Sic isaac: Enslavement (Edited)
"Wake up Zebra !"
A man spoke as cold water splashed my face awaking me to a rough looking Minotaur.
"It's time to get off the boat." He said as he forced me to stand up. Albeit dazed on my hooves I regained the feeling in my legs and began moving across the wooden and wet floor. A Minotaur ? Slavers, so that means. I suddenly realized the situation I was in, shackles and all I am a slave now who is in unfamiliar lands.
As I regained my composure I remembered how I had got here. Me an my clan the Dersaei and the Hydra's Edoni had been at war for 10 long years, until our final battle on Alteron hill. While we were battling I had been incapacitated by Thrax the leader of the Dersaei he was just about to kill me when the Minotaur's attacked and captured us. I am unsure which one of us would have won but from the clamoring I heard from the right of me I would say we had both lost. A Hydra warrior was trying to fight against one of the Minotaur's and got hit with the but of his sword.
"Get fucking moving !" The Minotaur behind me said as he kicked me to the ground.
"Fucking shit eater." I said as I did my best to stand up. When I did the Minotaur had a blade raised at me.
"Give me cause profligate." He said with a slight smerk on his face.
I stared at him with hateful eyes, but didn't do a thing. I am not ready to meet the gods so soon. "Thats what I thought. Now get movin !" He sheathed his blade and have me a strong push towards the door. I began walking towards the door each step feeling like my last. I eventually made it to the door and the light was blindingly bright when my vision returned I saw that I was at a dock and that there were many ships most likely belonging to slavers I continued moving till I was on said dock and I noticed that there were two lines each were separated by one Equine, the line on the right were mainly young and strong men of all species even some Minotaur's each line had many carts that were departing.
I made my way down to the line and was met by the Equine who was separating the slaves. He walked up close to me and proceeded to 'scan' me he checked everywhere on me, when he was done he spoke in rough tone "Send this one to the right." He said and I walked the right where many Equine guards stood swords at the ready, both guards spoke at the same time.
"All of you get on the cart." Most of us complied but one of the Hydra didn't move an inch.
"You get on the cart now." The guards spoke and still he had not moved. I moved to get a better look at him and I remembered he was won of the Hydra at the battle they called him Dood Crusher (Skull Crusher) he alone was able to hold his own against 4 of my best men. These Equine have no idea the pain they are about to feel.
"That's it." Both guards began walking toward Dood with their blades raised when they got close Dood charged them with speed unrivaled and had both guards in each mouth he bit down and splattered blood and brain matter onto the dock he then threw their carcasses over to the side and picked up their blades and got into a sword fight against 6 Equines and Minotaur. The cart drive began driving away as I saw Dood fall to the ground with many Equine corpses under him he looked at me as he died and with his last strength he raised one hoof in the air. A sign of victory to the Hydra. He had won his life and chose to take it rather than be a slave, and in his last moments he fought his final battle and died, a warrior.
I had fallen asleep as we had been riding but I awoke as the carriage stopped. Equines showed up around the cart and one by one we all began coming out. When I had disembarked the carriage we had been another place entirely, we were in some sort of city, and there seemed to be sand everywhere and was on everything. The guard began.
"Get moving scum or i'll kill you myself." He said holding his blade and spitting toward the ground.
We began moving around a corner and as soon as we were around the corner voices spoke from everywhere, stalls seemed to be everywhere, and guards were on every corner.
"Make way slaves coming through !" One of the guards spoke to no avail as his voice was puny and had no base within it.
"Atticus this crowed is too wild to be tamed by a voice such as yours." Another guard said do it like this "Listen you grimy cunts get the fuck out the way !!" The guard roared and the crowed began to disperse.
"That's the way to do it. Try it like that next time Atticus." He said as he motioned us toward the platform ahead.
"Y-yes Aquila." Atticus said while walking. Atticus was a small stallion with brown hair and brown eyes he had a timid look about him, like he wouldn't hurt a fly even if said fly was carrying Zeuses bolt himself. Aquila on the other hand had a well shaven goatee and had blond hair and a burn mark on the left side of his face. He looked as though a man of action but in truth was a bumbling idiot.
We finally made our way to the podium and Aquila told us to line up so we did. "Orpheus ! Get the bags." Aquila said to a rather burly stallion named Orpheus. Orpheus had thick black curly hair that matched his coat, and looked very muscular.
"Yes my liege." Orpheus said in a low monotonous tone, as he wen't to a nearby chest and pulled out many bags and handed them to Aquila.
"Atticus your with me." Aquila said as he gave Atticus some of the bags, both came up on the podius from opposite ends and began placing bags on all of our heads.
"What are the bags for ?" The Griffon said.
"I don't know."
Aquila and Atticus finally came upon us and placed the bags over our heads. I could barely see out of it let alone breath out of it.
"That'sit now we wait." Aquila said
"Wait for what ?" Atticus asked
"The Lanistas."
I heard footsteps from each side approaching me, they finally stopped, and took the bag off of my head and the sun blinded me again.
My vision returned and I turned to my left and saw the Griffon I had talked to earlier and bound in the same chains as the rest of us. I looked further down from him and saw a unnaturally tall Minotaur holding and blade in his left hand and was unbound by chains. When the hell did he show up ?
Suddenly multiple Equine's started flooding in from all the openings in the place we were in. Each one had a look of entitlement on their faces and body guards at their backs. A Minotaur on the sand below us began speaking.
