Chapter 48- Reintroductions, Part 1
Looking at the massive numbers of spectators, Mikhail could see that he would have to be convincing enough so that they would know that they came to something worth watching, so he decided to make the speech as loud and dramatic as possible, hopefully Foxy wouldn't mind it terribly. Taking a deep breath to brace himself, he could feel all of the watchers' eyes on him as he spoke.
"Welcome, fighters, and citizens, and all visitors, to the arena! As your host, I'd like to both greet you all back, and welcome any newcomers warmly here, to see yet another event that we all know as, The Worldwide Metal Fighting Championship!"
Chuckling at the increased uproar of the now fired up crowd, he noticed that some of the humans were leaning in on the edge of their seats, their eyes both curious and wondering as they saw the wolf standing on the podium, probably wondering how he could control the rest of the crowd, making him scowl once more.
Once they see who's really in charge, they won't doubt him, but then again humans always seem to underestimate things to their own advantages. Tipichnyy, typical.
"And now, without any further ado, I will now ask the new teams and competitors in the western tunnel to enter the arena!"
Sweeping his hand, he nodded silently to the first team that showed in the tunnel, before they nodded back, and they all started to move out of the dimly lit chasm, to the bright outside, causing many spectators to either boo or cheer as they any teams that they recognized or betted on, and they got even louder as more and more teams started to filled in the western half of the ring, slowly pouring out like a mass of metal, fur, and electricity as they kept coming. He was also able to catch the nine animatronics he captured and bartered with Foxy, making him raise an eyebrow as he saw them clutching their weapons and shaking with worry as they hurriedly darted their eyes around, yet he was also amused when the three bears, the rabbit, and pretty much the others were astonished and amazed at where they were at.
Tak, So, that's where they went to, I guess I should have seen it coming. Well, looks like every team is in the arena, time to call out the Angel's Devils to introduce themselves and the event.
Clearing his throat for the second time, his Russian-laced voice boomed out over everyone else's chatter, silencing them as he started his speech once more, only this time with more vigor and feeling as he expressed himself freely, now noticing that the humans were staring more and more intently at him, but disregarded it as he drew out his hatchet from his belt, using it like a beacon as he held it straight up.
"Teams, competitors, all in the arena center, you are here to fight, to win, to conquer, and to survive! Those who win will have their team decides whether their enemy will either die, or be spared to live another day in the ring, but nevertheless this is a fight to the death nonetheless. There is no such thing as a fair fight, in fact when I fought here, we didn't have the grace of the ring leader to assist us, such as now, when he provided you with at least the gear that is suitable for the purposes that you are about to use them for."
Suppressing a laugh at the incredulous remarks and cries of the crowd, he continued.
"That is right, I'm not the ring leader, yet you all thought I was, but that's not the case. The ring leader is awaiting for all of you in the eastern tunnel, waiting for his time to be called out, so you can understand that he is in charge of this place, and that he respects all, so he had me speak for him, which I say, is very humbling, as he himself is taking a risk showing himself. Did you know that many tried to take his place through defeating him? They all failed, which is just one example of how strong he is."
He could start to hear uneasy whispers go through the crowd, yet now he saw the humans diverting their attention to where Foxy is, but he knew that they couldn't see him, which caused the humans to sit back into their seat with impatient looks on their faces.
"But, don't let that make you afraid of him, he had others help him along the way, and I am honored to say that I was one of those people. However, I will now introduce the closest friends to him, who helped him to overthrow the unfair rule of the previous ring leader, Springtrap. In fact, this team is the only all-female team that is still around, with one of them, in fact, being the co-leader and partner with the ring leader himself, whose name I will reveal shortly, as he wants it to be a surprise."
While Mikhail was talking, Freddy, along with his other friends in the large crowd of other animatronics, all gripped their weapons, ready to fight, seeing that other teams were already wary of others, but when the wolf got to Springtrap, it got his attention, causing him to lean over to Goldie, who was nearby him, and whispered to him
"The guy on the podium, Mikhail, he was the one who had abducted us."
