<div align="center"><strong>Team Shinobi Sect vs Team Temple, Round 1</strong></div><div align="center">(http://i50.tinypic.com/v324hy.png)</div><div align="center"><strong>Jack, The Ripper</strong></div><br/>"...BEGIN!"<br/><br/>"I should warn you, if you've heard anything about me... I'm much... much stronger. I've been training. I don't even need the rain! I can make it!" Mitarai smiled and opened his arms wide, the sky over the arena darkening at his command. The clouds opened up and a downpour came over the ring (oddly, just the ring) and soon the water was running off it in little rivers. Juri yelped a little and covered her head. She looked fairly miserable. Jack just watched with a smile, unphased by the bad weather, "Cor blimey. You ain't been to London, have you? This is pretty much the weather there. It's like bein' home. You ain't tryin' to kill me with homesickness, are ya?" The Ripper grinned. Mitarai just shook his head and smiled. "That's not all!" The young fighter drew a thin bladed knife from a sheath at his hip and pricked his finger. He squeezed his hand and blood ran down, falling onto the slick surface of the ring. From that small drop sprouted a little skull-faced creature of water, about a foot high with a rounded body and thin limbs. It was followed by another. Then another. And another. Soon, he had about a dozen of the little creatures surrounding him.<br/><br/>Jack whistled, impressed. "Neat trick. It's gonna take a little more than 'ard water to beat me, short stuff." said Jack. "We'll see!", countered Mitarai. Driven by the aquatic fighter's own impulses, the tiny creatures launched themselves at Jack as a team, trying to tear at her and claw at her flesh. The Ripper stepped out of the way of every blow, dodging and swaying to the side to avoid each swipe as it came near. She lashed out with her umbrella, scattering one, but it just re-formed and came at her again. Jack grinned and lept backwards, pressing a hidden button on the handle of her umbrella. A massive gout of flames shot from the tip, boiling over the water sprites and evaporating them quickly.<br/><br/>"Wow! Looks like Jack's umbrella is more than just a keen fashion statement! She totally fried those little water sprites!" announced Koto from the sidelines. However, more just surfaced to replace their fallen comrades. Jack cut them down like a thresher mowing down wheat, multiple sprites falling to every blow or blast of flames. "Bloody 'ell, these things don't give up!" Thinking quickly, the ripper dashed to Juri and hooked an arm around the fish-girl's waist, "Ey, love! Don't mind us! Just keepin' yes from turnin' into a fish fry!" Juri shrieked, Jack leaping high into the air. Above the arena, the Ripper pointed her umbrella down and pressed a hidden switch. The tip shot out at high speed, three claws extending from it and planting into the ring floor. An electric shock ran through the heavy wire connecting it, sending jolts of electricity through the arena floor. All the little sprites burst and disappeared as Mitarai too was shocked. The blonde fighter was knocked off his feet by the blast, sent sprawling onto his back. "I have<strong>GOT</strong>to get me one of those!" observed Koto as Jack came back to the ground and set Juri aside. "That's done. Be a good girl luv an' count the boy ou-"<br/><br/>"Not yet! ...I won't... be beaten! I can be... stronger!" Jack stood aghast as Mitarai rose from the ground, seemingly on his last legs but unwilling to give. She twirled her umbrella and grinned. "Hell, you should get a medal fer livin' through a shock like that. But don't worry, luv, I can finish ya proper like." She raised her umbrella, a dangerously sharp blade sliding from the tip. Just how many gadgets did the thing contain?! Mitarai tried to launch one final attack, but as he began to summon a larger beast of water a fog began to roll in, courtesy of Jack. It shrouded the ring completely, hiding both fighters and Juri.<br/><br/>"What<strong>IS</strong>it with this competition and people blocking my view?!"<br/><br/>There was a sound of fighting from within the fog, blows exchanged back and forth. It was nerve-racking to just listen and not see what was going on! But as the fog cleared away it would reveal Mitarai on his back and Jack pointing the blade of her umbrella at his throat. She grinned triumphantly, "Nobody escapes The Ripper, luv. I could finish ya here right now, but I promised the Detective I'd not to kill 'less I had to. Be a good lad an' surrender, ey?"<br/><br/>Mitarai looked down with defeat in his eyes. He knew he'd been beaten. He'd grown much, much stronger, but he'd met his match. He looked up, however, with a smile and with hope. Now that he knew the limits of his strength he felt a sense of peace. He nodded his head to Juri, "I yield." The Ripper twirled her umbrella and brought it to rest on her shoulder, striding out of the ring as Juri held her hand high and announced, "Winner, Jack The Ripper! Team Temple takes the point!"<br/><br/>