Gods of Arena

"So how did you win the fight then?", Frank asked.

"Jin gave me some pills and told me to use one. It helped me in the fight. Romeo, Finn and Jin also helped me stun the animals at the end of the fight" "Who's Finn?"

"Finn used to be Romeo's roommate. He came before you", Kang replied. "Jae killed him in a fight on the Arena"

"Jae is that guy with the frowny face, right? The one with the stone arms"

"Yes, that's him. You should be careful so you don't get in trouble with him"

"I know how to keep to myself. Don't worry about me", Frank said.

"I'll be going to the gym for some workout, very often. Will you like to come with me?", Kang asked. "Jin said it will help me grow my Shin Zhu"

"Sure. I would love to work out too"

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Immediately Frank stepped out, he got bored again. He stood up and walked to Jin's bed. It was getting late already and Jin wasn't back yet. In a few hours, the lights would go out and everyone would go to sleep. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't. He pulled the small bag beside Jin's nightstand. Whatever was in that bag might give hints to where Jin might have gone or it could just be the basic things Jin needed. He opened the zip.

As expected, there was nothing special in the bag. He shuffled through, carefully, and found a shiny kind of bracelet, made of gold. He pulled it out and stared at it for a few seconds. It was bracelet Dea had given Jin but Kang didn't know that. The bracelet looked familiar to him, as he kept staring, trying to remember where he had come across a similar bracelet.

He pushed the bag back to the nightstand, still holding the bracelet, then he laid back on his bed. 'Ana', he thought. He had seen a similar bracelet with her when she pointed a gun at his face. 'The soldiers'. They also had something golden on their wrists when they moved around..... oh, no, it's just their guns. Their guns were golden. Kang pushed the bracelet in his pocket and moved back to his bed. Jin had told him something about Dea and how she was helping his plan to escape but he would have told Kang when he was about to leave. When he had to speak to Ana to keep her from telling anyone about Dea and Jin, Jin had told him that Dea wanted him to wait a while.... Dea could have found an easy way to get him out of there, right after the fight.... Or not.

His eyes closed up, slowly, still in his deep thoughts. He had barely fallen into a nap when the lights went out. The sudden change startled him, making him open his eyes. Now, he would have to start the sleeping process all over again. He rolled on his side and made sure his torch was beside him. He sighed and closed his eyes. He heard a sound of the door, startling him awake again. He turned and looked at the door. The lights came back on, flickering frequently. He could see soldiers by the door. They pushed a person inside; a fighter. It was definitely a new fighter. Kang raised his back and sat up, as the fighter walked to Jin's bed and sat down. He saw Dea coming and he sprung up, quickly.

"Sit down. I was coming to you anyway", she said and walked into the room. "You have questions about Jin, right?"

"Where is Jin? He hasn't come back since the fight and there is a new fighter in his room now", Kang said, quickly. "What has happened to him?"

"Well, the only time a new fighter comes into the room and bed of an old fighter is because the old fighter has been killed, on the arena or in the hall", Dea said. "But you have nothing to worry about. Jin is definitely alive.... But he is out of the game so he won't be coming back here. As the 'Blank', you can help in training your new roommate. He is a mid-tier already so you shouldn't have problems with his Shin Zhu"

"So you helped him escape?", Kang muttered, with a smile. She threw a 'shut up' look at him. He definitely shouldn't be saying it out loud. "Did you?"

"No", she said and turned walking towards the door. "I didn't need to. In fact, he didn't need to escape. After he got the god-tier title, King found him bad for business. He would be too powerful against any of the opponents here so the Gamblers would keep staking their bets in his favor"

"In other words, we can't have god-tiers in the Arena, right?"

"We can have god-tiers but he doubts if we will have any god-tier, anytime soon", she said. "Well, If we have god-tiers, he won't make the Gamblers bet to watch the god-tier play. Rather, they would pay to watch the god-tier fight two and three top-tier fighters. In other words, King decided to let him go"

"Wow! That's uh.... Pretty luck of him"

"Yea, but not just lucky. When you get to a particular number of kills, with enough gambling revenue in the most unlikely matches, you will be qualified to get to the outside world. It applies to everyone and sometimes, the god-tier can come first. Sometimes, it doesn't have to. You just get free"

Kang nodded and smiled. "Okay. Thank you", he muttered. He needed to grow his Shin Zhu, as soon as possible.

She turned and whispered to him from where she stood. "Also, you need to stop running away from the spins", she said and walked out.

Kang looked at his new roommate. He didn't look young like a low-tier. Dea had just called him a mid-tier, though. "Hi", Kang greeted him, smiling widely.

He threw a frowny look at him. "What?", he asked, violently, and laid back on his bed.

"Nothing at all", Kang said, quickly, and slept back on his bed, facing the wall.

'Shit!", he thought. Everything would turn new, like he was starting over again as a new fighter. He didn't have a Shin Zhu so there was really no difference. He closed his eyes as the lights went off. The bullies had something in common; a rough face. His new roommate would be one hell of a bully.