"No sh-t, who else would have a fur pattern like his? Especially his gear, he looks like a walking nightmare!"
"Well, that same guy mentioned Springtrap, wasn't he the one that ran away from the old restaurant that you worked at?"
"Which?"
"Err … the one before the old one, what was it, Fredbear's Family Diner?"
"Eh, I forgot the name a bit, but that sounds close. Hmm … Springtrap … oh yeah, him, hah!"
"What's so funny?"
Shaking his head while smiling, Goldie had to put his mouth closer to Freddy's ear to make sure that no one else heard him as he whispered back, but the brown bear also detected hints of smugness behind the voice.
"Well, you mostly know me as the pacifist, but at that time, in the family diner, me and Springtrap used to work together, but heck, I didn't like him, old and rusted he was, so I usually took over his spotlight and made him stay in the dark. I always wanted him to be trashed, scrapped, or thrown away so that I could be the one with the most attention and fame, but the manager always held a soft spot for that golden rabbit, so I had to live with that b-llsh-t for a couple of years. But one night, there was a chance so big that could finally get him out of the building, I just couldn't let it pass it by. Here's how it started …"
One day, when I was doing my guard duty round as usual, I remember that it was raining in the nighttime, probably midnight and the only things that I could see were illuminated by the street lamps that I viewed from inside the building, quiet as always. The manager had already left the place to sleep at his own house with his wife, they were a nice couple, but the same couldn't be said about me and Springtrap though. I hated having to spent all of my nights with him; all he did was just sit while staring at the monitor, as if he was pretending to be a damn night guard or something.
As I was walking through the main room, I suddenly heard screaming that made me dash to one of the bathrooms, I think it was the ladies room, to find four dead children scattered on the floor, their blood staining the tiles a crimson red, and all of their mouths were partly open, as if they had died screaming in fear. I could also remember seeing tear streaks running from their still, cloudy eyes, sometimes mingling with the blood that spouted from their chests, cruelly torn, or flowing back from their limp necks to their hair, giving it a little gruesome shine. I remember seeing the murderer in the circle of the dead, holding a fifth child by the bloodied neck, staining the purple suit that he wore, the once shining badge of safety now a sickly mockery that smiled behind a veil of blood. I stood there, horrified at what this, this MONSTER had done. To kill five young, helpless children in cold blood, who he had probably kept captive until he could do his act after hours, it just made me angry, and so angry, that I attacked him for it.
He never had a chance to live or survive as he screamed.
How easily his arms were able to be pulled apart, forcing him to let go of the already dead child in his grasp, making the corpse fall onto another body, before I punched him in the head with my fist, crushing bone and cartilage as I decimated his skull and his nose. I guessed that a few bone shards must have been blasted into his brain, as he then collapsed, his head now a sunken, misshapen orb that just twitched back and forth wildly, until it finally stopped, and the murderer's body was on the floor, sprawled out alongside the dead children that he killed, and he was also killed as the price. Justice.
When I had finished mourning and picking up the dead bodies of the children, I looked around to see if there was any place that I could hide them, knowing that it would be devastating if the diner was a murder scene, so I stuffed them into you original five, who were just spare suits with active endoskeletons in them in the supply room; Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, when he was temporarily out of order like you all, myself, and you, Freddy-
"Yeah, yeah, I know that old story, I was still ticked off that I had to clean myself out though, but you had a good reason to do that, but what about the murderer's body? That one was a lot bigger than the rest, so, where did you put it?"
Scoffing, Goldie heard a little bit about how Mikhail was talking about the renovations that the ring received, before he went back to whisper to Freddy, his voice hinting at something as he prodded the brown bear in the stomach gently.
"Come on, think, who do you think that I would put it in?"
After Freddy took a moment to think, he started to smile, slowly shaking his head as he said,
"Oh, you sneaky, sneaky bastard, now I get it. The murderer was put into Springtrap, wasn't he?"
