The First Task was supposed to test their daring and preparedness. So naturally, being idiots in power, the tournament officials decided to tell the champions literally nothing about what the task was.
Krieg decided that if he was supposed to be prepared, then he would simply have to 'load up'. Gaige had already set up a digistruct ammunition dispenser, since they had no way to buy ammo. It generated ammo slowly, but it worked well enough. When all of the Pandorans were stocked up on ammo, Krieg had started doing research on the last tournaments to figure out what the First Task might be.
As far as he could tell, the task was likely to involve combat of some kind. So he was already set. But in the event that he isn't meant to kill, he also got some 'safe ammo' which was non lethal but still hurt like hell.
On the day of the task, everyone assembled in a large circular stadium containing a rocky battlefield. They were all excited to see what would happen. But the Champions were worried about what they would face soon. Krieg was calm, having grown accustomed to combat, but was worried that whatever he had to do wasn't going to involve fighting. The rest were the opposite. They knew what they would be fighting, but were worried they would fail.
Bagman entered the tent they were waiting in, along with Mr. Crouch and Minister Fudge. Fudge looked happy when he entered, but seemed hesitant when he laid eyes on Krieg.
"Well, today's the day! Are you all excited?!" Bagman asked happily.
The silence he received was deafening.
"Well then, you must be wondering about what you will be facing today. Your task is to retrieve a golden egg mixed into a nest of dragon eggs, guarded by their nesting mother." Bagman said.
Nobody seemed to react beyond Krieg's eye widening slightly. When he noticed that no one else seemed to be surprised, he took a mental note.
'They already knew.'
Crouch produced a bag with slight movement seen coming from the inside. Crouch explained that they had four tiny dragons each with a numbered tag around their necks inside, the tag representing the order in which they will fight and the dragon representing their opponent. They all pulled out a dragon from the bag and Cedric went out first when everything was prepped. Twenty minutes later, Fleur entered the field. Krum walked out ten minutes after Fleur, and finally it was Krieg's turn.
Krieg entered the arena to many cheers and some boos. When he got a good look at the dragon, Krieg decided not to let the dragon strike first. He pulled out a Slagga and used it on the dragon while running in a circle around it. The audience was rather surprised at the sight of the dragon becoming purple. Krieg then sent out a Longbow Storm Front and Longbow Pandemic. He figured the dragon would be highly resistant to fire, so he decided to use the other VLADOF grenades instead. Not long later, the dragon was Corroded and Electrocuted.
Nobody could really see what Krieg threw at the dragon, but they certainly didn't expect it to look like a net of lightning with green gas a second later. The dragon began to get mad and sent a jet of fire at Krieg, who didn't move to dodge it. When Krieg was engulfed in flames, the audience screamed in terror, believing him dead. So they were all startled when they heard maniacal laughter coming from the smoldering remains.
"I'M GONNA KILL YOU ALL, I'M GONNA KILL YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR FAMILY, I'M GONNA TRACK DOWN YOUR GRANDPARENTS AND TURN THEM INSIDE-OUT, NOBODY CAN STOP THE BLOOD TRAIN THAT WILL TURN YOUR LOVED ONES INTO A RED SPLATTER ACROSS THE TRACKS OF HUMANITY! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Everyone in the audience was surprised but felt that they shouldn't be. He always referred to himself as 'Krieg the Psycho.' They probably didn't realize how much that name fit. But not all of them thought that way. The Potters looked alarmed and sad, wondering what caused him to end up like this. Dumbledore was scared. How was he to manipulate someone who was THIS bloodthirsty? For the 'Golden Trio', they were alarmed but resolved to treat him no differently than they already have. If he wanted to seriously hurt them, this display makes it clear that they wouldn't be able to stop him. For the Pandorans in the audience, it was pretty much just Tuesday.
Krieg being on fire allowed him to use his 'Raving Retribution' as he called it to send out explosive fireballs. Not at the dragon, but at an egg in the nest. Because he was filled to the brim with Bloodlust and when the fireball destroyed one of the eggs, one of his most powerful skills activated.
