Jack P.o.v

Well we(as in the other slaves)arrive in the city its awesome other than the peasants staring at us. There are building

with beautiful designs on them. The downside of this is that it is the stories of previous gladiators. We pull into a gated

area almost like a jail anyway there is a lot a roman soldiers for some reason then a dark skinned shortish gut snaps

me out of my thoughts. 'Hi', he says perkily with a simile. I look at him and and do nothing at first then I say 'hey' in an

almost annoyed fashion. He says'' i'm eddius and that is miltonius''and I wave at them then a soldier yells at us to get

out of the carriage. We come out and they line us all up and I end up in a group with two others they were bigger than

me but I felt like I stood out. As short guy comes in and a soldier yells for us all to bow me being strong willed I

thought ''who's he to tell me to submit to this guy I mean he's shorter than me!'' They yell it again as the short guy sits

down and eyes me. Everyone else is on the ground but me and the short guy in the chair no it was a throne.

A soldier comes up to me with a whip and screams ''ON THE GROUND''.

WHIP

The whip hit my legs and I wince. ''DOWN'' he yells again. I turned to look at him with disgust.

WHIP

Again with the whip and the wince the short guy tells him to continue. Then after the command, the soldier smiled to

show ugly, yellow and rotten teeth. Its gonna be a long day.

Kim p.o.v

I'm getting ready for the games when my step mom walks in with her servant as usual. ''Hello kim'' she says bitterly,

tomorrow I want you to meet up with brodius,'' she says brodius with special smile. I HATE broduis he's a stuck up

and a drunk and a jerk and...I think you get it. Last time we were together my step mom thought we hit it off and

left the room to clean up. Please, she never cleaned anything in her life! Well brody(his nickname)was very drunk

and he could barely stand. He was rambling about how my girlfriends he has scored when he threw himself on me.

Him being muscular and tall and me being caught off guard made me fall. He began to feel his way up my leg when

my instincts kicked in and I kicked him. He fell off me on my right side thats when he got angry. He shouted

''WHORE''as he threw his nearly empty bottle of wine at me. He missed, thank the gods, by like a mile. My step mom

snaps me out of my thoughts, ''Wear something...nice''she says looking at me up and down ''broduis will be in the

games'' I turn away in disgust when she jerks my face to hers ''Listen brodius and me are the best thing that has

ever happened to your pity life understand?'' Then she walks out in a hurry and I say in disgust ''happy to see you

too''.

Jack p.o.v

The back of my legs are burning and dripping with blood. I feel my legs trying to give out when I give up and fall to

my knees fall to the ground as I wince. The short guy walks up to me looks me in the eye and says ''he'll go first'' he

says it in a smart tone. The soldier grabbed me and the other two and he picks out a few more including eddius

miltonius. We all move to a large room under the huge, magnificent, and beautiful coliseum. Its filled with armor,

weapons, and lots of guards. They say we have suit up for the fight ahead. Everyone rushes to the table trying to

get good armor. I hear some guards say ''fresh meat''. Eddius comes up to me to with a chestplate on and says ''so

that show you put on got ya some serious street cred''. I look at him quizzingly and said ''show? that was no show I

don't let people just push me or my friends around''. ''You know that wasn't the smartest thing to do getting in the

emperor's bad book and we should totally stick together in the battle''. said miltonius in full armour. ''I don't care

about the emperor's bad book and maybe we could'' I said with a smile. As I get the armor on I see a guy in

expensive amour checking everyone out ecascalliy me. I eye him as I see him looking at eddius then he comes over

to us and I say in disgust ''hey princy''. He says ''peasant peasant why don't you cry to your momma wait shes

dead.'' I jump at brodius but he backs up and eddius and miltonius grab me as I lunge at brodius. Me and brody's

past is very complicated. Anyway brodius walks away as I try to calm down I haven't thought about my mom until

now. The guard was yelling at us to get ready to get out there as I put my helmet on as I think what lays ahead

and why is brodius dressed in armour.

Kim p.o.v

I'm early. And my dad is late as usual and my step mom is sipping on wine in the special balcony area where we sit.

I go and sit in my seat when my step mom bends down and whispers in my ear ''You talk to brodius yet''? I don't

want to''I say calmly. She does nothing but stare then rudy comes to the balcony saying ''ITS STARTING!'' He sits

down excitingly and tells the servant to get his grapes and wine. The announcer announces all the announcements

then my dad signals for them to throw the free food at the peasants. This is the cruel because they try to kill each

other for that food which is our leftovers. Afterwards the games begin they start by showing off the gladiators. They

come out I see a lot of random guys in armor looking around having no idea what to do. It's kinda funny.

Jack p.o.v

I'm walking out to the fight area when eddius or he wants me to call him eddie grabs my arm and says there is

ms. beautiful and he points up at an young girl sitting in a throne beside that short guy and I stare at her then she

notices me and stares back wow she is beautiful. I look away because the short guy starts to eye me and then looks

at the girl who he nudges and she breaks the stare. Then I say to milton(again with the nicknames)''how do we

play this game.'' Well you have to stay alive and then the emperor will judge you and- '' HOLD UP HE JUDGES US''

I exclaim. Just then a horn blows and people start to cheer. ''LET THE GAMES BEGIN'', screams the announcer.