Atlantis's POV

We listened to Clarity talk about what we are fighting against for HOURS. I want to tell her about the stalkers, but each time I try to interrupt, the crowd glares at me. I eventually, I sigh defeatedly and entertain myself by looking at the fish Shima bought me yesterday.

There is a beautiful white one that shines in the light, a quick grass colored one that stays near the plants, a large red-orange one that has fins like flames, a neon yellow one... I stop, tears forming in my eyes, but I hold them back because crying won't help... that has no fears, and the brilliant blue one with the turquoise tail and scales that reflect the colors around it.

I smile at the fish. They're just like us. But then I realize Shima didn't buy one like him. But I suppose I don't need that, because he's right here. And he's not going away anytime soon.

I turn back towards him and lean on his shoulder, slowly slipping into sleep.

But then I remember that the stalkers aren't the only thing I need to tell Clarity. I have another surprise for her.
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Clarity's POV

I walk into the battle arena with the others. It's the exact same one me and Rin fought in a few days ago. I smile at all the determined faces following behind me. We can win, we just have to practice.

Another girl named Shura also joined us. She appears to be a fighter, but I really wish she would wear more clothes. The tiny red bra she has just- doesn't cover it. But hey, at least she has a nice sword and skills. I'll take anything I can get.

I walk over to the controls. I'm about to set it on easy since this is really their first true battle (or at least for most of them) when I feel a hand on my shoulder. I whirl around to see a dark haired figure standing behind me, sword at hand. It's Rin.

"My god Rin you almost gave me a heart attack!" I laugh, and he smiles back. He looks over my shoulder at the dial, and frowns.

"Easy? These guys helped fight frieking SATAN!!! Set it on hard!" He grabs the dial, and clicks it over to the other side.

"Hard?!?! We could barely take on medium because it had a frigging TITAN!!!" I growl back, and try to turn it back. He suddenly bursts into a fit of laughter, almost toppling over.

I frown. "What?" I ask, wondering what I said that was so funny. After a couple seconds, he regains his composure and looks at me.

"What we did WAS hard!" He smiles, and I suddenly feel really stupid. I face palm and let him move the dial back to hard.

"Well I'm an idiot," I laugh, and Rin hugs me, and I hug him back. His tail begins wagging adorably like a dog, and I stifle a laugh.

"YO LOVE BIRDS!" I hear a familiar voice yell. Flare. Thanks for ruining the moment! "SET THE FRIGGING DIAL AND GET THE HECK OVER HERE!!!"

I glare at her over Rin's shoulder. Seriously Flare? I see her scowling back, her hands impatiently placed on her hips. She's serious. I sigh and let go of Rin. His tail stops wagging and drops down.

"Well, I guess we'd better go," He pouts, and turns to go towards the others. But before he can, I leap up and kiss his cheek quickly before running off to the others, my face on fire. I hope the dimmed lights hide it, but apparently they don't.

"Awwww..." I look over to see Atlantis & Shiemi fangirling, a huge grin plastered on her face, "Look at the couple blushing!" I frown and stick my tongue out at her like a child.

"And look, someone's jealous!" Shiemi giggles pointing to the other side of the training room. I glance over there and see Luke standing in his gangster outfit, a frown on his face. He doesn't like me... Does he?

He walks towards us, shoulders slouched and his hood over his head. He looks deadly right now, and that's not something I would normally describe him as. I frown. Why can't they ever both just be happy?

"Hey Clarity," he mumbles, nodding his head my direction.

"Stop looking like a frigging goth!" I growl, tugging off his hood so you can actually see his face. I gasp when I see it. He has a new scar that runs trough his eyebrow, and it is pulsing an unhappy red.

I rush off to get the first-aid kit they keep in the training room, almost tripping over my own feet in the process. Once I stumble back over to him, I instruct him to kneel down so I can see his scar. It is still an angry red, but it's now oozing a yellow something.

"Ewww!" I scream as I shoot antibacterial spray at him. My aim was ok, but it spread out and got his entire face. Including his eyes and mouth. He moans in agony as he spits out what I got in his mouth. What can I say, I tried!

"Shoot Clarity! That's not what you're supposed to do!" Atlantis shouts, snatching a wet cloth from the bag and wiping the spray off his face. She then takes out a few other things and dabs them on his face, and once she's done he looks like- Frankenstein. I know that's kind of offensive, but the huge scar is making me think like that.

"Sorry," I mumble, looking away from Luke's scarred face, "What happened?"

I glance back up at him, and see that he's staring at his shoes hesitantly. "Katy," he mutters, then stalks off.

"Countdown till beginning," an automated voice interrupts, and the lights go off, "Ten, nine..."

"JUST FRIGGING START IT!!!!!" Flare yells at it, but being an inanimate object, it ignores her.

"Three, two, one, GO!!!" It finishes, and we leap into action.
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Luke's POV

"S***," I mutter to myself as I observe the others fighting, "Why did I do that?" Now everyone thinks I like her, which is partly true, but it's more I'm jealous of her. All of the people I used to hang out with are either always busy or have their own girl/boyfriend. And I have nobody.

And I doubt that's going to change, either. Anybody that I was even remotely close with already has another guy. I sigh.

"They say everyone has a match," I mumble as I watch the crew decapitate demons, "Where's mine?"