"That's right; let me tell you what happened after they found him with a dead man in him."
"Go ahead, you got my full attention."
After the owner found Springtrap, the stench of rotting flesh was so terrible that he couldn't ignore it, and when he found the body inside the rabbit's case, he was horrified, and thought that he killed him, much to his own protesting. Springtrap had pleaded with him, trying to convince him that it wasn't him that had done it, but the man was adamant, much to my glee, as I watched this from the sidelines, and after that incident, it changed the rabbit's life forever, favoring in my way.
Springtrap was able to stay, unfortunately, but he was cast off into a small storage room way in the back, where the owner wouldn't ever care for him anymore, and he just rusted there, occasionally catching a bit of sunlight or two, but otherwise he was completely in the darkness, the funniest part was that he was terrified of the dark and the unknown, and I would have loved to know what had gone in his mind in that state of panic. No one really ever saw him again. I, on the other hand, was given full responsibility of the building, and I was always given attention by the customers and the children, and I loved it, every second of it, rightfully gaining my rewards for defeating Springtrap. As they say, to the victors go the spoils.
There was one day, however, that made me wonder where he had gone to, though I forgot him in a short time: he was never that important to me.
One day when I was walking about the building, I passed by the doorway to Springtrap's confinement, and just for fun, I decided to knock on it to see if he was still alive, if not barely functional. Tapping on the wooden yet steel-reinforced door, I called out to him to see if he responded, but all I heard was silence, so I tapped again, but I still got the same answer. Hesitating, I tried a third time, this time slightly opening the door when I slid back the steel bar, and I poked my head in, looking through the darkness to try and find the golden rabbit.
When I did see him however, he was charging straight at me, but that wasn't the part that made me remember it now, no, it was far much worse. His face had corroded and rusted, patched and holed, damaged and bent, twisted and turned, into something that hardly resembled him, only the suit and the ears letting me identify him as Springtrap, but he was far from looking like the one that I used to know. His face, God, his face, it scared me half dead. His left ear had fallen off, leaving only half of it on, the stump with wires sticking out of it, holes decorated his body like Swiss cheese over his rusted, pale yellow hued color, but the worst of all was his face. His face had his mouth totally corroded and weathered; leaving only his teeth, making him wearing a permanent smile, but it wasn't a happy-go-lucky smile. No, it was a crazy smile, an animalistic grin that told that whoever saw it was in trouble or would be very intimidated, and intimidated I was, as I immediately ran out of the room, trying to avoid him, but not before he escaped the room that he was stuck in for years.
When I came around, the owner was standing over me, asking me where was Springtrap, but I didn't know where he went, he simply disappeared, and eventually the man forgot about him, just as I did, but now as I am telling you this story, I could still remember one additional thing about him. The stench, what a putrid stench he carried.
For it was the stench of the murdered murderer that I had stuffed inside the golden rabbit suit.
"Damn, that is one hell of a story, Goldie, so at least you now know that Springtrap is dead, right?"
"I suppose so, but whoever that could have taken him on and win is definitely strong, Springtrap was pretty buff, probably enough to rival me, so whoever beat him … well … I don't want to know."
The yellow bear, of course, was lying, as he still fearfully remembered of how much stronger the rabbit was, until he convinced the owner to put him out of service, leaving Goldie free rein for whatever he wanted to do.
Hearing Mikhail raising his volume to that of a roar, The Fazbear Gang paid attention to the black and red wolf on the podium as he started his introduction of the Angel's Devils, seeing as everyone was incredibly apprehensive and impatient, wanting to see the fabled and legendary team that resided in the ring. However, Mikhail himself was still aware of the humans paying more and more attention to the eastern side of the ring as he started to call them out.
Patting Scarlet's back, Foxy nodded to the Angel's Devils team in front of him from his seat on a nearby bench, knowing that it can either end badly, or well, hopefully the latter, and sheathed his blade to rest as he started to hear Mikhail calling the girls forward. Knowing that the vulpine was worried out of his mind for them, Lana planted a kiss on his forehead.
