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"Is this a fucking coliseum?!" Brittney and Higgs screamed with fear and joy respectively.
The circular building was filled to the top by an audience of different slimes, beastmen, and a potpourri of humanoids all hollering at the spectacle that was unfolding uncomfortably close to the new arrivals.
A few dozen monsters were trying to climb up what looked like a building in construction with a purple flag on top, the monsters were fighting on steel beams, janking one another off of ladders, and climbing with their bare hands on the outside of the structure.
"TIME FOR THE SECOND COURSE!" A voice boomed from above them that the team identified as coming from the main V.I.P. lounge in the bleachers. And with that order, a bunch of griffon creatures started to bombard the structure the gladiators were climbing with fire breath.
"Holy shit! The people here know how to have fun!" Higgs watched amazed with the display as she slowly inched her way forward, meanwhile, the rest of the group was doing the exact opposite inching their way to a sealed exit right behind them.
"Ok, it appears nobody has noticed us yet if we retreat slowly mayb-." Marco began with his sights firmly on the exit, then he suddenly deflated.
"Higgs stole Nachos and is going for the flag, isn't she?" Marco said with resignation before turning around to see the arena.
"Nah, she went for it solo." Jackie said impressed as she saw the onslaught the ginger was causing in the arena.
"Thanks for the lift!" The warrior mocked as she used the heads of the monsters climbing a ladder as stepping stones to reach halfway to the top.
"Coming through!" Said Higgs as she sidestepped a bunch of fighting monsters without falling off the beams.
"Is this for me?!" The ginger said when she stole a sword from a gladiator before she used the head of the same gladiator as a stepping stone to grab onto the beam on top of them.
"Heads up!" The warrior screamed as she used the gladiators as shields to stop the griffon's fire breath without stopping her run.
"And I WIN! AHAHAHAHAAHA!" Higgs reached the beam that had the flag on it and after taking the symbol for herself she waved the thing proudly.
The whole group saw the display both amazed and annoyed but the audience's reaction was a horrified gasp before a heavy silence fell over the whole colosseum.
"ANOTHER ONE OF THE BEASTS!" The voice from the lounge screamed again.
"THERE ARE MORE ON THE GROUND!" The gladiators on the building screamed right after as they pointed at the group.
The exit behind the group busted open and another couple dozen gladiators came out, all of them armed with lances and shields on the front line and slings in the back, meanwhile, with a few whistles, all the griffons turned their attention exclusively to Higgs.
"GREAT JOB COLOSSEUM CHAMPION!" Greedy Heart screamed.
"NOT THE TIME FAKE KNIGHT!" Higgs said as she desperately evaded griffons diving at her.
"GET THEM! GET THEMMMM!" Everyone in the audience screamed.
Higgs was going down the beam structure at a snail's pace because of the griffons, while the rest of the warriors rushed to the bottom in order to help the other gladiators against the group on the ground.
Marco, Hekapoo, and Brittney were trying to fight the mob head on, Kelly and Chantelle were trying to deflect some of the shots from the slings, Kelly with her broadsword and Chantelle with a small shield that Mime (Who was currently cowering behind them.) spat out, And Janna, and Sabrina were keeping most of the gladiators at bay with magic.
"STOP!" Jackie screamed and everyone present stopped dead on their tracks, with the distraction a griffin swooped in and grabbed Higgs by the shoulders with its talons.
"We surrender." Jackie said as she knelt with her hands up and everyone stared at her with mouth agape.
"Are you fucking kidd-?" Brittney became beet red and approached Jackie but the cop swept the heiress's leg and held her head down as soon as she hit the floor.
"Anyone else disagrees?" Jackie turned to the rest of the group who raised their arms as well.
"I HAVE A FEW OBJECTIONS!" Higgs screamed as she was being paraded around in the air by the griffon.
*On an underground dungeon*
The group was cuffed and being led by a wall of guards, all of them keeping them at a distance by the tip of a few dozen spears.
"Bitch deciding for all of us." Brittney grumbled under her breath.
"I fucking know." Higgs and Hekapoo answered in a similar way.
The group was led to a big cell and promptly locked in.
"Ok, big guy, we didn't resist-." Jackie began once shut in into the cell but the guards pointed at Hekapoo, Brittney and Higgs.
