The Break Out by a9amis (recommended reading .TXT) 📕

on the left and jumped off just as the one on the right slashed at him. The one on the right slash his brother into two as Jahase flipped over head, taking the neck of the second one into the staff as he flipped over it. He pulled it off and slung it across the field.

He stood up and looked at the head. For a second, it just leaked green blood, but then it rolled by itself right side up a pod grew underneath it. Front the pod; it had regenerated a body that jumped off the flower just as it bloomed.

‘These things can grow new bodies?’ Jahase thought as he jaw dropped looking at this sight.

Sraz roared in laughter. “You will have to do better than that, sissy bitch!” he shouted from the side. He grinned as he watched Jahase’s fetal attempts at a first strike.

Jahase heard a whistle behind him and he knelt down and dodged a blade from one of the seedlings. He took his staff and sweep the feet off of his attacker. He back flipped to dodge another attack from behind and kicked the head off the one that just regenerated in front of him.

Landing on the shoulders of the headless one, he kicked off his chest and held his staff out knocking the heads off of six more that had been behind him waiting to strike at him.

He rolled and turned around just in time to see the eight seedlings that he just attack regenerate their missing parts by creating another pod, doubling their numbers.

Jahase sighed and suddenly his ankles where constricted to the ground by the tentacles of the ringmaster that he had his back to. A pair of seedlings on each side of him took his arms with their tentacle arm and made a high pitch double toned moan.

Sraz smiled. He was sorry that another one of his brothers was going to fall but out of all of them, Jahase had been the most normal. He smiled at Jahase nobility.

Jahase was trapped. He looked to his left and watched as the seedling pulled back hits blade arm. Jahase leaned back and dodged the blade a hair for it to slab into the eye of the other one, popping two light green bulbs from its face. Jahase watched these two bulbs hit the ground and began to sport pods where they landed.

‘The regenerative cell is in their eye,” He said to himself. He smiled as the wounded seedling released him.

He took his free arm and grabbed the blade in front of his face, pushing it down and across the tentacles that bond his feet. He knelt down and picked up his staff, the he tripped the seedling that held his other arm. He jammed his staff into its eye, crushing its pod cells and used the stall to propel himself across the arena away from the ringmaster.

He looked before him as the ringmaster and all of it seedling looked at him. The ringmaster raised sharp tentacles from the ground and aimed them at Jahase. Jahase smiled and began to walk forward.

The ringmaster shots its bladed tentacles at Jahase who batted them away into the eyes of the seedlings, killing their pod cells and dropping body after body to the ground unable to regenerate.

Sraz watched as Jahase changed his odds in his own favor. He was impressed. He smiled then snored at the skill Jahase had as a warrior.

“Homo,” Sraz mumbled under his breath.

When all of the seedlings had fallen and no more pods were forming, Jahase batted two of the tentacles into the wings of the ringmaster. It screeched in pain, flinging its yellow face upward to reveal its own black and green face with its regenerative cell eye only for a second, and stopped shooting its tentacles.

Sraz bared his claws and was prepared to go in and take the final strike on the ringmaster by removing its yellow mask and striking its eyes, when tentacles from behind him took hold of his arms.

He growled in surprise as it grabbed it and held his arms apart. Tentacles took hold his ankles and one dropped a cell by his feet. Sraz looked down and watched the pod grow and create a different kind of seedling. It was a four pedaled flower with teeth around its pedals and an acidic pool in the center. Tentacles reached out from the acid and slowly rise around Sraz to pull him in.

Sraz began to panic. This was what he called a Caldron.

“This is not how I am supposed to die!” Sraz roared out and began to struggle. He had no weapons and his claws weren’t long enough to cut the tentacles himself.

Jahase heard this and immediately came to Sraz’ aid. No matter how rude Sraz was to him, a life was a life and should always be protected.

As Jahase ran to Sraz, Sraz saw a bladed tentacle rise up behind Jahase and shot at him.

“Watch out!” he yelled.

It was too late. Jahase leapt into the air with his staff high over his head and let out a heroic cry. He came in inches of Sraz when the bladed tentacles pierced through his back, quickly silencing his brave yell and instantly making his body limp. He hung on the blue covered tentacle above the ground as his head fell forward and his arms fell to his sides.

Sraz couldn’t breath. He was in shock, not only at the blue bloody blade inches from his face, but also at the fact that Jahase sacrificed himself for him. A single tear rolled down his eye when Jahase’s staff fell out of his hand and hit the ground in the silence of the arena.

Sraz felt regret for letting Jahase fight the ringmaster by himself. He looked down at his acidic fate that bubble below him. He paused when he heard a slapping sound and looked up slowly.

