[center][color=orangered][h2]Midnight Tournament, Start![/h2][/color][/center]
The streets of Rhea were always busy throughout the day, but like any other city, as the night drew in, the din of traffic quieted further and further. Eventually, when the streetlights turned off in the dark before the dawn, it would herald the true silence before another day in Rhea, but for some of the students of Rhea, dawn may well be a lifetime away.

In the centre of a certain park in Rhea, the sound of cheering could be heard. There were many arenas in Rhea, but this one was special in a way. It was only a collection of legal 'battle-zones', but it was the unofficial arena for the Midnight Tournament.

The Midnight Tournament was also an unofficial tournament, relatedly, and sort of a secret. Instead of ranking, winners received cold hard cash, which kind of wasn't legal because a while ago a bunch of them turned out to be massive money laundering rings, but recently they were coming back into fashion, so it seemed like that law might be changed pretty soon.

The Midnight Tournament still wasn't legal, but it was mostly just young punks looking for a little fun. The money came from those who were participating, and it was all gathered on the night. The organizers never really showed up, which made it sort of mysterious. The dates tournaments happened seemed to be random, and the venue was never usually official, or booked in an official capacity. It sort of just spread through word of mouth, or online, and people came.

The cheers escalated and a student was thrown out of the ring by a blast of lightning. Danny "Thundercloud" Olson, having earned his nickname for the black floating thundercloud which followed him around, as a part of his blessing.

"C'mon, who's next?!" He shouted.