She appears to be a girl with long green hair. She looks as if she is about to leave when, all the screens on all the buildings flicker A loud screech plays, and then the screen fills with static before it shows an ominous man with white hair, he appears on the TV and begins to speak; a shadow covers the top half of his face. A voice begins echoing through out the city.

  "Hello, you pitiful subjects. Your lives are now all at stake. There is a chance to redeem yourselves, it is called the 'Tournament of Souls'. Six fighters will enlist, and will have to fight for their lives. If these six fighters fail, your world as you know it will end. Everyone, please turn to the red building, the tallest in the city." The man on the screen speaks. He yawns as he snaps his fingers.

  Everyone turns to look at the red building, and in an instant, it disappears; the people inside look down in horror. Ryoko, Leon, and Enyo quickly make their way down. Ryoko catches most of them, And Enyo manages to grab a few.

  Leon rushes down and catches one.

  The rest of the crowd runs away in fear, leaving Ryoko, Enyo, and Leon watch the rest of the broadcast.

  "That was all but a glimpse of my power, an example to what will happen to the losers, except on a larger scale. And finally. You will have one month to prepare. I wish you, pitiful humans, luck. You will need it." The broadcast ends.

  The three look around. An overwhelming sense of dread overcoming all of them.

  "This guy isn't kidding around..." Ryoko says.

  "One month.. We're gonna need three more members, I'd say we start looking right about n-" Before Leon could finish his sentence, the sharp part of a scythe presses against his back.

  Enyo shot a blast at the figure. The figure reacts, "Blast projectiles will not affect me." The figure puts a finger down.

  It's the girl with long green hair.

  She pulls her scythe towards her, bringing Leon towards her, then kicking him into the sharp part of the scythe. Leon turns his head towards the girl, and he copies her abilities.

  Leon hears her about to make a rule, and he kicks the girl away, making his own rule. "You will drop the scythe!" All of a sudden, his finger is forced down. "Woah!"

  "The ability of stealing...? Your power is awfully similar to mines." The girl says.

  "Yeah.. I've been told that a lot.." Leon says, before grabbing the scythe, observing it, tossing it aside.

  The girl jumps back. "The floor is made of ice!" Another finger goes down.

  A cold breeze fills the air around the group, the group feel the friction that was once against their feet begin to give out, the concrete floors swapping out for ice.

  Enyo is the first to react and he spouts out his wings, he flies above ground and charges a mouth beam.

  Ryoko summons vines that latch onto lamp poles, pulling himself up.

  Leon tries making a rule. "Stop!" And then Leon freezes himself in place. Another finger goes down.

  "You damn absolutes. I'll make you pay for what you did to my people!" The girl says, readying her scythe.

  "Wait wait wait... We're killing the absolutes! We aren't the absolutes!" Ryoko says, as he halts his attack.

  "That's hard to believe. I will slay you all." The girl points her scythe towards Ryoko, as she jumps up and swings her scythe, throwing Ryoko towards a building.

  "Can you just listen?! Why are you so untrusting of us!?" Ryoko says, using a vine to latch onto the building.

  The girl jumps back, as she taps her scythe on the floor. "I swore to kill every evil doer in hopes to avenge my clan."

  "Ryoko! Damn it.. " Leon says, as he holds his blade close, ready to block.

  Darkness vines pop out of Ryoko's hand, as they latch onto Reyna, holding her up in the air. "Who are you?!"

  "My name is Reyna Eques, leader of the now fallen Lumen clan..." Reyna says, trying to cut the Vines.

  "We just saved all those people, and yet you call us evil doers?" Ryoko asks

  "Even murderers have sparks of kindness." Reyna glares.

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  "A murderer would've killed you if they were in my position. Do ANY of us look like killers to you?" Ryoko jumps onto the top of a lamp post

  "Yes, especially you." She turns to Enyo.

  Enyo backs up a bit, the shine in his eyes fading. "You- You're crazy man..."

  Ryoko turns towards Enyo, suspicions growing in the back of his head.

  "Listen.. Rein..." Leon sighs

  "Reyna." Reyna says.

  "Reyna.. You probably want to kill that guy on the screen more than anything... We do too, but to do that, we need six people. And if you kill one of us off, we're gonna be backtracked. So.. Why not join us, and we can look for two more people!" Leon suggests.

  Reyna looks at the result of the red building, thinking about the situation at hand. "If any of you show a sign of evil, I won't hesitate to kill. Understood?" Reyna says, the three agree.

  Reyna lets out a deep sigh. "So we need 2 more people. Do any of you nitwits have any bright ideas?"

  Ryoko looks around, as if he senses something. He spots something, jumping down as he uses his vines to latch onto a door, pulling himself towards it, looking inside through the peephole.

  "Guys! There's a fighting ring down here! I sense like two really strong people!" Ryoko shouts, Reyna and Enyo follow.

  "Wait! Damn it... Uh.. Unstop?" Leon says, slipping on the ice as a finger goes down. He rushes shortly behind.

  They all make it inside, it seems to be a run down basement. You can hear the crowds cheer, the arguing of members, and the neon lights inside flicker and break.

