Fated Doom

A killer is born

This is not exactly what I want to be doing now but looks like I have no choice. Best we get over with it. A shield and a sword was thrown at me and I almost fell from the size of the shield. I have never carried a shield before.

I have never fought tiny men before and it looks like it will not be much of a big deal. l. All my life, I have been fighting off men who has tried to h****k my mum's little farm from us and highway men who think because we are women who live in the lonely woods, we cannot hold our own, they always end up dead or worse than they came.

However, since mum became sick, there was only me and it gets lonely sometimes. That fuelled my anger out of sight.

How is he so fast!

I began to run as fast as I could whenever I saw him and that was when I realize his size was an advantage for him so I was going to use mine too. I grabbed the shield thrown to me earlier.

I took a deep breath and from the corner of my eyes, I saw him come at me. He punched me right on the face and I fell to the ground. The crowd cheered in a frenzy as they shouted more!

I stood up but before I could fully get on my feet, his sword came crashing into the shield I held up just in time.

"I could have lost my arm, what is wrong with you!" I asked him in a very angry voice and when I looked at his face, his hollow face was back there.

He probably does no t know what he was doing. He began to run around me at very fast speed, creating a whirlwind which was growing.

"Do something!" I heard a voice from behind me call but I could not see who did and when I looked up, I was completely engulfed in the whirlwind which was starting to get into all the holes in my body.

My mum's face came into my head as I closed my eyes and opened it and allowed the whirlwind carry me high up into it. I wasn't going to let her down by letting a freaky dwarf defeat me. I am not an elf or a mage or anything like that but I can hold my own against evil ones.

I roared loud as I fell to the ground and immediately grabbed my sword and swing it hard. The whirlwind came to a stop immediately as I heard the sound of something drop behind me. I looked back slowly as the silence of the crowd warned me about what I would find.

I reached and vomitted immediately Drukos' head came into view. I fell back and held the shield to my chest as the noise of the crowd jolted me into further shock but before I could even do anything else, I felt my arms grabbed on each side and I was dragged into the dark tunnel I had emerged from. I was thrown into a dark cell in it and given a collar.

"No, you don't understand. I can't be here. My mum will die if you leave me here! I haven't done anything, please let me go." I screamed as I held onto the bars that barricaded the cell.

I sank into the floor when I realized the men were not interested in what I was saying.

Where have I gone wrong a nd why did it have to be today of all days that this would happen?

If only I had magical powers, I could get out if here but I am just an ordinary human girl. And that was when I remembered I had learnt from my mum how to pick locks and looking at the locks in the cells, it would take a while but I would be able to pick it. This heightened my mood in the dimly lit cell as I craved towards the locks and brought out the little pin that held my hair together.

I began to pick on the locks slowly.

"I admire your courage bit it is no use picking the locks."

I screamed as I hadn't realized I was not the only one on the room but when I looked around, I did not see anyone.

"Where are you? Who are you?"

"Right behind you."

Someone toched my shoulder and I jumped back in fright as I lookedvacj to see a 6ft blonde standing naked behind me.

"Oh my God!" My hands instinctively went to cover my face as I imagined why a grown man would be going around naked.

"Can you put something on and what are you? Why couldn't I see you just now?"

"I am invisible. I am here and then I'm not." He disappeared again.

"I don't understand, if you are invisible, why haven't you tried to escape all this time?"

"You can't. See the collar on your neck, it keeps out powers within this cell. We can only use our most dominant powers while we are here."

"I do not have powers."

"Well, my friend, if that collar works on you then you must have a kind of power."

I sighed, "I am Emory."

"Well, Emory, I am Kanne, your Cell mate."

"Kanne? As in Kanne the mischievous?"

Who in all the five kingdoms do not know Kanne? He was the most notorious villain anyone has ever heard of and he was right here, in this cell, how?

"Pleasure to meet Emory."

"You're supposed to be like super powerful and all of that, how did you end up here?"

"Great thinking but I let myself get captured for a reason and they will not believe what is coming to them."

"What?"

"If you still have that escape plan, best get it moving."

I looked at him as he faded away again but just when I looked back at the cell doors, they came open.

"Back in the arena, girl!"