Chapter 111 Defy All Odds

Through his last fight with the level, one hybrid beast Jude knew that fighting a level two-hybrid beast was going to be really tough but fighting a level two aerial beast, it would be an understatement to say the fight was going to be tough.

This was an impossible fight and Jude knew that his chance of survival against this thing was almost zero but he tried to hide the feeling he was getting now as he tightened his grip on the sword.

"Why would he put him up against an aerial beast?"

Tauriel turned to see her twin brother standing close to her with his arms folded.

"He's trying to kill him," Tauriel said in a whisper before turning her attention to the arena and then back to her brother. "Why is he doing this, he didn't do anything?"

"I'm aware of that Tauriel but there's nothing we can do about it, no one questions him. All we can do is hope that he survives this."

"Survive," Tauriel muttered before turning her attention back to the fight. How can he think that someone will survive that without any ranged weapon?

Those were her exact thoughts as she touched the pack of arrows on her back.

"Destroy him! Destroy him! Destroy him!" Those were the exact chant words coming from the elves as they looked into the arena. The king burst into a feat of menacing and maniacal laughter that resounded through the arena.

"This is very satisfying." He said, immediately his laughter came to an end.

Back inside the arena, Jude was slowly moving backward as the beast slowly moved toward him.

Eventually, the beast got tired of the slow pace and decided to pounce on the young knight.

Jude was quick enough to roll out of the way before the beast could pounce on him, but he had made a mistake, he had forgotten that this wasn't like the buffalo that had no traction in its legs, this was a fox, one of the swift animals known to mankind.

The beast without allowing the young knight lunged towards him again, Jude wasn't fast enough to escape this was one as the beast now had its front paws on his legs keeping him in place.

With its prey now caught, the fox was about to dig into his leg with one of its mouths when Jude quickly slashed his sword towards its mouth, cutting the upper part in the process and forcing the beast to withdraw its mouth as its mouth was bleeding now.

Jude felt the pressure on his right leg lessen and he made great use of the opportunity.

"Get off me you abomination!!" He screamed as he kicked the beast in the same mouth, forcing the beast to draw back a little as it groaned in pain.

With his legs free now the young knight got off the floor and readied his sword as he was getting ready for the worse now.

The beast shook both of his heads vigorously and let out a growl louder than the first one.

Its wings began to flap wildly as the buzzing sound could be heard throughout the arena, the beast immediately took off the ground and was now flying all over the arena, that is what someone who was just looking up would say but in truth, the beast was encircling Jude.

"He's going to get killed," Tauriel said, this time to the hearing of the other elves around her.

"You know it, baby." An elf who was sitting a few feet beside her said in a cheerful voice, Tauriel turned to him with a stare that made him gulp before turning his attention back to the fight.

'I guess she's one of those human lovers.' The elf thought. 'She's scary.'

The beast came flying toward Jude but by simply lying flat on the floor at the right time he was able to avoid getting hit by the beast. He quickly got up again as the beast flew over him, but immediately he got up he saw the beast approaching him from the same direction it had just passed.

He was caught off guard but he tried to defend himself by lifting his sword and tried to slash at the beast as it came down on him but that went terribly wrong as his sword was taken away and as the beast flew a large distance away from him, the sword came dropping and landing on the floor.

Now that he had no weapon to fight with, the beast flew and then dropped in front of him, the chanting among the elves increased as they thought the scene playing in front of them now might spell the end of the human.

'That was the plan all along.' Jude thought as he knew that the main reason why the beast had flown up was to take away his weapon.

He looked at his weapon which was so far away from him that before he could get there he would already be dead, but that didn't mean he wouldn't get killed if he stood there without his sword.

He kept moving back as the beast kept approaching, the beast wasn't pouncing on him yet because it was waiting for something, it was waiting for him to hit the wall just like he had done now.

Jude could swear he saw the beast smile and lick both of its mouths now.

With his back against the wall and nowhere else to go, the beast pounced on him with both of its mouths open.

"No…" Tauriel wanted to scream but her mouth was quickly covered by her brother.

"Don't scream over nothing sis." He said.

'He wasn't nothing.' Tauriel wanted to say, but when she looked at the arena where Jude's sword had dropped she understood what he was talking about.

There were cheers among the elf audience as they believed the human had been killed as its whole body was on him now.

But after a minute had gone with neither of the two in the arena moving, they began to murmur.

At that same minute, they saw the beast's body move and were about to continue their cheer until the beast's body dropped to the floor and on closer look, they could see that Jude's sword was in one of its mouths. They were all shocked, even the king was shocked as he struck his staff on the floor out of anger and frustration.

They had all been focused on seeing the beast tear the young knight apart that they had failed to take notice of what had happened immediately the beast pounced on him.

His sword was far away from him, so the elves were wondering how he had gotten it at that crucial moment but they had forgotten what had happened in his last fight against the level one hybrid beast.

When the aerial beast pulled away from his sword, he was lucky to have his hands on the end of the string which stretched even to the distance the beast dropped it.

He had waited for the right time when the beast would pounce on him as he slowly pulled the sword closer and by the time the beast was about to finish him he pulled it quickly to his hands and stabbed it through one of its mouths, killing it instantly.

Some of the elves who didn't exactly like what was being done to the human were happy as Jude staggered towards his sword and picked it up but they didn't dare cheer for him to avoid getting on the king's bad side.

The young knight looked up at the highest stand and immediately his eyes met with the king's, red light covered him and now he was standing in front of the king.

"You may have survived this one by mere luck but tomorrow will be a whole new experience for you." The king said this time his frustration clearly showing in his voice, he had really wanted to see the young knight get splattered today but he had defied all odds and beat an aerial beast with nothing but a sword.

Jude could only smile as he got carried away this time by two elf soldiers instead of any of the twins.

In his cell room that night, Jude could feel the effects of the fight on his body, his bones were in no good shape now.

"Ouch." He winced as he pressed his ribs.

"I really need a massage if I'm going to survive that next fight." He said.

Just then he heard the door move and when it opened he saw Tauriel standing there with a bowl in her hand and then a small towel hanging over her shoulder.

"Hi." She said before walking into the room.

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Special thanks to Devante_ Wilis for his super gift, that marks the completion of my third mass release goal so be expecting five more chapters after this one.