<div align="center">Tyger Arena 21</div><br/>As the demon vanishes and Tyger feels a new presence in his mind he closes eye charcoal eyes and his open hands close into fists. An instant later his eyes snap open and are a deep red almost glowing and his lips curl back in an evil combination of a snarl and a grin making his over sized canines the most prominent feature. The shields that he has built over the centuries which he dropped to let her in suddenly slam back into place. He says quietly, “Welcome to my world, Bitch. I hope you enjoy your stay.” Turning to look directly into one of the strange devices he assumes is what is being used to transmit the images back to the mansion and wherever else they are being watched from and says, “I’m sorry but this is going to be a private battle. Terra and Giselle, please don’t worry. The best way to defeat an enemy is to turn their greatest strengths against them. Please forgive me my friends.” His eyes close as he retreats into his mind and the demon’s illusion. His heart rate drops to a single beat every 10 seconds and his breath to a single breath every minute, while his mental activity jumps off the charts even in the normally inactive areas.<br/><br/>The thing that had stirred in the dark reaches of Tyger’s subconscious stands and tastes the air. A low deep menacing growl rumbles from the darkness as it senses another predator in his territory.<br/><br/><div align="center">The illusion</div><br/>Gray eyes snap open and Tyger gazes at his lovely wife as the morning sun sets her skin aglow. When she stirs and awakens he smiles lovingly at her. When she places that feather light kiss on his lips his eyes close as he vividly remembers their first ever kiss the night before his first match in the fifth DOA tournament. Opening his eyes he replies, “Good morning, Darling.” As she kisses him more deeply his responding kiss seems to be lacking something as his mind latches onto that DOA tournament, something about that first match is nagging at him. Her head on his chest awakens the memories of that first night on the island again when Terra had fallen asleep with her head on his chest.<br/><br/>Memories of an encounter of incredible passion with Terra flood into Tyger’s when express her gratitude for staying in the bed this morning unlike the day before. The memories are from how he had made it up to her. He looks at her in mild confusion as he tries and fails to remember why would have gotten out of the bed early. The memories he does have of the morning are quite pleasurable but odd, his mind remembers but his body does not. He smiles again as she stretches in the same manner he does, amazed at her beauty and the way she has picked up simple little traits from time spent with him. It finds her cat like movements especially amazing as he remembers that those same traits took decades of actually changing into a cat for them to become evident in his natural form.<br/><br/>Tyger sits up on the bed after Terra covers his nudity with the sheet and watches her as she crawls to the edge of the bed and reluctantly slips off. She pulls a shirt out of the wardrobe and slowly puts it on sniffing it. She looks really good in his shirt. Just as the shirt drops over her body covering it he looks around as he gets the feeling that he is being watched. The feeling is followed by a memory of his friend Giselle and he wonders where she is today. He glances over at the mirror above the dresser and is sure he sees a faint vision of the dining hall of the mansion they had stayed in at the DOA tournament that brought Terra and him together and he had last seen Giselle. Looking at the mirror with interest he could swear he sees Giselle, Yuna, and Terra looking directly at him before the vision disappears and mirror simple shows the reflection of the room. His attention snaps back to Terra at the mention of breakfast as his stomach rumbles softly, and he remembers back to his first match. He was forced to go to the arena directly from the medical room with no chance to have breakfast with the other contestants or forfeit.<br/><br/>So sooner is Terra gone from the room when an excited blonde little whirlwind runs in and jumps on the bed and Tyger beams at his and Terra’s daughter. The girl shows him what she can do as her inheritance from her mother and he is filled with a great pride as the flower in her hand is covered with frost briefly. When Tyssa mentions shadow jumping without him something in his mind snaps into place and he remembers all the memories he had intended to hold fiercely to before inviting the demon to poses him. He smiles at the girl even as Terra returns to the room with her tray of food with her comment about worrying, and says, “You should never shadow jump without me, kitten. Yes, I will practice with you today. Please promise me that you won’t do it any more without me.” He looks up at Terra with odd expression on his face and continues, “There are things in the shadows that you are not ready to meet alone.”<br/><br/>When Terra joins them on the bed Tyger laughs at the girls giggling and squeals, but his laughter has a sort of hallow tinge to the sound. He looks at the plate of fruit as it is slid closer to him and his stomach rumbles softly again as he remembers that he did not have a chance to eat since Helena’s call. His smile at his wife has a mischievous hint to it as he says, “This moment is wonderful, but I was actually hoping you and I could take a walk in the woods today, my dear.”