The loud roar of the crowd was absolutely exhilarating. This year's tournament was moved to a much larger location due to popular demand, and Vadim just couldn't get enough of the excitement in the air. He could even hear the crowd pretty well from the locker room that he had found himself in, which he thought was rather impressive. Must be a full house tonight. He chuckled at the thought of the countless number of people outside waiting for the next match.

He stowed his signature coat away in the locker he was assigned before deciding to relax on one of the nearby benches. He'd enjoy the silence while it lasted, because another fighter was bound to come in at any moment, and most of them were so outwardly arrogant that it was hard to hold a conversation with them. Before he could continue that thought, however, a somewhat mellow beeping sound sounded throughout the arena, and the many screens were updated with the contenders in the next matchup. He recognized one of the names, but that was it. Korian. He felt like he'd seen the name somewhere before, but merely accepted that it was from a previous tournament without much thought. The other name he did not recognize at all, so it was probably just a newbie.

Deciding that it would be fun to see, Vadim got up and headed out to the spectators' area of the arena. He had a feeling that this year's tournament would be a doozy.

Generally, seeing Namekians on Earth was very rare, and humans still haven't gotten overly used to the green-skinned aliens. It wasn't much of a surprise that those around the 7 foot tall, muscular and imposing Namek promptly shied away, leaving him in a small circle of his own personal space. Xalam stood in the stands, arms crossed over his chest as he watched the arena closely, ignoring the roaring applause all around his form.

This was it;; one of the few tournaments that he decided to even try his time challenging. After landing on this Earth, many months ago, he had spent his time re-establishing a base of operations, for him to stay at, meditate, and train. It was a on a mountain, quite far away other civilizations. The mountain's peak had been landscaped, sliced, and cleaned into a sufficient place to train and meditate, while the inside of the mountain, in it's many caves, were hollowed out and alit for sleeping and storing water.

He had heard of this tournament whilst meditating - nearby hitchhikers had been talking rather loudly about how they were going to get back to the city in time to watch it, and his supernatural hearing barely caught the last dregs of the conversation. Bemused, he had flown at his top speed towards the city in question, deciding to sign up so that he can test his might against the humans of this world. If he were to protect it, he would need to know exactly how much protection it would need. So far, he was completely disappointed and unamused with the challengers he had seen so far. Arrogant, reckless, unskilled - in his eyes.

'Korian, hm?' The Namekian wondered mentally, eyes narrowing at the name. He felt that this challenger would at least pose a challenge.

High in the sky, soring just below the clouds was a pink humanoid figure with a smile upon her lips. Despite being on this world for as long as she has been, which was a very, Very long time she knew little to nothing about it. But during her exploration of this worlds cities she got used to the planets inhabitants, they weren't much different from herself, sure they stared at her but she didn't mind.

After having overheard a few 'Humans' as she learned to call them, she found out that there was a fighting tournament going on around somewhere near the neighboring cities, where the strongest people on earth gather to see who's the strongest. The thought of being able to test her strength against this planets strongest fighters excited her, it was the reason she'd been searching for the event for nearly three hours without stopping, all the while she wore an excited smile. Another thing she noted was how beautiful the planet looked from the sky with it's lush green landscape, it was almost distracting.

After a couple more minutes of flying something caught her eye, she stopped and looked downward, what she seen looked with some sort of open stadium with a square in the middle of it, she tilted her head slightly and wondered if that was the place she was looking for.

'I probably should have asked for directions now that I think about it...'

She thought to herself with a mild chuckle, then she heard the faintest sound of cheering from the crowds below.

'maybe someone down there will know where to go'

At that thought she flew towards the ground as fast as she could, reaching it in just a few seconds before slowing down and softly landing on a sidewalk near the arena, somehow her sky dive and landing went completely unnoticed by people who had been walking by, they seemed to be too occupied talking amongst themselves or making bets on who was going to beat who or who the winner was going to be in the end. One person wearing a hoodie while texting was walking and almost bumped into someone, the guy had stopped walking and looked up o apologise.

