"Sleep."

"How fitting." I half laughed and half snorted "He does look on the border of unconsciousness."

The British voice announced from the ring "Thumbs up".

"He has to fight again?" I exclaimed.

"Yeah but I do not think you have anything to worry about." Reed joked.

I turned back to the fight in time to see Somnus land a solid punch on Vulcan, making me flinch and bring my hands up to my cover face.

Just as I thought another punch was about to be landed, Stone dodged it and crashed his elbow straight into the nose of Somnus. It was so powerful and fatal that blood splattered on the sand just by my feet.

There was something about the way Stone moved. It was calculating. Punishing. Utterly alluring yet ferocious.

As Somnus fell to the ground, the phones of the bloodlusting crowd lit up again and hopefully for the last time.

My attention landed on a random boy that looked around the same age as us. He was standing next to Brennan and his finger lingered on the green thumbs up button.

There was no way that I was going to stand back and watch the possibility of Stone getting hurt again.

I leaned forward to the boy and threatened "If you do not press that red thumbs down button then I will shove your phone so far up your ass that your mouth lights up like a glow stick."

The boy peered at me before obeying my command and voting yes to Vulcan landing the final blow.

Reed adjusted his glasses as he smirked at me "You are just as terrifying as Stone."

Silence filled the arena-like atmosphere as everyone awaited the results of the vote.

"Thumbs down!"

I looked away in time before the sound of bones breaking filled the night air. I was getting used to the fighting club but it was still overwhelming.

"Vulcan!" The announcer in the form of Hendrix walked into the middle of the circle and said the name of the winner.

The audience also repeated the name of the blacksmith and fire god at a high volume.

When I refocused back on the two boys next to me was when I had realised that Brennan had moved to the other side of me. He was standing nearer to Reed as they both got ready to greet the pair of men in suits.

Suit man number one shook both their hands as he assumed "You must be Neptune and Mercury."

Reed and Brennan nodded their heads in sync while reaching out and shaking both of the men in suits' hands.

"We are very interested in making Litora Bello a mainstream sport. We believe it has the potential to be just as popular as football and baseball. Maybe more popular than both combined." Suit Number One said to them "The figures that your lawyer Mr Lewis sent was proof of that."