I walked, struggling to carry Jack until I ran into Artemis, he had short opaque black hair I don’t know what happened, but he always wore a black blind fold over his eyes. He wore a long black collared shirt, a single black leather scaled glove on his right hand, and blue jeans. He had a long wooden bow strapped around his chest, even though he had a watch with a dimension storage he didn’t use it. “Need help with that?” Artemis asked.  

“Yeah, can you?” I struggled to lift Jack up.  

He grabbed Jack out of my arms and threw him over his shoulder like a firefighter. We headed towards the courtyard and had simple conversations. “So why do you carry our bow around your shoulder?” I asked.  

“Why do you have your daggers on your waist?” he shot back.  

“You got me there.” I admitted. “Did you feel Atlas’ aura from where you were?” 

“Yeah, but it wasn’t bad, I bet it was worse up close.” he said. “Jack’s was pretty intense too. Who was he trying to kill this time?” 

“Just some noble brat from a rich family, after the fight Akio stabbed Jack in the back of the leg in the calf.” I answered. 

“Yeah, that would set him off.” he laughed.  

I couldn’t help but chuckle, his laugh was cute. “I never thought to ask, but how can you see, with the blind fold and all?” I asked.  

“I can feel the mana radiating from things and I can make the rough estimate of what things look like.” he answered.  

“Is Rekka the same way?” I asked. 

“Yeah, although he can see without the blindfold, he wears it to protect people.” he said. 

“What do you mean by that?” I questioned further. 

“Ask him, it’s not my place to tell you.” he faced me. 

We got to the courtyard, and we put Jack under a tree. “He should wake up in a few hours and he theoretically be cooled off and not want to kill the newcomer.” Artemis said as he dropped Jack on the floor.  

Jack hit the floor with a thud. “Shall we go back and watch the fights?” he faced towards me. 

“Yeah, that would be nice.” I said, turning around.  

We headed back to the Arena, our short time alone before we met back up with the others. “Hey, I’m Orion.” Orion stuck his hand out to shake Artemis’ hand. 

“I’m Artemis, nice to meet you.” Artemis said looking at Shiro and Scarlet. “Are you guys new too?” 

Scarlet shook his hand. “I’m Scarlet, nice to meet you.”  

 
Shiro bowed slightly. “My name is Shiro.”  

“Up next we have Shiro Akuma.” the proctor said before Atlas ushered him over.  

“Never mind she is Low F rank.” He said after Atlas whispered something. 

“Why is she already F rank?” I asked.  

“She can’t really control mana, she is still learning.” Orion answered.  

I looked at Shiro and her face was as red as Summer’s hair and she hid her face with her hands. “Don’t worry about it, I couldn’t use mana until I was fifteen and I don’t have an element affinity now.” Artemis chuckled scratching the back of his head.  

I just know that helped a little with her pride. Orion patted her head. “See it's not that bad your only 13.”  

“Up next we have Scarlet, no last name.” The proctor announced.  

“Ooh, ooh I want to fight her.” Summer said looking at Atlas.  

“Go for it.” Atlas sighed.  

Summer and Scarlet went down the middle of the Arena. Scarlet approaches Summer as she inhaled to calm her nerves. “You got this Scarlet.” She whispered to herself. 

“You, ok?” asked Summer. “No hard feelings after this right?” 

“Of course, not it’s a test.” Scarlet replies. 

“Winner gets treated a free meal at The Orical, deal?” Summer asks while warming up. 

“I don’t know what that is but sure.” Scarlet stretches. “Loser is paying right?” 

“Yes ma’am.” Summer seems happy with scarlet’s question. 

The girls simultaneously rushed at each other summer ignites her hand in crimson red flames as she goes to punch Scarlet, but she dodges and blasts summer away with a powerful wind attack launching her into the stands. Summer starts to laugh and jumps back into the arena stretching her arm. “That one hurt” 

As expected, Scarlet didn’t let Summer recover and dashed towards her using wind to propel her forward at neck breaking speed striking viscously, but Summer was able to block the flurry of hits. Summer quickly countered by upper cutting Scarlet sending her flying across the arena. Scarlet gets up and wipes the blood from her mouth.  

As she gets up summer dashes at a speed where I couldn’t follow even with my eyes. Summer ignites her fist and goes to punch Scarlet in the face when suddenly her fist gets caught. When both the girls looked up and then looked down, Atlas caught summer’s hand and extinguished her flames. “I think that’s enough” Atlas let’s go of summer’s hand. “Mid C Rank” 

The arena was silent before loudly cheering, I clapped at my sisters victory. After the girls came back to where we were sitting. “Scarlet, if you were that strong how come you didn’t break out before I came?” Orion asked.  

“What do you mean by that?” I asked.  

“They were suppressing my wind magic, and it was a made of magic stone, so it was hard to break.” Scarlet looked down. “I was a slave before I met Orion a few hours ago.”  

I gave her a hug. “I’m sorry I didn’t know.”  

She accepted the hug. “It’s fine, I'm here now.” She smiled.  

