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Takeo looked back at him, “Why’s that?” he asked in a sarcastic tone. They all laughed. As they walked they laughed and joked with each other. . .
When they finally arrived at the Arena they weren’t joking anymore. The building looked dark and forbidding. The warm afternoon suddenly felt much cooler.
As they approached the glass doors, Raven suddenly stopped.
“I have a really bad feeling about this place…” she said looking at the doors with terrified eyes. She started to back up, and ran into L he caught her.
“I’ll check it out guys. I’ll be right back.” said Takeo as he started stepped towards the door. Before he could take more than two steps Dai caught him by the shoulder.
“Come right back, okay?” she looked into his eyes with worry.
“Geeze, it’s not like I’m going far, but yeah I’ll be right back.” He kissed her on the cheek and ran towards the doors.
When he reached them he looked through the glass to see if he could find anything out of the ordinary. Immediately he saw something. It was a large hairy leg, his gaze continued up the leg and his eyes fell upon the largest Spider he had ever seen!
With sudden speed the leg flew at the door. Takeo jumped to the side barely avoiding the leg as it smashed through the glass doors. He quickly ripped his katana from the scabbard on his back.
The rest of the spider quickly came after the leg; it was about ten feet tall and about six feet around; it toward over him. Suddenly the rest of the group was by his side. Dai had her falchion already out, L was back up against the building setting up his sniper, while Raven was trying to figure out how to handle her weapons.
Without warning the spider struck out with its front leg, Dai ran to the left, Takeo jumped, and Raven ran for the stomach. Dai slashed out at its other front leg, cutting it cleanly at the joint. It gave a terrible screech and stumbled backwards. One of its flailing legs caught Dai and sent her spinning about ten feet. She landed off balance and stumble to the ground bleeding from the leg. The spider ran at her. Takeo jumped forward and slashed at its’ side. His blade sunk in, but it didn’t slow, L fired at its’ other side and the round went all the way through, barely missing Takeo, and Raven stuck both of her daggers into the spider’s belly. It finally fell, Raven rolled out from beneath it just in time.
Takeo wiped his blade on the grass and re-sheathed it. He walked over to Dai and crouched down next to her.
“You okay?” he asked looking at the cut on her upper leg.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” She said smiling, but she grimaced when she tried to stand up and fell back down. “No, it’s going to be hard to walk, this really hurts.” Takeo ripped off his sleeve and tied it around her leg, he applied pressure to it to try and stop the bleeding, she bit her tongue.
“Sorry if it hurts a little bit, but we can’t have you dying from blood loss can we?” he smiled down at her. She just looked at him.
“You know you’re not really helping me feel a whole lot better…”
“Yeah, I know.” He smiled again. While Takeo and Dai talked, L and Raven were working on flipping the spider to get her daggers out of it. They weren’t making much progress considering it weighed a ton…