Slowly on the world started to shimmer slightly, rearranging itself for the combatants to meet each other faster, though it went faster then one could expect, and next they knew both children found themselves in a crowded mall. The patrons of several stores of toys, clothing, and gift shops where rummaging around through the sales, only allowing the children to catch occasional glimpses of each other, and only then if they looked close enough.
Meridian was almost stunned as everything around him faded, transforming and shifting to an area that was even busier then the street had been, he could barely see where he was from between the people, yet his mind worked as fast as it could, estimating that he should have been placed here for a reason, was it weapons... or his foe. His eyes tried to peer through the crowd of people, and he saw several children of about his age, but none seemed to match the girl that he was looking....