Yay! I got another review! ^^ Thank you HikariNoTenshi-San! Heng Shi will play music, but just not in public. This chapter will focus on the tournament that is held in second life. He will meet prince again and he will… well you have to see for yourself! Enjoy! ^^
Disclaimer: Yay, another disclaimer! ^^ I don't own Odd Squad or any other team mentioned in this chapter, but I do own Sabre and Garel.
As I logged in on second life, I find myself at the same spot as before in star city. I look around in the black alley, looking for my dragon Garel. He always goes off somewhere to kill monsters after I log out, then return to me when I log in with the monsters loot. I and Garel are very alike, we both like to kill, we both have a large bloodlust and we can understand each other through our eyes. Ever since I hatched Garel from the egg that I got from the phoenix, we have been the best partners there is. Garel understands when I will be left alone; he doesn't disturb me when I fight or when I sit down in my own thoughts. He also helps me when I need it, like when the girls in town are being annoying pests or when there are a lot of mobs left even though I used my lightning spells. Usually when I get help from someone, I hate it. But when I get help from Garel, I appreciate it. He is like the best partner someone like me could have.
I hear the faint sound of wings coming closer. Soon, I feel a familiar weight on my broad left shoulder plate as my dragon lands on it. Garel has grown quite a lot since I got him, so for him to be able to sit on my shoulder, I had to expand the shoulder plate. Garels sharp green claws are digging into the metal as he flaps his wings to keep himself steady. Its white scales are glowing white in the alley and his red eyes meet my yellow ones. I reach my hand up towards Garels back, where there is a leather bag where Garel fills all the loot in. I remove the straps from him swiftly before I remove the flap to look inside.
Garel has collected good loot today. I flash a happy grin at Garel, who growled approvingly with his red eyes flashing with pride over what he has collected. In the leather bag lie 5 big coin bags, 4 containers with zombie blood, 2 demon horns and a gem. I can sell the demon horns and the zombie blood for a high prize and I can forge the gem into my sword to boost it up. I empty Garels bag into my pouch and attach the bag on Garels back once more. I give Garel a knowing smirk before I poke him lightly on his leg and walk out on the busy street in the star city.
I am getting known more and more in this town, the girls are now screaming stuff like "Sabre! Over here!" or "Sabre, let me pet your dragon!" Usually when the girls scream how they want to pet Garel, he snorts out some red flames towards those people to shut them up. The guys usually say stuff like "Get out of here!" or "I challenge you, Pure lightning!" I got a very unusual nickname since I have unusual speed and can do lightning attacks. At first it was quite annoying like the other nickname bishie, but now it just feels like another name. I continue to wear my smirk as I enter a shop to sell the zombie blood and demon horns that Garel collected.
The woman NPC character behind the counter is the same as always. She gives me a small smile, knowing who I am and what I have come for. "Hello Sabre, here today again I see. What can I do for you?" Her bright blue eyes are shining with happiness and she plays with her long blond hair nervously. I place the zombie blood and demon horns on the counter as I say in monotone. "I'll sell these. And buy one mana potion." The girl nods, takes the items and place them behind the counter. She gives me one healing potion and 16 gold coins in change. "Here you go, have a nice day." She gives me another warm smile. Garel breaths out some threatening red flames towards the NPC, but she doesn't even flinch. She is used to that now. I give the girl an evil smirk before I turn around. "I sure will, the tournament begins today. I have bought a ticket so that I can see all the matches; it will be fun to watch them kill each other." I walk out the door towards the forger next.
As I reach the arena, with my now powered up sword, the arena is crowded. I look around myself from where I stand by the opening. You can feel the excitement in the air as everybody wait for the tournament to start. I want as good view as possible. I can see two seats across from the whole arena. I flash a small smirk, causing the girls that watch me to drool. I poke Garel in the leg and points at the seats. Garel give me a quick nod before jumping off my shoulder, flying towards the seats that I pointed out. I slowly make my way around the arena, knowing that Garel holds the seats for us. Quiet whispers erupt among the players as I pass by.
The battles are already starting and I finally reach Garel. He is lying on both seats while growling at the players that pass him, making them quicken their pace in fear. Garel notices me and sits up so that he is only using one seat. He is too big to be able to sit in my lap now that he has gained so many levels. I remove my sword off my back, sit down and enjoy the show. The wicked grin never leaving my face as I watch the other players kill themselves.
"The next battle is between team 540 Perfect Princess against team 4444's Odd squad!" The announcer says in the speaker. I move my gaze towards the arena closest to me where the fight is about to start. 6 people are already standing there, 1 girl and 5 boys. The people around me start to cheer on the team. Garel let out a growl in annoyance, I nod at Garel approvingly. The girl dances for the boys and they cheer for her some more, such fools. I listen to the speaker again. "Coming from the east side is the Odd squad, their formation being… People please reread the previous volumes. 'Chough chough'" I look over to the east side, flashing a bigger grin (If possible) as I recognise two persons in the team. It is the white haired boy with red eyes and the brown haired girl in the half ponytail. The ones that I met at the pet store some time ago. I lean forward in excitement as I once again zone out the announcer. I share a glance with Garel, both of us thinking the same thing. 'Let's see what they can do'.
