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Dante walked slowly across the grassy knull near the waiting room, smoking his cigarrette as thoughts raced in his mind about his next battle. Would it be Seyla? Kurai? Someone that hadn't yet won? His heart began to race as he thought of the possibilities of fighting that girl:Seyla. Something about her power and emotional folley made him want her more than anyone else. He smiled to himself, looking up to the sky as he quietly recited his personal thoughts to battle and winning.
"Shakunetsu no jigoku kara mamorareta
Amai sekai e to toki wa utsuri yuku
Yubi wo torigaa [trigger] ni kake tatte ita
Isamashii senshi wa kako ni nemutteru
Minna sugite iku no sa
Sugite yuku kara
Seijaku wo matsu dake sa
Zutto taete iku dake
Kotoba wo sutete
Kokoro mo azamuku no ka waiting
Aozora wo tobikatta dangan wa
Donna mirai e to hito wo isanatta
Furimuku to itsudemo warai nagara
Tatte ita kimi ga kyou wa teki ni naru
Minna kawatte iku yo
Onaji basho ni wa
Shinjitsu wa inai kara
Kitto tsukamenai koto
Boku wa shiru darou...."

He hadn't realized he'd reached the other side of the hill untill he heard vendors and students talking, eating, and laughing. he smiled weakly to himself, his eyes following everything from behind his glasses as he remembered he wasn't wearing anything on his torso, so his fresh wounds would be visable. Walking towards the food, a deep silience suddenly fell ahead of him. Students whispered as he passed, speaking of him being a monster, him almost killing his own love, his deadly resolution. He shook his head, eyeing Kurai talking to.... SEYLA! His eyes opened wide behind his glasses, for he hand't thought he'd see them for some time before the next round. Talking behind him suddenly became jittery of people talking of his, Kurai's, and Seyla's match, and those already making bets for the rest. He walked towards DJ's stand, still eyeing Seyla as he thought to himself about her 'I dont get it... Why do i have such a lust to fight her now... I don't get'
His thought was cut short by a sudden burst of joy. DANTE! Hey man that fight was killer! I can't belive that happened are you ok?!??! Where's your jacket and stuff and WHY ARE YOU TOPLESS!? Dante turned back and laughed, shaking his head as he smiled at Dee Jay, handing her a one-hundred dollar bill as he spoke to her. Damn girl everythings fine! I just came for some of that great pizza you make, now hand it over! Give me 8 pies, right now." He grinned, listening to her still rant on about the fights that had been going on as he finished his cigarrette. About 30 minutes later, eight boxes of pizza were sitting on the corner of her stand, and she had finished her little rant about the matches. Dante laughed, grabbing them as she went to give him change. he walked off, telling her to keep it. "You're never gonna change, ARE YA?!?!?" She cried after him, growling at his stubborness as he shook his head and headed back towards the waiting room with food for him and Scy, along with the others.

Cadmus was a little dismayed that he had not gotten to sign up so he decided to view the event instead. He approached the build where the events were taking place. Hehad heard rumors circulating that vendors could set up a stand. He had bound the dishes he had crafted out of the Gryphon bone and entered the building in hope that he could set up a stall.
He approached DJ and bowed his head slightly.
"Excuse me mam, " he said as he raised his head, "But I was wondering if I could acquire some information on the process of setting up a vending stall?" he said as he set his pack of dinner ware on the ground.

"WWWAAAYYY Cute!!"
A blond haired girl was hurridly running to each concession stand gazing at each stand's amazing valuable's they had to sell. Her sugar pink eyes had just laid eyes on an adorable bunny key chain. She quickly started to play the key chain on different places of her clothing to see which place was the cutest to place it. She finally decided to place it on one of her belt loops on her white shorts. With a squeel of excitement, she paid the lady at the stand and was off.

The blond haired girl skipped gracefully across the ground, until she eventually met up with another girl who was patiently sitting down on one of the many benches.
"Done..."

The blond perky girl nodded her head and sat right next to her.
"Isnt this fun Kiyowa!!"
"...It would have been more fun if we entered in the tournament! We could have won it!"
"Oh, you know we didnt have the time to enter, beaides, all the fighters look extremely tough!! You saw them fight, dont tell me you didnt think that every single one of them were not good! Heh, we probably would have lost the first round!"
The blond haired girl stretched her arms out and rolled her neck a bit.
"Pssh, whatever Tiff..."

Kiyowa just took a big sigh and looked up at the sky. Tiff then looked over at Kiyowa and smiled.
"Say, wanna get something to eat!!"
Kiyowa looked over to Tiff and gave her a dull look.
"Sure, why not."

