I was nervous about my match up. I have not heard about Luci but could it be a guy or a girl? Lucian was a guy-ish name while Luci was a girls name. 

I gave a dreaded sigh and walked into the arena to meet up with a girl in the center. 

She bowed and I nervously saluted her.  The battle bell commended and I flew back, pulling out a sniper rifle.  I prepared to fire but she was  already in my face. 

I panicked and hit her with the butt of my rifle but she downed me with a leg sweep.   My vision blacked out but I flailed around wildly and I felt my fists connect.  

When my vision finally cleared I saw Luci stumbling around, dazed by my attack. 

I grew confident and prepared my sniper to take a shot, Luci took out dual pistols and started to spin.  The bullets were fired at random directions, I felt a bullet  impact his leg  and he stumbled, the shot blowing off one of her arms instead of her torso like he intended to. 

I decided taking the time to shoot with the sniper took to much time so I abandoned it and charged her with my knife out, first getting a few shots with my pistol to disable her other arm, though i missed sorely. 

 I felt another bullet dig itself deep into my cheeks and the blood starting to pool in my shoes but I ignored it to slash at Luci's throat.  

When I arrived at Luci she seemed to come out of her daze and sharply focus her sights on me, I was to close to pull back so I went with another slash and she countered with an elbow to the neck. I got her neck but she destroyed my windpipes. Both unable to move we had to wait to find out who died first, blood-loss or suffocation

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I tried to breathe but Luci crushed my windpipe good,  Air couldn't come in, I felt myself grow dizzy before I blacked out from the pain of trying to draw in air. 

I woke up in the pod and stumbled out and gasped for air, likewise Luci was collapsed on the ground holding her neck and breathing heavily. 

Match Result: TIE, no one advances forward.  

Luci cried out in distrest and I just sighed in relief, No more fighting, that was to much already, The fight today was enough, I was glad for a week of intermission between each mission. 

When I got back, Ciara was already back and she was all giddy and smiling. "I guess you won your match huh?"  

Ciara nods gleefully and I pulled up a replay of her match, 

Both her and Rasphee were close range fighters, Ciara used her fists and needles while Rasphee used a close-range whip inlaid with spikes.  Ciara was caught a few times, but Rasphee's big mistake was drawing Ciara in toward herself. Ciara took the momentum to launch herself at Rasphee and disable and stun using impacts from her fists to block her nerve system.  Ciara finished her by blunt damage. 

The final matches have taken place you are allowed one day to rest and relax, to improve your fighting style. 

Beo looked toward the winners of his team, Ciara and Nima,  

"Good luck guys, who knows what monsters make it to the second round"