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Olso was huge by comparison to me, but then again I'm a small guy. Vlad was closer to my size, but not close enough to make the fight easy. I wasn't going to make the first move with the two of them standing so close together; it just wouldn't be smart.

I knew nothing about Oslo other than that he seemed to be the good soldier out of the group. He was around six-foot-five with muscles that a body-builder would envy. He wore the same baggy pants with all the chains and buckles as everyone else, but instead of a sleeveless shirt he was covered completely; except for his hands. There were buckles on his biceps and forearms, but I think they were more for decoration than having an actual purpose. His hair was very long and left loose; a mistake for someone entering into a fight like this.

Vlad on the other hand was less of a mystery to me. I knew that he didn't or couldn't speak; so taunting him into fighting angry would be easier since he could yell back at me. He was also the trouble-maker of the group. Every group has one; the one that causes some kind of in-fighting because they're bored and just want to see something happen.

He was shorter than Oslo by about five inches, making him near six foot even; still four inches taller than me. Again, he wore the baggy pants with the buckles and chains, but the looked red almost as if they were stained. He had a sleeveless shirt with a zipper from the left shoulder to the bottom right side. Above the zipper was some kind of plastic-armor type stuff and below it was just cloth. There was a leather sleeve on his left arm that went from wrist to mid-bicep, again made out of some plastic-armor stuff. On his right arm was some kind of tribal tattoo that wrapped his forearm from wrist to elbow. His hair was a short red mohawk that was spiked in different directions, not just up. I didn't notice it before but his eyes were red; not the iris, but the rest of it all around the iris and pupil.

As we sized each other up I heard a noise behind me. The next think I know Nikki is standing next to me. "I'm not letting you do this alone." She said as she touched my arm. Her hand melted through the armor that she had placed on me and I felt my connection to her grow. Without actually knowing it I knew that she had cast her learning spell and we exchanged all of our knowledge in that one touch; I knew all of her spells and she knew how to fight.

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