The Black Hood

Chapter 4: Murder

I keep having the same images fill my head, my family on the ground dead, Talia's dead body, but this time there's a new one that takes over all the rest, I see myself in an arena with someone else and we're fighting, I fall to the ground as he comes over me and says "Now join your family" and that's when I wake up. I'm sweating and shaking, how will I survive in the arena when I can't even survive in my own dreams? Chapo walks in, "Oh good you're awake now get on your feet, it's time" he says looking at me in the eyes and smirks as he opens the cell door and leads me out in restraints. We walk to this tunnel looking kind of thing as I hear people cheering and chanting. We walk out as I see an arena with a cage around it, they unlock the cage door and I'm thrown in as I look at my opponent, he looks like he's about seventeen, 5'7 in height, all he's wearing are shorts and has bandages wrapped around his hands. He glares at me as I look away from him and turn to Chapo, he's standing there just smiling, the bell rings and without any warning my opponent runs towards sticking his fist out, I roll out of the way as I kick the back of his leg, he fall onto one knee and grabs my foot as he pulls me in and grabs my head slamming it into the cage. The crowd cheers when this happens raising their hands in excitement as they see these two kids fight, it disgusts me, I elbow my opponent in the gut as he steps back and that's when I advance toward him uppercutting his jaw, he stumbles back but he's still on his feet as he goes to sweep my legs but I jump up and land on his leg. He screams in pain as I twist it and hear his bones break, he kicks me off with his other leg as he struggles to stand back up, he's hopping on his good leg as I run towards him and kick his face as he falls back down. I put him in a headlock, the crowd cheers yelling things like "End him!" and "Kill him!", I look at my opponent his face badly beat up, he's bleeding out of one eye, I see a tear escape his eye as I hear Chapo yell "Do it John!" I do as I'm told and snap my opponents neck, I hear the cracking of the bones as I look down at his lifeless body and look over at the crowd cheering, I have become a murder, I look down at the body and look up and scream in pain that I did this to him that I killed him. Chapo opens the gate and picks my hand up as the crowd cheers more as I walk out off the ring with Chapo by my side. "You are a natural John, you will become our champion in no time" he says smirking at me as I keep walking not even looking at him "You people are sick, forcing us to fight like that having us kill each other, you've turned me into a murderer!" I yell at him. "Oh John it was only a matter of time before you killed someone yourself, I only just sped up the process" he says as he whispers into my ear "This is only the beginning, you will be a full blown killer, you will be just like me John I guarantee it" he smiles as he throws me into my cell. I run back up to the door banging on the bars as he walks away, "I will never be like you! You hear me you sick son of a bitch! I am not and will never be you!" I yell at him as I hear him chuckle. I lay back down on the floor having only my thoughts to myself and the only thing that comes to my mind is that I have to escape this hell, I have to find a way out of here before it's too late, before I actually do become him. It seems impossible to escape, there are guards everywhere, there's never a time where we get out of our cells, there's no windows or anything to tell me where I am. It looks like escaping is just a pipe dream, I close my eyes and silently cry as I am defeated from escaping this hell hole, I am going to spend the rest of my life in here and there's nothing I can do about it.