D-The-Darkie

Aiko and Rake resumed training now that there are no fights taking place in the tournament. They were standing before two iron poles and a metal wire connecting them. Cables ran into the bottom of the poles. ‘Grab the wire.’ ‘Like this?’ The boy asked while putting both hands on it. Rake took a device out of his pocket. It had a switch, that you could put on ‘off’ or ‘on’. The trainer turned it to ‘on’. Electric shocks flowed through the kid’s body. Making him release the wire. ‘What was that?’ He asked… In shock. His coach started laughing, tears in the eyes. ‘This will be part of your resistance training. So grab it again.’ Closing his eyes, the boy did this. Rake turned the electricity on again. Aiko tried to hold on to it as long as he could. 23 seconds. ‘Take a breath. In 5 minutes we’ll try again.’ The instructor set a timer on a watch around his wrist. ‘Is this going to be a regular part of training?’ The student asked with displeasure. ‘That’s not the intention, but the

The first day of the semi-finals. Paiki against Zeuz. Announ: ‘And that concludes today’s sponsor: Jester’s Sundresses! For the ladies that want a sundress that is a little extra and still fashionable! So, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and everything in between: Are you ready for the first fight in the semi-finals of our very own Street Biter Tournament?’ Cheers could be heard from all around the stadium. ‘Today we have Zeuz fighting Paiki!’ Cheers could be… (you know the rest). Dev: ‘I’m amazed he didn’t mention Zeuz being last year’s champion. Again.’ Aiko chuckled. Sherley and Jail Bird didn’t react. ‘Where is that other hero? Taramovo? Seems like he has been missing a few fights.’ Devius asked. ‘Beats me.’ Sherley answered. ‘He had more important business to take care of.’ Jail Bird explained. ‘How do you know?' The boy asked. 'You only seem to talk to us.’ ‘Yeah, but he is a little sneaky, this one!’ Devius observed. The Faraqtaerian smirked. ‘Heard it through the

Today it was a fight between D&D. Not Dungeons and Dragons, Devius and Darleth. Darleth was this gladiator style orc with many scars over his body, piercings in his nose and above his red iris eyes, accompanied by red war paint on his face. He had a black skin, although not as dark as Devius’, sharp teeth and two large tusks on the bottom row, spikes covered his spine. He wore dark brown shoulder pads with spikey metal studs, dark brown arm bracers with even bigger metal studs, metal gloves, a washed off bordeaux kilt with brown leather features on it and metal boots that reached above his knees. He was just a little taller than Devius, when he stood up straight there was a visible height difference, but during battle he chose to hunch over. The orc made gestures with both hands towards his opponent, indicating he wanted him to come at him. There was a grin on his face. Dar: ‘Come on then, little man!’ ‘Okay, now I’ll have no choice but to hurt you. Bad.’ He said to himself. Dar:

A few battles in the tournament had passed: - Darleth won against Leranor - Zaïn won against Ezandor - Carrion won against Thrak Today it was the first match of the quarter finals: Kang Guru – Zeuz The announcer did his whole intro and now both contestants were standing eye to eye. While the fight was taking off, Devius, who sat next to Jail Bird, noticed burn marks on the Faraqtaerian’s left leg when he pulled up the trouser leg to scratch. Dev: ‘Don’t mean to meddle…’ A long haired creature with sunglasses on behind Devius stood up and asked: ‘Did someone say METAL?’ While making devil horns. The elderly lady, that seemed to be of the same race, probably his mother, smacked him in the back of the head. ‘Sit your ass down! You always embarrass me!’ JB: ‘You were saying?’ Dev: ‘I noticed the marks on your leg. That’s a bad burn, my dude.’ Aiko, Paiki and Sherley, who were sitting next to each other in that order, listened to the answer as well. Sherley had to

The break that took place after Paiki and Yra's fight was over. The announcer was getting the crowd excited for the second fight, from next to the arena. Aiko and his opponent Kardak entered. Kardak was this big, brown creature. He was about 2 meter 28 centimeter and fat, with a little muscle base. That doesn’t take away that he has an immense strength, of all the fighters that have already fought in this edition of the tournament, he would place right behind Zeuz. He only wore a loincloth and a necklace with fake teeth. He thought the necklace looks bad-ass, but he’s usually quite the pacifist so no quest for real teeth. From head to toe: He had a little bush of black hair in the middle of his head, his eyes had a circle shape that went over in an oval and their color was a mix of purple and brown, no nose, no real mouth but 3 round holes that lined up horizontally (through which he breathed), his upper limbs were 2 long yellow tentacles that started with a diameter of 32 centimeter