"Don't worry Foxy. Me, Scarlet, and Diamond will all be fine out there."
"Just make sure that ye don't get injured in any way, ok?"
Sighing, Diamond made sure that he was listening by kneeling in front of him so that they were face to face, yet she smiled as she playfully squeeze his left cheek, making him slightly unsure of what was happening, but then she let go.
"Foxy, the girls and I will be fine, don't worry yourself, especially with Scarlet as leader, we'll be safe, I guarantee that. Scarlet, can you vouch me for that?"
Placing both of her blades on the nearby wall of the tunnel, Scarlet gave the fox a quick hug, surprising him and the other girls, especially when she spoke to the cheetah without looking away from Foxy.
"I can agree with that, Diamond. As for you, Foxy, you better watch yourself, alright? There's going to be a lot of dirty work when it comes to fighting in the ring."
Chuckling, the vulpine nodded, but then pulled her quickly back in when she let go, causing her to yip in surprise as their snouts touched when he said,
"Alright, I'll be careful of meself, but when ye come back, we 'ave our own dirty work te do, alright me lassie?"
Giggling, Scarlet tweaked his nose, but then they heard Mikhail getting close to calling them out, his voice getting louder and louder as he progressed.
"And here, in this ring, on this day, I show you …"
Quickly, the trio of females prepared their weapons, and Scarlet grabbed her blades on the wall, but then decided to hold both of them as she walked out, taking a moment to look back at Foxy, winking at him.
"Flirting, that certainly isn't your style of talking. But alright, I'll see you then."
With that, the three girls waited for Mikhail's signal, which they didn't have to wait long for.
"I now show you the renowned, the deadly, the stunning, the extraordinary … ANGEL'S, DEVILS!"
The female team walked out of the entrance of the tunnel into the ring, and into the crowd, as the event started taking place.
Slack-jawed, Freddy and his male companions watched as a thin, toned leg appeared out of the shadowed area of the dimly lit tunnel on the opposite side of the ring, as did the rest of the teams that looked with bated breath, sweat starting to form on their foreheads as they saw the first member of the fighting team come into daylight. Spectators leaned forward on their seats, eager to catch first sight, many of them taking out their phones, cameras, or other recording devices, even the humans showing innocent interest as the men in white robes put down their notebooks and sketchbooks, yet they still kept the camera pointed at the eastern tunnel, rolling.
The leg started to grow to the outside, spots decorating it with dark patches as they started to sprout on the yellow hide that seemed to be pulled out from the blackness, to where it widened to show a hip, then the stomach, displaying a diamond-shaped patch of cream-colored fur. Then it revealed the chest, and one quick look could tell that it whoever it was is definitely female, while it started to show another leg walking out gracefully, and from the chest came the shoulders, which widened, stretched, and thinned out as arms appeared, yet they appeared to almost touch the floor, where her hands would be about an inch from the ground. When some looked closely at the odd duo-colored arms, they realized that they were seeing dark grey metal spears, which were attached to leather sleeves, tightly bound with cord.
Finally, the spotted yet pretty head appeared, and it squinted in the bright sunlight, but then smiled when her eyes got adjusted to it, before she walked out of the tunnel, everyone eyed her as she walked out with her tail trailing behind her, stopping about three yards from the other teams, and crossed her arms, careful not to pierce herself, before she simply winked at the newcomers in general, and waited for her other two friends to come out.
Cocking her head to one side, Diamond could see that many of them were staring at her, which didn't surprise her, yet she was still hesitant about what to do with her tail, which was lying on the ground, before she decided to move it, and her fifth limb slithered gracefully and wrapped itself around her waist. She also raised an eyebrow in mock shock when she knew that she was seeing many obvious looks from the males, knowing from past experiences and fights with the opposite gender of what they were thinking, but she let it slide, before she turned her head around to see the hints of one of her friends, she couldn't tell who it was though, so she just waited there like that until Mikhail called out Foxy, after the Angel's Devils.
