COLISEUM

Chapter 23

Maggie, one of the contestants for the Gladatorium Tryout, left her cat nearby to go to the women's restroom. Jinx what was not the type of pet to wait for their owner so she stood up and walked around the stadium, the black feline sneaked into the arena and sniffed around the sand pit and defecated much to some of the onlookers amusement, or displeasure.

"Congrats, Scale." Annabell came in to hug the Reptilian on his victory during his match. Scale felt the corners of his mouth lift up with joy, despite that his opponent was the one who resigned, regardless, he felt grateful. Especially since his friends were rooting for him.

"You hadn't eaten anything since we got here." Melon reminded him. Who can eat when many lives could be at stake when the fear of losing the match would end the freedom of many.

"Yeah, I kinda forgot." Scale said just as Annabell broke the embrace.

"What do you want to eat? I could send Eros to find a tasty pretzel." Annabell suggested before the grey haired wizard put a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm afraid not my lady, they ran out of pretzels at the moment." Eros lied, he had no problem running an errand, though he didn't want Annabell to become infatuated with someone that would exploit her generosity, including him.

"No thanks, I rather go order a pizza." The Reptilian walked around to find lunch, just then, a black cat walked past them.

Grim returned to the stadium and he saw the same black cat from earlier. He wasn't the superstitious type, though he was tempted to kill the black furball to make a new keychain out of its fur. Since the owner was nowhere in sight, he raised his scepter to levitate the dark feline in the air though Jinx was unfazed by it. "Meow." The cat's amber eyes looked at Grim and hissed at him.

"Vieni gattina." Maggie called out, Jinx turned her head to look at her. A wand pointed at the can, then the cat teleported out of Grim's sight. Then Maggie took off her top hat and tapped it with her wand, popping Jinx out of her hat. "I can't leave you alone for one minute." Maggie admonished her pet, though the black cat meowed quizzically, “Wait, weren't you the one who made me levitate?” then the black looked at Grim then hissed at him from afar.

The host had exited backstage while the drone searched for alternate routes until one of the caretakers knocked down the drone with a broomstick, Jayshree was seen on the screen. Logan had to admit that she was kinda cute. "Jecamiah, look at this." She picked up the drone and showed it to the bearded janitor.

"Someone must've send it to scout the stadium or to gain intel." Jecamiah commented.

"Or they sent it to search for the prize money, wouldn't be the first someone tried to sneak in to steal it." Jayshree commented.

"If that were the case, they would've cut off the power by now." Jecamiah mentioned.

"Electricity isn't the only power source here, there are solar panels on the rooftops, and there are crystals that power the portals." The brunette added.