Colosseum

*MC POV*

"Kata kata.."

'What's that sound?'

I woke up to a strange sound resounding in my ear. I opened my eyes groggily and looked around. It was a dimly lit room, suddenly I felt something over my leg. When I looked at it there was a humanoid insect like creature was biting me.

"What the f-.."

In reflex, I kicked the insectoid in its head. It flew away from me and hit the wall on the opposite side. It's head splattered on the wall due to impact. Then I stood up almost immediately and looked around the place I was in. It was a large dimly lit room. There were several figures laying on the floor.

Then I remembered that I was brought here by Valkyrie. The first thing that I felt was anger. I sat down leaning to the wall and tried to calm down. I looked at myself and found out that I was wearing the same armour that I was wearing during the fight.

I searched of the comms but seems it was confiscated. I looked around for anyone that was looking at me. Seeing that no one was looking at me, I lay down, faced towards the wall and took out the extension pouch I hid in the armour.

I opened it and searched for the new comms. I found it and took an earpiece and connected to Komiko. The call connected

"Hello, Justin? Are you okay? Where are you?" It was Arora, who answered the call. She sounded anxious and worried.

"I'm fine. I just imprisoned. It seems I'm in one of Grandmaster's dungeons. What about you guys? Are you okay?" I coaxed her and told her about my situation.

"We are fine. We know that you were taken to Grandmaster. It's just that…"

"It's fine. I don't know the exact situation I'm in right now. I'll contact you when I'm prepared." After that I disconnected the call. It's not the best thing to prolong the call as it will invite danger.

I put the comms and earpiece into the pouch, secured it under the armour, and looked around to check whether anyone is looking at me.

It seems I was worried for nothing. The people here were dispirited. I need information. If it's like in the movie, I'll die today. I don't want to fight hulk now as I'm nowhere strong as he is.

I stood up and took a walk inside the room. Different aliens were sprawled across the floor. Some were injured while others looked to be in the verge of starvation.

"Hey man Over here. This pile of rocks waving at you. I'm actually a thing. I'm a being. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Korg. Are you new here? I'm also kinda new here. Feel free to ask anything man, I'll help you." I saw a pile of blue humanoid rocks waving at me while sitting on the ground.

Thank god, korg is here.

"Hey korg, I'm Justin. How long have you been here?"

"I have been here for 3 months after the failed rebellion that I organised but didn't get enough interest I was expecting. But hey, atleast my mom and her boyfriend showed up. What about you? Did you get caught after killing a lot of people? You are covered in blood all over your dress."

Hearing him say that I looked at myself, my armour was covered in dry blood and grimes of the people that I killed in the Mordo's clan. I looked sullen for a bit.

"Hey, you look sad, did they also separate you from your mom? Don't be sad, you will get used to it."

I looked at the guy speechlessly.

"I'm fine. I was brought here because I wanted to fight a guy."

"Oh, it makes sense. Here you can fight a guy, even lot of guys. Are you here to fight the champion? A big scary dude who squashed Mike on the colosseum last week. I heard he eats the brain of the people he kills."

I'm literally speechless. Why would hulk eat brain? I shook my head.

"No, I'm not here to fight the champion. I was brought here against my will. Is there any way to escape from here?"

"Yeah, there is." As I heard that I was a little hopeful. "3 weeks ago Mizen went through the body disposing pipe, it seems they were feeding the bodies to some of the Grandmaster's pet. Unfortunately he became a food."

Damnit, I feel stupid even for asking the question.

"Oh, and the other way to get freedom is to defeat the champion. Hey, don't get your hopes up or you will get yourself squashed like Mike. But you have to fight people in the arena, if not you wont be fed."

Hmm, what's this about?

"Hey Korg, can you explain me the rules of this place? Like how we get food?, how much do we have to fight? And all those stuff."

"Sure. We have to atleast win one fight in a week. If not there will be no food for you for the following week."

Hmm? I asked Korg doubtfully,

"Doesn't the colosseum conduct matches once per week? Do they have separate fighting arena here?"

"No, only the champion fights once per week. We all should fight daily to entertain the colosseum audience. But the food here is great. Get ready for the fight that's going to happen in few hours. They will allow us to take a bath and pick a weapon before the fight."