The Fazbear Gang could hear lots of fevered whispering in front, behind, and all around them, all of them whispering one word, "Diamond".
Raising an eyebrow, Chic remembered of how the bartender told them of the Angel's Devils and who they were.
Now, the Angel's Devils used to be of five, but now there are three, and they were:
Lana, the black and white vixen, she's usually shy, but once in the serious mood, she can strike death with her dirks.
Diamond, the head-strong cheetah, she's usually a bit cheerful and 'persuasive', but her pikes do most of the negotiations.
And finally Scarlet, the leader of the former group, who is the scarlet to crimson colored vixen, and DO NOT mess with her blades, because like her, they mean business.
Gulping, she could easily identify the cheetah standing in front of them as Diamond, so that got one members of the team clear, but that still left the other two unclear, which made her nervous, and she nudged Goldie, who turned his head questionably at her.
"Yes, Chic?"
"That cheetah right there is Diamond, one of the Angel's Devils."
Curiously, the golden bear had enough nerve to inspect the feline's form right in front of the chicken, immediately making her pissed, before he merely grinned at Chic.
"Do not worry, she cannot see us, not to mention that I think she is quite the looker."
"But you're with Mangle!"
"I only spoke what I saw, that was it, it's not like I'm going to break it off, but then again she hasn't been much of a love to me."
"Eh, maybe, but let's just hope we can survive this."
"Relax, us, against four? Pffffftttt, easy as pie."
"We'll see." Chic muttered under her breath as Goldie turned back to Freddy and the others, and she wasn't the least bit surprised when they all started to stare at the cheetah standing a couple feet away from them. She could already guess why they were staring at this so called "Diamond", even an idiot with no CPU could see that the feline possessed a body that many women didn't have, and that some would kill for. She could probably count herself as one of those jealous females.
However, she didn't want to be bored for the next few minutes, so she decided to talk with one of the newt's team members, which was one of the bulls, which she still couldn't tell who were different, but then again, they weren't different at all, they were exactly the same, so she just let that drop and struck a conversation with one of them.
"So, Diamond sounds a bit like an odd name, you know why they name her that?"
A few silent seconds passed by, causing the plastic chicken to feel a little uneasy, before the bull's head started to move, staring straight at her, causing both to have a small staring contest, and eventually the chicken won when the bull rotated his head so that his large, razor sharp horns were pointing towards the feline, speaking in a gruff, constantly halting voice.
"One, reason, cheetah named Diamond, have her name that way, may be, gap in the feline's armor. Take a look, ducky."
"I'm not a duck, I'm a chicken!"
"Duck, chicken, all same, bird."
Scowling, Chic took a harder look at the cat's chest plate, only to find that the bull was right when she saw the diamond-shaped cut out in the cheetah's armor, which exposed a bit of her flat stomach and her bellybutton, for some odd reason, but she then speculated on other possible reasons that the cheetah's name came to be Diamond
However, she was brought out of her stupor when she noticed the cheetah turning her head around to look at the tunnel that she came from, making her look as well, and also causing her to nearly drop her beak off of her mouth, as well as the crowd's jaws when they saw the second member of the Angel's Devils come out.
Eyes wide, the rest of the arena, minus the smug Diamond, who knew who was next, watched as a midnight black leg covered with armor came out of the tunnel, before it lengthened, widened, thinned, and formed the slim body of chain mail, which covered the stomach area, before a solid plate of metal ended the links and divided the boundaries of a grey sea and a golden land that rested on the female's form. Like the cheetah, her upper arms were uncovered to show her exposed neck, yet she had two thin straps of cloth trail down her arms to her lower arms, which were fully covered with black cloth, and her hands were shown, carrying two daggers, gleaming with a silent challenge, before two more sprouted against her chest, fixated by a belt that ran diagonally to her left shoulder, down to her right leg.