"oh, sorry about tha-... uuuh..."

The guy in the hoodie stared wide eyed for a moment at the sight before him, not exactly sure what he was looking at.

"Hi"

The pink skinned girl with strange hair said back to the hooded guy with a smile.

"hi... c-can I help you?"

The man asked nervously.

"I was just wondering if you new where a tournament was taking place"

She asked him honestly, the guy sweat dropped with an "are you serous?" look before he looked to his right towards the tournament area, the girl stared intently at him, her eye's somewhat unsettled him when he looked back to her.

"uh, y-yeah, the tournament is happening in there..."

The guy nervously pointed towards the tournament area which made the girl look at where he pointed, she looked back to him with a smile.

"really? thanks!"

She said with excitement before she walked away from the guy and headed towards the arena.

"... that was... yeah..."

The guy said awkwardly before he put his phone away and went on his way. The pink skinned walked up to one of the entrances in of the tournament area, there was an employee holding a digital clipboard standing near on of the entrances, she observed the other entrance as people walked into, they didn't look all that strong, she guessed that they most likely weren't fighters. She then approached the man with the clipboardy thing, he looked up from it and his eye's widened at the strange sight.

"hello, I was just wondering where the fighters were"

She asked with a small smile, the employee smiled back at the strange stranger.

"why, the fighters are just beyond here, inside the locker room getting ready for the tournament "

He answered proudly with a knowing look, the pink skinned girl smiled eagerly.

"great!"

She said before attempting to walk past the employee, his eye's widened slightly before he stepped in front of her.

"I'm sorry miss, but if you want to enter the tournament you need to fill in this registration form"

The man said after tinkering with his digital clipboard for a second before holding it out to the girl, she hesitantly took the device and looked at it like it somehow grew a second head. The employee raised a brow in slight confusion at her bewilderment.

"uh miss, is there a problem?"

The girl looked at him with a slightly pouting expression.

"what do I do?!"

She asked in an almost pleading tone, the employee sweat dropped before explaining.

"j-just sign you name, where you're from and fill in the spot where you consent to entering the tournament..."

The man said kindly, the girl looked back at the digital clipboard before looking back at the employee.

"how?"

She asked sheepishly, the employee was taken back by this and somehow fell onto his back, his legs twitching in the air, it would have been funny to her if she wasn't stressing about how to enter the tournament. The employee quickly got back to his feet and took the digital clipboard.

"here, I'll just fill it in for your, now, what's your name, and where do you come from?"

He ask, his patience holding strong as he readied himself to enter the information.

"I'm Majin Eve, and I came form the mountains"

Eve answered honestly with a smile, the employee raised a brow at this but shrugged with a smile before he jotted down the info.

"and do you consent to enter the tournament?"

"Yes!"

Eve answered back eagerly, the employee smiled at her enthusiasm as he finished her registration.

"hold still, I need your picture"

He said as he held the clipboard up, there was a brief flash before an image of Eve's smiling face appeared above her name.

"alright, you've been entered into the system, now remember, don't go starting fights in the locker room, go ahead in and wait with the other contestants, you'll now when it's your turn to fight"

The employee said, hoping the strange girl would behave.

"I understand, thank you"

Eve said cheerfully as she walked past him towards the locker room, shortly after she was added to the matchup list. Majin Eve had been walking around the locker room while looking at the competition, she was completely oblivious to the questioning stares she was getting from the other contenders. Most of these fighters looked pretty strong, some more that others, but all she had for guessing how strong they were was their appearance, she didn't exactly know how to sense energy, otherwise she would have found the tournament faster. There was one fighter she noticed who looked particularly pretty strong, and he looked kind of scary too, his skin was green, his ears were pointy and he had two antenna on his forehead, Eve guessed he wasn't one of the humans, but neither was she so she didn't judge.

Deciding not to look around further Eve walked up to one of the windows and looked out at the crowd.