"We mostly didn't resist." Jackie rolled her eyes "But did we break a law or something for you to attack us?"
The guards promptly got on a phalanx formation and raised their spears.
"No need to act tough guys, I just wanna know." Jackie said with a very friendly tone.
"DO NOT SPEAK WITH THE BEAST!" The voice everyone recognized as the one from the lounge echoed from behind the guards.
The guards opened a path to allow a tiny albino lizard-man pass, the little guy looked at the group up and down, and one by one, trying to assess something unknown for the group until the little lizard turned on his heel to leave.
"The last one hasn't broken, will you?" The albino said in a barely audible voice as he retreated with the rest of the guards.
"What was he on about?" Chantelle said with a grimace and Jackie chuckled.
"Now that we are on this line of questioning, what were YOU on about?" Brittney growled at Jackie.
"You didn't notice?" Jackie said, confused, making most of the group look at her as if she had grown a third arm.
"You two did notice, didn't you?" Jackie turned to Marco and Kelly, they both looked solemn, and then they sighed.
"Yeah… I really wanted to just ignore it." Marco said disappointed with himself.
"Hey, whatever it is they are the ones that attacked first!" Kelly defended herself.
"Okkkk~ how about letting us into the loop." Sabrina said, turning from one to another.
"They were terrified of us." Jackie stated matter of factly and just like that everyone's eyes widened and their mouth fell agape.
"Their spears whenever they raised them were trembling, they were too desperate about capturing us, the guards were tripping over themselves to not be too near us but still bring us here…" Kelly started to list off.
"In the bleachers, parents were protectively hugging their children and other civilians were demanding and pleading for the gladiators to take us down… they really aren't big fans of us." Marco finished with a chuckle and like magic, it downed on everybody.
"We've seen this pattern before." Sabrina said dreading what was going to come next.
"ANOTHER ONE OF MINA'S GOONS GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!" Brittney kneeled as she screamed.
"I'm not very familiar with Mina's group but I have to ask, are everyone as strong as that old guy Dallas?" Higgs cautiously asked.
"Yes, me and sab over here used to be members of the… cult?... terrorist cell?... revolutionary militia? Well, whatever it was we were in." Janna said that last part with a hint of pride.
"And~." Hekapoo nudged the witch to continue.
"Mr. Dallas was known for being the kindest, docile, and patient general." Sabrina said with a shaky voice.
"The weakest for all intent and purposes." Janna said with a shrug.
"Did you only sucked up generals with that portal or something?" Jackie turned to her oldest friend who shrugged sincerely ignorant of the answer.
"Yes… she did, I saw who was sucked up." Sabrina confirmed.
"So whoever is here, is stronger than the guy who manhandled us all with next to no problem." Chantelle said massaging the sides of her head.
"How can a deranged looney produce such strong assholes?!" Brittney bowled.
"I've noticed that you seem to underestimate Mina quite a lot." Higgs said with her head down and her arms crossed.
"Hard to think highly of someone like her." Jackie mentioned offhandedly and all the other denizens of earth made their agreement apparent.
"You all have to be kidding me, HELLO, she is the strongest warrior in Mewni's history for a reason." Higgs said irritated.
"Yeah, there are books written of her exploits all over, usually the adventure-historical aisle in any of our libraries is like 10% her." Kelly said with a shrug.
"HA! That is your STRONGEST warrior?! Bitch I smacked her right out back home!" Brittney managed to stand with her arms bound in order to brag.
"... Not surprised by this reaction, none of you ever met her back when she was in her right mind." Hekapoo mentioned offhandedly.
"... Ok now that's news to me." Jackie said in surprise.
"Strongest warrior in Mewni's history is a very much earned title, that woman was an actual beast when push came to shove and when queen Solaria used that stupid mumbo jumbo on her that turned her into a monster… It fried her brain." Hekapoo said with a sigh.
"Was the prejudiced and blood-thirsty thing coming from her brain-frying or did it just make it worse?" Jackie asked seriously.
"Ha! Nah, that came from being the second in command of the biggest warmonger in Mewni's history, THEN it got worse from her brain-frying." Hekapoo said with a chuckle.
"I can't really say that spell was all that bad, that woman has like 5% of my age and she is still alive and kicking." Hekapoo said with a nostalgic smile on her face.
