The Arena Part One

I felt a light shock on my chest, and jumped.

"Wake up sleepin ugly, you're the main fighter in this holding cell. Resistance is futile for all infects in here, and if you resist everyone dies." A guard with a tazer said.

I stood up, slightly shaking, hoping he wouldn't shock me again. He motioned me to follow him out of the room, into a hall. I followed him, and as I walked down the hall I saw a crap load of messed up ugly creatures. "Probably failed experiments." I continued following the guard as the creatures hissed and growled at me, reaching out of their cages with their bent arms, and bloody claws. The guard didn't even look scared, as we walked through the hall.

"Aren't you scared one will break out?" I asked him.

"Not really they're all too stupid to know how, even though it's so simple a two year old could do it." He said, twirling a key in his hand.

"Is there a switch that can let them all loose?" I asked

"Probably, but it's would be deeper in the arena." He said still leading me down the hall.

"How come you didn't put handcuffs on me?" I asked

"Why use handcuffs when we have tazers?" He said

"Good point." I said

I followed the rest of the way down the hall, silently, trying not to get grabbed by a…what ever the heck they are. We reached a gate, that lead to an open area, and I could hear a bunch of cheering and screaming. I heard a high-pitched scream-slash-roar then a loud rip, and something say, "WHO'S NEXT?" I stood there wondering what I had to fight.

The guard handed me a vial and said, "Drink this."

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

"Just drink it." He said a little frustrated.

I opened it, and drunk it. After swallowing the thick liquid I licked my lips, and I think my senses got more enhanced.

"WOW! What is this, its delicious?" I said still licking my lips.

"It's blood." He said

"Blood?" I said wide-eyed.

"Yes blood. Your type of infection gets nutrition from blood, enhancing your senses ten fold, and your power. Plus you also have vacuoles above the roof of your mouth connected with your fangs, and you can store blood in it by sucking it up through your fangs. And you have another vacuole that stores a venom that can paralyze your victim, and if you inject enough it will painfully kill them."

"How does it kill them?" I asked curiously

"It slowly makes them rot from the outside in, and the venom doesn't act as an anesthetic, so they feel all of the pain. I hope to god that doesn't happen to me." He said

"So…I'm the main fighter for that one holding cell?" I asked

"Yep, and you'll start fighting here in a minute when I get the call to let the gate down." He said

"What am I fighting?" I asked

"I don't know but it's a mix between a goat, dragon, and a lion. I think you can take it though."

"Do they have ranks in this arena?" I asked

"Yes if you survive five extremes, as we call them, you are ranked a champion. And if nothing can bring you down they just might kill you for being too powerful." He said checking his radio.

I didn't know if I should've gained courage, and confidence or fear from the words that just went through my ears, because either way its death…unless…

I waited a few minutes and the guard got a call over the radio, and he got ready to let the gate down.

An intercom rumbled over the whole stadium, "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, SCUM AND THIEVES, GAMBLERS AND GLUTTONS, I HOPE YOU'VE PLACED YOUR BETS FOR THE NEXT ROUND BECAUSE WE HAVE CAUGHT X! THIS NEXT FIGHT WILL BE MORE INTENSE THAN ANY YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE. GET READY FOR BLOOD, GUTS AND GORE, AS HE FIGHTS THE CHAMPION, LETS HEAR SOME NOISE FOR X!"

The guard let the gate down and said, "Good luck."

I walked out into the sun, and covered my eyes as they adjusted to the light. On the way out the only noise I heard for me was a bunch of boos, and hisses.

"Everybody's a critic." I mumbled under my breath.

The intercom came back on, "NOW LETS HEAR SOME NOISE FOR THE ONE CHAMPION TO SURVIVE SIX EXTREMES. IF HE SURVIVES THIS HE JUST MIGHT BE DECLARED DANGEROUS, IF NOT WE JUST MIGHT MAKE HIS OPPONENT THE MAIN CHAMPION AND PIT HIM AGAINST THREE EXTREMES AT ONCE! LETS HEAR SOME NOISE FOR THE BEAST!"

