Ark 21 Episode 15: Survival of the fittest

Participants

 * Josh Bullwinkle
 * Yumi Ikeda

Where's Yumi?
Yumi was supposed to have been home hours ago, calmly carrying a brown paper bag full of groceries from the market. It wasn’t that late, obviously it was a decent time of the evening for a store to still be open for her to do some shopping. The red head muay thai user doesn’t hear much going on in the streets and she begins to find it odd that there wasn’t even a homeless person staggering around begging for change. She pauses, blue hues shifting from side to side just to be aware of her surroundings and then she senses it, something comes flying right towards the back of her head and with a swift turn, she catches the throwing knife between two fingers and tosses it uncaringly aside, locking eyes with the person responsible for such a random attack or she would have but there was no one there….Yumi rose a brow suspiciously and kept the grocery bag close to her form as she tries to sense where the person is but to no avail, they were hiding rather well. She keeps her defense high up but when nothing else happens she smacks her teeth and continues walking, not planning on wasting her time with someone who wanted to attack from the shadows. Yumi moves her foot forward and not even a split second after a black tactical armored truck comes turning a sharp corner and headed straight for her. “What the fuck?” Is all she could say before the vehicle jumps the curb flawlessly thanks to all six mega tires and drives right on to the sidewalk to get to her, a helpless mail box crushed under tons of wheel pressure. She drops the bag and begins to run, shifting in to a blur but the truck was right on her as it blasted through street poles and other cars, like bugs on a window shield, the driver zig zagging as she attempts to shake them off but it wasn’t working very well. Suddenly a small figure lands right at the top of the armored truck where the large canon gun settled and barks out orders, catching Yumis attention further as she puts together who it was that threw that knife at her as a distraction. The boy seemed rather young and she’d never lay eyes on him before but right now was not a good time to try to recognize people! The truck gained speed and chased Yumi down the street, the fighter spotting a left hand turn she could use to put more space between them but that plan failed as a second armored vehicle drove out from the same road she’d been meaning to take, the engine roaring as the brakes are slammed on and it turned sharply to the side, drifting right in to her. She had no choice as her arms quickly ignite in a flurry of flames and she inhales quickly, her heels dug in to the asphalt and her arms soar out, the truck slams right in to her open palms as a large dent craters the reinforced steel. It almost sends Yumi back but with an exhale of flames from her nostrils she stubbornly pushes forward, violently rocking the vehicle and stopping it right in its tracks, her destruction chakra leaking out in a red glow like aura. The second assault vehicle is deterred but the first one was still behind her as the driver hits their brakes and Yumi turns too late as the war machine rams her right in to its counterpart, knocking the wind out of her as it pins her in place, her head reeling back and smashing against the heavy duty glass window of the one she took down. The blow to her abdomen isn’t enough to kill her but the struggle is real as the pain of trying to breath was overwhelming and the impact on her head made her lose sight as she tries to make heads or tails of whats happening, her body cooling down and the flames dying out. The short person from before makes their way down and examines their new prey caught in the trap and with a wave of their claw, Yumi is pried off of the truck and carried in to the one still running, tossed in to the back like trash as she groans and mutters colorful nonsense to her captors.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA6wRNSw_mU&index=112&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkbiSVlrNHnbXbgZBIdU3Pl ) Connor sat in the bathroom on the ground floor of the shinpkaku federation. Taking a meeeeeeeeeeeean shit. He saw there, in his thinker pose, his head rested on his right arm, while his right elbow rested on his right knee. He pondered the mysteries of life, while he pushed out brown heaping piles of dung into the toilet. He’d been eating Yumi’s leftover cooking for weeks and just now realizing the effects natural food has on the bowels, as opposed to eating out all the god damn time. “What’s wrong washi? No conversation during a bathroom trip?” “you know what no, Connor. I’m uh. Im gonna sit this one out.” Connor  laughed, shaking his head and beating on the door. “Josh! Joooooosh!” Josh stood up from the computer and yelled, raising his arms above his head “what what what! I’m observing the video of Leon vs Kodi! I have to study her move set! Leon’s too!” Connor would yell. “Quit fapping to my girlfriend and pay attention!” Connor grunted for about a minute, a loud splash could be heard as he immediately flushed right after. “I need you to go pick up Yumi for me! She’s been gone for a minute, and she hasn’t gotten back yet! Go put a foot in her ass and tell her to hurry the fuck up!” Josh would scratch his chin. “Nyaaaaaah! I really, REALLY would prefer you got one of the tanks to do it…don’t really wanna….see her. She scares me!” Connor would remain silent for a moment before speaking. “I will open this door, and I will not spray. I will let this stench fill the entirety of this place if you do not get your lanky tall ass out there and FIND HER!” Josh shrieked! “ALRIGHT ALRIGHT!” He’d hop up, running place for a moment like an episode of Scooby doo, before finally taking off right out of the door! The only thing he’d managed to grab was his PDA before he was out in the cold air. He was bundled up in his Members Only jacket, and khaki pants, with a collar long sleeve black shirt underneath it all. Josh has a rather "alienated" appearance. Slightly tall for his age, he has a slim yet solid physique, sharp fingernails and gangly limbs. His facial features are somewhat demonic: a long with sharp nose, long pointed ears jagged, fanged, or even just normal. It's mostly because of his seclusion from the world, but some call it bad hygiene. Josh stepped out, adjusting his scarf and walking down the street. His breathe chilled as the air was cold that surrounded him, heading towards the market area Yumi usually shops at. “ I swear to god if she’s not here…gah. Who am I kidding. I couldn’t fight my way out of a paper bag.”  Josh would’ve been almost there when he’d heard loud ass tire screeches form seemingly no where coming from in front of him. giant armored vehicles making their way down the street at a break neck pace! “the hell?” Josh stood there dumb founded when a body leaned out of the side of the vehicle looking right at him. “should we get this one to? He looks like a good warm up body.”  One voice said. “go ahead, might as well.” Josh would’ve started back stepping  and tried to run! His arms flailing form side to side as he yelled out. “HELP! CONNOR! HELP! GOD DAMMIT I KNOW YOU HEAR ME!” but it was to late as josh would’ve been scooped up by one of the men and dumped into the truck! It was there, Josh was thrown onto the floor, and swiftly punched in the gut! Not having any real form of durability Josh was instantly k.o’d by this hit, though even he’d have to admit it was pretty fucking hard! Josh was instantly out like a light as his body would’ve been thrown beside where Yumi was dumped. “Well I think that’s enough for the night everyone. Let’s get this show on the road.”

