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Tekishe popped up behind Terry, standing within inches of him and smelling slightly of sulpher as he turned from the mechanical gypsy. "Hey Terry, Sorry about dissapearing for a bit back there, I wash changing back into some dry clothes." He paused, turning to scan the horizon of flashing games, thinking, before turning back to Terry. "Wanna go play some of the arcade games? They have 'Blood Fighter, Killer of Death: Extreme Alpha 3 Max: Overdrive' over there!"

Alyssa placed a hand on Keila's shoulder and squeezed it tenderly, a small smile reflecting within her burgundy eyes. "Go ask her." Alyssa nodded at her given advice and nudged Keila off the bench some to get her moving; Keila was so lazy sometimes.

As Keila drank her Coke, Alyssa grew thirsty watching her drink and decided she would like something also. Smirking, she began rummaging through her zipper hand-made bag until she came upon a small bottle filled with a smooth, red liquid that look like thick Kool Aid. Alyssa used her index and thumb to wedge the cork out of the bottle opening; it was much tighter than Alyssa anticipated. Finally the cork popped out and fell into Alyssa's lap, rolling around for some seconds before comming to a complete halt.

The aroma of decaying flesh surrounded both Keila and Alyssa. She didn't seem to be bothered by the smell as she slipped the glass bottle in between her lips, gathering what blood she could from the container. Her eyes glowed a light red and her body seemed renewed, like a totally new person.

Alyssa looked as if she were one of the most gorgeous/popular girls in schools. Her vastly colored hair shone with a bright vibrance and the softness of it was in human. Alyssa's skin was still pale but showed her off her penetrating eyes. Her high cheeks bones and softly rounded chin fit in with the rest of her features; Alyssa was a nice looking young lady.

Terry actually smelt the sulfur before he heard his friend behind him, but he still jumped all the same, even gave a little yip. "No problem Tek. I kinda lost Hiko and the others. I think they wandered off somewhere. Did you see that pirate ship? We should check it out later."

He hastily made sure the fortune was still stuffed in his pocket before smiling and heading towards the row of fighters.

"I haven't played BFKD since Alpha 2: Tag Team Overdrive 7, but I heard Alpha 3 Max has all new finishing moves." Terry plunked a couple of coins into the slot, taking player one. He tapped the joystick till the scrolling, blinking, seizure-inducing cursor blinked over an unassuming elderly Chinese man in a traditional Mandarin outfit.

"You ready for the beating of a life time?"

"Oh, you know, nothing I didn't already know." Terry could almost feel the paper shifting in his pocket as he shifted the joystick hard-back trying to block Tek's ninja assault.

The timing differed slightly from Alpha 2 and he couldn't find the buttons quick enough. Tekishe's female assassin came down hard on the head of Terry's elderly China-man, several animated mini-explosions marking the path of the hits and racking up the number of combo points in the corner.

FIRST BLOOD appeared briefly on the screen.

Terry pulled down on the joystick and double tapped the low kick button, hoping to sweep Tek's character and knock...If friends come knocking...her to the ground.

"Yeah," Tekishe began to respond as he pulled seamlessly into a backflip after a low block, "the Fate elementals are way better than those things, if you happen to have a few hundered acres to summon them in."

"Y'know" Tekishe began, reminicantly as he fingers began to fly across the buttons, causing a loud ninja yell and red action lines to replace the regular, buddhist temple background, "I remember playing the first one of these when I was pretty young. A really old, shabby unit in a bar in Gangtok. I've musta played these games in at least 5 different timezones by now." His talk finiesh in sync with the move starting it's fireballed, horizontal acceleration towards Terry's character.

"Not in particular. We've really only moved 4 times, though I guess you could count that as a lot, since I'm only 14. I have been to a large number of schools though, and people tended not to be as friendly as they have been here, usually after a visit or two to the hospital." With a quick quarter circle forward-up and a punch, Tekishe took advantage of the charge time of Terry's character, sending him into the dreaded air juggle.

"Because of this I spent a lot of time at arcades, more when I lived in China and Japan than India, though there weren't that many arcades in the backwater regions there. By the time we had moved out of Shanghai my parents had givin up on the pep talks about staying clam and trying not to accidentily kill my friends and how they would be needed as sacrifices to appease the lord of the firey inferno" He paused, confused, losing concentration on the game for a second and dropping the hapless elderly man in the game to the ground with a digitized thud, "huh, anyway, by that time they were just giving me rolls of change and a buss pass with directions home from the nearest arcade."

"Heh, my Brother was home schooled. Had I been as well it probably wouldn't be any better." Quickly recovering from the ground after Terry's attack shaved off half his health, Tekishe once agian sent his hands in a flurry of button mashing over the console, causing the screen to tint red as a large, stylized dragon infront of the screen in a myriad of explosions.

"So is that where you learned to summon, as well?"

"You choose Keila. I honestly don't care." Alyssa yawned lazily, bored with this conversation already. She wasn't one to stay in one place very long; she had always wandered about alone. However now that Keila was here Alyssa had to make sure Keila was alright with it too. This was one of many faults of having friends; Alyssa was getting used to it though.

Twisting her neck sharply to the right, a series of cracking noises could be heard throughout her neck. Alyssa turned her head to the opposite side to get the same affect, though it was less prodominate. "Do you mind if I take a smoke?" Alyssa asked Keila abruptly, rummaging through her bag for her cigarettes. She finally realized how long she ahd gone without a cigarette, and it was beginning to bug the hell out of her. Alyssa wanted to make sure Keila was alright with this; she found it easier to keep friends if one did not do something like smoke right infront of them, just an observation.