Syrena found herself at the docks of Water Seven, she waved at the passerbys who warmly smiled at her but she felt odd, something didn't seem right. It was as if she could sense someone of importance nearby, however she had discarded this gut feeling. As she walked men gave her stares, much older men. 


"Stop staring. Pathetic..." Syrena whispered.

She had nothing to stare at, she had small breasts, what the hell did they want? Syrena had hurried along towards a bar sipping on some sweet honey wine. It's sweet nectar danced along the small red-head's taste buds, lighting a flare of flavor in her mouth. She smiled and giggled excitedly like a child who just got presents from a friend or a bag of candy. Everyone at the bar stools stared at her, she just glared back at them.


"The hell are they staring at?" Syrena pouted, refusing to look up at them. 

Syrena had finished her morning treat, discarding the attention she got from the people in the bar who kept staring at her all for just enjoying her drink.


"She looks a bit young..." A woman whispered to her friend.

Syrena ignored them and walked out of the bar. She would then make her way down to a part of Water Seven full of trees full of lush green, a few others already there had the same idea as her. Syrena joined a couple of males and females punching the tree, however her style differed as she would hit the tree with her palm. Her stance was fierce, one leg out further than the other, her thumb bent inwards almost like a cat but her other four fingers stiff and pointed upwards.

"Ha! Kyah!!" She screamed as she trained on a tree.

Reina's thoughts were like a tempest in her head, raging and assaulting her psyche as she tried to find peace. The past few weeks for her have been rather with the amount of actual bad people coming out of the woodwork. She held her temples and pushed down upon both sides of her head with her thumbs as she walked down the streets of water 7 to clear her mind. Every time she tried to recover, flashbacks of different events kept creeping into the forefront of her mind. The pain of the little boy she failed to rescue, the realization people she had met as passerby'ers would end up in her mess and she had no power to help them. Lana herself trying to get her attention tried to bouncing around her to get the same sort of response she expected out of the red head,but each attempt was somewhat foiled. " Hey want to go get some Seaking bar b q?", she asked while scratching her chin. 
 
Reina tried not glaring at her,but her response was all the same. Blank and rather listless, as if the soul was sucked out of her. Lana in response started to push her friend and guide her down a different path away from the world government headquarters. At first she tried to stuttered step and dig her feet in to stop herself from being guided,but lana would kick her feet and make reina trip up ever so slightly. Not wanting to face her blonde friend's wrath, she allowed herself to be pushed along until they reached a little park perched upon a hill overlooking the ocean. It was built into the hill itself and looking down might seem like one was looking off a cliff. " You stay here and just relax. I'll bring us some grub, something good kay? Don't you dare wander off from here? ya hear"? 
 
Reina nodded and saluted Lana who went off down the hill toward a food court, leaving her to do her own thing. She found a clearing that was rather quiet, with the exception of the martial artists all silently striking the nearby trees for practice. Each strike was uniform, like the steady beating of a drum. Here she found peace, allowing herself to be immersed in their pace and the sun which shown brightly through the clouds, to bake her ever so slowly. The world had finally become calm as the breeze caressed her cheeks. 
 

That all was abruptly interrupted as a newcomer came on the scene. She made an exaggerated pose and awoke Reina would was lying near by with her adorable battle cries. Normally she would have punched that person's lights out,but she was different.  Reina made her way to the red head and examined her thoroughly, checking her out from each angle as the girl practiced. Nodding her head a few times and giving a random, mhmm. " Scuse me cute stuff, how do ye not slip and fall in that stance? Or are all martial artists just weird like that"? 

As some dumb red-bimbo had approached her, she instantly grew defensive.

"Cuse me? Do you have a death wish?" She gritted her teeth.

Syrena refused to be called weird, or be an outcast like her childhood. She looked at the woman and pondered at her knowledge, did she not know it's just mere training at her balance.

"It's called balancing..." She sighed, "Have you not heard of such a thing?" 

Syrena rolled her eyes, now interrupted by this woman she ran up the tree and sat on the highest branch, luckily it had thick branches, so logically it wouldn't snap if she just sat. She looked below at the woman, with a cold glare. Who did this bimbo think she was walking up interrupting her training just to make fun of her stance and all.

"Y'know, you'd make for a great scientific project." Syrena added, smirking slightly.

She could hook her up on some electrical wires and shock her till she apologized for being so rude. The blissful thoughts began to fill her head.

Reina stepped back at the remark, tearing up a little because she's not the most emotionally stable person at the moment. She wiped her eyes with her sleeves and said, " I didn-- I mean nothin wron--g". She stammered a bit as the girl turned heel and asked if she knew what balancing was in a cheeky tone. Reina flailed her arms a bit as the girl rolled her eyes and quickly surmounted the tree with ease. She scratched her chin a for a few seconds and nodded her head as the girl used her nimbleness to find herself a seat at the top of its canopy. 


When the girl said she'd make a great science project, reina grinned back at her. She cupped her hands around her lips and took a deep breath before calling out to her, " And you make for a great exhibitionist monkey girl"! Not to be outdone reina sprinted toward the tree and planted her foot on the base of the trunk, instantly flipping in mid air onto another branch.  Using her quick senses and reflexes she leapt from one branch to another  until she was sitting right under her. " So about those wierdo stances. Can you esplain why you do em? I wanna learn some and stuff please? Pretty please with sprinkles on top", she said, clasping her hands together and bowing her head.

Syrena looked at the woman tear up, she slapped her own face in disbelief, was she really going to cry? Pathetic. This woman was clearly not worthy of her attention.


