“Grrr.”
Jelly removed her wrist and allowed the force of his full body weight forward.
Mastazita threw a left punch, only to be met with resistance from Jelly’s right arm. A quick succession of blocks from each of his ten punches.
Jelly kicked him in the waist, sending him back across the arena.
Mastazita zipped forward and delivered a punch to her face, forcing her to spin vertically in the air before crashing to the ground.
The granules of sand lifted into the air as she kicked herself to her feet.
Mastazita ran forward and bent his arm.
He jumped into the air and shifted his weight onto his elbow, intending to ram her against the ground.
“Miew,” she gasped and rolled out of the way as he hit the deck, cracking the ground.
Shafts of white light blasted through the streaks that cracked out from the ground.
She scowled at Mastazita as he picked himself up from the floor. He inspected his bleeding arm and licked the wound, slowly, all the while staring at Jelly’s face.
She lifted her ears and held her paws up, ready to kill the beast once and for all.
Mastazita fell forwards, and flung the swatches of blood from his wound against the wall. As his foot entered the shaft light, the fur on his leg singed into smoke.
He moved his leg away to stop the fur barbecuing from his flesh.
Jelly snorted and glanced at the crack in the floor. She knew to avoid the three beams of light shooting up from the ground. She clenched her infinity claws once again and prepared to attack as Mastazita ran toward her with a waft of burnt fur behind him.
She timed her attack perfectly, or so she thought. Her right claw flew forward, headed straight for his nose.
As her arm traveled through the air, he ducked his head and held out his arms.
His head connected with her abdomen like a battering ram. He wrapped his arms around her legs and pushed her against a shard of spaceship sticking out from the ground.
Mastazita shoved Jelly back-first against the piece of the ship, and rammed his head into her exo-suit.
“Gaaoooowwww,” she squealed as her suit’s abdominal plate cracked apart, revealing her bare midriff.
Jelly extended her arms and battered the sides of his head with her claws, “Uggghhh.”
She expanded her infinity claws on her right paw. She closed her thumb and two smaller cuticles, leaving the longest two up.
Mastazita knew he was in trouble. He lifted his right hind leg and slammed the wall segment with the sole of his foot.
She threw her paw to the side of his head, intending to puncture his skull.
Too late.
He shifted his head back as her infinity claws swung past and missed their target and, instead, sliced open the front of his chest.
A mound of wolf blood slapped against her face as her two cuticles ripped the flesh from his front.
Mastazita rammed Jelly against the wall once again - this time, with ten times as much power due to the intensity of his wounds.
“Mieeeewwwww,” Jelly closed her eyes and screeched in pain. She felt her spine give up the ghost and bend around the protruding ship wall, which busted apart on impact.
Mastazita released his grip on Jelly and stepped back, before catching a shaft of light blowing through another crack in the ground.
The blinding force of energy shaved the side of his face clean off, cooking the flesh under the singed clumps of fur.
“Roooooaaarrrr.”
He stepped back and held his burning face as Jelly slid to the ground, completely out of the path of the light. She rolled onto her side and clutched her stomach in pain.
Her energy was near depleted. The beast was nowhere near dead, yet. For the first time in her short life, she knew she was losing the fight.
Mastazita growled in agony as he lifted his paws away from the right side of his face, taking some of the flesh with it.
Jelly lifted her head and winced at the sight.
The right side of Mastazita’s face burned clean off - his stomach tore and bled, as did his arm.
Mastazita caught a glimpse of Jelly groaning on the ground. Her face battered and bloodied; her exo-suit cracked like the walls, accompanied by dangerous, jagged split-ends that would pierce flesh like a knife through butter.
He grunted and rolled his shoulders, spraying saliva around the arena as he ironed out the pain from his neck.
Jelly climbed on all fours and prepared to launch herself forward.
“Heh,” he grunted and held his paws in front of his face, ready for her.
