TLoS: World at War Ch. 22

Zoidius was pacing his cell, trying to figure out a way to escape.  He stopped when he heard the door leading to the prison block open.  He walked to his cell bars to look out and find Spyro, unconscious and being carried by two pirates.  

"Spyro! You bastards, what did you do to him?!" growled Zoidius, watching as the pirates placed Spyro in his cell and locked the door.  The pirates replied by grunting and walked away.  

"Zoid! What happened?" asked Dempsey, concerned.

"I don't know! Spyro! Spyro, can you hear me?" Zoidius continued to watch Spyro, now with worry filling inside him.  He saw Sparx fluttering around Spyro's cell.  "Sparx! What happened to Spyro?"

"I don't know.  He won his fight, then Bam! He just fell over.  You know, like that time we were hiding from the pirates." answered Sparx.

"Zoidius, calm down.  There is nothing we can do for him now.  We will have to wait until Spyro pulls through it." called Takeo.  Zoidius growled, cursing the pirates for anything they might have done.  Zoidius stopped his growling to find Skabb waiting at his cell door.

"Are you ready? It's time for you to satisfy the crowds now."  said Scratch.  Skabb then walked away while two pirates unlocked the cell door and walked in.  

"NOW!" thought Zoidius as he charged at the pirates.  One of them flew out the door as he was hit by the charge and the other one started to call for help.  Zoidius opened his mouth and was ready to breath out plasma, but a rope loop caught his muzzle and bound it shut.  Three more pirates entered with ropes and began to tie Zoidius down, restraining his legs and wings.  Zoidius struggled against the ropes, but he couldn't move.  The pirates carried him out of his cell and out of the prison area.

"Shit!  Zoid!" cried Dempsey, hearing the commotion.  All he received was a muffled reply as he heard Zoidius was being carried out.  The door leading out of the prison block slammed shut and Dempsey just stood there.

"What happened?!" shouted Nikolai.  

"I don't know! I think Zoid tried to escape, but those bastards caught him!" answered Dempsey, pacing back and forth in his cell.  "I'm gonna kill every one of these little shits!"

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Zoidius found himself waiting behind a giant portcullis, his bindings cut as soon he was in the arena.  He moved his legs around to get the blood flowing again.

"Damn it!  I wasn't fast enough..." Zoidius muttered to himself.  He looked up through the portcullis to observe what was waiting for him.

"Welcome! Welcome to the second event of the evening!  Like before, you are about to witness another dragon satisfy your ruthlessness.  Feast your eyes, on Zoidius the dragon!!!" Zoidius heard Scratch call.

"How do they know my name?" Zoidius asked himself.  No answer presented itself as the portcullis opened and Zoidius stepped out into the arena.  He looked around to see hundreds of pirates booing him.

"Another whelp?  This is going to be boring..." called a pirate.

"And now...bring out his opponent!  You've seen it before!  The beast that hails from the Allof Mountains!" continued Scratch.  

"BRING OUT THE TROLL!!!" the crowd roared.

"Time to feel the pain dragon-boy!  You're about to be crushed into nothing!" called Sniff.  The opposite portcullis opened and a giant, twenty-foot troll stepped out.  The troll had green three eyes, a giant horn on its forehead, three toes on each foot, brown skin, and a loin-cloth as its only piece of clothing.  It grunted and growled while it pulled out a giant club from its back.  Zoidius stared at the beast in shock.

"That's a big troll!  How am I supposed to..." He was interrupted as the troll began to charge him, club rasied high about its head.  Zoidius rolled to his side and began to run around the arena, with the troll close behind.  He felt alot of pain on his left side as the troll had kicked Zoidius as soon as he was close enough.  Zoidus flew through the air and landed in the middle of the arena.

"Arghh! Damn that hurt! I can't..."  Zoidius had put up a plasma shield around him just in time, as the troll took its club and brought it down.  The shield completely blocked the attack, but the troll kept swinging.  With each hit, Zoidius felt the strength of the shield fade away.  Eventually it broke and the troll grabbed Zoidius with its hand.  Before it could crush him, Zoidius took his tail blade and stabbed its hand.  The troll dropped Zoidius, roared in pain and stumbled away, grasping its hand.  Zoidius landed on his feet and charged at the troll.  Before the troll could react Zoidius jumped into the air and blew out a plasma ball at the troll's head.  Zoidius was nearly defeaned from the monster's roar, as it grabbed its head and stumbled away even further.  When it removed its hands, Zoidius saw that the troll's head and face were now almost a pitch black and it reached for the club.  

"I don't think so!" shouted Zoidius and blew out another plasma ball at the troll's face.  The troll fell to the ground grasping its face.  Zoidius took this moment to run up the troll and stab its chest with his blade.  Now blood was pouring from its chest wounds and it removed its hands to reveal that the face was slightly smaller from the plasma attack.  Zoidius then began to breathe out a continious stream of plasma onto the troll's face, which slowly began to melt into a light blue goo.  Eventually, there was nothing left of the troll's head and Zoidius limped to the middle of the arena.

"Well done dragon!  You've defeated the troll!  I must say, you had us all surprised there."  commented Scratch.

"Enough of this! Let us go!" shouted Zoidius.  The only response he got was laughter from the crowd.

"I don't think so you lizard!  This is too fun to watch to let you go!  Get him out of here!" cried Sniff.  Three pirates left the portcullis where Zoidius was waiting behind and began to push him back into there. Zoidius didn't try to fight this time, as he was too hurt and realizing he wouldn't win.

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The four humans sat quietly in their cell, with little else to do.  They all raised their heads to hear the prison block door and groans of pain.  They also heard a cell door open and someone being shoved inside.

"Zoidius, is that you comrade?" asked Nikolai.  

"Yeah, it's me."  Zoidius groaned as he felt his side with his paw and winced.  

"I assume you won your fight?"

"Yeah, I did.  Wish I could say it was easy though."

"Ha ha!  You've done well comrade!" congragulated Nikolai.  Zoidius kept groaning and he reached for the healing crystal with his mind.  The pain began to recede and his headache from using so much plasma disappear.  Soon, he was feeling much better and walked to his cell bars.  

"Brace yourselves guys, I think they're going to have you fight next." said Zoidius.

"Which is exactly what we are going to do, dragon." Zoidius saw Skabb enter his view and walk to the humans' cell.  Scratch was the one who had spoken.  Skabb stopped infront of the cell door turned to face them.

"You all ready for pain?  I hope you like it, cause you are going be feeling alot of it!" cheered Sniff.

"And how do you expect us to fight, you little idiot?" asked Dempsey.

"Watch your mouth, or I'll have it torn off!" shouted Sniff.

"We will grant you the use of your weapons, it would be no sport otherwise." said Scratch.  Skabb turned around and walked back the way they came.  The four humans turned to each other and grinned.

"Big mistake..." Zoidius heard them say in unison.