It is in the afternoon and Link, Leo, and Tetra have been practicing their techniques. "Attention all contestants. I t is now time for the elimination round. Please attend to your correct arena number that was given to you when you signed up," a loud voice said. All three of them were in different arenas. Link was at arena 2, Leo was at arena 3 and Tetra was at arena 4. Although they showed up, it would be a little while before one of them had their first battle. Link, Leo and Tetra waited together in the centre of the the four arenas. "Some of these guys look tough," Leo said.
Link looked over at arena one. A man who looked like he was dressed to fish was up against a big guy with a ball and chain weapon. "Poor guy, he has no chance," Link said. The big guy swung his ball and chain at the other guy and he was knocked out of the arena. "I don't want to have fight that guy, his weapon is massive," Leo said. "You won't, at least not for a long while because he is in the first arena and you're in the third," Tetra said. A Deku Shrub, the announcer of arena 3 called Leo's number. "I'm up," he said.
"This is an official match. You lose if you are knocked out of the arena, if you black out, or if you cause serious damage to your opponent, ie killing them. Begin!" The Shrub said. Leo was up against a Goron. "This may be hard, Goron's have hard protective skin they can use as a shield," Link said. "What's your name, mole... person... thing?" Leo asked. "I'm a Goron and my name is Darji," Darji said. "Well Darji, let's go!" Leo said as he charged into battle. Darji rolled into a ball to shield him self and Leo's sword bounced off him. "That is so cheap..." Leo said. "Can't touch me now can you?" Darji said. "No but you can't attack if you defend all day," Leo said.
"Leo doesn't know anything about Gorons, they can attack in a rolling motion," Link said. Darji started rolling towards Leo. Leo dodged. "OK, mabye you can attack and defend at the same time..." he said. Darji continued to roll at Leo. Leo kept dodging backwards until he reached the end of the arena. Darji was rolling at top speed at Leo. Right before Darji hit Leo, Leo doeged left. At that moment, Darji changed his direction. 'How did he do that?' Leo thought. Leo jumped up this time. "Quick reflexes," Link said. Darji unrolled and jumped up at Leo and swung a punch at Leo. Darji hit Leo out of the arena.
"It looks like this contestant is ou- wah?" The announcer said. Leo had used his Grappling Hook to grab onto the ceiling and started to swing away from the arena and then towards at a fast rate. Darji was still in the air. 'I thought I had him,' he thought. Leo kicked Darji so hard he was knocked stright out of the arena. "And our winner is Leonardo!" the announcer said. Leo returned to his group.
"I won!" he said. "You got lucky, not very match is going to be like that Leo," Tetra said. "Lucky? What's that supposed to mean?" Leo asked. "You rushed into it and almost got knocked out of the arena, you were lucky to recover so fast," Tetra answered. "It was all part of my plan to win," Leo said. "Leo, you rushed in without even thinking about who your opponent was. That can cost you everything," Tetra said. "Would you two stop yelling at eachother!" Link said. "Leo, it is true that you rushed without thinking, that was a mistake. Tetra the very fact that Leo was able to recover so quickly shows that he trusts his reflexes, that is important. It is almost time for your match Tetra, you better get ready," Link said.
Deep in the crowd, someone was watching them. Someone dark with red eyes.