Well this escalated quickly...
A ringing in her ears would awaken the fighter from her forced slumber and with a quick inhale she throws herself up and soars a punch towards the person hovering over her…it makes a harsh impact to the mans nose and he goes falling down to his back in pain, gripping his face while the others with them watched in fear. Yumi glared defiantly at them before realizing they weren’t fighting back so she quickly calmed herself and adjusted her sight to the new surroundings. A woman would rush to the person she’d knocked off their feet but Yumi had little interest, it was a small punch the guy would live. “Where are we?” She asked finally and a man, dressed in a karate uniform would answer her question with a frown. “We don’t know, we’ve been here for hours. You just got here 20 minutes ago with that kid.” He points next to Yumi and she realized who it was… “Josh?” She murmured and knelt beside him to see if he was alive…his body temperature was warm, she could sense it so it seemed like they had both been knocked out. The large room was full with about 12 people all confused and on their guard. They didn’t seem like much, some were young and others maybe in their 30’s…but no one passed that age it seemed. Able bodied people all kidnapped and kept in a single room that was bare…the walls were white, the floor was tile and there was no place to sit. She gazes up and there was nothing but darkness, no ceiling as far as she could tell. The people who did this were trained with the intent of capturing people but why? Yumi wasn’t going to stick around to find out but without an exit they couldn’t go anywhere….which was fine since she’d make an exit. She inhales slowly, opening her chakra points and—nothing happened. She frowns and tries again but nothing would move, her aura did not appear and she couldn’t summon her fire. Blue hues gaze down at her hands and notice a wrist band of some sort on her right arm, it was brown and made out of some sort of hard leather with glowing green beads and the more she tried to use her chakra the more this thing lit up. “Fuck.” She said as she realizes it was disabling her ability to use her chakra and no chakra meant no flames, hell even her punches wouldn’t be devastating enough to break walls…she was stuck here and the others kidnapped had them on too. Suddenly the room begins to tremble and people jerk forward and back as the entire domain would rise, the darkness above was subsiding to reveal a bright light and… “Welcome ladies and gentlemen to tonights blood games! This weeks contestants are a lively bunch! Lets hope they have what it takes to win tonights events!” Where was this voice coming from? Yumi recognized a stadium when she was in one, thanks to the years in the ring. They were in some sort of cage, a small floating camera circling them and plastering them on the big screen outside to the impressive crowd of people watching but the set up was strange…it wasn’t like the usual greasy benches and cheap seats at the other fights, this seemed more like an opera house as people in masks and fancy clothes watched them…they were in a modern masquerade theme with the stadium set as their entertainment for tonight. The crowd was close to them and the more she inspected everything the more she was beginning to suspect this was going to be a cage match which was fine with her, she’d been in them more than a handful of times but there was something off about it….besides the chakra blocking wrist bands, the obvious too much money white people attending and the fact that there were cameras floating all around them at different angles.

Josh’s eyes would’ve flickered multiple times…he’d suddeny spring his eye’s open, and sat himself up! “What! Connor where are…you?” His voice trailed off as he looked around and saw…rich people. At least that’s what they looked, that’s what they SMELLED like. Bags of money. What made it worse is that they were wearing fancy mask. “A masquerade….of some sort. They’re all only wearing mask because they all have important public faces, they won’t afford to go to waste. Reputations they don’t want tarnished eh?” Josh quickly looked around, scanning the room he was in. “I’m in a room with twelve people, all around middle age…bare walls. They don’t’ want us to know where we are or even what we’re doing here..someone will give us an explanation. More noteably a person of high power or the manger of what ever sick game is going on…this seems like a survival set up.”Josh would stop analyzing to look over at yumi and grab her by the shoulders. “YUMi! Thank god!” Josh would smile brightly….before getting angry, and growing a comicaly huge anime head. “THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! You just HAD to go to the market at this time of night! You’re cooking’s the reason Kaicho’s stuck on the toilet! Who goes to the market at  NIGHT! Don’t you watch horror films!?!?” Josh would look around frantically. There wasn’t even a fucking door in the room…it was like a pit of some sort. “There was a way in there’s a way out…” Josh would squat, one knee to the ground, another against his chest as he leaned over to Yumi. “Don’t worry! I’ve been practicing this chi stuff! I can use my amazing mental capabilities to figure something out!” Josh would begin rubbing his temples….but nothing happened. “Eh? Josh vision activate!” ….nothing happened. Josh did however feel the band around his wrist tighten, and glow a green lit light. “Damn…chi restriction tech. same as the cage at the fight club. Who ever brought us here I can condlude 3 things yumi.” Josh would hold his hand up and hold up his index finger. “The random assortment of people means theres no predertmined target. Meaning this gathering is a form of underground sporting event, at least that’s what the audience views it as. “ He’d hold up two fingers. “2 is that whoever did this, has been running the show for a while…they way the vans came at me, they were heavily armored. Aquring something like that requires money. A lot of money, menaing A: these underground games are heavily popular and B; the man behind this is very very wealthy from it. “ Josh held up 3 fingers before looking around “And 3…I noticed, that in the various small corners of the room…there’s dried blood. Even where you’re sitting. They tried to clean it, but the fact it didn’t come up with special chemical cleaning agent means they have “non regular”people in here. Hell the fact they were even able to bag you is a testament that shows we are in some BIIIIIIIIIIIG TROUBLE  if we don’t figure out how to get out of here!” Josh scooted closer to yumi, hiding behind her and looking around. “And you’ll be our guide! Sure you can’t use your fire stuff, but you’re a hell of a lot better at this stuff than me! Protect me underling! Nyaaaaaaaaah! I hear footsteps! FOOTSTEPS!” Josh’s ear’s twitched as he held on to yumi for dear life scared out of his mind, even with all of his intellectual wit.

Let the blood games begin!
Gri: Yumi realized Josh was awake…because he grabbed her and told her how happy he was she was here…then he yelled at her and she frowns, smacking her teeth and shoving him away. “Enough, now isn’t the time.” When he tried to use his chi she didn’t say anything just watching him fail and then he started babbling on about what all of this was about and why they were here but it seemed like he had the same idea she had…but more detailed. The announcer begins to talk again and though Yumi is listening she is beginning to place her hair in a long braid of sorts, getting ready for whatever it is that was going to begin. “To our new contestants! Welcome, we are so happy to have you here with us! The game is very simple, you must survive an abundance of obstacle courses! Who ever makes it to the very last stage wins!” A ray of lights shine on a small stage with two beautiful busty blonde women in playboy bunny outfits, their arms extended out towards some prizes the announcer called out. “Here is what you win! A total of 50,000 dollars! And a Yamaha R1 Turbo motorcycle!!” (http://spc.fotolog.com/photo/28/1/26/ars_lbdc/1192472057_f.jpg )Yumi was uninterested with the money, she could care less about any of this…that was until the motorcycle came in to play and her eyes instantly light up, walking closer to get a better look. A motorcycle? Kevin could use one of those…he’d always go on and on about wanting a new ride and let’s be honest that unicycle was not good for anyone. This would be the first Christmas in a long time she’d spend with someone she cared about so a present like this from her would make Kevin happy. Not that she cared THAT much but still….a man needs a cool ride…or so Kevin kept telling her….so yeah, whatever man get off her back! “The rules are like this: Survive and make it to the last stage of the game. For those who are unable to continue their organs will be harvested and sold to the black market!! So remember it is important you try to win! You like having kidneys don’t cha?!” The people in the stadium began to talk in panic! “Why are you doing this!? We don’t want to die!” One of the men scream out but no one acknowledges him and the announcer continues. “These cameras will follow you so we can see how you do! Please pay them no mind! Now if you will all please go through the door behind you, the games can begin…” So these obstacles were somewhere else and it wasn’t a cage death match, it was just so they couldn’t get out and the only way was through the door shown to them. Her hair was now in a braid and her bangs were placed atop her head to keep them out of her eyes as she grabbed Josh by the arm and pulled him along calmly. “W-wait where are you going? You’re not seriously going to go through with this are you?!” A woman said, walking beside her. “I know people like this, there is no point in reasoning with them. We are nothing but entertainment and if we don’t do as they say they’ll kill us anyway. And I want to win that bike too…” The door would slide open and without any hesitation and with a tighter grip on Josh she makes her way in, the others quickly following behind, cameras following soon after so the people who paid for tonights events could watch from the many large screens. There was darkness for the first few seconds before the lights turn on and expose the first stage…Everyone stares dumbfounded at what is in front of them. There was a large pit with green gas floating at the bottom, the only thing on top of that to get them across were rather large blown up bouncing balls with large chesire grins and narrowed eyes, attached to thin poles. Yumi just stares for a moment before gazing up at the camera with a sneer. “So we have to jump on the balls and get across?” She wasn’t asking anyone in general but more talking out loud and one of the men get brave and shoves her out of his way, going for it even when Yumi yells. “Wait we don’t know what happens if you fall off!” The man wasn’t hearing any of it, how bad could it be? He could see the bottom of the pit it wasn’t so high! If he falls he just climb the pole or something and try again! His first jump he makes it and lands on the bouncing ball, his body wiggling as he catches his balance and goes for the next ball but loses his footing, slipping and he goes falling down with a loud ‘THUD’. Yumi and the others watch closely and he gets up slowly, rubbing his head before he begins to gasp and gag, the green gas filling his lungs with poisonous toxic as his eyes begin to bleed and he gargles foam….then with another much lighter thud, he falls on his back and stays down. “Hm.” She says with a raised brow while the others began to panic and scream, banging on the door that had closed behind them, the audience watches with an applause at the first death of the games.

