Denzel sat on the ground in the cell, looking around the whole place. It was nothing like what the whole building looked like outside. It was completely disappointing.
"I am bored," Denzel said, before looking at his almost completely exposed body. He took the blanket and covered his whole body, but after some minutes, it fell off again. He finally left it after he got frustrated.
When he didn't have anything to do, he laid on his belly, placed his both palms on the ground, and then raised himself with his hands and toes on the ground.
He began to push himself up, counting up from one ahead.
Denzel had already counted to one hundred and fifty when he began to hear sounds of the padlock that was used to lock his cage.
He went back to the ground, taking a look at the entrance of the cell he was in.
He saw Owl open his cage and he sat up immediately.
'Hmph, Leia must really want to see me,' He thought to himself before he sat up, smiling like he just won a big amount of cash.
"Hey, Get out," Owl told him and he stood up, covering his body with the blanket, then walking out, "Wait here", Owl added.
Owl closed the door to the cell, walking ahead immediately he did. He went to another cell, just almost opposite Denzel's own, unlocking it as soon as he got there.
Most of the people in that basement began to murmur. Denzel looked around, wondering why the place began noisily all of a sudden, but his questions were answered when he saw the person that came out of the cell.
It was that massive man, the one that yelled at Denzel to keep shut earlier. Seeing the man on his feet, the man looked more gigantic than he looked when he sat.
'Does Leia have business with him also?' Denzel thought looking at the gigantic man.
The man walked past him, scowling his face the moment he looked at Denzel. Behind him, Owl came after then Denzel followed them both at their back.
Denzel noticed the way everyone looked at him, still murmuring. Some even pointed at him, laughing, but as they did, Denzel only thought they laughed at his outfit, so he waved at them, telling them off.
When they got out of the basement, Owl closed the door behind him. Owl looked forward and noticed that Denzel was waiting for him.
"What are you waiting for? Go after him..." Owl moved his face, telling Denzel to go behind that gigantic man.
"Huh?" Denzel said, still looking back while he walked towards the hefty man.
The man took a glimpse at him, looked back forward, pushing the door that was right at his front. He walked through it and stopped.
Immediately the door was opened, Denzel began to hear noises of cheers and boos.
Looking into the room, he saw lots of people, they were so much for him to count them.
The room was more of a hall, a fighting hall. There were lots of chairs set for the audience. The chairs were arranged to go down the hall, and at the middle of the hall was a hexagonally shaped ring with no ropes guarding the edges.
Looking down at the ring, Denzel saw a man being whacked in the face and the man passed out on the ground. A man ran into the ring, placed both his index and middle fingers on the neck of the man that passed out.
The man that ran in stood up, waving both hands to the sky, using them to signify that it was over. The next thing the man did was to take his right hand and wave it towards his neck saying that he was dead.
The next thing that followed was a scream from the audience. Two other men came into the ring with a stretcher and picked up the dead man from the middle of the ring.
The man that won the battle used his right hand to beat his chest, yelling as he did. It only meant that he was only a step closer to advancing to the next level.
"Who's next?" The man yelled out, looking around the hall, waiting for someone to come forward.
The hefty man walked through the crowd, and the whole crowd kept shut.
"E-phant is coming through, give way, give way..." Some people alerted those ahead of them and they kept making a path for him.
The man at the middle of the ring began to smile, saying, "Finally, I get to fight E-phant," The man's joy knew no bounds.
"Is it only E-phant that can challenge me here?!" The man started to brag, to make people see his confidence.
"Is E-phant really going to challenge him?"
"Is it already time for him to leave us here?"
"Can he really kill E-phant?" Were the murmurs that kept on coming up from the crowd.
"Anyone else who wants to challenge me here? Is it really only E--" Before he could finish talking, the man felt a heavy punch to his face and that sent him flying away.
"What?... what??" The whole crowd seemed confused about what happened. The fight they expected ended before it even started.
"I have no business with you... Hey there! You in the blanket, get in here!" E-phant pointed towards the direction Denzel stood.
Denzel kept on looking at his front for who exactly he was talking to, and so did the crowd do. They all looked towards the direction he pointed at, looking for the person in the blanket.
"Hey, it seems it's you that he is referring to," one of them pointed at Denzel, looking back at E-phant to get where he exactly pointed to.
"Me?!" Denzel pointed to himself to confirm what the person said. He looked at his body and saw that he was the only one in a blanket.
"Am I going to fight him?" Denzel said, still pointing to himself and then someone else nodded his head.
Denzel began to walk down there slowly, looking around him to understand what really was going on.
When Denzel finally got down, he looked at the ring once more and saw how big it was. The ring was seventy meters big, and Denzel walked to the middle of the ring.
"Are you ready for this fight?" The man that came in to check the condition of the dead man; the referee said.
"Ready? I am not even in clothes? Can I get a short at least?" The referee looked at E-phant, and E-phant nodded, sitting on the ring immediately he did.
The referee sent a signal to someone far away and the person went out, coming back with track trousers for Denzel to wear.
The man came down with the trouser, giving it over to Denzel. Denzel took it, wore it, throwing the blanket down immediately he wore the trouser.
"Need anything else?" E-phant asked Denzel, still sitting on the floor, waiting for Denzel to get ready.
"Yes, I am hungry, I haven't eaten a thing, and I can't fight on an empty stomach," Denzel shuddered, looking at E-phant with a look of 'I have no choice'
"Get him food" E-phant sighed, placing his arm on his folded legs and his fist on his cheeks.
The referee gave another signal to the man, without any objections, the man went out of the ring and came back with a plate in a tray.
He walked forward and passed the tray over to Denzel. Denzel sat, crossing his legs. He took out the cover and saw three sandwiches, a cup of water just beside.
He took the first one, rushed it, and then did the same with the rest.
When he was done, he passed the plate back to the referee, kicking the blanket away as he stood.
"Are you ready now?" E-phant looked up, the frustration in his face already glaring.
"Yes, I am..."