It seems I was just looking at the championship fights. I know there are strong opponents in the normal category. If I fight every strong fighter in this category, I might even be ready for hulk. I felt myself soak in my own thoughts until the door buzzed and opened.

The fighters are asked to come out to get ready for the fight. I joined Korg as he asked me to. The first thing I did was to take a bath and took a new set of dress from my EP.(A/N: I'll write extension pouch as EP from now on.)

After changing I went to the armoury area where the weapons are laid out. I looked around and found an armour section and went towards it. I found a leather chest piece and arm guards for my size. I took them and wore them. Everything else is either too big or small.

I went towards the weapon section and found an axe and strapped it on my back. I really want the dwarven axe. Even though I only used it for less than 5 minutes I got attached to it. It was a good weapon. Lastly I saw the Valkyrie carry that. She must have taken it. Once I'm free I'll get that back myself.

I then waited for the fights to start. I closed my eyes and tried meditation but was disturbed by heavy noise around me. Then I looked at korg and the others were eating their fill and some of them looking at them like hungry hyenas.

It's a strict rule that you have to win atleast one fight per week. If not you starve. And you are only provided meals once per day. So they have to utilise this time to get enough food for themselves.

I'll fight with everything I have but try not to get injured too much. They don't provide medical support to the fighters but I have never been in need of that. I have always recovered all kinds of injury in a days' time. I even had broken bones(multiple) but the next day I'm good as new. I don't think it's a regeneration perk but it's like my body recuperates multiple times faster when I'm sleeping.

Now, I have been waiting for 2 hours in the lounge and the fight is starting. I went towards a small window in the lounge from where I can see the colosseum. I saw multitude of people filling up the colosseum like waves. They were enjoying themselves by getting into the mood.

Soon, the first fight between a sword wielding blue skinned humanoid and a bare handed kronan. It's not korg but another Kronan. The fight started with the frontal clash of the both fighters in high kronan had the huge advantage and threw the sword wielded 10 meters away from him.

The sword wielded slowly got up and put the sword in front of him to block Kronan's follow up attack but the sword cut his own face into two as the kronan pushed the sword. The fight was over in seconds and the crowd went boisterous after seeing the blood.

There was still 3 more fights before it will be my turn. The three fights were somewhat had balanced fighters as they fought a little longer. The three fights took a total of 30 minutes to finish.

Looking at the door, I moved towards it as it was my turn soon. I soon entered the colosseum under the host announcement. He mentioned me as the new one and a rookie. And the other fighter soon came from the other side. It was a large 3 meters tall man with three heads. He was carrying a large mace with him and pointed it towards the sky and shouted.

I looked at him, 'it seems he is an old fighter, who fought here before'. Soon he looked at me and pointed his weapon at me and shouted. He then ran towards me while pointing the mace.

I too dashed towards him. When I neared him I ducked the mace that he just swung at me and kicked him in the legs. He stumbled slightly but didn't fall. I took this chance and got behind him, just as I was about to punch him in the back, I saw one of his head turn and looked towards me and moved the body out of the way of my punch.

'This is going to be troublesome'

The guy turned around and swung the mace towards me, I backed away from the strike. I rushed towards him again and deflected the already swung mace and punched him in the hands which released the mace, i then kicked the giant in the chest, which made him fly away for a few meters and drop to the ground.

I approached him and jumped a little higher to land a blow to end this fight but he moved out of the way as I landed with a punch. I didn't give him any room to breath. As soon as he stood up I punched his outstretched hand. As the punched connected it made a booming sound with a sickening sound of crunching bones.

I looked at the opponent and his hand which was broken and had a bone sticking out of his skin. The three heads roared in pain but I didn't want to continue this fight much longer. I jumped slightly higher and brought both my hands backwards and punched two of his heads at once. And hold onto the middle head with both hands and kneed it with my right knee as his body fell towards the ground.

I looked down at the opponent after the cloud of dust cleared. All of his heads were broken and especially the middle one was turned into a mush.

I then raised my bloody fist and shouted at the sky and vented all the frustration that I was holding.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh"

I shouted until my throat went dry and stopped when the crowd started shouting at my victory. They don't care about who you are, they just cheered for the winner. I returned towards the door as they were announcing my victory.