Before her face showed, a small delicate snout poke it's way out first, before it was joined by a midnight face, along with the ears as they slightly twitched, yet the expression on the female can be seen as hesitant and slightly shying away, yet she appeared to force herself to walk out into the now whistling crowd, dragging along her tail, which was also jet black, yet on the tip of it, a snow white piece of the fur was seen gracefully swished from left to right.
Oh dear, I hope I don't attract too much attention to myself, I'm just not fond of situations like this, people staring at me, not to mention a LOT, well, oh well, hopefully I can make it to Diamond without running away in stage fright.
Slightly squirming as she futilely tried to cover her face, Lana could feel herself become more embarrassed as she noticed many people, especially the males staring at her, but she was relieved when she noticed some still staring at her spotted friend, encouraging her to further walk. Feeling the chain mail tightly hugging her body, as well as feeling it twisting and shifting as she moved, she knew that it would only cause others to look at her more, making her even more embarrassed, until she finally made it to Diamond, who was smirking, knowing what was eating up the vixen.
"So, still not used to the spotlight and the crowd?"
Shuffling her feet, Lana turned her head to the right to face the cheetah, aware that the new teams and newcomers were staring at both of the females, starting to feel uncomfortable with all of the staring.
"You know that we're not supposed to talk until Mikhail calls out the ring leader."
As a precaution, they referred Foxy as 'the ring leader' to avoid discovery of his hidden identity for the event, but all of the surrounding people were either too far or too loud to even catch a word of what they were saying, only seeing their mouths move. Huffing, Diamond rolled her eyes before saying,
"Yes, yes, I know, but I just felt like it, can't really harm anyone, but you haven't answered my question yet."
Sighing, Lana absentmindedly flipped both of her dirks in her hands, catching them with the handles pointing towards the ground, before she sheepishly answered.
"Y-Yeah, it's not like I could get used to it, all of them staring at us like that, especially now."
However, the black and white vixen was brave enough to look into the crowd of the contestants that would face off, seeing a wide variety of species that the animatronics were modeled after. A couple of mammals there, a few reptiles scattered around the masses, a handful of amphibians occasionally scattered in the group, as well as some birds, and she could even see that there were groups of animals that were never seen in the ring before, such as goats, bugs such as wasps, bees, ants, even seeing a group of five consisting of bats, obviously chatting with one another in high-pitched squeaks.
Unfortunately, she also had to deal with some more staring at herself and Diamond, scowling when she saw one of the males, a raccoon, wiggling both of thumb and pinkie with his other fingers flat down, shaking her hand near his ear, obvious that he wanted to make contact and talk with her by using the 'call me' signal.
Idiot, me, nor my friends, even use phones, unless he meant actually talking, which I probably won't, as I can see his friends also giving me such … looks. Ugh, wish they would stop staring at me.
However, she then heard a collective gasp coming from the crowd around her and Diamond, and saw that stares of the contestants, especially, once again, the males, visibly change their gazes from the black and white vixen and the cheetah to the spot between both of them, their eyes widening as their mouths followed suit. Feeling a grin tugging at the corners of her mouth, Lana stifled a giggle as she knew who they were staring at, as it couldn't be more obvious, judging from their stares. Both the vixen and the cheetah that were currently at their positions couldn't help resisting to turn their heads back to look at their friend smugly, knowing that Foxy would be a bit distracted by her movement, which was proven right when they saw the vulpine looking, before he turned his head away to make sure that he was ready, both of their minds reflecting different, yet equally important observations and inferences of their team leader.
Hah, she sure knows how to make an entrance, and talk about first impressions; she's definitely looking every inch the fine fighting leader!
Great job on your appearance, Scarlet, but I just hope that we'll be able to handle the large number of new fanatics afterwards, hopefully.
