Everything That Kills Me Makes Me Feel Alive (OPEN)

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Janus sat in the stands of the Colosseum as the match started, high in the stands where few people were. It was an off day. Not many in the crowds, but enough. Perfect timing. The fighters came into the arena and Janus, both faces showing, all four eyes gleaming in delight, both mouths in a wicked smile, leaned forward. The announcer’s voice came over the stands. Cheers erupted. Let the fight begin.

There were roughly a dozen fighters out there. They were mimicking typical gladiator style. They wore fearsome metal masks, some straight up mask, others to look like predator animals. Maces, spiked clubs, spears, and more than a few swords. Janus wondered how these kids would hold up against the old gladiator fights. They looked pretty good here, but try them against starved lions.

He reached a hand out and a faint purple light lit up his fingers as he tweaked the mind of one of the fighters. They’d been in a moment of indecision, so it was easy. Which opponent to go for? Janus gave them the necessary push. Challenge the smaller one. Test and see if they really had what it took to be here. Janus had heard enough of the announcements to know that little one was a newbie. The one he pushed attacked the rookie mercilessly. He touched another mind and – oh, how exciting, this one had fire powers, bless his or her little Vulcan soul – and the armor of their poor opponent was superheated so that you could hear the screams from all the way up here. Trapped in a furnace of metal.

Not good enough. Never good enough. He looked around, this time not at the fighters, but at the crowd. They were going nuts. He tapped his right chin. His smirks grew. Time to step them up a notch. He closed his eyes and expanded his range. The roar of the crowd became deafening. However, it wasn’t cheering; it was maniacal, furious, and bloodthirsty. He opened his eyes to see every gladiator on the floor who wasn’t too injured already – and even those ones to a degree – turn to look around them just as the roughly two hundred people in the crowd rushed the floor. It was a twelve-foot drop between the lowest seats and the floor, but like that stopped them. These were Romans. They had handled worse. In accordance with New Rome law, no one in the crowd had a weapon. But Romans didn’t need weapons. Their fists, feet, even heads were weapons. And the gladiators were dreadfully outmatched.

And Janus smiled.

TAG: @ OPEN PLEASE SOMEONE REPLY
WORDS: 432
NOTES: PLEASE SOMEONE REPLY DON’T MAKE ME DELETE JANUS

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The roar of the crowd could be heard from several blocks away from the Coliseum. A lot of people living block away from there could listen to the people cheering or lamenting when their champions won or were defeated in the arena. It was a glorious sound, and even more for someone that had not only enjoyed being part of the crowd, but also had been part of those gladiators and also had trained several of them! Jillian, who was a daughter of Victoria, felt the strong need to be there, to participate of the games and enjoy them as much as she had done it her whole life.

But that had been a bit difficult for the last month. Jillian was expecting Noah’s baby, according to medics it was highly risky pregnancy, but she felt perfectly! And being in the house all the time was driving her crazy!! She needed fresh air, she needed to be outside for a while… But she forced herself to stay in the apartment to be a good girl. But when she heard the crowd yelling in the Coliseum, she simply couldn’t resist the urge to be there! The sound of people cheering gladiators made her feel alive!

She had been sitting by the window reading a book about pregnancy, “What to expect when you’re expecting” but the edition that didn’t have any of Juno’s wise advices for demigods chopped off. She knew that there was a version for mortals, but she liked the one for demigods, she knew that Juno was the ultimate mother, or at least it was what she said, so why not to read a bit of her wise words. Later she would read some books from Vesta, she really was one goddess that she would confide her pregnancy and children to.

Suddenly she heard the crown like a wild and crazy beast. Jill looked outside and she could see a glimpse of the Coliseum, but she was really intrigued, why today was different from others, people was even more excited today. She bit her lower lip thinking on what an amazing fight they should be watching to be so excited. She sighed and looked back at the book trying to concentrate, but when the crowd roared again she couldn’t resist it any more. She looked at her watch, 3 hours till Noah came back home from work, perfect time to go to the Coliseum and come back. She closed her book and then left it on the coffee table by it, then she got up and grabbed her small messenger’s bag and went out.

She walked at a normal pace, feeling the fresh air and the kind sun over her skin. She smiled and sighed in relief, she really needed that. She knew why Noah was so worried about her, he was an angel on Earth to her. But if she didn’t get out of the apartment for a while, she would do something crazy… well maybe she already did by going to the Coliseum. She paid for her entrance and then went to get a good seat from where she could have a good view and not many people could be around her. She might be crazy by going there, but still, she was trying to be as safe as possible.

She sat down and smiled widely when she saw the gladiators fighting, but it wasn't only the gladiators, the audience was already there too! Fighting against the gladiators. She thought that maybe it was just another kind of... challenge? She saw a girl she knew, it was the vulcan girl. She had trained her! Slim girl, problem in the back, but she was improving in such an amazing way! “Crash him Nova!!” she yelled at her girl. Then looked around and saw a man there, it was difficult to see his face, maybe she shouldn’t have gone there, maybe she was getting dizzy! “Uhm… excuse me… do you know if the water girl had already passed?” She asked the man, which face was still hard to look at, and she didn’t know why, she could see everything else in a perfect way.

TAG: @janus
WORDS: 674 (more after edit)
NOTES: O.O I dunno from where the muse came from.