The Bloody Tiger Vs The Size Shifting Dragon....

Kiola was doing push-ups with Cyel on her back to train for her last fight at the colosseum, making sure not to push her limits to ruin what was sure to be an enjoyable experience. "Come on Kiola, you can do it!" Cyel cheered.

"I suppose I should at least give you my support, dragon." Lucy said with a small smile as she watched from the side. The kobold looked pissed that Lucy was still here. "Why don't you go hang out with your horsemen? Since you replaced Kiola so easily with them."

"Even if I wanted to, they already went back to the carriage since I have technically already defeated Clawhouser." She smirked, making Cyel ever so more pissy. "You know what, ever since Kiola met you, you have caused nothing but trouble! We were just fine in our world, then you and that Rat girl tore open our reality and sent us here!"

"Oh yes, I wanted to destroy my world and everyone in it. If you were not Kiola's pet, I would tear you limb from screaming limb, you little blue bitch!" Lucy said as her bangs lifted up as if a gust of wind had blown them, revealing she now had a new red eye appear in the centre of her face that pushed the other two away to the side.

Kiola quickly shoved Cyel off as she stared at her new eye. "Ay, looks like someone's finally getting her demonic look back." She cheered. Lucy rolled her new eye before looking to Cyel, who was clutching Kiola's leg.

"Cyel... Can you uh, get off?" Kiola asked bluntly, trying to shake her off. The kobold tumbled to the ground, falling at Lucy's feet. "At least I'm prettier then you now." She smirked before getting a swift kick from Lucy. "Shut it, pet."

"I'm not a pet! I'm Kiola's girlfriend!" She yelled pridefully, making everyone, even Grey, who was just hanging out as a scarf on Nvr's neck, look away awkwardly. "What? I am!"

Kiola took a deep sigh while she stared down at her kobold. "You know what you are to me. A pet. You wanted it, I gave it to you. Stop acting like we are anything more." She groaned and began heading for the door, only to feel Cyel tug on her tail. "S-Stop joking! Come on! We've been together so long! I-I gave up so much for you..."

"You chose this. I didn't." Kiola said flatly, watching as Cyel looked like she was about to cry. The kobold quickly ran out of the room with her things, not saying a word.

Lucy, Nvr and Grey all wanted to leave as fast as they could, feeling the awkwardness filling the room. "I died on my wedding day and even I have never felt such profound sadness." Nvr whispered into Grey, who shuffled in agreement.

"Damn it ######. Screw it, I'll talk to her later." Kiola said with a shrug, walking off as well. Lucy let out a sigh, not really liking the idea of dealing with relationships in the first place. "Why can't people just sit in silence and drink coffee together?"

"You never experienced love brfore, have you?" Nvr said flatly, making Lucy blush red for a second. "I was far to busy with work. Plus, I was feared through out Pandora's Tears. Do you think I really need someone? No. Joint Hearts Day was always a problem as well, Cheshire was..."

Lucy began going on and on about her non-existent love life. It would have seemed more serious of she still had her terrifying personality back when she was Panila, and yet she seemed to be more easy going as Lucy, something even Nvr could pick up on.

After what felt like hours of Lucy continuing to babble on and on about her life, Nvr just casually picked her up and took her to the colosseum stands to watch Kiola's last fight as the feared "Size Queen Of Dragons". 

"Ladies and Gentlemen, today is the last fight of the season! I know it has been a long year of battles and struggles between our competitors, yet I want to say... I LOVE THIS PLACE!" Clawhouser yelled with a roar, raising a black spear to the sky. The crowd began cheering his name as they watched him begin to hype them up.

"For our last match... It shall be between the dreaded Size Queen Of Dragons and, your grascious and all around favourite host... Me, The Blood Tiger, Clawhouser!"

Everyone began going crazy once they heard that he was going to be fighting. He briefly explained this match would have no use of powers, to make it more enjoyable. It had been ages since Clawhouser had actually fought in the arena, and for him to be fighting the new crowd favourite, the amount of excitement was more infectious then Lucy's new plague, which had actually began spreading around the land (though it was luckily already just seen as an annoyance, like the common cold). 

Kiola took to the arena, stepping out in her bikini battle attire that she was weirdly fond of, though it did baffle Lucy how she had the confidence to wear it. "Come on, Tiger boy. I wanna have some fun." She smirked, her tail dusting up some of the sand beneath her feet as she took up a fighting stance.

Clawhouser looked ready to go, yelling to the crowd to give him a countdown as he dragged a line in the sand.

"3"

"2"

"1"

Once the crowd cheered again, the two charged at each. The were tiger let out a chuckle before throwing his spear at Kiola, who quickly caught it with her tail and threw it back. She began launching an assault of punches that he was forced to block.

Both looked as though they were having the time of their lives as the two grappled each other close. "This is gonna hurt!" Both yelled before heading butting each other. The two stumbled back a bit before going at it again, with Clawhouser taking the lead as he moved faster then Kiola expected.

He launched a few jabs at her before picking his spear up and jabbing at her, though it just bounced off her scales. "Tough exterior. Soft inside." He joked before stabbing at her chest, actually managing to cut her. 

She let out a roar of pain before laughing, quickly tackling him to the ground and whipping at him with her tail and punching at his face. "Didn't expect that, did ya?" She cackled before being kicked off. 

As the fight raged on, Nvr handed Lucy some popcorn. "Hmm... I have never tried this, is it good?" She asked, confusing Nvr more then ever before. "How have you never tried popcorn?" She laughed, chucking a piece inside a formed mouth on Grey.

