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[b]Thaum: Colosseum[/b]
Blood splashed. Two left.

The voiceover announced something about a time limit, and Moira shouted some variety of expletive after, swinging but ultimately unwilling to reach thanks to her partner. And while both Lucien and Lute were speaking, Syed found himself staring numbly at the blood on the floor.

Why?

Why was he even doing this?

He remembered way back when, comforting Lisette back at that cafe. Her distress after the events of Wier. And yet here they were. The other competitors had actually finished the job already, and this was apparently just the [i]trial run[/i].

"No," he finally responded to Lute.

He looked up to the crowds. They weren't just mocking and jeering a bad preformance. They were calling for blood. And in the middle of it all sat Amy and Selan, as eye-catching as ever even in a crowd like this, with that bulky guy Moira was flirting with behind them. While Selan was fortunate enough to have not been concious back then, Amy was there. She saw it all back then. Even at this distance, he could about make out that their expressions. They summed everything up perfectly.

He'd had it. The atmosphere, the crowds, the announcer, the other contestants. The remaining wolves as they snarled and growled. The blood on the floor. The fact that this was the [i]first round[/i], and after this there'll be even [i]more[/i]. Which will probably kill him. No. This wasn't a case of not letting his friends down anymore. This was his morality. His life. And probably Lucien's as well.

"I'm done."

He threw his bat back to the floor and strode forward. It was time to take charge of the class.

With one fluid movement, he swiftly gestured with his hands and threw his right up towards the ceiling. Suddenly the cage was filled with masses of bright, electrical energy as he threw it right at the metal above them, electrifying the cage. The two wolves weren't touching the cage, and the pair of them flinched at the thing which belonged high in the skies as far as they were concerned being [i]way[/i] too close.

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Moira turned, her eyes wide with fury. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!" Moira screamed, although she kept her stance ready to react if the wolves did. "Magic ain't allowed, dumbass!" She nudged her head towards Aria so she wouldn't take her hands off her sword. "We got this!"

Syed clenched his fists at his sides, wearing that unfitting stern look he sometimes had if you pissed him off enough. She was pretty sure the last time she saw him looking like that was after they ate at the old lady's house back at Fenaru. "No. Isn't it obvious? I'm ending this. I quit."