Liu vs Yuki [The Colosseum of Madness Event]

Dull. Drained. Exhausted. Bored.

Many drab styled words could describe the current state of The Liberated Observer as she lived her day to day life recently. There was no stimulation, nothing to jolt her heart awake and the woman's every waking fiber cracked, creaked and felt totally exhausted of life. Therefore, a hard serving of new experiences was more than needed in order to perk up our little Hell Demon back to the waking order of things. Hence, when Miss Mana Asthavon declared her "Mad Tournament" to the world, what other choice did Liu Xīnshén have BUT to see what this event could inspire?

It was rather simple for her to cover everything related to her working duties in The Under World; aka Second Layer of Hell. In order to save herself the headache of performing overtime work to maintain the realm, both she and her hell beast crafted millions upon millions of separate familiars throughout the years in order to help deal with the day to day task of managing hell. Everything from judging souls, containing incidents, monitoring who or what leaves or entered hell and all the good stuff that comes with being a guardian of Hell. Her motto was: "why work harder when you could work smarter?"

So, along those fluid lines of logic, our silver horned demon pranced through the boundaries between worlds as if they were nothing and took up the call to take part in this event with the arrangements in her home world already put into place. As, when she telepathically accepted this invitation, all Liu could recall was being transported straight from her home within the depths of The Second Layer of Hell and straight into what could be called a sea of sorts after a flash of dazzling white light dulled away from her vision.

For our Pup Master Shinigami over there, The Hell Demon would have appeared to have arrived on the scene in an eruption of bleached light. When it faded, the figure of a slender woman could be seen through the misty waters. She was adorned with a white dress which had many ashen gray, crimson red and oil black spade patterns; they all seemed to merge and morph into many arrows pointing upward and downward. As she placed each of her hands at her waist, the dress Liu was sporting seemed to be tied at her midriff by an upside-down blue bow.

And, with each step forward she took, the jingling of her golden bracelets echoed through the battlefield, while the clacking footsteps of her wooden sandals followed afterward. Meanwhile, as woman began rubbing her right hand through her hair, the many different highlights of red and white became more noticeable. After giving a tired sigh of sorts, those crimson eyes of the demon would lock dead center with the blood eyes of The Little Wolf before her.

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This scene was pretty lame.

She didn't like it.

Fresh air was needed!

With a snap of her fingers, Yuki would have more than likely sensed a release of demonic energy being unleashed on the area. However, it wasn't filled with anything malicious or anything grand or over the top. In fact, this atmosphere could almost be thought of as having a hazy, dull and sleepy feeling to it as Liu herself felt a bit drowsy and unmotivated at the moment. So, it reflected in the slow process of her Liberation Prowess awakening and "liberating" them both from the bottom of the sea to the tops of the ocean.

As all around both Liu and Yuki would a vortex of white light spread. Provided it is able to touch both of the young looking ladies, it was going to result in their position at the bottom of the sea being unrestrained and allowing them both to be hurled at great speeds towards the sunny skies of the waters above. For, with this move, Liu wanted some sunshine, to stand above the water and not be trapped in such a depressing and dark place. It simply wasn't her kind of battle ground.

Then, with those pesky matters thrown out of the way, The Hell Demon leaned down on one knee and started to have a silver circle spread around them for the length of a city block or so. This was marked with her demonic energy and served as apart of a game she was getting ready to engage Yuki in. There was a great chance that she would probably win this fight from Liu's early estimates of her opponent, so she wanted to make things interesting and try and come up with a fun game for them to play.

"I'm going to play a game with you and the rules are pretty simple. See, you look like a Wolf, right? So why not play "What's the time, Mr Wolf?"? Or, in this case, Ms.Wolf."

The tone of the demon's voice while she spoke seemed to be a mixture of amusement, tiredness and mischievousness all intermixed and brewed into one dynamic expression of words. After she had time to ruminate over the game, Liu would then continue and point her right index finger at Yuki after sitting down Indian Style on the ocean waters below her butt:

"A player is chosen to be Ms.Wolf and Ms.Wolf stands at the opposite end of the playing field from the other players; ideally facing away from them. Then, everyone playing the game, except for Ms Wolf, will chant in unison "What's the time, Ms Wolf?", and Mr Wolf will answer in one of the two ways: Ms Wolf can call a clock time. Then the other people playing will then take that many steps out long as they go.

Then they ask the same question again. Ms Wolf can call "Dinner time!" or "Lunch Time", that's when Ms Wolf will turn around and chase the other players back to their starting point. If Ms Wolf successfully tags a player, that player becomes the new Ms Wolf for the next round."

Phew. It was a mouthful for Liu, so she decided to fan herself afterward by materializing a fan made out of her energy. Though, at this point, it should be clear enough to the pup what was going to happen: she was OBVIOUSLY going to be Ms.Wolf since she was the one running around wolf ears and a wolf tails.

"So: you'll be Ms.Wolf. If you manage to tag or catch me, I'll give you a surprise to help you with this battle. If you don't manage to catch me within two turns, either by physical touch or through their abilities, I will injure you. This can repeat for as long as you want until you get tired, get hurt, give up or you power up enough to fight me on equal footing. I also won't be using any of my higher powers and I'll even set my energy to be on par with yours. Though I make no promises about bodies natural.

Sound fair?"

With that, Liu expected an answer; even if she seemed to yawn and roll over on her side. She wanted things to be fun and was interested to see the response her opponent would give out of all this.