Chapter 162 Bang!! The Hound Wins



"What are you willing to bet that she will use that flame of hers to escape the mist cage?" the old deity asked Lythia.

"She won't." Lythia assured her brother. "The girl is smarter than she looks, she knows the importance of keeping the flame a secret." You can trace the roots of this content at n0v@lbin

"Then she will lose." the old deity declared.

"Actually," Lythia smiled mysteriously, "She is going to win."

Both of them looked at the stage, one with twinkling eyes of amusement and another with a look of intensity. Each of them with their own agenda all for the same reaper by the name, Scarlet the hound.

In the mist cage, Scarlet had tuned out Black Dalia's taunts and concentrated on gathering the essence of Severus's blood which she had not yet refined. It struck her while she was being contained in this cage like mist that there could be an explosive way out. In the beginning she considered using her flame. It was a part of her after all so technically using it was not cheating but she had been warned severally not to use it against other grim reapers, there was a possibility that she could absorb Black Dalia's soul powers completely. The flame was too dangerous, it was explosive!!

The word explosive led to her next idea. In the zombie apocalypse, she had seen a human with a lightning superpower which he would use to explode the heads of zombies. Scarlet considered exploding her own soul power but Severus told her not to dare try it.

She then remembered another thing that had explosive power, the blood of a hell hound. On the list of top ten liquids highly sought after in the underworld hell hound blood was number six. She had that with her, in her body were the remains of the essence of Severus's blood which she had not yet refined.

So, while Black Dalia laughed and attempted to suffocate Scarlet with her mist until she eventually passed out, Scarlet sat down and concentrated on turning that essence into a round red energy ball that would go off like a bomb. It might have repercussions to her personally but right now, it was her way out.

As soon as she started losing consciousness from the power of the mist, she screamed and let go of the energy ball. It went off with a bang, spreading in all directions and causing a small tremble in the coliseum. Black Dalia was flung away, she hit her back against the shields and fell down on the ground, passing out.

In stunned silence, one the judges declared Scarlet the winner and Black Dalia was carried away by her friends to the hall of guardian reapers.

"Mmm" she mumbled. "When did you get here?"

"Two hours ago, look at my report card mummy I was the best in class." he shook her body insistently, showing her the palm sized computer tablet in his hands.

She sat up and yawned, throwing her hands high in the air. "Is this the report?"

"Yes, teacher Penny told father that I would have been number one if I did not spell some words wrong in my language test. She said that you should help me with my reading during the holidays so that I don't fall behind."

"Congratulations on coming third my son." she pulled him closer for a big hug. "How did I end up becoming the mother of the cleverest little boy in the world?"

Justin giggled and she started tickling him for a bit. He hid in the blankets and she sought him out with her hands. "Where are you going? Come back here."

"Noooo," he laughed.

"I was going to bake a cake to celebrate you coming third in class if you allowed me to tickle you..."

Justin popped his head up from under the blankets like a small ground hog. "I am here mummy you can tickle a little bit."

He extended his tummy to her and closed his eyes like a willing sacrificial lamb.

"Really," Scarlet laughed, finding her son's behavior utterly ridiculous but also adorable. "Here I come."

Justin opened his eyes, squealed and went back into the blankets.

"Come on my little ground hog, let's go and bake that cake after all. Mummy is so proud of you."