"You're insane!"

"What does that make you?"

"Also insane!" Bolin called out over the rushing wind as the two raced down the dirt road, they rode past the sporadic pockets of fighting, the city guard struggling against the sheer amount of slaves.

Not to mention that a good chunk of these rebelling slaves weren't too shabby with a sword, Bolin recognized a very familiar strike combination executed by a slave fighting against a city guard.

It reminded him of Nadir.

As soon as Ruby took off, Bolin started running after her, damned if he was going to run all the way to the Villa on his own two feet in order to make it to Ruby. He didn't get far, Klein headed him off, but before Bolin could protest, the manservant got off his horse.

"We'll wait for you at the South Side of port."

In the distance, the dreaded compound came into sight, both pulled tight on their reigns as they saw the contingent of guards that patrolled the walls.

"He's locked it down." Ruby whispered, a litter of bodies were scattered around the Villa; it was obvious that any attempt on the Villa thus far was unsuccessful.

"The tunnels." Bolin mentioned, "He's got an underground entrance that he makes his errand boys use to stay out of sight when going in and out of the compound while he has guests around."

Ruby nodded, he remembered the few times Roman had whipped a slave for using the front door carelessly while he had guests over.

They tied their horses to a nearby tree before sneaking around towards the back of the Villa where they knew the entrance resided, there were two guards posted there and they were no match for Ruby and Bolin combined.

"What's this?" Bolin held out the contraption.

"A warning flare, he tried to shoot it off." Ruby looked it over.

"How come there are not that many guards here." Bolin asked, they looked the door over and found it locked.

"Not exactly public knowledge that this entrance exists," Ruby looked down at the dead guards and began going through their pockets, "He probably posted only two here to make sure not a lot of attention is brought to it."

Ruby Rose smiled at the dead man's stupidity as she held up the key to the door.

"And they probably weren't expecting people like us to coming knocking." Bolin grinned.

The two continued down the corridor, an eerie feeling crept its way up Ruby's spine as they treaded quietly through the tunnels.

"Ruby… what's the plan?" Bolin asked quietly as they walked down the corridor, they were going to come close to the house slave corridors.

"You saw how they fought, if we can get the guys free then taking over won't be a problem."

Then a single set of footsteps echoed off of the hallways.

The two pressed themselves up against the wall as tightly as possible, waiting by corner for the guards to round it.

"Hey – " The warning was cut short, both Bolin and Ruby aimed their swords for the man's neck to drown out any other words he might have had.

"We need to move quickly." Ruby looked down at the man gurgling in his own blood, his neck was barely hanging on to the rest of his body.

"Seems like security isn't as heavy as upstairs." Bolin observed as they walked quickly down the hallway.

"Ruby!" A familiar voice called out.

"Octavia?" Ruby looked into the cell – that horrible cell that no one had good memories of, all of the house slaves were locked inside, a few perked up once they saw who it was that stood outside their cells.

"Don't make any noise." Bolin teemed quickly, the house slaves nodded their heads and the two looked over the cell.

"What are you doing here?" Octavia was on the verge of tears when she saw the two in front of her, "You're insane, there's guards crawling around everywhere."

"We're going to go let the guys out." Ruby quickly explained, she unlocked the gate, "When you hear us start the fight, make a run for it, the entrance outside is unlocked."

"I'm not leaving without you." Octavia said with conviction.

"Then help us kill these ass holes." Ruby smiled.

Ruby and Bolin continued on, they finally reached the gate that led to the underground portion of the gladiator compound. Ruby unlocked the gate quietly and the pair snuck their way into the lower portions of the compound.

They remained in the darkness, away from the glow of the fire dust crystals that illuminated the cells. From a glance, Ruby knew for a fact that everyone had been ordered crammed in here, some of the guys slept while most others stayed awake, demanding to know what was going on outside. There four guards posted down here, but thankfully they sat in the corner playing some card game, taking comfort in the fact that they had the fighters under lock and key.

Ruby caught sight of a nearby familiar face. She kept her eyes trained on him until he got her attention.