Josh began to violently bite his finger nails, only  for them to rapidly grow back on some odd and unnamed ability type deal. He’d look around rapidly, until an announcer made their way out and began to speak! “Finally! Some light to be shed!”Josh stood up, and hunched over, listening intensively. As the lady bean to speak josh’s hypothesis was confirmed! An underground deathmach type deal is exactly what this was! What josh wanted to know, is just who the people were watching…”If I could get their identities….heeeeh heeeeeh heeeeeeeeeeeeeh. We can black mail them! Get money and other things we need for the fede-FIFTY-THAOUSAND DOLLARS!?!?!” Josh’s ears wiggled and his eyes lit up brighter than a Christmas tree in new York city! His mouth droped, gaping wide open! “With that kind of money…I can complete the federation database! Even! Even begin work on the training facility! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!” Flames burned in josh’s eyes. “I NEED! THAT! MONEEEEEEEEEEEEEY!!!!!!!!!!” he’d yell out mentally as the games were announced to begin with. As Yumi began to make her way towards the door, Josh would walk behind her, making peace sings with his fingers, and putting them across his eyes. “I’m with the lady! That 50,000 is mine all mine!” Josh’s eyes glamed as he looked at everyone in the room…taking a mental picture of them. His mind racing like a supercomputer as he analyzed everyone in the room on a physicals scale. “Impressive…but only a few of these guys would even be a potential challenge for Yumi! HA! Easy cash cow!” as they made their way to the first room cameras followed, and shots of them entering the first room. there was a pit in the middle with…giant bouncing balls? Josh tilted his head in a bit of stupor, tyring to understand just what the hell they were. There was a series of them, so one could assume it was these balls that allowed  a person to get to the other side. “Hmm…interesting….I SUCK AT JUMPING!” josh pulled at his own hair and gritted his teeth! As one of the men made their way to the front, on his Mr.Braveheart type shit, Yumi yelled out to  him, but Josh simply put a hand on her shoulder and shook his head. “theres no point. He’s his own man. Sorry yumi but..” as josh paused the man would’ve begun to bleed form his eyes and slowly after that die and fall on his back. The others tried to find a way out, and josh would’ve started doing arobic stretches beside Yumi. Getting on the ground and touching his toes, before leaning back into an odd back bend. Josh would then kick his leg up a couple of times, letting hs knee touch his chest, even with his leg straight he was flexible, but that’s about all he really had going for him. “Alright Yumi! Time to be real men and women! I’m going to go first! “ Josh would point at the Camera “Brought to you today by the Shinpaku Federation! Bow down before our awesome physical training!” Josh would strike odd and synced poses, thrusting his right hand out across his chest, before turning and posistioing his hands as if he were holding something, jogging in place for a minute before spreading his legs and making an inward hand motion on his forehead, striking a pose and shouting (http://i.imgur.com/JfiBum8.gif ) “JOSH ESCAPE ART NUMBER 83! JOSH SUPER JUMP!” Josh would run towards the edge, in an all be it awkward like fashion before squatting down and leaping high into the air! A surprising 20 feet with a running start! “HA HA HA….ah….ahhhhhHHHHHHHHHHH!” josh would’ve fallen face first on the first ball, flipping forward, and hitting the next ball with his back! Oddly enough, josh’s jump and momentumed managed to cause him to hit the ball at such a trajectory angle,that he’d cause the pinball effect using his body body to do so! Unintentionally, josh caused himself to pinball rapidly through a series of the giant balls, before being sent face first sliding along the cement ground of he other side of the pit! His arms flailed, out as he groaned in pain, with a fient hint of sniffles and tears. “S..sucess!” Josh would shakily raise his arm and give Yumi a thumbs up. a few of the people would turn form the door. “Hey if this dick can do it, I sure the hell can!” out of the 12 that went in attempt more began to go at it. systematically, only 7 of them made it. once Yumi had braved the trial, the announcer would speak. “Great job contestants! Your determination to keep your lives is admirable at best! Now lets move onto the next grand event for the evening!” as they entered the door, they’d see a field of what looked to be grass. It was about as big as half of a football field, nothing special at all.

Here comes the boom
“HA! This is it? shit I got this! That money’s mine!” one of the girls said as she ran across the grass when she got halfway ‘BOOM!” her body combusted and exploded into dead limbs and soot. Josh swallowed hard and if yumi was beside him, he’d slump behind her. “Dammit! “ the announcer lady would speak. “Get to the other side without going boom! Remember your cause!” the cameras rolled and the screens displayed. Josh’s ears would perk however as he looked at the spot where the woman had died. “Landmines…the radius…since the pieces of her haven’t exploded that flopped around..i conclude” Josh would point and yell. “THE MINES ONLY HAVE A SEPPING RADIUS OF 5 FEET IN DIAMETER!” Josh would turn to  yumi holding his hands out. “Give me your shoes! All of you!” a couple people would look at josh dumfounded Josh would sigh and facepalm. “Observe!” he took off his own shoes, and toss one of them into the middle of the field! It went ‘BOOM!’ josh would toss his other shoe on another part of the field…nothing happened. “we can use our shoes as markers! A guide! We all throw our shoes and  let them find a spot! If they go boom, that’s one less mine! If they don’t go boom, that’s a safe area! Now lets make this quick…there are nine of us. I threw my shoes…meaning 8 of ou..16 shoes. Make your throws count!” the rest of the folks decided to do what could possibly help the situation. People took off their shoes and threw them into the field! A few booms were heard, and if yumi did it to she may or may not get a boom. As the shoes were scattered, you could see which zones were safe and which zones had mines blow up already…but there was still a lot of space left. “Well…we have a start. We’ll have to play a bit of leap frog but it’s better than going in blind!” Josh would nudge yumi with sweat beading down his head. “L-lead the way lovely yumi!” the announcer lady tilted her head up, looking at Josh and Yumi….with interest. A shadowy figure in the background, sat in a throne of stone, lifeless, simply looking at the events unfold. There was one particular face in the crowd wearing a mask who was watching the games with heavy interest as well…he almost looked familer.