I thought to myself "What a corny introduction and name."

This thing that had goat legs, and horns, a lions head, and a dragons body, and tail, stepped out from the other gate. It had sharp claws, and a sharp tip on the end of its tail. It had spikes running down its back, and its arms. And it stood about twelve feet tall. I looked up at it, me being only seven feet tall.

"I can't wait to eat your heart and add your skin to my collection."

"Bring it bitch." I said turning my hands to long sharp claws.

"That's what I'll be saying to your girlfriend when I raid your cell after your death." He said leaned down to my face.

I felt a heavy sting in the back of my head, and a load of overprotection rush through my body. I gritted my teeth and grabbed its snout, and slammed its back as hard as I could on the ground. It made the arena shake, and the crowd gasped. I stuck my right hand on its mandible, and my left hand on its top jaw, and started pulling. It grabbed my arms trying to make me stop, and I kicked its hands away. Its tailed wrapped around me, and threw me away. I landed back on my feet without trouble, and started running towards the creature rising to its feet. I got to its feet, and threw a fireball at its crotch. It howled in pain, and I started slashing at its calf. I finally cut through its skin, and grabbed its calf muscle, and literally tore its muscle out, and you could see the bone. He held his crotch, and grabbed his leg, and I had to move to keep from getting crushed. He caught himself, and jumped on me. I caught him, and held him with no struggle at all. I slammed him back on the ground, and he let out all his breath. I grabbed his tail, and slammed him repeatedly. I spun in a circle, and threw him into the wall with all the momentum I gained from the spin. He got stuck head first in the wall. I smiled so evilly and vile, that the devil would've coward in fear. I turned my right hand into a long, thick, rounded spear with a sharp tip, and set it on fire. I pricked the creature's rear end, and it started squirming. I opened my mouth, and jammed my fangs in its shoulder. Like instinct, I started injecting the venom inside him. I saw the area around the bite start turning a greenish black. I pulled my fangs out of his shoulder, and he slumped into a motionless state. I grabbed his tail, and held him up. I rammed my spear hand into his anus as slanted as I could bend my arm, and it went straight through him. He made a weird noise, and I started moving the spear around causing more pain. I yanked it out fast, and it left a trail of fire in his anus, from the fire off of my hand. I turned my hand back to normal, and kicked him between his legs, as hard as I could. I grabbed his tail with both hands, and yanked. Unfortunately, his tail detached, and he was still stuck in the wall. I turned his tail around, and shoved it up his anus, then grabbed his legs, and started pulling. It broke the wall, but he came flying out, and I fell on my back. He landed in one of the pillars jutting out of the ground at an angle, and cracked it. He slid down to the bottom. I stood up, and dusted the sand out of my fur, and walked menacingly to the helpless victim. I stood centimeters away from the still breathing creature I was about to kill…but how should I end him. The goriest way, but what could be that gory.

The intercom rang over the stadium, "RIP HIS HEART OUT!"

The spectators starting chanting, "RIP IT OUT!" over and over.

I yelled out to everyone listening, "I WANT HIM TO SUFFER FIRST."

I heard him whimper through his through his throat since his mouth was closed. I turned toward my helpless opponent, and grinned evilly.

"This is what happens when you fuck with me, or fantasize about my girlfriend." I said menacingly.

