As Frank approached the center of the arena, he looked around at the audience. He noticed that there were different clans in the crowd, incuding some that he was not told about by the receptionist earlier that day. Frank could hear that the people in the crowd were placing bets on either him or Kate.

"Katt!!!" Someone in the crowd yelled.

"Boy, is that guy wrong." Frank mumbled to himself. "Her name is Kate."

Frank kept on toward the center of the arena, but paid no attention whatsoever to the announcer. Instead, he reminded himself of what he was supposed to be doing. He finally made it to the center of the arena, and say Kate for the first time.

"Hmm... blue eyes, dirty blonde hair... she has light, golden colored fur from the waist down... I think those are light brown tiger stripes as well. And that tail... I guess the receptionist was right about the Woren Clan. Ya know, she's kinda cute, in a wild, sort of way." he thought. Frank then continued to examine her.

"Easy there, Maynard." he said to himself. "You're here to protect her, to keep that needle from hitting her. You're not here to get a date." Frank chuckled underneath his breath, and out of Kate's range of hearing.

Both fighters met in the middle of the arena. Frank noticed that Kate had been watching him as well, up to the point that they met each other in the center of the Arena.

Kate and Frank bowed to each other. It was then that Frank had noticed that Kate had on a pair of open toed boots, revealing deadly claws on her feet. Frank's eyes widened for a second, then returned to normal size. That was the least of his worries.

The starting signal had sounded, and both Kate and Frank got into fighting stances. Frank raised his fists and circled Kate, while Kate resorted to just circling Frank. Both of them were sizing each other up.

Kate was the first one to attack. She lunged at Frank, but he easily side stepped her attack. Frank noticed that she had lost her footing, and took advantage of that. He charged in and landed a light punch to her stomach.

Frank followed up with another punch, but missed when Kate jumped off to one side. Kate then kicked out with her left foot, and managed to hit Frank on the right side of his mid-section.

Frank backed off a little bit, and caught his breath so that he could regain his senses. He decided that now was the time to warn her about the needle that was meant for her. He approached her, and stopped right in front of her just as she regained her balance.

She glanced up at Frank a couple of seconds after he began to speak.

"Someone is gonna drug you with a poisoned needle." Frank said with a grave and serious tone.

Kate only blinked before responding. "What?"

Frank tried once again, but this time tried in a lower voice so that no one else in the arena could hear what he was talking about.

Kate shuddered. "What are you doing ?" she aked in a confused tone. "You're... you're just trying to ruin my concentration." Kate then backed away from Frank.

Frank sighed. If he couldn't convince her this way, then he would have to convince her in another fashion. While she was lost in thought, Frank decided to launch another attack. He hit her in the stomach a little bit harder than he did the last time. Kate stumbled back, and Frank was about to follow up, when she did something totally unexpected: she charged him.

Frank's eyes went wide in surprise. It got even worse when she tackled him.

"GAH!" he muttered when she connected with him sending him to the ground. AS soon as she conected, she backed off, in order to put distance between herself and Frank.

Frank had a look of shock on his face as he struggled to get up. He could hear someone yelling "Get him while he's down!". What brought him to his senses once again was that he heard a loud "click" from somewhere in the audience.

"Oh crap!!!" Frank thought. He then charged at Kate with every ounce of energy that he had left in his body.

"Look out!" Frank yelled as he dove at Kate. Kate didn't hear him, and was taken by surprise when Frank had tackled her. Right when Frank had knocked her out of the way, he felt the needle fly right between his legs, and plant itself into the dirt where Kate was once standing.

The crowd instantly grew quiet. Frank picked himself off of the ground. and looked over his shoulder at the needle.

"That was close... too damn close..." Frank thought to himself.