Yumi wasn’t in a good mood to begin with and when the first 5 contestants die on only the first course it makes it clear to see no one was going to make it out besides her and Josh. The redheaded fighter watched as one of the women goes rushing out because of the lack of danger and Yumi just crosses her arms, frowning at the scene before her. Suddenly an explosion happens and she watches with wide eyes as the girl erupts in organs and limbs. The people left would watch with worry at how they were going to get through this without killing themselves and Josh comes up with a plan… “Take off your shoes!” Okay so maybe it wasn’t going to be a great plan but what else was he good for? Though the others would ask him what the fuck that would do Yumi did not complain and merely did what he said, this needed to go along quickly if they planned on making it to the end of this nightmare. The shoes are thrown and so far there were only a handful of explosions and with a smack of her teeth she grabs on to Josh, throwing him over her shoulder. “It’ll be quicker if I carry you, the rest of you…good luck.” With that being said Yumi did the first couple of jumps and though her chakra was blocked that didn’t mean she was useless, her years of training her legs coming in to play as she did a rather impressive leap forward, landing on the cool lush grass and……..nothing. Picking up the shoes near by with ease she tosses them again, only two explosions go off and she continues forward, Josh still being carried by the strong woman. The end of the course is seen and with a quick inhale she lifts Josh up, carrying him over her head and throws him with a powerful force as he goes soaring to safety. She was next to make the next leap but a man knocks in to her and grabs on tightly. “Throw me next! PLEASE!” She loses her footing and goes stumbling forward, crashing in to the grass, her chin scrapes in to the dirt and the palm of her hand slams on the ground, a clicking noise is heard and her eyes snap open, hearing the land mine...she doesn’t move her hand, trying her best to keep the same pressure on it. “Fuck.” She muttered under her breath as the man ontop of her quickly climbs off and stands on her back. Was this fuck face going to use her to get to the other side?! “Don’t you dare…” She threatened but the man couldn’t help the manic laugh as he shakes his head. “Tough luck!! Haha!!!” He steps on her upper back and goes to jump but Yumi doesn’t take it as her free arm shoots out, taking hold of his ankle and bringing him back down with a ‘SLAM’……………..nothing happens and the guy looks over his shoulder, laying still on his stomach. “ARE YOU INSANE?! WE COULDA BOTH DIED!” He bends his knee and kicks her harshly in the face but Yumi isn’t phased even when her nose begins to bleed from the repeated assault until she grips on to his pants and she sits up on her knees, her hand still on the pressure trigger of the land mine and slides him under her, the man wiggling but she back hands him hard enough to knock him right out. Catching her breath she adjusts his body and begins to place it over her hand, using his weight to keep it from detonating, slipping her fingers from under him now as she gets up and glares at the man who had left her to die. With a quick jump she makes it to where Josh is and wipes the blood off of her nose, the last contestants following the trail she had laid out for them and jumping off of the still knocked out man carefully. The last person digs their heel in to him and it shakes him awake as he looks around, confused. “Wha—“ He sits up and then ‘BOOM!!!’ he explodes all over the place, the people watching in horror while Yumi makes her way to the next obstacle with a frown. “Tough luck.” She says to no one and pushes the door open. The next obstacle the walls on either side of them were covered in large spikes with enough room so that no one could touch them and just walk clear across….with this stage, no one volunteered and went in blindly, they knew better now and there were only 5 of them left now…Yumi chews the inside of her mouth as she examines the situation and decides to go in first. “My reflexes are faster, I’ll do it.” The last girl besides Yumi quickly runs up and grabs her arm, tears swelling. “Please no we need you!” The fighter blinks and notices something off about the girl before asking. “How old are you?” The girl sniffles and answers the odd question. “13…” A child?! She hadn’t noticed the girl before how the hell did she survive the last two rounds?! Yumis eyes lock to the camera following them and she grabs for it, giving it a snarl. “You brought a KID into this?!?” Her anger was beginning to bubble now as she keeps the struggling camera in her grip before throwing it forward like a baseball, watching as a black ball with the same facial features as the balls from before comes flying out and bounces right into the camera, sending it flying into the spike walls and its pierced, mechanical pieces going every which way. The ball bounces back and forth and never stops….so that was the game. She looks to Josh with a frown and gestures. “Now what?”

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfLr33rbZGA&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkbiSVlrNHnbXbgZBIdU3Pl&index=311&shuffle=1856 ) “It’ll be quicker if I carry you, the rest of you…good luck.” “Eh?” Josh replied before he was holstered up, upon her shoulder, and carried across the field part way. “That’s it  Yumi! I like your style haha! We’ll cash in on that money and that bike!”  as she made her way over, he’d take  note of the breath she took in. “W-wait! Hold on! surely you could keep carrying me if you wanted TOOOOOOoooooooo“ Josh’s body would’ve been hurtled across the rest of the field, to the other side safe! Josh landed on the ground with a  loud “THUD’ “oof!...damn!” Josh would stand up dusting himself off and looking back at  yumi just as someone pushed her down! Josh quickly heard the “click” noise when she fell and a bead of sweat fell down his forehead as he had a look of fear in his eyes. “Oh….no….” Josh swallowed hard. He’d spread his legs and place one hand on each temple and twitch his ears a couple of times. “Josh style, good luck mental beam! OooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” Josh would’ve really just been sitting there straining himself to wish nothing but good luck upon her and that she’d find away! And wouldn’t you guess she did! Tripping up the dick who’d caused her to fall in the first place and using him like a meat shield to swap her body’s position for her own! “Dirty tatic, but it works! You can thank the power of the Josh-ster later on in your life! BWA! HA! HA!!!’ josh would cross his arms across his chest and laugh. He winced a bit at the bruising on her nose, but even then there wasn’t even much of a bruise there! “Jeez..she and kodi would be masochist buddies I bet. Friggin pain freaks…” Josh folded his arms, and grinned with his long canines, another result of poor hygiene as he’d follow behind Yumi patting her on the back. ‘Jolly good show you flaming red headed knight of vigor!” there were only five of them  left….and it didn’t seem like there was any grueling end to what was going on here today.