Neptune's jaw dropped, but he made no sound as he saw Ruby put a lip to her finger. She motioned to everyone around him to look at her. Silently, the blue haired gladiator complied. One by one, each prospect and gladiator was confused by Neptune's initial gesture to stay quiet, Bolin rolled his eyes as he heard a few even squeak, but thankfully someone would quickly silence the idiot before he drew attention to what was about to happen.

Ruby scanned the cages as she looked for the one person that mattered.

And to no surprise did she see those stunning blue eyes already staring her down in her hide spot in the shadows.

Sun Wukong winked to Ruby as he got up close to the bars of the cage.

The room remained silent as everyone watched Ruby throw the key to the Monkey King who easily caught it with his tail through the bars. The fighters held their breath as they watched Sun reach around with the key to the lock on the door, the guard's attention still on the card game going on in the corner.

With a soft click the door was unlocked.

Ruby and Bolin nodded and stood tall, the two began to walk out of their hiding place in the shadow.

Still they remained unnoticed, until one guard looked up by chance.

But it was over quickly before too much noise erupted from the room, Bolin and Ruby made hasty work of two of the guards, their swords going straight for their necks to prevent any shouting. Sun and Sage erupted out of the cage in a blur, both tackling the remaining guards by the neck and with a hand over their mouth.

Ruby stood over the two guards that still breathe, but Bolin beat her to the punch as the man slit both of their throats in two easy swipes.

"Yes!" Neptune cried out.

"Shut up." Ruby quickly barked back before the rest of the crowd could start cheering. Like well-trained dogs, the men obeyed the Reaper.

"Four swords." Bolin held it up, "Sun." He tossed two to his friend; Sun easily caught both of them.

"Ruby?" Bolin asked, he's only seen her do it a few times before, but he knew that Ruby could dual wield.

"Give it to Neptune and Sage." Ruby instructed.

Bolin nodded and did as he was told.

Ruby took a good look around, gladiators and prospects included, they were at least 40 strong against the small army Roman had roaming the compound. She motioned for everyone to gather around.

"We're charging straight to the storage room where our swords and shields are, they have archers, but Roman's got them on the outside wall." Ruby's tone was steady, "As soon as you get a shield, I want as many people to get in a shield wall formation in front of storage room entrance."

"What happens after?" Scarlet asked.

"SOMEONE'S IN HERE! THREE DEAD GUARDS! THREE DEAD GUARDS!" The cry was echoing throughout the Villa upstairs.

"Check on the gladiators!" A faint call could be heard from the underground hallway that Bolin and Ruby had just traversed through, they had to move quickly.

"We fight."

With that, Ruby turned heel and made a break for the stairs, Bolin and Sun were hot on her heels and the three of them bursted out the door.

The guards posted were confused at first, which cost them dearly with their lives once the remainder of the Core Four made quick work of them. Ruby kicked opened the storage room, and to her glee their equipment was all there.

Bolin ducked easily under a swing, and then side stepped an ill-timed shield bash by his opponent. With both hands, he lifted his sword overhead and easily sliced through the man's neck. His opponent's body lay limp, but the grip on his shield remained since Bolin had to practically wrestle it from the dead man.

"Scarlet!" Bolin got the man's attention and threw his opponent's sword to the slave.

"Thanks!" Scarlet lunged forward at a charging guard.

"Shield Wall! Shield Wall!" Ruby cried out as she emerged from the storage room with a shield in hand.

Quickly, the other gladiators were falling in line next to her, shields raised and swords at the ready.

"The stairs! There are guards coming from underground!" Neptune called out; he planted a firm foot one guard's chest and proceeded to kick him down the stairs, taking out a few more that were behind him.

"Neptune, Sage! Take a few men and hold down the stairs, don't let them flank us!" Bolin yelled out.

"Archers!" Sun bellowed as ran for the shield wall, Ruby made a gap for the Faunus to run into, and not a moment too soon as a half dozen arrows came raining on their positions.

"Cover the top!" Ruby yelled out as she saw two arrows come soaring over the top and landing into one unlucky prospect, thankfully he didn't cause a gap in their wall.

In an instant, the topside was covered with more shields being held overhead by the taller fighters.

"Tighten up!" Ruby commanded, a stray arrow nearly made it between a gap.

"What do we do?" Someone called out, the rain of arrows echoed off of the shields.

