Topaz wakes up at the edge of the bed for unknown reasons since she always sleeps in the middle. She shrugs it off and stands. She looks over to see Nuala no longer in the chair.
Just as she reached the bathroom. The door swings open and steam comes pouring out. "Sorry, I might have used all the hot water". Topaz nods," it's alright. The hot water is at an endless supply". Nuala exits the bathroom and gets changed in a new pair of clothes.
Once done they exit her room and make their way to the kitchen for breakfast. Topaz and Nuala see the Grandmaster there eating. Topaz lifts Nuala onto a stool and gets her breakfast then herself a bowl.
Over the next three months, Nuala and Topaz have gotten along great. But, Nuala still missed her Father, brothers, sisters and oddly her mother. But, to Nuala the only woman that has been like a mother to her is Topaz. She takes care of her, makes sure she ate enough every meal and loves her like her own child.
Month: 4 Day: 15
Topaz wakes to a large amount of weight on her. She looks down to see Nuala on top of her fast asleep. Topaz slowly moves Nuala off of her but she ends up on the floor by accident.
Without a word, Nuala walks over the bed with her blanket in hand. She walks over to what was the closest and opens the slid door then flops down onto her bed.
Topaz gets up and dressed. Once out of the bathroom she sees Nuala passed out and half hanging off her bed. She smiles and goes over to Nuala. She then lifts Nuala onto her bed and covers her with the small blanket.
As the day progresses Topaz gets scrapper 142 too checks on Nuala who says she is fast asleep still. 142 exits the throne room quickly and makes her way to the holding cells for the fighters.
Once there she sees everyone prepping for there fighting. But, someone wasn't ready. 142 looks over and sees Nuala curled up in the corner. "Hey, get up and get armored up. You're the main event", she said with a smirk. Nuala looks down at her feet and slowly got up.
She looks around the weapons and finds a sword that is light and weighed evenly. Suddenly, someone slams a helmet on her head and locked it in place.
She looks up to find a man made from rocks. "Hey, looks like ya needed it. "I'm Korg, that guy over there is Doug and meik". Meik and Doug wave.
"I'm Nuala".
Just then an alarm goes off. "Sorry, got to go". Korg waves to Nuala as he walks to the entrance of the arena.
Over a few hours, the final alarm goes off and Nuala is escorted to a small room and gets her head shaved and arms, legs, and face painted blue black. Once done the helmet is put back on they hand her a shield and sword.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators packed into the stadium
seats. Dozens of starships are parked above the arena.
In the Grandmasters suit, a VIP box attached to the fighting area.
Grandmaster walks in front of his Hologram camera and it comes alive.
This enlarged projection of Grandmaster addresses the audience.
"Wow! Look at all of you. What a
show, WHAT-A-NIGHT! Who's having fun? Please, I'm your host. A big round
of applause for all of our undercard competitors... who died so gruesomely. Good sports. What a
show! What a night! This is what you've
come for and so have I". Applause breaks through the arena.
"And now, without further ado...it's main event time!! Making her first appearance, though
She looks quite promising I'll say no more, see what you think. Ladies and gentlemen...", He looks down at the paper 142 gave him," I give to you...Aspect!".
Aspect enters the arena with a shaved head, painted face, Helmet on and in black armor. She looks up at the throngs of screaming fans. And then...
"Okay, this is it. Let's get ready to welcome our champion. Here he comes. He is the biggest and badest on the whole planet. Welcome the Champion".
Suddenly the door across from her opens and exits a large serpent-like creature with three heads,"Hydra!".
Hydra charged at Nuala but she rolled out of the way quickly but managed to have its tail wrap around her ankle. She gets thrown into a nearby wall but makes a quick recovery. She sees a large chunk on the wall is loose so she grabs it and chucks it at the beast. The rock hits his head which made the crowd gasp in terror. Hydra turned to Aspect in shock and sees her sword at the ready. He snorted in frustration and charged again.
Up at the Grandmasters, suite Topaz looks on at the Tiny warrior fighting the Champion. Secretly she is impressed by the speed and strength of the women. Then she remembered Nuala. "Sir, I must check on Nuala". The Grandmaster looks at Topaz and says,"She is fine. If she needed anything she would come here". Topaz nods and turns back to the fighting.