Mind the spikes!
When he arrived there he saw the spiked walls on each side of the room. “Hm..wall trap? Motion censored maybe? Has to be..other wise it might just close  in on everyone. This is a game however ,and I don’t think the creator of these games is going to be so primitive in their approach…”  When Yumi opted to go first, josh would nod in agreement, folding his arms and trying to use his brain to the best of it’s potential. “Good idea Yumi…being the most physically adept you might be a good test run to see just what the hell these walls are going to do. Everyone else should just stay back and let me and her come up with the planning! Got it? now then..” Josh would squat down and look at the walls…looking from one to the other. He’d grab his jacket, ripping off the zipper part of it. as he did this, Yumi would’ve already addressed that there was a 13 year old girl here. Josh snarled, not exactly wanting to see a 13 year old girl be hurt here…as such when Yumi tossed the camera and a giant black ball came from outta nowhere and smashed it into the spikes. Josh raised a brow. “Ah, they’ve got class. So a ball…” Josh would toss his zipper into the middle of the area and another black ball would come flying to send the zipper into the spikes. “will push us into the spikes. It moves pretty quick though…” a twinkle in Joshes eye. “Looks like this is a game for the speedy of the foot! Fortunately if there’s one thing I’m good at it’s running away from my problems! If  you all wish to make it out alive, I propose a plan! Thought it may or may not work…we can..maybe save 3 of you five. Depends on how fast you are. Yumi!” Josh would stand up. “Me and you! We’re gonna play dodgeball! We’ll use ourselves as distractions for the majority  of the balls that come our way, and let some of these peeps cross but BUT!....only for 15 seconds! After 15 seconds, we need to get ourselves across other wise we’ll wear ourselves out! We can’t save every one…I’m  sorry to say folks, but in the game of life there are winners and losers! “ Josh would wave his finger and close his eyes. “but if there is a god you can’t tell him that I didn’t try. Now then Yumi….LET’S GO! HUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!” Josh would jog in place, his arms spread out as he yelled. “JOSH STYLE: DODGEBALL CRESENDO!”  Josh would leap forward with his arms spread out like an Olympic diver! One of the black balls came his way and he’d hit the ground flat, the ball passing over him and hitting a spike only to bounce back towards him on the ground! Josh’s body would’ve moved like a worm, as he’d loop his body in a semi circle like fashion, using his chin and the tips of his toes to inhumanly arrange his body so the ball would bounce right under him! the ball would rebound off of the wall many many times, but with inhuman like insight and flexibility, Josh’s body would’ve flailed, flopped and wiggled across the ground, narrowly dodging the ball’s speedy pathway! ( ) 2 of the five took initiative go ahead and try and run across! However ANTOHER black ball would  make its way out and knock one of them right into the spike! “YIKES! YUMI!” if she’d been out here by now, her and josh could’ve at least dodged enough of the balls for the 13 year old girl, and one other young male to have made it across to the other side! Sadly 3 of the fiv would’ve had their lives taken instantly, not being fast enough. “ALRIGHT YUMI LET’S JET! JOSH ESCAPE STYLE: SUPER JUSTICE TORPEDOOOOOO!” josh would spring up from his wobbly like motions and squat his feet on the ground, a comical force coming from the  soles of his feet as he squatted down and propelled himself forward! As he did one of the balls was coming right for his ribs! “J-JOSH STYLE!” Josh would take in a deep breath and blow air. While seemingly nothing special, the exhale of air boosted his body a bit higher in the air thanks to his incredibly slim frame it gave him half an inch of air time, allowing the ball to non-lethally slide underneath him and hit the wall on the other side, allowing josh a quick free ride to the other side of the room! Josh would’ve tumbled and rolled against the door and hopefully yumi would’ve done the same. Josh would stand up huffing ad puffing. “I *huff*  Can’t. *huff* go *huff* on *huff* Josh would be huffing and puffin by the door before finally standing up and sighing, hung over and looking at the survivors. “Alright you guys…our numbers are dwindling. If my calculations are correct, we’re falling into their statistics of people who do and don’t make it through these games. Using probability I deduce after this next obstacle we may be able to reach the end of the line. What lies there is the mystery.” Josh would open the door and the next obstacle would be quite the…..slippery one. he opened the door to the sound of running water! Furishing and running amok in the room they’d taken refuge in! the pool was fucking huge! And it was swirling with tidal waves abroad! “……..so. it’s come to my attention that uh. This Is an obstacle with water!.....I CAN’T SWIM!” Josh would run his hand through his hair panicking and shrieking. “this is not good for my heart! Not one bit! I can’t do this! There’s no ooo way! Can I have a gun? Please? Kill me!” the announcer lady would speak loud and proud. “Oh come now don’t be like that! this net event is to cross the whirlpool waters! It’s easy if you strafe along the sides of it. Josh tapped his chin squinting his eyes. “Why does this sound extremely too easy.” Suddenly tentacles would emerge from the water flailing bout in the unusually tall room from the murky looking sea water. “Oh and you get to make friends with Davey, the giant octopus. Enjoy and happy gaming!” Josh would turn to Yumi. “Put me on your back! Put! Me! On! you! Back, you can NOT let me die!” Josh would’ve swirled around her hopping on her back, and shivering like something out of a Scooby doo episode. His teeth clattering and shattering. “Where the hell is Connor when you need him!?!?!!?!?!”

I've seen enough hentai...
So Josh did have an idea on how to pass this round though it wasn’t a good one for him and Yumi but it’d do as they were the fastest to evade attacks. She places a hand on the girl and gestures. “Stay close and just try to duck a lot.” The girl would sniffle and nod, following her orders and Josh goes first, the ball coming right to him but the guy was as wiggly as a worm in mud as Yumi was up next, calling more of the balls out and to her but she throws herself forward and back, weaving her body to and fro and even when a ball does smack right in to her she takes hold of it best she could and flips on her back, turning so the ball makes contact with the spikes though it was really strong stuff as it doesn’t pierce and bounces her right off and on to safety…the next course is next and she looks over her shoulder at the ones remaining, the girl was beside her and hopefully Josh was right on this being one of the last obstacles. She hears the familiar sound of water and smacks her teeth in annoyance at the sight of a giant pool. “Fuck.” She cursed and crossed her arms, giving Josh a lame expression as he begins to panic. He couldn’t swim huh? Well she was sure Connor would understand if his friend died because of his own stupidity. The girl turned pale at the sight of tentacles and she starts getting really nervous. “Oohhh no, I’ve seen enough hentai to know where this is going!!” Yumi didn’t understand what she meant by that but now was not the time as Josh jumps on her back and she almost loses her balance, giving him a glare. “Stop squirming so much!!!” Damn it she’d have to carry him and swim across but with that giant beast in the water there was no guarantee they’d make it out of this one. She gazed down at the waters below and chewed the inside of her cheek, trying to think again. The walls were lined up with oval shaped material though trying to grab on to it would prove difficult and then walking with everything all wet was just impossible. “Josh, I’m sorry but you’re going to have to take the girl and this guy over to the wall while I distract our friend there…” She places the long braid up in to a rolled up bun, tying it to her head and begins to remove her clothes, leaving herself in just bandages that she kept tied around her breasts to keep them still and her boy shorts. She didn’t have shoes now thanks to the course with the land mines but she didn’t need them for this round anyway. The chi depleting wrist band would glow slightly on her and she ignores it, stretching carefully. “You can’t be serious! That thing will eat you! Or rape you! It’ll rape you!!” Yumi rose a brow at the panicked girl, pulling lightly on her arm to limber up. “Rape?” She repeated to her and the girl nodded frantically but Yumi wasn’t hearing any of that. She took a couple of steps back before shooting off and jumping off of the edge and in to the freezing water, making it all the way to the middle and evading the first three whirlpools though as soon as the fighter is plunged in to the water a tentacle goes soaring to her and wraps around her frame, bringing her further down and closer to the beast. Hopefully Josh had done as she told him and started to cross by using the wall to get to the other side. The Octopus watches her, waiting for her to try to fight or struggle anything like the victims usually do but Yumi had her eyes closed and wasn’t moving, focusing on the air she had in her lungs and keeping the beasts attention on her for as long as she could. Another tentacle snakes its way this time to wrap around her head but Yumi wouldn’t allow it as she opens her mouth and with a vicious snap of her jaw she bit down hard, alarming the Octopus as it quickly lets go out of not only pain but surprise she had finally done something!! Yumi swims towards it and cocks her elbow back before throwing a dense punch in to its eye or it would have been a punch had she not opened her fist and pointed her fingers, striking it in the pupil with the tips of nails, blinding it momentarily enough so she could swim back up to get some air, gasping. She begins to swim to the end of the course, her eye catching sight of Josh and the girl but where was the last guy? She looks over her shoulder and sees him struggling to keep up and as unfortunate as it was for him, it’d be the best distraction for her so she could escape, watching as his hand slips and he goes plunging in to the water!! She doesn’t wait to see if the octopus is interested because not a second later the man is grabbed on to, gallons of blood erupting from the water to splash all over the place. 

