The King of Hearts (Open to all)

[gouki]

Trumpets blare, the drum line marches in pounding away on their drums that have various poker emblems on each of the drums. Behind then an army of poker soldiers march. Red, black, red, black, going one till the very end of the line. They marched forward in unison towards the front of the courtyard where the Queen of Hearts sits at her throne. Next to her is one of the princess of hearts Alice wearing a odd looking dress. It seems to be complementing the queens dress with large bright red heart designs everywhere. Although from the look of discomfort in her face, the dress may be too tight or too big, it was hard to tell.

As the card soldiers came closer they split off into two lines, one consisting of the red cards and the other consisting of the black. They finally stopped and turned to face each other making a pathway of sorts. The queen seemed to be disgruntled as always, looking as though someone had not yet arrived and was holding everything up.

On the other side of the pathway you could see a white rabbit racing down keeping a close eye on his watch. He was in a hurry no doubt and seemed very nervous. If it weren't for his white fur you could guess he was paler than albino in a room full of Goths. He kept repeating something over and over again.

"Oh dear I'm late I'm late I'm late! The queen will have my head for this! I'm late I'm late."

Finally he reached the queen and smiled nervously as he bowed down and apologized for his tardiness. The queen was about to give a signal for a beheading but was stopped by Alice turning her head as if to s tell her "You better not." After catching he breath and wiping the pool of sweat from his furry face, the rabbit pulled out a large scroll (larger than himself) from his pocket and handed it to the queen. The rabbit then rushed over to Alice and hid behind her dress.

The Queen of Hearts stood up from her throne and walked towards a podium. The trumpets blared announcing to the crowd that she was about to make a speech.

She unraveled the scroll letting it fall to the ground which was about seven feet and it continued to unravel for another ten feet. She cleared her throat and prepared to make what could be a long speech.

"The 50th King of Hearts tournament will now begin."

That was it? Some of the other spectators seemed confused. Alice herself was also caught off guard by that one. The queen returned to her throne and sat back down.

Trumpets blared, the drums pounded, and the tournament was now in session.

A man stepped forth clad in shining armor everywhere except his head. A real looker this one was his long golden hair, his gorgeous blue eyes, the face of both a gentle person and a fierce warrior. He seemed to personify a real mans man, a knight in shining armor, this guy seemed to already be the favorite of this competition. He reached for his sword unsheathing it, you could hear the sound of the air being cut as it passed by his blade. He smiled as he gazed into his reflection from the sword.

"I, Sir Longbottom will be the first to compete and am ready to take on my opponent."

[Heroic Bilby]

"Freakin' sweet! Dinner and a show!"

The voice came from one of the tall hedge walls surrounding the area, upon which the silver-haired head of a teenager could be seen peeking up over, both long lanky arms holding him up on the edge precariously. Grinning like a schoolboy cutting class to sneak into a movie theater the enigma's red eyes sized up the queen and the knight with innocent anticipation. An odd combination of metaphors to be sure, yet this guy was somehow pulling it off.

Now, it didn't take much imagination to understand the "show" that the lad was referring to... but what of the dinner? He didn't appear to have anything to eat on him(At least not in the hands clutching the green ledge for all they were worth), and certainly there was no buffet or any such thing on display for the spectators to partake in. Regardless the red-eyed stranger licked his lips all the same... then gave a very disturbing look to the White Rabbit.

'I'll bet I can roast him to perfection with one Spirit Bolt,' the Nobody thought without any heart to feel sympathy for the sentient creature he apparently intended to murder and devour. 'I've never eaten rabbit before. I bet it'll taste like chicken... no, beef! ... no... bilby! Yeah that's it.'

Where Chaosin had gotten his hands, or in this case kitchen utensils, on the endangered Australian mammal was uncertain(And also very likely illegal) but luckily only telepaths would have to listen to his overly excited inner monolgue and be disturbed by it. In the meantime Eldin Desura's empty shell looked away from his would-be feast in order to scant eh crowd in a more casual manner. After a moment his right arm lifted off the hedge and he pointed a thumb in the direction of the Queen of Hearts.