"So... cr-" Interrupted as she was surprised by the bimbo's ability to get up the tree like so.

Then the woman questioned her, calling her a monkey exhibitionist. Syrena, took a deep breathe sitting for a while before replying. Again and again she would take deep breathes telling herself it was okay, she however looked below her.


"Humph." She pouted jumping up, propelling herself off the trunk and down at the woman's branch.

She had used her leg to break the branch kicking it, snapping it in half.


"Because, I do those stances because it's natural and it feels better than the regular stances." She answered looking back at the mess she would have made.

The branch was no easy step for her after she had snapped it, she flipped and twirled sideways, in the air like an acrobatic, landing roughly on the ground, crouched on her feet her right fist positioned on the ground as if she was punching it. Looking back at the red-bimbo, she smirked. Syrena began to walk off, her hips would sway, she obviously had some oomph and sass to her walk. Syrena had no time for this woman to be a fool. She headed back towards the lively part of Water Seven, she sat upon a water fountain's stone circular bench.

"I'm no monkey..." She mumbled to herself upset, but she refused to show it.

Syrena already had a great hate for the woman she met a few minutes ago.

Reina found once again she was a sitting duck with the use of her kenbushoku haki, seeing as the girl came out of nowhere to strike her down out of nowhere. Such a tiny girl with little meat on her bones sure surprised reina as she absent mindedly stared at the girl who was hell bent on sending her back to earth without her realizing it. The red head tried to react,but it was too little too late though. She ended up crashing on each branch all the way down, bouncing like some rag doll too winded to grab ahold of a branch or see where she was going to hit next. The two fell to the earth relatively at the same time. Reina a mess covered in leaves and bruises and the little girl who landed on her feet without a hitch.

She felt a bit dizzy,but everything seemed to be in working order. Her busho haki formed a barrier around her torso and her arms protected her head from injury. Which just left lying there dazed and winded, as the girl walked off. Just then Lana came back with her bag of food, eyes widened as she called out to her friend. " Hey reina! What's up with you girl why you on the ground covered in bruises"? Reina laughed and scratched her head like she always had done. " Well...umm uhh yea funny story. I uhh well fell". She realized that called the girl an exhibitionist monkey might make even lana hate her. So she kept quiet as the girl cleaned her bruises with a few napkins and get her a sandwich. Twas salmon with some secret black sauce which was said to have explosive taste, due to the natural sea salt at Water 7.


" ahh so good", the two girls said.

Syrena had began her walk towards the town some men had grabbed the red-head taking her to an alley way. Syrena screamed into the hands of her captives. How could she let her senses down to the point where she got kidnapped, she was an idiot for becoming so numb to her surroundings. As she had been kidnapped by the men she had a flashback of the world she was forced into by that wretched devil-fruit user.

-Flashback-

Syrena shook her by her shoulders. "Emikooo! Hey, you okaaay?" 

Emiko shook her head trying to focus back on their conversation. "Huh, yea, sorry..." 

Syrena grabbed her arm and ran off down the left hall way. "Come on, I'll show you around down this way!" She smiled and laughed as Emiko told her to slow down, but Syrena kept going. 

She didn't care if Emiko fell, she'd hold her off the ground, until they got there. 

Syrena stopped in a small room. It contained a few benches and two other hallways. "If you go right, you'll enter the simulator and if you go straight it's the spectating room, to watch the fighters either duke it out against each other or fight a huge monster together!" 

Emiko had to admit this all sounded glorious and fun, and she really kind of wanted to try it out but it'd probably be in her best interest to start with spectating. Syrena and Emiko went straight ahead and took their spots on the benches to watch it all go down in the simulator.

Syrena looked away. The man who conquered the right hall twice was actually an friend of hers. He never shows up at their here much anymore though, he's focused on conquering the charts of strongest fighters. He's been known for taking down Fallen Archdevils' members, which makes him a target. In truth, Syrena hasn't told Emiko why she comes here all day. Yeah, for training, but she had other reasons too.  

Syrena looked over towards Emiko. She looked like she had her eyes glued to the screen. Syrena, however, was busy in her thoughts. Should she stay by Emiko? Maybe she could go in the simulator too, she needed to train anyways.

"Alright folks, we're back for another session! Today is a special day! We're having a Battle Royale Invade! The... big... Big... BIG B.R.I with yours truly Side, and my partner Swept! Together, we're Side Swept! Swept, care to explain what B.R.I is to any newcomers?"  

Swept jumped in on informing the audience. "Right, right! What Side is talking about is the B.R.I Battle Royale Invade! This means, of course, a Battle Royale! Meaning that at any given moment anybody from anywhere can show up as long as they take that turn down the hallway! It also means even the spectators can join in-" 

Side laughs and butts in. "You forgot to mention that this gives them a big advantage because they can view the fights and locations where our current participants are at, and their states!" 

Swept sighed, slightly annoyed. "I was getting to that but anyways, anybody who doesn't want to compete should probably leave now! But remember, you can't get stronger by backing out!" 

The audience yelled with excitement, ready to get this started.

-End of Flashback-

Syrena took what she had learned from the other dimension in all those fights. She bent her legs backwards to kick both of her kidnappers in their crotch. Just as predicted it was men who quickly fell to their knees begging for mercy.

"Damn you all to hell..." She mumbled, her eye twitching. 

Syrena would fiercely strike their chests with her palms sending them flying into a building's brick wall. When done with the men she walked off back in town to a Cafe to get a ice cold drink of water.