Chapter 3: Winners
“Is it cheating to be on a team?”
Esbu jumped in surprise at the voice. He had been massaging his sore muscles in preparation for tomorrow’s finals, and hadn’t seen her coming. It was somewhat unexpected to have another girl make it this long into the competition, but one look at this one and you could see why.
“Oh. Hi.. Ma’am.” He said looking up, and up, and up, at her, “I’m Esbu.”
“I’m Sophie” She said giving a rather soft and girlish sounding name for a muscle wall of a female, “Same question though.”
“I don’t think there are teams. It’s a free for all.”
“Yes, but you and the kitten with the combat mods are clearly working together.” Sophie said with an accusatory tone, glaring down at Esbu. He knew she was telling the truth, he had worked with Alethea to try to save Lapis, only for her to lose and get carted off to be sold, probably as a pleasure slave. He wasn’t positive if his thing with Alethea still stood after that failure, and didn’t know if he could get in trouble for it either way. But this large woman was definitely aware of the team up, so others likely were too, he had to say something. Before he could figure out a reasonable excuse though Sophie continued, “I want in.”
Esbu blinked, “uh.. wait what? You’re not mad. You want to be ON the team?”
“I want to NOT be sold as a labor or fuck slave.” She said bending over. Esbu tried hard not to look at her breasts as they hung beneath her at this angle, but it was hard. Luckily the terrifying visage of her spear like fangs this close to his face was a good distraction, “Top 5 get free, remember, and there’s 10 left.”
“Y-ya. And you’re one of the strongest here, right? Even with girls being on average les muscular than guys.”
“True, but I’d prefer to only be attacked by seven, instead of nine. And I don’t relish feeling your kitten friend’s claws on my skin.”
“Fair enough… let’s talk to Alethea.”
Sophie walked over to where Alethea was punching a wall. Esbu followed along behind her, trying not to look to much at the flexing muscles under her golden lioness fur. A short introduction and Alethea was almost instantly on board.
“Will be funny to see the faces of the owners when two of the winners are chicks.” Alethea said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if the only reason Lapis and the other girls were even in this competition is because someone has a fetish for seeing naked chicks beaten up. Most of them never stood a chance and everyone knew it.”
“So we’ll fight together?”
Alethea nodded, “Yep, but afterwards I want us to pool our funds to buy my friend.”
“Blue fuzzy dragon?” Sophie asked, “Hips like that she’s likely a breeder already.”
Alethea winced, “I know i… Just. I want to save her.”
“Fine, but I get first choice of prizes”
Alethea sighed remembering the sergal family that were their ‘prizes’ in addition to their freedom, “Fine, deal. Now should we try to recruit two more or….”
Alethea didn’t get to finish
“Competitors get ready because the final round is upon us!” The loudspeaker shouted.
The whole room got up with a start. They had two days to recoup after the first round, why only one this time?
“I’m sure you’re asking about the early start, well we find that towards the end the competitors start to get sneaky so we decided to do it to. No extra time for plans, and a more dangerous environment await you in the arena in… 3-2-1 NOW!”
Guards appeared from the doors and quickly carted the 10 remaining fighters away to be randomly placed into the arena. There was little choice but to obey, and hope that their little team would be enough, and that the other 7 hadn’t made similar plans.
Esbu squinted his eyes as the arena’s lights came on. This time it was very different, built like a city scape with Esbu standing on one of many bridges between ‘destroyed’ skyscrapers. Metal girders stuck out at random angles looking to impale the unfortunate. Overall, it was much smaller and apparently much higher up. Glancing over the edge he saw a floor or random metal scrap, some of which looked oddly red stained.
Clearly falling off was not in the cards.
When the horn sounded to start the fight he desperately looked around for the girls but didn’t see them. What he did see was a Tiger charging him.
