"Shit!" The white haired girl cursed, her fists pounding on the heavy iron door that lay embedded in the strong rock wall. "Shit, shit, shit!"

The, she sunk to her knees, her breath coming out in rough, ragged pants – her fists stretched out above her head, still placed firmly on the cold stone. The gold eyes girl bit her lip, her eyes squeezed shut.

"Why?" She whispered. "What have I done to deserve this…?" The she grew angry again, her fists slamming once again onto the wall, causing a loud thud to reverberate around the empty room… "Why God Damn it?"

"Un…"

… Or maybe not so empty.

Alithra snapped her head round, her eyelids shooting open, revealing two, wide silver flecked orbs. Through the darkness she could just see a silhouette lurking towards the back of the cell, one arm raised as the figure rubbed his eyes.

"Hello?" Alithra sucked in a breath. Why? She wasn't so sure… but, of course an enemy wouldn't be calling a 'hello', right? Pulling her arms away from the wall, Alithra used one of her now free hands to steady herself as she stood, breathing out and trying to seem calm and composed – trying to seem like the normal Alithra.

"Who's there?" She called, thanking whatever God is out there that her voice didn't tremble. There were some shuffling sounds as the shadowed figure moved, his silhouette slowly standing up and dusting itself off.

Then, there was the pearly shine of teeth through the darkness as the boy – well, he sounded like a boy, and his structure didn't seem very feminine – smiled in the direction of the white haired girl.

"My names Hiro." Yep, definitely a boy. "It's nice to meet you."

Alithra scoffed, returning to her old self more and more as she realised that she wasn't in a dangerous situation – at the moment, anyway. She was sure that the danger was going to come eventually.

"Nice?" Alithra said, sarcasm dripping from the words like syrup dripped from a pancake. "I wouldn't exactly call this 'nice'." Her golden eyes scanned the room as she said it, being able to tell, even in the dark, that the place wasn't well furnished.

Ok, so maybe it wasn't furnished at all.

There was a nervous chuckle and the eighteen year old looked back round to Hiro, watching as his shadowy arm rose to timidly scratch the back of his neck.

"I suppose you're right…" He laughed uneasily. "I guess there are nicer places to meet."

Alithra smiled slightly, the boys carefree character making her feel slightly more relaxed – and that means a lot considering the type of environment they were in. They were in a cell – a dusty, dark, murky cell.

"So…" Alithra started, crossing her arms loosely behind her neck. "What's going on here?"

There was sudden silence and Alithra cautiously looked over to Hiro, noticing that his smile had vanished, leaving his facial expression completely up to her imagination.

"What's going on here…?" His voice was low, barely even a whisper, and it seemed to tremble slightly. Alithra gulped. Then, all of a sudden the smile was back and his voice returned to its normal – or at least Alithra guessed it was normal, after all, she hadn't known him for more than what, five minutes? – state. "I don't really know what's going on, actually."

If this were an anime, Alithra would've fallen flat on her face.

Days blended into weeks and Alithra soon found herself sprawled out on the floor, in that common position you do when making a snow angel. Her lips were set in a firm pout and her golden eyes were narrowed accusingly at the ceiling…

Poor ceiling, he didn't even know what he had done wrong.

"I'm bored~" The white haired girl whined, suddenly removing her gaze from the roof and focusing instead on her purple haired partner who was playing with the laces of his trainers. (The ceiling was very glad that Alithra had shifted her interest… He was starting to get self conscious…)

At the kind of grating sound that had came from his teammates lips, Hiro looked up, his cerulean eyes locking with the silver flecked pair of his partners. He sighed, his purple bags blowing up from his face momentarily before languidly resuming their position.

"Do you want to play a game then?" He asked carefully, not really sure what there was to do in such a small, under furnished room. "'I spy' or something like that?"

Alithra's creamy white eyebrows furrowed and her childish pout morphed into a dissatisfied grimace.

"Yeah, I spy with my little eye something beginning with 'W'." She paused, feigning searching the room before looking back at Hiro, her eyes narrowed further. "Oh, wait, that has to be wall, right? Because that's the only freaking thing in this bloody place!"

Hiro flinched at the sudden rise of her voice and Alithra scrambled to a sitting position, her arms crossed roughly over her voluptuous chest and her head was turned stubbornly to the side. Silver lined eyes stared at the door in want, before, in a low whisper, the olive skinned girl finally spoke her thoughts.

"When will this fight start?" She breathed into the air, her eyesight never leaving the door, even thought she could feel Hiro's eyes boring into the side of her face. "I'm itching for a good brawl."

Hiro shifted his position, the white haired girl's statement putting the seventeen year old at unease. He didn't want this fight to start and Alithra's blood lust sort of scared him. He dreaded to think about what was going to happen when they finally enter the arena… or whatever hell hole they would be forced to fight in…

The, Alithra grinned and turned back to face her nervous partner, her shaper than normal canines glinting in the dim light that trickled in from underneath the cell door.

"Because," She chirped, glee evident in her voice. "The sooner we win, the sooner we get out of here. And the sooner we get out of here…"

Hiro smiled a wholehearted smile.

"The sooner we can go home."

Alithra scoffed and folded her arms behind her neck before flopping back down onto the hard concrete floor, the thud of body against rock not seeming to affect her in the slightest.

"Nah, man," She chuckled, as if the boy across from her was stupid. "The sooner we get out of here, the sooner I can get me some coffee."

Well, I promised a sooner update, didn't I? Well, after the next chapter, the poll will be going up! I'm pretty pleased with this chapter, Alithra is fun to write :3

Oh, by the way CarLu lovers, it seems that NaLu dominates, sorry. Anyway, I'm kind of glad, I have plans for Carter, after all...

Oh, and I can't believe I forgot to do this last chapter! Here's who the Oc's were made by:

Alithra: Guardian White Wolf

Hiro: Midnight Ace

Setsuko: Pinkhairedbadass (I love that pen name XD)

Fallon: xxArrowWolfxx

Also, only three more games, and one of them will be three teams *Le Gaps!* Then, we move onto the semi finals, and then... and then... *Bursts out crying* IT WILL BE THE END!

This is literally the longest story I've ever written, and I'm so glad that you guys love it! Don't worry, after this is finished, I will be starting a new story and the first chapter and teaser for that one is already finished (Thanks to the wonderful support of Jacovy!) and I will post the teaser as an extra chapter after the end of this story!

I couldn't of got this far without you guys, so thank you so so much, and hopefully you'll stick with me to the end!