As predicted the Dance Club was even more packed the next day then last night. Even in the daytime when so few customers came by, it had nearly doubled and Hunter was sure some of them weren't even from this district. Everyone wanted to use the combat disc forbidden to civilians. The ones the DC Fighters used. In fact hunter was glad there was a second person to watch the club while he got sleep. Konemi herself was nervous. If word had gotten out this quickly, there was no telling how much time they had until the authorities started checking around. Well, that would mean she had to hurry.

"You don't serve a lot of food here do you?"

"People come here to dance, not to eat."

Konemi nodded, turning her gaze over to the stage. If she could just get alone for one moment she might be able to look.

"Keep an eye on things for a couple hours will you?"

"...Okay."

No way, that was too easy. Well there was no use wasting opportunities. Making sure she was alone, Konemi began to walk towards the dance stage.



Last night had been lucky. After all it was rareforanyone to get Pizza. The Axel wheel had been repaired easily. Although every single pizza the wagon was tranporting had been consumed early on by the entire group. Althrough the pizza man chose to see it as payment for a nights stay and repairs. Talon had been elevated to hero status.

Since the others got held up and Talon wanted to go early he had found himself making the journey alone to Hunter's Dance Club. It was almost pleasant to be alone for once. He paused at the door when he realized he was the first one there. He would ave been the only one there if not for Konemi. To be honest he had come early to see Konemi, he had to admit the girl was cute. Talon stood there, watching the girl on the stage. She seemed to be moving around haphazardly, trying on a visor as she moved her hand over the screen for selections.

"Hey."

Immediatly Konemi stopped, turning around quickly towards the voice. She removed her visor, staring with hazel brown eyes directly at Talon, her espression was of complete surprise. "Hi."

He grinned, walking towards her. "What are you up to?"

"I'm...I'm a..."

"Dancing?"

"Ya. I'm dancing. I'm trying to dance."

"Well your all over the place."

"Ya. I guess I'm not very good."

"Hard to imagine someone in this age not knowing how to dance. Want me to give you a few pointers?"

"Sure. That would be good."

Talon smirked in amusment as he approached Konemi. In one jump he made it onto the stage, taking a stance next to the girl. Hegrabbed one of the discarded visors and put it on. "uh..do I need to pay?"

"No it's fine. Just don't let Hunter know about it."

Talon smirked. "Don't have to tell me that. Okay." He turned a knob on the side of the visor, a large screen popped into existence, facing the audience and displaying options. "Obviously you wanna turn your visor on. Select to play with your hand. You know how to do that. Well...after you choose your song you just follow the arrow marks. Step in the direction where they hit."

"Thats pretty straight forward."

"Ya it's not that hard. Go on, give it a try."

Determined not to blow cover Konemi continued to play along as Talon instructed. Her feet moved slowlyas she watched the arrows that appeared on her visor. Often she missed her mark, recieving an prompt boo in her ear. It wasn't long before the song ended and she had lost.

Talon smiled. "Well not too bad for a first try."

"Thanks."

"Okay your a beginner, so obviously you wouldn't be doing this yet. But when you get better you switch it to advanced mode, it's what most everyone here plays on."

"Whats that?"

"Well the visor records your every movement and then grades your dance by brainwaves, applause, stuff like that. I'll show you."

He moved his hand in a sweeping motion across the screen projection as he selected the advanced mode. He seemed to do very little after that as the song was randomly selected and the music started, a 3d projection of Talon appearing on the screen as he began to dance.

It was an upbeat song that began to play, fast and strong. His feet went back and forth, side to side swtching positions as the arrows dictated. His fists punched the air as hespun arond, taking full advantage of his visor as he conducted the dance backwards until he flipped into the air, hitting the marks with his hands, touching both to the side tiles before switching back to his feet. This continued on as Talon made full use of his body and every apendage, caught up in the emotion of the song until it finally ended, putting his score in the top five.

"Get the idea?"

Konemi nodded. "I think I understand. You're pretty good."

Talon grinned. "I like to think I'm one of the best."

"Although you have to yield to the master."

Both turned around to come face to face with Inferno, an unwelcome face considering the rivalry between him and Talon. As they began to look around they took notice of the crowd that had finally arrived. A packed room all likely to have seen Talon's instruction.
Konemi looked at all the faces now staring at her, then nodded politely to Talon. "Thank you"

He nodded back and she jumped off the stage and began to walk away. She would have succeeded if Inferno hadn't grabbed her by the arm, preventing any further movement. Konemi looked at Inferno with distaste, still managing to keep a good control on her emotions. "Your hurting me."

Talon's voice was less restrained as anger seethed through. "Let her go Inferno."

"I was promised the combat disc. Unless you want to skip out on our little match Talon."

Konemi continued to keep focosed as she spoke to Inferno. "I can't retrieve the disc if your gripping my arm like that. Now let go."

Reluctantly Inferno released his grip and Konemi jerked her arm away without waiting for the firey dancer to completly let go. Her dislike of the boy was obvious although she never said a word as she went to retrieve the specially constructed disc.

A moment later she was back with two visors. One she gave to Talon, the other she tossed over to Inferno. Inferno gripped the visor in his hand as he stepped onto the stage. "Thats more like it. Double squares Talon."

"Quick time."

"Supermix."

"Full body movement."

"better keep on your toes Tweety."

"Don't worry about me."

Hawk shrugged, turning to Nick. "Well they know what they want."

"Hmn. Its almost scary."

As the music started the dancers took their positions. There were only two instruments as it started, playing a steady beat. A few seconds later a drum was added and the dancers began, taking full use off their dance squares. The movement began as a couple of dueling banjos. Talon would do a move and then Inferno would take over, improving on it. The steps became more advanced as Talon continued to challenge and the steps merged together, both matching their arrows to the tiles. The song had become faster as well as the steps. Talon repeated his earlier move, doing a backflip, briefly touching the tiles whit his hands before his feet touched again. Inferno curved backwards, doing a flip flop, at exactly the same time. Their moves were in perfect sync then, matching eachother beat for beat, move for move. They both jumped, spinning like a corkscrew and switching dance squares where they faced eachother and continued to dance, sharing squares and looking more like combat then dancing. The song ended with a bang, and by the time it was overthe entire audience had errupted into applause and cheering, both scores increasing dramatically.