: Sometimes your will to fight isn’t your own...

" fight time ? " I repeated, my voice sounded cracked and foreign to my ears as the words slipped from my lips .

The fatter of the two guards chuckled a laugh that made my stomach churn as I heard the clacking of high heels come down the dungeons Stoney corridor towards us.

" yes thirteen fight ..." I heard a woman's voice retorted answering my question, her accent was thick and I could tell by it that she was Hungarian and quite irritated that I even spoke

" it's what all of my slaves do you fight or you die —" she said nonchalantly as she stepped into the dim light of the guards flashlight and looked me up and down

" —and sometime ... well most time you do both you should know this by now " she laughed her brown eyes flashed black and back to brown with amusement.

I looked down only now realizing this young looking women was actually the vampriss Cecila that owned me, her scent seeped into my nose and I question how I didn't notice her smell before.

I had come to know from living in her dungeons that all Vampires smelled the same no matter how clean the are or what they use or how young they are ,there is always a underlying smell that makes you think of a funeral home.

Cecila stood so her brown hair fell over the shoulder of the red dress she wore as she pulled a cell phone from her purse and stared down at it then back at me

"I have been kind ...." she she stated with frustration,as she shoved the phone into a red and gold purse that hung on her other arm then she crossed them along her none existence chest, as a smile began to lined her face

" .....I mean I waited till you were older ..... I could have made you fight when you first arrived Like I did the other filthy vermin of your clan ." she said with a sarcastic voice as her eyes narrowed on my tail that I kept wrapped around me like a belt .

".... But where's the fun in that ? you would have died to soon or to quickly just as they did and my fun would have been over before it started " she plainly stated as she flipped one of her brown curls back over her shoulder.

She then quickly turned to walk back the way she came and only paused to say " please don't die to fast thirteen, I'm having friends over and it would be a drag ... not

to mention my champions haven't had a good fight in a long time ...." and with that the guards and i were left with the echoing of her heels once again clacking off Into the distance.

After a few second and when we could no longer hear her ,the skinny guard looked at the fat one and then back at me as a chestier grin spread upon his mouth the smell of alcohol slipped from it as he licked his lips before speaking.

" how about I get a few seconds in huh tony ? " the skinny one said his hazel eyes trailing over me in a way that made my skin crawl

" no Allen last time you injured the fighter and we can't have that she is the main attraction for our lady's event ...." said the fat bald man as his gray eyes trailed over my tattered clothes and back to his friend, " ...maybe the boss will let you have some fun after the fight " he said as he to began to grin along with his friend.

The skinny guard looked like a disgusting undead version of a toddler as he stuck out his lip and put his hands on his hip "now come on tony that's not far ! She won't survive the fight no one does ..." He retorted

" the mistress gave us orders Allen, now if you want to end up a pile of ashes go ahead if not then we take her to the damn arena like we ordered " the fat man snapped

I tried my best to avoid their gaze or even breath while they argued my fate, afraid that If I did it may change the fat mans perspective and he may give the skinny man what he wants even when the punishment for doing so was made clear.

I felt the fat mans sausage fingers grip tight into my left arm as he began to walk forward dragging me past the still pouting man named Allen.

The stone under my bare feet felt cold as he dragged me along beside him , Taking me past hundreds of cell doors and for a brief second I thought about how I had never known the cell were so close and that there was so many but was brought back to reality as I felt a thin hand snake around my right arm and push me forward to march next to the the fat man named tony. I quickly realized it was Allen's hand on my right arm and this made my stomach flip in disgust, as they continued to pull me forward.

The stone hallway seem to go on for eternity until we finally reached the end .There ,in front of me I saw a large metal gate like one you would expect to have a mote on the other side instead lights flooded out from behind it .

I could hear cheering and the screams of pain coming from the other side of what I now assumed to be the arena door.

The pounding in my chest increased to a echoing thump in my head as the screams of pain died from the other side of the door, I could see blood seep from under the metal gate and into the stone floor as the cheers grew to roars of excitement. That's when all the noise went silent and a familiar Hungarian accent began to speak

" awe it looks like my champions finish that one rather quickly, please someone clean that up ... " I heard what I could only guess was a large group of people laugh and then she continued to speak " and don't worry my friends we still have one more challenger for our enjoyment and it should be quite a match ....I save the best for last ...One of the last dreaded kitsunes Alive vs my pets and champions the Flinds" the gasps were apparent as the vampriss chucked to herself and fear began to spread through me her words echoing in my head(( one of the last alive ?!.... could it be true..))

Her voice penetrated my thoughts as she continued to speak.