"How's the stairs looking?" Ruby thought about sending a contingent down the way they came to try and flank those bastards.

"Crowded!" Neptune called out, his sword buried into the gut of yet another guard, "There's so fucking many of them!"

"Shit." Ruby seethed, she looked across the courtyard, maybe they could try to move the formation slowly towards the Villa, once they made it inside, the arrows wouldn't be an issue.

'But how many of us will actually make it?' Ruby thought hard, she looked to Bolin who held his shield up firmly as the onslaught of arrows continued.

A cry could be heard, followed by nearly a dozen more.

And then the hail of arrows stopped.

Cautiously, Ruby looked through a small gap and saw what was going on. Up high on the surrounding balconies and roof tops were the house slaves, armed with what ever they could find as they began to fight the archers.

"Sun, take as many men as you can and make a beeline for the roof tops. Help out Octavia and them, now." Ruby commanded.

"Got it." Sun tapped at least 5 men on their shoulders to come follow them, once people saw Sun making a move, at least another 5 more went to go follow in the group as well.

"Neptune! What's going on?" Ruby called out.

"They're clearing out back towards the Villa, the stairs are open!"

"You lot, onwards!" Ruby pointed out 8 men, "Neptune, Sage – take these guys and start clearing the underground tunnels… if they're not one of us, they die."

"Go!" Bolin roared.

"What about the rest of us?" Another slave questioned.

"Don't let anyone escape this place." Ruby's eyes flashed dangerously, her voice filled with conviction, "Kill them all and show no mercy, just as they have done for us."

The shield wall dispersed and soon the rest of the fighters began running into the Villa. The guards posted out on the perimeter were beginning to pour into the Villa to meet the commotion.

Inside was turning into a blood bath.

Guard after guard was slain, lying in their own blood. A few of the inexperienced slaves laid dead as well, which was only natural for the all out warfare going on.

The vibrant colors and décor that decorated the Torchwick Villa were splattered in various smatterings of red. A head here, an arm there, and slit throat here. The scene only made Ruby smile more as she watched the bodies pile on top of the floor.

"Rei!" Someone yelled out, a fellow gladiator became slump on the floor, a wound in his stomach bleeding out.

Ruby Rose stood tall as she came face to face the famous slaver of the House Torchwick, a combination of sweat and blood (that wasn't her own) ran down her face. Her hair was matted with Oum knew what and her tunic stained in glorious red.

Neo.

"Let's settle this, who has the better swordplay." Ruby held up her sword and shield as she prepared herself for the fight.

The slaver held her sword up and got into a stance, the same stance that she had taught countless times to many prospects.

It was barely a second before Neo charged forward towards Ruby.

Each strike was met with Ruby's shield, the Reaper began to take steps backwards, she wasn't expecting this girl to be so tenacious in any way. Silver eyes flashed at the next opening, she put her back into it and thrust her sword forward, shield raised just in time to catch the tip of Neo's sword.

The slaver quickly side stepped, the edge of the blade grazing her side slightly, she frowned at the sight and swung her weapon to the side, only to catch the air since Ruby dodged just in time.

It was Ruby's turn to return the assault of deadly combinations, and Neo was quickly seeing that the Gladiator had her outclassed. Without a shield, she was barely able to keep up parrying each strike and swing and she began to sport a few wounds of her own.

Before Neopolitan, Slaver of House Torchwick, could begin a counter-attack, she looked down at her chest – the point of a gladius protruded out from it.

"…Ngh…" Neo felt the hot steel leave her body, a boot placed on her back to help shuck her form off the blade.

Brown eyes that belonged to Bolin Hori stood over her body, "We're not here for a fair fight… " He flicked his gaze up to Ruby, a satisfied look on her face, "We're here for revenge."

Neo gripped her blade, but the strength in her arms were no longer there.

The last thing she saw before death claimed her was backs of Bolin the Redeemer and Ruby the Reaper fighting side-by-side in the fray.