"Well, whoop-dee-doo for us I guess, but about the situation at hand." Chantelle said without much emotion.
"We are probably-." Higgs began to talk but was suddenly shut by a strike to the cell bars.
A burly two-headed humanoid gave them the stink eye and analyzed them closely, he then pointed at Higgs, Brittney, Chantelle, and Mime.
"You're up." He said as menacing as he could.
"Welp, I guess this is what we are going to be doing for a bit." Chantelle said dispassionately as she stretched.
"We are not competitors, we are to be executed." Higgs said matter of fact.
"And they are dreaming if they think they can pull that shit off." Brittney said as she cracked her neck.
Mime just adjusted her posture and expression to match the trio and all four went through the gate, after their retreating forms were nowhere to be seen Jackie raised her voice.
"I'm taking that other goon with us too, so, Janna, don't even think about opening a portal before we secure him." Jackie said with an authoritative tone and Janna sighed in defeat.
"Aye aye captain." Janna managed to say.
*At the arena*
The four women stood in the middle of the arena… still bound.
"HELLO! Anyone gonna do something about this!?" Brittney screamed, showing her shackles to the audience.
"What part of this is an execution not a competition didn't you get?" Higgs said glaring at the people in the bleachers.
"Well fuck it!" Brittney turned to stare daggers into the gate that was slowly opening.
"Look squinty eyes, I'm not in the mood for our usual bet so how about w-?" Higgs tried to keep her cool but Brittney turned around with bloodshot eyes and foaming at the mouth.
"BEAT THEM WITHIN AN INCH OF THEIR PATHETIC LIVES!" Brittney screeched at Higgs.
"Boy do I love the way you think!" Higgs actually managed a smile before standing side by side with her new ally.
The horde of executioners that marched in tried to immediately flee because of the pair of rabid women that charged at them just as they came out of the gate. Brittney being the mean girl back at school just took this as a way to vent, she bit off ears, scratched eyes, kicked groins, and pulled off any hair she could get her hands on. Higgs on the other hand just opted to use her shackles as a bludgeon; it was not as funny for the audience that was now trying their damnedest to stifle their laughter but it was just as scary for the warriors that were trying to give the pair the slip off.
The gladiators that managed to avoid the two that were now just at the foot of the entrance gate found the other two sitting on the opposite side of the arena, Chantelle was not even interested in the fight because she was lazily checking her nails while Mime was waving a small flag around and mimicking a very enthusiastic audience member. The warriors took that as easy prey and with a smirk on their face, they approached the other two objectives they had.
Chantelle noticed the approaching warriors and stood up with a menacing glare but Mime stood up and held the short woman back, The painted girl pointed at herself and winked, this was enough for Chantelle because she conceded and stood back allowing space for Mime to spit up a red cape.
Mime stood firm and proud before a trio of warriors showed them the cape, the assailants charged at the performer and the woman didn't move an inch, the trio crashed into the cape that turned out to be large enough to drape all three of them. As they were stumbling in the dark inside the cape Mime took a red bottle from her pants and showed it to the audience with a showman flare before dramatically taking the cap off and dumping all its contents into a gap on the cape causing a myriad of screams to come out of the pile.
The audience finally cracked and began laughing at the spectacle, between Brittney fighting like a hysteric high school girl and Mime throwing hot sauce at another warrior's eyes, the spectators were relaxing enough for loud guffaws to escape their lips.
When Chantelle noticed that reaction she took the chance and stood up to call for Mime's attention, and after a short glance they both knew what to do, Chantelle made a hammock with her hands and Mime used it as a trampoline reaching enough height to be face to face with the audience, managing a friendly smile and welcoming body language in mid-air give her the great result of getting a few of the audience members charmed by her.
The second she launched Mime into the air a few warriors approached Chantelle but the big hipped woman opted to follow the mime's lead and rather than a fight she turned this into a spectacle, remembering her days in the cheer squad she began hitting her hips side to side in strong motions that made her very generous cheeks jiggle. The sound of dozens of wives smacking their husbands across the back of the head symphonized like an orchestra.
"Never fucking fails." Chantelle chuckled before starting to cartwheel her way towards her attackers and with swift motions she leaped over one to land on the one behind him, leaping again to dodge a hit that landed square on the warrior's head.