“SHIT!” He shouted dodging the rushing male and instinctively lashing out with a kick. The Tiger stumbled and took his body weight into the wall of the nearby building. The material that was clearly not real concrete crunched on his impact with it but stopped him anyway. He got up and rushed Esbu again, but this time the Sergal was ready and dodged under a long swipe of tiger claws, darting to the side, his own claws digging into the not-quite-concrete surface they stood on. He grabbed the Tiger from behind and tried to lift and throw him, but the tiger started rushing backwards. Pushing Esbu into the same cracked wall, that now almost fell away entirely. Esbu was leaning half through it and got a brief terrifying glance at what he’d land on if he fell. His feet kicked and she struggled, and found purchase on the backs of the tiger’s legs. His opponent roared and stumbled in pain, giving Esbu the chance to get him off balance, lift him slightly into the air and slam his back down on the bridge they were standing on.
The bridge crunched on impact, the faux-crete failing under him and the tiger started to fall through the ground. What happened next happened very fast, the tiger started to fall, Esbu tried to grab for him but it was too late, he slipped through the hole Esbu’s slam had opened. The structure was obviously designed so the force of a fight could destroy it out from under him, and the tiger…
He'd feel guilty about that later, for now he needed to find the girls. He grabbed a steel I-beam, now exposed from the damaged structure and yanked on it. It came free easier than anything built to code would have, but it gave Esbu a weapon, and made the ground shake.
Esbu Ran before whatever he destabilized could finish collapsing, and jumped from one bridge to another looking for his friends. Luckily Alethea was not being quiet and sergal speed carried him quickly between the crumbling fake city towards her.
Esbu found the girls in a bit of a situation. They were side by side in the center of one of the bridges. No less than five of the remaining had cornered them. With the one Esbu took out already that meant another had fallen and this was all that was left. Good, at least it was near the end, but with three burly males on one side and another two on the other, the girls would have a problem. Noone seemed willing to fully engage a direct fight just yet though, as the first in might be the first dead, so it was a bit of a stalemate.
That is until one of the males figures out you could rip steel out of the buildings, and started sharing around weapons while the girls still had none. Soon there would be five ARMED burly males against the two girls. Alethea may have been combat modded, and Sophie was huge, but the same could easily be true of the males. Esbu had to do something.
And he had a stupid idea.
They hadn’t noticed him yet so he pressed himself to one of the nearby ‘buildings’ and pushed his claws into it, sur enough he could claw into the intentionally weak material. He gripped his beam with his foot and started to climb up the tower with his arms and other foot. Eventually he got to a position decently above where the fight was about to happen. He aimed for the side with the three males and jumped.
The males were moving towards the girls now, so they moved out from under him as he fell holding his beam out in front of him. That said it ended up mattering pretty little as Esbu’s full weight came down hard on the bridge with his beam acting like a battering ram. He found himself crunching half through it and shaking the whole structure, before it snapped.
Esbu’s eyes widened as the bridge began to move. The long end, with the people on it, started to fall. Esbu quickly grabbed at the other end that was still attached to the building. The three males started to tumble backwards as their footing was lost beneath them and fell towards the broken end. Unfortunately the girls were now also stumbling forward, and even if they managed to stop themselves there were two more males falling towards them on the other side.
Sophie launched herself into the air and grabbed for anything. That thing turned out to be Esbu’s foot and he almost lost his handgrip when he suddenly had to support the full weight of the large woman.
“H-heavy!”
“If you let me fall I’ll haunt you! Hold on!” Sophie Yelled up at him.
He glanced back to see her gripping his foot, and below her it seemed Alethea had done the same to Sophie’s, so Esbu was holding both girls up by his rapidly weakening arms.
“ALE! CLIMB!” He shouted. Alethea seemed to get it and quickly clambered up Sophie’s body, then over Esbu’s till she was on the ledge. Then she turned around and helped pull him up.
“You almost killed all of us” She said as Esbu’s upper body got to the ledge and Sophie began to pull herself up over him like a gym class rope.
“I was aiming for them, I... well I didn’t’ think it would collapse that easily OOFM!!!” Esbu winced as Sophie practically stepped on his head getting up, but she got up and he was able to clamber up after her.
“Did we just win?” asked
“I think so…” Esbu said, “I took one out, even if the other is still around somewhere, there’s less than five of us left after that.
“I can’t imagine the organizers will be too happy that it ended so fast, all at once.”
“Heh. Maybe next time they will build these things a BIT more up to code”
The three giggled to themselves and sand against the wall on the crumbling ledge wondering what would come next. They had won. They would be free. And they had prizes to collect.
