There was at least one building in the district still making noise. An old warehouse standing at the end of the block was far from empty. A fire burned in the middle of concrete floor. The chamber had been decoratedwith comforts of beds, matresses and pillows. On thefar wall were two old arcade consoles with large metel dance pads, a tin of washer rings on a stand next to them. Curtains hung down from stacked wooden boxes serving as a dressing chamber and there was a gathering of comrades around the fire. Some sat on couches, some boxes and some on the floor. Liquor bottles were passed around and shared sparingly as near to twenty individuals all between 13 to 22 enjoyed the company. At least two of these people were easily recognized as Hawk and Nick.

"Now you all just watch. President himself will come on over in his limo, and beg me to be the new fighter."

The group went into an uproar as pillows, blankets, and fruit were hurled at Legolas, who had just passed on the bottle to his companion.
"Your dreamin."

"Well I am the best dancer."

A girl named Dean laughed. "Who ya kiddin Legolas. I've seen you miss your step marks three times just last week."

"Well your eyes suck then."

The laughter was interupted by the entrance of another member. Talon had just arrived, holding a grocery bag for all to see. The others nodded and Legolas leaned forward. "Whatcha got for us Talon?"

Talon grinned as he began tossing out packages of little yellow bars. "Twinkies."

Everyone seemed to groan as voices of protest were sounded. "Oh come on again?"

"Hawk I swear, if your brother tosses out one more of those disgusting little pieces of crap I'm gonna kill him."

Talon raised his hand up in surrender. "Alright, alright. You've all threatened to kill me now. How bout a peace offering." He reached into the bag again, pulling out nothing. "Oh wait." He tossed the bag aside, opening the door. "Come on in."

He held the door open as a second person camethrought thedoor, this time with three pizzas. The warehouse went up in a cheer and Talon grinned further. "Found him hangin out on the street with a broken axel and chillin pizzas. Now we can't have him standin in the cold with those pizzas can we?"

There was a roar of agreement while the pizzas were passed out.

"Nice job Talon."

"Right. Well one little catch."

He stepped out for a moment returning as he lead a horse through the door. "In return for the pizzas I also promised to put the horse up for the night til he got his axel fixed."

Hawk stared. "Are you serious?"

"Hey come on, you know someones gonna steal it if it's left out. And besides, got ya pizzas didn't I?"

Hawk nodded. "Alright fine. Bring em over. But if that thing gets near my bed I'll shoot it and serve it for tommorows breakfast."

"You got it sis."

Legolas laughed, arms welcoming the meal. "Come on now lets see those pizzas over here."

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About two blocks away there was another building still awake in the late hour. Not a warehouse, but an old office building that had probably seen better years. Abandoned furnature furnished a few of the rooms although plumbing and electricity had been cut off long ago. Yet despite it's condemned appearence, it was accepted by new residents, most of who had congregated in the lobby where agroup ofdance tiles was arainged against the wall, two visors hanging on the wall on either side. There was nearly 20, maybe fifteen. All were mostly teenagers. The outfits and people that gathered were just as different as the colors of a rainbow and their costumes ranged from modest to outrageous with a good combination of both in between. One of these individuals was immediatly recognized as Inferno, who had been introduced earlier at the dance club. There was one girl among the rest who seemed to seperate herself from the others in the fact that she stoodout. She could be no more then thirteen or fourteen, thick frizzed up puffs of purple hair had been gathered into two pigtails on the top of her head and held by pink puff balls. In fact her entireoutfit was pink and pink puffs were present on her wrists, earings, shoulders and dress. The dress had actually puffson two ends, thetop and the bottom. Buth of those were not balls but rather a lining that went all around the hem. The dress itself was adarker ping and had no sleeves, the top crossing her chest and fitting her form all the way down to her waist where it then hooped into a large skirt that ended before her knees. The last of her attire were tall pink boots that stopped inches before her knees and had a sole that was one to two inches high. The girl herself posessed violot eyes, was no more then five feet tall, and seemed to be giggling at Inferno.

"Heehee. You didn't get to play your little game did you?"

"Shutup Chem. I didn't ask for your input."

The girl giggled again, jumping off thedesk she had been sitting on and skipping her way closer to Inferno with the energy of a child. "I saw you throw a tantrum. Like a little toddler who didn't get to play."

"I said pipe down!"

"Chem's right Inferno. You were an embaressment."

The new speaker would probably have never been noticed if he hadn't saidanything. Resigned to the shadows the taller boy had long dark red hair and probably one of the few people in the room still with his natural haircolor. All that was banded into a ponytail and a few short strands of hair served as bangs across his forhead. There were only three articles of clothing he wore, all black, one was his boots. Although his lack of atire was not to be mistaken for lack of style, even in a room with those of more outrageous style then his, heads would still turn. When he wanted attention he hadno trouble getting it. The other two pieces of clothing was a trenchcoat and a one piece suit that fit comfortably on his body and was open in the front like a shirt with the top three buttons free, partially exposing the chest. All along that one piece garment was a single image of the chinese sky dragon, it's entire body running up the leg and to the chest, wrapping around his own body. "If you don't control that temper your going to end up losing to it."

"Your advice is not welcome Shenlong."

"I'm telling you what you don't want to hear. The DC Disc will be there tommorow, you've paid for the use, let it go."

"Talon has humilated me for the last time. Say what you must but I will see revenge."

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Konemi sat back on her bed as she began to eat through one of the food bars she had brought with her. She had switched her clothing to a nightgown and was now listening with headphones on to her cd player. It really wasn't a bad first day, she had managed to keep her positionand nobody had really taken notice of her. Well, it was obvious that she had been noticed, but everyone just seemed to dismiss her. That was good, she didn't need to draw attention to herself.
Sighing Konemi removed the headphones and set her cd player aside, laying down on the bed to sleep. Damn it was cold.