"Now, is everyone ready for the ultimate and consistent, with a little bit of dangerous, fight in gladiator history?" the announcer yelled through a crystal disguise as a microphone while she flew above the audience. She is known as a harpy, a half-bird, wearing her iron bikini armor.
"YYEEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!" The crowd goes wild with a roar.
"Well, I'm glad you feel that way. Let's get to the contestants," the harpy announcer said.
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[The Roubound: Lilika (human), Tomoil (half leopard), Adesion (human)]
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[Green Leaf: Meldinia (elf), Hearrose (elf), Zen (elf)]
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[Night Moon: Komeri (human), Liana (human), Drana (human)]
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[Drat Fang: Neila (fox kin), Julies (half cat), Tasia (wolf kin)]
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[Crimson Sun: Diyega (vampire), Misa (vampire), Lon (vampire)]
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[Black Feather: Hopos (bull), Kin (bull), Qen (bull)]
"The rest will fight in two weeks' time. There are two sections: the ones I announced are Group A, so they will fight today, and the ones in Group B will fight in, I say it again... in two weeks," she said,as she gave wink to the audience.
"Neila, that name, it can't be?" Komeri thought.
"Komeri, is that really him?" Neila thought.
"Well, there is always one way to find out," they both thought.
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"We are doing this at random. The prizes will be announced after the battle for the third, second, and first place teams," he said as she stood on her perch above the stadium.
With a quick glance, the harpy spoke, "Now, first round: it will be Liana from the Night Moon (human female) versus Julies from Drat Fang (half-cat male). The rules are simple: if the opponents give up or are left unconscious, you win. Weapons are allowed, and if near death, you will be immediately teleported out, which means disqualification."
The audience was excited and ready for the countdown. Liana and Julies were teleported to their sides, facing each other.
"READY....GO!" the announcer harpy yelled.
Without hesitation, they began to cast their spells. Julies, as a shadow mage, summons some pointy black spikes and launches them at her. However, in an attempt to counter them, Liana (a flame mage) launches her own attack: multiple fireballs. Momentarily, they collide, creating a shockwave and a huge amount of dust.
The crowd cheered loudly with a roar, and Komeri calculates while Drana observes with faith in her eyes.
Julies appeared above her and then summoned some shadow tentacles, which he sent to stab her, but she dodged each one with agility,doing backflips.She then lost her balance. Julies saw this as an opening and summoned her own shadow from the bottom, which punched her in the face, flinging her forward and she falls to the ground head first.
"What was that just now?"she thought
She regained her balance and stood up, wiping the dirt off her face. "Come on, this is not fair," she thought with a grin on her face. She seemed rather excited for what was about to happen next.
"Do you want to give up yet?" Julies asked.
"I would like that, but I'm too stubborn, so no," Liana replied.
Julies gave a small smile at her determination and summoned more dark figure shadows of her own self. "Go," he said, lifting his arm in her direction, and a total of ten shadows sprinted towards her.
One drew closer. Liana managed to counter its punch with a flame attack, but that was only a distraction. In seconds, another shadow drew closer and punched her in the abdomen, and with a chain reaction, another one kicked her in the face, making her fly backward and then fall hard to the ground.
To make sure, one landed its feet on her chest, causing the ground to break beneath her and creating a small crater. It leaps back.
"Is it over? I thought you would be harder to fight... oh well," Julies thought.
From the loud crowd, it then turned to silence, their eyes facing Liana as she got back up with bruises on her body.
"Like I said, this is not fair... but I'm going to show you why I'm called the Inburn Mage," Liana said.
"Huh?,inburn mage?....."Julies thought.
Julies gave a wide grin and ordered the shadows to attack him all at once.they surrounded her,enclosing her in and moments from even touching her, she smirked. "Crimson Vendict!" With that, she was engulfed in a tornado made of flames, making the shadows back up,cautiously.
The crowd, or audience, looked in awe and cheered so loudly it could be heard outside.
"Impressive," Komeri thought, with a surprised gaze.
After that, Liana absorbed the flames into her body. The area was still again... now she had a cross on her forehead and her eyes were redder than red.
"You used the magic merge skill, huh?" Julies said.
"Kamiru, Opus, is it like the reform ability?" Komeri said, speaking telepathically.
"Yes, sort of, but... this one uses magic instead of soul affinity," Opus replied.
"Julies makes his shadows merge into one big and muscular dark figure. 'I guess I needed to go all out in the first place.' Then, with a swipe of his wrist, the shadow launches forward at full power, fists ready. Moments later, they collide fists together, creating a loud and very strong shockwave that also destroys the ground beneath their feet. Some were surprised by how Liana could hold her own against such a giant beast.
'AAAAHHHH!!!!' Julies and Liana screamed as they pushed against one another, the shockwaves growing exponentially,in the process.
Liana punches again hard, making it lose balance, so she holds her hands close to one another to create a flame orb, letting all her energy flow into it. The shadow attempts to block the incoming attack, but it is too late.
She launches the flame as a blast, screaming at the top of her lungs. To intensify it, the flames evaporate, and the blast is launched out of the arena as she continues. There was a bright flash,then it that vanished, and the audience could not believe their eyes.
Her last breath, Liana deforms and looks at Julies, who bows his head in defeat. "I give up," he said. Then the crowd goes wild with the dazzling performance they have just witnessed.
After a while, Julies goes out of the arena towards his team. "You did great, Julies," Neila says.
"Thanks, boss," Julies replies.
On the other hand, behind the arena, Liana is being hugged by Drana. Komeri watches in awkwardness but tries to hold back a laugh.
"Was that the best and most exciting fight or what, folks? But it's not over! Next, we'll see their leaders go head to head in the next round, so they should get ready," said the harpy announcer.
"Neila (fox kin female) of Drat Fang versus Komeri of Night Moon (human male)."