After Damon Dukes' farewell, Xenia knew exactly what was going to happen the moment the guards had placed the white cloths over their mouths. The gas would come and it would be inevitable for anyone to escape it, so rather than panic like the rest of them as the gas had come out of every hole in the room, she had closed her eyes and inhaled it. She would have come to the island willingly knowing that she was set to compete, so she could argue that the gas procedure was not necessary, but she could understand why Damon had used gas for those who were reluctant to come to the island.
She did not get a chance to ask her sister her reason for participating. Before she had had a chance to make contact with Sage, they were separated by syntax security guards. She did not imagine that Sage willingly agreed to join. She suspected that Dukes had manipulated her into joining; after all, Xenia had gotten a taste of how manipulative the host could be due to the letter he had written to her. Wherever Sage was though, she would have no choice but to fight, because if she did not, she would die very quickly. This was not any party; this was Dante’s Abyss, where some of the participants would show no remorse towards anyone, and also a competition where only the strongest person would survive.
Dante’s Abyss was similar to Friend or Foe in the sense that it was a game show with a host of course. The most recognisable difference between Damon Dukes and Kai Demolic was that Damon had the courtesy to tell her what she would be getting herself into, even if he had manipulated her into entering. As for those who had been outright deceived, Xenia actually felt sympathetic towards them. Some of them had no idea what they would have to experience, while the ones who did (like her sister), knew they had no choice but to survive, kill or be kilt; after all, that was the name of the game by definition. She could not imagine Sage would have the gore to kill anyone, regardless of the fact that the deaths were not real, but given the situation with her back to the wall, even Xenia could not predict what her sibling would do, or how she would bear with the consequences of her actions. That was something only Sage would have to deal with. Xenia could not hold her hand, but she hoped to find her twin on the island before someone with a killing instinct would.
At the mountain sector bunker, Xenia had found food and water, well she would not classify a loaf of bread as proper food, and she was not pleased with the fact that bread would be her only source of food, but living on bread with water was better than nothing. She also grabbed a flashlight which would be useful for when darkness fell upon the large island of planet Dante. She squeezed two loafs of bread and two bottles of water into a blue ‘Dante’s Abyss 2009’ rucksack she had found in the bunker. Due to her natural glutton as a saiyan, she would have packed more bread and water had there been enough space in the rucksack. They should have provided a sports bag at the bunker so she could go nuts. She threw the rucksack over her left shoulder, picked up her AK-47, deciding that it was time to leave the bunker. She felt she had overstayed her welcome there. The last thing she wanted was to encounter a foe inside the bunker and get into a physical encounter, not when she had not eaten for hours. ‘A saiyan needs their strength’. That was a phrase she had heard time and time again.
There was one last thing Xenia had almost forgotten to do and that was reset the timer on her explosion collar, the main reason she had even come to the bunker. She gazed at the explosion collar attached to her ankle. A handful of her family members had worn one at some point in their lives; she just never imagined that she would be wearing one. She never believed she would ever compete in a Dante’s Abyss competition, but it was amazing the things you could do given the motivation.
As for the reason why she had agreed to accept Damon’s invitation; she was satisfied with the outcome of her second confrontation with the full-blooded saiyan Orio (at least that was what she remembered his name to be). Even though the fight had ended without a conclusion, she had discovered that her power was greater than his. The realisation of that alone provided her with the sense that she had achieved a measure of redemption. If she were to encounter him again, she was sure she would defeat him, and as a result, would have undisputedly gained a measure of revenge; however, if she were not to encounter him on the island, then no problem; she would just move on with her life knowing she was the better of the two.
In all honesty, she still was not keen on the tournament. The adrenaline Damon said she would gain in order to give her the urge to compete, had failed to come due to the fact that her battle with Orion had failed to even get into a second gear all thanks to the abrupt interruption. There was fortune though and it came from the fact that she was an assassin, trained to be a hunter. She was a silent and patient one. Although she would never willingly take away the life of an innocent person, this was Dante’s Abyss where every death was fake. That was an added factor of the game which presented her with a license to kill. To her understanding, there were only a handful of people on the island that she could trust not to have the motivation to kill her, like the girl who had saved her from being transported to Kai Demolic during Friend or Foe three, and also, her blonde haired male companion, and then the pink haired girl named Ashe who was friends with her sister. Simply because she did not know anything at all about the others in order to trust their motives, she would have to kill them without hesitation.
