All that Brick remembers is suddenly appearing in the middle of an arena. A voice, that wasn't Aggroar, telling him to sleep. He closed his eyes and now he's standing in a line up. Like a Military soldier bunk inspection. There were plenty of people on both sides of him. They are all different ages, different races, different everything, except for one thing. Each and every person he could see had a gleam in their eyes that spelled out desire. To his left he saw someone who must've been a little younger than him. He had white hair, dark clothes, and radiated power. He looked as confused as he felt. "You got any idea what's going on?" Brick asked him.
The kid shook his head. "No. But I know a fair amount of time has passed. Don't ask me how I know, I can just feel it. I was trying to break a fight one minute, and then........I'm here." They stood there in silence for a few minutes. Brick figured he might as well introduce himself. "Name's Brick." They shook hands. "Vector. What're you here for?" Brick gulped down his grief. "I....just.....have to clear something up, from my past." Yeah, as in me.
Vector nodded. Brick looked up at the edge of the arena. There was that man again! The one from the video feed. Dark, Blood red robes. A crown. The white beard. He glared at the crowd, and then exchanged it for a smile. "Welcome contestants!" He announced. "Obviously you have chosen to enter the tournament of all tournaments! It is time to introduce yourselves!
Please step on the podium when you hear your name." Brick heard a lot of names go by. These screens showed the people he announced. As far as he could tell, there were mercenaries, assassins, thieves, psychopaths, soldiers even. Then he said a name of a girl and she got up there. Brick saw that she was a kid. Fifteen years at least.
He heard a few other people chuckle. Her name was Molly Myers. He looked at Vector, just to see what he thought about kids like them being in this thing, but the look on his face was priceless. "Dude. You in love or something?" Vector looked at him, "Huh?" Brick looked back at the screens. "Never mind."
"Lady Astrid Le'Beouf, Knight of the Guardians of Humanity."
Brick's eyes got wide. Why is she here?! The whole point in beating her to this tournament was so that she wouldn't be here! He sighed. She is persistent, he'll give her that much.
"Jason Myers from Jackson Ville, Missouri. Twin brother of Molly Myers." Brick could swear he has seen him in several horror movies. Mainly as the killer. He got up there and he kept his hood up.
"Cain. The Experiment for the Survivor Project." A kid with a huge scorpion tail got up on the podium as he was introduced, glaring at anyone to say anything. Or, was he scanning the crowd while he had the chance? Did he have friends like him?
Brick shouldn't be the one to judge. He was, after all, a mystical monster himself. A Vessel. One of many out in the world nowadays.
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