"Damn it!" I manage to quickly block Cayafaz head on assault but when I did I used the weapons in both my hands to block all the force Cayafaz used to ram me and worse than that, Ethan was laying on his back behind me with his guns pointed at my spine and my head.
Ethan breathing heavily "It's over Ed, there's nothing that can get you out of this"
Cayafaz follows him up saying "All according to plan"
"So, you guys planned this? No fair! How was I supposed to beat you guys without a team or plan of my own?!"
Cayafaz responds "You're a resourceful man Ed, in the event you would come up with something we had to plan cautiously because your unpredictable but it seems it was unnecessary since you ended up coming here without a plan and without friends. If I'm being honest the only one who knew about the plan was Ethan here. He was the only one who was willing to help me kill you"
This was a much tighter spot than I thought id be in originally. How would I take these two on? Especially with where Ethan was? Its like I'd have to face the facts… they both have me right where they want me
And so, there Edward was, stuck blocking Cayafaz spear while Ethan backed his attack up by taking Edward from behind. If he makes one wrong move. Ethan will either shoot him or Cayafaz will run his spear through his heart. Meanwhile while Edward was on the defense, Cheshire is still battling the man from earlier, the man who was addressed by the crowd… As Brute. He and Cheshire had been at it for a while with no signs of ending the battle anytime soon.
Cheshire used her agility and quick reflexes to dodge and hop over the brute, he uses his strength to throw around violent and powerful swings, the wind from those swings force Cheshire to keep her distance and fight with caution. The battle looks even but also a bit one sided. It really is anyone's game but she has just looked like she's been playing the entire time. He throws another violent swing with one hand and she flips over it, about to cut his face. He quickly reacts bringing his mace back toward him to try and hit her again. She blocks with the katana placing it behind her on her right side, the swing throws her aside and she lands on both her feet and her hand scrapping the floor. The brute comments her
"Your swings… their getting more precise, if I didn't know any better id say you were toying with me"
Cheshire stands straight, pointing her katana at him with a taunting attitude
"I'd say the same about you. You've been swinging that big log around with just one hand but it hasn't thrown your balance off. Which means your strong but you haven't used your full power. If you swung with both hands you would kill most of us with a devastating power"
"Ha-ha-ha. Maybe but that's something like a finishing move and I wouldn't use it unless you would show me your full power"
Cheshire smiles "So we've both been holding back. Well, if you want my full strength your going to have to show me some of yours"
The brute responds "If that's the case. Let's end this battle with our strongest attacks" He grabs his mace with both hands. I'll finish this battle with one clean swing"
Cheshire smirks "Then ill finish this battle with one clean cut, with this attack. Ill show you the halls of heaven and the depths of hell"
"I look forward to it" he stands ready
"Wait! Before we go all out, I have to know your name. we started this battle without me knowing your name but you know mine. Someone whose strong like you can't fight without giving his name. it's wrong"
"Oh, I'm sorry, It slipped my mind. My name is Jason"
"Jason huh…. That's a nice name"
"What about you? Is your name really Cheshire or is it a code name you go by?"
"You don't need to concern yourself with that Jason baby, just call me Cheshire"
Jason laughs "Alright then Cheshire, are you ready for the final attack of our battle?"
Cheshire is about to answer his question but she notices. Just through a small gap in the crowd surrounding her that Edward is being double teamed.
"That's… Edward. He's in trouble?" She says to herself. Jason starts to call out to her
"Cheshire! Cheshire! Cheshire!"
"Huh? What is it?"
"Are you okay? You sort of went blank on me"
Cheshire smiles "You know what… I've got to take care of something Jason. Would you mind if I just branched off for a few minutes?"
She runs off to help Edward "Hey, wait!"
She doesn't hear Jason's hails, she runs ahead with full speed. Noticing a guy with a couple of daggers and grenades. She takes her katana and cuts off the persons fingers taking his 4 of his daggers and grenades from his pocket. She leaps over the crowd and into the air. Then she throws down the knives at Ethan, two of the knives come really close to cutting his eye but instead they cut underneath it and just cut his cheek and nose. The other two knives knock his guns into the ground so he can't shoot Edward accidently. The pain in his cheeks prevent him from squeezing his trigger so he immediately let's go and tries to brush the pain off.
Cayafaz is thrown off by the surprise attack and lets his guard down. Edward immediately notices and takes advantage of that. He knocks Cayafaz spear into the ground with his blades and turns to Ethan. He kicks Ethan in the stomach so he can't shoot at him while he runs and dashes into the chaos of the crowd on the field.
