Part 16 - Torture Chamber

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Bane pull us and put Lucas at our former room that is filled by small kids, and pull my collar into another tower.

Walk through a jail-like tower, which is already broken, dark and messy. And there's a door, we enter it and i found so many stairs to the bottom of this tower.

And when we get out from the tower, i see a garden. A beautiful garden with a large fountain on the middle.

There's a building, like a house

"welcome to your new room, Artemis" he put me into a room. More like a dorm, but its clean and tidy. I saw not many women and girls there, they wear the same clothes as me and they look strong.

"meet your sisters. For dinner, this class is special. We eat at this building's dining room. We've walked through there, right Artemis?"

I keep silent.

"right, see you tomorrow" he leave us.

I see an empty bed near the window, i go there and look at the window. I can see the beautiful garden from here.

"A-Artemis??" somebody called me.

I see her. I can't believe it. I finally meet her again...

"Freya..." i tear up and hug her. She hugs me back

"h-how?" i asked, still crying :'v

"i'm sorry, just when we are start attacking, Phoebe and I run away. And they caught us"

"i'm glad you're here" i smiled

"indeed, ah, there's Phoebe" Phoebe enters the room and hug me.

We talked, we tell each other's story, getting to know our room mates, and they are the female gladiator.

The next day...

"good morning. Today we have a match and today i'll put... " Bane said as he think who should be in the match today.

Everyone's faces turned serious and nervous.

"Phoebe" Bane said and everyone cheered for Phoebe. I mean, why?

A gladiator match is a super dangerous. You can get killed there. And damn those people who like to see a gladiator fight and treat them like an animal.

"Artemis, we got your first match at noon if Phoebe has finished her match. It's okay, you'll be facing an animal. It's just a rookie test. Now you shall go practice for your match, ok?"

I keep silent. Now everyone in the room seem panicked. What the? Why?

And suddenly i feel a hand slapping my cheek.

"i let you misbehave since yesterday. Always answer your master's question"

"you are not my master"

Bane turned angry and he chained me to a room. The writing on the door

"TORTURE CHAMBER"

I start to feel scared. He put me in and chained me on the wall.

"we got a lesson to do"

Bane said and he say something to the executioner.

And he start to whipping me as he tell me the rules for the slaves here.

"one, all slaves must follow his or her master's instructions" he whip me on my back.

I screamed. It hurts. A lot.

"two, if any slaves doesn't respect his or her master, must go to the torture chamber"

"three, slaves are forbidden to argue with his or her master"

Every number, i got a single whip on back.

"four, if a slave got into the torture chamber more than 5 times, his or her master are allowed to change the slave's name"

Wait, name? What for??

"five, if a slave go to the torture chamber for more than 8 times, the slave must be killed"

"PLEASE STOP!!! IT HURTS!!!" i scream, my tears start to falling out.

"just wait until i finish" he said coldly, no sympathy. And he continue.

"six, if a slave tries to escape, the slaves must go to the torture chamber"

"I AM NOT A SLAVE!!! At least I'M A GLADIATOR!!! BANE TOLD ME HIMSELF!!!" i screamed in agony.

"here, slaves and gladiators are the same"

"AAAARRRGGHHHH!!!!" i scream as i feel my blood pouring from my back.

"seven, if a gladiator lose a match, he or she must go to the torture chamber"

"WHY IT IS ALWAYS TORTURE CHAMBER?!? STOP!!! please..." my vision started to blur.

"eight. Last one. One time torture chamber, will be read out the rules and each must be whipped. Twice in torture chamber, just like one time but got whipped twice each rules, and so on until the fifth time, name got changed, and hair must be cut"

After he finished reading all of those stupid rules, everything are black.

My match this noon are cancelled because of my condition. It was terrible. My back are full of blood.

I got healed by a healer and i saw Ilya beside me.

"poor kid, that's why you mustn't disobey my husband"

"make sure you don't do it again and remember the rules if you dont want to be hurt again" she said and everything went dark again.

The pain still stick on my back, all of my body, it feels hurt. My throat are dry because of screaming.

5 days later...

"Artemis!! Let's go!" Bane called me and i follow him. I see... A Colosseum

 A Colosseum

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-To be Continued...

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