'sure are a noisy bunch'

She thought with a smile as she waited for the fighting to begin.

Blizzard stood and watched as the crowd roared for the competitors. "Well this is annoying." He knew the tournaments were big but not like this. As people walked by, thy gave him strange looks. His race was extremely rare among earth. Blizzard has actually never met another member of his race since he came to earth. Blizzard pushed the thought to the back of his head as he looked around. He was the ref for the tournament this year.

He looked at the names that showed up on the roster. He didn't really recognize the names as he didn't take up much interest in the tournament. "These people must be pretty strong to be competing in a world tournament. I wonder what kind of people I'll see out there." He fixed his clothing. He didn't like the fact that he had to wear the official referee clothing but it was a need. He always preferred the armor he grew from his skin. It was always more comfortable. He walked out onto the arena ring and waited. The eyes of quite a few people turned toward him. Not only was he a alien, but he also was a rather large figure who looked like he could compete in the tournament as well. He waited for the announcer to speak the names the first two competitors. Blizzard listened as the crowd went wild.

The announcer walked out of the ring and Blizzard stepped forward. He looked at the two fighters. "Listen up. I want a good clean fight. You know the rules, otherwise you wouldn't be here. I stress that there is no killing. If you do so, you will be disqualified and met with the authorities. I wish you a good fight and good luck. The match will start when you here the ringing of what will sound like a bell. You may not strike your opponent before that sound. Do your best and give it your all and you can win the title of worlds best." Blizzard gained distance from the fighters and waited for the fight to start.

Already in the locker rooms was Glacia, hiding in plain sight. She was suspended from the ceiling by her three clawed feet, observing the competition. It wasn't that she particularly enjoyed the fighting, although a ood brawl once in a while wasn't a bad idea, but she was getting bored. The humans were too gullible and easily fell victims to her schemes, presenting no challenge. This place though seemed to attract what sparse aliens were on this blue rock. There was even one of her own kind here.

What caught her attention though was a delicious looking blob of animated bubble gum looking out one of the windows. Silently making her way over, Glacia let her tail down and gave the strange being a poke on the left shoulder, while trying to set up for a scare on the opposite side when they would look away.

Korian had been surprised to see that he was up first, but too much. He noted that not many of the fighters from the last tournament, the one he had competed in, made it to this, which he found odd. After the announcer gave the introduction for the tournament, he paced out to the arena with a slow jog. When he stepped out onto the ring, a portion of the crowd gave a large cheer, and he gave a wave to the crowd. He stepped to one side of the ring, and his opponent, who appeared to be a newer fighter, stepped onto the other side. He bowed to his opponent as the referee listed off the major rules. Standing to wait for the bell-tone, he crouched into a fighting stance.

Majin Eve was humming a soft tune as she watched the referee walk out to the ring, she had to raise a curious brow at the referee's appearance, another person who didn't look human, and he looked pretty strong too.

'is he fighting first?'

Eve thought to herself before she seen two other fighters approach the ring and getting ready to battle, which confused her a little.

'so, is it a three way battle?'

Before she could continue on the thought she felt what she thought to be someone tapping her left shoulder.

"huh?"

She turned her head to the left to try and see whoever it was trying to get her attention, but had to raise a slightly confused brow when she found no one standing to her left.

'but... someone just... weird'

Eve stared for a second or two before concluding that whoever had poked her had ran away, either that or someone had tossed something at her and it bounced off her before she could see what was thrown, with a slight shrug and a small smile she looked back at out the window. She was about to start humming again but something was pulling to get her attention from her peripheral vision to her right, as she turned her head to her right to find out what she was seeing, her eye's widened in surprise from the sight directly before her. Because of whoever was standing so close to her it forced Eve to flinch slightly as she took a step back to take in the persons appearance, though she was surely surprised by the sudden appearance she didn't really feel scared by it, after a few good long seconds her surprised expression quickly vanished as she got a better look at what she believed to be a girl standing beside her.