“Is it cheating to be on a team?”
Esbu jumped in surprise at the voice. He had been massaging his sore muscles in preparation for tomorrow’s finals, and hadn’t seen her coming. It was somewhat unexpected to have another girl make it this long into the competition, but one look at this one and you could see why.
“Oh. Hi.. Ma’am.” He said looking up, and up, and up, at her, “I’m Esbu.”
“I’m Sophie” She said giving a rather soft and girlish sounding name for a muscle wall of a female, “Same question though.”
“I don’t think there are teams. It’s a free for all.”
“Yes, but you and the kitten with the combat mods are clearly working together.” Sophie said with an accusatory tone, glaring down at Esbu. He knew she was telling the truth, he had worked with Alethea to try to save Lapis, only for her to lose and get carted off to be sold, probably as a pleasure slave. He wasn’t positive if his thing with Alethea still stood after that failure, and didn’t know if he could get in trouble for it either way. But this large woman was definitely aware of the team up, so others likely were too, he had to say something. Before he could figure out a reasonable excuse though Sophie continued, “I want in.”
Esbu blinked, “uh.. wait what? You’re not mad. You want to be ON the team?”
“I want to NOT be sold as a labor or fuck slave.” She said bending over. Esbu tried hard not to look at her breasts as they hung beneath her at this angle, but it was hard. Luckily the terrifying visage of her spear like fangs this close to his face was a good distraction, “Top 5 get free, remember, and there’s 10 left.”
“Y-ya. And you’re one of the strongest here, right? Even with girls being on average les muscular than guys.”
“True, but I’d prefer to only be attacked by seven, instead of nine. And I don’t relish feeling your kitten friend’s claws on my skin.”
“Fair enough… let’s talk to Alethea.”
Sophie walked over to where Alethea was punching a wall. Esbu followed along behind her, trying not to look to much at the flexing muscles under her golden lioness fur. A short introduction and Alethea was almost instantly on board.
“Will be funny to see the faces of the owners when two of the winners are chicks.” Alethea said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if the only reason Lapis and the other girls were even in this competition is because someone has a fetish for seeing naked chicks beaten up. Most of them never stood a chance and everyone knew it.”
“So we’ll fight together?”
Alethea nodded, “Yep, but afterwards I want us to pool our funds to buy my friend.”
“Blue fuzzy dragon?” Sophie asked, “Hips like that she’s likely a breeder already.”
Alethea winced, “I know i… Just. I want to save her.”
“Fine, but I get first choice of prizes”
Alethea sighed remembering the sergal family that were their ‘prizes’ in addition to their freedom, “Fine, deal. Now should we try to recruit two more or….”
Alethea didn’t get to finish
“Competitors get ready because the final round is upon us!” The loudspeaker shouted.
The whole room got up with a start. They had two days to recoup after the first round, why only one this time?
“I’m sure you’re asking about the early start, well we find that towards the end the competitors start to get sneaky so we decided to do it to. No extra time for plans, and a more dangerous environment await you in the arena in… 3-2-1 NOW!”
Guards appeared from the doors and quickly carted the 10 remaining fighters away to be randomly placed into the arena. There was little choice but to obey, and hope that their little team would be enough, and that the other 7 hadn’t made similar plans.
Esbu squinted his eyes as the arena’s lights came on. This time it was very different, built like a city scape with Esbu standing on one of many bridges between ‘destroyed’ skyscrapers. Metal girders stuck out at random angles looking to impale the unfortunate. Overall, it was much smaller and apparently much higher up. Glancing over the edge he saw a floor or random metal scrap, some of which looked oddly red stained.
Clearly falling off was not in the cards.
When the horn sounded to start the fight he desperately looked around for the girls but didn’t see them. What he did see was a Tiger charging him.