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYx8IHJ9dWE ) When Yumi told him he’d have to take the girl AND the guy over on that dangerously narrow ledged walkway Josh’s self confidence went from 100 to 0, real quick! He’d contemplate either pulling his hair out, ripping his eye balls from their sockets, or simply jumping into the water to let himself be eaten. Anything to him was better than trying to swim away from danger, which he knew was a losing battle from the start. “GRR DAMMIT! FINE! COME ON YOU STUPID KIDS! IF I DIE BECAUSE OF EITHER OF YOU, YOU’LL BOTH BE HEARING FROM ME IN THE AFTERLIFE!” Josh would nod over to them, and walk over towards the edge. He’d walk over to the wall and grip onto it as best he could!...struggling heavily to do  the task at hand! It’s like he couldn’t keep a good grip on it, no matter how hard he tried! Josh would shake his head and growl. “No! I will not perish here! You hear me gods of misfortune!? JOSH STYLE: IRON GRIP OF THE IRO GIANT!” this was really just josh putting his all into his finger strength. Though true, he couldn’t use his powers in this scenario for anything other than just using the josh arts, he could at least use his adrenaline pumping through his body  to increase his physical ability to do something more than ordinary! As such, Josh would’ve used his Iron Grip, looking over to the girl beside him and gritting his teeth. “Utilize the secrets of the josh style! It’s the only way!” Josh and the girl quickly scurried their way across, and were making progress. The girl shrieked when she saw yumi jump in, in much lesser clothing one might add, but josh failed to look! Claiming that if he did he’d lose the concentration properties needed to really use the josh style successfully. “SH-SHE’LL BE FINE! TRUST ME, A GIANT OCTOPUS ISN’T GOING TO KEEP HER FROM DOING WHAT SHE WANTS!!!” josh made his way over to the other side successfully and Josh would reach his hand out and extend it to the girl! “come on!!!” Josh would look to the water as he’d see Yumi resurface, and the giant tentacles seemingly subsiding in their stride! He’d then look back to see the other guy. “H-hey! Hurry up guy! you can do it! just beile-“ the guy was then grabbed by a tentacle and drug to the underside of the waters!...only blood was the result that leaked up from it. Josh shook his head rubbing his face and shrieking thinking to himself. “Damn….we….we could really die here…”his heart was pumping. Josh was on the brink  of a mental break down. His life had never been in such danger before…even his own confidence was waning. He usually always had a master plan. A back up. a contingency, but not this time. This time all josh was being forced to do was to play the game…”Tch…C-come on Yumi. Can you walk?” Josh would help her up, placing her arm over his shoulder if she needed it, but if not, josh would nod to the girl and Yumi. “We should be approaching the final stage…I’m not even sure how far we’ll really make it here. But just know. Yumi. I’ve been eating your rice balls for the past few weeks that you’ve been meaning to give to kevin. Sorry. But that guy eats like a force of nature.” Josh would open the door to the last part of this game. Finally. The last area…was some kind of boxed in ring. It didn’t have a ceiling per say but it did have more monitors than before. There was an arena like audience section. One particularly, where  you couldn’t really see them, but their looming presence was there…and the glimmers off their masquerade mask. The announcer would pitch her voice through the air again, but this time with even more excitement than previously. “Well folks here you  have it! the final three contestants in our games tonight! They’ve braved the challenges with poise, gritt and grace, but now it’s time to see who the true champion of the games REALLY is. A death match is under way!” Josh’s eyes widened as weapons were dropped into the ring. Swords, axes, bo staffs and various assorted weaponry was dropped into the pit like room. Josh shook his head and begun to exclaim loudly. “No no no  NO! I thought we just had to survive games!...i didn’t think a death match was involved! I don’t wanna kill anyone for the prize! The deaths here weren’t my fault…I can directly kill someone!” the crowd remained silent, but the emotion of distaste was in the air….Josh swallowed hard and looked to the other two. “Ah….I uh. Don’t know how we’re going to get out of this one so easily…any ideas?” the man following them who’d been watching them from the beginning kept his eye on Yumi. He clenched his fist, and narrowed his eyes curious about what she would do.

