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Once inside I was dropped none to gently into a great arena with seats all around and a two-meter high wall separating them.

-Whoa? What’s this place?- I thought –Circus Maximus take two? Still, at least they haven’t given me time to stiffen up.- I picked myself up and began stretching carefully, taking stock of my ouches.

Fortunately, it seemed that only my knee was worth noting. I’d still be as stiff as a board sail tomorrow and once the Adrenaline wore off, I was soooo going to fall in a heap! I still didn’t know how much of this was dream and how much was reality… but this was edging more to the reality side of the scale so I guessed I should take it very seriously. Then they let in my opponent.

-Hooo, could they find someone any bigger if they tried? I am soooo in trouble… Deep, DEEP trouble. How am I going to get myself out of this? Hup, only one way to find out. Lets get started. If I can get to his throat… to do that I need to get him down to my level. I wonder if a sleeper would work on this guy. It’ll have too; I don’t have anything else to knock him cold with. Right, legs first it is!-

The guy was a giant. He was as large, pale and fleshy as a sumo wrestler. Same race too.

I sighed, shook my head and attacked ‘round boy’ before he could close in on me.



Up on the balcony Gerome watched as the girl fought valiantly and pondered. Her knee troubled her but she managed to escape time, time and time again from situations which should have pinned her. (As they’d pinned others in the past.) She even managed to get a few blows in from time to time. Their ‘champion’ had orders only to pin the girl. She on the other hand seemed to be getting over her squeamishness about hurting another human and was doing her level best to disable him. She seemed to know a bit about how to do so too.

For those on the balcony time dragged slowly by – the two in the arena had been at it for fifteen minutes.



For me it also felt like an eternity. I was panting hard and dripping in sweat. My body burned with exhaustion and I knew it didn’t have much left in it. I was already pushing. Sure, I was faster and more agile but he was fresh and I was tired. Also, with my knee dodgy I couldn’t get the force up that I needed. I couldn’t give up though… there had to be a way to bring this guy down…
Damn it, I could’ve really used some weapons! Well, I had my claw like fingernails; I just had to get close enough to use them.
If this flesh ball pinned me it’d be all over! I had to get behind him some how!