'she almost kind of looks like the guy standing in the ring in the striped shirt'

Eve thought to herself before a small smile came to her lips.

"hi there"

She said in a friendly tone as she took a step back to give the girl some space.

"I didn't see you in here before, did you just enter?"

Eve asked in a curious tone, her smile still evident on her.

Before, Glacia intended to make a face, noise or something to add a touch to the scare, but in time realized a surprised punch to the face form about any of these people would mess up her pretty face. That she did not want. What she wanted was to find something interesting, and she now had an undivided attention of a member of a race she didn't see anywhere else on Earth. Ah, success~ Now that she had a few still seconds of eye-to-eye (And what magnificent, ensnaring black and red eyes they were!), she figured her earlier bubble gum analogy wasn't exactly matching - she was more like jello, if anything.

Fighting the urge to grab a bite of the pink alien, Glacia returned the greeting: "Hello there, delicious lookin'." Letting loose of her legs, she fluidly flipped down from the ceiling and landed smoothly in front of Eve. "Name's Glacia. I've been hanging around." the changeling said, checking the arena from the corner of her eyes. Not her turn yet. Good. "Wanna go watch?" she asked, her tail swirling behind her.

Wow... Shen's first tournament seemed breath-taking to him. Shen watched under the competitor's waiting area at one of the spectator screens showing the Korian fight. Korian looked strong, and a bit scary too. If Shen got to fight him, he'd be honoured. The tournament had been quite interesting with not many big names. All's Shen had to do for now is practice. However, he's been way more interested on the fights so far and especially awaited this one.

Majin Eve couldn't help but blush slightly at what she believed to be a compliment as Glacia dropped down from the ceiling, thought it would be hard to notice her blushing considering the fact she was pink, Eve's eye's followed Glacia's to the arena as she announced her name to her.

"Glacia? that's a pretty name"

Eve said honestly before she looked back to the changeling.

"my name's Majin Eve"

She said sweetly before Glacia asked if she wanted to go watch the next fight, she thought about it for a moment before smiling.

"sure"

She answered kindly, lightly holding her hands behind her back.

'I wonder what she is, she's certainly not human, humans don't have snow white skin or tails'

Eve thought to herself as she absent mindedly looked at Glacia's tail before looking back up to the changeling's eye's. Though Eve liked Glacia's red eye's, she wouldn't be lying if she said she felt they were kind of intimidating to look at, she didn't think on it further as her attention was brought to her hair, it was defiantly neat, the purple part seemed to be made of crystal, Eve honestly didn't know if it was actually hair or some kind of crystal hair piece.

'she's defiantly interesting that's for sure'

"Awwwww, you say the nicest things!" Glacia sung at her name being complimented. This person she already liked - Assuming they wouldn't meet in a match, then that could be a problem. She was not in business of hitting her minions. But then again, this was sport right? No hard feelings! She pretended not to notice the eyes wandering all over her, although she put a bit more sway into her hips and tail. She was, after all, the best creation of the God to ever live. A stone shaped to the physical perfection. who was she to prevent others from falling in awe at the sight?

She tried how her company's name rolled off of her tongue. "Majin Eeeeeeve. It sounds like... well I have no idea, a snack maybe. You know, you're watching the movies and 'Pass the Eves'!" she giggled, giving Eve a bit of a hungry look: "OK, I have to ask, I love candy, you look like candy, are you made out of candy?" she continued, speaking at machine gun rate. Once the question was asked she paused, looking at Eve full of expectations, her eyes betraying a childish curiosity.

Eve giggled at the way Glacia first pronounced her name, but her giggling was stopped when Glacia said her name sounded like some kind of snack, she raised a confused brow towards Glacia as she continued to speak.

'I've never heard of a food named after me before...'

She thought to herself before she noticed the hungry look she was receiving from Glacia, it made her take a slight step back.

'why is she looking at me like that?'

