Walking in with his hood up while listening to music, Eito sighs. "I'm here!"

Jiyu enters the arena with a coffee cup in his hand and an almost tired expression on his face. He looks around the arena. "A maze eh? Seems cool... Now who am I facing again?"

"Jiyu? Eito? Listen up! That little kitty in the center of the maze is what you need to grab. You can go through the maze, or try hopping on top of the walls. Doesn't matter! All that matters is that you grab the lil guy, and hold him as long as possible. Match ends once someone is down and out, or if the statue breaks. Ready? Begin!"

"Wait Eito? I'm fighting him?!" Upon hearing the sudden start, Jiyu chugs down his coffee and climbs onto one of the walls of the maze, trying to spot the center.

"Alright, here we go!" Eito rushes forward, jumping on a wall and pushing off of it to get on top of the opposing one before getting up and staring across the arena, searching for the center like Jiyu. "Come on, kitty cat..."

Nodding in afirmation, Eito starts rapidly jumping from wall to wall, his green eyes hidden under his hood. "Move, move, move..."

"There it is!" Jiyu jumps from wall to wall, eventually making it to the center. He would stare at the treasure and dashes towards it.

Having been close behind Jiyu while they were jumping, Eito crouches on a wall above him and waits. "Come on..." Once Jiyu dashes to grab the treasure, Eito draws his knives and jumps down from above. "Hello pal!"

Right when he makes it to the treasure, Jiyu turns to face Eito. He smirks while crossing his arms. "Hmm, I never thought that I'd make it this far in this tournament to make it to you." Washinton manifests behind Jiyu and grabs the treasure, putting it in his arm. Jiyu's pulls out his flintlock revolver, still looking at Eito. "But luckily, I made it." Jiyu and Washington both dash to the wall to the right of them, once they make it to the wall, they would both climb up it with the treasure still in their possession.

His eyes turning green once again, he rolls to the ground and immediatly sprints over to the wall Jiyu and Washington climbed. "Fools." Jumping up once and getting to the top of the wall, his eyes turn crimson. He draws his gun. It's got a red glow in a small slot on the side. "I think it's about time you handed that little thing over, yeah?"

Jiyu smirks when he faces Eito once again. Washington gets a fair distance away from Jiyu. "Listen, Red Personality. Don't think that you and Eito can just get this thing handed over to you. By the way..." Jiyu draws his gun as well, aiming it at Eito's gun. He then fires a musket ball at it, knocking it out of his hands if it hits. "I'm guessing you don't need that." Jiyu and Washington then jump down into the maze, and runs through it.

Eito smirks, the bullet does indeed hit the gun. With an inhuman grip, he keeps it. With a half mad laugh, Eito starts jumping on the walls, following Jiyu from above. "AND THE HUNT BEGINS!" Pointing his pistol at Jiyu and Washington's location, Eito fires three times, the bullets exploding. He follows close behind, jumping in if the two are hit.

The explosions make Jiyu stumble a bit, but he keeps running. "When I said that you needed target practice back when we were fighting those snakes, I wasn't kidding!!" To prevent from being in anymore tight spaces, Jiyu jumps on a wall that's two walls away from Eito and stares at him. Washington is right behind him, still holding the treasure. Just then, Washington raises his orange glowing sword and fires an orange beam at Eito, dealing severe fire damage.

Eito's eyes turn yellow as he ducks, the beam grazing his shoulder, destroying his jacket and taking a good amount of flesh with it. "Goddamnit!" Eito gives chase once again, his crimson eyes subsiding as he shoots every wall in front and next to Jiyu. Explosions destroy them. "Hmm..." This leaves his clip empty as he starts changing ammo.

Jiyu looks around at the destroyed walls around him, it looks like he can't jump anywhere. "Hmm, nice tactic, but it wasn't good enough." Jiyu jumps back down into the maze and runs through it while leaking a strange liquid from one of his soda cans.

Now very aggrevated by Jiyu's simple but effective tactic of running away, Eito throws a capsule to the ground and shoots it with Ice Dust bullets. The ice apparently counts as water as the capsule grows and grows, eventually becoming a 10 foot monstrosity with more of a maw and two small eyes than a head and with one giant arm on his left side with two smaller but still large arms on the right. "Go get 'em, Fluffy!" The monster roars and climbs onto a wall, nearly collapsing it, and jumps onto the duo while Eito shoots Ice Dust at them from afar.

