Michiru quickly returned to Ranma with the specified equipment. Ranma then stretched out his right arm so that Michiru could put the arm armor on. As Michiru was making sure that the armor was on tight, she softly said, "I heard several of the slaves belonging to myrmidons who frequent this stadium talking. They use battle tigers here instead of regular tigers."
Ranma pulled Michiru to his chest enjoying the feel of her breasts against him. He then whispered into her ear, "Don't worry Michiru. A couple of tigers aren't going to keep me down. Not when I have you to look forward to after the match."
Her master's little innuendo caused Michiru's cheeks to turn red, even though she knew it was just talk. When Michiru had first become Ranma's slave, she had been a little worried about having to bed Ranma. However, Ranma had plainly stated that he wouldn't force her to serve him in that manner. That knowledge had enabled Michiru to handle having to work nude in these blood rooms.
Once Michiru had double checked all of Ranma's equipment, she quietly withdrew to one of the nearby walls. Ranma always insisted that he be left alone before a match to prepare himself and Michiru always acquiesced to his request. While Michiru was standing by the wall another slave girl came over and started talking. However, Michiru kept silent and tried to ignore the girl. In her experience, most of the slave girls that worked in the blood rooms were only interested in seeing the fights and having sex.
Half an hour after the games commenced, Ranma's name was called to head to the arena. As Ranma stepped out into the arena the announcer proclaimed, "And in our next match we have Ranma Saotome! This young man is one of the up and coming myrmidons of his generation. Today Ranma has chosen to fight using two Franciscas. How will he fair against the tigers? Let's find out!"
Ranma's attention immediately focused on the iron gate across the ring. The gate opened with a metallic creak and three tigers barreled onto the arena. None of the tigers were armored, but they all had steel coverings on their claws. As usual, Ranma broke out into a grin and began edging towards the tigers.
Michiru, like most of the slave girls, had moved towards the arena gate so she could observed Ranma's fight. While drowning out the comments from the peanut gallery, Michiru focused on Ranma's movements. She knew exactly what Ranma was going to do. First, he'd throw both of his franciscas at the tigers and then maneuver around the third tiger to collect his axes for a second volley. It was a risky move that many arena fighters couldn't pull off, but Michiru knew that Ranma could do it.
Grinning like a mad man, Ranma leaped into the air and let his axes fly. Instead of targeting two tigers that were close together, Ranma targeted two tigers that were far apart. It was a spectacular sight to the crowd as Ranma's franciscas squarely impacted the tigers between the eyes.
Ignoring the cries of jubilation from the crowds, Ranma crouched on the ground and focused on the sole remaining tiger. Now came the really tricky part of this play. Ranma needed to get past the lone tiger and collect one of the franciscas. Sure Ranma could use a vacuum blade to kill the tiger, but he wanted to save that as an ace. Man and beast started circling each other trying to find an opening to end the other one's life.
Desiring to avenge its companions, the tiger sprinted towards Ranma. As the tiger sprang into the air, Ranma rolled to the side and ran towards the nearest throwing axe with the tiger hot on his heels. Ranma yanked his axe out of a tiger's skull while running past it and swung around to face the remaining tiger. The two of them started circle each other again trying to find the best time to strike. Suddenly, Ranma let his axe fly. Much to Michiru's joy, the axe hit its mark and the third tiger joined its comrades in oblivion.
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