"Everyone, are you enjoying our first game, free for all? Fifty gladiators are left." The viewers cheered and yelled yes, answering the announcer's question.
In the center of the arena, Junon Acadia and Tim Skyfather were fighting a cowboy and cowgirl siblings, which they were losing because the brother shot Tim and Junon, injuring them, in the time stop.
Tim fell to the ground and was about to get disqualified from the game before he stood up in the last second, making the crowd cheer for him.
'Crap, I need to be careful of bouncing around with my leg injury and remember these guys are not amateurs, so I should not be reckless about using my ability.'
A bullet missed Skyfather and impacted different gladiators' limbs near Tim and the cowgirl, disqualifying them from the tournament after they couldn't stand for three seconds. Robots came to bring the injured participants into the infirmary for recovery.
"How lucky, if I pointed my gun a little bit toward you, it would not miss."
"But, I still call it a win for making other participants disqualified. Brother, let's win against them!"
"I was planning to do so!"
***
"Good, good, weak fighters are leaving the arena. This place never was for the weak, only for the strong!" An 80-year-old man with four arms said that.
"Old man, you know you are the weakest around here, and that's why nobody wants to fight you; they feel sorry for you. But I give you this: You became a ranker for your age."
A young man with a large body carrying a heavy pillar swung into the man after he stopped speaking. However, the man with many arms touched it with his finger without any effort, breaking the heavy object into pieces.
Before the young man says, wtf happened? Four arms come out and grab all his limbs.
"What Hero of the Hour stopped one of the strongest A Rankers in this game without effort. Who is this old man?" The audience cheered when they saw Hero of the Hour do something for the first time.
"Sigh, why is everyone here so weak!" Besides the piller man, he grabbed three more gladiators when they tried to attack him.
"Let us go, you old fart!"
"Weaklings like you are not worthy of killing you!" After saying that, he smashed all four gladiators into the hard ground, breaking all their bones of the body.
"Weaklings like you thinking I'm weak is very humorous!"
"I came here thinking about finding strong opponents, but I only found weaklings and cowards. How disappointing!"
"Flame Monarch!"
Very hot flames flew straight toward Hero of the Hour, but the man blocked them with his hands.
"Sorry, sir, I'm here to prove you how wrong you are!" A 20-year-old man with burned marks on his face challenged Hero of the Hour while burning other opponents.
"You be like others pushovers in challenging me, all losers!"
"I hope Lambert wins this match because Hero of the Hour annoys me."
***
After James Ross defeated the man with a flaming spear, he fought constantly with multiple enemies. "You-!" Ross punched the players' guts when they were trying to speak.
Then the next person launched at him and got defeated, and another one was about to fire a bullet at Ross, but suddenly a man, out of nowhere, got killed without touching the man who was about to fire a gun toward James.
When the gladiator dropped to the ground with a giant rock stuck into the participant's head, it revealed a man with a very bad posture. He was on all fours like a dog, grinding his teeth. Everyone was shocked to see a gladiator get killed by another opponent.
"As years of being an announcer of Rankers Tournament. I have never seen the never-kill rule get broken! What would they do to Rockfingers after he gets disqualified?! Would they throw him into prison?!"
A couple of police robots came from above the dome opening, and the barfly gravity of the moon stared, so some players took to their advantage.
"You are under arrest for murdering a participant in the game!"
Rock fingers grind his teeth and, without hesitation, destroy police robots by piercing rocks into their hardware. After doing that, he disappears, appears in front of Ross, and is an inch close to killing Ross if James doesn't block it.
'He fast. Thank Creation that I trained. If not, these attacks be the death of me!' James Ross thought.
Rock fingers went back, summoning rocks from the ground, and at the speed of sound, they flew toward Ross, but James sensed it, so he broke it into pieces with his left arm. Rockfinger was suddenly in front of his face when he destroyed the rock.
'Huh? When did he?'
The man jumped, grabbed Ross's head, and smashed his head to the ground. James stopped his head from hitting the ground by holding onto the floor. Instantly, he brought his transformed foot over, crashing Rockfinger's head while belching with one hand, making the gladiator fall to the ground.