"So what's the deal here? If you win the tournament you get to marry the big broad over there? Man she must have a lot of exes"

[gouki]

A loud gasp in unison was heard all around the garden upon hearing the young Nobody’s insulting words. Even the knight in shining armor appeared to be shaking in his metal boots. The sound of metal rustling around was coming from his knees which shook wildly. Everyone turned to the direction of the queen, fearful of what her response would be after hearing what he just said about her. Most of the card soldiers were sweating bullets, just pouring it out like a water fall.

Everyone was silent; no one dared to say a word lest they have their head chopped off as punishment. The queen seemed more inflated than usual with her face a bright red and her eyes somehow transformed red in the pupils. She looked like she was about to explode when Alice came over towards her trying to calm the queen down.

“Settle down my queen, I’m sure he didn’t mean anything by it. He is just curious to find out what the reward is for winning this tournament. But I think you owe the queen an apology, it was a very rude thing for you to say to her and you must apologize.” Her soft eloquent words managed to calm the queen down a bit but she was still angry at the Nobody.

He needed to be punished for interrupting the tournament in such a rude manner. And the only way she saw this would be a good old fashioned beheading. But she had promised Alice that she wouldn’t be doing anything like that today.

The knight on the other hand could do the work for her. He seemed like he could do the job with ease. A big evil smile went across her face as she rubbed her chubby hands together all evil style glaring at Sir Longbottom. He noticed this and immediately knew what she was thinking about, as if the two had a brief mental connection with one another. Since he didn’t wish to end up on the chopping black as well Sir Longbottom raised his sword pointing at the young Nobody.

And with his cheesy heroic voice he spoke directly at the Nobody.

“How dare you speak like that to the queen? I shall not stand for this sir! I, Sir Longbottom, son of Sir Perciful the Brave, and leader of the Knights of the Octagon Table, herby choose YOU as my opponent. So then boy will you accept or are you nothing more than a loud mouth coward?”

[Heroic Bilby]

"Yeah, that sounds pretty good. I'll go with the loudmouth coward thing," the Nobody said without so much as a flinch. His teeth weren't showing, but he held a perfectly solid and natural smile as he hung there with his arms crossed beneath him.

It wasn't as if he could "feel" embarrassed.

Given that the knight was probably not expecting such a candid response Chaosin instead turned his attention back towards Alice and the Queen of Hearts. He chuckled at the sight of the frightening royal take "orders" from the little girl in the homely dress. How absurd this world was. 'I love it here,' he thought. 'No minute passes by without something new and strange happening. I could stay here the rest of my lie and not get bored. I'm not gonna, but I could. Hehehehe...'

"Oh I do, do I?" the red-eyed teenager asked the Princess of Heart in response to her claim. "Well, I wouldn't want to not do something I must, would I?" One snicker later and the lanky-armed man was raising his right limb up high in a sign of humility as he raised his chin and closed his eyes. "I hereby do humbly apologize to Her Majesty the Queen of Hearts for my previous actioooooaaaa-"

Of course, trying to balance that way with just one arm for support wasn't the brightest of ideas, so the silver-haired creature ended up falling backwards off of the hedge in mid-speech. Nobody could see behind the wall of green, of course, but most would be able to hear the unsettling sound of a body crashing into the hard ground.

"I'm all right!" came a disoriented yell, as if a kid had just tripped over a rock and was trying to pretend he didn't want attention by denouncing its need.

[discord]

A rainbow portal appeared in the middle of a maze. A few moments later, a young man walked out. This man was Hideao Urunaki. He glanced to his left, and then to his right. The left was a dead end, but the right continued further. So, he began to follow the path. After a few minutes he came to yet another fork in the road. This time, he could either go left, or he could go forward. He went left. As he was walking he looked around. At eye level all he could see was the walls of the maze. But he could see a tree or two, with one of them holding a fat, pink and purple cat. It laughed and opened its mouth to speak. Hideao put his hand on the hilt of his sword.

