"Alright, students I bet you've been wondering why there's been a sudden influx of students at our school! Well, I'm happy to announce the beginning of the Death Marathon Festival!" Principal Brown announces to the clamorous crowd of students. He points to a black screen, his finger discharges purple electricity and it zips into the screen and it flickers on. It displays these 6 rules:
1. In order to win all members must cross the finish line.
2. Cursed Items are prohibited unless it is explicitly YOUR cursed technique.
3. Domain Expansions are prohibited.
4. Confirmed Knock-outs will result in elimination
5. If you regain consciousness you will be re-entered(ONLY IF A TEAM MEMBER REMAINS)
6. NO KILLING (in red bolded letters).
"The game begins tomorrow!" Principal Brown announces as the group clears out and erupts into laughter and joy. I notice Matteo in the crowd and he runs up to me and hugs my leg.
"Hey, Elliot how've you been holding up?" Renata asks as she takes a look at my injuries. She smiles and gets up.
"I'm doing way better now thanks to you guys!" I thank her and their faces all turn red.
"You know you guys will be a prime target in this thing right?" She tells us to try to change the subject. Naofumi smiles nervously.
"Why is that?" He asks her while laughing. Diego puts his hand on Naofumi's arm and starts to laugh.
"Are you being serious? You guys have a special grade sorcerer on your side who doesn't know his power works to its fullest extent." Diego says while laughing even Renata couldn't resist a hysterical laugh.
"Not to mention you guys have been taking out some pretty big names," Matteo says seriously.
"You guys will have to make a straight shot for the finish line, if one of you gets separated, follow at all costs!" Renata tells us in a severe voice and with a stern look on her face.
"Are you guys not participating?" Bobu says with his face full of food.
"Yes of course! Just because we're competing against each other doesn't mean we can't give you guys some pointers!" Diego says in a relaxed voice. We all look at them with confused faces but we slowly change from that to appreciation.
"We appreciate your concern, you guys!" We say simultaneously.
After that, we rush to our dorm and on our way, we hear loud music playing in the residential area. We see a party happening all through the corridor with many strobing lights, confetti, and dancing teenagers.
"YO, Y'ALL ARE JUST IN TIME FOR THE TAILGATE PARTY FOR THE GAME TOMORROW!" A student says pulling us into a door filled with pink and blue light flooding our eyesight. Once we pass through the threshold we see a plethora of sorcerers dancing and drinking.
"I never knew this place acted like an actual college!" Bobu says while he and Naofumi rush over to the food and start scarfing it down and drinking the beverages displayed. I rush over with them and the clamorous crowd commences the moshing to various songs that we'd all heard from Tik Tok. Before we knew it, twelve o'clock encroached upon us.
"CURSED TECHNIQUE: DEADLY DANCE!" a black figure shouts from the ceiling. Unexpectedly the mosh pit erupted into a huge brawl including me. My cursed energy had a mind of its own, I imbued my foot with cursed energy unwillingly and I kick Bobu in the face sending him outside of the room. Then I imbue my fist with cursed energy and I punch a random sorcerer into the table with hors d'oeuvres and punch on it. I continue my onslaught with my uncontrollable cursed energy assaults, then the Banshee's portal emerges from below me. Its white hair flows erratically as it emerges from the portal and once it has completely emerged it bares its fangs and begins to scream and a thunderous blast of sound waves shoots from its mouth. The black figure holds its ears and quickly I regain control of my body once more. I take advantage of it and I imbue my palm with cursed energy and I deliver a Nimble Burst to his stomach. The figure is revealed and it was a frail boy who didn't have a lot of cursed energy. He falls to the ground and the crowd suddenly stops and scatters out of the room. Bobu gets up and looks at me with an angry expression.
"I know you didn't mean to... But don't let it happen again!" He says dashing away. While relieved about Bobu, my mind races. Had the games begun tomorrow, why is everyone fighting now?! It doesn't make any sense.
"SHIT!" I say abruptly. it WAS tomorrow, they lured us here in hopes of culling out weakling early; as soon as it hit midnight. It was a smart effort but I think they might've selected the wrong fighters, seeing as only 5 sorcerers have been disqualified including himself. A floating skull with a worm's body appears in a cloud of smoke.
"PLAYERS: 32, 21, 78, 44, AND 30; HAVE HEREBY BEEN ELIMINATED!" the skull announces. I dash out of the room to catch up with Bobu and Naofumi. We slam our door instantaneously and we change into our sorcerer clothes. Once we're fully clothed our door goes flying, we all dodge and it flies through the window, and once the smoke clears. We see a tan-skinned boy with dark brown hair, a red robe, a golden ear and nose piercing, a purple headpiece, red eyeliner, and piercing lustful golden eyes. His cursed energy was; off something about it was abnormal as if it were a cloud drifting through the sky.
"Who the hell are you?!" Naofumi asks while grasping his hand preparing to use his cursed technique. The boy steps back with his hands up.
"Oh, wrong room! I was looking for that asshole who used that Cursed Technique on me during that party!" He says laughing.
"He's already eliminated," I tell him with a worried voice. He looks at me with disappointment.
"Damn man... I really wanted to destroy him!" He says putting his arms around behind his head. He looks at me.
"You took him out huh?" He says with an annoyed voice. I nod and he imbues his fist with cursed energy.
"Well, I'll just take it out on you!" He says as he flies toward me and he punches me out through the broken window and dashes out of the room and follows up with a kick that sends me into the courtyard and he lands.
"Heh! You're tough! This should be fun!" He says cracking his knuckles. He zips away, but not toward me he flies into a nearby building.
"Macaque! I told you I had dibs on the special grade!" A boy who looked absurdly similar to me. His fists were imbued with cursed energy. He had dreads, his sorcerer's outfit was black and had a hoodie attached, and he was wearing white earbuds.
"Do I know you?" I ask slightly dazed.
"Nah but you will! You're going to be my new catalyst! My other ones didn't hold out, but I have a good feeling about YOU!" He says with a huge smile on his face and his dreads bouncing up and down on his face as he bounce steps. I imbue my palm with cursed energy and I look at him with a look of determination.
"YES! YES! LET'S TEAR UP THE SCHOOL WITH OUR BATTLE!" He says as he turns up his music and his hop gets more jittery and energized.
"BEGIN!" He says as he flies at me with his fist glowing with cursed energy and I zip toward him with my palm engulfed with cursed energy cutting the air as it flies at him. I catch his fist in my palm and the cursed energy collides and expels us away from each other. As chaos explodes around us a tense atmosphere builds up between us.