"Heh, you probably don't know what liquid you threw your pet into..." Before Fluffy could get near the duo, Washington fires another beam at the trail of liquid, making flames rise up six feet past the wall. It also makes the ice bullets ineffective, making them act like regular bullets, this could also affect fluffy since he's probably in the trail of the liquid. Jiyu and Washington both roll out of the way of the monster with the treasure still in Washington's arms, but Fluffy hits Jiyu's left arm, making it hurt a lot. Also the bullets hit that same arm, so that's a thing. "Ugh, damn! By the way, that liquid was that gasoline that I got from the drink machine yesterday!" Jiyu and Washington both get up again and starts running towards the center, while Jiyu holds his left arm in pain.

Eito's eyes, now solidly crimson and glowing, runs after Jiyu with inhuman speed, with Fluffy close behind, seemingly unaffected by the raging flames on his body, only following Eito's order to give chase. "COME BACK HERE YOU COWARD!" Eito continues shooting at Jiyu and Washington as he rapidly approaches them.

Jiyu pulls out one of his soda cans from out of his black blazer, takes a sip of it, and runs faster towards the center, avoiding most of the bullets. Right after Jiyu takes the sip, Washington hands him the treasure and turns around to face Fluffy. He raises his sword and charges towards the beast, attempting to cut one of his legs off. With the treasure in his grasp, Jiyu eventually makes it to the center again and quickly looks around. "There's gotta be something that I can use to beat him!"

Fluffy grabs Washington's sword with his two smaller arms before roaring in his face and trying to bite him while simaltaneously hitting him with his large arm from below. Eito ignores them and goes after Jiyu. "This is gonna be good!" Eito raises a container over his head and pours a clear liquid on himself. He disappears from view, turning invisible as he quietly stalks behind Jiyu. Once again drawing his knives, he pounces on him from behind, aiming for the arm and hand holding the treasure.

Having experience with detecting shadows approaching him from behind in the "Other world," Jiyu jumps out of the way of the attack upon feeling the presence with the treasure still in his hand. He turns around to see, nothing? "Huh? What tried to attack me?" As an instinct, Jiyu flings the extremely green liquid coming from his soda can all around him with his injured arm. -- With a quick move of his blade, Washington breaks free of the beast's arms and rolls backwards, getting a fair amount of distance away from him. Washington would stay on guard, waiting for him to strike.

The liquid manages to get all over Eito's jacket, though that problem is quickly solved by him taking it off and throwing it to the ground and dashing away. He holds his breath and doesn't bother speaking as he dashes at Jiyu from a low angle, actively trying to avoid making noise. -- Roaring in rage, Fluffy grabs a piece of destroyed wall and throws it at Washington before charging him in an attempt to hit him while he's distracted with the debris.

"Ooh, what's that?" Jiyu runs over to Eito's green stained jacket and picks it up with the two other free fingers on his left hand, making Eito have to dash in a different direction. "It's only his jacket..." Jiyu shrugs and flings more of the green liquid around him. -- Washington fires an orange beam that cuts through the wall, and jumps to the side after hearing the beast charging at him. Washington suddenly gets an idea and starts running to the center of the maze.

Eito crouches under the liquid and throws one of his knives at Jiyu before rushing to stab him, vaguely aiming for his uninjured arm. "Come the fuck on..." -- The beast, now very angry, steps back and then leaps into the air, landing in front of Washington and hitting his chest while roaring. He then charges the Persona.

The thrown knife hits Jiyu in his injured arm. It hurts the arm, but he can't feel anything due to it being attack over and over again. "What the?" He ignores the pain in his left arm to hear the sound of Eito rushing towards him. His eyes widen as he throws Eito's jacket and the soda can to the side, puts the treasure in his left hand, reaches inside his right pocket to put on his silver brass knuckle, and gives the invisible Eito a nasty uppercut with his right fist. -- With the only option that might work, Washington climbs on top of the wall next to him and starts running towards the center of the maze.

