The crowd cheers. Jacky opens his eyes and stares down Team War Trench as they take their positions on the summoning pillars. He throws his coat off to the side and readies himself to transform into the Sabered Prince. Lulu, Lala, and Claire watch in anticipation.

“Man, I was so excited to try out Whisper’s new move tonight too.” Lala pouts

What gives? What was the point of training earlier if Jacky was going to pull this stunt? How are we supposed to be a team?

“Listen, girls, it’s fine. Your time will come. This appears to be fate. Let us watch and cheer him on from the side. There’s a chance this comes to the benefit of us all.” Clair throws her binder to the ground and raises her fist into the air. “Kick their asses, Jacky!”

Oh, I will. Not a single one walks away alive!

Let’s bring the hellfire to their feet and watch them dance!

Jacky morphs into the Sabered Prince. His body expands, and his height reaches a magnificent fourteen feet tall. His build boasts defined muscles, his claws shimmer in the lights. The Sabered Prince lets out a loud and vicious roar.

“Awake once more!” The Sabered Prince sharpens his claws against his massive canines.

“That’s one big cat. A lot bigger in person.” Father Gregory says. He begins his summoning. He looks into the sky and opens his mouth wide. A white beam of light shines out of his mouth and eyes. With a loud crack of lightning, his horror appears in the arena. A slender humanoid-shaped horror with loose white rags and a gaping mouth full of sharp teeth appear before the audience. Everyone in the stands begins to chant the name “Chemosh! Chemosh! Chemosh!” Chemosh shrieks and tilts its head towards the Prince.

Ugrin Sachay closes his eyes. Blood surfaces from his pores, pouring down his face. The ceiling of the Warpath opens like a portal. Out of it, his horror spirals down and hits the arena floor. Stout and bulky in stature, Ugrins horror is made of a black and green metallic material. Green tubes with glowing purple liquid flow across the body of the horror. Its face is just a pair of bright green eyes with no other features. Its arms appear to have all sorts of pipes of varying sizes stretched along their length. The crowd goes wild! An info card flashes on the viewscreen, the name reads “2K-2K.”

“Come forth my horror, Kinnaris!” Susan sits criss-cross and places the backs of her hands on her knees. The sounds of hoofs echo across the arena. From behind Susan, centaur-like horror leaps over her head and into the field. The lower body is armored. The upper body is female; her skin is chrome, her eyes bright white with a bald head. Her hands are wielding crude spiked maces.

The viewscreen above begins to count down from ten seconds. A robotic voice counts along with each passing number. Hitting zero, the word “begin” flashes onto the screen.

Chemosh makes the first move. It drops to all fours and runs towards the Sabered Prince. Just behind Chemosh, Kinnaris gallops, raising her maces offensively. 2K aims its arms into the sky, puffs of steam bellow from tubular constructs twisting around its shoulder. Chemosh takes the left side while Kinnaris maneuvers to the Prince’s right. 2K fires a volley of flaming plasma into the air. The Sabered Prince does not make any sudden movements that would place him at a disadvantage. Both Kinnaris and Chemosh attack simultaneously. The Prince ducks down and extends his one leg back far behind him, dodging Chemosh, who had leaped right for him. Swiftly he grabs the small Chemosh and forces his body into the swing of Kinnaris’s mace, sending the horror to the ground. The Prince leaps off to the left just as a wave of heated plasma lands where he stood only moments ago.

“Cute little trick. Allow me to show you the intensity of a true predator!”

The Sabered Prince picks up speed. The sound barrier bursts. Many in the crowd clasp their hands to their ears. Chemosh, who had recovered and attempted to chase him down, is sent flying from the shockwave. The Prince hits the protective wall that encircles the arena. He speeds up even faster and does one full lap in seconds, picking up more and more speed. The other horrors cannot even track his movements. The Prince leaps from the wall behind 2K and slashes at the mechanism taking off one of its arms. Green and purple liquid pour from the wound as the mechanical horror stumbles forward, liquid splashing everywhere. The Sabered Prince growls, his canines shining in the light. His eyes trace the arena floor and lock onto Kinnaris. He runs on all fours right for her. The horror gallops to meet him head-on swinging her maces wildly. The Prince rolls, avoiding the maces and shifts his momentum. Before Kinnaris has a moment to react, he digs his claws into the back leg of the horror, yanks it off balance, and lands a solid fist into the face of the centaur-like monster. He rips one of the maces free from Kinnaris and swings behind him as Chemosh attacks the Prince’s flank. The mace lands directly into the horrors’ skull, stunning him and causing him to take a few steps back. The Sabered Prince takes a deep squat and jumps straight into the air, landing behind Chemosh.