A wolf in sheeps clothing
Yumi accepted Josh’s help to walk through to the next course…she was beginning to grow tired, without her chakra she wasn’t as strong as she usually was even with her intensive training and endurance, this was more than fighting in a ring this was a harsh survival and it was wearing her out. Not to mention it was late in the evening hell probably even morning time soon and with no sleep, no eating and no chakra Yumi was growing irritable. Granted her endurance allowed her to go without food for days and sleep as well but that didn’t mean she enjoyed it! She senses Josh begin to panic and lifts her head up to realize their last course was a death match. As they make their way to the ring and go inside, weapons would begin to lay about them and the fighter would smack her teeth. “Damn.” Was all she said as she gazes over at the camera with a frown. Josh was out of ideas on this one and she couldn’t blame him…there were a whole audience of people expecting a fight to the death but Yumi was against killing innocent people especially children. The girl runs up on her and begins to cry in to her side, hiding her face in Yumis ribs, the redhead merely holds her close and pats her head calmly. “Don’t worry, I’ll figure a way out of here…” But she had no fucking idea on how they’d even try. There were cameras all over, they were still locked in and who knows if those goons from before who kidnapped them were in the shadows waiting for them to try anything. Not to mention with the chakra wrist band on her she couldn’t do anything but muay thai… “If I could just use my flames…” But what use was the word If? If wasn’t going to save them. “Don’t you see? There is only one thing we can do….” The girls voice was soft and broken. Yumi paid her no mind, trying to see from all angles… “You have to die. So I can live.” Wait that part she did hear and Yumi gazes down in time to catch the girl with a knife in her hand, making quick work as she slices in to her side. Yumi jumps back, placing a hand on the concerning gash wound, hissing in pain. “Fuck!” She locks eyes with the once sweet girl now watching her with a twisted malice. The tip of the knife is pointed at her and the one wielding it would begin to snicker, her eyes wide and frantic. “I was hoping you’d be of some more use to me till the very end but it looks like this is where the pretending stops!” She picks up another knife now equipped with two weapons and Yumi just watches her with a sneer. “I don’t like killing children.” The girl laughs and slices at the air, sticking her tongue out at her in a very un lady like manner. “Fuck you bitch! Snorting on that morals and shit to get high!” Yumi doesn’t respond and she doesn’t move from her spot, still holding her bleeding side. The girl is not amused and snaps at her, the knives flailing all about. “FINE. It’ll make it easier to kill you then! So just DIE!” In a flash the girl starts charging for her and Yumi has to make a decision…she wasn’t the type to use a weapon, her body was one but with an opponent using knives it was a tricky situation. Even though she was only 13, the girl moved like a demon! Yumi goes to side step but the girl somehow was able to call it and follows her, the knife just barely missing her face as Yumi throws her head back the last split second, hearing the knife cut through the air right past her eyes. She tosses her arm up to smack the arm holding it but the girls other hand goes in for the offensive too and slices Yumis assaulting limb. They both jump back, a couple loud drops of blood drip down to the ring floor and Yumi curses inwardly. This bitch wasn’t normal, she was wicked fast and she could predict the fighters moves. She didn’t want to kill her but now the game changed, it was kill or be killed and Yumi didn’t hesitate on what she had to do next. The girl charged her again but this time Yumi was prepared, taking note her attacks her full of power but they were wild and predictable and when the girl raises the knives to her, Yumi ducks right in to the girls fragile body, shooting herself forward and knocking her forehead in to her chin, hearing the girl bite her tongue as blood spews out from the wound and she gets sent on her back with a ‘THUD’. Yumi doesn’t allow the girl any time to recover and she goes in for the kill but the girl somehow got back up! For her size she still rose to strike, slicing forward on Yumi who had been preparing for a crushing skull blow. Using her bodys momentum she lifts her shoulder up to let it take the most damage, another gash opening but she pushes through it, knocking in to the girl with an elbow strike right to the nose, hearing a satisfying crack! This girl might have been quick but Yumi was all muscle and power, a hit from her was like being hit by a semi truck and she’d make sure this girl knew it. Landing on her feet she watches the girl go soaring right in to the end of the ring, her head slamming into the pole…….this time she doesn’t get up. Damn she didn’t want to kill her but she had no other choice as she turns to sneer at the camera. “This ends now, I won’t kill anyone else tonight. I’m done playing your stupid game.”

Josh would’ve looked as the cameras fell way to their positions. He paced around the arena at first, curious as to how they were going to get out of here. “Maybe I can bait the audience or something…just something….anything!” that’s  when Josh heard a commotion and he rushed to see just what  the hell was going on only to find the child and yumi fighting?!!? “Tch! I knew we couldn’t trust anyone! In the end everyone is the same! Out for themselves!” while they were fighting Josh would look toward the camera. “This thing is going to get shut down do you hear me! Once Yumi takes care of her, neither of us is going anywhere! You’d best be telling us the key to getting out of this dump!” Josh would turn and point to yumi, cheering her on! That’s when it ended…..Yumi slammed the girl’s head into a pole and just like that her power trip ended just that quickly. The girl’s body went limp..Josh covered his mouth and saw the blood leak from her skull. He closed his eyes tightly….”I…can’t keep doing this blargh…” Josh would look to the camera. “You see that! who makes people do this kind of stuff huh?!?!” Josh threw the shield down, realizing he wouldn’t need it. “your games are over! Yumi and I aren’t going to fight! No one else is going to die here tonight you hear me? !!?” Josh would turn to Yumi with a panicky look, but it had a firey determination to it as well.

The gunshot heard around the world...not really
“C’mon! help me figure out a way to by pass these bracelets! Then we can get you outta here! Connor’s probably worried sick about u-(http://youtu.be/Y4OLQB7ON9w?t=2m54s ) suddenly, from god only knows where…..a gunshot was fired. Seemingly missing yumi, hell it cleared her completely and didn’t even touch her to begin with. The blood did splatter however. Right from the location of Josh’s right shoulder, right near the area where his heart was. Josh’s body went flailing downwards. He was stunned so stuned, he didn’t even recollect what was going on with him at this moment in time. His eyes widened as he couldn’t even so much as utter a breathe, before he’d fall en onto his back. His body bounced a little bit, as the blood from the wound began to seep through it’s opening and coat his shirt, and a bit of the area around his back side. Josh’s head would’ve flopped to the right side. Josh’s eyes had a glazed look to them to boot…he lay there. Limp. And pale. The smoking gun, came from somewhere, and as the smoke from the gun rose from the pistol, the announcer woman of all people would’ve been the one holding the gun! She’d revealed her self in full…stepping down from the crowd, wearing a purple blazer with a long tail, kind  of like a dress even. Her cleavage in full view of the world, with her matching purple top hat. She’d had on make up and her brown locks only fell as far as thee base of her neck, as she swayed down, her hips form left to right. Holding a rather large gun in her hand, as she arrived. A door opened up in the pit, and she’d step through, along with a bunch of burley muscular men with bats, wrapped in barb wire and 2x4 boards with nails sticking out of them. She’d clear her throat before speaking. Her voice had a british tint to it. the elegant sort, not the nasty street one. “Scuse me deary, I really didn’t plan on hitting him in the heart. I was aiming for the spot next to it…didn’t want to kill him. ah well. It looks like you’re our winner after all! Please accept your prizes and go on with your life. Look no hard feelings?” she’d strut over to Josh’s body kicking his head and watching it move. “I know we haven’t exactly come off as elegant, but things like this are just entertainment. Like the GMAF’s except more….brutal and downhome. Try not to tell anyone what you saw, yeah?” she’d point the gun at Yumi, cocking it, and taking aim. “Other wise, we’ll repossess our prizes, along with your life. Sound fair?” she’d wait for Yumi’s answer. The man in the crowd, that had been following yumi would slowly start to stand up as if he’d had great concern or something of the sort.

Yumi nodded towards Josh, glad he knew that she wasn’t going to fight him in any shape or form. The girl had been taken out and though Yumi was bothered by it she wouldn’t show it, it was weakness and that could get you killed especially in here. Josh tells her they need a way to over pass the wrist bands and how Connor would be worried by now—A gun shot is heard and Yumi watches with wide eyes as it goes right in to the lean boy and sends him falling to the ground in a slump. The blood would follow as it pools around him and she watches with her jaw open in shock. She says nothing, standing there in place almost frozen in the spot as the gunman reveals themselves to be the announcer lady of the night. Her words are muffled, like speaking underwater and the fighter couldn’t make a word out of it as the image of Josh laying there dying was all she could focus on. He wasn’t supposed to die, they were going to get out together! This was Connors friend and though Yumi and Josh weren’t close she knew how much Connor cared for this boy and he was a good person! Something inside of her clicks but Yumi assumed it was just the sound of the gun cocking at her this time as the woman threatens her. She finally tears blue hues away from Josh and on to the announcer. The wrist band would glow immensely, radiating the green until it almost turned white as Yumi sneers viciously, her canines exposed. “You’re all about the entertainment. I’ll make this one you never forget. I’ll show you how it’s done.” The wrist continues to shine bright and then. ‘CRACK’ the stone breaks in to pieces and the band becomes undone falling uselessly to the floor. The announcer becomes alarmed and holds the gun steady, speaking cautiously. “Don’t do this, take the prize or we will kill you!”  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mjlM_RnsVE ) Yumis expression curls in to a dangerous scowl as her hands erupt in flames. “I’m going to make you suffer.” The woman doesn’t take her chances and opens fire on Yumi but the fighter is already on the move, using her hot foot move to shoot herself forward like a rocket, zig zagging to avoid the bullets. The announcer screams when her clip is empty and turns to run away, ordering the men to take care of her so she could save herself. The first three men block her path and she glares, growling. “GET OUT OF MY WAY!” Her flames begin to engulf the redheads body, there was an alarming amount of chakra pouring out and though she wanted to attack them with her fists, the anger inside of her was beginning to overpower what she wanted and take over, the flames growing to a fatal size and it had a mind of its own! The flames danced around before shooting out and swallowing the men whole dragging them closer only to eat the clothes, the flesh right off to the bone, there was nothing left but their skeletons which were positioned in a pathetic attempt to shield themselves from the fire. (