He whimpered even louder. I snapped my fingers, and started a fire at his groin. He started whimpering louder than before, and I made the fire hotter and then made it as hot as I could manipulate the temperature. He started crying and sweating and shaking, and I doused the flame. He still whimpered from the pain. I reared my foot back, and kicked him as hard as I could in the groin, and he let out a scream in his throat. I dug my foot around on the burns, and he screamed loud through his throat. I put my hand on his head, and slammed it against the pillar, and opened his mouth. I grabbed his tongue, and pulled it out of his mouth. I picked up a handful of dirt, and sprinkled some on his tongue then dropped the rest in his throat. He tried to cough, but the venom had him paralyzed he couldn't move a muscle except his heart. I punched him as hard as I could in the jaw, repeatedly. I stopped, and turned my right hand into a tiny dagger. I gradually cut the skin around his jaw, covering his teeth. When I got done cutting his jaws, and enjoying his torture, I turned my hand back to normal. I held his head against the pillar, and his jaw was open enough for what I wanted to do. I raised my hand, as high as I could get it, and slammed it on his mandible. His mandible went sailing to the ground, and landed between his legs in front of my feet. Now when he screamed it wouldn't be muffled. I grabbed his tongue, and started burning it. I watched as it started blistering, and he was howling. I finally made the tongue dry enough to grip easily. I squeezed hard, and yanked. My hand went flying off, and he just grunted. He tongue was still attached. I gripped his tongue again, and started burning it some more. His tongue started forming into a giant blister. I held his tongue tight, and yanked. The blister busted, and it spewed all in his throat. He started howling. I noticed the way he was sitting had his nuts positioned flat on the ground. I raised my foot in the air, and slammed it as hard as I could on his nuts. It busted in a bloody mess all over his thighs, and my foot. He let out a piercing howl that would break your eardrums. I reached down his throat, and felt for his vocal cords. I had a hard time trying to find them, but finally got them, and pulled them. I pulled them out of his throat. I pulled them as hard as I could keeping a good grip on them, and finally stretched them out of whack. They lied there on his chest hanging from his throat, bleeding on his stomach. He couldn't scream now. I thought deviously, for a second.

"I hope you're not very…attached…to your dick." I said grinning evilly.

I turned my hand into a long one-sided razor sharp blade. He got a sad look in his eyes. I raised my hand, and swung down at his groin. His appendage went flying across the stadium, and splattered against the wall. He short of shook, and cried, but he couldn't yell. I turned my right hand into a claw, and bent down to reach his stomach easier. I stuck the tip of my index finger-slash-claw on his stomach, under his rib cage. I slowly forced the tip through his skin, and finally got it all in. I started cutting down, and curved at his pelvis then went back up to his rib cage. I stopped the cut right under his sternum, and ripped the skin apart. I grabbed his intestines, and yanked them out. I wrapped them around his neck, and shot a spike in the pillar, low enough to where he was at my height, and hung him by his intestines. His blood dripped to the floor in a big puddle. I grabbed the bottom of his rib cage, and ripped it open. I gazed at his still beating heart, and gripped it in my hand. I slowly pulled the stubborn muscle out, and the ligaments tore. I held his still beating heart in my hand, and looked at the nearly defeated creature, that was still breathing. I stood there for a second watching his lungs inflate and deflate.

The intercom roared over the stadium, "EAT HIS HEART!"

The crowd mocked the guy over the intercom repeatedly. I stared at the beating muscle in my hand, dripping with blood. I remembered what blood tasted like and the heart started looking tasty. I opened my mouth, and shoved the heart in. I chewed it viciously, as the blood gushed out of my mouth on my hands. I swallowed what I chewed, and licked the blood off my hands. The crowd stood silent, as I devoured the heart like a child would a candy bar. I licked my lips, at the heavenly taste, and felt a buzz in the back of my head. I felt my ear twitch, and I could hear the crowd breathing my senses became so sharp. Everything slowed, and I could see so perfectly, and I felt everything move around me. I heard the defeated creatures skin start decomposing rapidly behind me, and flies started getting attracted to his stench. I smelt it too, but I ignored it. I could smell all the humans in the stadium. I could hear them breath, and everything was almost a near stop. I stood there, enjoying the rush of energy. I looked up, and the crowd was standing. I could see the expressions on their faces. They all looked disgusted, and petrified, at the gory scene they witnessed. I felt a guard's light footsteps walk up behind me, and a gate open up, along with the soft thud of his footsteps, the screech of the gates, and the smell of the guards pit sweat. I turned toward the guard, and he pointed to the defeated creature.

