Zoe cradled the tiny sleeping Lellia in her arms. Max had already left for his next match against the malicious Castacien. Zoe traced the small pink tuft of hair on top of her daughters head, and then traced the brown ears and the little brown tail with a pink tuft. It was her baby, her little angel, her offspring.
Sodino: "Shall we go"
Zoe: "Yes, let´s go. Does little Lellia want to see Daddy with mommy and aunt Sodino, yes she does, yes she does".
At the arena
Max tightened the glove around his right hand, the hand that he would hold Oblivion. This was the final round of the tournament, and in that tournament he would rid the world of another servant of Grenadeel.
Rex stood behind him and handed him Oblivion.
Rex: "Remember Max, if you don´t win this fight, we´ll get killed".
Max: "Wow Rex really and whose fault is that".
Rex: "I´ll shut up know".
Max: "Yeah good idea".
Max stepped into the arena and everybody cheered. But for the wrong person, in the other end of the arena stood Castacien, clad in black armor, with for cruel huge needle sharp pincers. The crap smiled at him with its huge sharp teeth, it was out for blood.
Referee:"Ladies and Gentleman, it´s time for the final round in our amazing tournament. In one corner we have: the six armed horrifying master of water, the crabtastic creature the".
Rex:" Get on with it already".
Referee:" Fine, in one corner we have Castacien".
And the crowd cheered his name.
Referee:" and in the other corner we have, the fox demon from the south, Max Taylor".
And a lesser part of the croup cheered on Max. Max waved at the crowd.
Referee:" Now remember that this fight is different from all the others we have had in the past. In this battle the first person to knock the other person out of the ring wins. You cannot surrender and if you die you still haven't lost".
Max nodded to the referee, just then the judge of the match walked into the middle.
Judge:"Alright boys I want I unfair match filled with blood and dirty tricks".
And then the crowd began counting down "5,4,3,2,1 FIGHT".
And before Max could react he was already evading shot after shot after shot of Castaciens. A single shot landed directly onto Max. But Max managed to grab the attack and slam it into the ground. The shock sent Max flying into the sky and Max released his claws and drew Oblivion. Oblivion and Castacien´s six claws clashed and drew sparks. Max landed on his legs and changed Oblivion to its second form. Max threw the chain at Castacien and decapitated one of the six claws.
Castacien cursed as the claw regenerated itself.
Castacien spun his 6 legs in the air and bolted at Max and grabbed his throat between his pincers.
Castacien:"Surrender Max Taylor, even if you somehow manage to defeat me now, Grenadeel will still gather them all and destroy you".
Max:"As soon as hell freezes over" and Max kicked the Claw smashing it and jumped into the air. Suddenly Max formed a silhouette in front of him. The clone morphed a huge Kitsune and became engulfed in white flames. Likewise Castacien formed a silhouette that became a gigantic spider crab armed with a claw bigger than the entire Arena. Compared to the crab, the fox was a mere ant.
But the crab had a huge flaw, the crab was incredible slow. The crab slowly moved its huge pincers at the small fox; the Kitsune dodged the claw and ran up the huge pincer. The fox struck the joint and the claw evaporated, the process continued for every single joint of the crustacean.
Then both monster faded away and left their users drained of power and panting. Max took one last chance and changed his magic to earth. Using his last magic he knocked Castacien out of the arena with the huge stone blocks.
Referee:"And the winner is; MAX TAYLOR
And the entire crowed cheered. But Max couldn´t see it because he fainted. But he did manage to see two Black bull demons in the audience nod to Rex, Max sighed with relief and the fell asleep.
Two hours later
A ghastly form swept around in the room leaving a dark trace after it´s smoke like body.
?: "Join us Max".
Max:"Never".
?:"You won´t have a choice, we will hit you somewhere so you will join us".
And then the shadowy ghost rammed into Max and Max awoke from his nightmare.
Max gripping his burning forehead and realized that he had a damp cloth on top of it. He looked around in the room, it was his. He looked over and saw Zoe sleeping with little Lellia in her arms. He took his sleeping daughter up, he hugged her tightly, such a small and pure face, she was so delicate.
Zoe:"I´m glad to see you´re awake" she said now awake.
Max lay his sleeping baby down in her crib and lay down beside Zoe.
Max:"What happened"?
Zoe:"You got knocked out and we brought you home, they gave Rex the money and the soul shard. Rex promised to give it to you tomorrow".
Max kissed his wife and embraced her.
In the middle of town
Rex walked into a small tavern and sat down by a table, shortly after two bull demons, accompanied by one small hedgehog demon, sat down by the table.
Hedgehog:" I trust that my little friends here will not have to hurt you my friend".
Rex:"Of course not Mr. Decapito".
Decapito:"Good now give to me".
Rex:" I don´t have it, they´ll only give it to Max".
One of the bull demons cracked his knuckles.
Rex:"But I´ll have it tomorrow, don´t worry".
Decapito:"Good, my dear friend does not like waiting, and neither do I my friend".
They then left, but not before one of the bull demon knocked Rex´s face into the ground.
Rex:"Sorry Max, but I need to protect myself".
Near the city Raf Yawa
Grenadeel sat on his thrown flipping a dice between his fingers.
Grenadeel:"I expect that all went as planned".
Castacien bowed down:"It did my lord, I infected Code 5 with the toxin".
Grenadeel clapped:"Bravo my dear servant, now all we need is for our little puppet to surrender the shard to our insight. Now leave, I need to think".
Castacien:"Yes my lord".
When Castacien had left the room Grenadeel took out a small mirror and looked into it, "Soon Max Taylor soon".
To Be Continued
It's been a while since I released my last chapter, but I will release one every single Sunday from this day on, with a few exceptions. Well I hope that you enjoy this chapter and I will see you again soon so please review.
