Kasumi saw she needed to snap out of it as the chilling weather outside began to grow colder with the current flow of the wind. She wasn't feeling quite like herself the whole day through. Jann Lee's new found strength did take her by surprise, but she had seen many unearthly things before. Even she was capable of doing things a typical average human couldn't possibly do, but something about Jann's power was too out of the ordinary for her.

Before the fight was even underway she knew Hitomi didn't stand the slightest chance against the radical Jeet Kune Do fighter. It was apparent that her punches and kicks were barely fazing him at all and showing no signs of doing any significant damage. Kasumi perceived that he was only pretending to be harmed, in order to trick Hitomi into thinking she had him in a tight spot, and then when the time came Jann would get back on his feet, making a surprising recovery, and literally knock her out to be awarded the victory.

From Inside The Arena

The back of Lei Fang's sharp, clunky heels pounded against the solid concrete stadium floors while accelerating past the rocky pillars as she ran towards the stage area seeming to be in a big hurry. She recognized Kasumi over by the ring and sped towards her, panting and sweating in exhaustion. "Hey, what happened to Hitomi? I just came back from the hotel and on my way here I saw Hitomi being carried out on a stretcher and loaded up into an ambulance."

Kasumi eyes slowly made contact with Lei Fang's with still being upset over the chaos she just witnessed. What ran through her mind at the moment was that nobody could beat Jann Lee after seeing what he had did previously before the match came to a close. "Jann Lee is what happened to her," Kasumi muttered.

Lei Fang's eyes widened in astonishment as she clinched her fist up into a ball. She could distinguish this was an exact message being sent through Hitomi directly to her. This was starting to get way out of hand and too emotional for normal standards. Out of everybody in the Tournament, she didn't expect to see Hitomi being the one getting rolled out on a stretcher.

Her friends didn't need to suffer through her rivalry with Jann, for it was totally unnecessary to include them into something they had absolutely nothing to do with. This was meant to be between the two of them, Jann Lee and Lei Fang, but Jann was bringing others into the mix and making it more personal than ever.

After informing Lei Fang of Jann's brutal actions against Hitomi, Kasumi then revealed what she saw in Jann earlier. "I saw his power in the woods," Kasumi blurted out.

"Huh?"

"I see what you mean now when you said something was wrong with him."

"What do you mean?"

"He had a dark aura growing around him when I saw him training in the woods. Some dark strange power is growing within him.When he fought Hitomi, he simply toyed with her, allowing her to think she could beat him. But before she got into that ring I knew she didn't stand a chance."

Lei Fang blank stared Kasumi, who was soon starting to feel better. It was good that somebody else knew that she wasn't crazy and making up lies about Jann showing unnatural characteristics. "Does this mean your going to quit the Tournament, because of him?" Lei Fang questioned.

"No," Kasumi answered. "That's what Jann wants me to do, but I'm not going to. I'm staying."

Lei Fang was proud that her friend didn't let Jann Lee's intimidation push her around. They needed to keep their minds focused on the main task and that was winning. If they were to give in and accept fear than Jann Lee would have already won a succeeding victory.

But deep down inside, Jann Lee's cruel assault on Hitomi pushed Lei Fang over the edge and beyond. His hardening loss from last year was going to be taken out on everybody that faced him. There was no telling what he'd do to the rest of the competition soon and later on in the coming hours.

Day two of the Tournament drew to a close with the remaining fighters turning in for a night of rest. Lei Fang had went into the bathroom to wash up before going off to bed. She threw cold running water from the sink on her oily face to clean out the pores in her skin from all the sweat she contracted during the matches. Always a bit of a clean freak, she made sure there wasn't any part of her that was musty or filthy.

After being dried off with a fresh white towel that hung from the iron rack of the shower, she gazed into the mirror, but didn't see a reflection of a half naked college student from China. In her place, she saw Jann Lee with his pompous smile and ripped muscles glaring back at her. The real Jann it was not, but only that of an image being generated from Lei Fang's mind. The image of Jann Lee smiled and laughed, while taunting Lei Fang with words and gestures.