Burn baby, burn!
The anger was in control now as Yumi could no longer be seen by the flurry of fire, destroying everything in its path as the rest of the men tried their best but how could one attack an inferno? The audience would scream and shout as the flames reached high out towards them in a tidal wave of embers hungry for more carnage, curling and snaking their way on to whatever they could grab. “Look in to the depths of hell and pay for your sins.” Her voice was no longer hers as it carried in an echo through the stadium, the blaze finally taking on a shape that one could make out to be a dragon of sorts. This hatred, the malice and negative aura dominated the fighter and all she saw was rage. Who made it okay for the innocent to die? For those who were high on power to push around those weaker than them? She despised the ones who killed and ruled simply because they could! Simply because of their greed and lack of empathy. The dragon grew and grew until the size was enough to take over the ring, hell the head could almost hit the ceiling as the jaws unhinged to let out a monstrous roar of more flames! The announcer watches in terror as everything around them begins to go up in red and orange, people were being incinerated as their screams go unheard by the raging sounds of death by fire that licks away at them. “S-sir we have to leave!” The man who had been sitting on the throne was her main concern now as she tries her best to jump out of a falling props way, almost slammed by it and she shields her eyes from the flash bang that comes after! “SIR! PLEASE.” )The people who had managed to escape would not have left without a token of her appreciation for all that they stood for as they would leave with flames burning into their skin.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2GEdPSfGP4&list=PLYNBny7IRlVkbiSVlrNHnbXbgZBIdU3Pl&index=56 )“Shut up wench….” The man in the throne replied as he reared his head back and laughed a bit. “this has been the BEST show EVER! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!” The man would’ve stood up,  gripping the woman by her hair, and tucking her under his  arm. He’d then run towards the back of the room they were in, pushing his hand against the wall and the wall would turn on some kind of vertical axel, causing the both of them to disappear s quick as they came! The man who’d stood watching Yumi for the entirety of this even, would be wide eyed at her fiery display. He was dumbfounded…in a state of shock. “I failed….she lives….I’ve. I’ve got to inform the others. If they even let me live for failing the mission..” he mysterious figure would turn his back on the destruction, seemingly unaffected by the heat or the flames abroad. After the fire storm had ended, josh’s one eye would open as he’d look around to see the pit they were in incinerated, and yumi a blaze in glory! Josh would quickly hop up! his legs spread awkwardly and his hands on his hips. “HHAHAHA! VICTORY FOR THE SHINPAKU ALLIANCE HS BEEN ACHIEVED! TAKE THAT YOU RICH BASTARDS!” Josh would point and laugh the now empty stands and look back at Yumi. If she’d calmed down by this time seeing josh alive, Josh would close his eyes and point to himself with his thumb. “You see? I knew you had it in you alllllllllllll along. When I took the shot I could’ve just gotten right back up BUT I knew there was a dormant power inside of you! And just like every other anime, you brought it out seeing me hurt! Hell this is but a flesh wound!” Josh would beat his fist over his wound. Nothing happened for a few minutes until blood came gushing out from the wound. “EEEEEEEEEEK!” he’d take off his shirt, and make a make shift cast, to stop from bleeding any further as he’d fall on his butt and groan. “Gah….lost….to much blood.” Josh would look towards the stairs. “Yumi! G-get the bike and the money! We won this game….though the cost for winning doesn’t exactly feel gratifying. Not in the slightest….” Josh would’ve laid his head back on the ground and coughed a bit. “Let’s get back to the homestead…..yes I’ll need you to carry me…I’ll figure out how to get this bracelet off when we get back. Something like this might come in handy for future purposes…” Josh would cough a few more times, before laying back and sighing, waiting for his chariot of fire to whisk him away.

Not exactly a happy ending...
The sound of Joshs voice somehow brought the redhead back to her senses because the moment he spoke it snapped her out of the anger and the dragon currently over powering was destroyed, the flames vanishing and returning the chakra back to her as she gasps, struggling for air. Falling to her knees she’d clutch her chest and try to fill her lungs with air, gazing over at Josh yelling about like he always did as if nothing had happened but the bullet wound and the blood still seeping out proved otherwise. Yumi struggled for a moment, trying her best to focus on him but her vision was blurry. http://postimg.org/image/qkv3mw6s3/ “Josh? I-idot Stop moving around so much, yo-youre in shock right now that’s probably what’s keeping you going.” Hell she was in shock too but from the experience of that power. That had never happened before, she’d never lost control so badly….well there was the first time when the homeless people died…but that was when she first used her abilities with fire. The other time was when the old man at the gym was killed but this time? It’d never been this bad and she thought she had better control than this! Standing up she makes her way over to Josh, helping him back up as she herself is struggling to stand but never the less she was able to do so. “I’m not going to carry your dumb ass, you can walk just like me…until I get us the bike then I’ll put you on it and I’ll push it along.” She gazes up at the destruction and smacks her teeth. “Damnit I hope I didn’t kill anyone…” It was all a blur, one minute she was charging the men the next she was hearing Josh laughing and telling her it was time to go. She needed to talk to Connor about this but she knew Josh would tell the man everything he needed to know and then some…which was good because Yumi was not in a chatty mood. She helps drag Josh along out of what was left of the ring, turning her head to the side to spot the 13 year old Yumi had killed—wait. Her eyes widen slightly as she notices the warmth still coming off of the girl and she kneels down, examining her. She was still alive!! The hit to her head hadn’t killed her! Josh was going in and out so of course he wouldn’t notice as Yumi kneeled down and grabbed the girl as well, throwing her over her shoulder as Yumi groaned in pain. Hey she was still all wounded up from being stabbed! Now carrying two people was proving to be difficult but Yumi was stubborn and she made her way down the ring and over to where the prizes were still safe as could be in the glass stage….the building was still in flames but these were weak and dying the moment her power receded back inside of her. Thankfully Josh was almost out like a light so he couldn’t question why she was helping the girl who tried to kill her but she coldn’t leave her here to die either…not a child. She places Josh carefully on the bike and lets him lean in on in, placing the girl behind him to lay on him before she begins to push carefully, the suitcase of money inbetween Josh and the girl. This was going to be a long night……