RAMPAGE!

Knagslot was breathless. It felt daunting - really daunting to even pass a stare at this therret beast. It was crazy now, smashing around the stadium, moving in circles, while the driver of his esseda moved the ropes about In fear.

TAGNOK charged at the other esseda, thrusting a hand forward which caught the carriage by the edge and titled it sideways. The occupants jerked off it and cascaded on the ground.

The beast charged at them, his long claws reaching deep into throat of one, blood slowly oozing out of it.

Knagslot looked at the sky, it was sunny and bright but to his terrified eyes, it felt sunless and dark. Staring at TAGNOK, knagslot felt the creeps. This animal was moving with intense turpitude that would soon ravage him.

It bounced at the other man from the fallen carriage and ripped him apart with his hands.

"We're dead!", screamed the man who was behind knagslot.

"That's still a pleasant word", said knagslot.

"Oh!", screamed the man, his face drawing near knagslot's. "This is death!, we've been sent here to die, we've been sent here to-".

The sudden ripping of flesh hatled the man.

"Ho - li - eee shit!", the man screamed.

TAGNOK had just tore the horse of the fallen carriage apart.

"We've got to keep dodging this freak!", knagslot said to the man. "If he gets to us, we're dead meat".

The man wriggled the ropes and jerked it round, the horse gave a loud cry and the esseda fishtailed slightly as it hit a standstill just opposite TAGNOK.

"What are you doing?", knagslot asked the man.

"Going badass mode", the man replied like a wag and wriggled the ropes, the carriage storming right at the beast.

Knagslot wanted to scream. "You'll get us killed psycho!, you'll kill the hell out of us!".

TAGNOK darted towards them, in a mad rush, carrying a hell of a speed and lots of wind with him.

Knagslot blinked once, he did so the second time, did so again for the third and was attempting a fourth when TAGNOK leaped in the air, forward, almost reeling on their carriage. The man with knagslot slapped the horse butt so hard, the crowd in the stadium had to go in a :

"OOOHH!".

The horse gave a loud scream and slid under, TAGNOK leaping downwards onto the hard sandy ground and hitting it's head.

"Whooo!, c'mon!", exclaimed the man.

"That's some badass stuff you did right there", acknowledged knagslot. "Had to involve some big bags of courage eh?".

"You bet!", replied the man grinning. "Really big bags mate!".

TAGNOK was still on the floor, a vicious frown on his face, his eyes gleaming dangerously.

Knagslot looked at the man in pity. "I hope we die honourable deaths".

"Yeah!", exclaimed the man softly. "Like some brave knights I guess".

Knagslot nodded in the affirmative and then a loud THUD!, jerked their heads to their right.

"Incoming!", screamed the man.

But it was too late, TAGNOK had already smashed his bulky fists on the sides of the carriage it tumbled over and somersaulted in the air, knagslot and the man jolting out of the esseda.

"You feeble mortals amaze me!", shouted the beast from afar, amidst the cheers of the crowd. It hit it's massive hands together and stretched it's legs.

Knagslot and the man struggled up, in great pain. Their knight's armour weighing them down together with the sharp ache their bodies were aching them.

"Survival is for the fittest,", said the beast. "You all have been sent here to die and that I'm just going to do for you!".

Knagslot eyes were becoming watery. Perhaps he wasn't overpowered after all. He looked at the gigantic beast. Almost 9ft tall, he definitely had no chance.

"Pssss", the man called him with the side of his lips.

Knagslot looked at him.

"Let our system help us now", said the man. "Don't you have any specials".

"I've got an inner ghost shadow clown if that's something", said knagslot.

The man's eyes brightened up. "Good. I have a spinning tail beast special. Let's use them and defeat this punk!".

"But how?".

"Just be at one with them, intwine your self and boom!, blammo!, they come".

"You sure?", knagslot asked.

"Of course I'm sure", said the man. "Or do you have another solution?".

Knagslot nodded in the negative.

"Then ok pal", said the man, a spark of hope beaming out of his face. "Let's defeat this damn TAGNOK therret beast!".

The man and knagslot positioned themselves into fighting poses. The man, with his almost wrinkled face, bald head and his little stubble had a look of hope on his face.

Knagslot too had a look of hope but his wasn't that vibrant. Nonetheless, it was a hope sign.

TAGNOK was breathing hardly now and was seriously furious.

"Whatcha guys think you're doing heh?", the beast asked. "No need being brave. I'll have to bust your bubble. After I'm gon' smash all your teeths outta your mouth. In any world you'll be in or recarnated into, you'll put something some respect on my name you pipe skulls!".

Knagslot took a deep breath and with that, he stepped forward in a run, the man behind him and soon overtaking him to the front, his eyes almost closed.

Knagslot ducked a punch, slid down when he saw a kick and moved farther to the left, the man taking the right. He ran with bated breaths, expecting a punch and yet dodging it. Same with the man, he anticipated a move of strike from the beast but yet dodged it, dreading an outrage.

TAGNOK suddenly halted his moves and closed his eyes startling knagslot and the man who exchanged puzzled glances.

"Rim…, rim…, rim…, rim…, rim…, rim…", TAGNOK said slowly, like an incantation. "Rim…, rim…, rim…, rim…,".

Knagslot and the man where getting scared now, especially when the wind started to twirl and swirl. Knagslot hated this to the peak. It always led to something, it was an act he dreaded at a time of peril as this.

Suddenly with a great outcry screamed the beast: "UNLEASH!".