"Where did the human go?"
"Has she been crushed already?"
"Unbelievable. Utterly unbelievable."
The spectators mumbled and muttered amongst themselves while most constantly stood from their seats and scanned the field for the human.
They waited in anticipation for some action, any action to be precise. However, all they got was her throwing a red stick into the creature’s eye before disappearing under its feet.
This strange behavior led the Cyclitharans to believe that she either ran for her life or was prematurely crushed by the beast.
"Is this some kind of joke?" the Grand Duke angrily rose from his seat and started blasting at Grim and Lord Gravax. Expecting a much more entertaining fight, the Cyclitharan showed his disappointment toward the two Granians who promised but didn’t deliver.
However, at that moment, an interesting event started to play out. It began with Lilly pointing at the field which immediately drew everyone’s attention to the bone-filled landscape.
With all the spectators looking at the field, they witnessed the dried, stains of blood smearing off the walls, floors, bones, and pieces of shattered/crushed armor left lying around.
The blood darkened, thickened, and liquidized itself before rising into the air. It started with small volumes and then gradually increased to a stream-like flow.
The Cyclitharans gasped and marveled at the sight with the Grand Duke remembering how the blood from the elk-like beast did the same thing at the will of the pink-skinned creature.
Like a child watching a weird, odd, and bizarre event right before their eyes, the Cyclitharans kept their eyes glued to the blood. They even found themselves following the motion of the blood with their heads spinning in circular motions.
All this happened smoothly until one of the officials pointed and screamed, alerting the others of what it had seen.
"LOOK. OVER THERE!!!" It screamed while pointing. The rest of the spectators and the Granians turned their focus to the beast’s backside and beheld the sight of a frightening creature squatting with its hands slowly raising above its body.
The being’s red skin, talk frame, and crescent-shaped eyes were all too frightening for them to behold without losing their composure.
Some of the officials began to evacuate themselves from the Colosseum while others called for the soldiers to protect them from the creature.
The Grand Duke, being one of the panicking Cyclitharans, was about to evacuate but then noticed how the Granians remained calm.
He oddly observed their calm nature and wondered why they weren’t panicking like he and the others were. This bewilderment left him to interrogate, to find out if they really were that brave or were too paralyzed in fear to move.
"We don’t know what that thing is. Don’t you think it’s wise to run away before finding out what it does?" He questioned and waited for a response but got none. "Have you heard what I said? Why’re you just standing there?"
"Why the change of heart, Grand Duke?" Lord Gravax questioned with a smile, but not just any ordinary smile. This one was a smile of satisfaction, the kind that one would make once they made an important discovery or laid their eyes upon an important revelation. "I thought you wanted to see what the Human could do? Is that not it?"
The Grand Duke scoffed in disbelief and even began to suspect the Granians of trolling him. His thought process accelerated negatively so quickly that he suspected this red creature to be one of their "attempts" at killing him. The Human was the first "attempt" or rather decoy so what’s the say that this one wasn’t the second attempt with the intention of finishing the job?
"This is a coy move to end my..."
"Come see for yourself." Grim motioned at the Cyclitharan as he too kept his attention on this new red creature. It certainly resembled a Blood Mutant but its form was more divine and well formed. It looked like a Mutant but at the same time wasn’t. It didn’t make sense.
"Grand Duke," Lilly, being the only one with sympathy towards the Grand Duke’s confusion, so it fit to explain to him what exactly the red creature was and why it appeared all of a sudden. "That red creature is the human. Lord Gravax and Grim said the Human is a Blood Mutant. That is what it looks like when a Human transforms into one."
"I don’t understand." He confessed, the whole idea failing to settle in his mind just yet. "Is that...human a..."
"It’s capable of changing its physical form and appearance to that of a Blood Mutant." Grim elaborated further. "That is what the Human looks like at its strongest."
’Although this is completely new to me. I rarely so Mutants like that on the Blood Mutant planet.’
Because he was curious and daring enough to stick much longer, the Grand Duke inched closer while making sure to stand directly behind Lord Gravax in case something bad were to happen. If it did, Gravax would be the first to get hit.
"Does this happen often?"
"Yes, it does," Lilly answered. "Frightening, isn’t it?"
The rest of the spectators, like the Grand Duke, decided to stick a little longer since their leader was panicking as he did before.
Inching closer, they witnessed a thick vortex of blood spinning circles around the beast.
The beast took note of the vortex immediately and just as it was about to dodge them, it watched as the volumes of blood began to thicken into long, nine-inch-long blood spikes with jagged edges and barbs. Googlᴇ search 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡•𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚•𝙣𝙚𝙩
The spikes traveled to the beast’s backside and slid directly under its tail. Before the beast could even think of dodging, it heard the sound of flesh being brutally pierced into and cut off, followed by an excruciatingly horrible pain nearly paralyzing its lower body.
The spectators, the Grand Duke, Lord Gravax, Grim, and Lilly held their mouths shut as they watched two giant crown jewels fall to the ground with a lot of blood spilling from the gushing wound left behind.
But that was only the beginning.