When Mime was about to touch land Chantelle rushed to catch her but the 10 out of 10 catch didn't have time to settle because of a large number of attackers approaching fast, Chantelle just as she caught Mime threw her into the air again clearing the onslaught that was approaching them, meanwhile Chantelle ran head on to the wave but managed to slide under them also avoiding the problem. Thanks to that all the enemies ended up in a pile.
While in the air Mime spat out another red cape and threw it at the place where the pile was about to be, the performer landed on one side of the pile while Chantelle positioned herself on the other side and before the cape covered the pile of assailants both Brittney and Higgs threw themselves to the pile just as the cape fell on top. When the pile was draped it started to violently move and make painful sounds from under the coth and Mime and Chantelle took the opportunity to display the action on a "Ta-da" pose as the action kept unfolding from under the red cape.
The audience was thoroughly impressed and pleased with the spectacle, they were laughing and clapping happily, while in the V.I.P. lounge the tiny albino lizard man growled to himself before screaming.
"TAKE THEM TO THEIR CELL!" The lizard's voice boomed all throughout the arena.
With that order, the girls appeared from under the cape grumbling to themselves acting more like a pair of grounded girls than two criminals on death row and the other two took a bow and enthusiastically went to the holding cells way before any guard could even come out of the gate to try and get them to the cell.
*Back in the cell*
"So who's next?" Jackie asked in a chill voice to the guards that appeared and they scramble to get into phalanx formation again.
"Guys, chill, it's ok." Jackie brought the tension of the room down with her calm attitude and a friendly smile.
A guard took a step forward and pointed at Sabrina, Jenna but his finger hesitated when it was time to pick Jackie, the woman in question nodded and edged him on to pick her, reassuring him it was the right thing to do but the guard then dragged his finger over to Hekapoo and the redhead just rolled her eyes went out alongside the pair of witches.
"Are you guys ready to tell me what happened before we came?" Jackie said with her friendly demeanor persisting, all the guards gave each other a look and quickly got their bearings and turned on their heels to leave.
"Ok, I'll wait for our turn, ok?" Jackie said enthusiastically and waved them goodbye.
"It's our turn next." Marco and Kelly stated.
"Yeah, I hope the other two groups didn't get too out of hand by then." There was the only time since they were taken to the cell that Jackie's smile faltered.
*In the arena*
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Sabrina screamed as she ran from enemies that had singled her out for the obvious reason that she was the only one that reacted like one would expect from someone that was thrown into the arena to die.
The girl screamed and ran and… tripped and fell all over the place, the gladiators were actually starting to have fun chasing the girl around but when they had their fill of fun and tried to actually finish the job they were bombarded by the audience's boos, and trash.
The gladiators turned to the other two of the group that had rather sat and watched the whole thing unfold instead of helping their comrade and said duo just looked at them confused and shrugged at their would-be assailants before turning to each other.
"What did I tell you? I knew the audience would up and fall for her, she is just too damn loveable." Janna cackled a bit.
"Yeah, yeah, I'll give you that one, you have one cute student." Hekapoo giggled at the sight of Sabrina looking like a deer caught in headlights at the audience cheering for her.
The tall, mousy girl kept looking from one side to another at the audience cheering and screaming "You can do it." "You are great." and the like, she really didn't know how to react until she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"How about we fight back now?" Janna asked her with a confident smirk on her face and turning her head to the other side she saw Hekapoo with a similar smirk.
"Right!" Sabrina got a resolute look on her face and got in position alongside her other two teammates.
*With Brittney and her group*
The girls were leisurely walking towards their cell with guards that were comfortable enough with them to be 5 bodies apart from them, Higgs and Brittney were still grumbling under their breath and Mime was happily bobbing her head rhythmically alongside them, but Chatelle was a few feet in front with a gloomy walk.
"Hey, thick ass! Why are you all the way over there?" Higgs stopped mumbling to call for the girl.
"Nothing much." Chantelle hastily replied without turning or stopping her pace.
"What happened to you? You usually are all over me laughing and putting me in some stupid hold and suddenly you are keeping your distance diligently." Higgs ranted more to herself than to the one receiving the rant.
"Shouldn't you like this change?" Chantelle said in a flat voice still dutifully walking towards the holding cell, Higgs just raised her brow and the ginger completely missed the face of dawning realization from Brittney.
