If it could survive this round, it would win.
It began to prepare itself. Perhaps it could dodge a couple of those hateful orbs. It certainly wouldn't be able to stop all of them, but now it learned how they moved and worked. Able to appear anywhere within a range of the human, able to be grabbed, and pushed.
It prepared itself for the fight of a lifetime… and then it noticed several presences approaching it.
The tortoise's head came up, relief visible on its expression. Yes! Finally! Its companions had arrived.
It had been fighting the strongest of all the humans, and it was doing so well! With the strongest human being stalled by it, certainly its companions could make quick work of the other humans. Now, its companions had finally finished their own fights and came to help.
What had taken them so long? The tortoise had been doing the most work. It had held the strongest human in the entire battle, alone, for the entire duration of the test.
