The Broken Observatory - Party Crashers AU

The fight.

  
WARNING: Murder attempt, ¿torture?
  
  
   
Nick's POV.
I felt someone pushing my shoulder to wake me up. I opened my eyes and sat on the bed, looking at the guard standing beside me.

"You have to be ready in one hour." - the guard said with a firm tone.

I nodded and rubbed my eyes. When the guard left and locked the room, I got up from the bed; stretched for a bit and basically got ready, waiting for the guard to open the door and lead me to the place.

Despite being fully aware that this might be my last day alive, I wasn't feeling too nervous. I was willing to risk my life in order to help the observatory, as well as every other kingdom.

After over 40 minutes, which felt like forever, other guard unlocked the door and stepped inside the room.

"I must take you to the arena. Get up." - the guard said.

I nodded and got up from the bed, fixing my hair, as we both stepped out of the room. I saw Brent, Vernias and Eevee walking through other hall for a split second, but they didn't see me, besides, I couldn't run up to them anyway because of the guard being behind me, making sure I didn't run off.

I was led through a weird tunnel, which I figured I was going through to minimize the chance of me contacting with anyone about the fight. After a few seconds of walking, I saw light, getting brighter each second, and soon enough, I was in front of the arena.

Before starting, I wanted to remind myself my every power without using it, not to lose energy but to somewhat feel prepared. I imagined it as "revising every information learned for a test in public school". Some long minutes later, I heard a voice coming from the arena, and my gate opening. I took a deep breath and went through.

I looked around as I walked towards the middle. Then, I looked up at the people sitting around, and obviously, Brent, Vernias and Eevee caught my attention. Figures, the only human-looking people there after all.

I smiled to them and looked forward again, seeing the other gate opening and Bowser coming to the arena. I frowned, having a serious face, hearing his laugh and his minions cheering for him.
 
  
"You look quite ready for this, prince Nicolas." - Bowser said, grinning. - "Are you afraid at all?"

"Afraid? Don't make me laugh. Afraid of what?" - I asked him, despite me knowing the answer. I crossed my arms, looking at him with judging expression.

"Of losing your life, obviously. Of failing everyone again too." - he said, trying to break me.

I chuckled.
"May the best man win, king Bowser." - I said, finishing the talk.
 
 
Right after I finished my sentence, I only saw Bowser nodding, and immediately rushing towards me. Thanks to my speed ability, I quickly got away and created a plant way up, so it's easier for me to dodge the attacks.

Bowser was trying to burn the plants down with his fire breath, but since I consistently created new ones, it was harder for him to burn it down completely.

I figured I'll try to make him lose his energy in order to attack, because for now, it was hard for me to do anything. If I got lucky enough, I could use his fire attack against him as well, by making the burning plants wrap around him. That sounded really harsh and painful to me, but I suppose either me or Bowser had to die there.

Eventually, and unfortunately for me, he was able to burn the plant completely while I wasn't paying attention, making the part of it that I stood on fall down. I rolled on the ground, cushioning the fall.
  
  
 
The fight was going well, but after some longer time we both started to get tired. Probably me specifically since Bowser mostly just shot fireballs out of his mouth while standing in one place instead of moving his fatass.

For some reason whenever he was burning more plants I controlled, I was feeling a weird pain too. I wasn't sure if it was because it was my powers and it had some odd connection to my body or because I was getting tired and everything had an influence on it, but either way, it was distracting me by a lot.

Suddenly, when I was running to the other side of the arena to dodge more fire, Bowser grabbed me and quickly threw against the wall. I fell to the ground, feeling blood coming out of my mouth and nose, as well as pain in several places.

I was only able to look up a little bit, but the vision was blurry. I saw Bowser coming towards me and I tried to move, but I couldn't. "So this is the end," I thought, and soon enough he grabbed me by my neck.

He wasn't squishing it to prevent me from breathing. Instead, he made a hole in my neck with his claw and used his fire power. I felt extreme pain, like my blood literally boiling inside.
 
He was laughing and saying something, but I was barely keeping up with his words. It was getting hard to control my breathing and I was coughing blood. I also felt my head spinning. The pain itself was way too much to handle for any human being. I was losing consciousness every second.
  
  
  
(A/N) - What's interesting is that while writing this chapter, I felt like I've seen it before besides just the movie and two books I was inspired by (which I mentioned in the description).

I'm unsure though, probably had seen in on Wattpad before or had played a game based around it (it reminded me a lot about Roblox games I played a few years ago lmao), but if I really wrote it accidentally basing on someone else's story on Wattpad, I'm so sorry if I copied unintentionally.

- Cloud.