They soon entered the holding cell and Chantelle just leaned into the wall keeping as further away from the rest as possible.
"Ok, I suppose we just wai-." Chantelle was interrupted by a guard using a hook at the end of a long stick to grab the chains of her shackles and hung her up on a hook on the wall.
"MOTHER FUCKER! FINALLY DOING YOUR FUCKING JOB, YOU USELESS PIECE OF SHIT! LET ME DOWN! AAAAAAHHHHHH!" Chantelle protested at the top of her lungs as she flailed her body desperately to try and get herself down, this outburst came to the surprise of Mime and Higgs.
"Okkkkk~ there is something up." Higgs said with curiosity.
"There is nothing up." Brittney said matter of factly, the heiress approached the hysterical woman and managed to stare her down, when Chantelle calmed down a little Brittney touched their foreheads.
"No one will notice, don't worry." Brittney whispered and promptly hanged herself just like Chantelle was to the wall.
"Why so submissive, boss? This is unlike you." Chantelle was on the verge of tears but managed a smirk.
"For as much as I don't want to, I need to learn to play nice with that fucking cop." Brittney said reassuringly.
"Yeah, that girl has a charisma that I just cannot deny and it just infuriates me." Higgs said with apparent annoyance and turned to the bowl cut girl with the same annoyance.
"So that emotion was because you are ashamed of your hairy pits or something?" Higgs said with a low voice as she eyed the mentioned hairy pits and hanged herself right beside Chantelle.
"Yes! YES! It was because of my armpits! You're completely right!" Chantelle desperately said with a panicked laugh that managed to scare the warrior but then Higgs crunched her brow and started sniffing around.
"Shit! I think a rat died here." Higgs said with disgust and she had to immediately dodge a kick that Brittney threw her way.
"What the fuck, squinty eyes?" Higgs said both confused and infuriated until she saw Chantelle desperately biting her lip and choking down tears.
"Oooohhh~." It finally dawned on Higgs.
Chantelle really didn't want to say out loud that Higgs just noticed her biggest, heck, probably only insecurity, always having to rush to the showers the second the practice ended, drowning herself in perfume every day, it usually didn't get that bad if she showered in the morning and evening and even then she usually had perfume for emergencies but thanks to this whole fiasco she had gone for nearly a month without a shower and the "Dead rat" comment felt like a compliment, she could barely stand her own smell, she was dizzy from her own god damn BO and embarrassed like she probably hasn't been since grade school, until…
"Higgs, what the fuck are you doing!?" Chantelle screeched in panic when she noticed Higgs's face buried in her armpit taking a deep sniff.
Higgs returned her head and gave a sigh to then stare at Chantelle straight in the eyes.
"Is that it?" Higgs said as seriously as she could.
"What? You literally compared it to a decaying carcass a second ago." Chantelle got into the defensive.
"And that is not even in the top one hundred of worst smells I've ever endured and girlie let me tell you, once you get to my age you will know what bad body odor is." Higgs acted like an old lady telling a horror story… and Chantelle actually giggled.
"You are younger than me though, and "you are going to smell worse when you are older" is not all that reassuring." Chantelle's tears finally started to flow but it accompanied a cute high-pitched laugh.
"Oh shush missy, don't even think I have little experience with this, I've smelled bogs that would make you smell like soap… and the bog is number 90." Higgs bragged and when she saw Chantelle looking up at her in the most vulnerable that the redhead has ever seen her, the warrior's face softened considerably and locked the big hipped woman's head under her chin.
"C'mon missy, dry those tears, I already told you, you are one of the strongest warriors I've ever met and I've met many, you don't know how much it hurts to see someone this strong broken for something like this." Higgs said with a warmth that nobody would have guessed could come from her.
"Whatever you say, granma." Chantelle good-natured ribbed but Higgs blushed and looked on as if she had actually just met her granddaughter.
"Oh shush you." Higgs snuggled up to Chantelle for a second before Chantelle retreated herself.
"Hey, Where's Mime?" Chantelle finally noticed the missing face.
Turning around they saw Mime without her shackles opening the cell, the performer turned around and winked before approaching them with a wire in hand.
"Well look at the rebel." Brittney said sincerely impressed.
"Yeah, shouldn't we listen to Officer. Thomas?" Chantelle asked as Mime freed her from her shackles but Mime just shrugged.