As the fight continued on for hours and the sun began to set, the two were both exhausted. Lucy let out a sigh since she had been bored by the fight by the first hour. It was rather bizarre to see Kiola so motivated, since Lucy had just known her as the rather lazy and unmotivated captain of an airship. Yet she felt a twinge of respect towards Kiola putting so much effort into a fight, something she always tried her best to do, no matter the opponent.

As Lucy watched on, she couldn't help but remember the first fight she felt like she truly lost. The one against the Heartbroken Hero, Ven. Despite the undead pushing her to her limits and wits, she lost for the simple reason that he was a better fighter and her rage having clouded her judgement.

"Granted, losing the person you loved like a son does cloud your judgement." 

"If you ramble to me one more time, I will pluck out your last remaining heart." Nvr groaned as she saw Kiola get hit in the face before dropping to the floor, defeated. Everyone in the crowd began to cheer as Clawhouser raised a tired claw to the air. 

He put a hand out to help Kiola up as she laid defeated. "Come now. Just because Midas doesn't like you, doesn't mean I do. You put up a good match." He smirked. Kiola nodded and took his hand up with a smirk forming on her scaled lips. "You to. Heh, you almost remind me of Xaima-"

Before Kiola could finish, a glowing purple beam struck the two combatants, shrinking them down to only a few inches tall. The crowd let out gasps of shock as Cyel dropped down from the top of the colosseum with a smug look as she held up her device.

"Sorry, Kiola... But you and me are forever. No need for obstacles." The kobold said with a grin as she walked over to the two. Kiola tried to exhale her mist to fix her size, but Cyel quickly grabbed her maw shut. 

"Nononono, that's not how this works. Come on. Let's go and find a place to talk." She said with a crazed look in her eye when she picked Kiola up holding her close to her face. She suddenly felt a sharp cut in her foot, looking down to see that Clawhouser had managed to cut off her pinky toe with a swipe of his claws.

"YOU INSIGNIFICANT BUG!" The kobold yelled before stomping on him. "YOU WANT TO GET IN THE WAY OF MY LOVE? DOES ANYONE ELSE WANNA GET IN MY WAY? I'LL CRUSH THEM, I'LL DO ANYTHING TO BE WITH YOU KIOLA!" She yelled, repeatedly stomping on the weretiger until he was nothing but a bloody paste beneath her foot.

Everyone in the crowd went silent as they watched their host get killed by a psychotic kobold with a shrink ray. Except for one, one who was laughing like mad. "WHO'S LAUGHING!? D-DO YOU WANNA DIE TOO?" Cyel yelled as she began looking over the crowd to see Lucy.

"I-I'm sorry." She cackled, wiping tears from her eyes. "It's... It's just, you remind me so much of Eido. Do y-you really think you're a threat?"

"You... YOU FUCKING DEMONIC RODENT! I'LL SHOW YOU!" She yelled, firing off her ray blindly into the audience, trying to hopefully hit her. Though this just caused the crowd to flee in a panic. Lucy gave a light sigh as Nvr prepared herself to fight, only to be struck by the ray, falling back in her seat.

"Well, I'm out."

"Hey, you missed me!" Lucy yelled with a laugh, jumping into the arena. Cyel let out a scream, stomping her bloody foot down as she clutched her head, trying to think. "GO AWAY HOME WRECKER!" 

"Not much of a home to wreck... Oh Mother, I am sounding like Ven." She laughed, waving her hand. She let out another scream and began wildly firing at the demon. "Shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP!"

Lucy let out a sigh, summoning a chain to kick up sand to block the shots as she began to walk closer. "Relax, Kobold. The heart in that little toy of yours in amplifying your desires for love. Now calm down."

"I won't "Calm down"!!" She screamed, running at Lucy and awkwardly trying to strike her with the blunt end of the ray gun. "Oh come on. I know Kobolds are meant to be pathetic, but this is just sad." She grumbled as she held her back. 

"I'M NOT A KOBOLD! I WANNA BE... I WANNA BE KIOLA'S WIFE! WHY DOES EVERYONE ELSE GET TO BE HAPPY!?" She screamed. Lucy noticed a window of opportunity and shot a chain at Cyel's hand, making her drop Kiola and the ray as she fell backwards.

"I got you." Lucy said as she summoned a dome around Kiola to minimise the impact as Cyel slowly went for the ray, crawling on the floor. Lucy let out a sigh before stomping on the ray, breaking it in half. "Relax Kobold. You've already killed enough. Granted one person is still a lot in my books." She said with a light laugh. 

"I... I'm not a kobold... I... Never was..." She began to cry, clutching her head as she screamed once more. Lucy went to pick up the sub-mind but she was tackled down by Cyel, who quickly picked up the heart. "I... I wanna be happy... Grant me that." She whispered into the sub-mind.

"Shit..."

Suddenly, robotic tendrils shot out from the heart, quickly wrapping themselves around Cyel like a cocoon. Lucy rushed over to Kiola and yelling; "What's Her real name!?" 

"What?" Kiola asked as Lucy let her out of the dome. The cocoon began to pulsate with a white light while Lucy continued to ask for her real name. "What do you mean?"

"She's becoming a fucking domain leader! I need a name!" Lucy yelled desperately while Kiola began to think of what Cyel's real name was. "She said she's not a kobold, right? What did you do to make Cyel "Cyel"! Come on, this isn't hard!" Lucy screamed, shaking the tiny dragon. 

"Her name was Cyldra."