I woke to be thrown out of the bed, Spade literally just pushed me awake. I was about to hit him, but he was still asleep, what was I to do. I just washed up and got ready for what even was going to happen. I finished up and notice Spade was only half awake, he looked like he was about to pass out.

"Um Spade, are you awake?" I asked

"No!" Spade answered, he didn't look like he wanted to be bothered. The ground seemed to be lightly shaking and then I hear the strange sound, I soon realized what that sound was. This room was built like an elevator, and it soon stopped.

"Good morning Cell-E-mates, It's time for breakfast, please be careful not to get hurt." The voice told us. The fact she said warned us about being careful worried me as the door opened.

"Let's get going" Spade sighed. Surprisingly. Spade was now awake, somehow. He started dragging me. Why am I always being dragged around?

Soon we came to a big dinning hall, nothing really nice but some of the people worried me.

"E's have arisen!" Someone called.

"It's Arrived you stupid rabbit!" A mean lion-like thing rudely corrected him. The, a cute little girl came up to us.

"Hello, are any of you new?" The girl asked. I was about to answer when Spade dragged me away. Spade didn't seem to want me to talk to any of them, what could've happened to him.

"What was that for, Spade?" I asked Spade. Ever since got here, Spade has been acting strange, something was up.

"We can't trust them they could easily take advantage of us!" Spade warned me in a harsh tone.

"Where this is coming from you want nothing to do with me, why are you still dragging me!" I shouted at Spade.

"This tournament forces two people to work together to win, if one can't do it then the other will fail too, cooperation is the key" Spade explained to me.

"What does that have to do with you don't want me to talk to them?" I asked.

"They broke my partner the first time I did this, I mean literally he got paralyzed and wasn't able to continue and he blamed me for it." Spade sighed. Now his behavior made sense. Anyone would feel guilty about that.

"Can you at lest let me try to talk to them, I don't have to do as you say." I asked, trying to sound nice but I sounded like I was a parent scolding a child. Spade walked off annoyed but I could tell he was keeping watch in me from afar. I finally found that girl from before,

"Sorry about before, my partner is having issues" I apologized to the girl. She seemed pretty happy.

"It's okay, you seemed worried is something wrong?" The young girl asked me curiously.

"I'ts just that I' getting used to this place, I'm Lilac by the way" I introduced myself, shaking her hand.

"I'm Celest, nice to meet you miss." she walked around me checking me out, for some reason.

"Don't worry she was like that with me to miss" A black cat told me, "I'm Casey, nice to meet you, but don't think we wont got easy on you just cause I'm nice."

She gave a gentle smile with glint in her eyes.

"Celest, you don't look from around here, you kinda remind me of a friend" Sash Lilac looked at her. She seemed shocked by the question.

"What do you mean?" She didn't seem to want to answer directly.

"Are you a Chaser?" I asked as she looked away.

"That's correct, how do you know about them though?" Casey answered as I sat at a near table.

"Good, I've met Commander Torque before" I smiled. She seemed more surprised now.

"Looks like you have help now." Casey smiled as she sat next to Celest, "If we can get a SOS to him, he might be able to help, he left after beating Lord Brevon"

"If we can sneak in the storage we can find my transmitter all I need to do is repair it and we can send a message to him." Celest told us as Spade came next to me with two plates of food.

"Were you watching the whole time?" I asked, a bit angry. Spade gave no answer to that question and started eating. I started to eat as well, the food was just awful I'm surprised Spade could handle it.

"Good morning everyone! I'm here to explain the tournament rules for any newcomers" A voice told us. I looked up to see who was talking, and there was a young lady on a stand. She was a scorpion and looked about ready to strike.

"The doors will be to your cell and you and your partner are the only ones who can open them, you can go anywhere on this floor to relax, read, or train to heart desire" She explained, "Remember though in three days round one will start, you are not aloud to learn what the round will be about till the day it starts."

"Who was that?" I wondered out loud.

"That was Viru, she makes sure things go as they are planed so you'll be careful around her" Spade told me. I then felt a knot in my stomach. What if she had heard what we were talking about?