Fighting With Swords

**Fighting With Swords** is the third Season 1 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the third episode overall. It is notable for Leeko's duel with Moonlight Man and the first appearance of the Sword Copy Ability.

## Synopsis

King Leonardo orders Moonlight Man to fight Leeko so that he can discover Leeko's weakness. However, Moonlight Man uses this opportunity to secretly instruct Leeko in swordsmanship. Meanwhile, Milly and Manny discover clues related to Leeko's creation.

## Characters

* Leeko
* Milly
* Manny
* Moonlight Man
* Twilight Man
* Aurora Man
* King Leonardo
* Tommy
* Helios & Luna
* Puffy villagers
	+ Miss Yuubin (*debut*)
* Hover
* Gene
* Mr. Mage
* Nebula (*flashback, silhouette*)
* Clubstor (*debut*)

## Episode summary

The episode begins at Leeko's house, as Milly, Manny, Helios, and Luna arrive to bring Leeko a warning. Hover answers the door, directing the kids to the tree where Leeko is sleeping. They wake him up and tell him that King Leonardo is plotting something again. At that moment, Miss Yuubin appears with a letter from Sir Moonlight Man. Milly reads it, and the group finds out that the purple swordsman has challenged Leeko to a duel. Hover spreads the news to the residents of Puffy Town, and explains that the duel will be taking place at Seashell Valley.

At the canyon, Milly explains to Milly what they saw in King Leonardo's throne room. They consider hiding Leeko, but Moonlight Man shows up at that moment. After disregarding the kids, Moonlight Man formally challenges Leeko to fight and the battle begins. After Leeko gets beaten around a bit, Milly instructs him to try and vacuum-mouth Moonlight Man, but this fails. Meanwhile, Leonardo and Tommy are watching the fight at a distance from their Tank car. Milly insists the fight isn't fair, so Moonlight Man instructs Twilight Man to toss Leeko his sword. Leeko picks it up, but he lacks skill, and Moonlight Man defeats him again, while giving Leeko advice on swordplay. Seeing thing, Leonardo and Tommy drive off with a plan to bring in a monster to finish the job, revealing they were only finding out Leeko's "weakness" the entire time.

With Leonardo gone, Moonlight Man instructs Leeko to fight once more. The two continue sparring, as Leeko gradually becomes more adept with the sword. Moonlight Man then shows Leeko a technique called Sword Beam and challenges him to perform it. However, Leeko grows tired and falls asleep on the spot. Moonlight Man sees this as an attempt to gather energy and resumes the fight. Before he can strike, however, Milly and Manny interrupt the fight by dropping a huge boulder, which Moonlight Man pushes Leeko out of the way of, then he searches for Leeko, wondering where he is. Under the cover of the dust that kicked up from this, the kids grab Leeko and flee the scene.

Meanwhile, King Leonardo boots up his monster delivery system and requests a monster that is good with a sword. N.L.E sends a rabbit monster called Clubstor who wields a spiked club and a pirate-style sword. Back in the canyon, Milly and Manny start to understand Moonlight Man's true intentions. They go and ask Mr. Mage for confirmation; the great sage explains to the kids the backstory regarding Nebula Enterprises, and how Nebula accidentally created a powerful monsters who would not obey his orders. The kids conclude that Leeko must be that monster. Mr. Mage then reveals that Moonlight Man has taught him this story.

The kids try to bring Leeko back to his house on a stretcher, but King Leonardo and Tommy find them in the canyon. Leeko is thrown to the ground in the chase, and then attacked by Clubstor. After dodging the monster's initial strikes, Leeko tries to vacuum-mouth Clubstor, but fails. After Moonlight Man rejoins the kids, Milly then instructs Leeko to vacuum-mouth Clubstor's sword instead. Moonlight Man throws his sword to knock the sword out of monster's grip, allowing Leeko to vacuum-mouth it and transform into Sword Leeko. Clubstor then conjures two new giant scimitars, and Sword Leeko lengthens his own sword in response. After a brief flurry, Sword Leeko falls asleep again. Clubstor takes this chance to close in, but Sword Leeko wakes up immediately and uses the Sword Beam move, slicing Clubstor in half. It is then revealed that many of the Puffies were watching the fight and cheer Leeko's victory. Enraged, Leonardo tries to run Leeko down with his vehicle, but Moonlight Man stops them and kicks their car away. As the episode ends, Milly remarks that someday, she and Manny will learn Moonlight Man's secrets.

## Trivia

* This is the first appearance of the Sword Copy Ability in *The Beginning* series.
* Featured monster: Clubstor
* The first episode where we see Moonlight Man in battle.
* This episode reveals more about Nebula Enterprises by Mr. Mage.
* This episode shows that Moonlight Man works for the king.
* Some cable or satellite providers title this episode “A Battle With Moonlight Man”.
* According to the original draft of this episode, Clubstor was originally going to be a giant beetle named Beetleton but this was changed for unknown reasons.
	+ However, it has been likely confirmed that Beetleton is going to appear in a future episode in the *Odyssey Of Powers* arc as a monster.
* This episode reveals that Moonlight Man is a Star Warrior.
* In this episode, Milly and Manny learn of Nebula’s role in their planet’s troubles.