“Die.” The Sabered Prince growls as he plants his palms across the face of the horror, snapping its neck.

The Sabred Prince twists the head of Chemosh around; digging into Chemosh’s eye sockets, the Prince pulls on the horror’s orbitals viciously. The Prince slices through Chemosh’s neck with his other hand, severing the head from the body. Father Gregory dawns a face of terror before holding his chest; he coughs up blood and keels over dead. His body disintegrated into a mist of black essence. Both Kinnaris and 2k look at each other and charge towards the Sabered Prince.

“Don’t lose focus now, little horrors. That’s if you want to survive this tragedy. By all means, though, throw your lives away! Hahaha!” The Sabered Prince roars.

The Prince dodges another assault from Kinnaris. Blindsiding the Prince 2K slams him into the arena wall. The barrier cracks under the weight of the impact. The Prince growls in anger.

“That’s only gonna piss him off even more.” Lulu giggles to herself.

“This is amazing! I’ve never seen a horror battle so ferociously. let alone against three horrors!” Clair is shocked by the events taking place before her.

The Sabered Prince claws at 2 K’s face scratching one of his glowing eyes. The horror reacts by releasing its hold on the Prince and covering its face with its only hand. The Prince shoves his foot through the horror’s chest, takes another step up onto its head, pushes off of it, sending the mechanical monster onto its back. More colorful liquids leak from the horror. Kinnaris swings with her mace landing a blow across the Prince’s chest; however, he catches her arm in the process. The Sabered Prince turns the wrist of his free hand upwards right into the elbow of Kinarris, causing the joint to bend in the opposite direction. Susan’s face winces. The Prince then twists the now loose limb and rips the appendage free from the body of the horror. A thick silver liquid oozes from the injury. More colorful fluids leak from the horror.

2K sees an opportunity. The Mechanical horror grapples the Prince. He struggles but cannot break free before it is too late. The horrors body begins to heat up, glowing bright red before exploding, covering them both in a nimbus of plasma. The audience looks to Ugrin, who doesn’t move for a moment, then slowly falls over; blood continues to spill from his eyes—presumed dead. The debris clears, and standing still alive is the Sabered Prince. Most of his flesh has been burned off, a chunk of his arm is missing, and one of his canines is chipped and cracked. One eye is sliced open.

“Hahaha. I haven’t been hurt like this in a long time! I call this entertaining! As I still stand here alive, Kinnaris, we can assume you’re still so rightfully fucked!” The Prince roars

Kinnaris turns to pick up one of her maces from the ground. The Prince dashes forward and kicks the weapon across the arena floor. Kinnaris lifts its front legs and attempts to kick at her opponent. The Sabered Prince grabs both legs, snaps them, and throws her whole body to the ground. He mounts atop of the horror, his weight causing the upper body of the centaur to align itself with the horse-like part of the body, causing the humanoid half to split its spine in two. Still breathing but unable to move from the fatal wound.

“Such a tragic way to go. But what did I say? You would all die tonight. It wasn’t speculation but foretelling. Now watch as your light fades from this reality.”

The Sabered Prince wraps both hands around the horrors throat and squeezes hard, choking Kinnaris. Susan begins to suffocate over on the pillar coughing every few seconds as the life is drained from her horror. The one arm of Kinnaris reaches for the Prince’s face but cannot reach; eventually, the horror goes limp. In her struggle to breathe, Susan falls off the pillar and, upon hitting the ground, poofs into black mist. The Sabered Prince immediately takes back form to Jacky. The wounds carry over but already begin a healing process. Jacky takes a few steps away from the dead horrors before collapsing.