  The walls seem to crumble a bit as members slam each other against the walls.

  "Wow... They don't even know the fact that they might die if we fail this tournament." Enyo looks around as they shimmy through the violent crowd.

  "Look alive, we got our next member, right there." Reyna points towards a girl.

  They all turn to the girl with long black hair, and she hits a double-knee drop on some poor, unsuspecting guy. Except that the guy is her opponent. Or, was her opponent. Seems he lost.

  "Yay!! I win!" Sora claps her hands together. "You did a good job!" She reaches her hand out to the man, helping him up. "WHO'S NEXT!!" She roars out.

  A man with blue hair and a grey backwards cap steps up. He has a ring on... It seems special.

  "YO that guy completely stole my blue hair look! It was a one of a kind!" Leon points it out, annoyed.

  "His hair is darker than yours. It's more different then it is similar." Reyna points out.

  "Well. Took you a while to climb up the ranks, huh, Eizou?" Sora cracks her knuckles.

  "Just because of that.. I'm not gonna go easy on you!" Eizou says, replying to Sora.

  "I wasn't planning on going easy either!" Sora smirks

  Eizou summons a smoke bomb out of nowhere, throwing it on the ground, the smell of bitter chemicals filling the arena.

  Ryoko starts coughing and fanning away the smoke. "Just when it was getting good!"

  The smoke does its job, obscuring the view for anyone in the area, including Sora. But Eizou has a face mask, with thermal vision for the eyes, and a face mask to filter the air.

  The mask disappears, and in its place, Eizou summons a katana, he rushes towards Sora and swings.

  Eizou's blade cuts through the smoke, as sparks of light appear, a clank can be heard as the object begins luminating.

  "You know I'm not falling for that old trick again." Sora says, knocking the blade away

  "Oh yeah? How about some of my new ones!" Eizou kicks Sora in the gut, sending her flying back.

  Sora flies across the ring, getting up and spinning her staff around, knocking away the kunai being thrown at her.

  Sora then collapses the spear into a ball and throws it at Eizou.

  Eizou summons a bat, hitting the ball away.

  Sora brings the ball back to her before forming it into a spear. Eizou summons a spear of his own, and they run at each other, clashing.

  Eizou turns his spear into a blade and slices down. Sora blocks it with her spear, as Eizou was going to strike again, he gets knocked back a bit, he loses his breath, as Sora punted Eizou in the chest with the blunt side of her spear.

  Eizou summons some kunai, throwing them at Sora.

  "That old trick again?? You already know those won't get me, Eizou!" Sora hits the kunai away.

  "What won't get you...? cough The kunai, or the smoke grenade... huff You didn't even notice I threw!" Eizou says as smoke engulfs the arena again. Eizou summons his mask as he rushes at Sora.

  Sora looks around, holding her breath, she closes her eyes and listens. She hears the sound of a fist about to get sent to her, she blocks.

  Eizou WAS about to deliver a gut punch when he sees Sora, holding her breath, eyes now open ready to block. In that instant, Eizou feints the punch, and he knocks Sora off her feet.

  Sora shoots out light beams from her hands, knocking Eizou away.

  Eizou summons some nunchucks, the smoke finally clearing again.

  "I've never seen a man use nunchucks ever in my life.." Leon says.

  "What the hell are those?" Sora laughs at them.

  "Hey! I'll have you know my childhood hero uses these." Eizou rushes forward with the nunchucks.

  Sora shoots light beams, which Eizou knocks away. He runs towards Sora, as he creates a bo staff, and proceeds to use the bo staff to pole vault him up.

  "Whatthe hell?????" Ryoko says

  As Eizou is up clinging onto the roof of the cage, he summons two chains on the ground, latching them to the floor, pulling him down and as he flies down, he spins the chains around, one eventually latching onto Sora. Eizou pulls Sora towards him, as he lands a dropkick, hitting Sora in the stomach.

  Sora, ready to give Eizou a beating, charges up a light beam, and fires it at full power, hitting Eizou.

  Eizou coughs out a bit of blood as the beam connects, knocking him back into the cage wall, it begins to shake.

  "Clearly.. This match... Isn't gonna end.. Anytime soon..." Eizou pants.

  "You're just.. Lazy... I could fight... Forever.. And ev..." Sora passes out.

  Eizou makes the chains disappear, and grabs water. Throwing it on Sora's face.

  "Wake up. I just won." Eizou says.

  "Wh-Wuhwhat??" Sora says, waking up.

  "Guess who beat you." Eizou says.

  You can hear Sora in the background getting surprised, cause she finally lost.

  The four look at each other, they need those two on their team.

  "Those guys have something cool that we need! I mean, did you see that dropkick?" Leon says

  "I'll go for the guy with the weapons. He seems promising. You two, go look for Sora." Reyna says. Looking at Ryoko and Enyo as she walks away, grabbing Leon.

  "She's right, I don't want to spend any longer looking for more members, I just wanna defeat that guy by now." Ryoko says. "Lets go." Ryoko and Enyo go to search for Sora, while Reyna and Leon go off in search for Eizou.

  In the background, an orange haired man with a great-sword is watching them. Ready to attack.