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Hmm..I've heard about people who lose one of their senses they often develop a sixth sense. Human terms I believe it's also known as the 'Third Eye'. Maybe that was how.. He was rather suprised that he was able to communicate telepathically with Rose. He thought that it would only go one-way, but apparently he could also hear her. At least he dind't have to worry about insulting the man.

When Mokuteki flicked his tongue again and shook Dark's hand, he smiled. The felt the grip that Mokuteki had was firm, so Dark returned it. The warmth, however, was suprising. Dark was half-dragon, but not even he had this sort of body heat. Nevertheless it dind't bother him. Or maybe it has to do what that habit he has with his tongue..He does that a lot. We'll see.. If what Dark said was true, when they arrive Mokuteki would again start flicking his tongue. That would prove Dark's theory. But that's difficult.. He wasn't sure if he was still in connection with Rose; that time he was only thinking to himself.

Another warmth spread through his hand and Dark looked down after breaking their handshake. Mokuteki's blood was upon his hand. The man had cut himself, and it was funny that Dark didn't even bother to think about it when he offered his hand first. Oh well; he swiped his hand against his tattered shirt, staining the blue red as he turned towards the direction that Mokuteki had thought. "Yeah. I think it's already started. I could hear the fights from here.." At least, explosions. He wondered what was going on. "Well; shall we?"

He didn't wait for a reply, Dark merely walked off.

To get in was rather difficult, the entrance being so crowded that Dark had to practically shove through. How it bothered him. The entrance wasn't even the worst part. The stands were already nearly filled, and all the good seats were taken. The only ones that he found were stand-up positions near the top of the collesuem. He heard people rooting, and yelling. One caugh this attention - the towering ice-master, Clay who was rooting for Jeiza while she was being attacked by sand-itself. He couldn't see her opponent clearly, not with all the fighters and dust in the arena. The towering pillards of sand were a heavy distraction, that was for sure. Jeiza and Bucko were near the columns of earth, but the pirate/thief seemed to be distracted.

For a moment Dark turned away from the tournament and looked for Rose and Mokuteki, watching as they made it through. "Yo! Not the best seats but there's space over here!" Dark called out to them, looking again to see if there was enough room for the three of them. There was plenty.

He turned back to the arena, and spotted Zero. "Hey, I didn' know the kid would be fighting. And a witch.." he paused, his eyes slowly closing to their halves. "I hate magic users.." Reason be: They always kicked his a**.

(lol, how would the fox maintain grip on the cards without thumbs? 4laugh He would have to put the cards away before he changed or he would drop them wouldn't he? ) idea

After Squall's axe blade missed Damian's fox head, the garuda simply followed through and kept flying. By the time Damian had changed back and brought his spear around, Squall had flown out of reach. The cards Damian threw were closer to hitting the bird man, but the garuda had a head start and was flying too fast for the cards to over take him before the air took them and blew them off course. Spinning around in the air to face Damian again, Squall slashed with his axe again and sent 3 blades of air at his opponent. One would go over Damian's head, through his chest, and under his feet. If he didn't avoid them correctly, he would be diced up.

Lan's blade was deflected and cut downward to the sand. Not hesitating a moment, he switched his blade's direction to have it slash upwards diagonally. If she didn't block it, her torso would be cut in half from hip to opposite shoulder.

At such close range, the assassin drew a short katana which was held with the blade pointing downward. A quick motion of the wrist and the assassin deflected the projectiles sent by bucko and dashed forward to meet him. Within feet, the assassin suddenly leaped acrobatically over Bucko and sent a head severing slash at the back of his neck while flying over. Landing in the sand behind Bucko with weapon up and ready if the battle continued, the assassin revealed herself as a kuniochi in ninja garb. Her eyes was the only visible part of her. The ninja's free arm reached behind her to pull out a kunai knife.

The spell the witch was preparing moments earlier finished. When Zero fired, an incredible lightning bolt came down from the sky over his head. It's pure energy overwhelmed the arrow making it disappear before it could make it to its target. The bolt strike down right in front of Zero threatening to incinerate the boy's arm and boy and singe the entire front of his body if he wasn't able to move faster than the speed of the lightning. Exhaling greatly, the witch used a spell of air to lift her off the crowd and set her down further away from Zero. The earthshake caused by Zero didn't interrupt her earth spell, and the effects of the quake were very limited in range, so she was able to move her hands again to use an earth spell which settled the ground that was shaking and cause a ripple effect that would toss all fighters in the arena before her including Zero if they were on the ground at the time.