Capítulo 43: Step up
With the most awkward friendship start ever. I had about 5 minutes to get ready for the competition bullshit. I wasn't feeling, very sporty right now. So I sat in silence as everybody lined up and gathered. Drawing numbers to determine the randomized places. I drew a 7.
7 always seems like the go to number. "Hey Orin are you ready for this?"
"Meh, I guess. Alexia are you ready?"
"Yeah I mean, you didn't really teach me how to fight. However I think...No I can do this."
"Yeah, teaching you how to fight in such a short period would've been pointless. Unless you have natural capability with fighting, the best you could achieve was training your body instead. Now thankfully, you can at least do a battle of endurance."
Alexia apparently had great genetics because she filled out with some serious muscles in a short period of time. She had some great abs and some seriously crazy legs. Her body was now pretty toned, but with the lack of fighting skill. She had to make sure to dodge and run to win her fights.
"Heha, stop looking you'll embarrass me..."
"Sure, anyway have you seen Hio?"
Her jaw practically dropped, "You could at least pretend. He is mediating I guess? Odd one he is..."
"Surprisingly talkative you are?"
"Hmph, yeah well I hate lull's in conversations. If we just end it here its just weird."
"Understandable..."
A obvious lull was formed, and she brushed her hair out of her eyes. "Seriously?"
"You know talking about the lull makes it more awkward right?"
"ANNOUNCING CONTESTANT NUMBER 4 VS NUMBER 9, #4 COMES FROM..."
"Does he need to yell like that?"
"Hey, what are the twins gonna do if they have to fight each other?"
"Don't know, but if they get paired against each other it means the matches are rigged."
"Huh?"
"The statics of them actually fighting based on luck is possible, but solely impossible if it is true randomness. So if they get paired to fight, it means the matches are rigged so certain people fight each other and their reactions to fighting each other. This is in front of the fire lord." I pointed to the royal viewer where Ozai and Azula sat.
"On top of that, if the twins pass on each other it will show weakness. The fire lord burned his own sons face scarring him permanently... Do you really think they will let those two off like that?"
"Oh..."
"Yeah, so just so you know if I fight Hio, Imma skip. If i fight you however, Imma crush you. Hio can be passed off as a friend I don't wanna fight. You however can be taken as something more. Specially since you aren't the only girl. I would have to establish not fighting women, but that would be a lie since I would totally would."
"Huh...Well, I guess that means I would have to pass..."
"Bingo, got it in one."
"Damn, wait does that mean you would have to coordinate with Hio?"
"Nah, by the way, why are you..."
"Just asking, Just asking..."
"Alright, I guess. Anyway, not much else to say here. So I suggest you take notes on who wins this fight encase you have to fight them..."
She nodded and sat down in a different chair. Watching the fight it was alright, it was two of the people I hadn't associated with. However I think they were the two had become Fat Lee's lackeys... Damn really so many people named Lee.
#4 I think was winning the fight. He was using some dirty tactics to win. I had been watching the whole time while talking to Alexia. #4 had tossed dirt into his opponents eyes and had been constantly hitting the guy in the same place over and over again. #9's face was really starting to bruise and blood had been coming out of his nose for a while. #4 was fighting with his fist...No he had some kind of brass knuckles on. While #9 had some sort of rope and javelin. So he had a bad disadvantage on short range.
At least it was looking like that until he wrapped the rope around #4's neck and started to strangle him. "H-holy shit, That..."
"As suspected, these fights are anything goes." Some in the crowd had looked away. Others cheered, but there was a decent few who just didn't even react. I guessed this was a pretty tame showing them compared to what has been normal in the arena then. After all a good amount of people here were military families. With how the fire nation families work it seemed pretty standard.
Alexia was in a slight shock, the same with only two others. Goodish hearted people I suppose. I'd skip them if I get them. Or more exactly I will try to get people skip me. #9 had won by making his opponent pass out. it didn't seem like he killed him. However a couple of people came out and grabbed the poor guy. Taking #4 off to recover I guess.
"WHAT A STARTING MATCH! AN UNEXPECTED, BUT ENTIRELY WELCOME VICTORY FROM NUMBER 9. MAY THE NEXT FIGHT START... AS #9 CLEARS THE ARENA MAY NUMBER 2 AND NUMBER 6 COME DOWN."
Feng Tai was fighting one of the twins. It seemed Feng Tai had #6 and the matches didn't seem rigged so far. Perhaps it really was random? Feng Tai greeted twin number one the guy out of the two and readied his sword. Oh boy...Time to mentally commentate more fights...
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