14. The Ultimate Stage

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Cole was shook awake, he looked around to see who had bugged him out of his sleep, he gasped. 

"Sh- Shawn?!? I can't believe it, I thought I'd never see you again! Ehm, how did you find me? And where are we?"

"Okay calm down, or maybe don't. We're suited up for battle! Solamon has us in a battle arena!" 

Cole's eyes widened, "WHAT?"

It was at times hard to listen to from the constant cheers that could be heard. 

Cole looked around and noticed that they were in a room with a bunch of other prisoners, all of different stories to tell. 

His eyes and spirit lit up when he heard a familiar voice on a speaker, "Let this be the last day, where you feel any inkling of feeling insecure in this kingdom. We are all strong, The Guardimons who participate in this demonstration of strength, will be remembered for their bravery. " 

Solamon said, the crowd outside went even more wild and erratic than previously. 

The metal gate in the room swung open violently, all the prisoners in the room started to run out to the arena. Everyone had a piece of leather armor, except Cole.

The Boy looked around hastily for some armor but there was nothing for him, he spoke to himself.

"I'm so short, that's probably why there's no armor for me. Oh well, just gotta work with what I have-." He paused and looked over at Shawn, "Okay Shawn, we better go out there now." 

At first they both would shy away from the entrance, the gate to the room started to close. 

Cole and Shawn ran towards the entrance and slid under the gate just in time, blinded by the sun, they could hear the gate violently close behind them. 

When the view cleared, the arena popped off. There were so many citizens who would root for their demise, from adults to even kids. 

It wasn't an empty arena with just sand on the ground, there were sand structures around the arena, some were broken, and some weren't.  

King Solamon watched from the stands with someone next to him, it just so happened to be The Mysterious Man. 

Prisoners in the arena were charging at Guardimons.

"Cole snap out of it! You gotta find a weapon fast, they're coming towards us! I'll be by you while you look for a weapon." Shawn shouted.

"Wha- what? Oh, right sorry!" 

He frantically looked around; Shawn was holding a long sword with two hands. 

After a quick scan, some weapons were present.

A small dagger that he put in his pocket, and a mini crossbow. He could hold the ranged weapon with one hand as it was surprisingly like a feather. 

"Cole that shoots two shots, use two hands for it!"

Cole nodded/

They would scout around the arena away from all the chaos they could, looking for any escape. 

"COME HERE BOY!"

Cole glance shot over to see a Guardimon charging with a spear. 

Cole stepped aside from being stabbed, he breathed heavily. His knees wobbled and his hands shook uncontrollably, the Guardimon disintegrated in front of his eyes.

"AGH! Oh my goodness!

All that stood in front of him now was Shawn, "If they crumble like this, we can destroy them." Shawn exclaimed.

Cole stood behind Shawn as Shawn would destroy a Guardimon one by one, he would guard Shawn's back with the mini crossbow, eventually they were both with some of the other prisoners.

"No stop, don't you take him from me!" A female voice would shout in the distance, Cole shot his glance and saw a female prisoner being dragged away from a male prisoner. 

They both looked to be people made of a plant like cactus material. 

"COLE, don't think about it! It's too dangerous!"

Cole started to dart toward the couple. Getting past people in the arena fighting each other, dodging arrows being shot in his direction. 

Cole made it to the couple, there were two Guardimons with the male prisoner while one was with the female prisoner. 

Cole aimed his mini crossbow at the two Guardimons, 

*PSSH*

He missed his first shot. He fell on the ground from the power. The two now noticed him.

He shot the second shot at one of the leg's of the Guardimons, causing them to only crawl and wince.

The other one that stood still was knocked in the head and pulled away by the male prisoner.

The crawler started to get closer to Cole with a dagger in their hand, Cole could only pull out his dagger. 

The crawler started swinging the large knife; Cole would scoot and dodge back as much as they could.

Cole backed towards a wall. His heart had turned into stone, his arms and legs slugged in a frozen state as they only got closer. The Boy slowly held up the small dagger and started to bawl up in the eyes until he closed them. 

He grits his teeth, bracing for everything to end.

FINE, I GAVE IT MY ALL!

His life flashed, from the moments with his family to his friends. 

A blood curdling yell was heard. Cole opened his eyes and saw the crawler Guardimon disintegrated into a sand pile; Cole was offered a helping hand. 

"J- JESSICA? HOW DID YOU?"

Cole took her offer and was pulled up off the warm ground. 

"Thank you, thank you so much. I thought I was a goner! How did you find me? Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine, you're really lucky I just stumbled upon you here! Anyways we can talk pleasantly later. Right now, let's just be as safe as we can." 

The two prisoners that Cole saved ran up to him. 

"Thank you so much! You just saved our lives! We can't ever repay you for what you did, here if you get out of this place, then read this. Thank you again, young one." 

The woman prisoner said as she put a folded piece of paper in Cole's pocket, both the prisoners ran off into another part of the arena. 

Cole tilted his head slightly; the mini crossbow on the sandy surface stood out in its glory; he picked it up and struggled to reload the weapon.

Jessica took it and helped him before handing the weapon back. Cole nodded and looked at Shawn approach them both. 

"Jeez Cole, what were you thinking? You could've DIED there; I couldn't get to you in time. Also, who are you even talking to here? Come on, leave her and let's go!"

"Well excuse me Mr. Bonehead, I don't think Cole's going to do that, he's staying with me. Also I don't know what you saw. What I saw was someone being heroic, unlike you."

"HEY! Don't mess with me now clown creep!"

"Time for your misery!" 

Claws stuck out of the gloves Jessica wore, she put her hands up as Shawn held his sword up high to strike. 

(Wow everyone! That was quite first half chapter we just read together. I'm very happy with how this chapter ended up from all the buildup, let me know what you think through comments! 

If you liked it, looking forward to your thoughts on the second half. Have a great day!)

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