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the resting area and I noticed that three of the gladiators were gone. I went to sleep, and then the next two fights were easy, really easy. Three more of the other gladiators died in battle.

  I was talking to Angel and Billy when a guard came and announced to everyone “We are having a special fight for the crowd tonight, we are going to have all six of you fight two giant death worms.”

  The guard started leading everyone outside.

  While we were all walking outside, Angel said “I wonder why we’re having a team fight, we never had one of these before.”

  We all went outside and the guard ran back into the resting area.

  The king said “The two death worms are already in the arena, prepare yourselves for the fight.”

  The sand floor started vibrating and two giant death worms came out in front of them, blocking out the sun, showing rows and rows of razor sharp teeth.

  Angel pulled out her bow and started shooting at the death worms, Billy pulled out his two swords and got ready. The other four gladiators that I didn’t know charged at the death worm. I pulled out my sword and got ready to fight them. One of the giant worms went into the sand, it came up from the ground and ate two of the gladiators at once. The other two gladiators latched onto the death worm and started stabbing at it. Angel started shooting at the death worm that the people were stabbing at

  Billy ran after the death worm that was just standing there. The death worm that Billy was chasing started chasing after me and then it knocked me up into the air. Time slowed down for me, the blood started racing, the adrenaline started pumping, and the rage took full control. The last thing I heard before I fell into the worm’s death trap was Angel and Billy yelling my name. I made it into it’s body just fine because none of the teeth hit me. I landed in its stomach and I saw acid everywhere. I landed on an island made of dead, decomposing, bodies. I used the sword to row the island to the side of the stomach and started stabbing at the stomach’s walls.

  After stabbing through all the walls of the body, I finally made it out, covered in juices and slime. I came out of it’s stomach to see Billy on the floor crawling away from the death worm. Angel was still shooting arrows at the death worm. The other two gladiator’s bodies were littered all over the floor, heads, arms, hands, legs, and feet were all across the floor. Angel and the crowd cheered when they saw me alive. Billy even smiled at me while he was crawling away. The other death worm finally fell down from all the arrows that Angel shot at it, but it didn’t die it slowly crawled around trying to get away. I stood up seeing that the death worm was trying to go back in the sand and jumped onto its back and stabbed at it over and over, letting the blood rain out of its wound.

  The anger and adrenaline went away when Angel shook me out of it and said “We need to help Billy, he’s hurt badly.”

  The king said “Medics, come and help the dying man.”

  Medics came out of the gate with a stretcher and put Billy on it. Angel and I both went back over to the resting area to find a nice new set of clothes for both Angel and I. Angel also had a new bow and quiver that was filled with arrows. There were also two plates, each plates had some crusty bread and one piece of cheese. When we both saw the food, we both rushed towards it and hungrily scarfed it down our mouths.

  I exclaimed “I’m so hungry, we haven’t eaten in days, and we also have a new set of clean clothes!”

  Angel was trying to talk but the food was in the way so it was more like a moan. A guard came by with two mugs of water and put it on the floor, both Angel and I put our food back on it’s plate and ran to the mugs of water. We both drank thirstily and easily finished the mug of water in a matter of seconds. We both ran back to the plate of food and started scarfing it down again. We both finished our last pieces of bread and cheese, but we didn’t stop there, we also ate all the crumbs from the food. We both licked the food right off the dirt and dust caked floor. After that, both of us switched out our old dirty clothes with the new one the king left out for us to wear.

  After we ate all the food we had, the medics brought Billy back but he was un-conscious. They medics put the stretcher on the floor and put Billy on a free bed. Angel went to check on Billy, so I followed. When I saw Billy, I didn’t know if he was alive or dead, his face was all white, his whole body was all white. Billy was cold to the touch, but he was alive, his heart was beating and that was all that mattered. Angel and I both said a small prayer for Billy hoping that he would wake up in great shape. After we finished praying, Angel stayed there while I went back to my own bed to go to sleep.

  I was woken up from a shake that came from Angel, who was sitting above me and smiling from ear to ear and joyfully exclaimed “Billy’s awake, Billy’s ok, Billy’s alive!

