"Sister Yuhan, wait!"
Running through the dark hallway of the arena, the twins chased Lin Yuhan closely behind her but she didn't react.
The closer and closer there got to the colosseum gates, the more worried the twins got, sure they could forcefully stop Lin Yuhan but they didn't want to do that, at least not until they knew what she was doing.
"Sister Yuhan, can you at least tell us what's going on? we can help if you just tell us!" the brothers pleaded hoping to get a reaction out of her.
Sure enough, their words seemed to have gotten to her a bit as she yelled, "no! I can't involve you guys in this, it's my personal problem!"
After she said that, she started going faster but looking up ahead she noticed a few guards causing her to tense up a bit.
The guards didn't seem to be very powerful so Lin Yuhan kept running towards the guards. As she got closer she activated a spirit ring causing her red eyes started to glowing.
Immediately the two guards noticed a young girl running towards them and were about to give a warning to her but when they made eye contact with her glowing red eyes, they tumbled back and started to shiver in fear.
The two brothers ran right past the two guards and shook their heads while giving them a look of pity.
"Sister Yuhan, please! we want to help, you're our sister, don't you see us as brothers?" the twins pleaded again.
Tearing up a bit, Lin Yuhan kept running as her mouth opened and closed, seemingly struggling to want to say something but she didn't know if she should.
On one hand, she didn't want to bring her close friends into any danger by having them help her but at the same time she wanted someone to share her burdens with.
She knows what getting involved with her entailed, she knew that people who got close to her would end up like her.
She knew because she had witnessed it first hand and didn't want to relive that tragedy all over again.
"Sister Yuhan, even if you don't tell us, don't think that we won't keep following after you!" the twins yelled.
"Remember what brother Yu said? we're family! we live and die together, we trust and protect each other! can't you trust us? are we not family anymore?"
The twins were now running out of options, the only card they had left was to play on her feelings and pull out the family card.
Of course, this wasn't the only time they've used it, there was the candy bar incident, the angry principal incident, also there was the money loss incident.
In all, they were pro's at playing this card and most of the time it worked especially on their brother Yu, he was the most gullible.
Unfortunately this was one of the times it didn't work as Lin Yuhan ignored the twins and just kept on going until they all eventually arrived at the arena.
When they got there the first thing they felt was the scorching heat but the first thing they saw was a flying Qilin.
They all knew immediately who it was but didn't pay much attention to him as Lin Yuhan was more focused on the arena and started running towards it.
Both brothers thought, 'oh no, sister Yuhan's brain has been fried from the heat, she's running right for the fire!"
Without hesitation, both brothers got into action as they activated their spirits and started running after Lin Yuhan.
"Sister Yuhan, wait!" after they both yelled that out, Huang Bo activated a yellow spirit ring and exclaimed, "Aquatic bulwark!"
A blue barrier appeared around Lin Yuhan causing her to stop dead in her tracks. Next, Huang Da also activated a yellow ring and yelled, "whirlpool!"
Jumping into the blazing fire, Huang Da started to do... flares? as he kept going liquid started to form on his legs, more and more forming every second.
Eventually, so much water was formed on his legs that the constant force of his legs moving in a circular motion slowly started to create a whirlpool of water.
"Hahaha, brother, don't I look cool?" Huang Da asked as he kept going causing Huang Bo to slap his forehead and look down in embarrassment.
"Brother! enough playing around, put out the fire!" Huang Bo yelled causing Huang Da to click his tongue in irritation.
"Tch, you're just jealous!" mumbled Huang Da but did as his brother said knowing he was right.
Using a bit of force, he sent the whirlpool spinning towards the right, causing all the fire in it's path to get sucked in and get extinguished.
Unfortunately, the fire proved that it was a force to be reckoned with as it slowly started to evaporate the pool of water causing it to to lose momentum shortly after and fall apart.
Luckily it was enough as Lin Yuhan yelled, " big brother!" causing the two brothers to look at each other confused.
"Huang Bo! let me out!" Lin Huang exclaimed as she looked ready to run out at any moment.
Dumbly nodding, Huang Bo released the barrier and let her out causing her to sprint on to the arena towards an unconscious Lin Feng.
Rolling him front side up, Lin Yuhan started shaking him, "big brother? big brother? please, wake up!"
She kept going at this for awhile before the brothers noticed that the fire was starting to close up again.
"Sister Yuhan, we should to leave, the fires gonna trap us in soon!" they both said. Of course they could put out the fire again but why stay in such a heated place?
Noticing that Lin Yuhan wasn't listening, the two brothers took it upon themselves to do something.
They looked at each other and nodded before Huang Bo went and forcefully picked Lin Yuhan up while Huang Da want and picked up Lin Feng.
'How come I have to pick up the man?' Huang Da thought to himself as he started running out of the arena.
On the other hand, Huang Bo had some trouble keeping Lin Yuhan still as she kept trying to wriggle out of Huang Bo's grasp.
"Urg, sorry sister Yuhan, aquatic bulwark!" using his ability, Huang Bo wrapped Lin Yuhan in a barrier to prevent her from moving.
Finally, Huang Bo was able to move without obstructions and quickly followed after his brother.
In the sky, a figure could be made out running above the colosseum in in circles.
