The two creatures in the arena faced each other as Two mouth's jaws spouted its slobbering tongues creating a scene worthy of a horror movie. the tips of its arms clicked on the stone arena. the arena itself was a simple rectangular concrete arena, with gridded seating on the two wider sides. A creature prepared at each end and the fight could take place. On the other side. Stone eyes entered the arena on all fours, while Two Mouth took his time as he took the measure of his enemy, the latter shouting a guttural gurgle that made his teeth vibrate and his tongue spasm. Stone eyes was unperturbed no sound came out of the creature as he lowered his posture, observing the movements of his opponent.

  The grids come out and close again while Two Mouth becomes more and more noisy. Advancing on its hind legs, Two Mouth also used its tentacles to advance trying to plant them in the ground at each impact. Clearly the latter was not sure of its balance

  Slowly two mouth moved towards the patient feline. At least his position seemed to indicate it, his eyes were both fixed on his enemy and on his environment, the row of eyes on his face did not betray any emotion in the situation, the one in the center just above where the human nose should have been was staring at Two Mouth and his hooves, the two eyes directly left and right of the center were observing the tentacles and their movements, and finally the last two were observing the environment The drunken crowd hung on the grills of the stands, the ground, the walls and the ceiling.

  Two mouth him, moving slowly shouting his discontent and waving without visible objective his long arms screwing the air and squeaking the ground with each advance. Arriving at the center of the arena, a siren sounded, tearing a new shrill cry from Two Mouth. This is the moment when Stone Eyes went into action. Launching himself on all fours in a frantic race, the sound of the siren covers his approach. But while the straight line was clear, one of the tentacles plunged in the trajectory of Stone eye. It is then, with an exceptional agility that Stone eyes jumped on the wall before climbing on the parapet of the bleachers tearing off a cry of amazement to the crowd. The tentacle went to impale itself on the ground creating a dry snap similar to a whip, but already the tentacles resumed their movements, the assault and the horn had only been diversions. The horn that had sounded was a warning for Stone Eyes refusal to fight.

  Stone eyes stayed maybe 3 seconds hanging on the wall not moving a muscle and studying the erratic movements of his opponent, when the opportunity was clear he jumped giving the crowd an exclamation. This seemed to warn the danger to two mouth who rushed forward avoiding the direct assault.

  Trying to pursue its prey, Stone eyes which had landed with the violence one could expect from such a creature, immediately turned and dashed to the back of its enemy. One would think that Two mouth's senses would have warned him of the danger, but he didn't even turn around, continuing to slam his tentacle arms on the walls and the ground. It is only when one of them reared up that Stone Eyes had to defend itself. Pointing in an unnatural angle, the black tip had almost impaled itself in Stone Eyes' body. How Two mouth knew? mystery, but at the moment when the surprise blow didn't work Two mouth finally turned to face his opponent.

  Stone Eyes didn't care to face him. In the same movement that Two Mouth used to turn around. Stone Eye took support once more on the wall launching itself on the back of the monstrosity. Leaning forward Two mouth tried to dodge from the back the leap of his enemy but the beast was fast and his reflexes were much sharper than the balance of his prey.

  Planting its claws in the back of Two Mouth, the latter used its "arms" to maintain itself partially upright. Stone Eyes began to bite into Two Mouth's tender flesh causing shrill screams to erupt from the audience.

  The silent work of Stone Eyes was brutal as a viscous liquid flowed from the back wounds of Two Mouth. The latter did not want to be put down and let Stone Eyes cut into his skin. That is until the two free tentacles started to wrap themselves around Stone Eyes' limbs which couldn't disengage fast enough.

  Two Mouth in a perfectly coordinated move swung to the side giving his coiled tentacle even more momentum while destabilizing Stone eyes. The arena roared as Stone Eye crashed into the wall. The spikes on his back left marks from the impact but the beast's eyes weren't about to let go. Getting back on all fours, Stone Eyes tried his best to get out of Two mouth's range, now all its tentacles were facing him.

