The castle courtyard turned into a gladiator arena. I picked up my pickaxe and got ready

to fight. Everyone seemed to ignore me though, so i ran up to a man a few feet ahead of me

and swung as hard as I could. His armor got dented badly and he fell to the ground.

Soon a man ran over to him and got him off his guard. He swung a club into his helmet and

he fell to the ground like before, but this time he did'nt get back up. The man that killed him

came over to me. He stuck his shield up and put his club down.

"Join me and we can survive. It's far too hard for one person to survive in this. If we win

we can both do King Lance's quest..." The man stop and turned around and tripped a man

that was going to hit me.

We double teamed some of the stronger people and stole two horses. We rode towards a

uncrowded area to wait out the battle and come back when we had a chance. I glanced at the

warriors and shook my head. This is crazy why is everyone fighting for this quest. Most of them

probably don't know what it is like me.

"We need to keep calm and conserve energy. let your horse lay down for a little while. I will

explain what is going on. The king is having us fight for our lives. The winner or winners in our

case are going to do a quest for him. No one is sure what exactly the quest is, but i know for

sure it is to find a relative of the king. Now that you know what we are doing we must take out

a couple more soliders. My name is Palynid. I figure we should know what each others names

are. Now lets go!" Palynid explained to me in the West part of the courtyard.

I jumped onto my horse and started to ride into the crowd. I smash a couple fighters weapons

and armor. After they were exposed I had Palynid finish them off with his sword. He slide his sword

right through them and blood stained the grass. When they were finished we took a couple items of

value from the corpses. After we were done we chose a couple more victims.

Soon there was only three of us left. My heart started to pound. The man that was left had a

hammer. He had heavy armor on and a evil look on his face. The man started to stomp over to me.

Palynid was behind him a few yards away. The king was getting excited. He literally jumped out of

his seat. I charged my horse at him. I swung my pickaxe and missed, but then Palynid threw a

spear and got him in the head. Then I swung my pickaxe backwards and blood gushed out of his

head.

The king clapped and cheered. I hopped off my horse, Palynid did the same. I dropped my weapon

and shield and dropped to the ground. Palynid took off his helmet and showed his face. This was

as crazy as a dream. This was only the begining though.