Eve asked herself in thought before Glacia asked her question, about if she was made of candy. Eve honestly couldn't tell if she should be worried about why the question was asked or contemplating what she was actually made out of. Either way she unconsciously gulped as she looked at her hands before her, opening and closing them, a child like grin came to her as she closed her eye's and scratched the back of her head with her right hand.

"I don't know"

She answered with a lighthearted chuckle before she lowered her hand and opened her eyes with a calm smile.

"but I know I can turn things into candy, it's pretty cool, whenever I want something to eat I just look at something and poof! it turns into something I want to eat"

Eve said innocently, like it was the most normal thing in the world to her.

Vadim was just getting comfortable in the stands when he felt a rather hard object hit him in the top of the head with a somewhat hollow boink. When he turned around to see who had assaulted him in such a manner, he was surprised to see his good friend Lucas Farley with a large bucket of popcorn standing behind him. "Lucas! Wow, I didn't expect to see you here. What are you doing?" he asked with a grin.

Lucas smiled back at his long-time friend. "I signed up for the tournament, of course. What else?"

"Really? Wow, that's quite the shocker. You haven't entered a tournament in years."

"Yeah, well, Farley's back, baby. I'm ready to show these good people my new moves." Lucas's smile never broke, but their conversation was. There was a beeping sound from the large screen on the wall in the arena that called for all fighters to report to their assigned rings to square off with their first opponent. The time for resting and other shenanigans was in the past. Now, it was time to get to business. "Good luck out their, Vadim. Try to make it far enough that we get to square off, because I am so looking forward to that!" Lucas jabbed before jogging off to the arena number marked next to his name on the screen.

"You can count on it," Vadim responded before turning and heading the opposite way toward his own ring. Time to bust a move.

Shen Laozen whipped around when he heard his own name being called out. He took one deep breath as he closed his eyes and then opened them when he exhaled. "I guess this is it." He thought. He followed the man who called him and walked out into an arena. His opponent stood on the other side, a big brute of a man who seemed to have more brawn over brains. Shen put his right fist into left hand, letting the fingers overlap the top of his fist and he bowed to the opponent. The man scoffed at the gesture and took a stance. Shen took his own stance, standing sideways with his left foot forward, his right foot further back and outwards. His right hand was near his upper torso laid out flat whereas his left fist was positioned midway through his torso. The referee went over the rules which Shen nodded to acknowledge. This was going to be fun.

Korian's fight had begun. His opponent rushed him, and Korian easily side-stepped, sending an elbow jab into his opponents back. The newbie doubled over, before turning around and trying to send a punch at Korian's face. Korian ducked, sweeping his leg into his opponent's, knocking him over. The man fell into a roll, standing back up a few feet away from Korian. Korian surprised him by sending a Ki beam in his direction. The man caught the Ki blast in the stomach, nearly falling out of the ring. Korian lept at him with lightning speed, catching him off guard as he delivered a kick to the man's chin, sending him flying out of the ring, crashing to the ground with a thud. Korian bowed again, then started to head back to the waiting area.

Interesting fact that the pinkskin wasn't aware of what she was made of. All thoughts about finding out were swept away though as Eve revealed her wonderful ability. For the first time in her life, Glacia truly believed, with a tiny speck of her mind that she would deny having, that someone might, only a little, be more magnificent being than herself.

After a moment of silence during which the expression on her face bordered on drooling, she asked with the kind of voice that an amazed child might have when told it would get it's favorite toy: "Really?" She was so amazed by the concept of such power to be watching the other fights, and almost enough to miss her name being called out. "Oh! Be right back." she excused herself and only very unwillingly left the Goddess of infinite candy.

Stepping into the arena, she looked at her opponent. It was a human, except she had three eyes. "Oh? Did you get too close to a nuclear reactor or something?" she teased after the gong started the fight.

"What?!" her opponent growled. Bingo. Now that Glacia knew she can be easily angered, the game was hers. "Yeah, with that... thing on the front of your head. Paint a face on it or something, sheesh!"

