He’d just finished racing one of his friends and went to grab a water bottle when he heard the strange hissing. He turned around, certainly not expecting something that looked like it crawled out of a sci-fi horror film. Needless to say, he jumped onto the bench and almost out of his skin.

“Woah… uh… practice?” He recovered somewhat quickly. This was the Nexus after all, and there were anti-violence fields that kept the really bad things from happening. Like being devoured. Still, that was quite the shock he was trying to laugh off. “Yeah… getting a lot of that today. You… want to race?”