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Moira and Syed didn't look like people, they looked like butchered meat. A mangled mess of bloodstained flesh and missing limbs.

Lucien's eyes were screwed shut and his head was hung low, both his arms were raised above him and no matter how hard he pulled he couldn't move an inch. He was useless, he couldn't save them, couldn't save anyone. "Stop," his voice was horse from screaming. "Stopstopstop."

He saw them die, heard their garbled screams. Syed even locked eyes with him and Lucien saw the disappointment and confusion. "I-It's not me," he had managed to utter. "Not me..." but the lion simply laughed and when the summoner opened his eyes, the creature looked exactly like him.

"Ey, ey, why do you look so down?" The creature gave him a dopey grin, he could see blood on the thing's mouth. "Why don't I tell you a joke? There was this man, who lost his entire left side." His summon nudged Syed's corpse with his foot. "He's all right now." The beast doubled over with laughter then grinned at what had once been the boss. "Three of your friends are dead because of you." The animal melted into the ground and Lucien found himself falling deeper and deeper into the darkness.

Suddenly, he was in a park. Trixie, Estelle, and Lisette were seated on the grass playing with Kapi.

The lion was there too, behind all three of them, grinning. Lucien took a wobbly step forward and sank knee-deep into the earth. Lucien yelled, pleaded, and cursed but no one ever heard him and for the third time he watched his friends die at the hands of something he had summoned. Selan, Amy, Marcus, Aria, Xan, and Lute...he watched as the Lion tore each and everyone one of them apart, and each time he could do nothing.

"If only you had been stronger." The voice teased, but he couldn't concentrate. The world went dark and when he opened his eyes, he was standing with his blood stained hands around Don's neck. "It was your fault they died, might as well kill the last one with [i]your[/i] own hands."

Lucien's shoulders shook and he sobbed. He couldn't stop it, he couldn't do anything. 

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The bear had left after she decided to play dead.

The attack had only lasted a few minutes but it had felt like hours. The girl was lying in a puddle of blood, staring at the sky through half-lidded eyes. It felt cold and everywhere was hurting, but she couldn't feel her arm. A stabbing, burning pain shot down her back and she turned her head to the side. What she saw next made her whimper, she remembered a crunching sound when she raised her arm to push the bear back. The world was growing darker by the second and the pain was ebbing away. She was scared, she didn't want to die. Warm tears trickled down her cheeks as she grew even number. The girl struggled to stay conscious but darkness eventually claimed her.
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Sunlight. 

The soil beneath her felt warm. Xan opened her eyes to a blue and cloudless sky. Had she been dreaming? The girl propped herself onto her elbows and gasped. The coliseum, she was back. "Estelle? Dylan? Lute? Selan?" Her head was pounding, just what had happened? She staggered to her feet, did the bear knock her out or something?

"Fight! Fight! Fight!" Suddenly, the seats were filled with jeering animals.

"What on earth?" The girl raised her arm, ready to will it into a sword if she needed to fight. Something was off, she looked at her hand. There was no steel, just flesh and bone. How? She stared at it, transfixed. What was happening?

"Hey, turning your back on your opponent? That's very rude."

Xan spun around to see three sneering animals. A wolf, a wildcat, and a bear. The girl paled at the sight. "A-Anyone?" 

"Fight, fight, fight!" The crowd wanted blood, her blood.