Chaos and Stu arrived at Cherry Street just before 4PM and it was another hot afternoon with clear skies, Stu looked up and down the street, there wasn’t anyone around as usual with these battles. Chaos said, “I can feel it now.”

  Stu asked, “What? The god?”

  Blushing slightly, she said, “No. Her powers..”

  Stu looked around at the warehouses along the street, trying not to watch Chaos getting uncomfortable. He said, “Oh.. Alright, I kind of expected you to be immune if I was, but that’s cool. We’re both adults, we can be mature about this..” His mind was racing, thinking about moist panties, God damn..

  Chaos was blushing hard now as she gred at Stu. “Adults, huh?”

  He smiled nervously saying, “Heh, she must be getting to me as well.. what do you know?” She walked ahead not buying his bullshit.

  They both stopped cold in their tracks, before they saw her they felt the power. Euphoria spoke with a different tone than the other gods. Like something deeper was ticking away within her. Euphoria pinly said, “Hello Chaos, I’ve been hearing some rumors about you.”

  They turned to face an alley and there stood Euphoria; she looked like the other gods but with snow white hair. Stu couldn’t be sure, but something was different with her, like she was slightly out of focus no matter how hard he tried to look at her. He could tell this was different; this was miles different than what he’d seen so far.. Even his heart rate increased. Chaos said, “Yeah, I’ve heard some rumors about you too.”

  Euphoria had a dead stare as she spoke, vacant of all emotions. she said, “I’m going to make this simple before you decide to attack. Surrender, lend me the power of your blue blood. If not I’ll force you to. Simple.” Even as she sat still, Stu could swear her image was moving away from itself, what was that?

  Chaos stoically said, “You may not have my Stu.”

  Euphoria said, “Hmm.. So, the rumors are true then..” She looked at Stu Saying, “What say you blue blood? Would you die in the service of Chaos rather than serve a true god?”

  Stu said, “Yeah, I really didn’t get what your trying to say.. but if you’re asking me whether or not you can go fuck yourself, then the answer is a resounding yes.”

  Euphoria said, “Then I have no choice except to force Chaos to yield to me. I won’t lose a powerful piece of the game like you. You will work for me, or watch your God suffer for the rest of the tournament. The choice of how much she has to suffer is the both of yours. All I need is one of you to surrender, and I get what I want. Now, you know my whole devious pn. How will you stop me?” Stu watched her but it gave him a headache as if she was just out of focus.

  Chaos said, “We’re just here to kill you and go home. That’s our pn.”

  “Don’t you think you forgot someone?” A voice called out from behind Stu and Chaos, it was a big guy.. Stu figured 320lbs all muscle and about 6’8” he was grinning wide at Stu. “You can call me Axel, and I’m very excited to meet you, Stu.. Big fan of yours..” That st part came across extremely menacing Stu thought.

  Euphoria pinly said, “I say we see who’s blue blood is stronger, what do you say Chaos?”

  Chaos yelled, “Screw you Euphoria!” Charging Euphoria, Stu didn’t see anything, except a cloud of dust erupted and a loud crashing sound that filled the air.

  Stu started to run over to where the dust erupted from but Axel yelled, “huh-uh blue blood, just stay where you are until we’re finished.”

  Stu considered ignoring him for a moment, but the dust cloud settled and Euphoria was still emotionless as she pinned Chaos to the side of a concrete building by the throat. Chaos was trying to break her grip to no avail. Stu said, “Let her go.”

  Euphoria said, “Then beat my blue blood, show me how powerful you are. That’s all, simple.”

  Stu yelled, “Alright! I’ll fight your blue blood! Just know the first moment I get the chance, you die Euphoria!”

  From somewhere far away Prosperity yelled, “Hot!”

  Stu faced Axel throwing his gsses down on the ground, so they shattered. He asked, “What did you say your name was again?”

  He grinned saying, “Axel.”

  Stu nodded angered and saying, “Yeah I just wanted to make sure I heard that right. I can’t believe you go around calling yourself Asshole.. Just weird.”