  The beast was now stuck, Two mouth's forearm spikes were trying to keep Stone eyes in his corner, bouncing off the concrete, breaking pieces and making dust with each impact. Two mouth's arms kept him in the center and the other two were trying to land blows to Stone eyes. As much as the whips Two mouth gave around him were unpredictable, the estocs were terribly telephoned. After several blows in the air Stone eyes dodged one of the blows using his claws to slice the tentacle. Cutting the equivalent of a man's thigh in three quarters, the two mouth's needle tentacle almost fell to the ground cut cleanly.

  Alas for Stone eyes, his attacks were only a diversion. Before being able to savor the wounded member, one of the two mouths was on Stone Eyes. Opening in a disproportionate way Stone put himself on his back legs using his paws as a lever he placed them on the upper and inner jaws of Two mouth which didn't manage to close it on Stone Eyes which in spite of his size was heavier than him.

  In spite of that the jaw of Two mouth was only one of his means of attack, and it is with violence that Stone eyes began to be impaled by the three remaining tentacle arms. The first one laughed on the scales of his torso to impale itself in his shoulder.

  The situation was serious and the position of Stone Eyes was untenable. Avoiding nevertheless the second pointing on his face. Stone eyes tried to bite in the member tearing a piece of flesh in the passage in addition to a cry of the abomination. The fact that Stone eyes didn't see the result of its attacks was very disconcerting. Two mouth continued to close in on Stone Eye, literally sticking him to the wall. The position was not meant to last. Yet even at this distance Two mouth could still be a nuisance. Using his tongues we could see that a sting had just grown at the ends, Stone Eyes in the front row could not do anything, besieged from all sides, the tongues threw themselves on him. Fortunately his chest was solid and the stingers did not pass. The struggle of strength continues but Stone Eyes becomes weaker and weaker. Letting the jaws close the tips of his teeth grazing his body. The surprise of Two mouth did not prevent him from biting himself his two tongues. Backing up several steps, Stone Eyes finally took advantage of an opening to grab the tentacle in his shoulder with both hands, his claws fully deployed, and with a sharp movement amputate the member still blocked.

  Two mouth waved his other limbs and the crowd roared with him, Stone Eyes free the latter began again to take distance, Two mouth him was strangely passive and let him. Taking the arm-sized needle that was stuck in his shoulder, Stone Eyes pulled it out in one go, dropping it with an almost metallic sound.

  With two tentacles gone and part of his body shredded, a translucent liquid could be seen dripping from his jaw and back. The two tongues that he had bitten himself did not seem to be in any condition to come out contrary to the beginning of the match, leaving only those of his highest jaw still in the air.

  Stone eyes then did something that shocked the audience, he stood up. Standing on his hind legs, the two creatures were now almost the same size. Standing up the rest of Stone Eyes' body appeared in all its splendor. Its carapace of stone scales separating perfectly, creating or sculpting perfectly the muscles of the beast, it looked like a humanoid. This was confirmed in the disgust that followed, in an impassive way his hands began to crack as if one of his limbs were dislocated. Putting the equivalent of his thumb in his mouth, he pulled violently on it after having tightened it between his teeth. The crack that followed did not seem to shock him as his paw became a hand with a movable thumb. He then took the other thumb and we had a real humanoid monster.

  His impassive mask gave him a savage appearance worthy of a slayer. He picked up the forearm and was clearly going to use it as a weapon against his opponent.

  Two mouth did not move, as if he was waiting for something. His only apparent sign of weakness was that he was much less vocal and that he stood more slouched with the help of his two valid forearms.

  Stone eyes him had blood dripping from the knuckle of his shoulder and although his face didn't show it, his chest was slowly rising as if he was trying to catch his breath. He started to walk towards his opponent, but his movements became more and more jerky as if he was having a fit. But that didn't stop him from running straight at his opponent.

  Rising to his full height Two mouth prepared for battle, his two mouths open with two tongues coming out of the highest one and even his wounded tentacles seemed to move in preparation for battle.