Jahase had one hand on the tentacle. When Sraz looked up, Jahase slapped his other hand against the fleshy red tentacle and pulled himself toward Sraz. Sraz was in shock. Jahase pulled himself by the tentacle towards Sraz as his wound healed slowly.

Jahase restrained himself from passing out. He got in inches to Sraz and Sraz looked up to him. Jahase reached out and touched his face and he caused Sraz to phase through the tentacles that bind him and land on the ground below Jahase.

Upon landing, he glanced up then swung around and cut the neck of the Caldron. Grabbing the outside pedals, he picked it up and swung it around spilling acid on the tentacle that held Jahase, releasing him and spilling acid on the ringmaster who, screeched in pain. He caught Jahase and looked down to him in his arms.

Jahase looked up to Sraz who was no longer smiling. Jahase smiled and chuckled a bit.

“Dude, were you crying?” Jahase asked this when he noticing the wet spot on Sraz’ face. Sraz dropped him on the ground and folded his arms as he looked away.

“Homo,” Sraz said. Sraz watched the ringmaster spin and wail wiping off the acid. Jahase coughed as he began to get up.

“Happy now?” Jahase healed quickly and brushed off when he got up. The ringmaster began to create more pods at its feet that quickly sprouted seedlings. Sraz cracked his knuckles and bared his claws and teeth. He nodded to Jahase’s question. “Lets go.”

They both took off into battle with the ringmaster and its seedlings. They both made quick work of the first wave of seedlings then made their way to the foot of the ringmaster. Jahase watched Sraz back as Sraz wrapped the ringmaster in one of its own tentacles. He then bounced off of its base into the air, quickly followed by Jahase who hand once again poll vaulted off the face of a seedling.

“Yell!” Jahase shouted at Sraz in mid air.

“What?” Sraz was confused what he meant. Jahase took his staff and flipped Sraz over in mid air. He then jabbed him in the chest with the staff to aggravate him.

“Like you did in the cell,” He jabbed him one more time, but in the forehead. “Yell!”

Sraz took a deep breath; he spun himself back over just in time to see the ringmaster look up to him. He let out a thundering roar that shot a sound wave down at the ringmaster and forced it against the ground, opening its yellow mask. The force itself kept Sraz in the air and made a slipstream for Jahase to jet down passed Sraz. Jahase jabbed his whole staff into the regenerative cell.

The ringmaster was instantly crippled by the blow and was pinned to the ground by its eye. Its acid sprayed from its face all over its body as it wailed and screeched in pain. Its arms waved in the air as Jahase stayed balanced on one hand on the top of the staff. He looked down at the dieing chimera as it slowly stopped moving.

Its arms flopped lazily to the ground and slammed with a boom that made Sraz stumble a bit. The ringmaster decayed rapidly until it was nothing but dark smoke that quickly vanished in the air.

Jahase stayed on the staff until the ringmaster had vaporized then flipped off landing on his feet. He looked back to Sraz who had a confused look on his face.

Sraz grin a little bit. He had a new ability, but what were they suppose to do now? The looked at each other for a second before Sraz shrugged his shoulders. Jahase then turned back to the staff and yanked it up from the ground.

They both retreated back to their cell doors; Jahase’s whose door opened just as he walked towards it. They laid on their bed for hours into the night silently until Jahase finally spoke.

Jahase couldn’t sleep. It wasn’t just the fact that he didn’t know how, he also didn’t understand the point of it. He rolled over to his side to where he could see Sraz’ bed from where he was.

“What?” Sraz growled. He wasn’t awake, but he could sleep talk. He was always truthful when he spoke in his sleep.

Jahase was surprised. He didn’t expect that at all. He was just about to say something.

Jahase stumbled before he spoke the continued.

“What are we?” He said. He spoke softly and kindly to not unset Sraz, not knowing he was sleep.

“Artificial Nano-Generated Excessive Life forms,” Sraz growled low. “Created by the Guardians of Domain, we are the being project of the Sons and Father.”

‘Huh?’ Jahase paused. He tried to collect all of this information but his mind wonder why and how Sraz attained this information. He lifted his head for a second then laid back down.

“How did I do today?” Jahase said trying to change the subject. Sraz was silent. Jahase laid in the quiet on the hard mattress waiting for a reply. After a minute, he decided that knowing Sraz, he wouldn’t answer, and he decided to try to go to sleep. He flipped over and closed his eyes.

“You did well,” Sraz growled from across the room as low as possible. Jahase smiled big.

‘Maybe Sraz isn’t all bad’ Jahase thought to himself.

“For a homo,” Sraz said in a louder tone. Jahase had no idea what a homo was or why he was one. He just took his complement and drifted off