322 Humans vs. Dragons

It was the quarter-finals in the purple belt Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament at Barbosa's and Ben was one of the remaining contenders. For those onlookers, it was shocking to see that the remaining warriors included seven advanced purple belts and one white belt that looked as if he was there as a mascot.

Even so, they'd watched this whole way as Ben defeated one opponent after the other, never winning by points, making them tap every time, either by submission, or some sort of verbal voodoo…

By now, word had gotten around of course about Ben's "abilities." At one point, someone had asked Fariq about it and the Indian boy said two words that were spreading across the gym like a virus that spread to people from the mouths of television reporters…

Those words were: "Poison Dragon…"

Ben's reputation was spreading, and he'd reached a new level of infamy. Yet, he wasn't done yet.