Bolin lifted his shield arm and caught the tip of the blade while Ruby quickly ran up and stabbed the man in the throat, she spun around to slash at another guard, but he managed to dodge the blow - only for Bolin to rub his sword through his stomach. The senior Gladiator lifted his shield once more to block the blow of two swords, he kicked off the body that his sword was skewered through in order to lash out at the guards. Ruby was quick to his side, going straight for the exposed elbow of one guard - the harsh sound of steel clanging onto the stone floor was drowned out by the war cries and echoes of fighting through out the Villa. The man was screaming for his lost arm, so Bolin silenced him by shoving his sword down the throat of the amputated man - Ruby covered him by decapitating the hire sword that tried to attack Bolin.

Ruby caught sight of the different uniform – it was the uniform that belonged to Roman's personal guard, the one headed by Junior himself. She looked around quickly to see if she could catch sight of Junior or even Roman himself, but she had no such luxury since a raised blade was making it's way to her head.

Bolin easily blocked the strike, "He can't run, we'll flush him out even if it means butchering every body in here." He seethed; the tunic he wore was drenched in his sweat, his arms and face covered in blood that didn't belong to him.

Ruby wasn't better off herself, the cream tunic her sister bought her was stained in various shades of red, and she could feel how matted her hair was against her head.

But neither Gladiator felt the least bit tired as they fought through what was left of Roman's little army.

With an easy stroke, Ruby fell the last body.

She looked around and saw that only the slaves stood over the sea of bodies and red, "Clear out the rest of the first floor." Ruby looked about, they had fought in the main part of the Villa and Ruby had kept a special eye out for putrid orange hair and vile eyes.

A few cries for mercy echoed in the surrounding parlors, but nothing that even remotely reminded Ruby of Roman.

"Just a few stragglers trying to hide," One slave reported.

A thumping came from the stairs that led to the underground portion of the Villa, everyone in the room turned with swords raised towards the source of the noise.

"Woah there, it's just us." Sage called out.

"How's the tunnels?" Bolin questioned.

"Not a single living thing left… the Malachite twins were down there." Neptune called out.

"And?" Bolin narrowed his eyes.

"I killed them." The King of the Sea said with such conviction.

Ruby nodded, "Good."

"Upstairs." Bolin pointed and began leading the way towards the final part of the house.

"Is Sun still not – "

"Sun's fine, he might be in a bind though." Ruby cut him off as she pumped her legs to move up the stairs faster.

Just as she was about to turn the corner that led down the main hallway, an arrow halted her in tracks.

"Don't go out there!" A feminine voice called out from a guest room, Octavia sported a few wounds and next to her sat an equally wounded Sun Wukong, but it didn't look like any of it was slowing him down.

Bolin nodded as the two took cover around the corner.

"Crossbows." Sun called out, "Roman's holed up in his room, at least 15 of his best guards and Junior are in there with him.

"Where's everyone else?" Neptune asked tentatively.

"Dead." Sun sighed.

"You had 10 good –"

"Have you ever been shot at by a crossbow?" Ruby smacked the side of Neptune's arm, "Nothing like a regular arrow, can even penetrate these shoddy shields of ours."

"We need better weapons," Sun pointed to himself, "If I had some thing better earlier I could have easily bested a few more of the bastards."

"Weapons…" Ruby muttered.

Roman's personal armory was underground.

"Follow me." Ruby motioned, together with Bolin the two parted the crowd, the old scout took the time to do a quick head count of who was left.

They also had 15 of their best left.

Quickly, the two stepped over bodies of several guards and slaves that littered the floors.

"In here." Bolin motioned to the familiar dressing room, there mounted on the walls was the armor the belonged to the decorated Core Four.

Ruby moved hastily to the back of the room, where she knew the false wall was that led to the Torchwick personal armory. Inside she was not disappointed as several swords, bows and shields lined the walls.

She picked out a sturdy sword and shield, Bolin did the same and spotted a pair of blades that would be perfect for Sun.

"Re-arm yourself," Ruby looked at the armory, "It's a shame there's no better armor in here."

"Ruby…" Neptune pointed to the wall, "There still is."

Bolin and Ruby stared for a moment at the armor.

Bolin's ornate golden dragon gleamed against the hardy chest plate.

Ruby's dark wolf head glowed something otherworldly in the low light.

And then the mounted lion pelt and chest piece Nadir wore, next to the ornate arm guard Sun was famous for sporting on his right arm.

