~Dusan~(January 18 79AD)
"Hey! HEY!! Wake up!!", Someone shook me.
"Uugghh... Where am I?", I was a little confused.
"We are going to the slave market...", That guy said.
"I don't want to buy a slave.."
"Hey, you're not going there to buy slaves... You're going there to be sold..", He laughed.
What?! SOLD?!
"You were lying on a barren land, beside a corpse... Your father?", He asked curiously.
"No."
"Oh, I thought you fainted out of fright and sadness. He was brutally murdered.."
"That was me... I killed him... To avenge my mother..."
"Ohh... You were out for 2 days.."
"Was I? Well I had a strange dream...."
I was silent for a moment...
"Hey don't keep in suspense!! Tell me about your dream!!", He smiled with excitement.
I smiled back at him, " Well, there was a monster with four legs. They were not ordinary legs, they were round in shape, black in colour. They looked like a chariot's but smaller... There was no horse or bullock attached, so I can be sure it was a monster... It attacked me and... And...", My voice faded.
"And??"
"And I died, I guess"
He laughed. Looking at him made me smile.
He was a little younger than me, probably a Spaniard. He had deep black hair, unlike mine which was brown, and bright amber eyes which matches mine...
"In that dream I had deep black hair like yours and silver eyes, that of a wolf.", I continued.
His eyes were filled with excitement.
A sudden realization came to me. I was in a large cage!
"Wait, why am I sold as a slave?!", I almost screamed.
"They picked you up along with that guy, half dead.", He pointed at a pretty lean man.
"Cicero! Why are you....", I yelped.
He turned, and gave me a smile, a sad one.
The rest of the journey was awkward. No one spoke a word, even though there were about 50 of us in this cage..
The only sound heard was the galloping of the horses which pulled this wheeled cage.
It was a very long journey. I knew we had reached the city only when I heard people's cacophony. Finally the horses were pulled to a stop.
"GET DOWN, GET DOWN FAST!! WE'VE REACHED THE MARKET!!" A really fat man shouted. And of course one by one we got down.
Another man came upto us and took us into a small house.. the house, on the inside had small rooms with bars, just like jails but smaller.
I was taken to a room which was at the last. The Spaniard kid was in the one next to mine... And Cicero was in the third...
"Hey kid, what your name?", I asked him.
"People call me Maximus.", He smiled.
"Hey kid, what your name?", I asked the Spaniard.
"People call me Maximus.", He smiled.
Just then the fat man returned with a noble man.
"I need a one that can fight. A well built man.", The noble man said.
"Then, this one, this one and that. Oh even that and that.", He pointed at a few others in the cage. Then he pointed at me. "This one would do fine too", He gave the noble man a wide grin.