"Damn it!" Cayafaz shouts in frustration as he rips his spear out the ground and chases after Edward
"Cayafaz! Wait" Ethan groans and calls out to Cayafaz. Rolling on the floor in pain
Cheshire smiles and walks back into the crowd to continue her fight with Jason
"Not even a thank you. What a guy" Cheshire says walking back to the fight slowly, before she can enter the center circle of the fight she crosses the guy who's fingers she cut off. He's bleeding out on the floor, rolling, kicking, screaming and cursing Cheshire
"You, crazy bitch! You cut off my fingers. What the hell is wrong with you?! Oh god it hurts. Couldn't you have just asked me for the knives"
He cries out in pain some more, Cheshire smiles at him as she hovers the end of her sword over his neck and says to him.
"If it hurts that much, how about I end the pain?" She asks with a smile on her face as she tilts her head to the side. She then cuts his neck open and he starts to choke on his own blood. While he does, he tries to say something but his statements are unclear. Then Cheshire says
"What's that? I can't understand you when your choking on your own blood" she reaches Jason at the center of the ring "Sorry for the delay Jason. Are you ready to continue the fight?"
"Of course!" Jason answers eager to get back to the fight.
The two of them with their weapons in hand take their stances. As they prepare themselves for the final clash what races across their minds in that moment is "This will be the final attack, this is the attack that will decide which one of us is stronger" The two of them grip their weapons tightly and then, with both hands on the hilts of their weapons… They clash! Before anyone can realize what's going on Cheshire is behind Jason and her sword is covered in blood without a single scratch. But Jason… Jason's left arm has been completely cut off, all the way from his shoulder. He falls to his knees while his hand, still holding his mace flies through the air
On his knees he says "I…lost. Heh-heh" He sighs while groaning in pain. His hand attached to his mace falls from the sky a few inches away from him. He looks to it and then faces the ground. With a smile on his face he says to her
"I concede. You… were the stronger fighter"
With an irritated look on her face she turns to face Jason
"Huh? Concede?" claiming to not understand Jason she approached him "What do you mean concede? This was clearly a fight to see who was stronger. That means the weaker one should die" She reaches him and puts her blade to his neck
"The weak should die, the weak don't get to decide their fate, their lives are in the hands of the strong and if the weak cannot fight they should be killed. You lost to me but not only that you are incapable of fighting and you tell me you concede? Have you forgotten the title of the match were in? This is the death games, and in here its either you win or you die. By the rules of the arena… I sentence you…To death!"
Cheshire pulls her hand back about to thrust her sword into Jason's neck when all of a sudden. Maya steps out of the crowd, rushes into the ring and slaps Cheshire across the face.
"What's wrong with you?!" Maya yelled at her "Can't you see he can't fight you anymore! He already surrendered so what's your problem"
Cheshire is unable to answer the question because her brain is trying to catch up and process what just happened to her. The shock on her face would tell you that she couldn't believe she was just slapped. Quickly, Jason tries to tell Maya to leave
"I appreciate you standing up for me miss, but there's no need to get yourself involved!"
Maya stubbornly refuses to move. Jason continues
"This is a fight between warriors, I lost fair and square so you don't need to defend me!"
Maya still refuses to move and Cheshire's started to turn her head
"Don't you understand!? If you stay here you will be killed! She is stronger than you!"
"And so, what if she is?"
"Huh?" Jason responds in confusion
"I still don't agree with her. The strong don't get to bully the weak just because their stronger instead they should set an example and lead everyone to achieve that same strength. I won't leave you because, no matter what, I won't ever… run away from a bully!"
As Jason looks at her he has only one thing on his mind. "This girl…Is absolutely crazy. But she's sincere and I can tell that she has a strong sense of justice… she's strong" Meanwhile Cheshire has recovered from the slap but has her head faced down. She raises her head up a bit, enough for her left eye to see through her hair a bit and get a good glimpse of Maya. After seeing her she faces the ground again. Swinging her arms from left to right slowly she asks her
"Hey… Girl…You got a death wish?"
"He surrendered and can't fight anymore. You shouldn't have to go on with the fight"
"I see. So, not only do you have a death wish your one of those sort of people, people who don't understand what it means to fight in this arena"
She grabs unto her katana with one hand. Maya stubbornly unmoved doesn't realize the danger she's in. Quickly Jason reaches for his mace
"Fine then! Ill show you what it means..." Cheshire pulls out her Katana and raises it over her head about to strike Maya "To participate in the death games!"
Jason with all the strength in his right hand picks up his mace and swings from the side to attack Cheshire.
