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Chapter 14: The Dark Secret of the Arena

"Next up we have 'The Coldest Steel' vs 'The Pack'." The Jackal and her team stepped forward ready for action preparing themselves. After a little while their opponent revealed himself to be Connor!

"Connor? I thought you were in Wizard City helping repair it."

"The repairs are done. We are wizards after all so the process goes by quickly. I came here to see if I could help out. Besides, you guys didn't really think I would miss a tournament did you?" Everyone drew their weapons but The Jackal motioned them to stop.

"No. I want to fight Connor by myself, I want to have a fair fight with him and beat him on my own." This was now a one vs one match, Connor vs The Jackal. Two well known ice wizards with skills of glory and minds of geniuses. They were both well known throughout the spiral as amazing strategists.

"Very well, then let the battle begin!" All the mumbling among the crowd went silent, the entire room was silent of all noise. Neither of them had moved for a few moments then after much waiting they attacked. They jumped at each other and punched full force onto their opponent! A gigantic crater was formed and a giant gust of wind blew in all directions as their fists clashed in midair, using their full strength not holding back one bit. The air filled with intensity and destructive power. Neither one of them could move their fists forward, they were evenly matched so far.

"I'm surprised Connor, you're not the type to attack first. Are you afraid I might win this match?"

"Well even if I didn't attack first we both know I'm still going to win!" A smile formed on both of their faces and they broke apart from the everlasting struggle. They were both on guard, not moving an inch from their positions. Then in an instant they vanished. They were moving at a speed so quickly hardly anyone could see them! The ones that could were trained by masters, grandmasters, and legendary wizards. Christina was one of the only ones able to follow their movements, but so were Genevieve, Brook, Vanessa, and Ryan. Since they were all trained by The Jackal, all of their stats were much higher than the average wizard.

They both reappeared when they charged at each other full force with the back of their forearms. Cold air started to flow around the room and the arena started to freeze up. They broke apart again and tried to catch their breaths.

"So, are we finished with warm up then?" Connor gave a smirk at this and shut his eyes.

"You know exactly when to get serious don't you?" Connor unhooked his trident from his back and the Jackal unsheathed her katana and they both looked at each other, they both had the same look in their eyes. They ran at each other with full force and their weapons clashed causing a big explosion that sounded like a sonic boom. Frozen shards flew past everyone and stuck in the walls causing most people to panic. It was another stalemate and the only ones that didn't panic were a few of the fighters. As they were in the middle of the stalemate the Arena Master saw his chance and dropped a black cage on top of the Jackal and Connor. They thought it was a part of the match so they just kept fighting. But another cage dropped on top of the fighters and this caused suspicion. After about a minute everyone started feeling weaker and tired but they only thought it was from all the fighting that had been going on. Christina noticed the Jackal's team was also tired but she didn't understand this. They hadn't fought yet but they were tired. She started to put the pieces together and she figured out it was the cage! It was draining power very quickly and she started to struggle to get out of the cage alone since those who were in there were already knocked out. The cage around her was a special one that drained her power especially quicker than the others. She shouted with the remaining energy she had at the Jackal and Connor.

"Guys! Get … out of … the … cage!" They broke apart from their battle and looked at the Arena Master who's eyes were glowing gold.

"Yes! Yes! My plan worked perfectly! You fools are all doomed!" He started to grow and grow until he was the size of a giant. His body started to glow with rainbow aura from stealing magic from all schools. He was now the size of a tower with the colors of a rainbow. They looked at each other and nodded. Connor and The Jackal stomped their feet together and a giant ice stalagmite tore through the cage. They broke Christina's cage which was protected by magic so it was especially difficult to break through, even when their power wasn't being drained and they did it together. When they got Christina out Connor realized something. The arena master had no control of the arena at all since he was draining power from everyone still in the cages. The Jackal got out one of her potions quickly before the Arena Master had anytime to notice.

They gave Christina one of their potions and she woke up from the strong smell of the potion. She drank the potion down quickly and gave the glass bottle back to Connor. She was now at full power again and she looked back at the arena master who had finished charging his power and was now at full strength as well.

"Should we attack him with everything we have?"

"No. That would just be a waste of mana. There's only one thing we can do. We have to call our most powerful allies to help out." While one of them distracted the arena master the other two took out their crystal orbs and started to get help, but something was wrong. It wasn't working!

"Ah ah ah. No outside help. No exceptions!" the arena master said. The battle just got 10x more difficult. It was up to every fighter in the arena but most of them were still knocked out, including our own heroes. This meant they either fight alone, or in unity somehow. Suddenly a thought crossed Christina's mind. If Connor was able to get her back to 100% power than they should all be able to do the same, with the potions! She got her potions out and gave a few drops to everyone, seeing as just the smell could wake someone up a few drops should be more than enough to get them conscious again. The crowd of fighters murmured and drank their potions. Seth and the others woke up as well and drank their potions to. After their visions clear from blurriness the first thing everyone sees is a giant 25 foot crocodile glowing with magic powers from all of the schools. Everyone took out their weapons and was now fully on guard.

"Fools, if you all think you can even touch me you've got another thing coming you little brats."

