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At Sergio’s command, everyone took their spot in a formation as a few other maskless men stepped forward, dragging two struggling girls with them draped in black cloaks.
“What the hell is this?” Noelle whispered in shock.
“Shh,” Lucero whispered. “Just watch. We can’t let them know we’re here.”
Noelle nodded, turning her attention towards the pit again and watching as the men dumped the girls right by the giant hole before retreating into the shadows. Once more, it was only Sergio at the top on his golden chair and the eight mysterious figures aligned along the viaducts.
“Is that mercury?” She murmured as her eyes widened.
Lucero frowned, not understanding her.
“Look, there’s a liquid flowing through those ducts. Mercury is also called quicksilver and has been known to be used in rituals across religions.”
Lucero blinked, taking in the information.
“What does it do?”
“Some say it has magical properties. But I don’t know why Sergio is using it.”
A piercing cry echoed through the pyramid as Noelle and Lucero turned their attention to the main room again.
One of the masked men from each row stepped forward and wrenched the cape away from one of the girls, leaving them naked and powerless.
“Let us see who is the first to go on this new moon,” Sergio addressed everyone.
Noelle’s eyes widened as she saw the same men bring forth small cups and force some type of liquid down the girls’ throats. Not a moment after, they were both given a dagger as everyone stepped aside to give them more space.
She couldn’t believe her eyes when she realized the goal was for them to fight to the death, and everyone was cheering on from the sidelines.
“What the hell is this insanity?” She muttered under her breath.
Looking at Lucero from the corner of her eye, she noted the girl was still as stone, her eyes the size of two saucers as she watched the girls proceed to attack one another.
Grunts of pain filled the air as the girls fought for their lives—a macabre spectacle for those sick men’s enjoyment.
Yet the more time the girls spent fighting, the more sluggish their movements became, until they barely seemed in control of their own bodies.
“He drugged them,” Noelle stated, aghast.
The fight continued, and one girl got the best of the other as she sliced the front of her stomach wide open, blood flowing to the ground. Yet the other girl wasn’t resigned to losing. She did everything she could to withstand the pain and attack her opponent.
For a while, no one knew who was going to win. Both girls seemed determined, yet only one wasn’t mortally injured. Against all odds, though, it was exactly the wounded one who won by sticking her knife into the other girl’s throat, buckets of blood flowing freely down her body.
She was breathing hard at the end, barely able to move—from the drugsandfrom the shock.
Suddenly, a loud round of applause erupted in the room. Sergio was the first to clap followed by the other men.
“It seems we have our lucky one,” Sergio intoned, beckoning the girl to him in front of the hole.
Her eyes sparkled with renewed hope as she dragged herself towards him, her hand on her bleeding wound.
Sergio gave her a deceiving smile, and the moment she reached him he grabbed onto her hair, removing a hidden blade from his back and slicing her throat in a smooth line.
Both Lucero and Noelle barely stifled their gasps as they watched the ensuing scene.
One moment, the girl was in his grasp, the next her body fell to the ground, oriented towards the hole in the center as the blood drained from her neck.
As the red liquid flowed into the central pit, it slowly trickled down the viaducts, the blood mixing with the mercury in a peculiar combination.
