A/N: Hey so I am super sorry that I have not updated in so long. I realize that I owed all my readers this chapter like back at the end of July... I am soooo sorry. I was super busy over the summer and then school started and I am taking classes at the community college here and so yeah... anyway I will babble on more at the end of the chapter so anyway without further ado here is Chapter 4 of Gwaine's Drunken Adventure.

Chapter 4: Fight or Flight?

After a day of travel, Gwaine was brought to Jamil's hideout. Soon he was shoved into a small circular room made out of stone, with a landing above them. Gwaine stood in awe as he looked around and saw all the men in the room. Suddenly he saw a familiar face, "Tayse?" Gwaine said stunned.

"Gwaine, what are you doing here?" Tayse replied.

"I could ask you the same question," Gwaine said, "but I have a feeling it is probably the same as my answer; kidnapped by slave traders. My God, is Madeline here too?" Gwaine suddenly looked horrified at the idea.

"Yes, she is unfortunately. As soon as we arrived we were separated. I cannot bear to think of all the horrible things that she could be being put through right now. I failed. I was supposed to protect her, that was my sworn duty, and what did I do? I allowed her to fall prey to slave traders, who will do who knows what to her," Tayse replied sounding defeated.

"I'm sure you did your best, Tayse. But that's all in the past. What we need to focus on right now is a way to get out of this cell, find Madeline, and escape this hell hole," Gwaine said.

"You are right. Apparently Jamil comes in here daily to make two men fight. So all we have to do is somehow make sure we are the two men to fight, and maybe then once we are out there, we can find a way to find Madeline, and escape," Tayse said quickly.

"Sounds like a plan," Gwaine agreed quietly. Both men were deep in thought when footsteps were heard on the landing above. Everybody in the room looked up to see Jamil standing above them.

Suddenly, Tayse looked at Gwaine and yelled, "You bastard!" and swiftly punched him in the face.

With that punch, a huge fight started to take place. However, it was quickly ended with the help of Jamil's guards. Soon Gwaine and Tayse were held by two huge guards and placed directly in Jamil's line of vision. "So, you are the two men responsible for almost ruining my operation by having all the men killed. Well, if you are so eager to fight you can just fight each in an open arena, with the rest of us watching. The winner gets to have a little fun with one of my other prisoners," Jamil smiled maliciously as he said this. All too quickly all the men were brought out of the cell and placed in another room. This one was still made of stone, but it was rectangular in shape; it also had a dais with two chairs on it. Jamil sat on one, while Madeline was placed on the other. "The rules of this fight are simple, gentlemen," Jamil stated once everybody had arrived. "It is a fight to the death, whoever wins gets to have a little bit of fun with the lady here. If you fail to complete the challenge, I will kill both of you. Have fun." With those parting words both Gwaine and Tayse were given swords and a wide berth around them. Madeline looked on in fright as Gwaine and Tayse looked at Madeline and Jamil, glanced at each other and then leapt into action… against each other.

Blows were exchanged quickly. The clanging of swords coming together and the swishes of them breaking apart filled the air. Everybody watched with rapt attention. Jamil was especially riveted by the two men fighting. Madeline watched worriedly. Soon the blows escalated. To everyone it looked like they really were trying to kill each other. Suddenly Madeline's eyes flashed a gold color, and then the tapestries hanging all about the room caught fire. Mass panic broke out. Gwaine and Tayse broke apart, looking around dazed. Realizing what happened Tayse was able to make his way over to Madeline, who stood still in shock. Tayse quickly grabbed her arm and brought her to Gwaine. Then Gwaine yelled, "We have to get out of here!"

"I know," responded Tayse, "follow me." And with that Tayse darted off to the left, as Gwaine and Madeline followed; they soon realized that Tayse had found a small tunnel which had been hidden behind one of the tapestries that had burned. After following the tunnel for a few hours they made it outside. Once they were a fair distance from Jamil's hideout they decided to rest for the night. Gwaine volunteered to get firewood, once he left Tayse started berating Madeline.

"Madeline, you know you cannot go about using your magic like that. What if someone had seen you? Someone might have seen and we would not know!" Tayse said exasperated.

"Tayse, I know that I am not supposed to use my magic, but it is not like I meant to. You know that I cannot always control my magic. I saw you and Gwaine fighting and it looked so real, I just got so worried that my magic reacted," Madeline said back.

"I know you do not mean to use your magic, but you must learn to control it, my lady."

"I know. I have been trying, but it is very difficult to learn control when I do not always know why it does something, and when there is no one here to help me."

"Wait, Lady Madeline, you have magic?" Gwaine suddenly asked.

A/N: Okay, so yeah... there is the end of the chapter. I have what I want to do for Chapter 5 ready. I just need to write it up and get my friend to edit it for me. So please let me know what you think. I have only gotten three reviews and so yeah. I would really like to know what you think of my story. Not having many reviews is probably one of the reasons I don't really feel compelled to write, because I don't know if anyway likes my story or not. So please R&R. Hopefully I will have the next chapter up either near the end of this month or in October sometime.

~Readaholic

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