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Rythe flew sideways, knocked aside by the powerful lunge, to land in a sprawl near the arena edge. He held on, though, and pulled himself back up, before holding his sword at the ready, between him and Xistund. Rythe's left hand still pulsed with a faint glow, his charged energy ready and waiting to be unleashed.

"Er... that was good, but you'll be hard pressed to do it again," Rythe taunted, grinning. He wobbled only slightly, but was still plenty ready to fight.

Rythe had been faking. He jumped to the side, now wary and anticipating the flash of speed, and held out a single foot to trip Xistund over the edge of the arena (because it's like the pokemon one, I assume, with gaps around the edge). If Xistund managed not to trip, he would find a sword coming down on the back of his neck, anyway, so this wasn't a good position for him.

Rythe was about to cut the wire when he conceived a better idea. Leaning over the edge, looking at Xistund (who had nowhere to run), Rythe unleashed his huge blast of electrical power. It was fast, and it was very damaging if it hit.

Fatal watched the proceedings with great curiosity.

((Maybe Xistund should lose. Fatal is going to attempt to turn the winner into a trophy, to become an assist trophy to fuel his antagonistic, evil ways. Check his profile for details on his evil quest.))

((So, what, does Xistund reappear outside the arena stage as the loser, or what? I don't understand what happens at this point. But he loses, right?))

With smug satisfaction, Rythe then fell to his knees, only then feeling the pain from having been slammed into a wall earlier. He was only breathless, but Xistund was quick!

Upstairs, watching the entire fight, Fatal grinned sadistically. Only a few moments existed until he would pounce....

(depends how he loses. if he dies and becomes a trophy, the winner is told to revive him, and if the winner refuses then the trophy gets teleported out of the arena and a worker goes out to revive them... if he lives and just gives up, he just gets to walk out)

Rythe squatted, then jumped down to the area below the arena. He slid down a rope that had been dropped once the battle ended, and then walked over to the trophy that Xistund would now be. "Revive," Rythe stated, touching the trophy and causing it to revert.

~

A long tentacle of some strange, snake-like monster caught Rythe by the neck, protruding from the ground in between him and Xistund, and the color slowly drained from Rythe's face. Fatal dropped down shortly, and walked up to Rythe, ignoring the likely dazed Xistund. "You're worthy," Fatal breathed, and brought a small knife--which would be no good for ordinary combat--to Rythe's throat. Rythe immediately turned into a trophy.

Rythe grabbed the trophy and ran to the nearest ladder, climbing back up to the stadium stands above, to escape the Coliseum. He had his prize. He had Rythe.

((Unless you want to be kidnapped, too. Trophies will be out of commission for a little while, until the good guys finally decide to defeat Fatal and free Rythe and Nys and co.))

((Heads-up, we're going to have to change things a bit. SuperNerd said there were no gaps, but after a little persuasion, he agreed that the arena in the middle of the coliseum could have raised up, like a specific fight mode. So we don't have to edit anything, except that you can walk straight out of the Coliseum instead of climbing a ladder.))

By the time Xistund could do anything, Fatal was long gone. With Rythe in tow.