I heard him perfectly say, "Collect a body part from your fallen opponent." The words came out faster than his mouth spoke them.

I turned toward, my fallen opponent, and ripped his skull still attached to his spine from his body, and the rest of his skeleton fell to the stadium floor. I watched as the skeleton slowly fell to the floor, and shattered. I looked back at the guard, and he stared at me in shock. I heard the crowd whispering, "The champion…he's dead." "How could this happen, he was better than all of them." "Wow this X guy is incredible." I heard the crowd roar in delight, and looked around to see them slowly jumping up and down. The guard, grabbed my arm, and I quickly pulled away by instinct. He slowly stumbled and caught his balance, and then time slowly relapsed back with sound, and I couldn't smell everyone. My senses went back to normal as I started realizing the guard was cussing me out. I looked at him, my head spinning.

"That must've been your first heart, and adrenaline rush." He said

I held my head, and kept from falling face first. I stood still for a second, while my dizziness went away.

"Now what?" I asked

"Well you get the champion room, and it's your own room, unless you want someone to stay with you."

"Is that all?" I asked.

"No, the champion, if they are sane, gets pampered, and fed what they want, get what they want, and so on. And the person you want with you in your room gets the same treatment."

"Wow that's one major way to suck up." I said, still keeping my balance straight.

The dizziness went away completely, and I followed the guard back to my cell. All of the creatures seemed to cower in the back of their cell as I walked by. We got to my former cell, and he unlocked it. I walked in on an argument.

"BITCH!"

"BASTARD!"

(Slap) I belted Jake, and he flew against the wall. I held my forearm against his neck, and pushed hard, while digging my hand through his scars on his stomach.

"Don't ever hit Haley again!" I growled, and pissed off was an understatement.

"Austin, don't." Haley yelled.

I felt his trachea start crushing under my arm, as I gritted my teeth, and felt my head heat up. Haley tried to pull me off, but I ignored her. She got everyone to help her pull me off of him, along with Jake trying to. I felt Jake start weakening. Someone wrapped their arm around my neck, and started squeezing. I simply ignored it like nothing. Haley got between Jake and me, and when I saw her, I forgot what I was doing. I put my hands, at my side, and I heard Jake gasp for air. I looked at him, and I saw blood running down his stomach, and he was gripping his neck.

I remembered what happened and said, "Next time they won't stop me."

"Are you done?" Haley asked.

"If he doesn't hit you again." I said glaring at him.

"Look it…" I stopped her.

"I don't care who started it or what lead to it, he shouldn't have hit you." I said still glaring at him.

"Well if this little moment is over would the champion like to take his guest to his room." The guard said.

"Haley, would you like to stay with me?" I asked her politely.

"Yes I would." She said.

"Anything else, the champion wants?" The guard asked.

"Can you get everyone in here a decent room…one with beds and TV and not colder than a well-diggers ass, and hard as a brick?" I asked

"Consider it done. Now any other way we can kiss your ass?" The guard said.

I chuckled and said "Show us to our rooms."

He showed us our rooms, and I sat on the couch with Haley. Seconds later two women came in, with a kit in their hands.

"Ready for you pampering?" The ladies asked.

"I got a this is an unfair treatment feeling." I said

"Hey you earned it, you killed the former champion, and we're kissing your ass so you won't turn on us." They said.

"Ya know…the military already knew I was stronger than them, why didn't they do this before?" I asked curiously.

Suddenly they got nervous.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you just don't hurt Haley, and I'll keep my cool. Treat Haley like you would me, and you won't cross me." I said

They looked a little relieved.

"Are you ready for your pampering?" They asked again.

"Yeah." I said

They massaged us, and combed our fur. They fixed Haley's spikes in a certain style, and trimmed my fur. After the pampering was done, we got fed. I crawled into bed with Haley, and kissed her.

"Night, love you." I said to her.

"Night, love you." She said to me.

We kissed again, and fell asleep on the expensive mattress that felt like a cloud.

The end of chapter 20