Snippet #7204

Joseph stepped on to the field for the first time since his preliminary match, back then there was no crowd but now every seat in the building was taking by a person thirsty to see blood be spilled. He looked up and seen Gabriella watching him from the royal balcony, curiously Genox however was not present. The other gate opened and Diego stepped on to the field. He was an orc all right and he filled every last checkpoint of the stereotype. Big, muscled, green, carrying a large weapon, and a bad haircut. The orc stood staring at Joseph before running his hand through his Mohawk and laughing as he held the battle axe over his shoulder.

Joseph looked down at the ground. Sand, freaking Sand! he thought to himself knowing how useless it was. He readied his staff and waited for the orc to make the first move. He didn't wait long as the berzeker charged him swinging the axe downward at his head. Joseph Blocked the strike with the staff and then deflected a side swipe from his opponent. The orc was overly aggressive and sent flurry after flurry of swipes and slash's at him that Joseph continued to block and deflect on the defensive. Finally seeing an opportunity he ducked one of the strikes and planted the end off his staff in the orcs stomach causing him to stumble backwards and give himself some breathing room.

Before the orc could retaliate Joseph snapped his fingers and a wall of glass shot up from the sand in front of him. The orc who was already running ran in to glass and briefly smacked up agains't it like a bird to a window. It was quite the comical scene and most of the crowd laughed and chuckled. The orc? he was not amused, with a roar he smashed the glass in to pieces and charged once more. Joseph stepped to the side and the orc tripped over his own feet and fell to the ground. Laughter again erupted through out the crowd and even Joseph cracked a smile.

The orc got up and roared in a furious fervor. His eyes turned red as if they filled with blood and the crowd went silent, it was the sign of a Berzeker's rage . The mean green machine threw down his axe and simply charged barehanded. Smacking away Josephs staff as he picked him up by the throat. His feet dangled furiously as the Orc tried to squeeze the life from his wind pipe. "Can..cant we talk this out?" Joseph gasped to which the orc replied by squeezing tighter.

Joseph waved his hand and two glass shards rose from the ground behind the orc and rose up through his vest picking him up off the ground. He dropped Joseph as he tried to free himself but the shards rose higher. Joseph took off running toward the arena wall while the orc slipped out of his vest and landed face down in the sand. Upon reaching the wall Joseph pressed his hand to it and suddenly the concrete began to leave the wall and form around Joseph. It formed a square backpack and coiled all around to his arm forming what appeared to be a cannon. Glass rose up from the sand and connected to the backpack creating a glass pipe leading from the sandy ground to the backpack.

As the orc charged again Joseph aimed his stone cannon arm at the orc and suddenly Sand began to flow through the pipe to the backpack. Sand shot out of the cannon in a blazing fast stream in to the orc. The sheer force of it brought him to a stop as he tried to force his way through it. Soon the orc could not be seen inside of the sand stream and when it ceased the orc was completely buried underneath thousands of pounds of sand.

Snapping his fingers some of the sand parted revealing the orcs face so he could breath, but the sand was being held together by Josephs magic so the orc could not move. "YOU BASTAAAARRRRDDDD ILLL KIIIIIILLLLL YOOOUUUU" The orc roared as Joseph was declared the winner. Before he could get the pack off however it exploded it to a cloud of sand, when the dust settled Joseph was found laying on his back, his skin barely recognizable between the sand stuck to his face. He walked off the arena hoping to find a place to wash himself as the crowd was laughing once more, this time at him instead of the orc.