The two girls then got up, wiped their bottoms off from the dust on the bench, and then started to wonder around the concession stands once again.

"Did you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
"I think someone just called my name..."

Tiff looked all around to see who was calling her. At first the sound was faint, but it soon grew louder and louder. Finally Tiff spotted the girl who was calling her. She had beautiful lavender hair and wonderful silky skin. She was like an innocent angel wanting to bring peace and joy to everybody in the world.

"Ai..."
Tiff blinked a few times and rubbed her eyes.
"It is, It is Ai!!!!"
A smiled started to grow on Tiff's face. She was so excited to see her.
"OMG Ai!! Its been a while, I havent seen you since the slumber party!"
Tiff then looked at Kiyowa waiting for her to greet Ai and Feena. Kiyowa sighed but eventually waved her hand at the two girls. Tiffany then turned her attention to Feena and happily greeted her. She then looked back at Ai.
"Oh I heard that you were in the tournament! Sorry, I wasnt able to see you fight. So how did you do?"

Inside the room, a little girl, who looked about twelve actually, stood watching one of the video screens. She had long, white hair down to her waist and purple, small eyes that were practically glued to a vid screen. She wore a black dress that went down to her ankles and a pair of cute little sandals, black as well. She had her hands behind her back and had on a pair of white gloves as well that went up to her elbows. She looked quite like a doll, only life sized and configured properly. She seemed positively glues to this screen, which happend to be the one for 'Oliver's Sandbox' and was currently where Dr. Raven and Rene were to battle.

Dr. Raven soon stepped onto the screen and the girl gave a little squel and giggle, clapping her hands and saying "Grandpa!" loud enough to startle anyone in the room before returning to watching the screen in an odd, nervous sort of way. Her voice was soft and gentle, if not a bit high pitched at points, and underneath it was an odd..Echo-like sound that sort of played on your senses, making it seem like two people were talking.

"..." Feena didn't say anything, and she just found out where she was getting all this negative karma from. It was from Kurai, Feena's bloodlust eyes looked down at Ai and then back at the screen. I better keep Ai away from him she thought, as she looked back at Ai, but only at her wings. Ai's wings have been acting so strangly today, usually Ai has the ability to make her wings vanish with or without energy. But today, she couldn't, and she doesn't know why.

".. Don't make me laugh, Tiff!" Ai said as she placed her hands on her hips and made a very uneasy laugh, she didn't want this to spoil her good mood. But then Ai's laugh died down, Tiff was serious for once. ".. heh" she said as she walked closer to the screen as well.

"Your serious right?" Ai said in a shaky tone of voice, she was kind of afraid. She didn't know what came of Kurai, but she knew it would be best to stay away from him. All of a sudden Ai felt pain in her heart, she ignored it. She didn't want to drawn in attention.

Could this be!? Joy's orb inside me acting up? she thought as she placed one hand over her heart but then back at the TV screen. Feena let out another sigh as her bloodlust eyes were glued to the screen as well. Sometimes, she thinks babysitting Ai is like her life job now.

Ai bit her lip, she doesn't know what to say, and she doesn't even know whats going on either! All she knew that when Kurai was visiting her at the hospital he was injured, but he wouldn't tell her how he got hurt, he kept saying 'stupid Joy.' Then later on, Joy came to visit Ai after hearing that Ai was attacked, and Kurai and Joy got into a hissy fit. Ai shook her head as she blinked away tears, she holded her hands up in her ears.

"Mmm! I don't know! I don't know!" she said as she tightly closed her lavender eyes and kept her hands over her ears, Feena looked at Ai confused and then glanced over at Kiyowa, who was laughing. Feena didn't see whats so funny about it, Feena ain't a devil but shes a phantom, which is just as bad as a devil. Feena snickered at Kiyowa and then walked over to the bleachers, just give Ai space.

"All I-I know is that Joy is the devil daughter! Maybe Kurai doesn't like people who are devils? But I don't-but I don't know who HE is!" she said as she pointed her finger at the wierd looking Kurai. Thats when flashbacks from way back when Joy was dead. The first meeting of the two, Joy introduced herself to Ai and AI did the same. They soon became friends, and Ai was the only one to see Joy's ghost since she is an angel. And Ai made a contract with Joy, yes, Ai knows the consinquences of contracts, that they vow to each other that whenever trouble comes, the'll be there!

Ai gave Joy a simple purple angelic feather, so she can use it to block some darkness away and brighten her path. Joy gave Ai an orb, a friendship orb, which lies deep within Ai's heart. So some darkness powers can help Ai. Ai then placed her hands over her eyes, she didn't want to look at the screen anymore, but she peeped through her hands anyways. A promise is a promise, and a contract is a contract.