Blood Bath.
"IT'S A RED SHOWER FOR A BIG FISH!" Krieg declared as he pulled out an orange/yellow launcher with a radiation symbol on both sides. To the Pandorans watching from the crowd, Krieg's plan was plain and clear: in the words of Mr. Torgue, BLOW IT THE F*CK UP!!!
Krieg fired the Nukem at the dragon and landed a hit on the dragon's head. Most of the audience had no idea what that weird metal… thing would do to the dragon. Apparently, what the Nukem would do was blast apart the dragon's head into massive chunks of visceral blood and gore in a mushroom cloud.
The stadium was silent as Krieg calmly walked towards the nest in front of the dragon's body, gently picked up the Golden Egg, and walked back to the tent.
Krieg had a reason why he killed the dragon like that: he wanted people to understand that muggles don't need magic to be dangerous. If a muggle weapon can do in one shot what hundreds of magicals have never been able to do EVER, then that should get them thinking. His thoughts were interrupted by the school nurse while some people came up from behind him. His family, his friends, Dumbledore, and Snape.
"Honestly! Dragons of all things! First dementors then this! What's next?! Mr. Potter, please sit down so I may examine you." Madame Pomfrey said.
"No need. I heal pretty fast. You can check if you want." Krieg replied.
"Of course." Pomfrey said, not believing him. But when she casted the diagnostic spell, she found that he had no active injuries. Evidence of MANY past injuries, but none active right now. "Wha- bu- how?" She barely asked dumbfounded.
"I told you: I heal fast." Was all he said.
Krieg turned to leave but was tackled to the ground by Tina and Rose. The tackle caused his echo to fall out of his pocket and slide on the ground. While Tina and Rose babbled incoherently, which sounded like congratulations, someone picked up Krieg's echo.
That someone was unfortunately Rita Skeeter, who had just walked in.
"Ah, hello Harry! May I have a word with you?" She asked.
Krieg got up. "Ugh. Fine, let's make it quick."
"Splendid! What kind of magic did you use to combat the dragon? I don't believe anyone has ever seen a display quite like that."
"None. The weapons I used are purely muggle."
"Really? But then how did you produce them out of thin air?" Rita asked almost tauntingly.
"With that." Krieg said, pointing at his echo in Rita's hands.
Rita decided to try using it while she said "Really? How does it-"
"Don't touch-" Krieg began to say. But then a voice came from the echo. A voice Krieg very secretly and very much dreaded.
"Subject 24C. Or perhaps I should give you a name? You are different after all. Perplexing. An aberration, really. I'll admit, my first inclination is to eradicate failure, but perhaps you have something to teach me, yes? About the minds of the psychotics. What allows you to resist me? Some innate quality the others don't possess? A chemical irregularity? Or are you just special? Well, we've all the time in the world. So let's see just how special you really are?"
Something whirred in the background, then sounded like it hit something.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!"
The echo log stopped, and everyone looked at Krieg with wide eyes, the Pandorans included. Krieg just walked up to Rita, yanked his echo out of her hands, and went to walk out of the tent back to the castle. But Maya asked Krieg gently "Are you okay?"
Krieg just nodded his head silently, then left.
"Well, this should make for an interesting story." Rita said, mostly to herself.
But nobody there would be allowing that. "You can't put that in the paper." Axton said.
"Oh really? Why not?" Rita inquired.
"Because Krieg will kill you if you do." Salvador said, more serious than anyone had ever seen him before.
"Oh, he can't kill me. It's illegal." Rita said, thinking it solved everything.
"Oh, they wouldn't declare you dead because they would never find your body. You'd be declared missing! You'd just be gone! And you know why?! Because no one would think to look for your body inside of a wild animal on another planet." Maya angrily explained.
Rita looked pale but smiled weakly. "Can I quote you on that?"
