Chapter 24 - Being popular is nice!

Chapter 25 - Worse than a Clash fight, Max’s first big date!

Chapter 26 - Showdown before the showdown!

Chapter 27 - Final training!

Chapter 28 - Pre-game confrontment!

Chapter 29 - Fight for the Champion title!

Chapter 30 - Trophy time!

Chapter 31 - To be continued!

Dedicated to my family, the Stacks.

Chapter 1

Max meets Sandalphon!

Max entered the Clash Center, feeling excited. He saw a friend of his from school at a game station, and went over to talk to him. Max’s parents entered Clash Center store behind him. They went to the reception desk to get Max’s new Clash arm band.

The Clash arm bands are used for the holographic fighting game known as Clash. The game is played by two people battling with 3D holographic avatars. The two players control the avatars using the arm bands. Controlling an avatar takes some mental concentration, but is a moderately simple thing to do. Players can make their avatars do anything they want them to do, as long as the avatars are able to do it.

Hey Jonathan, what’s up? Max said. Jonathan was watching a Clash duel between two players at a holographic game station. The fight was between an elemental fire-man and a mutant monkey cyborg.

Hearing someone familiar calling him Jonathan turned and was surprised to see his friend Max. Oh, hey Max. Here to watch some Clash matches? Jonathan said.

No, today I’m here to pick up my Clash armband; my brother Davis bought me one for my birthday. Today I should be seeing what my avatar is!

Awesome, you have finally gotten one. You must be the last person in our class to get a Clash band. You should play me first I’ve haven’t won a match in forever and would love to pick on a nub like you.

Yeah, I’ll do that.

Max come here, they need to scan you, Max’s dad called.

Be back in a bit Jonathan.

Alright, I’ll be right here, Jonathan said, as Max went to join his family.

Max walked over to the reception desk where his parents were. The clerk at the reception desk, opened a box and pulled out a brand new Clash band. The clerk said, okay, sir, if you will put on this band, stand in our scanner over here, then we can see what your avatar is and save it to your band.

Max slipped on the band, it stretched over his hand and fit snugly onto his wrist. There were 4 holographic-emitters spaced evenly around band that would be used to project the avatar’s hologram with. The bands were set up so that unless you completely covered them, your avatar should always have sight with the holographic-emitters and have a clear unbroken image.

Max stepped over into the scanning machine. The scanner reminded him of the metal detectors in airports. The thing slowly hummed on and Max could hear the machine moving the scanners around him.

Avatars are created based off each person’s bio-signature that the scanner reads. A person’s bio-signature never changes and so a person’s avatar never changes.

In just a second your avatar should be materializing in a hologram right in front of you, the clerk said. The avatar began to take form before Max. It says here your avatar’s name is Sandalphon.

Sandalphon’s hologram solidified and he appeared as an angel dressed in golden steel plate armor with white angelic wings. He was holding two golden maces. A holographic data screen popped up that explained the maces were called Medens and Caliber. Max thought it was the coolest avatar he had ever seen.

Alright the scan here is done. Your avatar is of the celestial type. Using the band you should be able to make your avatar appear anywhere you want up to forty meters from the armband. Also, if you link your band to a holographic-station you can use it to project your avatar onto specialized fields. If you lose your band all you have to do is buy a new one, get re-scanned and the same avatar will be loaded. That band will only work for you so you can not share it with your friends. The clerk said.

Thanks. Max said to the clerk. Hey mom and dad, I’m going to go play Jonathan in a match. Max said.

Alright Max, let’s see how you do Max’s mom said.

Chapter 2

Sandalphon’s first battle!

Max and his parents walked over to where Jonathan was. They met up, then went over to one of the holographic gaming stations. The stations in the Clash Center were free to use for all Clash players. Max and Jonathan sat on either side of the station. Their bands sent out a signal that linked up to the station and then they materialized their avatars onto the station’s arena battle field.

Get ready to Clash, Telatron! Jonathan said, as his avatar’s hologram solidified first. Telatron was a blocky shaped robot warrior. His center body was a made of a solid cubic metal frame. Extending from either side were his robotic arms, each ended in two big clamps. He had two large treads instead of legs, to move he would roll around on them. He had a laser bazooka weapon mounted on his shoulder. For a head it had a rectangular metal box with two giant red glass eyes. Telatron’s mouth was just a little speaker box.

Eh, Get ready to Clash, Sandalphon! Max said, as his avatar took form on the arena battle floor. Max stared at his avatar with surprise Wait, something is wrong, that isn’t Sandalphon. What stood on his side of the arena looked like Sandalphon, but did not have the golden plate armor, either of the two maces, or white angelic wings. Sandalphon wore a pair of sandals, bronze arm bands and a white fighting tunic belted on with a yellow sash.

Aw, dude, Jonathan said. You got a celestial type. Those are the rarest ones. They are also the weakest fighters. Your guy doesn’t even have any weapons.

Well, he had weapons a minute ago and armor and white glowing wings.

My cousin has a celestial type and she is a terrible fighter, she said that celestials can make their weapons appear if they want them. Maybe it will come out during the fight. Let’s get started. Jonathan pushed a button on his band to start the battle.

Wait, Max said, stalling.

The station announced the start of the fight with a count down,five, four, three, two, one. Clash!

Max tried to make Sandalphon move around the arena, Sandalphon took one step and fell to the floor, the avatar was unable to keep its balance.

Telatron rolled over, closed his clamps around Sandalphon, picked him up, and then tossed him back to the floor.

Jonathan started laughing.

Come on, Max said. Give me a break here. I’m still trying to figure out how to get him to move, I don’t need you beating me down. Max Struggled to get Sandalphon to stand up once again. This is frustrating, I focus on keeping his legs under him and his whole body goes limp and he topples over.

You can’t just focus on one part, Jonathan said. You have to move him like it was your own body. The best way to do it, is to imagine what you want him to do and he should do it.

Instead of focusing on the legs, Max just imagined Sandalphon’s whole body standing errect, and to his amazement, Sandalphon stood up the exact way he imagined. Oh, okay, I think I am getting it. Hey, what are you doing? Max said, as Telatron pushed over Sandalphon again.

"Ha-ha, sorry, couldn’t help myself. Stand up again and try to