Hades Cup waiting room

"Come now Riku, was it really that bad?"[/color]

"You're not the person I feel like talking with, thanks..." Riku replied to Hades, his voice dripping with a sort of anger that still resided in his being. He couldn't be really mad at Hikari all too much... she just wanted to be entering the tournament for the fun of it and he had complied after she suggested that it would be 'just for fun'.

Fun's gone and passed already....

Appearing in the waiting room, a relatively beat-up Ikari appeared and gave a shaky sigh as she rose her hand to rub at her forehead again. Seemed that headbutt was a little more than just to get her to have loosened her gasp on her opponent; as her fingers traced across her forehead, she felt that sore sensation that signaled light bruising over the struck area. Her green eyes traveled from the floor around the waiting room, taking in her surroundings and the other people that were participating in the event.

Oh look, there was Riku. Figures he'd be here without so much as a scratch on his being. Making her way over, Ikari paused as she saw Hades talking with the silver-haired teen. What bothered her more was the fact that Riku didn't look all too pleased... not that he ever really did, he usually had a pretty neutral expression on his face more than half the time. However, this time, his face seemed to be marked with those subtle hints on anger.

As Riku noticed Hikari's presence, he looked down to her, disregarding the fact that she looked to be in a worse condition than he was and gave her a slight glare. As his cyan gaze intensified down at her, Ikari felt a chill run up her spine and she backed up some, "listen Riku... if now's a bad time, I'll just... be over there...." With that, Ikari turned from the silver-haired teen and walked to the other side of the room and leaned against the wall, folding her arms over her chest.

Pain was merely giving off a forced, nervous smile as he nodded with Hades had said to that Riku kid. Another death in such a tournament .... gulp .... just a tougher job for the Underworld's inhabitants when they're forced to give some customer satisfaction for the souls of the dead losers. Still, if the Underworld's in good business, that means no more imp barbecueing from Hades. Countless times of such fires and burns was ..... too much ..... The little demon shuddered

"Stop yer moping, kid! If ya can't handle a little dieing, then why join this thing the first place?!" Pain said in a ticked off voice without any sympathy. More or less just insulting him really. That's when the small imp looked back down at his clipboard, where he had a page of brackets. He looked around when he saw a ..... "Gaaaah! Gross!" that kid, Rubix, had gotten burnt up, beaten up, cut up, the whole butchery! Which was more sick, a slimy soul, or a living mortal with such injury? Pain nervously hid his face behind the clipboard ....

"Cure!" Rubix faintly heard and suddenly felt a lot better and refreshed as he took a deep breath in through his nose. His eyes opened wide and saw Mikael kneeling next to him by his side. Looked like Mikael had a pretty rough fight as well, Rubix had never seen him beat up like this. Just looking at Mikael made Rubix fear what he himself might look like after being burning up in the fires and being worn out by the fight in general.

"I shouldn´t have told you to join this tournament, I am sorry."

Rubix chuckled, "No no, don't even worry about it," waving his hand back and forth, even that was strenuous. He sit up and rubbed his head, it was slightly aching from the head butt that he did on Ikari. As he was rubbing his head he felt a stinging sensation on his hand; they were still gashed by Ikari's nails. "Ahh, mighty... That'll take some time. But any of all, that was fun!" he said trying to stand up, but failing.

Although Rubix lost the match, he still walked away with knowledge about himself and how to use his abilities. However, he discovered that using them make him very tired and he needs to control how to use it and when to. "Really, Mikael, that was awesome! I can fight! ...Somewhat," he said chuckling, "I mean it was cool! I can push, pull, hold stuff and people and now I know how to use it and stuff." Rubix kept going about the fight to Mikael and what happened, he was actually excited about what just occurred. "But the only thing is...I need some sort of weapon.... Cause my powers can only do so much right?"

With another attempt he stood up, but not very easily. He saw Ikari from across the room and decided to see who this girl was outside of the ring. Rubix looked back at Mikael, "Hey, I'll be a few minutes," he said as he walked toward Ikari. Once he made his way there he smiled at her with his teeth. "Well," he started, "Good fight!" Rubix said putting out his bloody hand for her to shake.

When Ikari folded her arms to her chest instead of shaking Rubix's hand, he just put his hand down and hung his thumb by his pocket.

"... I really could have gone out and killed you with no problem, whatsoever... to just get that match out of the way, I hope you know that..." Ikari said, looking away from Rubix.

"You're going to play the cool, tough girl now huh?" Rubix said, "Well, I respect you," he shrugged, "Not every guy is the same, you know." With that Rubix turned away and left Ikari standing there and walked to Mikael again. "I guess that's that. Can we even get out of this place?"

And Braig was back, after having slipped away with none of the others in the room noticing. He had won his match, and his outward appearance was not quite that bad. Bruises and burns, the smell of the burnt skin did not stay in the arena, however following him as he appeared back in the waiting room.

He took his blue Bandana, and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his Bow was dismissed after his face was cleaned, and simply took a spot against the wall, sliding down on his back, taking a seat, his eyes closed, as he focused on replenishing his energies after his battle with Relena.

Thats the thing with Greater Heartless and Nobodies, they can get greatly injured, but they can heal damage much quicker, as long as it isn't fatal. He was already feeling better now that he wasn't near all the Electric energy, which was messing up his own energies. He reached within his pocket and pulled out his flask, opening it to take a drink of his Coconut Milk, only to give out a loud groan.

Metal Flask...Electricity all over...some of which managed to slip through, and had evaporated all of his drink. "Perfect Dude...just perfect..I hate electricity.."

"Well, she did gave you some wounds. Hopefully there is a healing tank at the Gummi Ship. And," he said, half glancing at Ikari. "I am glad you had fun." Mikael himself had a bit of fun. Dodging bones was sure fun. As Rubix continued telling him about his battle with the Swift Wildfire, the fire user listened carefully. From what he heard, she was a fire user and a decent fighter with the blade. Could she be Mikael´s equal? Only time would tell.

When the man was done talking, he went to chat a bit with his opponent. While the fire warrior waited, more people arrived to the room. Mikael recognized the green haired heartless known as Seed. Soon after, as he expected, Maverick arrived to the room and approached Mikael.

"Mikael, I hope your not too beat up from our fight. Hehe I think I went a little overboard."

"Heh, don´t worry about it. I have somewhat been worse, and I am sure you have too." he replied, looking at the few light burns he had. He was referring to Disney Castle of course, where the witch of Maleficent ruined their plan. He then noticed that Rubix was comming toward them. "Rubix, this is Maverick. Maverick, this is Rubix." he said. Another girl was being teleported inside the room; Mikael didn´t pay attention to her. "So how did it go with her? And I have absolutely no idea. I could guess we are still at the Underworld." he continued, turning to look at the newcomer. His face froze when she noticed who she was. She was here, he had fround her. "Holy shit, its Mira..." he said to himself.

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When she was teleported to the waiting room, Mira was still on the ground. Fortunately, the Even-Siberian Tiger was no longer trying to have her for the main course at the Underworld Restaurant. She quickly stood up, scanning her surroundings. She noticed some familiar faces, such as Xavier and Seed. To her surprise, she saw that he was at the same room. He was looking at her. She had found him... too soon.

As she started to walk toward him, she wondered if Zedd was still fighting. However, she got that thought of her mind as she started to pick up speed to the moment that she was running toward her best friend and hugged him. "You have managed to stay alive without me Mik, I am glad."