Everwinter

The Fighting arena

Morning rays of sun, shine through the curtains of my room. Last night Hunter walked me to a vacant house near the gate. The outside of the house was decorated like the other houses, with flowers and paintings. Inside the house was even more amazing. The bed had a thick cream colored sheet, with a matching pillow. Around the room there was wooden furniture and a kitchen the colour of silver! The floorboards were timber and the walls were covered in a blue wallpaper. 

"You look weird when you sleep"said a voice from the corner. I sit bolt up in bed and look over to where I heard the voice. My eyes lock with another girl. She has blonde/platinum hair and dark blue eyes. She's gorgeous. " Excuse me"I say to the blonde girl. The girl got up from her seat and walked over to the bed." I'm just saying you have a strange way of sleeping" she said.

Is it just me or is that freaking creepy, watching someone sleep.I decide to get up off the bed when blonde girl shoves clothes into my hands. "Here's your clothes" she said, "put them on quickly"." Um, okay" I say. I go over to bathroom and change "quickly". The clothes were the most fugly clothes I've ever seen.

I open the door and walk out of the bathroom. "Um, no offense, but these are kind of ugly" I say to Blondie. "Well you better get use to them, cause they're the only ones you're getting" Blondie says. Oh God. "Anyway, Hunter is outside waiting for you" Blondie says. I step forward toward the door. When Blondie steps in my way. "Wait, don't be getting any ideas around Hunter, you hear?" Blondie says defensively.

Was that jealousy, or are my ears deceiving me. " Whoa, okay I wasn't going to do anything anyway,  I said, he's not my type" I add on for effect. " Really, Hunter is everyone's type here in this town, especially the girls" Blondie says with a smirk. I'm guessing it was Blondie's type as well, but I didn't say anything.

I side step Blondie and head for the door the second time. I open the door to the amazing scenery. Trees, flowers and bright sky, nothing like the view I get in New York. Thinking about home made me feel sick. The bottom of my stomach felt empty.

 I had a nightmare last night that Hunter had never come and saved me, I was all alone in the forest. I feel a sweat gather at my brow. I grab onto the handrail for support. I decide to head down the stairs, before I started crying. When I get to the ground I see Hunter leaning against a tree with a dagger in one hand.His face lit up once he saw me. Hunter jogged over and grinned to me. " Hey there, sweetheart" Hunter said to me with a smile. " No, no one calls me sweetheart, okay?" I say to Hunter sternly. Hunter steps back and lifts his hands defensively." whoa, okay, then what do I call you?" Hunter said. I thought for  a moment.

" You can call me Gray" I said. Hunter thought about it and replied " sounds good, Gray, lets get going, shall we?" giving me his hand. I took it only because he looked desperate. " where are we going?" I ask. Hunter looked back and smiled. " The fighting arena of coarse" he replied.

Hunter started running, so I had to start running because he was not letting go of my hand any time soon. We ran for about a minute before I started to see the colossal building that was the fighting arena. It was absolutely huge, maybe half the size of central park. It looked a bit like a castle, with towers and turrets.

It was made of large planks of timber and was covered in green vines. Strange plants sprouted from crevices. There was gold painted at the bottom and top of the arena and the gates were made from black colored stone.

Hunter stopped running before the gates. The gates were opened and half a dozen people were entering and exiting the arena. " Welcome to the arena" Hunter said with a gesture. " wow" I say in reply. Hunter lead me through the gates where there was a huge hall. Crowding the hall were hundreds of people with swords, spears and something that looked like numb chucks. Everyone was in battle with each other.

Some were at the punching bags, beating the crap out of them. I looked up to another floor to see other men and women in hand to hand combat. Whoa, that's all I could say. " You looked stunned" Hunter said. I shut my gaping jaw. " I've never seen something like this" I said.

 Hunter lead me over to a corner where there was a huge crowd circling something. As Hunter lead me through the crowd I saw that there was a fight going on. People were shouting out names and FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT. In the middle of the crowd were two boys around my age. They were fighting with swords and they both had shields. One of the boys, who had black hair and what looked like violet eyes, had blood all over his forehead and mouth.

The other was bigger in build and had a lot of muscle, he had blond hair and blue eyes,  and had a long cut on his chest where the blood was seeping through his grey shirt. The black haired boy swiped his sword over the blond boys head in a swift motion that was too fast for my own eyes. " Muscles over there, is George and the other is River" Hunter said over the shouts. 

River swung his sword over Georges head again and nearly chopped his already short hair off. George ducked and charged for River. River was ready for the swing George delivered and with another quick motion, swung his sword up and pushed George to the ground with his shield.

There was silence as everyone watched the muscly boy fall down to the feet of the other boy. Then there was screams of joy and everyone came rushing forward to crowd River.

I was pushed in to River as someone ran forward. " Sorry" I yell over everyone else's screams. " Hey, its alright" River replied. Looking into his eyes now, I see that they really are violet. " I'm River by the way" He said. 

 The screamers crowded River more and pushed me to the outside of the circle. I was now outside of the huge jumping crowd. " There you are" Hunter said.

It seemed that Hunter didn't want to get in with the crowd. He grabbed my arm and took me upstairs where there people were fighting each other with weapons. " So, did you like that fight, I thought that George would have won, but that's just me I guess" Hunter said.

Hunter looked down in disappointment. " Yeah, the guys were really good" I say in reply. How were River's eyes violet, I mean I've never see anyone with that colour eyes.

He was hot, i guess, you know?. " Gray!" Hunter shouted. "What" I say back. "Did you hear me, I said do you want to fight" Hunter said. " I've never fought anyone in my life" I reply. " Well, you're going to learn today" He said with a smile