"You can never beat me, Lei Fang!" The image of Jann exclaimed after having a nice chuckle. "The moment me and you step into the ring, I will crush you into the dirt and make sure you never get up again."

Lei Fang immediately balled her fist up and rammed it straight into the mirror, but not so hard as to break or crack it. The image of Jann faded away and disappeared, being no longer visible in the mirror. Jann's threats were starting to bother and frustrate Lei Fang, but not so much as to intimidate and frighten her.

A soft tap was heard at the door to soon disrupt Lei Fang's wandering attention. Not knowing who it was, Lei Fang asked for the knocker's identity before opening the door. "Who is it?"

"It's me, Kasumi. May I come in?"

"Just a second!" Lei Fang shouted, trying to put some clothes on.

Lei Fang unlocked the door and welcomed her friend inside with water still dripping from her face and hair on to the rough carpet. Kasumi sat down in one of the cushioned chairs by the bed and could sense something bothering Lei Fang, but didn't make any attempts to question on what was troubling her. "I just came back from the hospital," Kasumi stated. "Hitomi will be ok, but she won't be able to fight for a long while."

This was obvious to Lei Fang with the condition she saw Hitomi in after being wheeled out of the Tournament, but she didn't like hearing the fact that Hitomi wouldn't be able to fight for a long time. It was tough to explain to someone so dedicated and emotional as Hitomi that she couldn't do the very thing she liked for a while because of injuries. Lei Fang knew she had to be taking it hard.

After hearing the news, Lei Fang lied stretched out across the bed sighing angrily at Hitomi not being able to compete anymore just because of a certain egomaniac. "Jann Lee has gone too far. I have to put an end to this," Lei Fang said.

"Everyone he's fought so far as either been hospitalized or quit before being given the chance to face him," noted Kasumi. "How do you expect to beat him?"

"I don't know, but I'll find a way."

Lei Fang glanced at the alarm clock sitting on the dresser top beside her bed. It was getting close to midnight and she didn't want to lose any needed sleep. "I'm not trying to rush you out or anything, but I think we should be going to bed now due to the Tournament starting really early in the morning," Lei Fang pointed out.

Kasumi saw that it was getting late too and agreed she should go. She gave Lei Fang a departing bow and paused before walking out the door. "I'll be in the lobby tomorrow, waiting for you."

"Ok," Lei Fang nodded.

Kasumi went out the door and into the hallway, leaving Lei Fang alone to rest for the night. Rest she believed she was going to need to take on her opponent, Zack, who was known to be very tricky in his matches. One slip up could easily mean failure against him. Shortly, Lei Fang gathered her blankets and laid face down in the pillows of the bed before drifting off to sleep.

Morning soon arose with Lei Fang lacing up her white heels into a bow and putting on another long elegant dress that resembled her red one, but being blue instead. She came into the elevator and was asked to hold the door open before it closed by a screaming voice coming out in the hall. Zack rushed in breathing heavily and was thankful that someone was nice to leave the door open for him. "Thank you," he said, not knowing who he was thanking.

He then turned his head up and saw his opponent Lei Fang standing right beside him in surprise. Examining her up and down he smiled joyfully, not wanting to take his eyes off of her gorgeous figure. He eyed her curvy legs and lush pink toenails and then stared his way to the top of her toned arms and chest. "Wow. Looking mighty sexy there, Lei Fang. You heading to a party or something in that dress?"

Lei Fang covered her mouth and giggled in response to his question. "Thanks for the complement, and the answer is no, silly. This is what I'm going to fight you in," she replied.

"Oh yeah, that's right. You and me got a match today. I'll tell you what, how about we forget this fight and you and me go kick it alone for awhile?"

"Sorry Zack, I'm not looking to date anybody right now. Oh, here's the first floor, got to go. See you in the ring!" Lei Fang said, getting out of the elevator as fast as she could.

She went into the lobby leaving Zack alone in the elevator free to talk to his self. "Well, at least she didn't say no like the other girls did, so I might have a chance with her," he said, rubbing his hands together in happiness.