The two beasts zoomed towards each other like a pair of angry bulls.
Jelly ran through a shaft of light emitting from the ground knowing it would singe some of her fur.
She was right.
The quickest half second of light-on-face scorched the fur from her cheek, but she ignore the pain and kept on running.
Mastazita waded from side to side as he lifted his arms into the air, ready to punch the life out of Jelly’s body.
Jelly opened both her infinity claws out and attempted to smother the beast.
He tightened his fist and stopped running as Jelly bolted towards him.
He landed a near-fatal uppercut to her face, which lifted her into the air. The jagged, busted ends of her exo-suit wrenched clumps of flesh and blood from his fist as she flew away.
Jelly hurtled towards the ground and fell around Mastazita’s shoulders. She vomited a clump of thick, pink blood down his back.
He growled in pain and grabbed her hind legs, keeping her secured to his back. He placed the sole of his foot against a broken segment of ship and kicked himself up and around.
He landed shoulders-first to the ground, his fall cushioned by Jelly’s top half.
Jelly’s exo-suit bust apart as she hit the ground, crushed under the weight of Mastazita’s body.
“Bwuuurgggh,” she yelped, feeling her lungs turn to mush as his spine rammed into her chest.
Mastazita rolled onto his front and pulled himself to his feet in one, swift action.
He took a moment to catch his breath, all the while trying to savor the squeals of sheer agony coming from Jelly.
“Heh,” he coughed and spat a mound of blood down his front.
The shafts of light billowing through the cracks in the ground resembled an infrared security scenario. Movement wasn’t much of an option in the arena, now. More than two seconds’ worth of exposure to the light would be enough to burn through any living entity and kill it.
“Grrrrrr,”Jelly whined and whelped on the floor, barely able to move.
Mastazita turned around one-hundred-and-eighty-degrees and focused his eyes on the poor, near-dead freak of evolution - half-tiger, half-human.
“Muh, muh,” she clutched her chest in a state of near-hyperventilation. She shifted her back along the ground and widened her eyes in a state of shock.
Mastazita lowered his head and enjoyed her last moments of life. His tongue hung down his chin and slavered around his mouth. He could finish her once and for all - twist her head right off her shoulders and snap her neck.
Like mother, like daughter.
To finish, he could fry her body in the light and dine for a week.
A waft of black smog shot out from his nose. His right foot pained him so much he couldn’t think about anything else. It kept his anger at full tilt.
Jelly squirmed on the ground in a state of near-paralysis. Mastazita’s shadow crept up the length of her body as he growled, moving ever closer to her.
The beast enjoyed every moment of her anguish as he stepped over her.
His nose contracted, accepting the waft of death filling the Colosseum. A quick tongue across his razor sharp teeth, hungry for blood.
He roared down at her and slowly raised his hind paw, preparing to stomp on her head.
“Mwurgghh,” she shook her head from side to side, seeming to beg for mercy.<
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But mercy wasn’t an option.
A shooting pain thundered up and down her body. It felt as if her lungs filled with blood. A click of bone occurred and sent shock waves of pain through her throat whenever she moved. Her rib cage was broken.
Any moment now, the paw would come crashing toward her face.
She thumped the top of her paw against the ground and extended her infinity claws, desperate to grab anything close by.
The ends of her claws hit the ground. She’d given up and closed her eyes. A final intake of air and, at once, she was suddenly calm.
The pain would be over.
“Guuhh,” Mastazita roared and stomped his hind paw to her face.
He looked down to find his paw in Jelly’s clutches. “Ngggg,” she clenched his foot in her infinity claws with all her might, fighting the force away from her face.
“Grrrrr,” Mastazita’s grunts were so aggressive they shifted the minuscule grains of dirt across the ground.
“Ngggg,” she whined as she used the last of her energy pushing the deadly foot away from her face. The sole of the paw shuddered and jiggled, moving millimeters closer to her face.
