Leo's Unfair Advantage

[StealthBite]

Bethany's blade yet again crossed the skin of Leo, her arena challenger, slicing a large wound into his forearm. The man stood at least two feet taller than her and was massive compared to her delicate figure. Bethany quickly darted side to side as Leo’s axe chopped through the air at her. She was agile and swift, easily able to dodge the inflexible man’s barbaric attacks.

He clearly was growing tired and impatient. Bethany did not know, but Leo was holding his true strength back from sight, waiting for the right time to strike. Another powerful swing of his axe, the size of Bethany’s head, was unleashed. However, this one missed its target by meters, crashing onto the ground and rumbling the small sand partials surrounding the two of them.

Bethany had already twisted around Leo gracefully to attack from behind. This would be the last strike in the battle if everything were to go as planed. Nevertheless, Leo was not going to fall so easily, and he sure was not going to let the possible arena rank as champion go. Bethany paused in step as Leo disappeared out of view in front of her. She felt confused and rather tense that her enemy was no longer in sight.

[Constantine]

Constantine stood out of sight, behind a large pillar. He was next to the entrance of the arena waiting and watching. Leo had forbidden him to disturb any of his doings, even though Constantine didn't have to listen, until he had promised that is. He kept his promises, but this one bothered him badly. Leo was here wanting to defeat this girl, and take her place in command. it was such an unfair fight.

The vampire barely missed her once again. Gritting his teeth and digging his long claws into the pillar, restraining himself from interfering. Then Leo disappeared from Bethany's. "No, not her." He growled under his breath. Now Constantine stepped out from behind the pillar.

[StealthBite]

A long twenty seconds went by before any sign of Leo reappeared. Bethany looked at the ground in front of her where both her and Leo’s blood coloured the sand crimson. She then looked at the stands above the arena circle looking at the auidence who also seemed a bit confused. A large shadow casted over Bethany and something grabbed her before she could react. An overwhelming fear rushed over her. The tight grip felt too paralyzing to try to get away.

It was Leo, using his vampiric skills to shade himself from view. He reached out, grabbed her, and dragged the girl closer. She was not going down so Leo had other plans. He smiled and dug his fangs into her neck. Blood seeped from her as he drank the adrenalin. This attack was so very quick. It looked, from a human’s prospective, as if he was constructing her airways. He let her go after a few seconds and stood back as she fell to her knees and hands, and then collapsed from exhaustion and fright.

[Constantine]

Constantine stopped, he was too late, so he quickly retreated to the shadows of the pillar before being sighted. He sighed, now Constantine would watch over Bethany during her transformation, but before that he would confront Leo. It was starting to be too much. No one, not even a vampire deserved to win by cheating. Now as others ran out to move Bethany he went with the, speeding up a little, only enough to reach her first. The others he wasn't sure what they would have done with her, but he acted as if one of them. Constantine scooped Bethany up into his arms. Giving Leo a cold glare before taking her back inside the arena, to where the competitors waited for their match. He laid her done on a bench and grab some rags pressing it to her wound. "Bethany, all you all right?" He asked in a hushed whisper.

[StealthBite]

Leo stared at Constantine with an impassive face. He clearly was not expecting to see him here of all places, especially on the day of his fight. Holding back a rude comment, he smiled and watched as the two of them went away. The audience stood from their seats and looked at the new arena champion, clapping and cheering at the amazing battle that had just taken place.

When Constantine and Bethany entered the blood room, Bethany began to regain herself. She was still trembling as the wound in her neck ached worse than any pain she had yet to feel through out her arena days. “Y-Yeah, I should be fine.” She said half-heartedly. “Who are you?” She asked looking up at him. He did not look familiar and Bethany should know, she was at the arena for many years and knew the staff members names by heart. Bethany placed her hands over the rags and tighened the pressure to make sure she didn't lose any more blood. The battle already was deadly enough, She didn't need anymore bloodloss as it was.

[Constantine]

"A friend." Constantine said, moving around the room looking for tape after Bethany had taken the rag from him. "Can you trust me?" He asked almost hopeful.

Before she answered he had found the tape he needed and some bandages. Carefully Constantine removed the rags she had put the bandages in place and taped them there as gently as he could manage. Normally the blood would have bothered him, but it was getting easier to refuse it. Leo would be taken care of soon now, and if he entered now there would be another fight except this one would be a more fair fight.

Constantine looked at Bethany sadly, he didn't wish for her of all the people here to become what he was. Now that it was happening he would help her. He would make sure the wound closed, if it wouldn't own he would have to do it himself, stitches, his recreating the wound, or his own saliva which held some of the venom, and was one of the reasons vampires could heal so quickly.

[StealthBite]

((Do you want me to bring Leo into the thread? He cannot ‘die’ because he has to stay as arena champion. If he dies Bethany would be replaced again as the champion and choose to stay there.))

Bethany looked her bloody hand for a moment as she thought. “Trust,” she repeated. No one had asked her if she ever trusted him or her for a long time. In the world at the arena trust was never formed, only envy and reliance. Her eyes looked to the side where Constantine was patching her wound up, “Yes, I could trust you.”

