This vision vanished entirely and another formed in its place. A dirty dingy arena took start to form with scores of people mobbed around its edges. In the center was were two evos circling each other. One was Damon's liger shark the other was a titan. This was the ligers fifth fight of the night. Its body was covered in blood. Some belong to it, the rest its opponents.
The titan towered over the liger having it beat in both strength and endurance but the liger had experience. It taunted the inexperienced evo by leaving its guard down and the titan took the bait. It swung, its fist barely missing and slamming into the wall as it rushed between the Titans legs and jumped on its back.
It clamped down on the titan's neck while its massive claws tore into the titan. The titan jumped into the air wanting to crush the liger with its weight but that's just what the liger was waiting for. It kicked off the Titans back and used the arena walls to propel itself above its opponent.
As the titan crashed onto the arena floor the liger landed on its chest. It's powerful jaws clamped down on the soft tissue of its throat and with one savage yank the fight was over. The titan quickly bled out as the liger jumped to the floor and chowed down on the chunk of the titan. It was going to be the only meal it had for the night.
This scene vanished and anther one took its place. It was locked in a cage set for delivery. The liger's mouth was covered in blood. One of its handlers had gotten too close to the cage thinking it couldn't grab him through the bars. He was wrong.
I watch from above as Damon suddenly materialized and walked a circle around the cage to inspect the liger. The liger gave a warning growl to not get too close. It'd seen lots of humans before but none like him.
"Nice. I'll give you five million for him." Damon said. Mr. Dresden materialized at the edge of the room with a lit cigar in his hands.
"Eight million." Mr. Dresden said. "This is a seven time winner of the Salfron circuit here. Good fighter that's made me a lot of money."
"Well obviously something had changed or why else would you be willing to sell such a valuable evo." Damon said. "Four million."
Mr. Dresden chuckled and walked over to the liger's cage. It let out a vicious roar warning Mr. Dresden not to get any closer.
"You fucking splicers, think that just because the rest of the world treats like you shit daisies that you're going to get the same treatment here." Mr. Dresden turned to look at Damon and smiled. "The price is now ten million."
"What?!" Damon exclaimed. "You think I'm actually going to pay that? Do you have any idea who I am?"
"Yes I do boy and frankly I don't give a fuck." Mr. Dresden said then took a calm drag of his cigar then blew the smoke in Damon's face. "If it was your daddy here making demands maybe I'd be more open to negotiating. But it's a shelter and pampered little shit that doesn't know his asshole from his elbows. A lot of money is going to have to exchange hands just to get this baby all the way to Egypt and the fancy little collage of yours not to mention forge a certificate of authenticity to show that you actually made it and didn't buy ot off the black market from a techno-splicing factory!"
Damon took several steps back and curled his upper lip.
"Fine!"
Like all the others this scene too faded away only this time nothing replaced it. I was back to floating in a sea of darkness only this time I didn't feel like I was alone. I turned and saw the liger shark swimming around me, only it was the size of a whale.
"Sorry to barge in like this." I said. The liger let out a ear shattering roar and I felt a flood of emotions flood my brain. I held my head as anger, hatred, pain, distrust, but most of all fear; the scope of which threatened to overcome my control.
"I GET IT!" I screamed struggling to keep my sanity against the monsoon of emotion. "YOU HATE HUMANS!"
The liger shark hissed and started thrashing in the darkness. My mind was flooded with images and pain, its entire life flashed before my eyes.
"I understand! I know what it means to be looked down on and treated like you're expendable all the while others benefit from the very thing they hate you for!" I shouted my own memories filling the liger's consciousness. "I'm not going to pretend that my life was anywhere near as bad as yours. You had to fight and kill your own family just to survive, al I had to was hide. Hide until I was finally strong enough to run away and find a place I could belong! Well I'm done running!"
I held my hand up to the liger and my crystal started to shine, forcing the darkness away reveling a deep an vibrant ocean. The liger shark was suddenly it's regular size and surprised by the sudden change in scenery.
"You can kill me when we leave this place but you'll just be captured and put back in a cage or you can work with me and I promise I will never put you in a cage again."
The liger swam around me, its doubts and distrust flooding my brain. It hissed and thrashed almost threatening to hit me.
"You don't have to trust me but you can trust that I need you just like you need me. I am not winning this fight by myself and you're not getting out off the arena by yourself."
The liger stilled then floated in front of me, I sensed it's uncertainty and opened my mind to it. Seeing I had nothing to hide it let out a loud roar.
The vast ocean vanished and in a flash I was back in the arena. The blinding light of my star crystal illuminated the whole coliseum as the liger shark became engulfed in my mana and encased in a crystalline structure. It flew around my body before flying onto the air and diving into my crystal. I felt a rush of energy as the liger merged with my crystal.
The glow of my crystal dimmed to where it just illuminated the area around me. I could feel the liger's emotion so strongly still, as if I was still merged with its subconscious. My arm started to tingle and that feeling spread across my while body.
That word echoed in my brain and newly familiar emotions flooded me. I quickly realized that was the liger's emotions, the feeling got even more intense when I looked at Damon.
"Lets kick some ass! Water…no…" I stopped myself then threw my left hand intoxicated the air. "LETS GO! BONELASHER!"