Landing on all four, the giant bear let out a roar when he realized that his enemy had escaped his mighty hug. 
Varya leaped to his back and began hacking his hind leg with his butterfly knight. His visibility faded. At the wrong time. Really. 

He felt a surge of electricity suddenly ensnared him from his back. His legs refused to move, and his hand suddenly went limp. Enraged Ted did not waste a moment to turn back, but instead, he used his hindleg to kick Varya back, hurling him to the other room. The sound of door cells being clanged open could be heard before his body finally crashed against the hard and cold wall. 

Behind the bars, a beautiful red-haired woman smiled mischievously. Her staff glowed in pale white when she stomped it to the floor. Runic letters glowed on the cell doors and wall behind him, and as if moved by some unknown power, the door swung shut. 

[color=f49ac2]"Ah! A new test subject! Be a dear and make yourself at home. Fret not. This will be over soon!" [/color]

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Ted the Gladiator growled and turned back. Then turned back again. Huffing like mad. Confused was an understatement to describe what he felt right now. He stood by his two legs again, trying to sniff that wretched magic. It was gone now. Did he pulverize that thing under his legs?

[color=f49ac2]"Ted. Focus! [i][b]llonydd[/b][/i]!"[/color] The doctor shouted something powerful. It felt like something was blitzing in his head when he heard it, yet the magic felt calming. Focus, yes, he would be so. 

Fully adjusted to the room's ambient brightness, he could clearly see them now. The intruders, this many, surround them. blocking his way from the entrance. What they want?  

[i]"You see, my boy? They are here for [i]mother[/i], they are here to kill [i]mother[/i]." [/i]

His heart raced. A voice in his head spoke up, and it was somewhat familiar. Yes, what about Mother? If the intruders were here, would that mean....? He shook his head. The pain swelled again. [i]No, Mother IS safe, she is in the big house. Those intruders came here through tunnels, like rats they were.[/i]

[i]Yes... don't think much about it. Mother is safe, but Ted has to do something to keep her safe. Get rid of those intruders! Crush them! Don't think much! Remember [b]Mother think. Ted Smash. [/b][/i]

[b]Mother think. Ted Smash. [/b]

[b]Mother think. Ted Smash [/b]

[b]Crush them!!![/b]

His enormous hand caught the axe, letting the warm iron dig into his palm. It was shallow, almost painless. This old sensation, adrenaline, the rush. The Gladiator Were-Bear grabbed the axe with his two hands now and tried to take it by force. The armored thing refused, so Ted swung his arm and thwacked the blazing specter's chest armor. 

The fire temporarily ignited his fur, but such minuscule pain was a mere trifle thing to him.

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Ted might be slow, dull-witted, and sees himself as a wild animal. But they did not crown him as the arena's Champion out of pure savagery alone. And thus, he was capable of logical thinking, and if those juvenile bears thought they could lure him like an animal in heat, they were wrong.