FASH: This chapter is going to be so fun! Yay! No it's not, or is it? You'll just have to see for yourself.

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Tamara was now in a small clearing in the woods and she was doing an exercise, she had to practice her martial arts regularly, and she didn't want to do it in Tyson's dojo, she liked practicing outside, where the ground was uneven and there were many obstacles. Tamara took a deep breath and began. Punch, kick, side step, uppercut, round house kick, block high, block low. Tamara kept doing her little practice, unaware that someone was watching.

Garland had left the building, just like the rest when Boris dismissed them, and he had decided to go the woods, it was a very quiet place at night, but apparently it wasn't on this particular night. When he had heard the sounds of movement and breathing he had snuck towards the noise and was, rather amused, to see a girl practicing martial arts. His light blue eyes scanned her. 'She seems fairly talented, maybe we could spar.' He then jumped out of the bushes and caught onto one of Tamara's fists.

The red head's eyes flew opened and she took in the guy before her, in the dark his hair looked light purple, it was tied back and went a little past his waist. "If you could let go of my hand, maybe we could have a proper introduction." She said dryly and the guy blushed, before letting go of her hand. "I am Garland Zetwald." Tamara snickered a bit before she noticed the glare directed at her. "I'm Tamara Vashti, now then, what's up with you?" Garland raised his eyebrows. "Nothing, I was just wondering if you wanted to spar?" Tamara grinned and sized him up, he was taller than her, a lot taller, she came up to around his shoulder, but she could take him. "You're on."

Tyson had opened the door and he saw someone he did not expect to come knocking. (Get it? Huh? Huh? Never mind.) "Kai? What are you doing in Japan?" Kai just smirked and silenced all further questions with a kiss. "Is it so wrong to want to see my boyfriend over the summer?" Tyson shook his head, blush dusting his cheeks. "Good, now, may I come in?" "Sure."

"Hey Tyson, who's he?" Vanessa asked pointing to Kai, Tyson just smiled. "He's a very close friend." Vanessa raised her eyebrows at that description. 'Something's going on.'

Tamara dodged the kick, but she could not dodge the punch aimed for her mid section, she flew back with a cry and growled as she looked up at the smirking Garland. "Had enough?" He asked in what seemed to be a mocking manner, Tamara, steadied her breathing and got into position. "I'll take that as a no."

Tamara ran forward quickly, aiming a punch at his nose but drawing back at the last second to hit him with a round house kick, to bad it didn't seem to do much damage. 'I can't loose to this guy, I won't loose.'

Garland was having fun, this girl was pretty good, not at his level, but still pretty good. 'Not many people have been able to land a hit on me, except maybe one of my bothers and sisters when we were all younger.' Garland smirked as Tamara seethed. "Well then, what are you waiting for Tama-chan?" Tamara snapped, no called her that except her friends, no one, and with a cry she rushed forward, and using the last of her strength she punched him in the cheek.

Tamara fell to the ground on her bottom, maybe se shouldn't have done that, but it was to late now, she looked angrily up at Garland, who was rubbing his cheek thoughtfully. 'I'm gonna kill him.'

Garland looked down at the girl with a small smile. "That hurt." He extended his arm down to help her up, but Tamara, being the rather sore loser that she was, just swatted it away. "I can get up myself." And she did, slowly walking away from the clearing.

Garland just watched her go with raised eyebrows. 'She's one odd bird.' He shook his head. 'But that was a pretty good spar, maybe I'll meet up with her again some time.'

Tyson had just finished introducing Kai when Tamara walked in, lip bleeding and her arm clutching at her stomach, Garland's punch had hurt more than she would like to admit.

"TAMA-CHAN! What happened?!!!" Laveda was on her in an instant, Vanessa and Tyson shortly behind. "Oh stop worrying, it's nothing a bit of rest won't heal." Tamara said as she rolled her eyes, but Laveda, being the rather annoyingly sweet girl that she was, just pulled up Tamara's shirt. "What the fuck are you doing?!" "I'm checking your bruise." "What bruise?" "The huge one on your stomach!" And then Laveda began to poke the forming bruise, not the smartest thing to do, but whenever Tamara had an injury that she claimed didn't hurt Laveda would poke it until she finally admitted that it was painful.

Tamara bit her lip, silencing the groans that wanted to burst from her throat. "Stop it! I just got into a little spar with a guy name 'Garland.'" It was kind of obvious that she didn't like him, by the way she said his name, like it was some kind of poison in her mouth.

Once Laveda and Vanessa had put Tamara to bed, although she didn't want to sleep, Laveda just said she'd poke her more if she didn't, Tyson worriedly asked if she would be okay.

"Oh, don't worry, Tama-chan been in worse shape before, if I were you I'd worry for that Garland guy, when Tama-chan's revenge schemes are at play, you should keep at bay." Vanessa said, if it weren't for the fact she sounded so confident and smart while she said it, Tyson would have asked what the hell she meant, but he just settled for sweat dropping. "Okay, I'll remember that."

FASH: How was that? Garland's last name is great, I love it, Zetwald. Anyways, I hope you review, because it's a nice thing to do.