"Welcome to our annual tournament of the Dragon Fist, we have many contestants from all over the world ready and willing to participate in this gruelling tournament, and what, might you lot ask, is the top prize? Why, none other than $10,000. Now, we shall be getting the tournament underway very shortly with the preliminaries up first, and those who pass those rounds shall then move onto the quarter finals, from there, the winners of that round onto the semi finals, and of course, from there, the winners shall move onto the final fight!" the announcer called out from his megaphone as he stood in the middle of the ring.

Each of the participant were watching on with much enthusiasm, well, most of them were, those that weren't, they were clearly taking this tournament much more seriously.

A certain snow leopard stood there, her arms folded as she eyed each of the participants that were present in the tournament "They are all children…" she muttered. Granted, they weren't actually children, however, they were still young regardless. Although, the snow leopard was still young as well, but sure was older than most that were present.

Her eyes moved through the participants still before they stopped upon one in particular. She was a mountain cat, but her name eluded the snow leopard. What else that was interesting about the mountain cat was that she too was taking things rather seriously as well.

And in the moment that it took for the snow leopard to look at the mountain lion, the two of their eyes met, as if they started to now study each other.

The first contestants were called to the stage, one name being Mei Ling, while the other being Drake. The two took to the stage and the fight begun. The snow leopard watched the fight progress. The mountain cat was indeed, one of the fighters in the ring, to be precise, she was the one known as Mei Ling and the snow leopard was taking an interest in her fighting ability. She seemed promising at the very least, to which the snow leopard smirked.

Mei Ling then, shortly after the fight had begun, knocked out her opponent, allowing her to advance to the quarter finals. She passed the snow leopard and spoke one thing to her "Good luck…"

The next group of contestants were called up, Anzu and Ajax. The snow leopard took her place next to a brown bear. It was obvious that the snow leopard's name was Anzu. Sure, the brown bear looked intimidating to the average person, but Anzu just looked at him with a smirk upon her face "This should be fun…"

The gong went off as Ajax cricked his neck before rushing at Anzu in attempt to grab her. Anzu ducked underneath the grab and struck the brown bear in the jaw, followed up with a kick to his knee in order to bring him down onto one knee.

"Sorry, you maybe big and strong, but you are rather slow, and this is, after all, a kung fu competition, and you do need to be quick on your toes after all" Anzu spoke as she leapt off her feet in a forward motion to do a full forward somersault as he legs struck him right in the head, bringing Ajax down onto his stomach with a crash "Game, set and match"

"Uh, I'm not too sure what just happened, but it looks like Anzu is the winner!" the announcer called out as Anzu stepped off the stage.

She walked over to Mei Ling and simply smirked to her "Luck had nothing to do with that match, it's called skill, maybe you should try getting some at some point, that performance you gave back then, not all that impressive"

Mei Ling, at first, was a bit taken back by Anzu's little insult, but yet, she did snap back herself, with, what she believed was, a witty remark of her own "Oh, I know, I mean, why bother showing off some skill to a bunch of amateurs? Why not save all the skill to show off in the final round?"

"That all depends on if you actually make it to the finals or not, cause as for me, I plan on getting there, one way or another, even if I have to use all my skills to get there" Anzu told Mei Ling as she looked out to the next fight of the preliminaries getting under way.

Mei Ling gave off a light smile "Then I guess I'll see you at the finals then, cause I do plan on getting to the finals and winning"

Anzu chuckled slightly "Very well, if you say so…" she gave off a slight smirk before walking off away from Mei Ling, not even worrying about who was to win the fight that was going on, to her, it just simply, did not matter at all.