"Shut uuuup!" the triclops yelled and charged. Glacia gathered quick that her opponent posessed quite the strength, but with her bulky arms she lacked the speed necessary to reliably hit the changeling. That, and Glacia had the advantage of having an extra appendage. Tripping the other fighter with a crouch and a tail swipe, she looked back: "If your people given up on you as they should, I know a few aliens with weird tastes. No charge of course!"

By now the other fighter was seeing red. Unfortunately Glacia misjudged the effect it would have - instead of being distracting, the rage seemed to give the triclops some extra boost. And then a ki blast shot in her direction. OK, not a complete loser. I wish I had a scouter. the changeling thought as she rubbed the hand that ached a bit after deflecting the blast. "My turn." she grinned, charging a football sized death sphere between her outstretched hands and throwing it at her opponent.

The human woman made a critical error. She tried to stop Glacia's attack instead of deflecting it. "BANG!" glacia shouted as she fired a death beam at her previous attack, detonating it and knocking her opponent out of the arena ending the fight.

The changeling turned around and started walking away, silently singing a bit of one of her favorite songs.

Blizzard watched the small fight between Korian and his opponent. He was ver observant of what little happened. After the man was knocked out of the ring, Blizzard approached him. "1..2..3..4..5..6..7..8..9..10. You are out." He signaled the announcer that Korian had officially won the fight. Blizzard then picked up the man who was knocked out and carried him to the gurney the medical team had standing by. He then approached Korian. "Congratulations. You get to proceed to the next round."

It was then on to Glacias fight. Before Blizzard could even explain the rules, tension was already created between th fighters. "Whatever." He backed off the ring to watch the fight unfold. It didn't take long for it all to end. He walked up to Glacias opponent who was out cold by the blast. He signaled the announcer that Glacias officially won the fight. He lifted the triclops with ease and carried them to a gurney the medical team had. He then turned to Glacia. "Congratulations. You get to move on..but I'm sure you already knew that."

Next was Shens fight. Blizzard walked up between the fighters. "The rules are simple. No eye gouging, groin shots, or killing your opponent. Doing so will result in disqualification. If one of you becomes to injured to fight, no matter how much you want to win, I will stop the fight." He then gave both the fighters a cold look. "Trust me, I can stop the fight." He stated in a menacing tone.

Vadim's opponent was a man with a similar build to his. He was just a fee inches taller than Vadim's average 5'10", and he had roughly the same muscle size. Based on what Vadim knee from his own powers, though, power could be easily hidden. He decided to stay on his guard for the duration of the match. When the referee called for it, Vadim bowed to his opponent before assuming what appeared to be the most basic of stances- legs spread, as raised with his fingers curled. The other guy assumed something similar to his, only with his fists balled up.

This was going to be fun.

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Farley assumed his place at his own ring and sized up his opponent. The stereotypical gorilla-man, as he liked to call them. Well built people with impressive height that would make many consider the possibility that size does matter. But Lucas was in the tournament last year, and remembered this guy as being remarkably slow. The thought made him grin. When the match started, Lucas's opponent bowed, and Lucas himself gave a slight bow that would more accurately be described as a confident gesture. He then just stood there, waiting for his opponent to cone at him. He had something special in mind to kick off his match.

Shen's opponent immediately charged at him, predictable. Shen leapt through the air, using his hand to help him vault over the man. Shen pushed off the brute's back. He landed with ease, almost as if they swapped positions in the ring. Shen straightened up and took the same pose, with a smirk at the fact that he'd thought this guy would be a lot smarter. However, the man noticed the smirk and charged at him again, this time a bit faster. Shen began to do the same thing, but the opponent stopped abruptly to take a swing at him. Shen was caught off-guard and instinctively ducked. He felt the air rush over him from the missed attack. However, the guy's stance was really wide and Shen took the chance to escape by ducking under his legs. He back stepped to gain some distance, but the man was on him in an instant. Shen was forced to duck left and right repeatedly, until he got pushed back near the edge of the ring.

