AN: Here is the fourth chapter to my story. Brief summary: A massive gladiator fight. Please enjoy and don't forget to comment and review. Also remember that I don't own some of the characters present or Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Chapter 4
The Pit and Revelations
It was early in the morning when Ashoka, Troy and some of the clones headed towards the Coliseum. They wore hoods to conceal their identities and try not to draw attention to themselves. The clones went on ahead to see what they were up against at the Coliseum. The people that were in the square kept saying that two Jedi were going to fight in the Gladiator Arena and that everyone was going to be there. Ashoka and Troy both had the same same worried look on their faces, they had to rescue them one way to another. At around mid-morning the Coliseum started to fill up with people and it was loud. Ashoka, Troy, and the clones moved to separate areas to not be detected quickly with equally good vantage points. At about noon the energy in Coliseum was off the charts, the noise was ridiculous. It got even louder when the King appeared. He was disgusting to look at his body seemed decayed and old Ashoka tried to look away, but something caught her eye. A man with a sword sheathed on his back and a cloaked figure. Ashoka turned on her communicator to talk to the clones: "You guys recognize the man with the sword sheathed right?" The clones all looked to the direction of the King and saw the man who she was talking about, Black affirmed her suspicions. Shit, she said to herself, this is going to be difficult now. As the King began to speak the crowd roared in excitement. The King calmed them down and started to speak again: "Seems like we have a full house today, well not be be expected as we have two Jedi who are going to fight for their lives today!" The crowd roared again. "Now then shall we introduce our Jedi?" the King asked as the crowd roared in approval again. Ashoka looked down towards the arena and saw Kidd and the brother walking out of a dark hallway. She was now very worried.
Kidd could feel the amount of people in the arena before he even got there. He looked at the brother, he was trying to hide his fear the trembling was not helping him. "You need to calm down ok. You being like this isn't going to keep you alive out there." Kidd said trying to calm him down. "I know it's just I've never had to do something like this before." the brother replied. Kidd let out a sigh this wasn't going to be easy, especially with out their lightsabers and being handcuffed. When they made it to the gate to enter the arena Kidd leaned towards the brother to ask him: "If we are going to coordinate our attacks out there I'm going to have to know your name." The brother stared at him, he had totally forgotten that he never said his name once to him. "My name is Ryker." he said to Kidd. "Well Ryker it looks like we have quite the problem on out hands." Kidd said with a smile. As the gate opened and sunlight poured in Kidd and Ryker walked towards the center of the arena to prepare for what was to come.
"And here they are the two Jedi who are going to fight today!" the King said. The crowed was in a frenzy seeing that two Jedi were going to fight in the arena. "But before they have to fight each other they will fight every other warrior that is in this arena in the most massive battle royale this Coliseum has ever seen!" the King yelled. The crowd roared again not being able to wait any longer for the battle to commence. "To make things interesting the Jedi will stay handcuffed during the fight unless they can get them off while they fight!" the King said. Kidd never minded a challenge but this defiantly wasn't going to be easy. Kidd looked up and saw that the King had his lightsabers and Rykers, it was going to be hard getting them back. He looked to the right of the King and saw a robed man, he could not decipher his identity however. He looked again to the right and saw a familiar face, the bounty hunter with a sword sheathed to his back. Well damn, Kidd said to himself, I knew I would run into him again at some point. The man just stared at him with an angry look in his eyes, Kidd would have to talk to him later. Ryker had scanned the audience to see if he could find their allies, he was able to find them and immediately told Kidd. "Our people our in the stands each one is in a different section, I'm assuming they have a plan to extract us." Ryker said. "Yep they do but not until we finish here." Kidd replied. Ryker rolled his eyes in annoyance, Kidd was defiantly stupid. "Now then let the games begin!" the King yelled as all the doors around the arena started to open. Many gladiators were there, with bloodlust in their eyes. Lets do this Kidd said to himself. A loud bell sound was heard and the gladiators rushed towards the young Jedi.