The black eye Rita received from Tina was answer enough.
When Krieg was found, he was sitting on his bed, facing away from the door looking at his mask in his hands. When he heard the door opening, he quickly put it back on before turning around to see his mother and father in the doorway.
"Hey, is um… is something wrong?" Krieg asked quietly.
Lily just ran towards Krieg and gave him a massive hug, which Krieg calmly returned.
James began to speak quietly. "Um, you didn't stay for your points, but the judges put you in first place. Thought you might want to know."
"Thanks." Krieg said when Lily released him.
"Do you want to celebrate your victory, because the Gryffindors are throwing a party in their common room for you?" James asked.
"Yeah. Let's do it." Krieg said.
Later that night, Krieg and his fellow Pandorans walked up to the hidden entrance to the Gryffindor common room. Though the entrance wasn't quite secret, considering the loud music coming from the other side. They said the password to the portrait and went in to be greeted by red, gold, and cheers.
When everyone saw the Pandorans, a loud cheer went around the room. Everyone congratulated Krieg and someone handed him a drink. Sniffing it, he caught a very faint whiff of alcohol. He put it down and told Tina to not drink anything in here. Seeing the two twins known for pranking standing near the food table, he decided to tell her not to eat anything either.
Salvador had no such reservations however, and produced a tankard, filled it with punch and chugged. "Go! Go! Go!" Could be heard while Salvador drank it all in one drink. When he finished, he looked sad. "Not enough alcohol." He said disappointedly. James handed him a bottle that said 'Firewhiskey', which Salvador chugged too. When he was done, everyone looked at him in slight concern.
"What?" Salvador asked.
"Well… after drinking Firewhiskey, most people-" Someone started.
But before the person could finish, Salvador belched fire for five seconds straight.
When Salvador finished, Axton declared "Oh ho, I need some of that!"
Axton took a swig and quickly burped a small flame. "Ha! That's awesome! I can breathe fire like Krieg!"
"I'm sorry?" Rose asked.
Gaige answered though. "Oh yeah, Krieg can breathe fire. I mean how else do you think he sent out a fireball during the First Task?"
At that point, everyone asked to see it. Since it was a party, Krieg decided to let loose a little bit. He looked up and used his 'Hellfire Halitosis'. Everyone fell silent in awe. When Krieg stopped, Gaige continued.
"Yeah. Apparently, Krieg has a special organ in his throat that creates a fuel that ignites when it hits the air. We figured it out when we got a full body scan by a scientist back home."
"Do you all have that?" A voice called out.
"No, it's a mutation that only appears in Burning Psychos and Krieg."
"Burning Psychos?" Lily asked hesitantly.
Gaige just used her arm to project their fight at Frostburn Canyon on their way to Lilith. The fight included Burning Psychos, Nomad Pyros, and Goliaths. Everyone saw Axton and Zero attacking from a distance, Salvador and Krieg fighting in close quarters, Maya Phaselocking enemies, and Gaige shooting bullets in directions that even the purebloods knew that they shouldn't be going.
When the projection ended, everything was quiet and most of the students were pale. Deciding the party was over, Krieg said "Well thank you for having us. Good night." And the Pandorans left.
Everyone went to bed that night deciding that they'd had enough excitement for a while.
So a few things.
One, I don't really know how to do fight scenes so sorry about that. Although to be fair, I was originally going to just have Krieg use the Nukem immediately and be done with it, but it didn't seem right.
Two, the last chapter was more or less just me getting those ideas on paper so I could stop thinking about them. So sorry if it was weird.
Three, I have a job and school, so these stories are pretty much going to be something I just do if I can and I feel like it, which means slow updates, so again: sorry.
And fourth, I want your opinions. Give me ideas, or just say whatever. But I really appreciate your feedback. And I do plan to use an idea from the comments, so don't hesitate to leave ideas in the comments, because they really are appreciated.
Please keep all criticism constructive and have a wonderful day.