"Consider your next words wisely cat." Hideao sad with no hint of any emotion what-so-ever.

The cat turned his head and spoke. "Where do you want to go?"

Hideao shrugged his shoulders and merely said, "Out of this maze."

The cat laughed. "There is more than one way to get out of a maze, but most will never think of more than one." And with this, the cat disappeared.

Hideao pondered this for a moment, shrugged, then continued to walk down the path. After ten minutes, he came across a spot that had three paths to choose from, one being straight, the others being right and left. Hideao thought about what the cat had said.

'There is more than one way to get out of a maze, but most will never think of more than one.' Hideao thought. Then it hit him. If he didn't want to go all the way through the maze, why not just go through it literally. He drew his sword, and turned to his left. The sounds of instruments and yelling drew his attention. Due to this, he decided to go to the right instead. He turned around and began to cut his way through the shrubbery, a feat that was easier said than done. A few minutes passed, and he exited the maze, leaving a gaping hole in the side. He sheathed his sword and ran towards the noise.

Then he came across what appeared to be a jousting arena of sorts. By the time he had arrived though, Chaosin had fallen and yelled that he was okay. Whatever had transpired in the time between him talking to the cat and now was a mystery to him, but it mattered not. The only other bits of dialogue he heard was something about marrying the queen. He just wanted whatever grand reward was being offered by the queen for winning this tournament. It wasn't how he usually earned his Munny, but he was out, and this seemed to be the only way at the moment. Hideao put his hand on the hilt of his weapon.

"I'll fight you Sir Longbutt." Hideao said coldly. "But I'm not marrying the queen."

Hideao gripped his weapon even tighter, showing that he was ready whenever the knight was.[/color]

[gouki]

"Oh dear." Alice said as she watched the Nobody fall down to the ground. She hoped that he was alright even if he had come off as a rude young man. Alice could see that he wasn't like normal people. It was just something about him that made her think twice about his actions. Concerned with the safety of the young Nobody Alice walked over to where he was at.

"Are you alright?" Alice said with a concerned look on her face. She tried to examine to see if he had any broken bones or a bruise. "Come now let me take a look at you. You may have broken something." She almost sounded like she was this Nobody's mother.

The queen on the other hand was both happy to see him fall down like a idiotic fool but at the same time mad that she wouldn't get to see the little bugger beat up by Longbottom. She was on the edge of her seat trying to see if the fall had done some kind of injury to him.

Sir Longbottom couldn't help but laugh at the young man as he fell down to the floor. And after acting like a smartypants, falling down due to his own foolishness brought great joy to the knight. Placing his sword on his shoulder he walked over to Chaosin with a smug smile on his face.

"Heh well sir it would appear you were wise to not accept my challenge. Seeing as how you have no sense of balance or intelligence it wouldn't have been fair to defeat someone like you. Now then you should go home now and let the adults continue this tournament with no more interruptions."

And right after he said that another person stepped in and was just was rude as Chaosin. Being called Longbutt was the one thing that triggered a deep anger within Sir Longbottom. His family had been ridiculed with that name for centuries, forever tainting the good Longbottom name.

He turned around looking at his new opponent straight in the eye. His eyes were now bloodsho,t red his face almost turning purple, a thick vein could be seen pulsing across his forehead. The once calm and handsome knight was now gone and replaced with this barbaric looking man with a black aura forming around his body.

"You will pay dearly for your loud mouth arrogance sir! ARAGHHHH!!!!!!!!!" He held his sword with both hands and ran forward screaming bloody murder as he headed towards Hideao. He swung his sword downwards, then swung it right back up when he was a few feet from where Hideao was at.

[discord]

Sir Longbottom turned around looking at Hideao straight in the eye. Which is something very few ever did. Longbottom's eyes were bloodshot red, and his face was starting to turn purple, a thick vein began pulsing across his forehead. The once calm and handsome knight was now gone and replaced with this barbaric looking man with a black aura forming around his body.

'You will pay dearly for your loud mouth arrogance sir! ARAGHHHH!!!!!!!!!' Longbottom said as he held his sword with both hands and ran torwards Hideao screaming bloody murder.

