Wrex sat on his stone throne listening to Gatatog Uvenk prattle on about tradition, suddenly there was the sound of a fight breaking out at the landing area. Wrex heard the cry of pain and rage, he idly hoped that the fight would spill into the main area so he could watch. A few seconds later the sounds faded, Gatatog Uvenk moved on with his talks as if nothing happened. Wrex sighed in boredom, who knew that uniting the clans took so much talking.
As soon as Uvenk was getting back into his stride, the guards near the landing area stirred. Wrex smiled savagely as, what he knew was the cause of his landing guards screaming, walked into the main area. Odysseus 'Demo' Shepard stalked into the area, on his left flank his sister and on his right Tali. Wrex waited impatiently for the twins to come, Uvenk continued to talk.
"You must wait, the chief is in… talks." One of his guards told the twins. "Shepards." Wrex called.
"That is our cue." Demo told the guard, before stalking past.
"Wrex, it is good to see you. Hopefully you can help us with a small problem, we got a tank bred krogan here that is having huge mood swings." Wrex scented the air, the scent of the whelp as strong.
"Nothing is wrong with him, he is becoming an adult." Wrex explained, at the tilt of Demo's head he explained further.
When Wrex reached the part of the rite, Uvenk butted in. "This goes too far, that thing is not Krogan! You can not let it take the rite." Wrex stepped down from his throne, rearing to his full height he smashed his head against Uvenk.
"Speak when spoken to Uvenk, I will drag your clan to glory wether you like or not." Wrex growled.
"I like that, can we try that on the council next?" Eris asked, Demo laughed and Wrex smiled.
"Go to the shaman boy, he will decide if you are fit for the rite." With that the twins bowed and left, Wrex sighed and settled back down to continue the talks.
Eris stood off to the side as Grunt spoke with the shaman, she was reading a new book when Uvenk started objecting. Demo sent her a prompt over their visors, marking her spot she shut down her book and moved. Moving under cloak she crossed the room, without so much as a whisper her molecule blade unfolded to its full length.
Placing the blade's tip under Uvenk's throat, she dropped her cloak. "Try fighting our Grunt, and you will learn the true mean of the word fear!" She whispered in his ear, with a sickly-sweet tone.
"Ha, I like these humans!" The shaman crowed, Uvenk growled as he backed down.
Garrus stood beside Tali on top of the viewing stands, the rite laws demanded a squad of only three. Garrus glared at the monitor, around him Krogan were taking bets on how long the trio would last. Logically Garrus knew that Eris could more than handle herself, but that did not help one bit the desire to be down there covering her flank. Tali seemed to be in the same, as the humans put it, boat.
{If that Bosh' Tet gets himself hurt, I am going to make him sleep on the couch!} Tali growled under her breath, Garrus snorted. {What?!} she snapped.
"You would end up curled up on the couch with him within an hour." Garrus tease, Tali kicked him in the shin.
A loud crash drew attention to the pit below them, Garrus watched as Demo's Omni-shield flared to life. Eris leapt like a earth jungle cat at one of the pillars, she at one began climbing up it, once atop she perched there with her rifle. Grunt roared and began charging the Varren that came running out of the drain pipes, the ring was filled with the sounds of shotgun fire offset with sniper rounds.
Garrus had to admire the way Demo and Eris worked together, it was his first time watching the two fight without being in the middle of it as well. The twins seemed to read each others minds, they never hit the same target or left Grunt without cover. Grunt was the biggest shock with how well he was working with the twins, he never even got near their firing lines. Garrus winced as Demo cut the head off a varren by crushing it with his shield.
"Ha, I always told those two, they just need a Krogan and they are invincible!" Wrex boasted, after Demo taunted a Klik for Grunt to body slam while Eris finished it off.
"if only they were Krogan, my clan would have taken this place over by now!" Wrex laughed, more than one krogan roared their agreement.
'I will never understand Krogan.' Garrus thought, half this crowd hated the twins less than an hour ago, now they want them for their clan.
Tali felt the last hammer blow even in the stands, the ground around the arena began to shift. Tali's jaw dropped in her mask as the biggest Thresher maw she had ever seen rose out of the ground, watching the view screens she could see Demo begin cursing. The twins mask's lights began to pulse faster, something Tali knew meant that they were working overtime.
{The last test is a thresher?!} Tali screeched so loud she nearly caused a feedback loop.
"Relax, they only have to survive five minutes." Wrex said calmly, Tali glared at him.
Tali watched in horror as Demo climbed to the top of a pillar, looking at the base of the pillar she saw bombs planted on it. Before she could think to curse, Demo pushed a detonator. The blast toppled the Pillar, sending it down onto the thresher. Demo latched himself to the head of the maw, Tali could only watch as Eris peppered the thing with sniper fire.
"Ha, that human is going to be squished!" A krogan laughed behind Tali, Growling she whipped around and pistol whipped him with her shotgun.
"Ha, I knew I liked you for a reason!" Wrex laughed, the other Krogan looked at Tali with stunned respect.
{Fire in the Hole!} came a loud yell over the speakers, as Demo leapt off the thresher a heartbeat before its head vanished in a gory blast.
"Did that human just use land mines, planted on the thresher's head to kill it?" the Shaman asked amazed, Tali sighed face palming.
{That Bosh' Tet is going to be the death of me.} Garrus patted her back in sympathy, as they watched Eris leap from the top of the pillar.