The crimson vixen was astounding as she walked from the entrance of the eastern tunnel, not minding the gazes of the crowd around her one bit, however she did feel like the odd one out as she placed one foot directly in front of the other while she carried her blades loosely from her arms, her weapons parallel to the sandy ground. Sunlight gleamed off of her chest, reflected by the armored corset that showed her smooth, well-conditioned stomach, further exaggerating her bodily attributes as her heavy cape flew to the left side of her, as if there was an imaginary wind that she controlled to make herself look as beautiful as possible. Her legs seemed to be almost flawless when her calves were shadowed by the covers on the front, which also shined a bit in the bright sunlight, and her arms looked like something a ball guest would wear, as it gave her both an aura of elegance and deadliness whenever the sun would shine on her double war blades, their keen edges gleaming brightly like an eagle's eye ready to strike.
As Scarlet joined her two friends, she smiled and nodded at both of them, who nodded back as well, knowing that today was that time of the year again when animatronics were pitted against each other, for the better or for the worse, that was for themselves to decide, and that was what they did. She was curious about the new competition to see if any would prove a challenge, and cast an eye over the contestants, many times coming into contact with those others who were staring at her as well, before she broke it indifferently and scouted the crowd to see if any looked intimidating. As she was looking, she identified the group that they had recently put into their rooms, which were the group of the nine animatronics, and she was also starting to get a little ticked off when she saw the three bears and the purple rabbit staring at her and her friends with pretty oblivious gazes, and she glared at them until they dropped them, only to come back up again when she took her eyes off them.
When he was sure that the crimson vixen wasn't paying attention to them, Freddy and his brothers raised their eyes again and viewed the trio of what might possibly be the most beautiful females that they have ever seen.
After an uneasy silence overcame the arena, Scarlet, Lana, and Diamond looked at Mikhail at the podium to see if they were able to start the competition, and after the red and black wolf hesitated for a few seconds, he finally nodded at them, and the Angel's Devils started what they had practiced and rehearsed during the past month.
Putting on a toothy, yet slightly aggressive smile, Diamond walked towards the contestants before she stopped roughly a yard away from them, before she uncrossed her arms, and waved her right one in greeting to the surprised newcomers.
"Hi there, my name is Diamond! Ever been in any event like this?"
After seeing many of the people in and outside of the ring either shaking their heads or saying 'no', she then untied both of her spears from her arms, before she let them sink into the sand, still standing up with the spear-points down, and started chuckling when the cheetah saw that some had backed away in fear or flinched.
"Oh, don't worry, I won't use my weapons yet, that's until it starts. Let me introduce to you to another friend of mine …"
Knowing that her other friend would have some difficulty speaking, since she was a little stage frightened, Scarlet nodded to Lana, who nodded back, knowing what she had to do, and gulped as she started walking towards her feline friend, but once she got the hang of it, she felt comfortable enough for speaking out loud. When she was side by side of Diamond, who winked at her for good luck, the black and white vixen demonstrated some of her prowess by quickly flicking both of her wrists up, causing her daggers to spin wildly into the sky, seeming to almost rocket towards the sun in a dark blur, catching many of the people's attention as they tried to follow it using their eyes, only to give up, but then their eyes started to widen as they saw the blades spinning just as fast vertically towards the ground, yet the vixen didn't seemed bothered by her weapons coming straight at her. Some spectators even started to shout out warnings to her, but Lana still didn't pay attention, silencing the crowd with awe at what happened next.
Slowly, she stretched her hands behind her back, right into the daggers' paths, displaying immense skill as she quickly swung her arms forward in an upside down arc until it her hands were right in front of her chest, where she stopped them abruptly as she let the blades fly once more, only this time they spun much more slowly, each rotation increasing both shock and fear in those who watched her. Finally, she continued to slowly raise her hands so that they were over her head, who didn't bother to look up as she closed her hands quickly around the handles of her weapons, before slowly lowering them down, but couldn't help to resist showing a little more and she did a final flip so that the blades were once again touching the insides of her arms.
Nodding towards the astounded contestants that had just seen her feat of expertise, she introduced herself.
