Shell

Chapter 6: Allies

"You ready to get pummeled cat?" Ares sneered at me.

"Yeah, lets do this." I said racking my Glock.

A hexagonal field surrounded the arena before reflecting back a desert landscape hiding the stands and silencing the crowds outside. A timer overhead that read 1:00 until Start revealed itself as small brick and limestone structures materialized in the arena turning the open arena into an urban combat zone, lastly the heat came in raising the temperature to at least 105 degrees. I was already starting to sweat from wearing this jacket but Ares looked almost unfazed as his smirk never left his face. The timer read 30 seconds, I looked for a quick vantage point and to my right was an opening to one of the structures and would provide ample cover for a few moments. A horn went off as the timer reached zero, as this happened I started to dash to my right while firing three shots at Ares on the other side of the street one landing on his right shoulder stopping him from raising a sawed off double barrel shotgun at me.

"Fucking cat!" Ares yelled as he shot out the window of the house I ducked into.

From the hole in the wall across from me I could tell he was firing slugs and rather large ones too, if I was hit at all by those it was over for me. I could hear him reloading his shotgun from the empty shell hitting the dirt followed by the snap of the finished reload. I looked out the window to my right and saw the building just outside had an open door, if I landed the dive right I could make it.

"What the hell, might as well push this body of mine." I muttered to myself.

I readied myself to start the dive when two slugs burst open a hole in the wall where I used to be standing.

"FOUND YOU!!!" Ares yelled as he charged me.

I bolted trying to commit to my previous plan while firing a few rounds at his feet. I leaped through the window and ran into the building and found a crate to hide behind. I looked at how many rounds were left in my glock, I had four shots left.

"Shit." I muttered to myself.

I found it strangely quiet as I only heard the slight breeze until I heard running footfalls. The moment after that bricks and dust hit me from right as a bulldozer slammed through the wall and into me sending me flying into the other wall losing my pistol mid flight. I hit the wall back first hearing a cracking sound as I coughed out blood before slouching against the wall getting a look at a sand covered Ares walking towards me. He grabbed me by the neck and lifted me above eye level and started choking the life out of me. I tried to break free but there was no way I could get him to budge.

"How about we have an audience for this cat shall we?" Ares asked with a sarcastic tone.

He dragged me outside then slammed me against another wall, I heard another crack and then blood started to seep into my left eye blinding it for now. He punched me in the gut and I spat out more blood hearing another crack as he continued to strangle me.

"Come on just black out already will ya." Ares said frustrated.