This was not good so far, Shen still had the control of the fight but the more he fought passively, the more that control slipped away. Shen saw his chance when his enemy took another swing but he left his midriff open. Shen finally answered back with by kneeing him in the gut. The man doubled over, clutching his stomach. Shen then followed up with a roundhouse kick with his other leg. Huh, okay, that was easy enough so far. Don't get cocky Shen, the next guy won't be so easy. Don't use your techniques yet, hold your cards. As the man stood up, he yet again took a fighting stance. Shen responded by charging him this time. The opponent tried to kick him when Shen got close enough however, Shen expected some kind of attempt at a counter-attack. Shen leant right and used a superman punch which landed straight in the guy's face, sending him tumbling down. Shen looked at the referee, panting and hoping that the fight was over.

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Majin Eve tilted her ever so slightly with a faint hint of confusion as she observed Glacia's expression, only to let out a small but sweet giggle as Galcia asked if what she said about her power was true, to reply to he Eve nodded in confirmation. But Eve was too slow to show it as Glacia had dismissed herself when her name was called for a match, saying she'd be right back.

'oh yeah, for a moment I had forget we were in a tournament'

Eve thought to herself with a smile as she approached one of the locker rooms windows to watch a match that was going on. One of the contenders she was observing had just got literally thrown out of the ring and landed on the ground out cold, the sight made Eve flinch slightly at how brutal it looked before letting out a small giggle.

"that looks like it kind of hurt, poor guy, I hope he'll be alright"

She said mostly to herself as she waited for her name to be called, and as luck would have it her name was called just then. Eve perked up and looked from where her name was being called, she smiled as she quickly ran up to one of the rings, no hesitation when she seen her opponent as she stepped into the ring. The opponent in question was a remarkably large man, he must have at least been seven feet tall, he looked exceptionally sculpted with well defined musculature that must have been honed from years of enthusiastic physical training. He wore blue pants and black shoes, on his fists were what looked like wrapped cloth that partially wrapped around his wrists.

His skin tone was lightly tanned, his head was completely bald except for a single lock of dark brown curly hair hanging from just above the center of his brow. His eyebrows were bare of hair, and a thick dark brown handlebar mustache adorned his top lip which hid his mouth while accentuating his strong cleft chin. Though the man appeared rather menacing his light green eyes were kind-looking as his gaze aimed itself at his pink skinned opponent. The man smiled towards Eve, in turn she returned the gesture before getting into a fighting stance ready to strike, the man's eyes widened before he hold up both his hands which kind of confused her before he spoke in a deep tone that was easily heard over the other contenders fighting their own matches.

"whoa, hold on there, no need to get ahead of ourselves. I like your fighting spirit but rules state we have to wait for the referee before we can begin"

Eve raised a brow to this

"rules?"

"yes rules, you do know what rule are don't you?"

The man asked Eve in an honestly curious tone, to which she frowned slightly as she shook her head left and right.

"I realise that you're obviously not from here, so I'll try to simplify it quickly before a referee gets here, the rules in place in this tournament are there to ensure that no matter how heated a fight gets that no one will become seriously injured or worse, if the rules are broken that match will be stopped, do you understand?"

Majin Eve smiled and nodded in reply.

"well, while we're waiting I believe introductions are in order, I am Arnold Lenard Strong-Arm"

"my name's Majin Eve"

"it's a pleasure to be your opponent Eve, but be warned, I wont hold back when our fight begins, so don't hold back either"

Though Strong-Arm said he wouldn't be holding back he was really just feeding the pink girls fighting spirit, he knew that if he were to go all out on this poor girl that she'd be beaten to a pulp, but of course he had no idea what strength the girl in front of him truly possessed, but he surely find out. After hearing what Strong-Arm said Eve nodded with an excited smile, she couldn't wait to begin. Part of her wanted to go all out like he said he would, but if the rules were in place to stop people from becoming seriously injured some part of her knew that she couldn't go all out even if Strong-Arm looked incredibly strong, she doubted that he'd go all out as well.

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