"Hello, I am Lana, how are all of you right now, well I hope?"
After seeing some hesitant nods from the crowd, she nearly jumped in fright when one of the new teams whistled loudly, one of them, a pigeon, whistled soundly, before saying,
"Just perfect right now, since you and Diamond showed up!"
Lana had to hold back a sigh as she cracked a sweet yet fake smile, but then relief flooded her as she introduced the third member, as well as her second friend.
"That's very kind of you, but let me, and my friend, introduce the third and final member of our 'small group'."
Both vixen and cheetah side-stepped away from each other to allow the crimson vixen to walk in between them, and she was quite the sight as she walked gracefully and effortlessly to her position. The three females could now see that the admiring gazes had intensified, as if they were all judging to see who was the best looking, causing the Angel's Devils to mutter under their breath, sometimes involving curses.
However, that brief duration was quickly cut short, and Scarlet then started her part, not to mention that it was the one where she was the one who had to talk the most, thankfully she wasn't as shy as Lana, yet she didn't show too much opinion like Diamond. Smiling, the crimson vixen slowly rotated the blade in her right hand by the handle, until she suddenly flipped it in mid-air and caught it with the same hand, taking a moment to use her hand to brush off some dust from her left shoulder before she addressed the contestants.
"The name's Scarlet, and as you know, I am the leader of the group consisting of my two … colleges, by my side, making us three the remaining Angel's Devils."
Sheathing her blades behind her back, the vixen then took a moment to look at all of the apprehensive faces of the watchers, wondering what would happen next, and one of the new teams was so curious, one of the members was curious enough to speak up.
"Well, are we going to start the fights?"
Shaking her head, Scarlet's smile increased as she and her friends turned around to face the eastern tunnel, making the crowd very confused, causing a mass commotion filled with questions, arguments, and shouts.
"Who else are we waiting for?! You three all came out, now let's start this!"
"Maybe it's a hidden fourth member or fifth, you know how the Angel's Devils had five originally!"
"Well, I don't care! Come on, let's fight!"
"Who are we waiting for?! Is that why we are still standing in this ring? Answer me!"
Scowling, Scarlet could feel her good mood starting to boil up when the crowd started to riot, and she could start seeing that some of the newcomers were fidgeting with their weapons, and one of them even drew out a sword, making it seem that they were about to even attack the three females in front of them. To bring the situation under control, she turned her head around and gave one of her most charming smiles, before speaking in a nonchalant tone.
"Why, we're just about to introduce the ring master to all of you, don't you want to see him?"
Silence filled the arena as some couldn't believe their ears, as many had forgotten what had happened at the start of the wolf's speech, and one such example was shown when one other voice called out.
"Th-Then, who's the one on the podium, the red and black wolf?"
Mikhail answered for the females as his voice boomed over the entire area.
"I was asked by the ring leader to take his place for a while, until I call him out. He usually does some stuff that I wouldn't normally do, but it does add a personal 'signature' of his. Did you forget what happened only a few minutes ago from what I said? But now, let us not postpone this any longer … ATTEN-SHUN!"
Some people even held in their breaths, too nervous to make any sound as it seemed that the entire planet quieted for that very moment.
Meanwhile, in the eastern tunnel, a bright golden eye slowly appeared in the blackness as it moved stealthily around in its invisible cage, waiting to be called out, the fiery iris inside seeming to belong to a dragon's, just waiting to go out of its lair.
(Thought I was going to make it in this chapter, I suppose? Whoops :P Next chapter, it will be... I think?
*Coughs*
Actually, I would like to apologize to those in the reviews that have raged about it, continuously, and I admit, it's true, I've held it off for too long, but this was actually what I had wrote about...
*Thinks*
Two months ago, so I couldn't really mess with it or delete this chapter as I made the events so intertwined.
*Coughs*
So, I would like to assure you all that it WILL happen very soon-So it will actually be in the next chapter.
Thanks for sticking with this, even though it may be torturous for you :P)