"GET BACK!" He yells at Maya. And that's when she gets that this was serious. In the process of trying to step back she trips on herself and falls. Cheshire with her cat like reflexes immediately dodges the attack. Flipping over his mace and landing on it
"Please… I no longer have any interest in fighting with you, Ape"
She raises her heel and drops it on the mace causing him to lose his balance and fall forward. She jumps off the mace and lands on one knee with her sword pointed upward waiting for his neck to fall into it. Jason sees this and understands his death is inevitable so, he lets go of his mace and smiles. Then Cheshire's sword goes into his neck, sinking into it like a lion's teeth sinks into its prey. Cheshire then pulls out the sword ripping his throat out as blood gushes out. The giant Jason falls and his blood sprays into the air, falling down like rain all over Cheshire. She smiles, enjoying the moment and rubbing the blood on her face thoroughly like some sort of lotion. She lets out a fiendish cackle as she rubs it some more all over her body. Maya just sits there in shock and watches
As Cheshire celebrates she turns around and notices Maya. She rubs a bit of blood off her cheek and licks it then approaches Maya
"This… this is what it means to be in the arena. This blood-filled field. This is what it means to fight in the death games. Its nothing personal or anything but you sort of got in my way" Lets out a heavy sigh "So… I'm going to sort of have to kill you now, but I mean it's totally fair, you did intervene in my fight and brought this on yourself"
Maya can't say a word
"I see. You're in shock, it means you've never danced under a blood rain" she picks up a small piece of sharp pointy metal that broke off from the mace
"This should wake you up. I can't enjoy the look of despair on your face if it's in shock after all" She stabs Maya in her right thigh
Maya is instantly pulled from shock and her screams of pain draw the attention of everyone fighting around her. That means even her cell mates. Ethan whose lost in the chaos looking for Cayafaz, Cayafz and Edward who are fighting each other in the crowd on top a hill of bodies, Isabel and Mr. Will who have been separated since the games started have all heard Maya's screams and know she's in danger. Cheshire is laughing and enjoying the sound of her screams
"Honestly you have the cutest scream I've ever heard. I'd love to torture you even more, hear you scream for me even more, that strong Jason guy got me wet and you ruined that but though you did your screams are turning me on again. I wanna thank you for that but" she sighs
"Sadly, we don't have the time so… I have to kill you now"
Maya panicking tries to crawl back but her hands and legs are shaking to much. She's not able to move back fast enough
"Why can't I move back?" She asks as streams of tears role down her eyes "Why can't I get up and run?! Move damn it! Move!" She struggles but she is unable to run. Meanwhile Ethan and Isabel have began their search for her in the blood-soaked field and maze of bodies. It's become difficult to see anything and they end up running into each other. Cayafaz has abandoned Edward and ran off to look for her but he too has no luck. Edward climbed the hills of bodies to see from the top where Maya was. Everyone is doing everything in their power to find Maya
"No one... is coming to save you" She says with a smile from ear to ear on her face slowly approaching Maya
"No…Please" Maya begs. But Cheshire's heart is simply to wicked for the pleas of others to reach "Good bye" Cheshire says as she reaches her. She uses one hand to swing her sword and is about to cut off Maya's head but just then… from the pile of bodies Edward spots Maya
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" Edward screams out as he sees Mr. Will jumps in front of Maya and has his chest cut open.
"Are you okay?" Mr. Will struggled to ask with tears flowing from his eyes and blood coming out his mouth. "I was so worried that you might have been killed when I heard your screams so I rushed all the way here. But I'm so glad to find that your safe, your all like my children in that cell… so I want to protect you… all of you. Please don't fight with them… look after each other for me like brothers and sisters" With a smile on his face he says his last words "I…Love…You!"
Cheshire in disgust Sticks her hand in his Chest, going through his lungs, severing a few arteries. She grabs his heart, pulls herself closer to his ears and whispers "Just a few parting words for you before you go. Don't try to protect others when you're too weak to protect yourself you disgusting pig of an old man"
She kisses his cheek and rips out his heart. Mr. Will coughs up some blood and dies instantly. Cheshire to insult him takes a bite out of his heart and spits it out. Edward seeing all of this from the mountain of bodies is filled with rage. The clown also watching from his V.I.P Suite gets off his chair in joy, laughing, grinning at the edge of his seat. Squeezing the hand of his chair so hard It breaks. He inhales and then he exhales
"Yeeeeesssss. YESSSSSS! Now… it begins. The true death game, the reason why I really did all of this… it begins now. Show me your true self. Hold nothing back. Let your rage blind you, fuel you and destroy you. EDWARD!"
In that moment his secretary has a flash back to the beginning of the games where she asked the clown why he went through all the trouble of preparing the death games. And he says "I will use these games as a means to unlock the darkness buried deep within Edward. I will have him show me his true self, a self that can only be unlocked by extreme methods.