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"So tell me again how were going to fight them?" Nick asked Joram incredulously as he, Joram, and Tomma Torstig entered the long row of watermelon colored doors of the Student Center. “Because I thought I heard you say something about using sanctus energy again.”
Loud noises like a large crowd could be heard in the distance. "Yes, that's what I said. We're going to fight them using sanctus energy," Joram answered, "just like Probo had taught."
"Alright," Nick answered as the three walked down the long tiled hallway lined with various shops and student organizations, the crowd noises getting closer. "So you say. But how do you know that sanctus energy will beat their dark energy."
Joram stopped so abruptly that Nick and Tomma stopped also and turned around to face him. "Don’t you remember what Probo told us the whole time he was here at the college teaching?" Joram asked him. "Haven't you read the ancient physics?”
“Yeah, I know, Nick spat back, “but I'm not sure I believe. What if it doesn’t work?” To end the discussion, he whirled around and headed down the long hallway of the center again towards the large opened restaurant area and the Inventors Isle, Joram following exasperatedly.
The three suddenly stopped suddenly, however, when ahead of them in the restaurant area surrounded by rows of many different types of shops, eating places, and drink stands, was a large gathering of people. It was then that they realized that this was what was causing all the crowd noises they had heard.
"Let's check it out," Nick said. They walked into the restaurant area to see what was happening, but couldn't find out anything because there were so many people gathered around something that seemed very important in the middle. Nick, being the larger one, pushed his way through the crowd while Joram followed in the wake he produced. Once they could see what was going on, they were startled to find it was only a guy standing and speaking from a makeshift podium.
“…the tournament is set to begin this Saturday,” he was announcing. “And I want all of you show up and promote the Champions.”
“The Champions,” someone echoed.
“The Champions, the Champions, the Champions,” the others chanted.
He was tall…well-built…with straight cropped hair and a powerfully handsome face that pulled him inward…those eyes…he was falling somewhere…he wanted to go with the Champions...he wished with his whole being he could be part of the Champions. “The Champions,” Nick and Joram both shouted.
Something within Joram moved his hand towards his belt where he always carried his yagi blaster…a bright light…a tornado of energy whirling around him…he was back in the crowd with Nick.
"Nick," he hissed. "It's dark energy. He’s doing this with dark energy!”
He shoved his yagi into Nick’s hand and Nick snapped out of it, while everybody around screamed, “The Champions, the Champions, the Champions…”
“NO,” Joram cried. “YOU’RE ALL BEING DECIEVED! IT’S DARK ENERGY!”
Joram saw the speaker point, then he saw those around him turn on them. Joram got punched hard in the face so that blood spurted from his nose, and Nick got hit in the stomach so hard that he was gasping for air. At the urging of the speaker guy, the crowd backed off, leaving them lying on the floor.
"Look at those two idiots!"
"A few weenie shots and their both out."
"I think those are the two that wanted to start a new Venatio group."
"What a joke!"
But what disturbed Joram the most was when he heard Nick mumble, “Where was the sanctus energy?”
Narration by Howard Douglas; based on discussions with Tomma Torstig.
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