I must say that I underestimated this team. Since those two that I met before, I think the guy's name is Prince and the girl's name is Loli something, were really scared of me with all the blood on my clothes. That meat bun pet is useful enough to knock out two enemies at least. They work really well together. There is a man beast priest, a little girl in cute clothing that is a necromancer, a musician elf that is a bard, that Loli girl is a thief, Prince is a warrior and a girl magician. The other team doesn't stand a chance against them. It is quite amusing to see the girl panic about not being protected from her 'protectors'. The girl has fallen head over heals for the warrior elf. As the elf kills the girl, without mercy, the whole arena grows quiet. A happy, slightly crazy, grin appears on my face as I clap my hands. The elf stops swinging his sword to remove the blood from it and looks up at me with a confused look. He seems to recognise me immediately since the colour on his face turns pale; I can see Loli react the same while the other team mates watch me with mixed emotions.
I also receive some crept out looks from the audience as I say to Prince with a now delightful smile on my face. "Good performance, Prince. You have to work on some flaws though if you want me to call you something like the 'blood elf' as I have heard a few people talk about." I let a dark smirk replace my smile for just a second, but Prince gets just a little bit paler so I guess he saw it. The speaker also seems a little pale as he announce in the microphone "Odd… Odd Squad wins!" Happy shouts erupt from the audience, cheering on Odd Squad and Prince. I keep my happy smile on as I walk threw the lines towards the exit. I glance one last time at Odd Squad. Prince is still frozen on his place, his gaze lingering on me. Loli pretty much does the same. The little girl necromancer hides behind the big man beast priest who is looking at me in suspicion. The magician is looking worryingly at Prince and the girl while the purple haired bard is looking at me with hatred flaring in his eyes. I flash a wicked grin at the bard before I walk out of the arena with Garel sitting on my shoulder once again.
I feel like killing something right now, so I am walking towards the dragon fury mountain where I can fight some dragons. I am already at level 56, so it will be a piece of cake. I remove my broad sword from my back. Garel flies up into the air and lets out a huge war cry to draw dragons towards us. As Garel lands beside me, I can hear the sound of heavy feet running towards me. I nod at Garel, saying that he has done a good job, before I cast a small lightning spell to infuse my sword with lightning so that it is 10 times as deadly.
All the dragons come all at once, from behind me and in front of me. They let out similar battle cries as Garel had done to accept the challenge. With one swift swing I mumble 'sonic slash' and immediately kill the most of the dragons in front of me. The shockwave being filled with high electricity kills the following dragons, burning them from the inside. There are only two dragons left in that group, so I leave them to Garel. I turn around to face the mobs behind me. I transform my broad sword to the hammer and expand it. I smash it down upon the first 5 dragons crushing them, making the blood splatter everywhere and paint the mountain walls in a beautiful colour. I transform my hammer to the twin blade with chains and toss one of the blades towards the dragons who are forming two lines for lack of space. As expected, the dragons are dodging the blade, making the chain come in between the two lines. I grin deviously as I make the spikes emerge from the chain, making the spikes longer by adding some mana. The spikes are slicing through the two lines of dragons, killing them in an instant.
As all the bodies disappear in many pillars of light, I can see that one dragon survived. Garel walks up beside me, being done with the other two that I left for him, motioning towards the hurt dragon. I shake my head with the big grin still on my face and walk up to the bleeding dragon. I lift up the dragons head so that I can look at it in the eye. I clench my fist, making the metal spikes come out from my glove. I expand them with my mana and I thrust the spikes into the dragon's throat. The dragons' eye becomes blank with death as it too disappears in a pillar of light. I rise from the ground, dusting myself off a bit, before walking away towards the star city once more. Now that I have stilled my blood lust, I can watch the tournament.
The tournament is very amusing to watch, it would be great to be a part of it but I will not allow myself to work in a team. Kill, kill and kill again. Ahh… That is what I like… I don't listen to the announcer anymore, just content with watching the fights. Odd Squad has won many fights and is now the finals. My favourite battles that I have watched are the one with perfect princess (where Prince killed without mercy, sweet), team phoenix (Where there were total destruction of the other team), Hell's murderers (Where Prince talked about a very cruel type of killing, made me shiver in delight at the words since I myself have killed that way one time) and demon demon team. (Where Prince died, finally, and that there where total destruction to that team as well) Odd Squad is very good, but I really would like to test Prince in a one to one combat. I want to experience his swordsmanship before their final battle. The battle between Odd Squad and Demon demon team ended just now. The whole arena is completely destroyed and almost all the players have fled the area. I just smashed the entire rumble that dared to come near me, creating a circle of rocks around me and Garel.
I look over to the mentioned dragon and he nods, appearing as if he just read my thoughts. I flash an evil grin towards Odd Squad and then at Prince, who is sitting on a row opposite of me. Be prepared, Odd Squad, you are going to have a small visit from me very soon. It is soon time for me to log out so I leave the arena, walking past Prince who has a big boulder on his head. Garel stops by Prince for just a few seconds before flying to me to sit on my shoulder as always. I give Garel a quick questionable look and he replies it with a devilish grin which means 'I prepared him a little'. And by 'preparing' in this situation is scaring. We will see how Prince will react when we meet again. I walk inside the same dark alley as last time, nodding good bye to Garel and log out.
Like it? Hate it? Review it! When do you think he should confront Prince and duel with him? And also, do you think I should make Heng Shi talk to me again? It's your choice; because I can't think about anything fun to talk to him about… T_T But anyway, if you also read 'legend of the assassin', the question at the end of chapter 14 will most likely be answered in this story since Heng Shi is my character. I will also add the poll results in this story, so here it comes! ^^