"Come one come all to Aloysiuses slave auction."
"And so it begins." I said while sighing.
The auction began, for the whole lot the Slaver said 30 Denarii and the prices the Equines would pay for us began rising.
"I'll take the whole lot for 50 denarii." One Equine said to the gasps of the others Equines, the guards, and the Slaver.
"S-Sold to Aurelius !" The slaver said with much glee in his words. Aurelius walked up and paid the Slaver, then he told his guards to get us onto the cart. Aurelius was a well built Equine who had short cut hair and no facial hair, but he had multiple scars across his face and hooves and seemed to have fought in past battles.
The Equine Aurelius had surprisingly bought all of us on the podium. The Minotaur motioned us with his Gladius to get moving by pointing down the steps and we proceeded down the steps though some of us grudgingly. As we were walking down the stairs one of the Zebra's had fell, and before he could even get up Aurelius guard was already on him. He turned and looked at Aurelius as if waiting for something.
Aurelius put his hoof out and raised it to the sky, and the guard got of of him. Aurelius the walked up to the Zebra and said.
"I will tell you this only once. There will be no room for error at my ludus, the training yard, or The Arena. If you make a mistake like this anywhere in combat you will die. This is the part where you say yes Dominus, any of you who don't will embrace death in all her glory's
"Yes Dominus !" We all said in unison. "Good, now lets get going."
We rounded the corner and found more Equines waiting near a cart we all clambered inside the cramped cart and were on our way to an unknown Ludus.
"Fuckin Equestrians, have no right to do this." The Griffon next to me said spitting near an passed out Equine. This Griffon was not like the one next to me on the podium, this Griffon had a stocky build, one of his eyes was blind, and had burn marks over most of his body.
"Where are we of to ?" I asked him while fumbling with my shackles.
"A fuckin Ludus. A Gladiator school; where men fight for the entertainment of these fucking cunt's." He said spitting on the passed out Equine in the cart with us.
"Gladiator's ?" I asked intrigued.
"You've never heard of a Gladiator ? Where the fuck have you been ?"
"Just answer the question." I asked annoyed.
"It's a fight to the death, for entertainment."
"Men dying for sport ? Sounds like a match made by the gods."
"Your one of those then, the type to enjoy senseless killing just so the Equestrians can have some enjoyment. Your a lost cause." The Griffon said as he turned away from me.
"A match made by the gods ?" A deep voice spoke from the back of the cart. "You do not know how right you are friend."
We turned and saw the speaker was a Minotaur. One of his horns was missing, he had a jagged scar down his right eye, and was burned on his right arm. Every time he spoke it felt as though it was getting colder in the cart.
"Men like you and me live for the arena it is our wine, our bread, and our ambrosia. Us as mortal live to die, the Arena just quickens it."
"I wouldn't consider all those thing's but killing through battle is fun, it culls the weak and gives the strong room to grow and prosper." I said smiling.
"Well said friend, the gods put people like you and me in this world to deliver them souls, and to cull the weak." The Minotaur said laughing slightly.
"You both can die the Arena for all I care but me i'm gonna escape or die trying." The Griffon said.
Just then the cart stopped. I heard foot steps approach the backside of the cart. Two Equines motioned us to get out of the cart. We proceeded. When we got out a large villa was in front of of us, it had vines growing down it, the stones looked ancient, and there was an overlook on the second floor, where a woman with bright purple hair stood drinking from a tankard stood staring at us with looks of disgust. She turned from us and went back inside the villa.
A guard had hit me knocking me down to the sand "You will not stare at lady Twilght again or I will kill you personally." He said as I got up.
The guard motioned us inside the villa and we all lined up. There were seven of us, 3 Griffon, 1 Equine, 2 Zebra, and 1 Minotaur. Inside on the lower level of the villa multiple races stood but the majority were Griffon. They looked at us in silence then bursted out laughing.
"Zebra's and Equine ? Ha they won't even survive training." One Griffon said from the lower level said while laughing.
"Enough !" A Minotaur said moving closer to us. This Minotaur was wearing some form of Cuirass and had a diagonal cut sown down his cheek. He walked along our line we had been in with eyes that pierced us. Like he wasn't looking at us but through us.
"None of you will survive through the night, you all are weak. But I will make you strong, I will forge you into true Gladiators. Or send you to the gods. You will know me as Doctore. But I wish to know your names." He said.
The Minotaur spoke first in his deep tone "Gallus."
Then the Equine "Crescens."
After the Equine the Griffons spoke "Thrax,Orpheus,Thoas."
Then it was me and the other Zebra "Zelalasen,Aigidius, Capussa."
"CAPUSSA !." The Doctore yelled startling me.
"The Dominus requires that every new gladiator will show him their skills so you shall spar with Gallus." Doctore said as he motioned one of the slaves to retrieved wooden swords. A guard walked up to me and Gallus and unlocked our shackles. We began walking to the center of the villa. When we got there I noticed Aurelius and the woman watching us with a mixture of amusement and intrigue. I grounded my stance and prepared myself.
One of the slaves walked up to me and Gallus with wood Gladiuses.
"Caractus." The Doctore called the slave who gave me and Gallus the wooden blades. "I feel this is an unfair fight, give Capussa a Parma." Caractus complied and gave me a wooden rounded shield.
"No." I said throwing the Parma down to the sand. "I refuse to fight on uneven terms."
"Fine.Your funeral." The Doctore said.
"BEGIN !"