DeathMatch: Tournament of Blood

[Shenzii]

Blaire's ears perked as she heard the announcement. "Oh fantastic! The first fight of the day!"

[Armalite_]

Spike's ears lifted. "Fight?" He slumped down, his arms dangling through the cross member's of the gate. A sinister grin crossed his face as he kept his focus on the wolf. "...She seems nice." He concluded, pulling out a candy bar from his pocket and tearing it open. He crossed his arms and chewed on the snack as he awaited the fight to commence.

[KittKat chunky~]

Kitt stood, back straight, arms crossed behind his back he watched through the bars... first fight... hopefully this would be a good one to watch....
Sliding the ACP repeater into his thigh holster he relaxed, leaning against a ferrocrete pillar... a few metres to the left of him a fox munched on a candy bar, leaning against the bars... ignoring him for some competitior Kitt snapped back the full head and face mask and unsrtapped the light chest plate.... sighing a breath of relief he stretched, waiting for the fight to start...

[Philly Tanuki]

"A match already?  I guess they don't play around.  Well I might as well kick back and watch the fight.  I've got some of the best seats in the place." Philly said dropping back into a seat behind him.  "Hopefully nobody well come in here.  I don't need to know what will happen if I get caught trespassing and I'm not even signed up."

[Shenzii]

Blaire dropped from Chrono's arms and ran to the arena. "Come on!" She shouted turning back to him. She turned back round and ran through the entrance. She darted up the stairway and to the stands. "I hope we're allowed to watch!" She said excitedly.

[Entaru]

Y materializes besides Spike and imitates his position with his arms through the bars.   His features distorte and shifted as the nanites tried to find a reasonable position to sit.

"Reigning champion, huh?"  No mouth could be seen on his face but it was obvious that he was the speaker.  The voice seemed to come from all over the room and echoed itself a millisecond later.  "Pehaps analyzation is in order"  All at once the nanites briefly flashed red to indicate that they were recording.  Y looked over at Spike leaving part of his face temporarily behind as he did so.  "So have you seen the champion fight yet.  I'm new here so I could use all the information I get."

[KittKat chunky~]

Kitt watched the figure who had appeared warily.... reaching tensly for his ACP repeater it slid easily out of the thigh holster... and with an audible ~ka-chunk~ he locked a stack of ACP's (accelerated charged particles) into the back of the short assault carbine style weapon .... he took a step forward and motioned to the shifting figure...

"you a competitor then? i suppose its good meet you, the names Kitt Szabo.... unless this is a meeting that i shall regret?"

[Entaru]

Y turned about to look at the figure leaving a wake of black particles scrambling to reattach themselves to him.

"Only if we see each other in the arena.  Y-4MA74RUK0R1N at your service.  You can call me Y."  Y's eyes didn't show it but he was scanning Kitt profusely, identifing markers in his stance and tone of voice.  This way if they did meet in the arena he would be ready. 

"I am forbidden to fight anyone outside the arena.  Doing so would break the contract I signed, giving me a one way ticket to solar damnation.  So tell me Mr. Szabo, have you seen the champion fight."  Even without a mouth it was obvious that he had the grin of a Cheshire Cat plastered to his face.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chrono smiled under his helmet before racing Blaire to the stands, beating her there by four seconds and ten meters. He looked over the rails to see who was competing against the champ of the arena.

[Armalite_]

Spike turned around to the two other competitors that had appeared while he was chewing. "Huh...fresh meat." He looked at Kitt then at the one who obviously (atleast to Spike) wasn't made of anything biological. He tossed the candy wrapper over his shoulder and rubbed his paws off. He approached the two, his hands in his pockets and staring at them both with his golden left eye while his non existant right eye was hidden under a patch. He noticed they both, unlike Spike, were wearing armour. The closest thing Spike had to armour were his torn jeans. He didn't even wear a shirt. Spike scratched his scar covered chest and walked right up in between the cat and "machine" known as Y. He held out his hand to both of them. "I'm Spike."

[KittKat chunky~]

"no.... i must say i have not even seen the reigning champion.... you could say... i am a newbie to the arena.... its a pleasure to meet you too Y, and im glad to hear you wont fight outside the arena.. for if you did i am sure... it would not bode well for me...."

Kitt turned to Spike who had held out a paw.... with a loud ~Schnik~ he unloaded the ammo stack from the repeater and slid it into his thigh holster before taking the profered hand... "Good to meet you Spike... Names Kitt Szabo..." Folding his arms across his chest he looked up to Spike and Y, both of whom where a good deal taller than the stocky feline... "so.. youre a contestant too i suppose Spike? you fought in the arena before?"

[Gabag]

"Ladies and Gentlemen, We have the honor to introduce, the Recreation of the End of the World tonight, ladies and Gentlemen, in the red corner, our favorite champion, hero of the rebellion against the Emperor, and devout soldier, GABAG!!!!, In the Blue Corner, is the Draconian General he fought against in the war, evil fellow, who likes to skin people alive as a hobby, ZEDONIOUS!"

[Entaru]

"Hmmm, its starting..." Y turned towards the arena, looked over at Spike (Y didn't need to turn to see the fox, it was simply a formality that the lesser biologicals insisted upon.) and scanned him quickly.

"Why aren't you armored?  Many of the other biologicals are almost covered head to foot." Y's confusion was laced with overtones of admiration. 

The fighters he observed were cowards, armored in a futile attempt to protect their frail lives.  Y himself wasn't armored in the technical sense.  Individually the nanites that formed him could break at the slightest pressure.  However when bonded even diamonds had trouble cutting through his body.  This biological didn't have the fear of injury that his fellow fighters so plainly presented...or so it seemed.

"You are in the attire of a high mortality citizen.  You look more like the collateral damage of a fight than the fighter himself.  Explain."

[Armalite_]

Spike pulled out out a cigarette and lit up. He blew the smoke from his nostrils and stared at Y before answering his question. "Well...I don't believe I need any. It's something I never really cared for at the least. I'm a killer, not a fighter." He looked at Y up and down. "You don't seem to have any  weaknesses...whats up with that?" He turned away from the two and lifted up his eye patch, rubbing the empty eye socket that caught a sudden itch. He placed the patch back down and turned back around.

He took another drag and looked at Kitt. "A pleasure it is to meet someone who acts like I'm a normal person once in a while, what a feeling it is. Yes, I am a contestant but no, I haven't fought here before. It was a court order for me to be here...otherwise, I would have been strapped to a table and put to death by now."

[Entaru]

"Well, it seems we are both here against our will.  And I do have weaknesses...just none that I talk about or show."  The few loose nanites curled around the floating smoke and quickly devoured it.

"Speaking of which, let us observe our so called 'champion' and see if he has any."  Y dispersed himself into a black concetrated cloud and floated upwards a few feet for a better view.