  Axel said, “Oh yeah, making fun of me is really going to hurt my…” His sentence was cut short as Stu hit him with his shoulder driving him into the side of a metal warehouse, punching straight through the building. Stu threw the man off himself into the side of a rge piece of scaffolding that colpsed onto Axel.

  Stu ran to where the man nded grabbing a pipe from the scaffolding, raising it high, a foot kicked him in the forehead knocking him back. Looking up it was Axel, he wasn’t where Stu had seen him st. Axel grinned and Stu asked, “Was that speed or something else?”

  Axel said, “Figure it out smart guy.” Stu jumped to his feet as Axel hit him hard with a knee to the ribs, sending him flying across the warehouse and sliding across the floor.

  Stu thought, this is bullshit. It’s been a while since it hurt to get hit. He coughed and blue shot out. Good old lung blood: he thought while getting up. Wiping his mouth he said, “Okay, I will Asshole.”

  Axel rushed him and Stu dodged Axel, coming around him and jumping on Axel’s back. Stu began throwing punches and elbows to the back and sides of his head. Reaching up Axel gripped Stu hard throwing Stu over Axel’s shoulder into the concrete floor causing Stu to bounce off it. Stu saw a bright fsh of light at that moment. Axel put his hand to the side of his head, then looking at his hand it was covered in blue. He said, “I can’t believe you split my head open like that..”

  Stu used his fractured shoulder, not the broken one to push himself off the floor looking at Axel. That impact to the floor was bad for him, he couldn’t let Axel get ahold of him like that again. He saw another fsh as he traveled through the same wall he’d thrown Axel through; he’d been hit again. hitting the asphalt outside and rolling. Euphoria was watching and still pinning a tearful Chaos to the wall. Stu pushed himself to his feet again, it didn’t matter which arm he used they were both broken now. Stu grunted at the pain, “Come on Asshole!” he spit a mouthful of blood out on the ground, and prepared for Axels next hit.

  During the time the battle began and now, a massive crowd of spectators gathered viewing the now in full-swing fight. Marrow, Prosperity, and Miracle were among many others. As they watched the battle progress they conversed about what was happening. Marrow said, “Isn’t the loyalty of a worshipper marvelous? The way he chooses to serve his god even in the most difficult situations?”

  Prosperity winced at what she saw saying, “It’s difficult to watch honestly..”

  Marrow said, “You wince at this, but I’ve seen you decapitate a room full of men with a smile.”

  Responding defensively, she said, “That was before I chose to s..” She stopped herself from saying more as she thought about it.

  Marrow said, “What? Did something change?”

  Prosperity hung her head saying, “No, I guess not..”

  Marrow said, “No you were going to say something, and it sounded like you might have had a revetion.”

  Slowly she said, “I just decided to s..”

  Marrow sternly asked, “What? You decided to surrender? That changed everything? That made you happy?”

  As Marrow stepped on Prosperities feeling she yelled, “No you stupid cat! I didn’t just surrender! I chose to serve! I serve Stu who serves the house of Chaos! That made my life better!”

  Marrow looked at her questioningly asking, “Can’t you see those you cim to serve are in need? Is there a reason you’re here instead of down there helping them? I’m genuinely curious.. That’s all, nothing more..”

  Prosperity stared at him asking, “Is it allowed, that I can go help? How?”

  Marrow said, “You said you serve the house of Chaos, that would qualify you as a servant, giving up your cim to godhood of course. You cannot win the tournament under the name Prosperity anymore; your victories would all belong to Chaos just as the worshipper victories are attributed to their gods. But I’m sure by what you said earlier you figured all that out on your own, you basically quoted rule 12. You did say you serve..”

  Prosperity jumped up from her seat saying, “You know, Stu may not like you very much, but I’m coming around to you. I have to go help my master!” She went running to the battle.

  Marrow looked at Miracle sadly asking, “Stu doesn’t like me very much?”

  Miracle patted his head sympathetically saying, “You puked in his car.. Twice…”