"Hurry up, I don't know how long those bastards upstairs will keep the stalemate." Quickly the two dressed in the familiar chest piece and armed their vambraces. Sage and Neptune helped the two with their buckles and pulled them all taut to speed up the process.

Before the group left, Ruby grabbed Sun's arm guard and Nadir's chest piece – they'll put it to good use.

Swords clashing could be heard as soon as they made it to the base of the stairs.

"No!" Neptune yelled out, he charged the stairs with Sage and Scarlet at his heels – Ruby and Bolin wore grim faces as they ran up the stairs.

In the door way of the room that Sun and Octavia had taken shelter in were two guards with their shields raised, in the gap Neptune saw Sun desperately fighting back to prevent the guards from storming the room.

'Can they hit a moving target?' Was the last coherent thought in Neptune's head as kept his speed up and raised his sword, in a blur he crossed the hallway and with it two bolts embedded themselves into the wall – they missed him.

With his shield raised, Neptune easily knocked the two guards to the ground, not missing a beat by stabbing his sword into the back of one of them.

The second guard caught sight of the group heading up the stairs.

"They're back!" He called out, swiftly he took back down the hall towards where the rest of the guards were holed up.

Scarlet was about to follow the guard down the hallway to the main bedroom, but the hairs on his neck raised and the man stopped just in time before another bolt was let loose.

"Six." Scarlet's heart was pounding, his face was an inch away from catching the bolt, "They've got six bolters in two lines."

"So a volley of 3 at a time." Ruby calculated, she looked down at the shields they carried, a much sturdier metal than the ones from before, "Shield wall, don't you dare drop your shield for anything."

"Will these hold?" Sage looked down at the equipment.

"Try not to get too close behind your shield, but these should hold a lot better than the junk from earlier." Ruby speculated, she looked over to the room that Sun and Neptune had taken arms in.

Sun's eyes grew wide at the sight of the armor Ruby held, with a strong throw, both his arm guard and Nadir's chest piece made it across the hallway.

"Thank you." Sun muttered as he quickly went about strapping the armor on.

"When I say go, we start building the wall across, two shields high. Start low and go high, keep your head down." Ruby instructed. A couple grunts of affirmation was heard, "Stay tight,"

"Go!" Ruby bellowed, she started the first part of the formation, a bolt caught the tip of her shield, but it didn't penetrate through all the way. Within seconds the shield wall was built, but Ruby felt something warm drip on her. She looked up to see Bolin standing over her, a bolt had also caught his shield, but the razor edge caught his arm slightly.

"I'm fine." Bolin smiled down.

They only needed 10 bodies to complete the wall, the remaining slaves stayed behind the line, swords at the ready. Neptune and Sun joined up behind the line as well.

"Push!" Ruby yelled, together they stepped forward, another onslaught of bolts caught their wall.

"Push!"

Step

"Push!"

Step

"Push!" The sound of bolts letting loose, another grunt was heard, but no one in the shield wall faltered.

"Push!"

"They're not stopping!" A guard called out.

"Keep shooting! Ready your swords!"

Together, they cleared the distance, the doorway to Torchwick's personal bedroom within feet of them and the line of bolters and a few guards were almost within striking distance.

"Sun, you ready?" Ruby didn't dare look back; she wasn't going to take her eyes off the enemy.

"Born ready."

"On the next push, the top line duck down and let Sun and everyone jump over to attack."

It was executed beautifully.

Sun took a strong leap forward with Neptune next to him, they caught the bolters mid-reload and the swordsmen couldn't react fast enough to the sudden action. Without having to be told, the line of shields broke and joined the slaughter.

Seconds – within seconds the hoard had claimed the lives of these men.

"Door's locked." Sun smirked.

Ruby looked over the wooden door, "We knock then." Bolin smiled at the suggestion she made.

Three Gladiators faced the door with their shields raised, in unison they ran at the wooden door and it easily buckled into a splintered mess.

It was like the gates of hell had broken open.

Each Gladiator and Guard took up arms against each other.

"Red."

Ruby's eyes snapped forward.

There stood Roman Torchwick, eyes blazing and sword in hand.

