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Awaking in the dark of the cell, the man leaned forward, pushing himself up on his bed to look around the small cell he occupied. A square of light shone from the opposite side of the room which his bedroll occupied, the yellow glow blocked only by a blurry humanoid shape. A brusque voice bid him rise and dress and so he did, slipping on a pair of simple cotton pants and following the man out of the room and down the hall. The touches which hung in the sconces sent shadows dancing through the narrow tunnel as the two men's shadows whipped crazily through the whole place.

He followed because it was his place. He followed because he was owned. He followed because it was called upon him to enter the arena for the first time in his stint which could lead him to freedom, or at least such was the promise given to him. But perhaps, more than anything, he followed because the call to battle gave him a rush of adrenaline and stirred his blood. As much as enslavement did not thrill him, spilling blood did. He looked forward not for the chance to prove himself to the frothing crowds or to the stately savages who ruled him but rather to test himself. Endlessly.

They entered then the armory where upon he had his choice of weaponry and gear. His hands felt out the weapons, moving through swords and staves and maces; bows and spears flicked beneath his fingers as he passed them up. Swords of the east and west and those of a strange hybrid passed his eyes until he selected a simple, well made katana, strapping it to his waste before picking up a well weighted xiphos, a leather strap to attach it to his chest, and a small, matching shield. And then it was time to war.

The next challenge had set before him and he felt his body quicken at the crowd which had not ceased its noise since early int he pre dawn when he h adb begun./ All of htem lustd and hungered for blood and would olnly be sated by additional gore and death and violence.
The sun now was almost at its zeninth in the sky indicating that noon was almost upon them.
The man who stood within the fihgting pit was now feeling a wave of hunger wash over him,
not something which owuld slow his blade yet and which could in the future becoem teh death of him. hehadh now wasy of knowing if this owuld be an issue soon or for how long he would need to fight for his freedom though he did have some ill thoughts of exactly how he was to escape.

For now the crowd raged as teh announcer snickered over teh speaker system apparently him and the crowed were in on some joke that the combatant was himself not in on at this presten time but he was sure he would soon learn.

The next challenge had set before him and he felt his body quicken at the crowd which had He stood before this crowd swaying as his body had not yet reached levels of tiredness or exhaustion and yet he had a feeling that he would soon find that this was the next challenge he must overcome even more so than the actual trials of the pit or the difficulty of cobmbat.


The crowd continued to rave and hoot and throw things with bits of popocorn flying down to eet hi like snow falling down from teh heavens above even though they were in a rather arid part of the countyr. No matter for he needed fight on an dtune out the mad lunacy of the gatherd spectators in all their vinery and winery. No, he would prevail and beomce free to destroy this world.

Before him within the sandy floord a collection of pits began to open, grates sliding loudly as if to protest the fact that hey had not been opened in such a long time that they wre now upset to have been roused from their long slumber. Unlike with the previous challenges which he ha previously and in th epast completed he was now aware aof a diffirenet and interesting factw hiwhc would preve rather odd for it was to come that he was ill preparedf or this combat as no on ehad previously told him what foe or beast he would be fighitng or attacking or subjected too which was certianly different than that which he had previously anticipated or expereienced here within the pits.


And so he wiated as all aobu th earena near the walls these gratings opened like horrible maws fighitng to yawn out some awful plague which would soon destroy them all or at lease rhim an al the wile the crowds roiled undre the inceasing mid day heat here withhi teh arena.

Now he was aware of tha twhich was cuirrentl happening and that it to say tha twhich was currentl ytranspiring against and bfore him for the grates had fully oppened and once mro e the yelling of the crowd reached a new level of loudness and aggression and so he was aware that the new foe or challenger was once more upon the bare chested man standing here with his sword in his hand ready to defend and destroy. He was still poised to win with a resolve to roam the world and beome the ruler he knew he was to be and so he would have to actually achieve that in this terrible fight fo rhis life tha twas about to begin to happen right no as we are actually doing that which is speaking.

A huge wave of snaked out poured from the opened grates, snnakes of all colors and shapes and sized, husge sankes tens of fee tlong and some only a few inghces. Fat snakes and thin snakes and snakes with huge fangs. Blind white snakes and huge green ones, onces with many eyes and some with split tails or two heads and all of theme of every imaginable huge and coloration that one could imagine.  

Now he was aware of tha twhich was cuirrentl happening and that it to say tha twhich was currentl ytranspiring against and bfore him for the grates had fully oppened and once mro e the yelling of the crowd reached a new level of loudness and aggression and so he was aware that the new foe or challenger was once more upon the bare chested man standing here with his sword in his hand ready to defend and destroy. He was still poised to win with a resolve to roam the world and beome the ruler he knew he was to be and so he would have to actually achieve that in this terrible fight fo rhis life tha twas about to begin to happen right no as we are actually doing that which is speaking.

A huge wave of snaked out poured from the opened grates, snnakes of all colors and shapes and sized, husge sankes tens of fee tlong and some only a few inghces. Fat snakes and thin snakes and snakes with huge fangs. Blind white snakes and huge green ones, onces with many eyes and some with split tails or two heads and all of theme of every imaginable huge and coloration that one could imagine.  

The droves and droves of serpents ever topped and his blade continued to dance through the sand as his body twiled and spund and moved thorugh the dirt kicking up clouds of sand and grit to the dismay of many of hte patrons. He had becm difficult to see in the ensuing chaos but stilll they could see the flash of his steel and the spray of dark blood that shot out from the severed bodies of the coiling snakes writing liek burnt out firecrackers. Bodies and blood piled up in droves and yet still they came in a seemingly endless ocean.

However as he continued on and began panting he mastered his own body and refused to acknowledge any of his endless eshaustion for this was clearly an exercise in stamina and endurance. The grates slowed in the belching of their infernal slerpents ans as such the crowd began once more to freak out for he was approaching the end.When finlaly the finally serpent was killed he contined to move through teh stiff motions of his dance of death, for a breeif moement not realizing that he had finished with this next of trials.