"Oh well, who cares, wanna go find that other Mina's dude? Maybe we can knock him out and make the escape easy." Higgs said with a macabre chuckle.
"Boy do I love the way you think." Brittney said with just as macabre a voice and with that both Higgs and Brittney ran out of the cell leaving Chantelle and Mime alone.
"Please be honest with me… you noticed the smell and just didn't want to be locked in with it." Chantelle said exhausted but good-naturedly, Mime got a blush that could be visible from under her makeup and desperately tried to deny it with every gesture she knew and Chantelle giggled again with that cute high pitched voice.
"Don't worry if I could run away from it I would too." Chantelle responded with understanding and Mime relaxed immediately.
Meanwhile, with Higgs and Brittney, the duo had made enough distance from the other two, and taking this opportunity Brittney stopped the redhead.
"Not even I have helped her so much with that… Thank you." Brittney was brief and looked embarrassed but those words felt sincere.
"Why? I just took a whiff and she really isn't that bad." Higgs shrugged.
"Bitch, don't play with me, I was seeing double just by having that besides me, I would have surely fainted if I had done what you did." Brittney said with her usual irritation and avoided Higgs's gaze.
"Ha! And that's why I must say, don't underestimate experience." Higgs said smugly.
"Whatever you say grandma." Brittney tried a snide remark but it sounded warm and light-hearted.
"And don't you forget it, young missy." Higgs said before going back to look for the prisoner.
*With Jackie and her group*
The group was just lounging around waiting for their turn until a hard clank resounded in the cell, turning their heads they saw the guard that spared Jackie going into the arena, a small bear body with a crocodile head looked at them with conflicted eyes and with a sigh opened the cell. The group came out in an orderly fashion and stood there waiting for orders but the amalgamation took another key and opened their shackles.
"You want to meet your comrade, don't you?" The guard said with apprehension.
"No, I want to apprehend him, I'm a law enforcer, he is on the loose." Jackie said matter of factly, the guard looked at her with eyes full of hope before turning around and gesturing for them to follow.
"That thing appeared like a month ago right in the middle of a competition in the arena, it quickly flew into a frenzy, attacking everything in its path screaming about "killing all monsters" but that thing is worse than any story we use to scare our young, it kept fighting and fighting and fighting for three days straight until it literally collapsed from hunger, we managed to shackle it to the biggest iron ball we could find and locked it in the deepest cell we could find… but it still breaks out every week and wrecks havoc, if you say you can help us, please, I beg you to do so." The guard retold what happened as he guided the group to the cell in question and when they arrived, Brittney's group arrived at the same time.
"What the heck?" Brittney said when she found herself face to face with Jackie.
"Hey, the man of the hour is right here." Jackie pointed at the cell right beside them.
"I'll give you the key… just allow me enough time to run, please." The guard pleaded, his hand shaking as he handed over the key.
"Will do, and thank you so much." Jackie said with a warm voice when she took the key.
"WHO'S THERE!?" An even bigger booming voice than the one from the tiny lizard came from the cell that made the guard squeak and run like a bat out of hell, the voice sounded cracked and guttural.
"Hey dude, remember me? I'm the officer that was in the fight on Mewni castle, if you don't I guess you at least remember the leader of the knights?" Jackie hooked her arm around Marco's shoulder with a confident smile, and Marco despite being surprised by Jackie's gesture and being in an awkward position he managed a glare.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" The voice screamed and quickly an enormous iron ball crashed on to the cell's bars that destroyed them, the group barely dodged it.
"Whoa, dude, I was going to open it." Jackie said with a very obvious hint of sarcasm.
"YOU ALL ARE ALSO IN MY SIGHTS!" The voice (the group could swear) shook the place.
"Wanna go meet with Janna and co. just to be sure?" Jackie said with her voice just slightly shaking.
"Aye." The group said once again dodging another attack from the steel ball.
*In the arena*
The arena was littered with vines, ice, stalactites, and small craters made by bombs, the trio was at the center of the circle basking on the cheers and congratulations, or at least Janna and Hekapoo were with the former making magical fireworks to show off and the latter hyping up the audience a bit more, meanwhile, Sabrina was using every ounce of her willpower to not crawl up into a ball.
