It was the next morning, a cloudy day that caused the room to be darker then usual. Waking up along with everyone else, i munch on the portion of food i had left myself for breakfast. It was around maybe a hour later with my sense of time, that the guards entered...luckily for me and the other two, neither of us three were picked and they dragged out other two people.
The two walked over. "Alright, we're doing it today, no backing out." The one who suggested the plan said. "Oh and by the way, if we do make it out of here, i figure'd we'd know atleast something about us for now. Name's Soren." He says again. "Merrik." The other guy says. "Kade." I say.
And so, while he had our conversation, the brawl outside ended, and the winner would get dragged back and thrown into the room. We had about thirteen others besides us left now, making the total number sixteen, seems that our numbers could give us a higher chance of making it out. "Alright, i need your attention all of you!" Soren speaks up, and the others turn to face him with looks of confusion. "I say we finally retaliate and get back our freedom, i had already planned what we would need to do, and now i need confirmation from all of you. If we don't do this today, we might never make it out next time." They all look at him, then eachother, and then him again. "Are you really sure we can pull this off? It seems impossible."
"It's only impossible because you think that it is. If you doubt yourself now, then you will doubt yourself forever." Soren strongly says. "We either continue killing each other, or we can drown in these scum's blood. If you'd prefer to kill other imprisoners, suit yourself...but that choice will never get you out of here." As Soren had said that, everyone started contemplating whenever they should follow him or not.
One of them stood up. "I'm in." He says, three more stand up. "Us too." "Me too!" "Count me in!" "For freedom!" And eventually, everyone had agreed to follow Soren. "Alright, today is the time we regain our freedom!" Soren hypes them up. "Look at that guy go, quite the leader eh?" Merrik says looking at Soren. "Yeah, i suppose he is."
The day continued in the rotten cell, unbenknownst to the guards, we all had been planning out our strategy. And so...The day ever so slowly passing to the evening, it was time. It was exceptionally windy today, the sand in the area blowing into the halls from the roofless arena. In loud footsteps of metal boots, one of the guards grab the door's handle and the door slowly opens with a screech.
"What the hell are you low-lifes doing!?" The guard angrily yells...at the imprisoners grouped up in the corner, acting as if scared of going to fight. Once the other guard enters so they both beat up them all. Although, the guards notice that two were missing. "Hey, wait a minu-" a loud CLANG! Both of the guards were smashed in their heads by me and Merrik who were hiding out of their sight against the walls, having hit them with the wood. Against iron it wasn't strong, but their strength helped out a ton managing to knock them down. Wasting no time, the others immediatly helped by jumping onto the guards to prevent them from moving using their high number of people. After bashing the guards over and over, me and Merrik took their weapons. "Go, go, go!" Soren shouts out to the others, and everyone sprints out the moldy room.
Taking A Quick look to the left and right, we all run to the right. Noticing the delay, other guards were immediatly sent, them running after us. Having less weight on us, we were faster as we ran between different halls with sharp turns. Reaching a closed wall with a rotary handle, the others immediatly grabbed to open the gate. The guards caught up quickly with the now needed time to open it, me and Merrik standing behind everyone as defense. The guards rushed at us with their spears, Merrik threw his spear, causing one of the guards to come to a stop from their rush to block the spear which gave me an opening as i rushed In and stabbed the guard in the stomach, the second one tried to injure me as my spear clinged onto the first, but Merrik drop-kicked the guy as he was knocked down, who picking up his stear would stab the guy in the skull with his spear through the guard's helmet. Checking behind us, we see the gate open for us to pass, we run after the others and we catch up. "Good job, let's continue! No stopping! Full throttle till we make it!" Soren shouted being in the front giving everyone hope.
On another turn, three guards had arrived. Me and Merrik immediatly get infront of the others to guard them. A guard rushing in, Merrik would stab him by extending his spear before the guard could reach him. The second one trying to get him while he's unable to defend himself, Soren jumps in tackling the guard. Merrik gets his balance back and then stabs the second one, while i get rid of the the third with a cut to the leg and slice to the neck afterwards. The hallways seemed endless, but we kept running. A larger gate had appeared infront of us this time. No handle, was it a dead-end? "Shit." Merrik says in a bit of a pain filled voice. Checking over, i see him having a cut on his leg, seems he got hit by one of the guards previously. I rip off some of my clothing and tie the wound. "We need a key!" Soren calls out to me.
"Is there no other way to open the gate?" I ask. "No, other than this key hole, this gate is shut off." He answers. "I'll try to find something." I look back at the hall, waiting for more guards. "Tch, what a pain in the ass." Merrik walks over to Soren who was tapping against the walls, trying to find a hidden key...if there was one. "Hey, Soren." He speaks up. "Yeah?" Soren turns to him. "What about using the spear, maybe it could crack the mechanism." He hands over the spear. "It's worth a try i suppose." Soren takes the spear, and walks over to the gate. "Alright! You all search for any hidden objects and help Kade defend! I'll try to pry the gate open!" He commands them.
"Right!" They say in union, getting right to it. Soren would grip the spear tighter, as he'd clam it into the key hole. He tries to spin the spear, it wasn't easy but it was working. The gate goes up from the ground by a very small number of around two milimeters, but it working at all was all that's needed. "Okay, i've got it! This will take a while so defend with all your might!" Soren loudly says. While he proceeded to work on opening the gate, three more guards had arrived. The first one rushing in first, i would deflect a blow from his spear, to make him lose balance with a leg-sweep when i had the chance. To stab the spear in his lungs when he fell down. Ripping the spear out, i move on to the second, the others held down the other two guards, stealing their spears to then inflict fatal damage. Taking the four down, we awaited for more.
We can do this, we can regain our freedom...we can survive...we will survive.