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Emperors Elite Gladiators
The rules were simple:
Each Emperor was to select 4 out of the remaining Gladiators to represent his Empire. It was a battle between the Emperors Elite Gladiators it was the main event. Nero’s Elite Gladiators vs Julius’s Elite Gladiators. The Gladiators would fight to the end should the Battle end up with no Gladiator killed, the crowd would decide the fate of each Gladiator. There were no freedom matches therefor the point system did not count, only the last Gladiator standing on the 149th day of the Gladiator Games would face the current undefeated Elite Gladiator Raecius Felix along with two Lions for his freedom “Rudem Sword” and become a Rudiarius “A free man”. Weapons upgrade and medical help were given free by the Emperors.
The Elite Gladiator Games schedule - Round 6:
I would fight on the 65th day against Mercury I also did not have any battles in Round 7 of the Gladiator Games should I survive this battle.
A list of all the Gladiator who have died in the Gladiator Games was also attached to the schedule, a total of 256 Gladiators have died throughout the past 50 days of Games. Some of the names were: Tau, Aurelius, Priscus, Prudes, Tetraites, Aries, Flamma, Spiculus, Lentulus, Batiatus, Cassius, Flavius, Julius, Justus, Virgil, Tiberius, Thelonius, Octavius, Jupiter, Hadrian, Romulus, Septimus and Decimus to name only a few.
Magnus was defeated by Junius on the 63rd day of the Gladiator Games in one of the Elite matches. I would fight next and would face the agile Mercury the people called him “Galaxy” he was very aggressive and his battles would always end up bloody and gruesome. I was in no mood for playing not taunting, there were no points to obtain for a kill it was a straight forward battle of the last man standing. This was no ordinary league these selected Gladiators were no slumps, we all were specially chosen to fight for each Emperor’s honour. I would fight fast and with full power.
We were led out by separate gates opposite the arena and opposite each other, as we entered the arena we faced each other , as Mercury bowed to the Emperors I stared at him waiting to engage and kill. He finished and turned to me, he threw down his shield only holding his sword in both hands walking up to me, I always carried my spear in my left hand ready to throw it at my opponent. As he got closer to me I started to firm up my grip and threw him with my sword he was so dumbstruck by my action that he reacted by trying to catch my sword, he opened up there was an opening and then I launched my spear penetrating him under the arm just below his armpit. He yelled out of pain lying on the ground, he could not move his arm and could not get up from the ground. I picked up my sword and stuck it into his chest making it a clean and quick death. The crowd was silenced; I pulled the sword out of him and lifted it in the air. But the crowd was quiet “are you not entertained!” I shouted and then the crowd erupted.
“Hercules – Hercules – Hercules”.
After my battle with Mercury I went back to my room, I had minor bruises not too much to worry about, but I did not refuse medical treatment I wanted to be at my best for the next battle.
Four more Elite Gladiator fought on the 73rd and the 75th day of the Games, Atticus fought against Cato on the 73rd day, the battle lasted almost an hour. Atticus killed Cato by means of multiple cuts to the body. Cato died due to the loss of blood. On the 75th day Seneca did battle against the Gladiator called Titus the crowd called him “Thor” he was largely build and his weapon of choice was a hammer. Titus was one of the most feared Elite Gladiators he had no mercy with his opponents, a perfect fitting for Emperor Nero. Some said Nero promised Titus riches further than his imagination can think if he won the Gladiator Games, so he entertained Nero by the way he finished his opponents. After every battle Nero send the willing woman to Titus’s room for his entertainment. Seneca was powerful but did not always follow his instincts and training skill trained by Hilarus.
The battle was set, it was time. From the Elite Gladiator Block you could see the battle on the arena grounds, Seneca started to prepare, he put on his armour and walked up to the gate, I could see his mind was somewhere else, the gates opened and I could see Titus enter onto the arena grounds holding his hammer up high to the crowd then pointing it towards Seneca with is other hand making a slit throat on his neck sign for Seneca.