  Stone Eyes charged in full confidence in his natural armor, Two Mouth projected his arms, but Stone Eyes' reflexes were perfect, deflecting the deadly spikes, he came into close combat, unfortunately for Two Mouth the fact that his tentacles could plant themselves in Stone Eyes' back was minimal. The attacks did not manage to pierce the scales and defensive protuberances of the beast, which went to try to plant its sword of fortune between the two jaws. A difficult thing without exposing himself to the teeth that had without any doubt more power than his arms. The only reason Stone Eyes was injured was when he was firmly held in place and the attack hit at the right angle. Stone Eyes didn't need the right angle, the fact that he had a ranged weapon now could make him avoid the jaws, he just had to plant Two mouth until he died. With each attack Stone Eyes would stick the needle into the abomination's body, causing more and more liquid to flow out. The two tongues of its main mouth also came out to attack but the free hand of Stone Eyes slashed them effortlessly. Finally Two Mouth seemed to take damage staggering, but Stone eyes did not see the feint for what it was. Pretending to be handicapped by his crippled limbs, one of his tentacles managed to wrap itself around his ankle. In a swinging motion, Two Mouth tried to lift Stone Eyes off the ground, but the weight of the latter only allowed him to lose his balance. Realizing his failure, the horror opened his mouth for the bite. But Stone Eyes planted his weapon in one of the mouths. Overcoming the pain and the fear of the wound, Two mouth continued its gesture with its jaw about to close. Destabilized Stone Eyes dropped his weapon and finally ran out of options and Two Mouth's tentacles continued to wrap around his limbs, but spasms began to run through Stone Eyes' body to the point that it became visible to all. Just as Two mouth's second mouth was about to close the lights of the arena lit up and sirens sounded, filling the arena with lights and sounds to declare a winner. Several seconds passed as a presenter under speed introduced Two mouth as the winner. But Two Mouth, who had stopped all movement, waited five seconds and bite Stone Eyes' head off. The crowd held its breath as Two Mouth tried to decapitate the head while squaring the body.

  The crowd began to boo the performance as men with electric guns fired at Two Mouth, electrocuting him to make him let go. But the electricity didn't seem to bother him as he frantically moved his head in an attempt to twist and tear his unmoving opponent apart.

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  Finally, without any reason explained, Two mouth let go of his grip and dropped the motionless body of Stone Eyes on the ground.

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  The scene stopped leaving Leo and Olivier to contemplate the creature.

  -You know Olivier when you told me that my fights were as refined as two ocean liners colliding. Now I believe you.

  -It's because it's another dimension, so your opinion.

  -Stones Eyes 100%. He dominated the game from start to finish. Even at the end when the small mouth was able to bite through the entire head to the back of Two mouth couldn't dislodge it.

  -Yeah me too, I picked this match because of the views, but people only talk about the ending drama without paying attention to the real issue. How he won.

  -Other than the injury in the shoulder, no attack got through Stone Eyes' shell.

  -Exactly, luck no doubt, but look.

  Bringing out the images, Olivier made a video stop on the moment when the point pierces the carapace.

  -The perfect junction between the arm and the pectoral but on my side, I saw that.

  With a magnification, he brought the camera closer, on this clip we could see the needle slide along the shell to plant itself in the hollow.

  -Shit, Stone Eyes had bad luck. I mean... he had a near perfect game but found a way to lose. There's gotta be something, I saw it in his moves, several times.

  -Okay, now theory.

  -For me, poison. No attack from Two Mouth hit. Simple the only way he could have won is either to paralyze Stone Eyes, or to throw him around like a rag doll so that the impact creates internal damages. But you can see the effort involved.

  -Damn, you remind me of my first interviews. But yes, the liquid that's flowing I think contains a paralyzing agent, the fact that Stone Eyes bit Two Mouth or that Two Mouth sprayed this mixture on him must have taken some time to disperse in the body. I think he tried to do that with his dars on his tongue. Hence his obsession with trying to plant it with all his stuff.

  -Then, I find out if he was stupid. Two mouth I mean, he immediately demonstrated that he was orienting by sound.