Hideao drew his sword the moment Longbottom charged at him. He put it up by his face, then pointed it out towards Longbottom.

"Aura pulse." Hideao said calmly as Longbottom swung his sword downwards, then swung it right back up when he was a few feet from where Hideao was at. As he said this a pulse of unseen aura flung out of the tip of his sword. Using this as a chance to strike, Hideao jumped to the right of Longbottom once the pulse had completely left the sword. He then slashed at Longbottom's hand.

"Ready to die you pathetic excuse for a soldier." Hideao said with a hint of disappointment. He began to do graceful, fluid, movements with his arms and legs. After a few moments, he jumped into the air. He then swung his sword downward, sending an inchoate blast of rainbow colored energy down towards his opponent. This inchoate blast took the form of a tiger shortly after being released from the sword.

"Dance of the Tiger." Hideao's attack roared as it neared his opponent. He twisted his wrist every now and then, forcing the tiger to turn. Then it crashed into the ground, causing a cloud of dust to form where it impacted. Hideao landed, waiting for the dust to clear, and waiting to see what had become of his opponent.

He sheathed his sword and tied the strings from the guard to the sheath. He kept his sheathed weapon at the ready though, one could never be too careful.

"Looks like your knight Sir Longbutt might not have made it Your Majesty. Now about my reward."[/color]

[Heroic Bilby]

"I said I was OK mom," the Nobody said, with a chuckle, after Alice had made her way to the other side of the hedge and expressed her concern. Chaosin was sitting on his behind with his legs out out on the ground, propping up his torso with his left hand behind him. His right hand was rubbing his behind which had taken the brunt of the fall. "Aren't you a sweet one to be worrying about ol' Chaosin? Hahaha! No worries no worries. This body's made of tougher stuff than the grass around here."

Actually, Eldin wasn't entirely sure what anything in Wonderland was made of. He no longer had Desura's spiritual sensing abilities and one could never be too sure in this crazy place. The Nobody finally stopped giggling to himself and took in the young lass who was trying to attend him. How old was this girl? Twelve? And she was bossing around that nasty-looking ill-tempered Queen?

He liked her already.

"So what's your role in this place Goldilocks? You the Princess of Hearts or something? You sure don't take after your mum if that's the case. Lucky you."

And so the laughing began again. It seemed that the Nobody couldn't go without saying more than three sentences before chuckling at his own words. Annoying for most people, to say the least. Suddenly there was a bright flash of rainbow light form above the wall of green between Chaosin, Alice and the tournament area, followed by a loud noise.

"Gah! I'm missing the show!" the Nobdoy exclaimed, then hastily dived head-first into the hedge,. Not the most intelligent thing to do and when his silver-haired head popped out of the other side there were certainly more than a few twigs stuck in his teeth. Chaosin, neck sticking out of one side of the hedge and lower torso out of the other, arrived just in time to hear Hideao's last remarks.

'Longbutt? Oh come on man, you're not even trying,' he thought to himself, not laughing at a pun for probably the first time in his non-existent life.

[gouki]

“Oh I’m not the queens’ daughter, just here as a guest of honor is all.” Alice said smiling back at the cheerful young man. But for some reason Alice felt an emptiness behind that smile and laughter. As if he didn’t mean it. It seemed genuine enough from an outside point of view and yet, it still felt empty nonetheless. She ignored being called Goldilocks since he had yet to learn her name. But before she could tell him that piece of information he ran off to go and watch the battle between Longbottom and his new opponent. She would have followed him as well but before she could even get up, the Princess of Hearts was suddenly snatched away by a shadowy figure that had been lurking in the shadows.

Her muffled screams could no longer be heard as she disappeared into the shadowy forest.

Meanwhile back in the arena it would seem that Sir Longbottom was defeated by the hands of the rainbow user Hideao. When Longbottom swung his sword upwards he was shot back with a pulse wave knocking him unconscious for a brief moment. While he was watching the pretty blue birds fly around his head Hideao went in to strike at his hand. But it wouldn’t do much damage since Longbottom wore thick metal gauntlets that covered his entire hand.