The second fight of the day was about to take place as Zeuz and Cathari were standing across from one another. Looking each other in the eyes. Zeuz was last year’s Street Biter winner. He was about 1 meter 90 centimeter. Very muscular. Had blond curls with a brown headband. Dark blue irises with big (black) pupils. A light brown skin tone. He was wearing no top, had gold wristbands on; a ¾ purple, light material pants and shoes that only covered his toes and heels, so the top and sides of his feet were bare. Cathari had a very pale skin tone, was about 1 meter 72 centimeter, had black hair that reached the half of her back, long nails, her eyes were white with black irises. She wore satin battle clothes with blue and gold colors. The sun was setting, so they put this giant candles in buckets next to the arena and next to the bleachers. Aiko was scratching his left forearm, he could swear he felt the device Kanji put in him. Aiko: ‘Ew…’ Dev: ‘What?’ Aiko: ‘I think I felt the device

The day before the Street Biter Tournament- Aiko was showing Paiki his Bettle Cards. They were sitting against a big, dark brown tree. Aiko: ‘There is also a show. It’s called Bettle. I don't really know which one came first, the cards or the show.’ Paiki: ‘They’re very cool!’ Devius, who was passing by: ‘You brought those stupid cards with you?’ He had a paper in his hand. Aiko: ‘Reminds me of home.’ He said with a sad tone while looking down at his cards. Paiki put her hand on the boy’s shoulder. Dev: ‘Yeah, yeah…’ ‘Always with the drama.’ He said under his breath. Paiki: ‘What do you got in your hand?’ She asked Devius. Dev: ‘Right! We know who is fighting who in the tournament!’ The young warriors stood up in excitement. Dev: ‘Tomorrow we have two fights: Hotep against Kang Guru and Zeuz against Cathari.’ Paiki: ‘Zeuz is last year’s champion.’ Dev: ‘Then the day after tomorrow we have…’ He started imitating a drum roll while drumming with his hands. The paper almost fell out of

Before he went to face Aiko, the wasp put on boxing gloves on his upper limbs. The middle ones he’s keeping free to grapple with. Bil: ‘Go!’ Both fighters ran towards each other. The boy tried to pull the first punch towards the wasp’s head. The insect-like creature moved his head to the right to duck it. He then gave Aiko an uppercut with his left glove. Which had some power behind it, lifting the youngster in the air. When the boy rose above his head, he did a small jump and grabbed him by the legs with his middle limbs. Smacking him into the ground. Dev: ‘Goddamn it, kid…’ He said out loud, but only Paiki standing next to him could hear it. Paiki: ‘I’m not going to stay fighting multiple opponents with only a short break between them is easy, but he should be able to beat them.’ She said to Devius while still looking towards the fight. Devius looked towards her: ‘I don’t know. It seems somewhat much as a qualification.’ Paiki: ‘They are mediocre fighters. I beat them back to back.

It had been two weeks since Aiko did some heavy climbing on the mountain on the dwarf planet Dry-Des. From then on he had been doing intense training every single day. He, Devius and Sherley were staying at the Farm for about 2 months now. So they had around 10 more months before Kanji returned. Who was mostl likely going to bring troops with him again. The boy’s stamina and strength had improved a good amount training here. Not to forget his technique. His defense was getting better too, on top of that he could take more and stronger hits by now. He himself, Devius, Rake and Bilang were all pleased with these facts. Sherley was happy for Aiko too, but she didn’t care that much about fighting itself. She just hoped everything would turn out alright when Aiko and Devius had to defend themselves and Riku. Except for her clique, nobody had been this nice to her in quite some time. Mainly the boy was friendly, the Alien just tolerated her in her opinion. She had a conversation with Bilang

Aiko and Rake resumed training now that there are no fights taking place in the tournament. They were standing before two iron poles and a metal wire connecting them. Cables ran into the bottom of the poles. ‘Grab the wire.’ ‘Like this?’ The boy asked while putting both hands on it. Rake took a device out of his pocket. It had a switch, that you could put on ‘off’ or ‘on’. The trainer turned it to ‘on’. Electric shocks flowed through the kid’s body. Making him release the wire. ‘What was that?’ He asked… In shock. His coach started laughing, tears in the eyes. ‘This will be part of your resistance training. So grab it again.’ Closing his eyes, the boy did this. Rake turned the electricity on again. Aiko tried to hold on to it as long as he could. 23 seconds. ‘Take a breath. In 5 minutes we’ll try again.’ The instructor set a timer on a watch around his wrist. ‘Is this going to be a regular part of training?’ The student asked with displeasure. ‘That’s not the intention, but the