Kai: "Canteen is the winner."
(The crowd cheered and Dai started to get up. His grey outfit was soaked in water, it looked nearly black, except for the wet sand he got on it from falling off the arena. He was a mess. He didn't really think he would win the whole tournament, but he never expected to lose the first fight. Kazu walked over to him and patted him on the back.)
Kazu: "Hey, it's ok. You tried. That was just bad matching. "
(Dai nodded and looked to the ground. You never get to choose the matching when you fight a villain. If she was a villain, Dai would have been screwed. He felt weak, like a failure. After this he was gonna train harder. He needed to get stronger, way stronger. He walked over to a bench his brother was sitting at. He sat next to him.)
Taku: "Heh, she really did mess you up."
Dai: "Yeah."
(Taku looked at him with a concerned look.)
Taku: "It's ok, Dai. You'll get them next time, maybe."
Dai: "Heh, yeah."
(Taku wasn't very good at comforting people, but he felt the need to. It was his brother and he was sad. He didn't know if this would help, but it was the only thing he could think of right now. He stood up and slapped Dai in the face.)
Dai: "Ow, what the-"
Taku: "Shut up, Dai! You might have lost, but that doesn't give you the right to give up! It was one lost and that just means there is room to improve. So stop your pouting and go get better!"
(Taku's speech was all over the place, and he slapped Dai, but weirdly, it helped him out.)
Dai: "You know what, you're right. Just one loss. It's ok. I can still do this"
Taku: "There you go."
(Dai looked at Taku.)
Dai: "Thanks Taku."
Taku: "No problem Dai."
(They smiled and went to the back where the rest of the competitors were. Reo was sitting at a chair with his feet on a table and was leaning back. Sara and Selene were talking with each other on a couch. Yui and Ruri were doing push ups and Kiriena was walking towards Dai and Taku.)
Taku; "Hey girl. Do you want the Taku now?"
Kiriena: "Move. You are in the way of the exit."
Dai: "Oh, sorry. Where are you going?"
Kiriena: "To fight, I'm next."
Taku; "Sorry, but I don't know if you know how to count or not, but the next letter is E or F so going outside now will be a waste of time."
Kiriena: "Kiriena isn't my hero name idiot. It's Feu."
Dai: "Feu? Why Feu?"
Kiriena: *sigh* :Can we not ask a million questions before I leave?"
Dai: "Oh, sorry."
(Dai and Taku moved out of the way to let Kiriena pass. As soon as she went outside her name was called.)
Kai; "Next is Feu."
(She walked onto the arena.)
Kai: "She'll be fighting Gurgle."
Kiriena: "Gurgle?"
(A giant guy started to walk onto the arena. It was more of a roll, but he got there. He was huge, he looked to be about 600 pounds. He was bald and had brown eyes. He had on the grey sweat, but he didn't wear the grey tank top.)
Gurgle: *gurgles*
Kiriena: "What?"
Kai: "Feu's core is pink fire, meaning she can make fire and change the temperature of it as she wants. It's also pink, wow so fun. Gurgle's core is black hole stomach, meaning he never gets full, wow I didn't notice. He can also eat anything without getting hurt, so if he eats it, it doesn't affect him."
Kiriena: "What the hell?"
Gurgle: *Gurgles*
Kai: "He can't speak and only gurgles. They don't know if his hero name is Gurgle, but that's what he did when they asked. Anyway, fight."
Gurgle: *gurgles*
(Gurgle started to waddle towards Kiriena. Kiriena shot fire at him, she made sure it wasn't too hot, but either way, he ate it somehow.)
Kiriena: "Huh?"
Kai: "I said he eats everything. Even fire. It'll just be spicy food to him."
(Kiriena knew what she had to do. If he was just going to eat the fire, then she would just raise the temperature. Hopefully the healer was good at healing, or this guy will have burns for life. She shot even hotter fire at him, but he ate it again, and waddled even closer. There was tons of room so she could dodge as much as she liked, but she doesn't want to dodge the whole time. She had to find out a way to hit him, and she may have found it. She shot a hot flame towards his face, and a not as hot flame at his stomach. She didn't want to burn him too bad, but she needed the hotter one to distract him a bit. He was distracted by the hot flame so the other flame hit him in the stomach, but it barely affected him. It was nothing to him.)