Without a second thought, Ruby charged the man.

"Ruby!" Bolin called out, once more he blocked a blow meant for Ruby.

"Think you can fight a real man, boy?" Junior towered overhead, it was no secret that Junior knew his was around the sword – hadn't been hired as Roman's personal guard for nothing.

From behind, Sun struck out at Junior, but the bodyguard reacted just in time before one of the sword strikes hit his neck. "Stop over compensating for your small penis." Sun quipped.

"What?!" Junior roared, he lashed out against Sun, Ruby saw an opportunity and brought her blade down on his shoulder. The bodyguard swung his shield around in time to block the strike, not failing to slash at Sun's front – the Faunus raised his arm guard in time and the sword strike was easily deflected.

"Octavia told me, that's why she was never scared of you trying to bed her." Sun smirked at the man, "She couldn't tell the difference when you would try to stab her with your sword." He repeated the threat that Junior had made to Octavia several times.

"That… You damned animal!" Junior raged as he began to slash about wildly.

Ruby's instincts screamed, quickly she took a few steps backwards to avoid the slash aimed for her neck. She looked up to meet the green eyes of her old master. She did an easy stroke of her sword.

The attack landed easily, a cut was decorated across Roman's chest.

"All that talk…" The Reaper muttered.

The sounds of shouting and metal clashing were replaced with dying moans and labored breathing. The remaining Gladiators stood over triumphantly of the dead bodies that once made up Roman's personal guard.

"Aggghh!" The yell was high pitched, Sun had the tip of his blade buried into Junior's manhood.

"I've always wanted to try that for myself ever since you did it." Sun remarked, he took a look around, not too many of their own were left standing.

But all that was left was Roman Torchwick.

"You… my family's Villa… my guards… where's Neo?" Roman looked about as the slaves closed in one him.

"You'll see her soon." Ruby approached the man, "Pick up your sword."

"No."

Bolin backhanded the man with the hilt of his sword, Roman fell to the ground and felt something kicked his way. "Pick it up."

"Do you think you can tell me? Your fucking Master what to –" Roman's voice echoed, and so did Sun's kick to his stomach, the slave master hack violently, a feeling of dread began to be felt at the pit of his stomach.

"Pick. Up. Your. Sword." Ruby emphasized once more, she tossed her shield to the side and held her weapon up in her left hand.

"Fine." The slave master complied begrudgingly.

A circle formed with the remaining few gladiators, Roman Torchwick saw that there was nowhere left to run. With what little he could remember from his youth, Roman took up a rough stance.

"Ruby." Sun mustered up in his best announcer voice, she nodded in affirmation.

The Faunus turns his attention to the slave master, "Roman." His master's first name rolled off his tongue, green eyes flashed in practiced reaction.

"You will show me res-"

"Begin!" Sun roared.

But there was no crowd there to cheer, and none of the gladiators in the room were in a festive mood.

Ruby stayed tense for a few moments, but relaxed her guard once she stared down the man.

"Don't you dare under estimate me!" Roman screeched, he raised his weapons and charged blindly at the fighter. Effortlessly, Ruby side step the charge.

She punished Roman's recklessness with a deep wound to his back.

Roman's back stung and he could barely stand up on his hands and knees, "Get up." Bolin commanded, he harshly grabbed Roman's arm and dragged him to his feet. The slaver master cried out in agony as his wound was agitated, but remained standing and re-gripped his weapon.

His opponent gave lazy and slow strikes, but Roman desperately blocked them with his own sword. The wound on his back burned with each movement, but he didn't dare drop his sword in fear of another.

Roman didn't register Sun's sword getting buried into his thigh, his brain started to process the new wound once he watched the Faunus remove the blade from his leg.

"Fuck!" The slave master was on the floor.

Ruby looked up at her friend, "Sorry, my hand slipped."

She shrugged, "Not like it was a real fight to begin with." She stepped over the man, "I hate you."

"You bitch!" Roman roared, Ruby responded by kicking him in the stomach.

"I fucking hate you." Her voice cracked as she stood over the man, "You've taken away so much from us… all of us."

"You're all fucking slaves, mere objects who only do as your master says." He gritted through his teeth.