With his eyes turning crimson once again, this time engulfed in a similar glow. "RAAAAGH!" The brass knuckles fail to stop the angry teenager as he thrusts his knife at Jiyu's arm holding the treasure while drawing his pistol at the same time and shooting at his chest. At this point, the potion has worn off. -- Fluffy immediately charges Washington again, busting through any wall in his way, reaching the Persona with surprising speed. He jumps into the air and comes down on Washington, trying to smash him to the ground.

Jiyu's left arm again feels no pain, but when he gets shot, he holds his chest with his right arm and stumbles back with the treasure still in his grasp. "Y-You piece of shit..." -- Seeing that he's close to the center, Washington uses all of his will power and strength to dive into the center, avoiding Fluffy's attack. -- Looking over to Washington with a smirk on his face, Jiyu then turns back to Eito. "W-While you were doing your invisible thing, Washington and I were m-making a plan..." Washington swoops over to Eito and picks him up, disarming his gun and covering his mouth. He then turns his whole body to face where Fluffy is.

Eito struggles, stabbing Washington's hand multiple times before letting the knife go and pushing against his restraints with more and more power. His eyes are completely engulfed in crimson as his strength increases. He finally manages to push Washington's hands far apart to speak. "Come on, you dumb thing, attack!" The monstrosity takes to it's new task with gusto, charging to attack Washington, only to turn around at the last second and try to grab or-Failing that- Crush Jiyu. While this happens, Eito pushes more and more, managing to free himself, only to fall to the ground.

Jiyu slowly swoops in at the last second to pick up Eito with his right hand and dragging him away from Washington and Fluffy. After they get far enough from them, he lets go of him and walks away from him. He then turns around to face him, with the treasure still in his grasp. "A-Alright Eito, I don't want you getting killed by one of those guys. That's why I dragged you away from them." Washington puts his sword down while closing his orange eye in concentration.

Eito sighs before hitting a wall in frustration. His eyes have returned to normal. "Goddamnit!" Sighing again, he sits down, leaning against a wall. "What's the point? Everything I do, you do better!" "This was a loss from the start..." The teenager shouts out to the middle of the maze. "Stand down!" Fluffy does so, stopping his rage and sitting on the ground.

Jiyu stands up straight a bit after hearing what Eito had just said. "Huh? What do you mean? I always thought we were equal in the amount of skill we both have." Washington still concentrates, getting ready for anything.

"Equal." Eito uses very visible quotation marks as he says the word. "If you haven't noticed, amigo, I have about..." "Zero control over myself most of the time, my aim is horrible, i'm physically weak and depend on one of my multiple out of control personalities to keep up and a generally large bundle of inexperience that altogether makes for a weak kid trying to stand among people who can actually fight." "Not much of an equal here, am I?" "I mean, I haven't touched that fucking thing even once." He motions to the treasure. "Suffice to say, this wasn't an equal fight." Eito's monster walks over to him and sits down.

"This fight may h-have not been equal, but you still gave me a hard time, m-man." Jiyu crosses his arms while looking at Eito seriously and still in pain. "I g-gotta admit, this fight was just as hard as my fight with Owain..."

Eito raises one of his eyebrows in response to Jiyu. "I very much doubt that fucking buffoon put up much of a fight." "The only comparison here is that we both managed to fuck up your stomach." "Just because I shot you, it doesn't mean I did much in general." "So thanks for that compliment." Eito rolls his eyes and gets up, pacing around.

"...So, n-now what?" Jiyu keeps crossing his arms.

"I suppose you win." Fluffy gets up as Eito whispers something. He lumbers over Jiyu. "But if you want to continue, i'd be glad to let you try!"

Jiyu gets a little suspicious upon seeing Eito whispering over to Fluffy. He smirks a bit. "So, are you g-gonna call off your pet or what? Y-You said that I win, r-right?"

"I think it's best to end this here. We're just about done at this point. The victory goes to Jiyu, but... It seems Yuri wants to meet with you sometime, Eito." Panthera Dox smirks as her eye flashes blue for a second. "Oh, shut up in there. I just decided to say that you were curious, that's all. Anyway, that's it for this match!"