Naithin
09-08-2005, 06:53 PM
Open Arena
A large, circular arena. The floor covered with a fine sand, soft to the touch of bare feet. Yet still firm to stand upon, packed down as it is. There are four large iron gates at opposing sides, North and South, East and West.
Slowly the North and South gates start to raise, the clanking of their chain mechanism bringing an anxious hush over the crowd which sits all around the pit. The walls of the pit are of grainy wood, over 3 metres high from pit floor to the railing of the first row of seating.
The sun shines high overhead. Not a brutal heat, indeed, the air has a bite of chill to it. But the chill will soon be chased away by exertion as the battle looms nearer.
As the fighters step out into the open, a fanfare of trumpets sounds above, signalling to all around in the outskirts of the city, that two brave people have entered the arena, prepared if nessacery to give of their very lives for the entertainment of all.
The crowd watches, waits, expectantly silent, waiting for what will be, to be.
A large, circular arena. The floor covered with a fine sand, soft to the touch of bare feet. Yet still firm to stand upon, packed down as it is. There are four large iron gates at opposing sides, North and South, East and West.
Slowly the North and South gates start to raise, the clanking of their chain mechanism bringing an anxious hush over the crowd which sits all around the pit. The walls of the pit are of grainy wood, over 3 metres high from pit floor to the railing of the first row of seating.
The sun shines high overhead. Not a brutal heat, indeed, the air has a bite of chill to it. But the chill will soon be chased away by exertion as the battle looms nearer.
As the fighters step out into the open, a fanfare of trumpets sounds above, signalling to all around in the outskirts of the city, that two brave people have entered the arena, prepared if nessacery to give of their very lives for the entertainment of all.
The crowd watches, waits, expectantly silent, waiting for what will be, to be.