Vampiricbloodgirl1

Jade, a stone of good luck in many cultures. It's forever been tied to prosperity and fortune. Yet also used to represent great power and strength. Looking over the coin and shifting it over, again and again, Halcyon felt an idea form in his mind as he quickly went about gathering supplies until he was ready to put forth a new challenge for the contestants of the colosseum and then took all that he had worked together to see if anyone would have interest in this simple but challenging game. The concept was simple, exceptionally so. All one had to do was find the jade needle in the grass haystack. However, there was a twist to the challenge. The grass was freshly cut, meaning everything was just as green as the jade needle. It would take a sharp eye to find it, or crafty thinking. Either way, as he set the huge stack of hay towering high and wide, halcyon looked to the crowd and spoke. "The challenge is simple, find the needle amongst the blades of grass. However know there is a

Halcyon had wandered upon the challenge just as the crowd had erupted into cheers. The sounds of such a high octane response having drawn him to spectate the challenge that was occurring and saw it was a food eating contest of some kind. The moment the orange and black stygian stood, calling out a challenge to the spectators to join. He felt their gaze drift to him and his eyes narrowed as they openly called him out. The crowd seemed to turn in the dark wondering who it was the challenger had pointed to before halcyon stepped forward and allowed the 3 rank sigil flare to life atop his brow. Many of the stygian and treats around him seemed to gasp and immediately move out of the way until he was at the railing proper looking down. "A challenge of heat, of endurance against one's own will? Very well. I accept your challenge" he spoke before leaping over the rail and landing the several feet down to the floor of the arena. Striding forward, his claws raked into the stone and earth

Looking over the many challenges that continued to ebb and flow over the colosseum boards, Halcyon noticed a peculiar challenge rise briefly. Looking to the registrar stygian, he requested the challenge be brought open for him to look over more closely. "A napping challenge?" he muttered to himself before nodding to the registrar and choosing to take the challenge. He needed some due rest, why not humor one of the more casual challenges while doing so? Walking through the many arched halls, he eventually came to a smaller set arena and noticed the stygian that had made the challenge was only partially awake. Giving a nod to them He carefully set his weapon down nearby and looked to the arena above. The spectator crowd wasn't all that large, but he expected as much for such a calm and passive challenge. Giving a stretch of his own, halcyon walked over and expertly curled himself around the other sleeping stygian so they were encircled almost completely by Halcyon as if resting with a

The many stygian of the arena crowded as challenger after challenger took on other tasks. However many seemed to flee briefly as a huge gout of fire flashed across several open archways before fading and a voice rumbling a challenge of creating a fire larger than their own. Halcyon looked at the crowd of others who had yet to go back through, "Perhaps it is time to take on a challenge that ties to my deeper roots." he speaks quietly before walking past many of the spectators and down to where the challenge registry was. Flicking his tail he indicated the trial that had been issued by the one known as Ala. The stygian marking the challenges seemed to give him a once over, lingering on what he assumed was to the thick foliage that interwove itself in his mane. Yet other than looking, they didn't say much other than nodding and gesturing him to go in and proceed with the challenge. Standing straighter, halcyon moved into the arena and looked up towards the behemoth of a stygian that

They say the challenges were energetic, and indeed they were. Others were mentioned to be trying and indefinitely more difficult than others, and to many, they certainly could be. However as Halcyon awaited his time in the arena he wondered just who would be willing to take on his challenge, for it would not be an easy one, nor would it be beyond achievable. After all, he would have to accomplish it first if it were to be permitted to be issued to others. A task in and of itself that Halcyon was more than willing to set himself through to prove it was not impossible. As he was called out into the arena people began to cheer before falling into a hushed silence as the very arena grounds began to shift and warp to fit the challenge he was about to demonstrate. First, the hard-packed stone and earth transformed into blackened sand so fine it almost looked like water, then came the rising of over a dozen ivory stones that seemed to move as a current in the sands pulled them along until

The cheering crowd of yet another challenge completed caused Halcyon to sigh as he walked through the archway and back into the large halls that swam through the colosseum's structure. Some of the challenges issued were quite interesting, yet he wondered how things were handled on the lunar day's side of things. Passing through a few more archways, he managed to come upon the spectator's area just as another challenger had stepped into the arena for the next challenge. The skill shown as the challenges continued was increasingly impressive, but the rising occurrences of stygians suffering from the uncontrolled 'Nightmares' seemed to be of the same thing. A factor he had learned recently and discussed with other higher sigil members of the colosseum. Several had even confirmed experiencing to some degree the so-called 'intruding' nightmare. A fact that had not gone over well amongst them all, and to their surprise had been addressed by an unexpected third party who had stepped in to

Murmurings and talking, excited banter and boasting, the entire area around the colosseum was a buzz almost constantly with the competition, yet Halcyon had taken note of oddities in disposition amongst the challengers. Some mentioning having nightmares that were not their own and others even speaking of being watched in a sense that wasn't normal. Both cases could be explained in one form or another, but something about such events happening to multiple individuals during the gathering of challengers didn't sit right with him. Shaking his head, halcyon continued on his way through the atrium, intending to voice the concern with the others in case it was not just simply the usual amongst a mingling of stygian and treats alike. Only pausing in his stride as he heard a familiarly energetic voice once more spark to high volumes nearby. Pausing he turned and once more saw the treatling known as Bolt and their camera friend doing a live broadcast of the area and reporting on the current

The sounds of bustling stygian and treatlings alike, hundreds of voices, confusion, excitement, even fear? To think the colosseum would finally be opening more publicly….He and the others had been informed of the event beforehand. Some had been welcoming of the idea, others not so much. Yet regardless of opinions the word had spread and now the day for others to join in on the challenges and breath more variety into the colosseum had arrived. As he approached he spoke not a word, many were younger beings who thought all of this was a game or some kind. He knew differently, but he would not spoil their hopes in the sport of the events to come and the many challenges they would face. None paid him any mind as he passed through the crowd, however out of the corner of his eye a commotion began to stir. A brightly colored treatling had begun speaking ecstatically while holding a microphone in front of their face, the energy they emitted proved to show treatlings truly could be quite the