“SHIT!” He shouted dodging the rushing male and instinctively lashing out with a kick. The Tiger stumbled and took his body weight into the wall of the nearby building. The material that was clearly not real concrete crunched on his impact with it but stopped him anyway. He got up and rushed Esbu again, but this time the Sergal was ready and dodged under a long swipe of tiger claws, darting to the side, his own claws digging into the not-quite-concrete surface they stood on. He grabbed the Tiger from behind and tried to lift and throw him, but the tiger started rushing backwards. Pushing Esbu into the same cracked wall, that now almost fell away entirely. Esbu was leaning half through it and got a brief terrifying glance at what he’d land on if he fell. His feet kicked and she struggled, and found purchase on the backs of the tiger’s legs. His opponent roared and stumbled in pain, giving Esbu the chance to get him off balance, lift him slightly into the air and slam his back down on the bridge they were standing on.
The bridge crunched on impact, the faux-crete failing under him and the tiger started to fall through the ground. What happened next happened very fast, the tiger started to fall, Esbu tried to grab for him but it was too late, he slipped through the hole Esbu’s slam had opened. The structure was obviously designed so the force of a fight could destroy it out from under him, and the tiger…
He'd feel guilty about that later, for now he needed to find the girls. He grabbed a steel I-beam, now exposed from the damaged structure and yanked on it. It came free easier than anything built to code would have, but it gave Esbu a weapon, and made the ground shake.
Esbu Ran before whatever he destabilized could finish collapsing, and jumped from one bridge to another looking for his friends. Luckily Alethea was not being quiet and sergal speed carried him quickly between the crumbling fake city towards her.
Esbu found the girls in a bit of a situation. They were side by side in the center of one of the bridges. No less than five of the remaining had cornered them. With the one Esbu took out already that meant another had fallen and this was all that was left. Good, at least it was near the end, but with three burly males on one side and another two on the other, the girls would have a problem. Noone seemed willing to fully engage a direct fight just yet though, as the first in might be the first dead, so it was a bit of a stalemate.
That is until one of the males figures out you could rip steel out of the buildings, and started sharing around weapons while the girls still had none. Soon there would be five ARMED burly males against the two girls. Alethea may have been combat modded, and Sophie was huge, but the same could easily be true of the males. Esbu had to do something.
And he had a stupid idea.
They hadn’t noticed him yet so he pressed himself to one of the nearby ‘buildings’ and pushed his claws into it, sur enough he could claw into the intentionally weak material. He gripped his beam with his foot and started to climb up the tower with his arms and other foot. Eventually he got to a position decently above where the fight was about to happen. He aimed for the side with the three males and jumped.
The males were moving towards the girls now, so they moved out from under him as he fell holding his beam out in front of him. That said it ended up mattering pretty little as Esbu’s full weight came down hard on the bridge with his beam acting like a battering ram. He found himself crunching half through it and shaking the whole structure, before it snapped.
Esbu’s eyes widened as the bridge began to move. The long end, with the people on it, started to fall. Esbu quickly grabbed at the other end that was still attached to the building. The three males started to tumble backwards as their footing was lost beneath them and fell towards the broken end. Unfortunately the girls were now also stumbling forward, and even if they managed to stop themselves there were two more males falling towards them on the other side.
Sophie launched herself into the air and grabbed for anything. That thing turned out to be Esbu’s foot and he almost lost his handgrip when he suddenly had to support the full weight of the large woman.
“H-heavy!”
“If you let me fall I’ll haunt you! Hold on!” Sophie Yelled up at him.
He glanced back to see her gripping his foot, and below her it seemed Alethea had done the same to Sophie’s, so Esbu was holding both girls up by his rapidly weakening arms.
“ALE! CLIMB!” He shouted. Alethea seemed to get it and quickly clambered up Sophie’s body, then over Esbu’s till she was on the ledge. Then she turned around and helped pull him up.
“You almost killed all of us” She said as Esbu’s upper body got to the ledge and Sophie began to pull herself up over him like a gym class rope.
“I was aiming for them, I... well I didn’t’ think it would collapse that easily OOFM!!!” Esbu winced as Sophie practically stepped on his head getting up, but she got up and he was able to clamber up after her.
“Did we just win?” asked
“I think so…” Esbu said, “I took one out, even if the other is still around somewhere, there’s less than five of us left after that.
“I can’t imagine the organizers will be too happy that it ended so fast, all at once.”
“Heh. Maybe next time they will build these things a BIT more up to code”
The three giggled to themselves and sand against the wall on the crumbling ledge wondering what would come next. They had won. They would be free. And they had prizes to collect.
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