Eyo Boys and Girls its Dia here. I decided to tell you the story out of 3 different views: Shiru Akuma (of course), Frank Mercury (The Greek god of motion was called Mercury btw.) and the girl with the bandages, and how their fight looked for Konomi and Urahara. I've also come up with a way for the characters to fight each other, witch I will introduce in later chapters. (I thought it would be boring to let them only fight monsters with very little opportunities to compete against each other).

All right please enjoy the Chapter :)

Hunter, or hunted? Chapter 4

Pov: Frank

He was climbing through the hole, that Konomi had told him to go through it was dark and cold. About 10 meters in front of him, the tunnel made a right curve from witch he saw torch-light flickering along the wall.

It was a rather small arena with hard beaten earth surface and surrounded by the same wooden posts as the camp. Behind the Posts were shelters built where the spectators stood to watch the participants. *Damn... apparently the whole village is here. This ceremony must be quite the attraction*, Frank thought to himself. An ear deafening scream from the other side of the arena let him wince. The Yian Kut-Ku had noticed him, and this also drew the attention of Velocipreys on him. "I shouldn't focus on the big monster" Frank said more to himself than to anybody else. The Bird Wyvern ran at him, spitting fireballs left and right. He rolled sideways from the shot. He noticed a wound on the Kut-Ku's leg. *They have handicapped him, to make it less dangerous for the participants* he grinned. *The villagers want to see a show? I'll provide them one*.

He took a deep breath, all he heard was his own heartbeat. Everything seemed to go into slow motion slow motion, as he went into a crouching fighting stance and pulled his Dual Blades. Frank was in trance; he could feel every movement in the arena. The Flight Wyvern just turned to face him, he knew it without seeing it. At the same time, two of the little monsters made themselves ready to pounce. As the Yian Kut-Ku was yet a few meters away, he moved. He dodged to the left, where he severed one of the Velocipreys with a chop through the neck from beneath. The Kut-Ku shot a fireball in his direction, but Frank knew that it wouldn't meet him, as one of the little monsters that wanted to jump on him in his previous position got hit by the fireball in mid air. With a circle-like movement he slashed two more Velocipreys and thus positioned himself behind the great Bird Wyvern, the tail swung after him, as he ducked under the attack whitch instead met the head of another Velociprey. The monster flew across the arena and hit the ground motionless. Frank Dashed to the next monster, and rammed one of his blade straight into its heart. He was now on the left side of the large Monster. *Hmm* he thought, *I can kill the rest before his next attack*. With a dashroll the next one fell to his feet. He felt one of the 3 remaining monsters jump into the air to attack him. Frank jumped forward underneath the Velociprey and mid air turned into a pirouette, and slashed the monsters belly open. He caught himself with the hand on the floor and used the momentum in order to catapult him in the direction of the second last monster and knocked it out of combat with a kick in the head. He stopped himself with all four limbs on the ground and managed to stop, just before he crashed into the arena wall. In a flash he was behind the last monster and ended its life with one blow.

The noise of the audience flooded back into his mind again, as he forced himself out of his mode. As the Spectators applauded, two Hunters stormed past him to take over the Yian Kut-Ku and he was guided to the exit.

Pov: Konomi

"Why isn't he doing anything?" Asked Konomi. Frank stood in his uncommon fighting stance and had his eyes closed. The Yian Kut-Ku had again turned to him, and got ready for the next attack. "Please pay good attention to him Mrs. Hasu, you really don't want to miss this." Urahara said to her, smiling to himself. The two of them stood on the high seat of the jury, that actually only included Urahara, and watched the fights. Konomi Turned back to the participant. She could nearly grab the tension in the arena, as the monster ran towards him. Suddenly Frank was right next to one of the Velociprey and severed his neck. Her eyes widened, as she whispered "Mercury", finally realizing what she's about to witness. The whole fight lasted 30 seconds. She had difficulties following his movements. After each attack or change of position he stopped briefly, until he perfectly met the timing with his next move. Throughout the fight he had his eyes closed. Urahara spoke: "It is an ancient power of the Mercury clan, nobody knows how it is triggered, not even they themselfs do..." Urahara had the eyes still fixed on the boy, as he killed the last monster.

Frank climbed onto the high seat where Urahara and Konomi were already waiting for him. "This was an excellent fight Mr. Mercury, Mrs. Hasu will guide you to "Stand 4" where you can watch the remaining participants and I will inform you about the results after all of them have taken the test." "All right Mr Kisuke..." "Urahara please" the Headmaster interrupted him, "Umm... ok Urahara, thank you".

Frank was about to leave as Urahara spoke again. "I was wondering Mr. Mercury, can you open your eyes while in battle?" Frank was puzzled about that question. "I've never tried it, but I do not think I can. It's difficult enough to come out of trance in the first place." "Allright, thank you very much, you may let yourself out now." Thank you Urahara.