Always an outsider in her life, this time Trish is serious. The Olympics is an opportunity that might not come again, and she has no intention of returning from Paris without a medal.

What exciting days: Pinocchio has finally become a child! No more adventures, misadventures and naughtiness, now it is time to be a model, studious and disciplined child. Today school starts again and Pinocchio has left early, and now on the street, a certain anguish rises in his throat at every step: but wasn't it better to be a troublemaker puppet?

The woods of Finland look very different from this Paris stadium, but the challenge is the same. There is only one throw left to make sense of all the months, years of efforts to grab victory. To live from now on in perpetual glory.

Is it true that Spanish women are the most beautiful in the world? Impossible to say with certainty, but looking at Conchita you would have no doubts. Too bad she doesn't mind being courted and - after all - Marbella is full of beautiful girls...

‘She looks like a statue": this is what you thought when you passed Ludmila at the beach bar where you came to spend your holidays, in Portugal. You can tell by her pale skin that she is not from around here, so she certainly stands out: imposing, bewitching, a woman who certainly doesn't take orders. But if you want to find out more, all you have to do is come forward....

4D printers in 2086 allow you to create practically anything, like your granparents did with the first AI image generators back in time. One day you made Vitrea, she came out faulty, but you couldn't get rid of her. When you speak to her, you can see yourself and stay true to your emotions. But you want romance, while she's empty inside, as you can easily see.

We don't have an ATM around here, or a supermarket. But we do have Freddie, our handyman bartender, who can place a bet on an unknown horse or sell you a set of new tyres for your car at half price. As he hums jazz standards and serves alcohol at supersonic speeds, he straightens his ears and doesn't miss a single opportunity to pick up a few bucks. But don't touch his Nellie....

Gosh,is already 10 o'clock! It's Friday and you have about 2 hours to rush to City Hall, where Guendaline, is waiting for you. She's the clerk who must approve your plan to open a nightclub across the street from an old people's home. So hurry because Guendaline doesn't like to wait, doesn't like people and for sure doesn't like you!

Lonely Puma is a mystery to his own comrades, not even the Fire Master has ever fully understood him. Coming from a dark past, he has never shared anything other than the ferocious determination to become invincible. His technique is also obscure, he only seems to copy his opponent's. However, no one remembers ever seeing him lose a duel.

Dark Puma never believed in anything or anyone. He followed the lessons of the Fire Master, but never the Master himself. His comrades were strangers to him, and now only enemies. His contempt for others is his greatest weapon, his dedication to excel knows no weakness. The only thing that can defeat him is an excessive thirst for revenge. In a word: himself.

They always accused him of being the Master's favourite, but he did never understand why that was a fault. He felt his teachings deeper than others, especially his admonition to use patience and silence to bend the instinct to fight. However, fighting became necessary. If he lost, a part of Fire Master's teachings would be lost. Therefore, he won't lose.

There is no talking in battle, so Modest Puma has always been more concerned with striking than arguing. He never boasted about his victories, rather he tried to learn from his defeats. Today is the day of consecration, and whoever wants to take the Fire Master's place knows that he will have to pass through his flames. And perhaps that will not be enough.

Sacred Pumas were turned in machine warriors, yet they were once humans. Some more, some less. If Wild Puma was ever a human, you couldn't tell. He's now pure violence, will to fight, desire to prevail. He has no brothers anymore: soon they will lie on the ground, or he will.

He raised them all as children, trying to teach them both the art of power and the strength of concord. But he always knew within himself that the time for challenge would come. Today the Master abandons his role. Soon, the world will have a new Fire Master. As he stands on the sidelines, watching them face each other, for the first time he feels vulnerable. Sadly, to crown one disciple, he will have to mourn five of them.