The mousy witch slowly but surely got charmed by the enthusiasm and joy from the audience, her slouch slowly disappeared as she stood straight and her face started to contort itself into a weary smile when the "weary" disappeared completely from her smile and she decided to wave at the public the gate behind her was violently broken and the sound of it made Sabrina immediately retreat to a fetal position.
"What the fuck?" Janna and Hekapoo turned to the broken gate and the rest of the group ran towards them.
"Hey, I got the key for the shackles." Jackie enthusiastically screamed, showing the key in her hand.
"AAAAAAHHHHH!" The voice echoed not far behind them.
"Oh yeah, we also found the other goon." Jackie said while pointing at the gate.
The goon finally revealed himself, the guy was just using a pair of pants that were in tatters and being held in place by a tied up rope, the man's scars were noticeable as they marred his midsection with half a dozen big scars all of there were either scratches or bites, his long and disheveled hair covered his face but it didn't manage to hide the scars that were also in his face, finally, his musculature was barely there as his malnutrition was apparent but somehow his right arm shackled to the iron ball was an exaggerated cartoon of a bodybuilder… his right being his only arm.
"Oh shit… this guy." Janna said with displeasure.
"I don't like the sound of that." Jackie said as she unshackled everyone else.
"How does 'bigger savage than crazy Mina' sound to you?" Janna stated plainly and everyone swallowed a lump in their throat.
"Not good." The group answered.
The man in question stood there panting, hunger and fatigue being quite the obstacle for him. The audience though was shocked silent, everyone was trembling and protectively hugging their dearests or just crawling into a ball themselves, nobody dared make a move and make themselves a target.
"Mr. Noah please just com-." Sabrina took a step forward to try and reason with the man but.
"TRAITORRRRR!" Noah took a swing with the steel ball he was bound to.
"Earth wall!" Janna chanted and a pillar of stone appeared in the path of the ball, the pillar was just barely able to slow it down as the ball completely wrecked it and continued its path towards Sabrina but that half a second the pillar gained was enough for the witch to duck under the attack.
"Sab, really, What experience with this guy made you think you can reason with him!?" Janna berated her student.
Noah janked the ball back to him and with a jump, he kicked it with both his feet launching the thing directly at Janna.
"Steel wall!" Now Sabrina chanted and a thick wall of steel sprouted in front of Janna and while it stopped the attack the ball still managed to break through the wall.
Noah again janked the ball back to him and caught the heavy instrument into his hand and charged forward. The Man swung at Marco and the Knight barely dodged and dodged and dodged as Noah kept swinging the steel boulder with ease.
Kelly pounced at Noah's unprotected back, or at least she thought was unprotected because with the next swing the one-armed man let go of the ball turning the bludgeon into a whip that managed to hit both Marco and Kelly.
"That ball is a nuisance." Hekapoo fumed and with her scissors in hand she charged directly at Noah.
The one-armed man threw the ball into the air and janked it back to earth directly on top of Hekapoo but the furry woman just smirked. With quick movements, Hekapoo shredded the ball with her scissors and turned to the attacker with a smug smile.
"Ha! Now wha-?" Hekapoo didn't even finish the sentence before Noah hit her square on the jaw, the hit made her do a flip and slide along the floor completely knocked out when she fell flat.
"Bad idea, furry ghost!" Janna screamed to the unconscious redhead and tried to bind the berserker with vines, an action that Sabrina assisted with. As the one-armed warrior was being constraint Chantelle ran up to his back and applied a chokehold, after a few seconds that felt like an eternity his arm appeared to limp but from his throat, he emitted a guttural growl and he snapped the vines with sheer force, Chantelle eased her choke for half a second due to the surprise and the sudden jerk that action made using that half a second Noah managed to put his hand on her throat.
"That might have been a worse idea." Chantelle choked out as she struggled against the hand that could encircle her whole throat and lift her with no problems.
"Get your dirty hand off of her!" Both Higgs and Brittney hit Noah straight in the solar plexus and it actually succeeded in making him recoil but after that little shock passed Noah lifted Chantelle high and used her as a bludgeon against Higgs and Brittney.
"ROCK PILLAR!" Sabrina chanted and before Noah could get another hit in another pillar sprouted from the ground and again landed in the solar plexus, that hit was enough to bend the berserker over for a few seconds before he pounced at the three women in front of him.