Aspect once again grabs another rock from the wall and hurls it at the beast, But it just bites the rock in half. Finally, Hydra manages to catch Her around the ankle again with its long tail. It throws her up into the air and swallows her. A scream is heard from the Crowd and the Hydra turns its attention to them until it feels something in its belly. She is still alive and cuts open its stomach with her sword. The Crowd cheer again, louder this time and chanting her name,"Aspect, Aspect, Aspect". Hydra falls to the ground with a thud. As it collapsed, Aspect spills out of the wound. She looks at the beast than the crowd who cheers her name. She then raises an arm in victory.
The Grandmaster then appearsagain and with a smile says,"We have our new champion!". The crowd cheers once again and they throw flowers, Weapons, and Units. She takes off her helmet and collects a 3dozen units in her helmet. She holds onto her helmet as she makes her way back to the prepping area. Once there Scrapper 142 takes her helmet and takes all the credits but two. "There. Its enough for food, champion". Her helmet is placed back in her arms and 142 walks off.
Two guards come and take her arms in hand and escort her to her new room. She looks around and to her horror, the bed is made from a giant rodents skull. She sees shields, weapons, a ball and a few chairs in the room. Also two windows with great views.
She goes to a freshly poured water bowl and takes the rag. She then rubs her face but when she looks at the rag and water the paint isn't coming off. So, she tries harder and harder but to no avail. She throws the rag down in frustrations. "It wont come off".Nuala turns to see scrapper 142 who has a smirk on her face.
Nuala looks back at the broken mirror in front of her and looks at her face paint.
Her shoulders then slump down in sadness.
"Don't feel bad. I'm sure this is better that your old life". Nuala shook her head," no, I was happy with my dad, brothers and sisters". 142 rolls her eyes," family is over rated. Now, if you tell anyone that your Nuala and not Aspect I will come back and kill you myself. Oh, and don't speak". Aspect nods and 142 exits the room Just as Grandmaster and Topaz enters her new quarters.
"Hey,Hey My new champion. How are ya liking your new place". She looks around her room and back at Grandmaster. She was about to speak but remained silent. "Can't you speak?". She shook her head. "Oh, well. We will work around that. Are ya hungry?". She nods. Grandmaster claps twice and two women in gold enter her room and set down the platers of food and exit. "Uh, help yourself and one of my workers will be around shortly if you require anything". Topaz and Grandmaster then left without a word.
Topaz enters her room after a long day and once inside she changes into a grey tank top and black sweatpants. Once she exits the bathroom and hangs up her armor she says,"I'm going to get dinner. It will be here in a few minutes".
Nuala didn't answer like usual so she just left thinking she is asleep. She made it to the kitchen and collects a tray of apples, chicken, grapes and Nuala favorite snack, Yaro Fruit.
She returns to there room shortly with the tray of food. Topaz sets the tray down at the table and sets there spots at the table. Once she is done she goes to Nualas "room" and knocks on the door. " Nuala, dinner is here. Come out and eat". Again silence. She opens the door to find her bed empty.
Her eye brows furrowed. She looks around the room and called out for her," Nuala. Where are you?".
But, once more silence.
She looked around once more then left to find Grandmaster.
She makes it to his room and knocked. She hears giggling from the other side which makes her roll her eyes. "Come in". She enters to find the Grandmaster in bed with six other women. "What can I help you with?".
"Nuala is gone. She isn't in my room. I haven't seen her all day".
The Grandmaster thought for a moment," I did get a signal from the docking bay. The Nomad launched before our champions match finished. It wasn't even scheduled for orbit". Topaz looks at Grandmaster with concern. "Is there footage of anyone entering?".
Grandmaster gets out of his bed and ties his robe. Both of them walk to his control console and the screen comes up with recent footage.
The footage showed Nuala entering the ship but stumbling. The ship Engines ignite and the Nomad lifts off the ground. Then it fly's slowly out of port and outside of the docking bay.
"So, she's really gone?". Grandmaster looks at Topaz and puts a hand on her shoulder. "I'm sorry, I know you two were close".
Topaz looks at him," we weren't close. She was like a daughter to me", she said and swiftly left.