And then it ca, finally. I just woke up from a nightmare and after a mont to calm my mind asked:
- What hour is it?
- Nine in the morning - replayed AI.
It was actually a cool function that it was changing asurent units from local to ones I could understand.
I was only in my underwear, provided by Druoag. Who was so kind to get clothes which looked like made on earth.
I just rolled out of the bed. Normally I could use shadow walk to put myself on my feet, which I sotis did, but now there was no way of doing that, so I simply crashed on the floor. Why did I do it? I don't know, but I remained there for a mont before finally picking myself up.
Then I went to take so stuff from the wardrobe. Fresh underwear, obviously, black military pants and a black hoodie. Yeah, my classic fashion choice, which also my trainer provided.
I took a shower with freezing cold water. Sothing I often did on Qual-O-7 since the temperature there was ridiculous, but on Jaff-15-B it wasn't. It was more similar to earth where weather varied from hot to cold. There was rain, which I experienced, and apparently also snow, but for that, there was still too early.
Cleaned up I went to the kitchen to make sothing simple to eat. An attempt to create a serial mixed with an attempt to create cow milk. It tasted... Yeah, let's stop at that. It 'tasted'.
- You have a visitor - AI inford .
- Let them in - Let them in - I said before it managed to tell who it is.
I could hear the click of the door unlocking. One of the Atri got inside carefully looking around, scanning for .
- I'm here - I raised my voice as I was finishing the bowl of food attempt.
She imdiately went straight to my kitchen, and as she appeared, she also bowed slightly to show her respect. I attempted to return the gesture, with a spoon in my mouth as I was sitting, which probably looked like I was mocking her.
- Are you ready? Your owner is already waiting for you - she inford .
I looked down at the half-eaten bowl of serial, then just dropped the spoon, as I didn't really want to finish it.
- Yeah, I'm ready - I replied and got on my feet.
Then I went to grab my translating device and followed her outside, all the way down, using the elevator. We got outside of the building where on the sidewalk was parked a flying vehicle with Yagg waiting inside. I just got in without a word, he didn't say a thing either.
The Atri had to find our silence quite funny, as she fought herself to not smile. We took off almost imdiately and flew above the city. I looked through the window at the never-ending tropolis below. Massive buildings reaching the clouds, massive entertainnt complexes where you could enjoy nurous things, socialize, eat, play, dance, watch...
Every possible ans of entertainnt, it was all there. And people crowded on streets like little ants walking in constant streams. The flow never stopped. It was so overwhelming, that I found it kinda scary.
It felt like if you tripped in those crowds, you would be crushed by all of those aliens. In my past life, it would probably be enough for to never want to get out, and now I was watching it from the sky.
It didn't take us long to approach a gigantic complex full of splendor. It looked like a state of art like sobody molded it all with clay creating this spiraling shape filled with lights shooting straight up, and dancing on the clouds above.
We landed on one of the many designated spots and got off. Yagg clearly knew the way, as he just walked off almost leaving us. We had to rush to catch up, and enter the elevator, to take us below. We got down several floors and walked through a short corridor where we joined a bunch of other aliens to board a small train-like vehicle, which took us to a different part of the building.
It was so kind of ans of transportation for the staff, as the others who were there with us clearly were working there.
We got off, and maneuvering to a bunch of entangled corridors finally got to a much wider one, leading straight to the arena outside. It was probably an underground one, as I could see the roof above, with a massive amount of lights, shining brightly on a big sandpit covered by so energy do of deep blue color. A barrier to prevent what was going on there, to reach the audience.
The stands could easily fit a few dozens thousands of people, and the seats which were too far had massive screens hanging from the ceiling, to showcase what was going on in the sandpit.
The audience was already partially there, slowly sitting down. There was clearly so pre-show to start first, as I noticed sothing was going on on the right-hand side of mine. I couldn't really tell why, as Yagg pushed towards my waiting room using his powers.
- There is no ti to admire the location. You can do that later, after the fight - he said.
I just shrugged my shoulders and started walking, to follow him inside. Druoag had to hear us from the inside, as he opened the massive doors for us.
- Hello - he said, and smiled at .
- Morning - I replied, and returned the smile.
Contrary to Yagg, it was good to see him.
He moved to the side to make space for us to enter. The space was quite big. There was so equipnt to warm yourself up, a small ring, a big couch, a large screen to watch what was going on in the sandpit, a bar with so food and drinks, and obviously a bathroom.
- I prepared so clothes for you - said Yagg. - They are reinforced.
For a second I thought about this proposition.
- No, thank you. I'll fight with what I'm wearing.
He just shrugged his shoulders.
My reasoning behind that was simple. First of all, I didn't really trust him if the matter involved other Calludins, and on top of that, the reinforced clothes were useless when facing sobody who can twist you like a wet towel.. Besides, I liked my iconic look, with the smoking skull on my back.
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