The Game (1) (Royal’s perspective)

ROYAL

I glared at the three idiots in front of me. I was having a really bad day, no more like a really bad week. Nothing would make me happier than destroying the cause. Only one slight problem, there were three of them and they had some other type of crazy poison. The poison already in me was bad enough.

[Status effect: Poison -50% all stats, +60% dizziness +20% hunger, duration 5 days 1 hour 36 minutes]

Never underestimate your opponents. I might be insanely good, especially now that we were in game and not in reality. Although telling the two apart was becoming harder and harder. They could kill me quite easily with their stats and my current state. Not that I would let them know that.

I glanced back at Blank who was still unconscious. Could he just wake up already? He was making things so much harder! I could have escaped on my own, well maybe. I'm not sure I can fly straight and not into a wall with this dizzy effect. Trying to get him out of here though....darn this stupid crush of mine!

Maybe I should of just acted like I didn't care about him originally, but this team would of actually just beheaded him and then continued on.

I looked at the cage's door which was still open with neither side making a move toward it. I could do staring contests, could we just switch this survival game to a staring contest? Well I wasn't planning to stand here all day, guess it was time to make the first move.

I stepped forward slowly. And to my amusement Unholy made another step backwards. It was only a tiny little slip of the foot but I was still going to count it. We remained watching each other's moves, then GreedIsGood looked back at Blank again. A moment was all I needed, I launched myself at GreedIsGood.

He stumbled backward and managed to block my knife. Too bad for him my fist connected with the back of his neck in a satisfying crack. He crumpled to the ground dead.

A prick hit my shoulder and I hissed looking over at Destroyer who had managed to use a blow dart on me. Darn it! Unholy managed to grab one of my arms pinning it behind my back as the paralysis took effect.

[Paralysis: 3 hours]

[Status Effect Resist Activated]

[Paralysis: 15 minutes]

Okay decent, as long as they didn't kill me immediately I still had a chance.

"Ha how you like that you stupid solo player!" Hissed Destroyer.

Unholy shoved him aside looking down at me as my eyes watched him. "Pity I wanted to see the effects of my new drug on you without any other drugs active. I mean we caught two of you, one of you should have been mostly conscious but this will have to do. A three hour effect, knowing your resist it's probably only active for an hour. We will go on the safe side and assume 30 minutes though."

He reached under me grabbing and dragging me by a foot toward the ledge. Then he stopped about two feet from the edge.

"Oye pull the other one over here too. I'm not going to bother waiting until the other drugs wear off. Most of our victims will have something else anyway so we might as well see what kind of effects mixing them have." Unholy growled.

They could hardly be called a team. They just left GreedIsGood's body laying there.

Destroyer grabbed Blank and dragged him over to the edge.

"This…..wasn't....game!" I hissed.

"Oh you can still talk! That's impressive!" Unholy smiled. "I guess I can tell you the new rules. The game is won if you survive and kill all of Team Red. Since that's impossible you lose. Hahah. You would have had to not only live through the drug we are about to give you, but also survive falling from this cliff, managing to go several miles to a log out point, and getting away from Team Red's real world base!"

Unholy glanced at Destroyer.

"Any day now with the i2q4h drug." He snapped.

Destroyer quickly came over and handed him one of two vials of the green poison.

Unholy flicked one back and forth in front of me. "I suppose I do love explaining my genius to undeserving people such as yourself."

He reached down and started removing my pants making my eyes go wide.

"You…." I couldn't even finish.

He chuckled. "Yes this is one of those kinds of drugs. All I have to do is mix it in with the actual supplies and watch people kill themselves! If you leave it alone it will slowly kill you in like oh 3-4 days you might last five if you're very lucky. If you let yourself release it will stop your heart instead. Genius right! You'd have to have a healer to stabilize your heart for like 20 minutes to live! No one's thinking of that while they are doing it."

With that he removed my underwear and looked upon me. His hand grabbed me and moved my special part away from the fabric.

"A true pity you are going to die, I would have liked playing with you longer." Unholy cooed.

Then he slipped the needle into my sensitive part making me hiss. My lower regions grew warm with whatever that drug was. My body started feeling hot all over, and way more, I wanted him or anyone to take me.

Just to the side of me I saw Destroyer doing the same to Blank.

[Paralysis: 10 minutes]

Then he started to stroke me and to my horror I started moaning at his first touch. This drug was more effective than what was on the market already.

"Do you like it? Dying and even wanting to die for it? It's the best time of your life, a pity your heart won't be able to handle it." Unholy laughed like a madman.

My body started clenching and unclenching. I jerked forward and tried to shove him off.

He laughed again "Just relax you're going to want to die in a few minutes."

He was right and it was scaring me to death. My body wanted him and keeping my sanity was proving difficult to impossible.

"Hehehe and you wanted to kill me." He set my blade down next to my hand. "Who's not so tough now? Can't even grab a blade."

[Paralysis: 5 minutes]

It started to rain, which was odd given the desert climate.

My body arched and curved with the pleasure even through the paralysis. My mind started to feel foggy. It wasn't such a bad way to go really. If you're going to die anyway if...

[Paralysis: Effect now removed]

Blank... I have to save Blank. In that moment my eyes cleared and I managed to grab the blade next to me. His face was right over me examining my lower parts. All I had to do was turn the blade upward and shove.

It didn't even go in that far, but I hit a vital blood vessel.

He yelped jumping backward and cursing my name.

"Destroyer!" he yelled.

He punched my little prince filling me with a jolt of painful pleasure.

His lackey jumped up, from where he was doing things to Blank that I would never forgive him for, and hurried over

"Give me a blood potion quickly!" Unholy snapped.

"But Unholy we don't have anymore!" Destroyer looked worried.

Huh odd, seemed they might actually be on good terms with each other.

Blood surrounded Unholy as his HP continued to fall fast. A satisfied grin covered my face. If I'm dying then so are you! I thought. A few seconds later he collapsed and his body vanished into dust.

My sanity was starting to clear again. The weird warmth in my lower parts could be ignored for now.

Destroyer turned to me with a hiss. "You are sooo dead! I don't even care about this experiment!"

I somehow struggled to my feet. But I wasn't fast enough as he gave me a shove and I fell backward over the edge of the cliff.

I somehow managed to turn in mid air and dig my dagger into the wall stopping my fall. A low thundering roar started to grow louder. What was it? Whatever I could ignore it.

Destroyer looked down at me with a hiss then vanished from my view. A few seconds later he returned holding Blank.

"If you're not going to die, then your friend can be first!" He yelled and tossed Blank straight at me.

I reached out an arm catching him but also losing my grip on the dagger.

Shoot I plummeted downward. The ground was over 50 feet away. I reached behind me and somehow managed to grab a slight outcropping of the rock. My side bashed into the wall hard. It would definitely leave a bruise. I could feel blood trickling down my side from it.

Above me I tried to make out was Destroyer was hissing about but….. why had the thundering grown to this volume? I looked up the canyon and felt a surge of dread as a large wall of water came crashing at us.