I felt bad. I stopped hugging her and the next person was called. “Can Orion Akuma come down.” the proctor announced. 

Orion got up and jumped from the where we were sitting. I think it was a bit extra. Orion went to grab at his waist but realized he didn’t have a weapon, I could hear his audible sigh from all the way up here. He brought up his hands in a defensive position. The aura he was emitting was oppressive, it wasn’t killing intent like Jack’s, but it was still suffocating.  

Orion took a step forward and the proctor took one back. “Step down, I’ll test him.” Atlas said cracking his knuckles.  

“If it’s because I hesitated, I was just figuring out how to approach him, cause I didn’t want to hurt the kid.” the proctor managed to get out. 

“Who you calling a kid.” Orion snapped.  

Orion is kind of short, he looks to be about 5’7 to 5’9. It was funny seeing him upset. “No, he just piqued my interest.” Atlas interrupted. 

“If you say so.” I could hear the proctor’s sigh of relief as he stepped back.  

Atlas stepped in the ring and cracked his neck. “You ready?” he asked.  

“Ye--” Orion was interrupted as Atlas disappeared, then reappeared punching him in the face sending him flying.  

“Oh, that’s how we are doing this?” Orion said emerging from the smoke. 

Atlas makes a sword out of light and rushes at Orion. But he quickly blocks the sword that was aiming for a kill. Orion blasts a giant ball of dark black flames towards Atlas, but Atlas walks through the flames like it were nothing.  

As the flames dispersed, Orion disappeared when Atlas surveyed the area but suddenly Orion appeared and punched Atlas in the face sending him flying across the coliseum. The crowd goes completely silent, no one has hit atlas before not even Ketsuki and he is one of if not the fastest. “Alright Orion I see how you play now. I’ll step up my game.”  Atlas gets up from the hole in the wall. 

Atlas gets even faster than before and slowly starts to overpower Orion, with each slice of Atlas’ sword Orion either parries it or dodges. I don’t know how he manages to parry a sword made of light with his bare hands, but he somehow manages to. 

All of a sudden Orion started to sway before clutching his chest, he threw up a puddle of blood before collapsing. “We need healers now.” Atlas yelled into the crowd.  

Instantly 2 to 3 hunters jumped down to go check on Orion. We were all stunned not able to do anything. I looked at Shiro and she was covering her mouth with tears building up in her eyes. “Check his vitals” One of the female medics called to one of the other medics. 

“Heart rate decreasing.” another called out. 

“Someone go get Knox.” One of the girls next to Orion yelled at someone in the stands. 

Someone dashed out of the stands and out of the arena.Suddenly the room gets filled with an icy presence freezing all the liquids and freezing over all the glass in the room. Knox walks in casually. He was wearing a dark gray collared shirt with light blue highlights and a blue undershirt, he had dark gray hair with a lighter tint of gray his left shoe was a light gray, and his right was a light blue, he wore his watch on his left wrist it was a dark gray. “What do you want Atlas” The boy asked while sighing. 

“You're a medic and it is your job to heal, so heal him.” Atlas said pointing at the unconscious Orion. 

“Fine but you owe me.” Jace says walking up to Karma as his eyes started to glow a grayish white as his hands were glowing a snow white.  

He puts his hands onto Orion's chest and chants something in an ancient language “θεραπεία” Jace lifts his hands from Orion's chest.  

Jace's hands stop glowing and Orion’s chest started moving up and down in a rhythmic way, he was better but is still unconscious. “I did the best I can he will need to rest for a day or 2 before waking up.” Jace walks away. “Remember you owe me.”  

“Yeah, yeah” Atlas sighs “Thanks again.” 

*** 

After Orion collapsed the testing ended as he was the last one to be tested, I don’t remember his rank exactly but I think it was Low B Rank. Artemis and I sat in the mess hall afterwards. “Who was he, and how did he stand up against Atlas for that long?” he asked.  

“I don’t know, but I'm glad I don’t have to fight him.” I replied. 

The quest board was in the mess hall and the quests and someone was adding some papers on the board. “The quest board updated, wanna check it out?” Artemis asked. 

“Yeah, let’s go.” We got up and went towards the board.  

There was already a crowd, around the board talking. “Well that somewhat explains it.” A hunter said.  

“Yeah, it does.” Another said. 

I pushed through the crowd to see what they were talking about. When I saw what they were talking about my jaw dropped. 

Wanted  

Orion Akuma  

300 G 

Wanted for the slaughtering of countless demons and destroying half a country and the lands around it. 

I ripped the wanted poster off the wall, and went to the infirmary. “Winter he is still unconscious. Don't be too loud, I want an explanation as much as you, but he needs to rest.” Artemis stopped me from kicking down the door and demanding an explanation. 

I took a deep breath before opening the door quietly. I walked in a saw 3 other people in the room passed out. Summer was passed out in a chair with a plate of food half falling off her lap. Scarlet and Shiro had there heads resting on the bed that he was laying on. “Come on let's go, we can get one when Shiro wakes up.” Artemis grabbed my shoulder.