Although she had no desire to win the competition, she would do whatever it took to survive, even if meant being the last one left.
Her next course of action was to leave the mountain region in order to explore new territory. She decided she would head to the forest region.
She did not get a chance to ask her sister her reason for participating. Before she had had a chance to make contact with Sage, they were separated by syntax security guards. She did not imagine that Sage willingly agreed to join. She suspected that Dukes had manipulated her into joining; after all, Xenia had gotten a taste of how manipulative the host could be due to the letter he had written to her. Wherever Sage was though, she would have no choice but to fight, because if she did not, she would die very quickly. This was not any party; this was Dante’s Abyss, where some of the participants would show no remorse towards anyone, and also a competition where only the strongest person would survive.
Dante’s Abyss was similar to Friend or Foe in the sense that it was a game show with a host of course. The most recognisable difference between Damon Dukes and Kai Demolic was that Damon had the courtesy to tell her what she would be getting herself into, even if he had manipulated her into entering. As for those who had been outright deceived, Xenia actually felt sympathetic towards them. Some of them had no idea what they would have to experience, while the ones who did (like her sister), knew they had no choice but to survive, kill or be kilt; after all, that was the name of the game by definition. She could not imagine Sage would have the gore to kill anyone, regardless of the fact that the deaths were not real, but given the situation with her back to the wall, even Xenia could not predict what her sibling would do, or how she would bear with the consequences of her actions. That was something only Sage would have to deal with. Xenia could not hold her hand, but she hoped to find her twin on the island before someone with a killing instinct would.
At the mountain sector bunker, Xenia had found food and water, well she would not classify a loaf of bread as proper food, and she was not pleased with the fact that bread would be her only source of food, but living on bread with water was better than nothing. She also grabbed a flashlight which would be useful for when darkness fell upon the large island of planet Dante. She squeezed two loafs of bread and two bottles of water into a blue ‘Dante’s Abyss 2009’ rucksack she had found in the bunker. Due to her natural glutton as a saiyan, she would have packed more bread and water had there been enough space in the rucksack. They should have provided a sports bag at the bunker so she could go nuts. She threw the rucksack over her left shoulder, picked up her AK-47, deciding that it was time to leave the bunker. She felt she had overstayed her welcome there. The last thing she wanted was to encounter a foe inside the bunker and get into a physical encounter, not when she had not eaten for hours. ‘A saiyan needs their strength’. That was a phrase she had heard time and time again.
There was one last thing Xenia had almost forgotten to do and that was reset the timer on her explosion collar, the main reason she had even come to the bunker. She gazed at the explosion collar attached to her ankle. A handful of her family members had worn one at some point in their lives; she just never imagined that she would be wearing one. She never believed she would ever compete in a Dante’s Abyss competition, but it was amazing the things you could do given the motivation.
As for the reason why she had agreed to accept Damon’s invitation; she was satisfied with the outcome of her second confrontation with the full-blooded saiyan Orio (at least that was what she remembered his name to be). Even though the fight had ended without a conclusion, she had discovered that her power was greater than his. The realisation of that alone provided her with the sense that she had achieved a measure of redemption. If she were to encounter him again, she was sure she would defeat him, and as a result, would have undisputedly gained a measure of revenge; however, if she were not to encounter him on the island, then no problem; she would just move on with her life knowing she was the better of the two.
In all honesty, she still was not keen on the tournament. The adrenaline Damon said she would gain in order to give her the urge to compete, had failed to come due to the fact that her battle with Orion had failed to even get into a second gear all thanks to the abrupt interruption. There was fortune though and it came from the fact that she was an assassin, trained to be a hunter. She was a silent and patient one. Although she would never willingly take away the life of an innocent person, this was Dante’s Abyss where every death was fake. That was an added factor of the game which presented her with a license to kill. To her understanding, there were only a handful of people on the island that she could trust not to have the motivation to kill her, like the girl who had saved her from being transported to Kai Demolic during Friend or Foe three, and also, her blonde haired male companion, and then the pink haired girl named Ashe who was friends with her sister. Simply because she did not know anything at all about the others in order to trust their motives, she would have to kill them without hesitation.
Although she had no desire to win the competition, she would do whatever it took to survive, even if meant being the last one left.
Her next course of action was to leave the mountain region in order to explore new territory. She decided she would head to the forest region.
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