"Pick him up." Ruby instructed, "Bring him to the courtyard." Bolin and Sun complied, the small crowd followed in tow as they traversed back down the stairs of the Villa. Roman's eyes went wide as he saw the blood and damage that his family Villa had sustained. The mutilated bodies of guards and slave alike, they had to kick aside a few of them just to make it through the home.

But the most shocking sight of all was to see her, Neo, face down in a sea of blood. "You fucking animals." The slave master seethed.

"String him on the wall, like he's done to us, but make sure he's facing me." Bolin and Sun complied as they grabbed the chains, they tied it to the man and made sure they were taught.

With his arms spread wide, Roman limply looked up from being strung up on the wall.

"Whip." Ruby held her hand out; another gladiator complied and picked up the whip that would be used on the disobedient slaves.

Without warning, she snapped the whip across Roman's front. A large red gash was seen starting from his cheek and going all the way down to his injured thigh.

Roman Torchwick cried out into the night sky that glowed with the embers of battles that littered the kingdom.

And the small Gladiator repeated the action countless times, each stroke of the whip stronger than the last. Roman's voice swelled as each new lash opened up new wounds, and eventually more wounds over his wounds.

Eyes looked down at the ground, his blood decorated the ground beneath him.

"Please… just kill me." It hurt to talk, it hurt to breath, it hurt to move.

Ruby Rose looked on, she smiled at her handiwork, Roman Torchwick's face was barely recognizable as she stepped closer, sword drawn. The thing with the whip is that each lash wasn't deep enough to be anything lethal, just enough to leave these long snake like open wounds that decorated the entirety of Roman's front side.

"Death… by the Reaper, would be a mercy for you." Ruby's voice was low, she looked over at a slave. "Kerosene."

"N-No… p-please." Roman sputtered. "K-kill me."

The slave returned, a torch in one hand and the cask of kerosene in the other.

The chains we slack enough to let the slave master sink to his knees, but Sun and Bolin didn't allow such luxury, they pulled tight the chains to force him back on his feet.

Roman tried to scream, but it was caught in his throat.

Slowly, Ruby poured the kerosene over his head, it stung his wounds that decorated his whole body. The dreaded slave master twitched violently as the kerosene seeped into his wounds.

"Please…" Roman begged once more.

"Live on Roman Torchwick." Ruby Rose held out the torch in front of him, "I give you the judgment of life."

She dropped the flame at his feet, and in an instant the infernos engulfed his body.

"Please! K-Kill me!" Roman Torchwick shrieked as he smelled the his own charred flesh, he could feel his ears begin to melt away on to his skull, the scent of burning hair filled the air. The skin where the cuffs chained him to the wall peeled and stung and just felt so unbelievably hot.

He wanted it to stop, the slow torture, he felt his insides boil over, he wanted to throw up, but he just couldn't. Instead he screamed, he whined, he begged, he wailed, he asked for it to end.

The smell of a monster scorching in hell permeated through out the courtyard.

Bolin and Sun let go of the chains, the howling mess fell to his knees.

Together, the Gladiators of the famed House Torchwick, watched their master burn.

A/N:

Is there a record for consecutive updates? I feel like I'm getting ready to break it.

March 2, 2017 - I posted the very first chapter of Gladiator where you guys got to meet the slave master Torchwick.

March 2, 2018 - Finally got to kill off the bastard.

So it finally happened - Roman Torchwick is dead. Neo is dead. Junior is dead. It was a glorious blood bath in the Torchwick Villa. Hopefully this chapter have brought some sense of justice or satisfaction to those of you that have been wishing for Torchwick's demise since the beginning. For me, it feels kind of weird to finally kill off the ass hole just because I've gotten so used to trying to make this man as wretched as possible and using him to create so much hardship for Ruby. But in the end, I'm glad I finally got to do it.

Thank you guys for the kind words, reviews, and messages - I enjoy reading all of them because it makes all the endless hours I've spent poured into writing these chapters that much more worth it. I truly love bringing you all a story that you enjoy reading, even more so when you guys give me feedback on it all because it helps me when writing future stories.

I truly hope you guys enjoyed this chapter of Gladiator.

See you all soon.

Cheers,

DevilRed