All the gladiators started to run towards the Jedi, all with the same bloodlust look. Kidd looked at Ryker and nodded, first things first they had to get rid of the handcuffs and they did just that. Two gladiators with swords ran at them, instead of dodging the swings they used it to break the handcuffs. Now that they were no longer restrained the fight was going to get very intense. Kidd force pushed two gladiators against the wall, he could hear the crowd yelling that he was cheating but he didn't care. He grabbed their swords and he ran them both through their stomach. The crowd cheered as first blood was drawn, Kidd smiled this was going to be fun. The swords were rather heavy and Kidd had trouble getting accustomed to it, but he managed to kill two more gladiators by cutting them in half. Blood soaked Kidd's face and clothes he knew it would happen it was a gladiator arena after all. Eventually Kidd became accustomed to his blades and stared to swing them with proficiency and several more gladiators fell to his blades. Kidd looked over to Ryker who had also managed to remove his handcuffs and was also using a sword form a dead gladiator. Several gladiators had already fallen to his blade, Kidd was impressed Ryker could hold his own. Then when Kidd had his guard low a big force blew him in the back. He looked up and saw a gladiator with his hammer ready to crush his skull, he force pushed him up into the air and threw his sword which cut his head in half. Blood rained on Kidd as the body fell back down, his guard was once again lowered and he felt a sword slash him on the back. He noticed just in time to avoid the blow but still had a nasty cut on his black, then another sword crossed his chest and cut him leaving another mark. The gladiators started to gang up on him as he was punched, tackled, and beat he shirt was ruined so he took it off. He looked at himself his body was pretty bruised and beat. Blood dripped from both of his scars and his head hurt. He then saw Ryker running towards him yelling for him to get up and continue fighting. He struggled to get up, but he did regain his stance he felt Rykers back on his. They were back to back ready for anything. Kidd smiled again and with that the reaming gladiators rushed towards them, one by one body started to fall Kidd and Ryker were perfectly in sync with their moves. They didn't have a blind spot no one could get close. As the last body fell with two swords coming out of his back, one Kidd's and one Ryker's, they looked at each other and smiled they had lived.
The crowd was silent not even a whisper was heard. After a few moment of silence the crowd roared in approval at what they had just witnessed even the King was impressed. The King sat up from his chair and told everyone to settle down and he began to speak: "That was defiantly quite impressive Jedi. Never have I seen so much carnage on the arena," he said looking at all the dead bodies, "however, there is yet one more warrior that you must face in order to go free." The King raised his arm and the cloaked figure jumped down. "And he is not like the people who you just faced." Kidd and Ryker stared at their opponent, they both retrieved their blades from the body and prepared for an attack. The cloaked figure ran towards them with incredible speed, with a sword in hand he went for an attack. Kidd parried his blow but was unable to keep his balance and fell. Damn I'm to tired to fight someone like this, Kidd said to himself, I wasn't expecting for him to send someone so fresh and ready to fight. This is going to be hard. Kidd go up and saw that Ryker was fighting the cloaked figure, with unbelievable ability. Kidd got up and started to run towards the figure to remove his cloaked to see who he was. The figure jumped and avoided the attack coming form Kidd. The figure then felt a hand on his shoulder and his cloaked was removed. Ryker stared at the figure wide eyed, he then dropped his sword. "No impossible you're dead." Ryker said. Kidd was very confused how did he recognize the figure, then he put it together it was Dakon. "Am I dead, brother," Dakon said with hate, "because it would make sense that you say that to me after what you did" Ryker stepped back, his brother was a live but he was different not the same brother who he had lost. Dakon had changed.
AN: There you have it the fourth chapter, if you didn't see the twist at the end coming then your a scrub (not really :) ). Hope you enjoyed and remember to comment and review. Stay tuned for chapter 5. I'm aiming for about 10 chapters so yeah lots of content to be seen.