"There's no other option now then. If he's really that powerful then we have to use a hidden spell of the guardians." Connor said, his voice filled with seriousness and worry. "We have to use, the mirror spell."

"What's a mirror spell?"

"Basically one of us commands all of the moves we make while the others copy, this spell only works if you voluntarily let the user control your body. I want you to all power up to your maximum potential. The spell would be twice as good then." Connor finished speaking and began powering up himself. Everyone did as they were told while the Arena Master sat back and watched. Not a worry in the world for him and he knew he couldn't be hurt, so he decided to let them try. He thinks it's just a joke and once the fail, he'll just laugh at them and destroy them all.

"Shadow of the gods, Mirror of fate, let these wizards copy even my own face!" Christina chanted and their eyes started to glow bright blue and their movements were starting to become synchronized. Soon they all started to levitate in the air in a big group in front of the arena master. He was amused that every being there could be so synchronized but he still took this as one big joke.

"Go ahead, I'll let you take the first shot." He said in a mocking tone, lowering his defenses and motioning them to attack. Christina now in control of the group, raised her fist and punched the arena masters chest and because they were all synchronized they all did it at the same exact time he did. The force of magic impact upon his chest from every being that was there was too much for him and he flew back into the wall. He got back up confused and angry.

"How the hell could you puny wizards pull off an attack like that? It's impossible!" He shouted at them but they didn't respond, they were just staring at him with a blank face. He tried attacking the group but they moved much to quickly for him to catch. They started to spin around him and started going so fast he could only see an image of them standing still at every location. He felt a little prick on his cheek and it started bleeding. Everyone had their weapons out and began swiping at him at an incredible speed. They all started to attack at once. The arena master began getting annoyed by this and he roared, causing a great gust of wind to blow past everyone with enough force to also break the small tornado of wizards. He tried to stomp and smash the scattered wizards but anytime he tried, they would just teleport back to Christina.

"You asked how we could damage you so much earlier right?" Everyone had spoken at once. "It's all of our powers combined and even one punch can knock someone like you out easily." They all powered up to full power. "Just one single punch." They all punched full force at full power launching him through the walls of the arena and back into the main room of the sphinx. He was heavily damaged but still awake. He jumped back up on his feet and began charging for an attack!

"That's it! I've had enough of you brats! Now die!" He locked his hands together and slowly separated them but in between them was a glowing ball that was rainbow colored. He put nearly all of his energy in it, making him normal sized with no more extra power left, but the energy ball was 10x the size of the main room creating a giant hole in the roof. All of Krokotopia was able to see it and he threw the rainbow ball at them with full force. Everybody braced themselves and extended their arms out and put full force into their arms. The giant ball impacted with them but they were putting out an even amount of energy as the colorful rainbow ball. They gave everything they had into their defense but still the match was even. "I've told you, you can't defeat me! Just give up already you pathetic fools!"

The ball became even bigger in size and the fighters started to struggle to hold the deadly attack at bay but they were slowly being pushed back from it.

"No matter what you do, no matter what you say, we'll never give up as long as there are people to protect!" They all shouted and their power seemed to increase, pushing the ball back to the arena master! They all started to give more than 100% power and they all punched it with more than everything they had! Everyone completely depleted their mana so if this wasn't enough than nothing would be. The ball bounced from the fighters to the arena master who was speechless at what he was witnessing.

The fighters fell from the sky onto the desert floor with no mana left while the ball was still going towards the arena master! He tried to stop it just as the group of fighters did but failed miserably. He was pushed back easily by his own attack, launching him out of Krokotopia and into the skies. The destructive ball exploded in the sky creating a giant bright light for a moment. After the bright light had died down a rainbow was in the sky and the fighters started to wake up one by one. They found the arena master on the ground inside the pyramid and woke him up to, they spoke to him what was needed to say.

"We won." He didn't say anything for a few moments but after a little while he started to speak himself.

"Well you have in fact defeated me. I am a man of my word so I will help with the liberation of this great desert land. I wish you the best of luck in your future fights." They left after that, going back to the lieutenant notifying him of the good news. They all returned to their dorms exhausted and ready for bed.

"I see, so they still didn't take the warning hmm? Very well then. Lieutenant, I want you to fight them if they do defeat Krokopatra. Stall them for as long as possible until further notice, do you hear me?"

"Yes sir." The boy left quickly after that.

"Assassin, report now!" the dark figure came into the room once more.

"They have defeated the Arena Master but they had to do it in unity. If one of them hadn't known the Mirror spell he could have quite easily killed them."

"Is that all?"

"Yes."

"Then leave now. I don't want you to miss anything about these little worms." She left the room quickly afterwards. "Only the most skilled wizards now the Mirror spell. But they couldn't have used it themselves, so that means they needed someone much more powerful than them. But who?" He looked through his red crystal ball and many images of the most powerful images appeared including: Nia, Brianna, Connor, Christina, and the Jackal.

Well that's it for this chapter, I'm sorry I've been gone for a while but I'm going to be completely honest here, I got lazy. I really did and I'm sorry if I kinda got rusty around the edges of fighting. Anyways I do have enough Evil OC's so I am now closing that line.

Thanks for reading and I'll cya later!

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