Jelly roared and pushed against the force.
Mastazita slammed his paws against the wall for balance and lifted his free foot from the ground, shifting his entire body weight onto the foot above Jelly’s face.
His paws broke some of the rocks away from the spacecraft wall.
Jelly sunk her infinity claws into the flesh in his foot.
Mastazita yelped and kept his full weight pressed onto his foot.
Jelly pushed herself back and yanked Mastazita forward, sending him flying off of his good foot and down on top of her.
Face to face, they grunted at each other - half in pain, half in apoplectic rage.
Both wanted absolute execution, nothing less.
The fur on her face blew back as she opened her mouth and roared into his.
She slammed both her paws on his head and squeezed as hard as she could, “Ngggg.”
She pulled his face down to hers and clamped her mouth over his.
“Mffgggggg,” Mastazita tried to kick away, spraying blood up the ground from his injured foot. Jelly kept his mouth pressed to hers—
Both his and her teeth crashed together.
Jelly’s chest deflated, blowing the pink contents of her lungs into his throat. He had no choice but to withstand the action and breathe it in.
“Mwaarrghh,” he grunted, trying to move his head away.
He couldn’t.
She lifted her knee up and rammed it between his legs, forcing him to yelp once again.
She grabbed the fur on the back of his head and rammed his mouth against hers.
As she exhaled, a wisp of pink gas escaped from the sliver of the sides of their mouths.
Mastazita kicked his legs back and thumped both fists to the ground on either side of their bodies.
He pushed the top half of his body upright and punched Jelly across the face.
He leaned back and thumped his knees to the ground, still straddling Jelly, “Guh,” he wiped his mouth as a wisp of pink gas wafted from his nostrils.
Mastazita hadn’t a clue what was going on, but he’d breathed whatever it was that Jelly had given him. The substance played havoc with his head and face.
Jelly used this momentary pause to her advantage. She rolled to her side and forced Mastazita away from her waist, pushing him towards the discarded pilot’s seat.
“Miew.”
Mastazita tore the shattered spacecraft segments away from his body and hurled them at Jelly.
She ducked and clutched her side in pain as the bits of metal whizzed past her head and daggered into the ground.
Busted fragments of her exo-suit hung over her right shoulder. She raised her arm and swiped at the wall, flinging the last piece of suit away.
She held her infinity claws out by her waist - poised to execute the monstrosity standing before her.
Both of them stood bare naked, bloodied, and bruised.
Pink blood seeped from the fresh wound on Jelly’s left forearm and slung down her wrist to her infinity claws.
Jelly roared at the top of her lungs, training her gaze directly into Mastazita’s eyes.
He returned fire and shook his head, spitting blood from his mouth. His paws clenched, ready to kill.
A brief moment of hesitation fell between them as they both expelled the toxic air from their lungs.
Jelly and Mastazita darted towards each other, claws out.
He swiped at her face and was met by her left paw, which shunted his arm back, exposing his face and chest.
She landed a devastating blow to his neck, followed by an uppercut to the chin, which lifted him a few inches from the floor.
As he landed on his hind paws, he took another swipe - this time, connecting with the side of her face.
Her jaw cracked and shifted to the side, barely held together by the skin and fur surrounding the bone.
“Ghaaaa,” she grabbed her chin and shunted the joint up and back in to her face and open her mouth, “Ghhhuur.”
Mastazita palmed her chest and punched her so hard she crashed back-first against a piece of ship.
He ran after her, swishing his tail and swiped at her face. She held her paws up and blocked the attack by grabbing his paw and wrenching it across her own body.
She grabbed his shoulders and rammed her head into his temple.
Mastazita squealed as a jolt of pain thundered through his cranium, followed by the sound of a skull shattering.
Jelly lifted her hind legs from the floor and booted him across the face.
She somersaulted in the air and dug her hind legs into the dusty ground, ready to attack again.