Kiriena: "How-"
(Kiriena didn't get a chance to finish her sentence before Gurgle jumped up into the air. She looked up to see he was falling right above her. She jumped out of the way just in time, because he belly flopped right where she was a second ago. She got up fast, she couldn't lay down for a single second, she had to move fast, and hoped she didn't kill him. She put her hands together and made fire on both. She charged them up, getting it nice and hot. She didn't wanna go past her limit, or she might pass out which would result in a loss. Gurgle jumped in the air again, but this time Kireina didn't move. Instead she shot a giant pink fireball at gurgle who was in mid air. This was very effective. It pushed him back off of the arena and onto the sand, making him lose. Kiriena won.)
Kai: "Feu is the winner of this round. Gurgle is the loser. Luckily I don't have to say gurgle anymore."
(Kiriena walked to the back and laid onto a couch where Shurui was sitting. She put her feet up on his lap, knocking the book he was reading out of his hands.)
Shurui: "Hey! I was reading that."
Kiriena: "The winner needs her rest."
(They all laid around listening to Kai talk about the next fighters.)
Kai: "Hell v.s. Igloo. Hell has a fire core, pretty common. He can produce fire. Igloo has a snow core. She can produce snow. Not so common, but will probably lose"
(It was five seconds later before he spoke again.)
Kai: "Hell won. Poor Igloo."
(It felt like it was gonna be a while. So Kiriena took a nap.)
(Jiko was in the stands watching the fights. He apparently couldn't be in the fight, but he paid so he might as well watch.)
Kai: "Next is Lion v.s. Monkey. Lion has the core Lion. Nice name, must've taken you ages to come up with. He has the abilities of a Lion. Wow, that sucks. Next is Monkey, with the core monkey, again, why? He has the abilities of a Monkey. Well Monkey is gonna get killed out there. There's no way Monkey will win."
Monkey: "Don't underestimate me."
Kai: "Oh trust me, I am. Fight."
(Five seconds later.)
Kai: "Lion wins. What a surprise. We'll need a little bit of time for Monkey to heal and some clones to clean up the blood, so sit back and enjoy not being Monkey."
(Jiko was enjoying the fights. He thought it was so cool with all these heroes fighting, seeing who's the best. He looked at his right arm and made the fire go around it for a second, just to see it. He thought it was so cool to have an actual core now. It made him feel so powerful. Then he got a tap on his shoulder.)
Man: "Sir, can you stop using your core? You're scaring my wife and daughter."
(Jiko turned to see a man, and his wife and kid. )
Jiko: "Oh, sorry."
Daughter: "You should be, idiot! Don't let it happen again!"
(Jiko was in shock by this. The girl looked barely over six years old.)
Jiko: "Uh, I'm sorry what?"
Daughter: "What are you deaf too?"
Jiko: "Uh, I'm sorry Miss, but can you teach your daughter some manners please."
Woman: "Don't talk about my daughter like that."
Jiko: "What?"
Man: "You wanna take this outside?"
Jiko: "Wait, we are outside."
Man: "Outside outside. Outside this place."
Jiko: "N-no I don't wanna do that at all."
Man: "Good, cuz those nachos are going right through me and I'm afraid to stand up."
Jiko: Oh god why?
(Jiko turned forward. He didn't wanna talk about this guy's daughter or his nachos anymore. He just wanted to watch the show. It looked like they were almost done with the cleaning, but then he felt another tap on his shoulder. Jiko turned around.)
Jiko: "Sir, I don't wanna talk about your nacho-"
(Jiko froze out of fear. Instead of the family of three he saw before. It was only one guy, and that guy, was Firearm,)
Firearm: "Hey son. Remember me?"
Jiko: "Uh uh."
(Jiko was so scared. He didn't know what to do. He killed him. Right?)
Firearm: "Haha, I'll never die, and you'll never be a hero. You're worthless Jiko! Worthless!"
Jiko: "I-I-I killed you."
(Jiko rubbed his eyes and looked again, but Firearm was gone. The family was back.)
Man: "What did you just say about killing me?"
Jiko: "Uh, gotta go."
(Jiko stood up and ran to the restroom. He splashed water on his face. He looked in the mirror and Firearm was behind. He turned to see no one there. It was in his head. Firearm is dead. He needed to forget him. He needed to get noticed as a hero. Once he became a big hero and got him mind off this everything will be fine. He'll stop seeing his dead father. He left the bathroom and back into the stands. He chose a different seat this time though. He didn't wanna sit next to that crazy family again. He sat down and relaxed. He just needed to watch the show, and forget all about his father.)