Her heart sank when she heard the yell of the announcer as he spoke to the crowd about Leo’s new placement as arena champion. Bethany had worked and trained so hard to be the top dog and in a few swift movements, Leo knocked off her pedestal.

[Constantine]

{(I know that, I'm not going to kill him, so do as you please)}

"Good, do you know what Leo is? By now you should know he is no ordainary man." Constantine began. He was deliberating on whether he should give himself up, or just talk about Leo for now, she would have to learn everything so she wouldn't hurt anyone later.

"We.. are alike in a way. You must trust though, that I won't harm you...no matter what."He knew she was smart, and was close to getting it, or already knew the answer. Constantine only wanted her on his side, not the ones who will destroy the humans, the ones that the other creatures kill.

[StealthBite]

Bethany thought about the words Constantine said about Leo and how he was no ordinary man. She agreed with that because everything felt so different during the fight. He was stronger and quicker than most of her other enemies were. Leo also possessed the eyes that Bethany had never seen before. How they glowed, a dim red was rather intimidating.

She started to put the pieces together in her head. “How he disappeared so quickly… and the neck bite.” Thoughts rushed through her head as she spoke. Bethany knew what Leo was, but she was trying to deny it. Before she told Constantine what she thought Leo was, Leo came in from the outside and looked at them. No one followed him but the loud noise from the arena circle.

[Constantine]

Constantine turned to face the new face in the room. "When will you ever get enough fame and glory?" He shouted at Leo, "You will..." He paused glancing quickly at Bethany, "You will expose all of us, and do you think we wil let you do that? I hopr you don't expect all of us to come and save you when they want to burn you at the stake, Leo." He finished advancing on Leo, with a cold look on his face.

"What do you seek?" He asked a bit calmer. Constantine wouldn't do anything, not today, he wouldn't start a fight with leo no matter how upset he was. He returned to Bethany's side waiting for what leo had came in here for. His gaze was still cold, full of hate and some pain. Constantine knew all to well the feeling of the transfomatoin Bethany would be going through.

[StealthBite]

Leo smirked at Constantine’s underlain threat. “I doubt I would need your help if I did expose our species,” he said with his head held high. “I am the new arena champion, as you both know. That must mean something to how strong my power is.” Leo was clearly trying to upset Constantine and Bethany by picking his words carefully.

“I came to see Monroe, my new consultant. I’m sure you two have met, Bethany dear?” He looked at Bethany who returned a glance with a pale face. She knew that everything was going to change because Monroe would not have taken Leo unless he had an empty position on his team. “Speak of the devil, here he comes.”

Bethany stood up when Monroe walked over to the three of them. The arena warriors contributed a polite gesture to all the trainers when they went to speak to them. Her entire body ached and felt unstable, not only from the fight but because she was nervous. Bethany knew what was going to come from Monroe’s lips.

Monroe, grim faced, nodded a hello, and said, “I’m sorry but you two will have to leave, unless you are here to visit Leo.” Bethany was no longer allowed in the bloodroom because she was no arena warrior, and Constantine had to have an arena escort. Leo, of course, smiled an odd smirk and shook his head no, saying he knew no relations to these spectators.

[Constantine]

Constantine, glared once more at Leo, "Someday." He promised, turning to the new face. "I would never visit such the likes of him."

He looked over at Bethany tilting his head toward the door, for her to follow him. Then he left the room and smiled to himself, Leo thought himself the greatest of them all, of course he did. Leo was the one taking all the fame he could get his greedy hands on. Bethany now entered there world, and Leo would keep killing until he had the highest power.

[[This time is it before or after I am King?}}

[StealthBite]

((what? like the timeline in this thread? If so, it does not matter; I picture Constantine as the king in this thread right now.))

Bethany looked around the bloodroom for one last time, sighed, and then followed Constantine out. She was more fearful of what will happen now; she knew Leo had to be a vampire. Bethany was lost yet again in life, which was something she did not understand.

The day’s light was nothing more than a stream of light across of the horizon. “It’s getting late,” She muttered shyly. She did not even know this man’s name and she was already running away from the arena with him. Bethany was starting to feel a bit woozy, “I got to leave this place…” She did not have a home other than the private rooms underneath the arena, “I need to rest somewhere.” Bethany planned to leave the city and go to an inn somewhere outside of town, just to escape all the eyes of the people who walked by.

[Constantine]

"So you do, I have the perfect place." He began looking at her feeling sorry she lost everything she once knew. "No one will see you there, no one even know it is there. I promise you will be safe."

Constantine waited for her reply, ready to help her if she were to fall. Bethany seemed to be woozy from many things probably, bloodloss, the days events. They would go to the manor deep inside of the woods, if she would come with him, but he would galdly take her elsewhere.

[StealthBite]

((In her history, she went to an inn, but I will change that because I have to add the other history of her meeting Constantine etc.))

Bethany did not have anything to lose at this point; it was all gone now anyway. She nodded, but then said, “I’ll go with you, once I learn your name.” She did not know a lot about this young man, only that she was clearly a few years older and a ways shorter. Bethany believed that knowing him was important for now and later on.