  -Not at all. It's even the opposite, I think Stone Eyes went into the arena with their hands in their pockets hoping for an easy victory, but got scared when they saw the violence of Two Mouth. Hence the deflected attacks. Where he could have simply charged, he got himself into trouble. When Stone Eyes realized that he could simply attack without risking serious repercussions if he was careful, he did. If only he hadn't been paralyzed...

  -Ok but to get back to the bet idea. I'm gambling on the pig no problem. Whether it's control or decision making, I don't see how it has a chance against him. Secondly, his arm picks couldn't lift a shrimp like Stone Eyes, the other one let's not talk about it. He's going to give him a rugbyman's tackle before giving him a wrestling hold and the referee counts to three. I don't even know why this game was made.

  -I'll tell you, the drama. The stupidest part of our sport. The next part of the program was Stone Eyes versus Olum the Boar. If we had to grade them, Stone Eyes is A level, while Olum is A+. Two mouth is level B, B+ if you have absolutely no idea what to expect or if you neglect the poison. If the poison enters the enemy's body through the bite attacks of his opponents or even through his tongues Two mouth is terribly over rated. Stone Eyes could have easily finished him off if he hadn't been too careful.

  -Basically it is a spider mixed with a human and a creature with only three claws giving a creepy monster. Four arms, again, two more that serve as legs, a long flat head with teeth that look like toothpicks, dozens of black eyes covering his head that joins his back. His body is a piece of flesh to which his arms have been grafted.

  -And the other one?

  -A giant crocodile. Sorry, a giant alligator.

  -With white teeth.

  -Yeah? How'd you guess?

  -Enough sarcasm, I've seen enough horror for now, let's watch the croc.

   -Okay, I'll look at his game history and get you something cool.

  -And I'll get us some beers.

  Leo got up to talk to a beautiful waitress. Olivier, flying over the matches of White tooth was less and less excited, he was only a big alligator, even his name was uninteresting or even false because his teeth were yellow. In short the horror on the other hand had some not bad fights. With the use of a web, but instead of taking it out of its ass like a spider it takes it out of its mouth, so it brings the prey into its mouth to devour it. But there it will not be possible.

  To measure them, Olivier gave a B+ to the alligator and to this thing. Death Creeping guys seriously. Looking only for a short time, he quickly lost interest, until...

  Returning to the boof, Leo began to ask Olivier questions.

  -So you've moved up in rank?

  -Mm? Oh yes, when your superior doesn't do everything to fuck you over, it's easier.

  -What do you mean by that?

  -Let's just say I had a run-in with two sergeants on a previous peacetime mission. You know anti-white racism? Here's the thing. Both of them treated me like their dog. But they realized that my father getting sick had made me very irritable and even dangerous to their lives because of their behavior. What an idea to push a guy armed and with live ammunition was something to do. On my side, to escape the toxicity I asked my lieutenant to change me to another group. To which he replied that I was the problem before I could even defend myself. Protecting his reputation. That son of a bitch was what we called a delegator. Because he delegates all his work to his subordinates, a real bad careerist. So I said fuck this and went to see my captain, I waited 4 hours in front of the operations office to wait for him. It was worth it. After three quarters of an hour of discussion, I asked to leave the mission completely. Psychologically I was not there and put up with these two assholes who kept pushing me into trouble. I knew I was going to end up making one. I finished the mission with the leadership group, but because of those two assholes rumors were spread about me, like I almost ran over a child for example. And other more dubious ones, even if those jerks at the same time showed how rotten they were. With the end of my contract in sight and a new captain, the latter decided in his infinite wisdom to tell me that despite my impeccable record I had to re-sign for three years to get the training I wanted. So I said fuck you and prepared my departure. The rest I already told you.

  -Wow. Were there any repercussions?

  -Nope I'm the only one who had collateral in this story, the lieutenant became a captain in another squadron and even if his incompetence was proven because of that, there was never anything against him. Of the two sergeants, I know that one of them became chief. But their stunts made them known and even though I'm a discreet guy once they heard my side of the story the mood becomes less cheerful. Because they bragged in their stupidity that they took the firing pin off my gun when I wasn't looking. As if to say, yeah we did it because he was unstable, rather they were afraid I would kill them on a whim. But since I didn't, it just made them look like assholes.

