A huge amount of cheering came from the stadium and all of the Pink Team, minus JDizzle of course, was transported outside of the Arena's fighting area, and back to a small room with Cortana once again in the center. "Congratulations on your victory, players! your buffs and any items you have acquired along with them are now added to your account and are accessible at any time. You have twenty-four hours before the next bracket of the tournament requires your attention. Good luck, and may the Game Master favor your performance." With that Cortana disappeared. Rukia turned to Doce as they walked out of the room and Doce walked in what Rukia could only assume was south.<br/><br/>"Alright, I give up. What the hell was that about? and what is it that that little girl was asking you to go to the South Customization Plaza for?" she asked, completely ignorant of Kalluto's gender.<br/>________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/>JDizzle was sweating. He had been trying to keep up with Julien for the past 3 minutes, and he had already lost a life. "You'd think they would be easier to kill than this!" he semi-complained as he downed his opponent again. "I think they made this game a little too realistic. I can feel my ribs where that thug hit me with his bat on Stage 1-1."<br/><br/>They were currently on stage 1-3, so JD reasoned that at least they would get some perks if he failed to keep up with Julien. He suddenly got shot in the back with a ball of fire. "Crap! that shouldn't happen 'til the boss fight, right?" he asked Garsot, who looked like he was enjoying himself a little too much. Suddenly both Davis and Rudolph, the fire combo wielding fighter and the cloning ability ninja respectively appeared, Davis behind JD and Rudolph in front of Julien. Rudolph immediately activated his clones.<br/><br/>JD smirked despite the pain in his chest. "You take them ones with swords, I take the one with pyromania?" he asked as he got into a fighting stance. minutes later there were still three Rudolphs and an unscathed Davis. "Switch?" he asked slash yelled as he easily took out a clone of Rudolph and parried a ninja star that was aimed at Julien's back. There was a sudden flicker in the area, as if a TV screen had been over the entire area, and that was enough to distract JD long enough to lose a life at the blade of Rudolph.<br/><br/>"Damn... what was that?" he thought as he leaped at the two remaining Rudolphs, now in his Gun Gale Online Avatar. shooting one in the head with a single round, it dissipated, but that led the other to find an opening long enough for JD/Kirito to lose his health to a dangerously low level. However he was able to defeat Rudolph in the end since his speed far outweighed his opponent. he turned to Davis and Julien's battle, content to watch for now as his health was too low to be of any real assistance.