Sliding across the floor Longbottom lay there dazed and confused.

“But mummy I don’t want to go to school, all the children there make fun of my name.”

He shook his head wildly snapping out of his confused state and looked up just in time to see a rainbow blast taking the form of a tiger. Hie eyes seemed to shrink into two dots as gallons of sweat began pouring down from his forhead. Now most people would look at that and think to themselves, “Why would this be an attack?” but not Longbottom. He began screaming like a schoolgirl at her favorite boy band concert. He scurried backwards at a strangely quick speed like a beetle squirming around the floor.

When the tiger collided with the ground and the dust began to clear, it definitely looked as though Longbottom was no more. The queen though had a sinister look on her face, since she already knew what the outcome was.

Once the smoke cleared Longbottom stood there looking like he already one this battle. If you looked closely though he was still sweating and breathing heavily almost with tears in his eyes.

“Heh heh not bad for a novice, but I won’t be defeated by the likes of you.” He pointed his sword at Hideao then pulled it back a bit just to where the end of the blade met with his cheek. Once again he charged forward at full speed, his armor now clanging with each step he took.

[discord]

'But Mummy, I don't want to go to school, they make fun of my name.' Longbottom said just after Hideao's aura pulse knocked him over.

The Dust cleared. And with it brought the answer to whether or not Sir Longbutt survived. Unfortunately he did. Hideao grew tired of this fight, and knew he'd have to end it soon, or risk permanent boredom. He chuckled. This was due to the fact that Longbuttocks called him a novice. Then the slight smile that formed after the chuckle turned into a serious look.


"You're not Sir Longbutt? How about Sir Saggy-ass?" Hideao said as he quickly untied the strings and unsheathed his weapon.

"I grow bored of this little farce. You aren't a challenge. Now Die."

Hideao moved slightly to the right as he began his little dance. About two feet before Longbottom got to him, Hideao jumped into the air. He looked towards the childish Nobody, and saw that the young girl who rushed to check on him was gone. He snapped his head back and slashed downward.

"Dance of the Tiger." A rainbow colored blast of energy bearing the slight resemblance to the front half of a tiger plowed straight at Longbottom. It collided once more, ploughing up even more dust and debris.

He looked at the Nobody, at the Queen, then back at where Longbottom was, in the dust cloud.

"Novice eh? The only novice here is you. That young girl that was with him over there is gone." Hideao said as he pointed towards Chaosin. Hideao then realized this was probably the most he had ever spoken in a while. Then again, the only reason he brought up Alice's disappearance was because he had thought he'd make a few bucks off of getting her back, where-ever she was. And the only reason he kept talking to Long-ass was because Longbutt regrettably lived this long, and for that Hideao acknowledged him. He also found Longbottom's name rather easy to make fun of.

[Heroic Bilby]

"Go Shortbottom! You can do it!" Chaosin called from the hedge as the knight charged the mercenary once more. He cringed a little as yet another blast took place, but it was a smiling cringe that seemed more out of acting than actual concern. "Ha ha ha! No worries, no worries! Don't give up now, man! The Queen's counting on you!"

Amidst his cheering and Longbottom's predicament, the one called Hideao made a comment that not only struck Chaosin as strange but made him laugh again. Not that that was a hard thing to do, of course.

"She's not gone, Rainbow," Chaosin explained to the merc. "She's just back here with the rest of me. Hey, Goldilocks! You're missin' the show!"

As he spoke those last words Chaosin pulled himself back out of the hedge wall and turned around, only to find nothing. With red eyes opening in confusion the Nobody looked left, then right, and even up to see if she was climbing for a higher view like he'd done before. Alas, there was no trace of the Princess of Heart. Normally a person might be expected to notice something like a kidnapping happening right behind them, bu8t not this guy. He was lucky to have two working eyes, because he certainly wouldn't be able to get by on natural awareness if he were blind. After his impromptu search was complete Chaosin stuck his head back through to the other side of the tall wall of greenery again.