Before James could catch a break, the woman with white hair, Delia, touched the ground, the electric conduct from the bottom going towards Ross.
Ross jumped when the electricity reached closer to him, and she said, "I confidently can say I found one of your weaknesses, James Ross. And that's my electricity."
"Great, you found my weakness, but what are you doing to do when I dodge every attack you throw at me until your Flow goes to zero!"
She smiled and said, "Let's see who's Flow lasts longer!" After saying that, she becomes an electric current.
Ross felt the aura of Rockfinger behind him and thought, 'Does he not care about tournament rules, does he?'
Rock fingers stand up from the floor where he got knocked thrown three seconds, and before reaching Ross, he kills the gladiators who got his way and destroys the robots who wanted to put him in jail for breaking the tournament rules.
Everyone who tried to stop Rockfinger had a rock stuck into their hearts without him even touching anyone. Then he ran on all fours like a wild animal towards Ross.
"Move aside, Rock fingers. I am the one who will defeat James Ross in this tournament, not you!" Delia said after turning into an electrical current and charging James.
"Funny thing to say when I am here!" Justice was in the air with his leg in a fire, targeting Ross.
Rockfinger behind him, Delia in front of him, and Justice above him, all three charging at him.
***
Meanwhile, the king of the Color Kingdom, Romeo the Second, and the Primary Colors watched the tournament in a VIP room.
The Ghost of the King, Jett Amdede, has some troubling news on his mind. "What? What are you guys doing? Stop them! Hello, are you responding?!"
'Shit, are they in trouble? If so, I have to tell them.'
"Hmmm? What's going on, Jett?" The king asked.
"Your majesty, you have nothing to worry about."
He goes to his sisters, putting his hand on them, and says, "You two should go back to Majestic."
"Jett, why?" Amber asked.
"The White Clan is attacking, and we don't have Leo Vortex to fight them,
so you two are the best options."
"Why are you ordering us around when you are just as powerful?" Amber said, and Jett replied.
"I need to be here to protect the king."
"Jeez, my vacation is over!"
Amber flew up with her wings after saying that, and Hazel used her wings after she nodded. They had helmets on that, assembling oxygen from oxygen flues inside to keep them alive while traveling in space. Their helmets were what Primary Color they were.
King Romeo the Second saw his beloved women were going, so he asked, "Jett, why are your sisters leaving?"
"Your majesty, something came up that you have nothing to worry about. Just sit and watch lives."
"If they have personal lives, then I would not want to pray on their lives."
***
Back to the games, Junon and Tim are fighting the cowboy twins, and they are struggling too much because the twins are skilled with their guns.
'The brother somehow managed to find out my time stops musts. I must be careful and find a way to defeat them before they defeat us!'
Junon Acadia was bleeding from her shoulders, and Tim was also wounded.
"How disappointing! We thought you two were strong enough to fight, but now you are guying." The brother said and continued, "Siste. We get ready. We are doing 'you know what!"
She looked at her brother and said, "Brother, right now? We should 'you know what' reach we reached finals."
The brother replied to his sister, "They are boring to fight, but if we do 'that' here and win this tournament, our Father will be proud of us for once and never compare us with our older brother!"
"Father would be proud of us, then let's do it, brother!"
"Time—?! Where did you come from?" A man suddenly grabbed Junon's leg, not letting her go.
"Young master, young mistress, make your father proud!"
'Shit, he's with them! Where is Tim?'
"Why are you protecting them?" Tim asked when he saw a woman blocking his way, not letting him go close to the twins.
"You would not understand our young master and young mistress situation! Let them prove themselves to their Father!"
The twins raised their guns and fired two bullets into the air after raising their weapons. When the bullets reached the highest point they could go, tree branches snapped out of the pellets, going towards the gladiators in the ground.
The tree branches caught most opponents in the range and made people disqualified by holding them to the ground for about three seconds, and when the time was up, they got released and left. Most were disqualified like that and tried to fight back, but police robots kicked the ones who got disqualified, and they were salty about losing against the twins.
The tree branches also caught Junon and Tim and were about to get disqualified.
To be continued.