After having gone for lunch Clark spent the rest of his afternoon preparing strategies for the tournament. It was so frustrating since he only knew a few of the astrals. Guess he’ll just have to prepare for them all this afternoons. ‘This isn't gonna be much of a fun afternoon.' He thought to himself. The time went by, excruciatingly slow at some points, and before he knew it the tournament had come close to beginning. As he left his hotel room he could see one of the guards approaching his door. Perfect timing, come on." The guard seemed a bit taken back at Clark's readiness but took him knotholes since it was the whole point of coming.

Arriving at the stadium, Clark could see the lights from the outside, the place sounded packed and there were still more people coming in. Clark was about to wave off the guard saying he could find his way from here, but a rumble came to his stomach. Clark came to regret skipping breakfast or at the very least wished he had eaten a bigger lunch, and so he turned back to the guard asking for where he could find a concession stand. After being pointed towards the stand Clark went picked out a hotdog when the announcer called the match-ups. He heard his name against Scarlet’s. ‘Now isn’t that funny, I guess all that planning wasn’t a waste after all.' He said to himself in his mind as he exited out to the stadium field.

When Clark walked onto the field he could feel the crowds energy as they shouted, he could feel their eyes on him, the monitors, and everyone. This feeling of importance, of having their attention and them knowing that there was something that set him apart from him that made him more than the average person. This was what Clark relished for, then suddenly the crowd went silent save for the few gasp and screams of shock. Clark looked to the screens he only caught a glimpse, it looked to be some form of beast devouring a man. Before he could fully make it out the screen shut off and the light had all gone out. The crowed seemed stunned, even some of the other competitors were disturbed, it looked like Alexa had lost her lunch. Clark's been in plenty of battles and he's seen some pretty gruesome thing in his astral battles and continued to eat his hotdog unmissed by what happened to the stadium. Whatever that thing was it was strong and represented why Clark entered the tournament, to fight the best and prove he's better. The announcer regains the attention of the crowed telling them of some minor difficulties and that the battles would still continue. It was all Clark needed to hear, he walked up to the sync station, Scarlet was waiting she seemed a bit upset. "Hey you don’t have to look so disappointed, i promise to make the match more interesting than the first one." He said with a cheeky smile on his face.

Clark left the sparring room with a pleased smile. Learning about his opponent's astral is indeed an excellent gain before the tournament. Although they also know about Clark's astral now but he shouldn't have to worry too much about that. 'Scarlet's astral's a horse, besides being able to fly there not else to it. Alexa seems more complex but she shouldn't pose that much threat as of current. But Aaron's astral, Wukong was it? He's a bit of a problem resilient with a large skill set but he seems limited in ranged attacks, so at least there's that advantage.' He thought all this to him as he exited the sparring room, his thought were interrupted as he noticed a sudden sense of hunger. Clark hadn't eaten all day and considering its past noon it’s about time he did.

The clone was useless, it disappeared before even going through the portal and now this monkey or whatever it is was sitting her making threats. This is clearly Aaron's astral from how he handles himself, it would’ve been easier to take out the pony first but this guy wont just let Yugo walk away. Yugo made a slight chuckle at the monkey’s silly pose and how serious he looked. “Heh, as if I’d just surrender." Yugo jumped back throwing the two portals he was about to use back at the monkey before moving around with his portals into a nearby tree above.

Then all of a sudden even through the treetops and rainbow burst could be seen. And it clearly couldn't be good, there was no time to waste on Aaron if, Yugo didn’t move then Alexa wouldn't make it. As much as Clark insisted not rush this match in Yugo mind, he couldn’t just trade blow with this guys while his teammate was in danger. Yugo ignored Clark’s warnings and turned to the monkey screaming t him. "Sorry sir but i can’t waste any more time on you." Blue energy began traveling towards Yugo and as he cast out his hands in a similar manner as he did when he shot his first blast, the portals he created were massive. He moved his arms letting the two giant portals crash into each other a giant blast of energy hurdled towards Aaron's astral.

Alexa began pointing back over to the enemy. She seemed to be doing something but as to what it was he didn’t know. Yugo used his sixth sense once more looking over to their adversaries once more. They were messing around with some type of machine, Yugo could tell as the silhouette was black with no form of Wakfu around it at all. It might not be a stretch to assume it's Alexa's robot given her astrals appearance. But this means that they were on the offensive and this was no time to let up the assault.

With his eyes still shut he maneuvered himself in-between the trees, he saw one of them had flown up to the robot...knowing one of them can fly is good info. Once he determined a fair shot into between the trees he spread his hands out creating two portals before bringing them together. When the portals lined up a blast of energy shot forward from where they were facing blasting through the tree, tearing through the branches, towards the flying target and the drone.

Once again after opening his eyes Clark finds himself in the body of the young Yugo. Going from a tall 23 year old to a short 12 year old was always annoying to Clark, especially one that wears such a big ridiculous looking hat. He was with in the forest arena one which he are very familiar with. He couldn’t see Aaron or Scarlet's astrals, the only one around was a girl with long blonde hair and strange looking hand. She was expunging steam and little robots from looks of it, definitely one of the weirder kinds of astrals.

Yugo decided to test her awareness and begun moving his hands in a circular motion, then two small blue portals emerged. He tossed one up into a tree above the girl leaving the other one in front of him and stepped through. He appeared on top of the tree above Alexa's astral as the portals closed behind him. "Hey looks like you sync'd in just but you might not want to stay still for too long, we don’t know where the others are after all." He yelled down to her wondering if she even realized who he was.

Clark put his hand on his chin thinking over the offer. This girl seemed pretty clueless on astral battling in general, really doing a credit to blondes. A match against her would just turn into a pointless stomp with 2 against 1, but Clark took note of the way Scarlet looked at the machines. If she's not that experienced then this battle might not be so one sided after all. He thought to himself and then finally spoke. " You know normally teaming up with someone who doesn't even know what an astral is would seem like a pretty bad handicap." A bit of a smug smile showed on his face. “But I think we can handle it. this is just for practice after all." He turned and began walking towards the machines. He stopped for a moment turning his head back. “Well let’s hook up and get started, it'll all make sense once we begin."

Clark Matthews

When the guard knocked on Clark’s door promptly opened with Clark, fully dressed as he's already been up for about an hour, quickly making his way past the guard. He looked back towards the guard with an uninterested look. “Save it. I already know the routine." He continued walking going towards the elevator, it looked like someone was there but they ran off before they elevator could come up. "Typical newbie" Clark thought to himself. John entered the elevator but rather than going to get breakfast he decided to head towards the sparring room. Today wasn't a day to slack off and Clark knows he's going to need to stay sharp if he wants to win. Underestimating the enemy is what made him lose the tourney the last time he entered. Clark let out a small sigh the guards never really try in battle; hopefully an actual competitor comes along and provides some real practice.