Ziph amplified himself ever bigger and taller. Synh ran to the middle of the Colosseum. Isshakhu, suddenly having had a change of heart, charged down the rafters and leaped into center stage, rolling her ankle as she landed. She howled in pain. The audience gasped.

Mingled fury and horror beset Synh. These antonomous feelings swelled within him: fury at his Isshakhu’s face, but also horror at her pain. Isshakhu was, after all, his mother. He instinctively ran to her.

“Mother,” he cried.

Bagua laughed. He flew up, leathery wings beating in the air. Ziph tried to stop him, but with a double kick from Bagua’s powerful, hairy legs, Ziph was left breathless, lying on his back looking up at the cloudless blue sky.

Bagua laughed again. Landing between son and mother, the were-bat let out a horrible shriek. The spectators plugged their ears and looked away.

Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

Only Imgaggu could not plug her ears. She was too busy sneezing. It was about the twentieth sneeze that, upon pulling her hand away from her face, she saw that her sneeze had drawn blood. She felt bloody enough. Her throat and nose and ears were all raw and scratchy. Her head ached something fierce. She wouldn’t be able to “cook” with her mind for the gods at the Table of Heaven anytime soon.

Then, Imgaggu vomited.

Now, you should know that Imgaggu does not vomit food (as you would think of it) because Imgaggu does not eat food (as you would think of it). For her, it was all psychic energy, and the vomit that came out of her face was like a sonic blast of pressurized horror. So powerful a god was Imgaggu, that when she vomited, she flattened every single god in the Opal Colosseum.

Rings and jewelry were ripped out of onlookers’ faces. Whipped in the wind, they soon took flight. In the chaos, many lost consciousness. Several fled. Then several more. In the aftermath of Imgaggu’s psychic vomit, the showdown at the Opal Colosseum quickly degenerated into a panicked rout.