Norbert ran towards the goat creature, not wanting it to get any more of an easy meal and grow in size out of his previous competitors. As Norbert sprinted forward, the chimera turned around to face him again, dropping onto its four legs, the two hoofs at the front as it clopped them on the ground.
Charging towards him, dust flying into the air as Norbert brought his sword towards the creature, pointing the tip of the blade up, holding it in two hands by his side as he continued his charge, getting ready to release the blade up and all at once, aiming for the throat of the goat, its long hair hiding its exact location.
Leaping into the air, locking his arms in, ready to take the force forward on himself as the goat's head slowly came towards him, Norbert was seemingly trapped as his mind worked overtime, his body not responding quickly enough as he watched the slowed-down world around him.
The goat's head moved surprisingly quickly for its size; turning its head, his sword blade that was initially aiming for its neck now at its horn, glancing off the side of the horn as its head impacted into Norbert.
On the point of contact, time seemed to speed up again for Norbert, slamming backwards, the chimera continuing to charge forward. The air rushed on Norbert, pinning himself to the creature. The sword fell out of his hand on the impact, clattering to the ground behind him.
Feeling his body start to rise into the air, Norbert grasped onto the horn of the goat's head, pushing energy throughout his body, reinforcing it as much as possible as he prepared for the impact.
CRAASSASSH
The splintered branches that made up the arena's walls and the seats were sprawled around Norbert. His mind shut off the pain in his body, everything below his head feeling squashed and punctured.
He was still grasping onto the horns with both hands; Norbert stared into the red eyes of the goat's head. In his peripheral vision, he saw the snake's head biting at something around him, not caring for Norbert as he was pinned.
Letting go of the horn with one hand, Norbert patted his leg as he stared at the goat's eye, feeling its breath on his body as its mouth slowly opened. The strikes of the snake going for something behind him were still happening as Norbert continued not to focus on that head.
Quick as lightning, Norbert went for one of the throwing daggers; taking it out, he reversed the grip and plunged it into the goat's eye. As he did this, Norbert felt the goat's tongue wrapping around his legs, its mouth opening as it wanted to crunch down on Norbert.
Smashing the dagger into the crimson eye, now filled with blood, the chimera reeled back from the pain. Norbert watched the snake stop itself mid-strike, staring at Norbert as all three of them moved backwards, on the whims of the goat as it reeled in pain and started charging to the other side of the arena.
Looking at where the goat was going, Norbert saw the monkeys starting to flee from their stands; Norbert saw something shiny on the ground, his sword lying away from the direction the chimera was heading.
Looking around, seeing if there was some way to direct it, the tongue still coiled tightly on Norbert's legs, stopping him from moving, amazed that the goat's head either didn't bite through the tongue when in pain or let go of his leg.
Grabbing the knife, Norbert moved it to the side, and the illusion instantly went the other way in response, trying to run away from the pain.
The illusion is now going the wrong way. Norbert flipped it to the other side, and now the creature was heading in the right direction.
Seeing the sword come up straight ahead, Norbert let go of the horn and the dagger, letting his body flip upside down. Being held up by the tongue, Norbert tried to reach for the ground, unable to touch it. Norbert grabbed the knife from his belt, the extra reach scraping across the ground.
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Aiming for the sword, Norbert uses the knife to throw it into the air as a scoop. Catching the blade with his other hand, feeling the metal bite into his hand as he grabbed it by the blade until it finally stopped moving.
Seeing the stands approaching him, Norbert pulled himself up and grabbed the sword by the handle. Slicing up where his feet were, the tongue instantly unravelled him as he was let go, dropping to the floor.
As he fell, Norbert curled up in a ball, the thundering hooves at the front smashing into his ribs, going all the way through as he was flung into the creature's underside. Slamming back down into the ground before getting picked up and dragged again.
Norbert was kicked away from the illusion as it continued its rampage forward, not having noticed the human was no longer attached to itself.
CRASSSH
Norbert rolled on the ground, finally stopping as he looked up at the sound. The illusion finally stopped moving, implanting itself into the side of the arena, several monkeys unable to make it out in time as balls of blood burst around it.
Norbert got to his feet and ran to the sword before him. Norbert picked it up from the ground and charged towards the illusion.
Not shouting or letting the goat's head know, the snake's head looked straight at him as it tried to move its other half out of the mess.
Unable to do so, Norbert leapt high into the air, letting his body fall by itself as he crashed into the arena on the side of the illusion.
The snake darted to himself as Norbert leapt forward, now high enough that he could easily reach the body. The goat thrashed around; Norbert wondered why it was acting the way it was acting as he raised the sword before lowering it at the neck.
BLEEEEEAAAAAT
As Norbert went through the back, the last bleat of the goat's head finally being released and feeling his ears ring, he stepped back to escape the noise.
The head ripped itself off the body as it flopped to the side, Norbert staring at its damaged eye, his dagger still embedded in it.
The illusion fell into the arena, its legs no longer holding itself up as the snake's body wriggled itself out. Leaving it there for now, not seeing how it could go out, Norbert went over to the head, leaning down as he ripped the dagger out of the eye, a trail of blood following after the move.
Wiping it on the head, no longer white as Norbert sheathed the dagger, stretching himself, Norbert looked around, meeting the monkey with the staff again. Waving to the creature, Norbert jumped into the arena again, the snake's body twitching around as it tried to move.
Walking towards the lion's body, Norbert took out the knife once more as he cut the pieces of meat available into cubes. He popped one in his mouth to try the unexpected flavour.
Instead of tasting like regular meat, albeit raw like the others, this one made his tongue tingle, like there was a sour popping candy dancing around it. Continuing to chew it, a thought tried to bang its way into his head. Norbert dismissed it as he continued to chew on it.
The sourness changed to bitterness as Norbert continued to chew on the piece of meat. Still thinking that something was wrong with it, Norbert stopped chewing when he felt his tongue numb.
Spitting out the piece of meat onto the floor, Norbert sent energy into his tongue, a slow sensation coming back to his tongue. Hearing the snake withering around, branches of the tree snapping around it, Norbert looked up to see what was happening.
Their jaw opened as he stared at what the snake's head was doing. No longer able to call it a snake's head, Norbert watched as it had torn its own body off the large form of the goat section of the illusion.
Norbert watched as it swallowed something down its throat, several bulges already in its body as they slowly disappeared. Its tail formed, no longer making a trail of blood. Norbert watched as it jumped onto the stands, chasing after the monkeys now running rampant.
The monkey with the staff staring defiantly at the creature, raising its staff in the air before
CLACK
The sound of the staff hitting the ground was the last Norbert heard of it as the snake didn't stop its movement, swallowing the monkey's hole, the monkey not even touching the sides.
Norbert watched as the snake started feasting from the monkeys that tried to escape, running up the branches and out of the stadium they had previously created.
Heading towards the last remaining bison, Norbert started cutting it up, believing he would need the energy from the meat, when the snake returned its attention to him after going for all the easy pickings.
Cutting it up, Norbert made a pouch out of the skin available to him as well, all going together into a piece of the skin, making a small pouch as he tied the contents to his belt, making a cord out of it. Quickly jumping, confirming that it wouldn't move too much or lose the contents, Norbert looked to see what the snake was doing as he looked around for his exit from the Coliseum.