The Cut

"Tsk tsk tsk," booming footsteps followed her, metal scraping across the ground until the sound was right behind her

a tall buzz-cut man with medals dangling from his chest boomed

"Well aren't you a fucking snake"

"Who are you people" she demanded

"Who do you think"

"why am I here?"

"Because we wanted you here and we always get what we want" he stated

"that doesn't answer my question"

"cry me a river, what were you trying to do"

"what do you think"

"smart, you modified what I said when you asked a question" he got right In Erika's face "I think there's someone you want"

"or maybe you people are evil scum that deserves death"

"Maybe, but your not the right type" ( fix this shit )

he walked off when he passed her and a muffled voice started again, this time loud and angry

the sound of duct tape ripped

"ASSHOLES, WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE GAGGED"

"you bit one of our co-worker's fingers off,"

"FUCK YOU"

he slapped the tape back on and left

"Yrsa?"

"mhm"

"you go weapons?"

"mmhmm"

"can you get it?"

she was silent

"I'll take that as a no"

there was a loud metal band then a high pitched the sound of gas screaming

"HOLD YOUR BREATH"

they did... not for long enough, they had to take a breath,

everything went gray, their eyes became blurry, body felt weak, and without warning they past out

Yrsa woke up in a vast empty void, stretching out for millenium

she waited for, maybe an hour before walking up again

When Erika finally woke up, she woke screaming with her eyes flooding

"Ah, Erika, what the fuck"

she didn't replay but her pants could be heard

"pretty effective huh? We've been testing it for a while, makes you see your worst nightmares"

said a strange voice over the intercom

"Oi dickhead, let us go"

"why would I do that?"

"I'll fucking kill you"

"You're tied to a chair"

"I see your point but may I raise, a fuck you"

"You may not"

"I shall anyway, fuck you"

"If you really want your freedom, you can fight for it"

"What is this, Rome?"

therteramphitheatre

she found herself in a torch-lit jail with a staircase leading up to a Roman amphitheater

her hands and legs were wrapped in a cloth and she was dressed in leather armor dotted around, like a pheasant

"oh come on"

"shut up and pick a weapon" the voice came on again

she moved over to a pile of rusted and bruised medieval, Viking, and Roman weapons

"all these suck ass"

"then pick the one that sucks the least ass"

she picked up a wooden shield with a chunk missing from the bottom and an axe the length of her forearm

the floor was bloodstained sand, in the middle lay 4 tall pillars and the walls were just tall enough so you couldn't climb up

when she ended the crowed rowed out with boos

"HEY FUCK YOU!" she shouted

one of them throws a tomato at her

"oh you bitch" she reared up to throw her axe

"DON'T YOU DARE"

she looked behind her to see Erika sitting in the stands

she went to say something but was stopped by the man from before

she could bearly lip-read "no talking"

whatever she had to say must wait

the crowd started cheering

two people came out of the entrance opposite her

one of them was tall, with a slim figure while and other was a fucking Barbarian, he was a bit shorter than the other guy but a lot bigger, one could mistake him for being fat, but under that lay muscle, he also dual wilded axes like a fucking lunatic

"How is this fair," she said to the man next to Erika

"two people's freedom, two fights"

she looked back with a grimace on her face

the Barbarian was charging at her and it was halfway across the area, while the other guy was nowhere to be seen

she held her shield close and her axe strong- preparing for the shit storm coming her way

He launches into a fury of swings, not giving breathing room, but leaving himself wide open

During one of his steps, Yrsa kicked its foot out of the way, sending him off balance,

Yrsa's bashed her shield against him, pushing it to the floor

she followed him to cut his neck, before being thrown off by the other guy

he landed atop her and started punching, turns out he was unarmed

he began painting the ground red with Yrsa's face

she put her hips up and rolled him off then rushed to her feet again

and he was gone,

'focus on the other guy' she thought

she span on her feet to see it coming down with both axes in an overhead attack

Yrsa raised her shield in defense, and cut its leg, before getting kneed in the face

she reived herself quickly, and it showed no sign of pain, neither did Yrsa

she throws her shield to the ground

*flashback sound effects ooooooo*

"Yrsa, when you defend like that you leave yourself in the same crappy place" he pilled her hands down with his cane

a 14-year-old defeated Yrsa Stoud in the middle of a dojo

"why am I doing this"

"you need to learn not to rely on your hands"

"why?, I've beaten every opponent I've fought"

"what about the ones you haven't?"

"Well, I.."

"Ready?"

"Yeah"

He throw some, tennis balls at her, at a slow pace, which she avoided, but once he started moving she panicked and started blocking

"do I have to tie your hands?"

*flashback sound effects again ooooooo

"YRSA USE THE SHIELD"

Erika shouted from the stands

in throw one of its axes at Yrs's face then charged her

she stepped her back foot out of the way of her body, which followed, the axe flowed past her as she span into a spinning hook kick to it's face

It was thrown slightly off balance, but the charge didn't stop

It throw 3 attacks, the first one Yrsa stepped away and gave a slight swip to the extended arm

The next one was a horizontal swing, she slipped under got to the side and jammed her axe in it's shoulder

It ripped the axe out and used it as it's own weapon

The last attack should have been easy enought to avide, but the other one grabbed her arms from behind

The axe came swinging down

Yrsa looked on without fear, she wrestled for freedom but failed

Right before the axe hit her

*bang

Itflew out of his hand, it still moved like it had swaung it

'Time' her brain screamed

She headbutted the guy behind her and got him on her back before throwing him off it

She rushed to pick up the closest weapon which just happed to be the axe that almost killed her

It had a very clear wound thought it

But not time to think, it was already going for a double horaitzal axe swing

She ducked under its arm, got behind it and chunked the axe into it's head, it frozen and fell to the ground

She picked up it's other axe

The other guy had disappeared

The crowed started chanting

"Finish her, Finish her, Finish her, Finish her,"

He kicked the back of her knee out and chocked her from behind

'Fucks sake'

She patted around his face and shoved her thumbs in his eyes

"FUCKING BITCH"

He let go and pushed her hands away

She scrambled to her feet

His eyes were bright red

The crowed was silent

She picked up one of the axe's and kicked the other one over to him

He readied him-self

He rushed in with a massive overhead swing, Yrsa slid under and dug the axe into the back f his head

His limb body fell to the floor

The crowed cheered

She was shooed out of the arena by staff

She was lead thought the weapons room into a boring gray hallway

A stubbled man greeted her

"Well, as much as I hate it, you are free, I guess"

He light up a cigarette

"Your Items are in there" he pointed at a gym bag on the floor

"The exits down there, your friend will be out soon"

He walked off, Yrsa was left to her own- but luckly no-one was hurt this time

Erika was down soon and they left to see a unformailer concrete Jungle