  I jumped out of bed to see a fully awake fully alive Billy just lying on his bed, the color was back in his face and his breathing was back to normal.

  I poked Billy on the arm and said “Not cold to the touch anymore.”

  The guard came again and said “I’m sorry but the crowd loves you too much to give you a break, you have to fight now.”

  I grabbed my lucky sword and followed the guard outside to see one really hyped up crowd out there.

  As soon as I made it outside, the crowd cheered me on and called out “The Mad Men, The Mad Men, The Mad Men!”

  The king said “I apologize that you have to fight two fights on the same day, it’s just that the crowd loves you and I must keep them happy. Now release the mad man from his cage.”

  I looked towards the king to see someone throw a metal cage down into the arena, it broke on impact to show a small, short, skinny man that had only had a loin cloth on. He also had scars running down his back and gauntlets that were made to be claws on both hands. His hair was also all red and long. He had blood shot eyes that looked like they were going to jump out at someone any second now.

  I stared at the Mad Man, waiting for him to do something but he was just sitting down mumbling random stuff, not even noticing me. Finally he looked up, saw me, smiled a smile that reveled a sharp smile from ear to ear, and started jumping towards me like a frog.

  The Mad Man jumped up right in front of me, somersaulted and slashes me in the back with the gauntlets. I fell down, and saw my blood, the beast ran through me again, and took control over my body. I then became a Mad Man just like him, I charged at the mad man who was just standing there, with my sword held high. The Mad Man caught the sword in his Gauntlet, and then stabbed me in the stomach with the other one screeching with glee. I tried to pull the sword away but it was stuck, so I tried to run but I was too wounded.

  Then the beast screamed out inside of me and took control.

  I looked towards the Mad Man and charged at him, the Mad Man tried to jump over me but I caught his foot and threw him onto the floor. He tried to kick me away but I caught his leg and stomped on his stomach. The Mad Man started waving his arms around like crazy, he cut me on the leg a few times, then the rage screamed as loud as it could and made me stomped on the man’s face. I stomped, and stomped on his face until I heard a crack, I looked down to see that I broke the man’s face in.

  That was still not enough to satisfy my rage, so then I started stomping on his throat, I grabbed my sword and I held it high up. I screamed loudly and cut the head right off the body, I picked it up by the hair and held it up for the crowd.

  They cheered my name, something I liked, they screamed “Decapitator, Decapitator, Decapitator!”

  The gates opened up for me, I dropped the head and went back for rest.

  I saw Angel and asked her “How’s Billy?”

  Angel answered “A lot better, you better get some rest, you need to rest up for your next fight.”

  I nodded and jumped into bed, closed my eyes and fell asleep instantly.

  I looked around, the world seemed white and black, and then I saw the giant. How is this possible, oh this is probably a dream.

  The giant was sitting in a room that looked like his, a
nd said “I knew I wouldn’t be able to leave, now I have to shatter other people’s hope for leaving by killing them.”

  The giant started weeping and then I was filled with anger, anger that became because the king lied to me and my friends. I stood there just thinking about it and found out a plan to get out of here, or at least kill the king.

  I was woken up by Angel saying “Billy’s awake, let’s go say.”

  She started walking away but then I grabbed her hand, she looked back at me with a questioning eye, and I said “The king, he won’t let us go, even if we defeat and kill the champion. The current champion, the giant was kept here by the king, he wants to leave. But I have a plan to leave, or at least kill the king. We have to kill the champion, and the king must have to meet up with us to tell us we can’t leave. Whenever he does, we must kill him, kill him in front of everyone to show that no one messes with us.”

  Angel said “Oh does dreams, I guess that means that we really can’t leave. Ok then, if we can’t leave, then we might as well kill the king to prove our point, don’t mess with us.”

  I nodded and then a guard came up from behind and said “Come on, you have another fight, I’ve decided to help you, when you come back, you’ll see a mug of water waiting for you.”

  I followed the guard and said “Thank you, I really appreciate it.”

  The gates opened