Artimer twirled his blades in his hands, the minotaur was circling around him, roaring at him. This one was male. It had a shadow around his head and all it wore was a green loin cloth around it's middle. Then it charged. It's fists raised to attack. When it closed in on Artimer it leaped up into the air, it's fists raised above its head. Artimer had just a second to dodge out of the way, timing his move just right so the beast had no choice but to continue the motion.<br/><br/>As the minotaur landed, Artimer dashed behind it. Using his smaller size to his advantage. From here he was able to leap up and run his right blade down its back. The minotaur let out a roar of anger that its prey was not where it was a moment ago. Artimer was surprised at how tough its skin was. Both blades let out bubbles of laughter at the fight. He did not have much time to think about the Minotaur's skin as it swung around, it's right fist nearly coming in contact with Artimer's face. Artimer ducked just in time, but he still got a little knocked about as the bottom of it's fist connected with Artimer's head. This staggered Artimer for a few seconds. That was all the time the beast needed to send a kick back at him. Artimer dived to the side, rolling out of the way of the kick.<br/><br/>Amadahy and Aquarius encouraged Artimer to draw from their power, to send a wave of powerful water upon the beast to unbalance it. Something Artimer was more then happy to do. Calling on their power he pointed at the minotaur with both his swords. Suddenly the minotaur was thrown into the air by a blast of water that shot out from under it. Artimer then slammed both of his fists and swords to the ground, and that slammed the beast onto the ground. Stunning it for a moment. In that moment, Artimer had several illusions of himself surrounding the beast. In a flash they were all raining blows down on it. Only his blades actually drawing any blood, but on anything or anyone else the phantom blows would have left large welts on the skin.<br/><br/>The Minotaur leaped up and roared murderously, it's long, beefy arms started swinging around him to get rid of this new threat. As soon as Artimer had landed his blow he leaped back away from the raging beast. One by one the illusions disappeared, till there was just the Artimer and the beast. Artimer then noticed that the back cloud around the Minotaur's head tightening even more as the beast went into a furry. "Someone's pet isn't behaving, is it," Artimer jeered as the beast started ripping at things that were not there. Then it slammed it's fists into the ground and an earth spike slammed up to the ceiling in a matter of seconds. This had happened just twenty feet away from Artimer.<br/><br/>Artimer knew that the control of the "master" was slipping on the blood hungry beast, He was going to have to put the animal down before it spotted him and tried to tear his throat out. Taking in a deep breath he changed into an anthro dragon. Running up to the the beast he let out a roar of challenge and leapt onto its back, wrapping his arms around it's meaty throat. The beast roared and tried to get Artimer off his back. Artimer was small enough on its back that it was easy for the beast to not reach him and rip him off. The minotaur started panting for breath. In a few seconds the beast dropped to the ground, trying to grab at the arms around his neck, it was gasping for breath. In what felt like a life time to Artimer the beast lay still beneath him. He let go of the minotaur, and it breath in, but was unconscious, and would be for at least five minutes.<br/><br/>The crowd went nuts, screaming, cheering, booing, and a cacophony of whistling. Artimer looked around him but he was unable to see the crowd. He noticed that one of the gates had opened and he headed towards it. He did not notice the shadow around the minotaurs head dissipating, nor did he notice that it had gained consciousness. It got up and followed him out of the Coliseum.