"Whoa man, how'd you do that?" he asked Hideao, actually sounding slightly interested since the man had noticed something that was behind a fully opaque obstacle. "Have you got like... X-Ray vision or something? Hey! Does that mean you're looking under the Queen's clothes too? Man that's just sick. You should be ashamed of yourself."

And of course, after scolding the swordsman, Eldin broke out laughing. I think we could all see that coming.

[gouki]

Just as he was about to take down Hideao, Longbutt-er.... I mean Longottom was taken by surprise as Hideao jumped into the air seconds before he met with Sir Longbottoms blade. He missed and the knight soon lost balance falling head first into the ground. He turned around to see another rainbow tiger roaring like thunder headed towards him. His eyes seemed to widen as his pupils began to sink into two tiny dots. He couldn't evade this attack this time since it was doe so close. He held his sword forward using it like a shield to protect himself from the oncoming attack.

The queen leaned forward not knowing what the outcome of this attack would be. The dust began to clear and she smiled as he sat back down on her throne. With a sigh of relief she chuckled a bit almost worried that Longbottom hadn't made it.

Once the dust cleared Sir Longbottom lay there semi-dead, his once glorious armor falling into pieces as he tried to get back up. Full of dirt, his nose bleeding, his hair partly burned Longbottom got up and shook his body around. A small gleam of fire still burned within his heart even though i was obvious that Hideao was a more skilled warrior than Sir Longbottom but he didn't give up no matter what.

"Ahem, not bad sir you manged to break away all of my armor and for that I applaud you."

His attention then turned toward the queen he raced over towards her falling down on his knees bowing down just as he got a few feet from where she was at.

"Oh my queen please forgive me! I should have seen this coming from a mile away but these barbarians distracted me too much and I wasn't able to see the young maiden being taken away." A flood of tears went down the silly knights face.

"Get up you fool!" The queen responded to which Sir Longbottom quickly jolted up the instant she said that. "You are in the middle of a fight. Don't worry about Alice I shall send one of my guards to find her."

With a snap of her fingers a small fleet of card soldiers marched into the forest.

"Now then, go back out there and finish the duel!"

And like lightning Longbottom jolted back towards Hideao with his sword raised above his head. Since he lost all of his armor, he was now faster than before and more agile as well.

"Now that I lost all of my armor, I am so much faster and more agile than before. heh heh now I will win for sure."

Longbottom leaped into the air swinging his sword forward in a downward motion aiming right for Hideao.

"This is the end!" he shouted.

[discord]

The dust cleared once more. This time, instead of taking no damage, this knight lost his armour. This pleased Hideao, though he showed no outward signs of happiness nor glee. This he believed was for the weak, and only one thing would ever get such a response from him. Hokugaia's rebirth. Of course this would require the reunion of the Knights of Discord as well, but that would be all to easy once the right time came.

Longbottom congratulated Hideao at breaking the armour he once wore, then he proceeded to grovel at the pathetic excuse for a queen's feet. She told him to get back up and fight, and sent some of her card soldiers to search the forrest for Alice, or as Chaosin called her, Goldilocks. Hehe, he'd have to remember that one.

Chaosin also asked if Hideao had x-ray vision. Hideao didn't, and he shook his head no when asked. Longbottom charged at him, blabbing on about how he would now win the fight.

'He, not likely Long-ass.' Hideao thought. Just as he began to reach Hideao, He stepped to the side, and leaned a little bit. He then thrusted the rainbow tinted blade at Longbottom's torso. Just before he would've made contact though, he pulled it away. He stepped back, then he sheathed his weapon, tying the knots once more.

"Waste of my time. Go find Goldilocks. Then we will finish this if you are still keen on losing." Hideao then walked over to the hedge, jumped onto it, and swiftly sat down. He crossed his legs, and rested his weapon between his legs, whilst the hilt of the weapon rested in his hand. He closed his eyes and began to sleep, realizing that he was in no hurry, and he wanted a little chance to have a break, after all, attacking as he was, he had worked up quite a tired streak. He wasn't sweating, no, he was tired. And this was due to the fact he hadn't slept in three days.