With him being in the air Nachos swooped into him and succeeded to bite his grotesquely muscular arm, the dragon clenched her jaw but the man challenged her by flexing his muscle proving harder for the dragon to close her jaws but not impossible as this was the first challenge of strength Noah was having trouble with since reaching this dimension, but the berserker was not a fair fighter because he janked his arm up with the dragon still attached and then slammed her into the ground with enough force to make a dust cloud.
Before the dust settled Noah felt that small weight on his neck once again as Chantelle put him on a chokehold again this time it felt three times as strong, and if he could see Chantelle's distorted by fury face he would have no doubt why, Noah tried to grab the woman again but he felt a jank and saw the dragon still attached to his arm but this time the dragon's fangs had finally gotten a good grip on his arms and the dragon proved to be much more efficient than the magic vines at keeping him in check. Not finished yet with the assault Higgs and Brittney appeared from the dust and proceeded to keep beating the man on the solar plexus.
Noah felt his knees buckling from the pain but he gritted his teeth and used Nachos to hit the two women in front of him and then began to choke Chantelle again but this time the woman attempted to put him in an arm lock and with him focused on the short woman he felt another chokehold and a second person helping with the arm lock.
In his surprise he saw the officer that said would let him out of his cell helping the other woman with the arm lock from the corner of his eyes he saw a god damned hairball choking him, his arm was weakened because of the dragon's bites and his core ached something fierce, then it got worse as he felt another strong strike to the same spot again, looking down he saw a horribly nasty bruise that was beginning to swell and then he saw the leader of the knights on a karate pose and give a strike after strike to his battered midsection.
With one last burst of strength, Noah managed a spinning lariat that shook off his attackers but his legs no longer responded and he would be vomiting if the rats and roaches he ate in the cell hadn't evacuated his system completely a few hours ago, he fell to his knees but in front of him as the dust cloud faded he saw a trembling Sabrina with a wooden bottle in her hands and a horde of repugnant monsters.
Sabrina saw a malnourished man on his knees trembling from hunger and pain, marred with a myriad of new scars along with a bruise that she had no doubt any more movement would turn into a serious internal hemorrhage, and despite all this, the man was still willing to fight, Noah still growled and his posture threatened to pounce if a single step was made on her part but Sabrina still took that step and kneeled in front of him.
"Please, Mr. Noah, you are very hurt, please come with us, I will keep you fed and nurse you back to health, just come with us back home, I won't even tell you to stop attacking monsters but no matter what you do here won't matter so just save your strength for home, please, I beg you." Sabrina pleaded as she inched the bottle forward.
Noah looked at her for a few seconds before furrowing his brow and opening his mouth, but whatever was going to come out of it was quickly shut as Mime gave the man a hit to the back of the head with a baseball bat. The beast of a man finally hit the floor and Sabrina looked confused at Mime who answered with a worried shrug, with a sigh of resignation Sabrina sucked the man up to the bottle.
The audience was stunned silent before bursting out into cheers and joy, tears of happiness and relief flowed without stop and everyone was screaming their praises to the warriors that were now sprawled around the arena all with varying amounts of injuries.
"Think this means they'll let us stay the night? I don't think we can manage just going to the next dimension." Marco said while he helped Kelly stand up.
"God, I hope so." Jackie groaned lying face down on the dirt.
*Author's notes*
Hey guys! Long time no see, well long story short almost all the time I wasn't here I was revamping chapters 1 all the way to 18 in my AO3 (archive of our own) account (same name with both fic and author if you wanna check it) so I wasn't just lazing around if that is what you thought.
If you want to read the little revamp please do so but if you don't the only thing that I think it changed significantly (besides spelling errors) was that Jackie is now a plain old police officer I took out the whole "ranger force" thing (it was quite silly) but even then I'm thinking of leaving those old versions up I need to remember how bad I can do it if I don't try XD.
Other than that I've started to write in Spanish my native tongue and it felt amazing, I'm now writing an ATLA fic in Spanish that it might get in the way of this one but no worries this will be my priority given all the time and effort I've put in it.
And finally I'm rethinking the whole "one chapter, one dimension" rule I set for myself what I'm saying is that the next chapter is a continuation of this one so stay tuned.
So with this I say goodbye, thank you for your attention and time, really appreciate it.