BlueSword: young volunteers

Chapter 5: punishment

The last thing that i remember doing is saying yes to something, then being thrown in a cell. My mind finally clears up and i can see, were in a cell, dirty rotten, piece of crap cell, and annebeth is still dizzy from being hit in the head. I stand up and look around at the other cells, people are screaming "help!!!" and "NO NO NO NO!!!" a door opens and i hear a screaming crowd. Uh-Oh i think "annebeth..... Annebeth.... ANNEBETH!!!!!" i secramed at her she jolted up and looked around. Just as that happens a guy with a clipbord comes and says this "you have been sentenced to fight in the arena against five foes, if you survive the first you wil be awarded a sheild, and nothing else, but you may pick one weapon of your choice". he unlocks the cell and motions us toward him, we follow, he takes us back into a room full of every weapon you could think of. Annebeh tries to jump right in but he stops her "hey!!" she yells at him "you fought back when you needed to be retained so you only get a dull short sword". She didn't look too happy at this idea but at least she had a weapon, i looked around and picked a small mace with spikes. He looked at me and just waved us off, guards apeared out of no where and grabbed us. We got draged to the door and a gate shut behind us and the door started opening slowly. When it reached our heads all we saw was bodies, bloody sand, and fleeing convicts running for their lives.                                                                                                                                                                                                      

There was another thing i notice there was a tall cage over the top at the of the arena, i relized what it was for once i saw what was climbing on it. It was for dragons,they put dragons into the arena. I thought "i'm so dead" we got pushed in, i fell down and landed on a rock under the sand and cut my right hand. It started to pulse blood, (apperently it cut pretty deep) i stood up and she was running straight toward cover in a rock about a good twenty yards. I got up and started to run, i made it halfway when the dragon came down and crushed our cover... with annebeth inside. I sudddenly stopped and stared at the dragon ready for anything, but it just looked at me. Then he flew away not thinking i ran the exact opposite direction and turned around and watched the dragon kill everyone else without hesitation, then when it turned to me it flew away. I was stunned at first but then i relized that annabeth was still under the pile of rubble, i ran toward it but the dragon stopped me. He wouldn't move out of my way so i raised my mace threatening to swing, then the dragon let out a roar and fell down. A man... wait no... a boy, a boy my age wait that can't be..."Sigan" i said, "it's been a long time Aaron" he replied, "well things happened and i kinda ran away", "Well i can't blame you, i wouldn't want to go to an orphenage ethier,then again i wouldn't attack them and let everone go" he said "well you know i act before i think" i protested "yeah well we better get outta here before these guards get to us" "yeah" i agreed. We ran toward the gate that i came in thourgh, but then the wole arena blew up underground. When we looked back at the ground the sand was gone, and you know that rock i cut my hand on, yeah i was standing on that. The sand had fallen and all that was left was the a whole bunch of towering rocks with paths that lead down, and all the rocks were connected by bridges in the midde (i think they were also to support the rocks). The thing is though, the towers were filling up with guards and armoured knights, and archers. This was the only way out,if we lost we would go back into the arena, or be executed on the spot, if we won freedom would be ours.