As if sensing some contestment from the audience, the knight, Chaosin, and the queen he spoke whilst his eyes were still closed.

"Find her first, then we fight."[/size]

[Heroic Bilby]

[ Dude the Goldilocks nickname is mine. I totally called that one. Haha ]

"BOOOOOOO!!!!"

Having forced himself through a little more Chaosin's entire upper torso now stuck out of his man-made hole in the hedge wall, only the Nobody's legs remaining inside and his sandal-clad feet sticking out the opposite end. Right now his expression was of discontent and his hands cupped around his mouth for emphasis.

"Forfeits are lame, Rainbow! Get on with it!"

The Nobody hadn't the heart to care about why Alice had disappeared. As far as he knew she saw a butterfly and had wandered off following it(He'd starved himself for three days once doing that. Eventually a spider ate it.... though he went another two days without food to watch all of that little event), and besides those card thingies had went to look for her already. What more did the guy want? The Nobody quickly sighed and dropped into a slump, just hanging out of the green barrier. After a few seconds he perked back up again, face alight with that same toothy smile of near child-like innocence.

"Hey, its a tournament right!? That means there has to be more than one match!"

Planted open hands on either side of the live wall Eldin's Nobody pushed himself clean out of the hedge, rolled forward over the ground, and ended sitting upright on his butt, staring at Longbottom.

"All right Shortbottom, I'll take you on this time! Don't go easy on me like you were on Rainbow there OK?" he asked while pointing his right index finger. After that the slim, lanky teenage body pushed itself up onto its feet in a very.... common manner. Chaosin showed absolutely no sense of grace or a warrior's manner at all.

"Name's Chaosin( Prn: Chow - sin )!" he declared, revealing his name to everyone else besides Alice for the first time. Eldin balled up both fists as if to engage in a street fight and got into a poorly emulated boxing style stance. The silver-haired one made a few shifts in weight from left to right on his feet and threw the occasional(And poorly executed) punch forward as if warming up. Pathetic was a good way, nay, a really good way to describe it. "Bring it on!"

[gouki]

"Ah bad move Sir. You forfeit you lose, tournament rules. But I suppose this was a good thing after all if you hadn't then you would be lying before the queen headless. So enjoy the fact that you lived to see another day."

He looked over to the queen who seemed displeased at the outcome of the match. And just when things were about to get interesting, Hideao quit. How boring. She stood up preparing to make an announcement by clearing her throat.

"The winner is Sir Longbottom. He will go to the next round."

The crowd began to cheer since Longbottom was the favorite to win the match. Even the queen herself was pleased that the handsome knight had won for obvious reasons. Longbottom was the only one who was displeased at the outcome. He won and didn't even lay one finger on Hideao. But a win is a win and he wasn't too concerned abouthow he won he needed to stay in the tournament for as long as he could.

The queen looked over at Chaosin annoyed that he decided to join the match now.
"As for you....boy. You will not fight Longbottom instead you must face a different opponent in your match. If you manage to win you may be able to fight him in the next round."

He placed his sword on his right shoulder and walked off the arena area passing by Chaosin but stopping just as he was passing him leaning over to him to tell him something.

"Good luck lad, I hope to encounter you in the upcoming rounds."

He walked over leaving the arena heading somewhere unknown. The crowd was silent wondering who Chaosins opponent was. From out of the crowd an person cloaked from head to toe in a long brown hood stood up. "He's mine." was all he said as he jumped out of the bleachers landing at least a few meters from where Chaosin was at leaving his hood behind revealing who he is.

The man wore nothing but a pair of red fighting pants and bandages wrapped around his hands. On his feet were a pair of red and blue sparring shoes with his toes out. He had short red hair with only the front part spiked up about four inches light tan skin with scars all over his muscular body.

He cracked his knucklesand balled them up into fists. He swung his right leg back keeping his left side facing Chaosin.

"Lets go." was all he said right before taking off at Chsosin.