Ringo Noyamano

"Yeah," Alluka said, peering up and up at the huge building. "That's Heaven's Arena."

It would be amazing fun to AirTrek it.

"But Ringo, you don't get a hotel room elsewhere when you're at the arena. You have to earn a room in the arena."

Alluka had been doing her reading while on the blimp.

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"Oh!" Ringo grinned. "That's convenient. I take it that you just have to pay with it from whatever your winnings are?"

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"That's what it sounded like," Alluka said, eyes fixed on the arena. "So the first few floors you don't get a room at all. If you win or if you lose on the first floor, you get the prize money of a drink."

And then got to try again!

"I don't think we'll get up to the top."

Given the Floor 200 hurdle that she had no idea about yet... yeah, they weren't going to make it to the top.

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"Well, it is really tall," Ringo allowed. "So it probably takes a lot to get all the way to the top."

She pursed her lips. "If the first floor just gives you a drink, I hope it doesn't take too long to get high enough to, you know, pay for things."

She wasn't worried. Yet.

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"We're already here," Alluka said optimistically. "Did you want to look around for a bit? Or head straight to the arena and see how it works?"

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"Well, I really want to look around, but we should probably head straight over just to make sure we have enough time to get settled into our room. Like, what if there's a big line, or it takes a while, or something?"

Every so often, Ringo was responsible. Hopefully Alluka wasn't too shocked.

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At this point? Alluka wasn't shocked at all!

"That makes sense," she said, shifting a little. "After all, it sounds like the arena's a really big deal."

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"So let's get that settled first!" Ringo grinned. "At least we won't get lost getting there."

Since the building was more than twice as tall as anything else on the skyline.

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Alluka laughed as she started moving.

"Could anyone get lost looking for it?"

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"I bet someone could manage it!" Ringo declared airily. "I mean, we probably could, too, if we really tried."

She sighed as she moved alongside Alluka. "It's too bad we've got to carry our bags, though. It'd be a lot faster to just go top speed over the rooftops to the arena."

Ah, well. They'd just have to do that some other time!

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"We can do that once we earn a room," Alluka said hopefully. "We've got to be good enough to at least get that far."

She was keeping her fingers crossed on that.

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"Definitely!" Ringo looked breezily confident as she nodded at Alluka. "I mean, we're pretty experienced, right?"

Certainly against the average person from Earth they'd have no problems.

But this wasn't Earth.

Not that that reduced Ringo's confidence at all. She was sure that they'd be just fine.

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"I've never been in a real fight before," Alluka said, a bit anxious now that they were so close to doing this. "I'm not bad at AirTrek, but..."

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It had been an absolute disaster of a week. Dante felt like shit. And Dante was back on the island, really feeling just how few of his friends were left around there.

So he rang one of them.

Alluka, 'cause they hadn't talked in a while.

(Shit, he just wanted to hear a friendly voice that wasn't Anders.)

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"Hihihi!"

This was so exciting! Two phone calls in two days!

It was worth holding back from the arena a little to see who it was!

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"Alluka, hey, what's up?" Dante asked, grinning.

He wasn't feeling all that chipper, but it was hard not to mirror back her excitement.

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That was a voice she hadn't heard for a while! Sorry, Dante, for that squeal of excitement.

"Dante!" He couldn't see it, but she was bouncing. "It's been forever! Hihihi! How're you? Ringo and I are on a roadtrip! And we slept last night on a blimp! And now we're two continents away from everything else we've seen!"

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"Eh, I'm alright," Dante said. "Sounds like my life's not as exciting as yours right now, though. Where you at?"

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"We're in my world," she said, letting him get away with not telling her anything. "And, and we're going to see how we can do in Heaven's Arena, which is where people fight for prizes. Ringo says it should be okay, but I'm probably going to be terrible."

Oh well. She snapped a picture of the outside of the arena and sent it to him.

"Look how big it is! Ringo says I'll do alright in the tower but she's always like that."

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"Wait, you're gonna fight?" Dante asked.

He sank down in a seat, frowning. "Didn't know you knew how to do that."

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"I don't, really," she said cheerfully.

This was a terrible, terrible plan that she and Ringo had come up with.

"But Ringo says I'm a quick learner and that I can use AirTrek to help me out--I don't know about offensively, but at least I'll be able to dodge--and it'll serve as good practice, I guess, since we decided we want to try to take the Hunter's exam in January and you do need to fight for that."

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Long pause.

"... So is Ringo teaching you how to fight?"

Because he'd gotten a few punches thrown at him by Ringo in his time.

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"Erm."

Yeah.

"Nnnot really?" Alluka said. "She said she'd give me a few pointers?"

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"Jesus fucking christ," Dante muttered, pinching the bridge of his nose.

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