Kidnapped

A fight to the death

When the walls come down and separate us into sections, I know my life is over. And I never even got to kiss Liam.

    “Marisa!” He screams, but it’s mixed with screams from Harry, Kayla, me, and the audience.

    “I think you’ve got enough on your plate,” I yell back, hoping my voice echoes through the wall.

    “10, 9, 8, 7,” The announcer counts down. How am I supposed to figure out to use the shotgun in 7 seconds?

    “You have a shotgun!” Kayla’s voice yells, reading my mind. “Use it!”

    “How! It was nice knowing you, Kayla!”

    “Ditto! Harry you’re hot!”

    “Ditto!” Harry’s voice screams.

    “I love you Marisa!” Liam says.

    “I love you too,” I whisper.

    “3, 2, 1! Start the fight!” The man says.

    Crap. The huge gorilla screams in anger. I know he’s so big he could hug me to death. He looks about 20 times my size.

    The weapon fumbles around in my arm and I dodge the first spring from the gorilla. I hear Liam yelling, Kayla swearing, and Harry screaming. I can also hear a python hissing, a bull charging, and growling.

    “WAAAAA!” The gorilla screams. I name him Bob.

    “Oh my god!!!!” I scream and remember for this gun you have to pull it back. I do so then release the thingy ma boob but nothing happens. The gorilla is a few inches from me and I duck under his legs and scream. I’ll have to use this weapon in a different way.

    The next time Bob runs at me it’s on all four legs, but even under all the fear I can duck under his legs again. Just when I’m below him I probe the gun as hard as possible in between his legs.

    “WAAAAAA!!!!!” Bob screams. He falls over, and I swear he holds his croch. I smile at myself-I’m totally smart- and get as much distance between me and him as possible.

    “You must kill your animal!” The announcer man yells over the speakers. I don’t dare to look, but I know the audience is going crazy.

    Great. I don’t know how to work this gun, and I’m starting to like Bob. He’s cute! I don’t want to kill him.

    The sound of Liam’s scream snaps me back and I run at the gorilla. He must die. I don’t really know what happens, but luckily Bob seems to not be able to get back up and is laying on the floor. I hit him at least 40 times before it seems to start to have an effect. I keep hitting and hitting and try to figure out what’s happening with Harry, Liam, and Kayla. You know, if they aren’t dead yet.

    “Waaaa?” Bob says, opening his swollen eyes.

    “Die!” I scream and keep hitting him. “I’m sorry,” I whisper. “Don’t take this the wrong way.”

    Suddenly, a buzzer sounds over the speakers. “Harry has defeated the bull!”

    “Yeah!” Kayla and I both scream.

    “Kayla, focus!” I shout at her, then continue with the whacking.

    Finally, Bob falls unconscious. I try to use the gun again. Pulling back the trigger, I aim at Bob’s heart and whisper a goodbye before shooting him.

    So, almost right away I realize that I don’t like Pumas and Pumas don’t like me.

    The Puma, named Jim, charges at me with bared teeth. They are very, very pointy, I observe.

    I can faintly hear Marisa yelling at the gorilla, Liam shouting something, and Harry’s screams. But I decide to zone it out and focus on the big kitty in front of me.

    I dodge the first run, but the cat is like REALLY fast. I take the rope and use it as a whip, hitting it once.

    The cat makes a strange sound that makes me want to cover my ears. Still, it gets up and goes into a corner. I catch my breath as it licks the blood.

    It charges again, and this time it’s so fast that I can’t see it. It’s more like a big, evil, tan blur and some teeth.

    I feel a sharp pain in my leg where I’m guessing either Jim’s teeth or claws connected with my skin. I want to scream, like really really REALLY bad, but also don’t want to give the audience the satisfaction so just bite my lip until I taste blood.

    The next time Jim comes I duck and he pounces on top of me. It becomes a mix of Kayla and Cat and I scream, not being able to hold it in, as his (or her) claws sink into me. I bite the cats ear and taste blood, then realize how gross that is and spit it out.

    We stop and untangle ourselves quickly. I made a grab for the rope while Jim stands up. A buzzer sounds. “Harry has defeated the bull!”

    I’m pretty sure I screamed something in happiness, but I don’t remember because Jim was coming back. “Hello Kitty!” I screamed, then laughed a little at my sense of humor.

    I whipped Jim again but he didn’t go down, so I began to run the other way. I stopped, realizing the cat was WAY faster than me, and turned around and whipped again.

    “Marisa had defeated the Gorilla!”

    I don’t have time to celebrate. I scream as Jim the Hello Kitty scrapes my ankles, and one of the rolled in a very unnatural way. PAIN! PAIN! PAIN!

    “KEEP GOING LIAM! COME ON KAYLA!” Marisa, I think, screams. It might have been Harry, I’m not sure.

    “Liam has defeated the Python!”

    Oh, great, so it’s just me.

    I take a deep breath and whip my body around, whipping Jim in the progress. Jim yelps and I fall onto my back from the momentum and scream as the dirt hits me rather painfully.

    I hear Marisa, Harry, and Liam faintly yelling words of encouragement.

    I get up quickly and continue to whip Jim, who’s still making those strange noises.

    I don’t watch as the blood seeps through the cat’s skin, but I do watch when I tie the rope around his neck as the light dies out of his once gold eyes.