" bring out number thirteen and let the party begin "

The large metal door began to clank and grind upward as I slammed my eyes shut forcefully to avoid the light burning into them, I felt the fat man pull me forward and could here the crowd around me begin to whisper and boo as he removed the silver cuffs from my wrist ,neck and ankles . the Gate that I had been drug threw made the floor shake as tony and Allen both step back threw it and it crashed downward closing my only escape.

I slowly opened my eyes to look around me. I stood in a small pit of blood stained dirt and above me all around I could see what looked like at least a thousand people were seated and now staring at me their whispers spread as the curiosity began to overtake them I could tell that some of but not all of the spectators where vampires by the smell alone.

I then looked up directly in front of me and I could see the vampriss Cecila in-front of a microphone the smile of amusement still stuck to her face, as her eyes locked into to me her smile widened and she lifted her right hand into the air with just that single motion the room once again fell silent.

" shall we begin ? " I heard her say loudly into the microphone and the crowd around her began to roar to life in excitement.

I trailed my eyes down to look in front of me,I could see yet another large metal door , from the other side of it I could hear the horrid sounds of the creatures she called flinds,I then allowed my eyes to trail back to her and saw her eyes glisten as she began to speak again

" thirteen allow me to introduce my champions : anguish and pain they are flinds and they really like the taste of your kind " she said as she flicked the switch next to her and the door under her began to open slowly.

As soon as it was wide enough, In stepped two snapping and snarling doglike creatures on all fours , Their short, dirty, brown and red fur covered their hyena-like heads and their flesh looked mottled and decaying as it was drawn tightly across their clearly visible bones. I could see clearly that these creatures were mostly hairless, with carnivorously sharp teeth, eyes like burning hot coals in sunken sockets, and a long sickly,Spike filled tongue petruding from their mouths.. these flinds ... these creature are just like the ones in my nightmares.

I felt as my heart began to thump even louder in my ears. The fear overtaking my senses as I back up until I slammed into the door behind me. These two horrid creatures where the same as the ones that haunted my memory, the same as the creature that had been commanded by the dark nights all those years ago and once again I felt like a helpless child trapped in their hungry gaze.

The creatures began to stalk towards me as the door behind them shut leaving me and the creature in a ten by ten pit, I once again heard yelling and cheering as the crowd began to place their bets no doubt against me.

My knees almost felt like jelly as the first creature the one she called anguish snapped at the other then quickly lunged at me. I Could smell it's rotten breath right on my skin as I gathered my strength and rolled out of its way just in time barely dodging its long and deformed arms. While I was trying to gain my composure from the attack my tail had unwrapped from my waist. I could hear people in the crowd began to whisper and point to it as it twitched rhythmically behind me.

My instincts began to kick in as the second creature pain lunged at me without any hesitation. i lifted my heel up to defend myself and the sickly thing let out a yelp as It hit my foot full force and slid away from me landing against the creature know as anguish that was just now coming to its feet knocking them both to the ground.

Both creatures clambered quickly to their feet as they let out a growl that shook the ground and walls around me . The one the vampriss called Anguish began to once again walk towards me while the one called pain began to circle around , my eyes dart between the two until Anguish snapped taking a leap toward my arm and it brought my full attention to the beast in front of me then as if he knew I forgot him Pain leapt from the wall to my right ,it's spiky tongue wrapped tightly around my neck as it began to bash me into the walls and floor repetitively until I felt my ribs crack and twist as my limbs snapped like branches and , the taste of blood filled my mouth. It lifted me high into the air then threw me one last time to the ground with all its might leaving my limp body lay at its feet.

My world began to blacken as the pain exploded all over my body and my ears bursted with the sounds of cheers and glory to the creature that now stood with its human like hand pressed in my chest and it's tongue tighting around my neck

(( this is how I die ... )) I thought as I began to drift into the darkness , the pain of the spikes digging deep into my neck as the creatures tongue tightened,cutting off all chances to breath and I was too broken to fiend off my attacker, I began to pray for the end to the terrible nightmare that was my life and give into the darkness, the cold slipping in to my body and my heart slowly coming to a stop that's when I heard it like a scream in my head a voice I hadn't heard since the day my village was attacked

( WE CAN NOT !!! DO YOU HEAR ME ?WE CAN NOT DIE !!!)

I felt a surge of heat begin in my stomach and I felt a extricating pain come from my tail area the burning intensified and spread through my body causing me to let out a scream and I heard the creature do the same as it released me. The burning sensation now covered my whole body as I felt my bones break and twist back into place the pain became more then I could bare causing me to let out yet another scream at the top of my Lungs , over my own screams of pain I heard the fearful screams of people in the crowd above me their cry's overlapping as they stampeded over top of each other towards the exit.....