Thao, The Criminal Escapee

Thao had been on the run for years trying his absolute hardest to avoid detection… He was under suspicion of having caused the collapse of a building that put very many people in critical condition, and due to the corruption on his world, he knew it’d be the metaphorical gallows for him if he was caught, since slimes didn’t have necks that could be snapped… He’d even gone as far as buying many bottles of slime dye with the last of his savings, a highly illegal substance that harmed the slime that drank it, but in return, changed the color of the slime to make them unrecognizable… He had been hiding under the floorboards of some weird old fare grounds or something only to realize it was the site of that years BCR! What terrible luck! Even if the world was a neutral place… It didn’t mean it didn’t have security. And he was on wanted posters everywhere, so if the security caught sight of a suspected terrorist… He’d be dragged all the way back and that’d be the end of him… The worst part was… He only had one bottle of slime dye left after all this time… He was staring up through the floor boards and someone paced about over head talking angrily into her phone… He’d wait til she left, drink the dye, which would at least let him pass as a differently colored slime for a short time… And make his way out. But he had to be quick, he’d found out that his mass was developing a resistance to its effects… So what used to last days now only lasted minutes… The person on the phone walked off down the hallway, and Thao let out a breath of relief, only to absorb the dye and seep straight up through the floor boards to find his way out… Only to meet face to face with the woman who had been on the phone… She’d started pacing around the corner only to turn around and see him… He hoped he wasn’t in a restricted area…

“There you are! We’ve been looking all over! Your time is almost up so get in there.”

The woman grumped, shoving Thao down the hall towards a door, he was far too confused to resist or try anything… And suddenly found himself being pushed into a weird arena like area… If he had a heart, it would’ve leapt up into his throat. Massive lights illuminated a grand field in front of him, and thousands of people in the stands around it were cheering wildly. He blinked, and backed up a few steps, only to press against a door that had been shut behind him. He almost… Almost had the necessary mental faculties to open it and run, but couldn’t quite make himself move… The dye was working, thankfully… But he had no idea how long it’d last and he was in the middle of the most populated stadium he’d ever seen!

“A little Fashionably late huh? Please! Welcome our last contender from Universe 480! Gracc the snacc that smiles back! And that will be all the participants in this match! Ready! Set! Go!”

Thao gulped… He had been mistaken for a contestant… But… He was practically out of options… He needed to hide… And right in front of him was a woman who was practically set to be a host for him… This was either a miraculous stroke of luck… Or the end of the line for him… With the determination of a slime who had never even tried to possess anyone before… He stepped forth… Only to see four other entities… A slime, two ghosts… And what seemed like a giant demon, all sprinted at various hosts, the youngest, easiest looking ones… Leaving him with the largest, eldest, most experienced seeming holstaur to deal with… It was going to be an uphill battle…