Falling Into A New Life

It was perfect. The arena had everything you can imagine for every element. Spots where you could see the heat in the air, small forests, lakes, rocks, lava, clouds with a slight drizzle, everything. With all the different things everywhere, I was worried a situation like this one wouldn't happen. In a clearing surrounded by vine filled trees, sat four demons. I remembered their estimated rank, and I liked our chances. The two strong demons were ranked around four and five, while the two weaker were about eight and ten. The strong ones were both wolves, one being grey while the other brown. For the sake of clarity, that will be their names. One of the weaker was a twisted mockery of a monkey, the other was a frankenstein project. It looked like someone glued a bunch of arms and legs to a blob. I didn't know how I missed it in class, but this was something that needed to die. Like I know I'm a big demon hater, but holy shit this thing needed to die. It might sound horrifying, but I know you're picturing it standing still... imagine it moving. It basically just rolls using its limbs to hold it up. Well, you get the picture. I landed silently behind them while whispering to Feltrix.

"Alright, I'm going to go for the brown one, I want you to wrap up the grey in vines. I don't just mean a little either. Use all the mana you have, I'll protect you afterwards. Once you do though, shout for those two to attack him. That will make things a lot easier."

Feltrix nodded his head, and started gathering his mana. I slowly snuck up on the brown, just as he tossed the monkey into a tree. I personally thought that was stupid, since it's a fucking monkey, but whatever. Feltrix finally finished his spell, and vines completely covered Grey.  When Brown looked over in surprise, I shoved my claws into his back and shouted "Frostcap!". Wondering what that is/does? Well I'm quite proud of it. An icecap is a thick cover of ice over an area, sloping in all directions from the center. Frost is the spell I use to freeze things. So frostcap is a spell that freezes something, and then causes that something to expand in all directions away from where it was originally. Now what do you suppose would happen if I, say, dug my claws into a wolf's body and cast it on their blood? It's quite the site to see. Brown actually exploded in a frozen red paste of icy shrapnel. It wasn't a big explosion, but it was enough for me to use. I redirected all the shrapnel at the weaker pair, and tore them apart. They had actually managed to get close to tearing Grey's heart out, and I couldn't let them eat it. I grabbed Brown's heart and quickly ate it, before running to Grey.

"Hurry up and eat the weaker demons, I got this one handled!" Feltrix nodded before rushing to the downed pair. They were ripped apart badly enough that he easily won. Grey was starting to regenerate and gather mana. Before he could I looked around us while casting frostcap once again. There was a pair of demons flying our way, so I redirected the blast straight for them. I hurriedly devoured Grey's heart as Feltrix finished the last of his. I grabbed him and took to the sky. The rest of the fight was spent in the air, watching from a safe view point. Feltrix was grinning like a fool the entire time, and I admit I might have smiled as well.

My mana pool grew by another 90% that fight, and Feltrix's tripled. I still felt like something was wrong, but it didn't really matter anymore. I gladly buried the thoughts under my astonishment. My plan had gone off perfectly, and I could barely believe it. No other demons had thought to go against the tradition, and they all barely grew stronger. With the two I had slain, I was now ranked as number one out of the class. All the demons who said my win against her was a fluke wouldn't even look me in the eyes.

The next month went exactly the same, more or less. I read books and made runes during the first two classes, and helped Feltrix with making traps and training during third. After classes were done, I'd train with my magic and study. Only thing interesting happened when the second fight came around. Apparently the other half of the class appreciated my idea, since the fight was an all out warfare. No one trusted anyone, everyone tried to kill each other, and the only ones who died were two demons who got killed by their partners. The two partnerless demons hooked up for the rest of the fight to. Apparently they had planned to betray their partners together from the very start. And you thought that wasn't a valid concern.

Anyway until my next fight, almost nothing interesting happened. Just more training and thinking of spells. I perfected one I thought was really interesting though. I call it, Frostflare! It's kinda like frostfire but more advanced. It draws in all the surrounding heat, turning my enemy to ash and those around it to ice, and then violently releases all the heat at once. So if there is a bunch of demons trying to kill me, I use it on the one closest to the middle, he turns to ash, all those closes to him are frozen, and when he explodes the frozen demons are violently shattered and their shards cut through their allies. Judging by the small scale version I did, it's going to require a lot of mana to use properly. Like 40% of my ice and fire mana combined. I'm still super excited to use it, but I'm going to wait for my pool to grow a little more first.

The third fight was super exciting though. I don't mean in the way of awesome battles, though I'm sure there were some, I mean that my plan for that fight worked amazingly well. Instead of fighting head to head with others, I simply waited in the sky. I flew away from anyone coming for me and kept a safe distance. Why you might ask? I was letting all of them do the fighting for me. When I saw a demon about to devour a heart nearby me, I would use ice spikes to impale the eater, wrap the loosing demons heart in ice, and drag it to me for eating. I ended up eating three demons, and Feltrix eating one. There was only me, Feltrix, and one last pair left at the end of the match. My pool grew by another 113%(odd number) and Feltrix grew by even more.

He was now estimated to be third out of the four of us, with me being first. I can't believe how worried I was about dying. I once again thought about all the demons being children, and It looked to be even more likely than before. It was like they had the knowledge, without the experience to use it. Like they were just born with their knowledge and strength, but not the understanding behind it. If you don't get what I'm saying, it's like this. They have the answers to a math test. They automatically know the answers without solving the problems. But they don't know the equations to any problem. So when something new happens, they don't know what to do. If it isn't the exact problem they have the answer to, like me stealing from them and ambushing them, then they can't react properly and answer it. I think this explanation got away from me a little bit... but I'm sure you get the gist of it. There a bunch of children with hate, power, and other horrible things to give children. No wonder I can just outsmart them all... I'm a fucking adult fighting to the death with children. It's so easy! I feel like it should bother me, but it just doesn't. I just think about how easy it makes it, and that's all.

I feel like there is something important missing, but it doesn't matter. Does that make sense? How can something important be missing, if it doesn't matter? I remember how I would have reacted, but it doesn't matter. Why doesn't it matter? The only thing that bothers me anymore is the thought of death. Ahh, this is starting to get under my skin. I'll think about all that later, it doesn't matter right now. After the fight they gave us the next three days off. I finally finished my journal, and I'm now caught up. So I'm going to spend the next few days relaxing. I don't exactly need to worry about winning at this point. I'll bring this up to speed after I'm done. Not that you'll notice the time lapse.

I wonder why all the halls are so empty? A lone figure thought to itself. It didn't notice the three ponys sneaking up behind it.

"Will this work?" One of the two pegasi asked.

"Yes now be quite, we don't want to alert him." The third, a unicorn, replied a little to loudly. "Shit it's now or never." She muttered as the panther's ear twitched. It had stopped moving and was turning around, when the unicorns horn grew extraordinarily bright. The cat squinted its eyes, and seemed about to question them, but a bolt flew from the unicorn and hit it directly. Their sighs of relief were the last thing it heard, as it slumped over unconscious.

"Alright you two, we don't have much time. You know the drill, bag em and let's get out of here." The pegasi bowed their heads in acknowledgment before grabbing the cat. The four vanished into a door, that seemed to vanish with them. The halls once again became full, as if nothing had ever happened. No one noticed a thing.