19. The bloody games..Not this again
"George?" I asked still hoping I was wrong to see my husband standing there in the same uniform as I am. I can't do this! I can't leg Georg to get hurt, I know him since kindergarten, first, he was my best friend and then we had married and now I have to see him killed and I don't know what they are planning for us next.
"Hello Cleo," said to me and walk to me to hug me. I had missed him so much, as his big warm hugs. As we hear a signal we are escorted out of the room George takes my hand and we walk together hand in hand into the familiar arena. Now they had made it one big space where we as full fifty people just enough room to move had.
There is a stage in the upper side of the area with that same creepy vampire on it with Xandros again seating on his thrown at the back.
"If I call your team number you have to stay into the arena, and the others will wait on the benches at the other side of the arena," the creepy officer said. I wait for him to call the first numbers. After he had called fifteen teams, not calling us the number we go seat with the others that weren't picked.
"You can guess what you have to do right? No? Disgusting humans. You have to fight! Last team standing wins!" He yelled into the arena and all the vampires start yelling fight. It was horrible to look at all these people fighting each other and killing, which made all of the black sand, red. The sand is so black that you hardly can see blood, but you can smell it. When there are just three teams it looked harder to kill someone you know and this looked like that case, till one stabbed the other and a half-hour later had the first team won. Again with that nagging, acid-spitting woman. I can't stand it, she said something about me, but she survived a lot more than I had.
We are the next one and I try to speak some tactics to him, but we are pulled in the group to walk faster, still holding each other's hands. When we stand in front of the arena as number sixteen I see Xandros standing up, looking at me. He looked stunned and almost mad I was here with George. On his look, I can see he didn't know. "Is that the vampire that had taken you?" George asked me and I nod looking at him, "how did you know?" He looked at Xandros and back to me, " squeezing in my hand as the first clue and him looking if he could kill me himself," says George me in his happy voice. That's what I liked the most about him, always positive and always putting on a laugh on his face and others.
"Go!" I hear and feel people coming at us. I had my two knives and George had a sword, which I didn't know he could fight with, but after he stanneb two people I know he had more skills than me. How did he learn to use a knife?
After we almost slaughter all that people we felt horrible but had to go on to survive. When we finally get the last couple we are done and hugging each other that this horrible game is done. I am still angry at Xandros and at who picked my husband, but I had to go on and go where they told us to go. We stand before the stage where Xandros is looking at the two teams that had won. Georg and I and that other nagging woman with apparently a friend of hers.
"Finalists you may now fight to one human is over! Let the finals begin!" Xandros yelled with a voice that is so emotionless I didn't recognize it. Then It hit me, did he say one human? Omg, no George! When they are attacking George first I attack them defending him. When there was alone her to the two of us I hear a strange voice and see they releasing the sick ones once again, running to us, attacking us. I feel them biting in my legs and she had cut into my arms, not deep enough to bleed out but it hurts. And when George stabbed her right into her stomach with it knife of the sword staking out of her back, I knew we were only left with the two of us. "Let me die, save yourself, Cleo. Know that I always will love you," and he let his sword fall to let that sick-blood-sucking kind he drowns empty. I couldn't watch him die and did something reckless I fight the monsters that attacked my man. I was so wounded by all the cuts from all the fights, not to count the bite marks I had too. I knew I will die soon at blood loss, George was in better shape still convincing me to stop this. And when one is bitting George and I am fighting still with three. I knew this would be the end of him as I don't act now. I jump on George that is laying on the ground all cropped up with his legs that I can cover him almost. And I feel them biting me and draining my blood outside my body into theirs. Georg tried again to throw me off him but failed and I laid like a dead weight on him. Then I heard Xandros's voice I thought, it could be the blood loss too. Maybe I am getting visions that aren't true. But then I feel slipping away still more into the darkness and someone who is shaking me, asking me things that I can not hear anymore. Before it is all black I smell something before I tasted it into my mouth. And then it was all black, nothing left only darkness and cold.