  -And you didn't do anything to them?

  -...It was from that experience that I never trusted the system again. So much for some things being okay. But anything that is scheming and companies of people who are too high up or can abuse their power. I could never trust them.

  -That's why it's so easy for you to prepare to leave.

  -It's not them who fire us, it's us who leave them in their shit. The consequences of their actions will take them forever away from what could have been a national stage. While we prepare for the future, who knows in ten years time we might be buying up British Monster?

  -I'll be honest with you. You scare me a little. You're telling me crazy stories, while on my side life is not so exciting.

  -Because you've never gotten yourself into a bad situation, what's the expression, went on a trip to discover the world and the man you were supposed to discover? You know I only have the outline of your life, I have no idea what you did before the fights.

  -Me? Nothing special, I was born in a family that didn't have any money worries but wasn't from high society if you know what I mean. My parents pressured me to become a star or a doctor, lawyer or judge, in order to move up the social ladder from where I lived.

  -A daddy's boy? Damn. How did you end up here?

  -Think of it as a youthful rebellion. I was in school when the war ended, I was bored out of my mind and I just found out that my girlfriend only saw me as a rich kid, good at pulling money and a pretty face. Anyway for my little story I was going to pick her up after her gym session when she explained her relationship with me in detail in front of her girlfriends and me even behind her back. Let's say she was a star with them and the bamboo that I put her. Two weeks later, I find myself with a friend at a genetic compatibility test of British Monster. Seeing the exceptional rate according to them I said to myself yeah why not. Finishing my studies anyway, my first choice was to register in the British Monster company. The rest I found in my file or in fan magazines and that's it.

  -That's it? Dude you've become a celebrity even the old timers who have been fighting for years have rarely seen the potential you have. Your timing is off the charts and these pencil pushers are more concerned with getting rid of a possible loss than making sure it never happens. Believe me, I think your life is just as exciting as mine, it's just that you still don't appreciate it from another perspective.

  -Like what? Having to change my hair color every month, feeling like an idiot when a model asks me on a date when I don't know how to put it back on or if I've even met her yet. Wondering if the people I talk to are really my friends? My previous experiences don't help or encourage me in this area. I had long hair before I came to British Monster you know and I had to cut it off, "to look good".

  -I guess mom and dad aren't happy with your fighting career either.

  -Well you see, my mom isn't at all and freaking out like, you'll never make it, you'll end up on the street, you're a disappointment. But my father told me, do what you want, you're old enough to make your own choices. And told me that even if I fail to aim high.

  -Do you still talk to him?

  -Once or twice a month but my mother is in denial about my relative fame. She's convinced I've ruined my life by refusing the path she envisioned for me.

  Olivier sipped his beer as he listened to Leo describe his life. He was glad to know that at least he would have a roof over his head to come home to with family underneath. Out of his reverie Leo asked him what game they were going to watch next.

  -So I watched the crocodile match, shit aligator, and frankly that it is him or the other bug I am not more interested than that I would say that the crocodile has more chance to win the other uses the web to catch his opponent and then use the claws to lacerate its prey. The alligator... It's an alligator, there is nothing to explain. Honestly, I have no idea how the game could be played, either the lizard crushes the spider, or the other way around, the spider with its nails is going to make him get his guts out at the first opportunity.

  -In this case, we move on to the next one. What is it?

  -Well you see I found this. From what I've seen, all the heavyweights meet the day before your match, but there were pre-matches in their little circle. So here it is, The Ivory Whiplash against the White Tooth.

  The fight was between the oddly white crocodile against a magnificent abomination. With a large and robust body this creature was tall. The bottom of its body was two strong legs with four black clawed toes. Its ivory skin covered its entire body, but its strangest feature was the fact that in its humanoid torso was its head, implanted in its right pectoral, no neck or left arm. Only a huge tentacle growing from the disproportionate torso of the creature for an equally disproportionate arm dragged on the ground. The way he walked showed a perfect coordination in his movements and therefore perhaps a great control of his creature unlike Two mouth.

  -Ok you convinced me, send.