"There they are! Wu Ji, go!" Wu Yu shouted while pointing at the twins while also noticing an extra person.
Quickly descending down towards the arena Wu Yu called out, "Huang Da, Huang Bo! we need to go!"
As he said that he activated another skill causing 5 clones of him and Wu Ji to appear near the twins causing them to look up.
They both exclaimed, "brother Yu!" before they started ranting, "we got sister Yuhan, she was looking for the masked boy that sister Yu was fighting!"
While the two brothers were excited to see Wu Yu, he was busily looking around when he noticed 3 people approaching.
"Not now! get on my clones they'll take you guys somewhere safe, I'll distract our visitors for now!"
After he said that, Wu Yu gave Qing Guanyu to one of his clones before turning towards his visitors.
The twins were a little hesitant but after thinking things through a bit they realized that this was the best course of action for now.
After getting everyone on a clone each, the clones started to dash away from the arena at their fastest speeds.
Wu Yu on the other hand greeted his visitors with a smile while trying to sound as friendly as possible, "hello, how can I help you guys?"
The three stopped in front of him. There were two men and one woman.
The two men were in their late forties, judging by their looks while the woman looked to be in her early thirties.
Judging by their looks, they seemed to be relatively important people with significant backgrounds.
"Boy! who are you? why are you messing with our colosseum?" the lady questioned threateningly.
Shrugging his shoulders, Wu Yu asked innocently, "messing with your colosseum? when did I do that?"
The two men behind the lady flared up and one of them yelled at Wu Yu, "brat! don't try to play innocent, we saw you interfere with the fight!"
Hearing what the man said, Wu Yu smiled and answered, "oh that? I was just saving my friend, don't tell me I'm not allowed to do that?"
All three frowned when they heard that, the two men were about to flare up again but was stopped by the woman.
"Boy, do you not know the rules of the arena?" the lady asked calmly.
Wu Yu just shook his head and asked curiously, "I don't, are fights to the death common?"
Shaking her head the lady answered, "no, they're not common, but that doesn't mean anyone can interfere if they don't like the direction the fight is going."
Wu yu smirked then said, "then I guess we can't come to a compromise?"
As he said that, Wu Ji started to change, it's mane changed into a pure white color as its eyes became golden.
The three strangers were all surprised by Wu Ji's sudden transformation and immediately got into combat stances, ready to go at any moment.
"Boy, do you really want to do this?" the lady in the middle asked in a threatening tone as she and the two men behind her revealed their spirit rings
Giving Wu Ji the sign to start running, Wu Yu shouted, "do I have a choice? do you expect me to just let you guys catch me?"
The three of them were dumbfounded, they had thought that Wu Yu would fight them but to their surprise he started running away from them.
Immediately Wu Yu cursed inside his head, "crap! two spirit kings and one spirit emperor!"
There was no way he could win against the three of them, even just one of them could give him a run for his money.
Fortunately, he never planed on fighting them and was just stalling for time until he got his friends to a safe place.
Wu Yu looked at the two men with one white ring, two yellow rings and two purple rings.
From their previous transaction, he knew they were pretty hot headed and easy to manipulate, the real issue was the lady spirit emperor.
Unlike the two idiots behind her, she was a naturally a calm and collected person so it will be harder for Wu Yu to deal with her.
Leading the two idiots behind her, the lady was gaining on Wu Yu extremely fast causing Wu Yu to rethink a few parts of his plans.
Right now, the clones were almost at the rendezvous spot and Wu Ji's accending fire ability was on cool down so all he had to do was hold out a little longer before he throws these people off.
Behind him, one of the men was charging up some kind of spirit ability while running as the other man had already changed into his spirit beast form.
'Jaded monkey king? I remember master saying that they were quite agile and had good defenses, I think their weakness was their weak attacks.'
Luckily, Wu Yu had remembered some of the things his master taught him and one of them just happened to be about the monkey behind him.
One man was charging up a spirit ability while the other had turned into a green monkey and was now rushing towards him at a faster speed.
'Goddammit, hopefully that spirit ability isn't anything too troubling." Wu Yu thought to himself as he glanced at the people behind him.
Unfortunately, he had no more time to worry about that as the monkey man had already caught up to him ready to launch an attack at him.
Pulling his arm back, the monkey man tried to punch Wu Yu off of Wu Ji but unfortunately for him, Wu Yu mumbled something he couldn't understand, "way of binding, bakudō #8, seki!"
Putting up his arm to block, a blue ball of strange energy formed near Wu Yu's arm causing the monkey man to be surprised but he didn't stop his attack.
Hurling his fist towards Wu Yu, the monkey man's fist landed on the blue ball causing it to burst before sending him flying back a few good meters.
"Hah, stupid monkey!" Wu Yu said while looking at the monkey man with mockery and superiority.
After provoking the monkey man, Wu Yu signaled Wu Ji to speed up so that he could gain more distance from the three people behind him.
The monkey man was furious due to Wu Yu's insult and started to one again chase him with killing intent.
Wu Yu on the other hand smirked when he saw the monkey man loosing his cool then looked at the two others behind him and frowned.
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(A/N: Accending fire is the ability that lets Wu Ji fly, can be used for 5 minutes and cool down 2 min 30 sec, it has one other use but I won't tell you guys yet.)