CHAPTER 2
Victory or death
Lane rose early and he walked into the tiny kitchen of their house; but his uncle was also in there.
Inside of the kitchen there was a pan, a table, some plates, and a fire to cook on.
From Lane's direction in front of him on the wall were the heads of the many animals that Lane's father and uncle had captured in their youth.
"Why did he have to die like that uncle?" Lane asked his uncle with a sad and depressed look on his face.
His uncle walked over to him and sat down at the table; and Lane sat down as well.
"Well you see that some people just weren't prepared enough for that great challenge; and he did not take it in full seriousness. As it seemed your father was one of those people. I would say that about my brother because he was killed in the second round of The Tournament of Victors for our generation. That was due to him let his guard down too soon in the battle. But; let us look onward to what lies ahead and strive for the goal of victory. So that he may be proud of what I have taught you my nephews." the uncle said to Lane.
When they were through talking Colton walked into the room and had his breakfast.
The uncle stood up and said "Allow all of your training and hard work to pay off at this moment. Then as you rise on the ladder of victory remember the emblem of our family is a wolf for our will to fight in order to both survive and win".
Both Lane and Colton rose out of their chairs and walked through the woods and down the main path until they got to the Arena of Challenge.
Each family had their own flags with their own beasts on their flags.
The Fador family had a serpent and the background color was purple.
The Vastin family had a lion and gold was their background color.
The Zaldor family had an eagle and blue for their background color.
The Rorris family had a tiger and a green background.
The Dodger family had a wolf and a red background.
The field of battle had two walls on the left side; two on the right side; and three walls in the center. There was also a table that had weapons of all sorts on it.
Every family had their own room that had a door leading into the arena.
The announcer began to speak the rules. "You may win with all spells except the command spell". I will tell you which families will fight in the first round. First I shall be introducing the Dodger Family!"
The door slid open; and they walked into the arena and some families cheered while others just set in silence.
The announcer then said "Now to introduce the challenging family; the Rorris line!"
Then the two males that were chosen from their large sized family walked out of their room and entered the arena with many people cheering them on.
The announcer said "you may grab your weapons now."
So the boys of the Rorris family grabbed their weapons one of them grabbed a spear; while the other one grabbed a bow and quiver which had some arrows inside of it.
Then Lane grabbed a bow and a quiver with some arrows inside of it. Then Colton grabbed a sword and shield.
The announcer said "Will the players take their positions please!"
So Colton and Lane got on their side; Colton on the left wall while Lane was on the right wall.
The announcer yelled "Let the Tournament begin!"
The enemy with a bow and arrow stepped to his left and said "GLACIES!" and released the arrow and whizzed past Lane.
Then Lane picked up the arrow avoiding to grab the tip because of the enchantment that was on the tip. He threw the arrow at the opposing archer; and when the arrow touched his skin Lane's adversary froze in his tracks unable to move. Lane grabbed an arrow from his quiver; and before he released it he said "IGNIS!"
When the arrowhead pierced his opponent's skin it slowly began to turn black until it burned into a pile of ashes.
Their advisory that had the spear said "IMAGO!" and he threw the spear at the wall that Colton was behind; and as it came into contact with the wall the wall blew up into many small pieces. Due the force of the wall's explosion Colton flew about a yard backwards; and he fell on his face when he landed.
The rival marched towards Colton as he tried to rise to his feet so Lane shot an arrow at the enemy, and he got shot in the shoulder; but yet he continued to advance towards Colton. Then Lane got another arrow out of his quiver and placed on the string of his bow and said "IMAGO!" and his advisory's body exploded
The crowd began to cheer from all family areas (except the one was just beaten out of the tournament of course.) for both Lane and Colton for their victory in round one of The Tournament of Victors.
The announcer said "May the Vastin family enter the arena at this time for round two!"
The Vastin boys entered the arena and proceeded to the weapons table; and they both grabbed a sword and a shield for their battle weapons.
Colton positioned himself on the center wall on their side of the field of battle.
Then Lane placed himself on the rear left wall on their side of the field of battle.
Colton popped out to the right of his wall to begin his advance on his opponent when he saw Lane shooting ice arrows at his intended enemy who was located just about one-hundred feet in front of him.
"Go for our other rival while I finish off this one with a shoving spell" Lane said to Colton.
As Colton went for the final enemy of round two he saw Lane using a magic spell to throw the frozen enemy up against a wall. Colton saw the opponent rush him with his shield lowered and his sword raised. So Colton raised his shield and protected himself against the hard blow.
So after the hard blow was given Colton threw his shield at the guy and he fell to the ground. Lane came and shot him as tried to rise to finish him off for good.
The crowd stood up and cheered for the Dodger boys.
The announcer said "we shall take a break and eat in the mess field for our noon meal and shortly return after that for or last two rounds of this tournament".
The crowd began to rise and leave for the mess field and all of the remaining fighters left shortly after that.
When Lane and Colton saw their uncle in the mess field with their food on the stone table for the Dodger family he was smiling like he has not done his both Lane and Colton's mother was around him. He looked at the boys with great joy and excitement inside of his eyes. "You boys have blessed the house of Dodger by be victorious this far in the fight for survival.
"Thank you uncle" they both said.
Lane continued to notice that Colton was looking off at another table.
"So is it time for me to ask Cadell to marry me uncle?" Colton said to his uncle.
"Well I did speak to her father; and he did tell me that if any man were to get the honor to marry his eldest daughter he must earn it".
"Well I shall earn it through victory at the Tournament of Victors" Colton said.
"We shall hope for victory and nothing less my two nephews" their uncle said.
As the meal break came to a close they all went back to the arena so that the final round of the tournament could proceed.
One of the families' youths grabbed spears and the other opposing family grabbed bows and arrows.
This time arena was arranged in one large box so the playing families would fight to the death.
As the final round began Lane yelled "IGNIS!" and one by one Lane and Colton's enemies began to die as they both repeated the word until there were no more on the battlefield.
The announcer said "the champion for generations Tournament of Victors is Dodger!"
Lane and Colton both hugged each other.
"Now starting tomorrow you shall go with a mentor of your choice to The Tribal War" the announcer said.
The next morning…
When morning came Lane, Colton, their uncle, Vestin, Frank, Rorris and Fador all met on the main road to decide who was going to accompany Lane and Colton to The Tribal Wars.
"So I think that their uncle should go with them for family support since they are going into the realm of another magical tribe" Mr. Vastin said.
All of the adults began to chatter back and forth between each other about who was going to have the responsibility to guide the Dodger boys to The Tribal Wars.
"Frank should accompany both Lane and I on this journey to The Sea Tribe" Colton said.
Then Lane, Colton, their uncle, and Frank all began to say a long magical phrase so that they could get teleported to the Sea Tribe's part of The Magical realm.
A large beam of light surrounded them and in three seconds they vanished.