Chapter2: Meet the Competition
Dante' and Lyss arrived on planet Dangdra, after a nine hour flight. Lyss spent the time reading and training, while Dante' spent the whole trip in a meditative state. Lyss tried to wake him, but he was in an unbreakable wall of concentration. They hadn't talked at all except a few hellos when they met at the launch site 9 hours before. A couple other times she would try to make a conversation with him, he would grunt and turn away. She figured the death of his parents and the brought up on the streets, alone, had made him cold, which can be a deadly fault or a powerful ally in battle.
They finally arrived at the docking site, at which Dante' awoke at the first bump of landing. Lyss figured he had been sensing the entire trip, fully aware of all of the passing seconds. They took their luggage up to a normal earthly hotel room, where they unpacked. They then went down to the lobby for the team drawings. They were paired against a team from a parallel universe called Unathia. Their names were Puppetus, a clown-looking man with a long nose and pointed hat. The girl teamed with him was a mental fighter, like Dante', but with no physical power, and much more telepathy. Her name was Patria. Lyss was planning on observing from a distance, but then saw Dante' moving in to confront his counter-part Puppetus, she followed.
"Sooo, what do we have here", said Puppetus in a high-pitched, yet frightening voice. Lyss thought Dante' would keep to his quiet ways, but he answered, "Dante' and Lyss of earth." It was the first full sentence Lyss had heard him say. "Ah, earthlings, the weakest species in the whole third dimension", exclaimed Puppetus. Dante' appeared to take this personally as he began to cock his hand for a punch straight to Puppetus' jaw. "Put it down son, wait till the tournament, or are you that eager to die?" asked Puppetus. "You're the one whose going to die, you clown-faced piece of trash", answered Dante' in a loud and confident voice. Dante' departed with Lyss close behind. Patria hadn't said a word, but also didn't have to. The whole conversation she had been reading Lyss' every thought. She new her inside and out, every memory, every secret, and every technique Lyss had practiced in her life.
They went to bed rather early, for the tournament was the next day, and the first taste of how talented these aliens were.