Mastazita swiped at her feet, but missed with each attempt as she jumped around his paws. Every time her paws hit the ground, it cracked apart and threatened to break entirely.
She delivered a devastating kick to his face, spinning him around on the spot.
“Ghwuuurgh,” Mastazita staggered around, temporarily disoriented.
Jelly inspected her infinity claws. The one on her index finger was badly broken. The remaining talons were battered and threatened to snap off.
Mastazita caught her off-guard. He stepped forward and threw two punches - left, then right. She blocked them, one after the other, as he continued to punch even more.
Her left arm blocked his right punch, and vice versa, as she stepped back and he bounded forward.
A final right hook from Mastazita came screaming at her face. Jelly grabbed his wrist in her left paw and kept it held up. She clenched the infinity claws on her right hand together.
The pair struggled as their faces met, nose-to-nose, once again.
“Nggg,” Jelly groaned, trying to keep his fist away from the side of her head, “Grrrrrr.”
She stabbed him in his side with her infinity claws.
“Grrruuhh,” Mastazita growled in pain as the talons pierced his flesh and hit a vital organ, “Buuuhhh.”
Jelly winced as her paw entered the cavity. She clenched her claws shut around something inside him.
“Grrrruuuhhhh,” she grunted, breathlessly, as she twisted her paw forty-five degrees up the side of his body, tearing through the flesh.
“Roowwaarrr,” Mastazita’s right paw slumped in hers as she pulled out a lump of his flesh from under his left arm.
Jelly had done some serious damage this time.
She flung the remains against the wall, pushed his paw away and booted him in the chest.
He fell back, bleeding profusely from his side.
Jelly staggered to him and tried to catch her breath, “Ugh, ugh,” she squeezed her eyes shut and felt like puking, but the beast in front of her needed to die.
Mastazita howled in agony as he attempted to straighten his back.
“Gwuh.”
He just about managed to pace forward and readied hi
mself to punch her lights out permanently.
He lifted his right paw and swiped at her. She lifted her left paw and tried to block the blow.
Their claws rammed together and snapped shut. Jelly wasted no time and pulled his arm down with hers. She bent her right arm back and went for an uppercut, claws first.
Jelly socked him in his abdomen, stabbing her claws into his stomach.
Mastazita let out a deathly growl.
She winced and pressed the front of her body against his and lifted her paw up, trying to maximize the internal damage.
He fell back and took her with him. They landed face-to-face, her head over his, as she expanded and contracted her claws in the pit of his stomach.
She grunted and squinted in his pyramid eyes.
The color drained from his face, “Heh,” he snorted and coughed up a lump of dark-red phlegm from his mouth, “Grrrr.”
Jelly squeezed her eyes shut, yanked her arm upwards. Her infinity claws sliced through his stomach and flesh, up to his chest, “Ugh. Ngggg.”
Mastazita squealed - the agony was so intense it afforded him a last-minute flurry of energy. He lifted his right, bloodied paw and slammed his knee between her legs and booted her off his body.
Jelly lifted her right paw as he kicked her back. Her infinity claws tore out from his stomach, taking a portion of the vital organ with it.
She stepped back and slid across the bloodied grains of sand, falling to her knees.
“Whu-whu,” Mastazita huffed, his voice somehow lighter in tone, “Bwwwuuurgggghhh.”
She slammed his elbows to the ground. He turned onto his side and hoisted himself to his knees. A quick look down the length of his body told him everything he needed to know.
He’d lost a lot of blood.
The weakness rumbled down his shoulders, past his abdomen and struck his knees, forcing him to slide across the ground.
Jelly splayed her hind legs out and pressed herself against the ground. She looked up with a steely determination to kill.
Mastazita groaned and finally got himself to his feet.
A blast of pure white light crashed against the ceiling, burning the fur and flesh away from his spine.
The beam of light rammed against the ceiling, sending a shower of rocks and dust down around them.
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