Chapter 23
“This guy should be quite the challenge. I better arm myself a little more if things get ugly” Seihu thinking as he got the second protosteel convertible stick from his sack.
The moment Lightstrike was announced after Gladiator, Seihu went out with his arsenal tucked into his belt.
As Seihu approached his final opponent in the Canyon, he looked up and thought.
“And Great Pits of Ta-Metru, is that ugly.” He thought.
Gladiator looked like a tank, a tank with claws, red eyes and a hunger and thirst for battle that when he was in Stelt, he was known as a regular customer in all-you-can-beat buffets before the Dark Hunters hired him.
As soon as the gong banged, Seihu got ready to fight his opponent.
As Seihu got his fighting stance ready, Gladiator lunged at him with its claws. Seihu dodged Gladiator’s attacks by ducking and parrying.
Gladiator grabbed Seihu’s leg when he delivered a jump kick, and threw Seihu. Seihu got back up, but Gladiator kept lunging at Seihu with its multiple claws, Seihu kept on evading and blocking Gladiator’s claws away.
What caught Seihu the most was his challenger’s maneuverability in addition to its strength. Seihu caught that as he tried to sweep Gladiators leg, it jumped and spun over Seihu and delivered a kick to him that sent him flying. It then pinned Seihu to the floor and tried to claw Seihu. But Seihu responded by smacking its legs causing Gladiator to loosen his grip, enabling Seihu to roll away. Seihu got back up, but so did Gladiator.
Seihu retaliated, “Enough of this, Time to even out the odds”.
With that said, Seihu brought out his two Protosteel sticks that he tucked into his belt.
The audience awed at the sight.
“Whoa, looks like Lightstrike decided not to come empty-handed, but is he going to leave that way?” asked the Announcer.
“This is for those who helped train me through all of this” thought Seihu.
After a deep breath, Seihu slowly but carefully moved towards his opponent.
The sight was crazy; the two opponents were going at it, claws versus sticks. The amount of swishing and clanging sounds combined with some footwork and gymnastic moves was enough to cause the audience stay in their seat. It was almost musical.
Combined with a few acrobatics to dodge some of Gladiator’s many blows, Seihu was on near equal footing with Gladiator. Seihu needed to draw on everything he had to survive. Seihu then resorted the placing one of his sticks in his pocket and unscrewing the other one turning it into nunchucks.
Gladiator tried to slice Seihu, But Seihu ducked and hit Gladiator’s arm with his nunchucks. Seihu then twirled the nunchucks around and stood in a whip ready position.
Seihu’s eyes tightened with intensity at his opponent, and Gladiator frowned the same way.
As Gladiator lunged forward, Seihu kept whipping Gladiator with his nunchucks. Seihu went as far as to even allow Gladiator to try to stab him. As Gladiator attempted, Seihu caught Gladiator’s arm with his nunchucks, pulled his arm down, flipped over it and delivering an axe kick to his left clawed arm, which bent all three blades of the claws. Seihu delivered a back kick to Gladiator’s belly. Seihu blocked Gladiator’s right arm with his spare stick as he switched weapons. He kept hitting Gladiator with his nunchucks as it tried to fight back. Gladiator was trying to stand up and finish the fight, only for Seihu to jump up and run across Gladiator’s arm like a Silver Chute Spider running up a cable and deliver a finishing kick to Gladiator.
The match was over and only one was left standing…Lightstrike aka Seihu
“We have a winner!” cried the Announcer.
The crowd cheered loudly.
Burosa and Sterok were laughing in delight over the victory of their champion.
But that wasn’t the end…