They bowed to the Emperors and the battle started Titus started to swing his hammer missing Seneca by an inch, Seneca struck Titus over the midsection, cutting his stomach but not deep enough to kill, Titus looked at his cut and started to swing vigorously at Seneca hitting him over the arms and shoulders, Titus broke both of Seneca’s collarbones leaving him defenceless to the attacks by Titus, he could not use his arms then the onslaught started, he took Seneca’s sword and cut his main artery’s on his arms and legs, there was lots of blood, Seneca could feel his power being drained by the loss of blood, then Titus picked up Seneca both facing the crowd and Emperors and slit his throat, leaving him to drop to the ground holding his neck gasping for air. Titus stood over him looking at Seneca suffer until he was no more.
He walked up to the crowd and held his hammer high, looking up to the sky and summoning thunder as he was the mighty Thor. The crowed played along loving it:
“Thor – Thor – Thor – the Mighty THOR”
The Elite Gladiator Games schedule - Round 8:
I would fight on the 83rd day against Junius one of Nero’s Elite Gladiators.
Junius beat Magnus on the 63rd day of the Games, I did not know a lot about Junius, but knew better than to underestimate my opponent.
General Quintus came to my room in the morning of the 83rd day of the Gladiator Games “Emperor Nero requests your presence” I knew I might get a chance to kill him today; I placed a dagger under my clothes and went with Quintus. We arrived at Nero’s chamber I saw the opening I pulled out my dagger then he laughed at me and said “please Virtus do you think I am that stupid, look to your left” as I turned to look at my left I saw my son he had a dagger to his neck, I cried and fell to my knees begging him to leave my son. Quintus turned around; I could see he did not want any part of this. I dropped the dagger to the ground holding my hands out to my son. By Nero’s order two guards picked me up and held my arms behind my back, Nero started to beat me over my ribs with his fists punching out all my air, he then leaned over to me “you’re not as tough as the people think” he instructed the guards to remove me from his chamber. I looked at my son as he stood there crying, Hercules mode was setting in I also cried but it was anger, anger for myself not being able to do anything about it. As I was escorted to my room Quintus took over from the guards “where is my wife Quintus?” he assured me that she is safe and that Nero was only trying to get under my skin, I was a threat to him, he knew I only had one weakness and that was my family, but what Nero did not know: he created Hercules and Hercules does not have any weakness.
As Quintus left the room I started to dress my armour, I was impatient I wanted this battle to start now, I walked up to the gate that led to the arena grounds and kicked it open, the guards wanted to stop me but I assured them that the one who try to stop me will not live to see tomorrow, they knew I was not joking and stood back only staring at me.
As I entered there was one battle still in progress, as the crowd spotted me entering the arena they shouted “Hercules – Hercules – Hercules” I walked up to the middle of the arena, the two Gladiators battling stopped and stormed at me, I was now part of this battle but only a warm up match for Hercules. The two Gladiators were still fresh, their battle only started when I entered. The two Gladiator were Gladiatrix he was trained to fight with violent and ferocity and Excitatus was trained to use his speed and agility, Gladiatrix had a sword and a shield, Excitatus used two daggers, this would be interesting an Elite Gladiator against two Gladiators, the crowd shouted out of delight and thought the Emperors had arranged a special event for them, Julius Caesar wanted the battle to stop but Nero saw the opportunity for Hercules to die, he told Julius that the crowd would disrespect the decision and that the battl
e should continue. Gladiatrix came in hard, he showed true viciousness and the battle started with him while Excitatus surrounded me, he then he attacked me from behind jumping on top of me while Gladiatrix cut my right leg and left arm, I got a grip on the armour of Excitatus and pulled him off of me throwing him to the floor, I stomped on top of his head squashing it under the pressure of my foot. Gladiatrix was 10 yards in front of from me he has not seen a man’s head get squashed by another man’s foot. I went on one knee looking up at him while picking up my sword, I snarled at him, Excitatus was dead lying on the floor, the blood flowing out of his ears, eyes and his head almost totally squashed by the strength exerted by my foot. He could see there was no chance that he would live after this battle, as I started to walk over to him he fell to his knees and stuck his sword into his chest, taking his own life.
My arm was cut, my leg was cut and my battle would now begin against Junius, I stood in the middle of the arena waiting for him to enter while entertaining the crowd by lifting my sword up high. Then Junius entered the arena wearing heavy armour with two swords. There was no time for bowing for him