Things I do blog!: 2014

So I've been writing a story that I want to make a movie, I am not done yey but I hope you like it!

CHAPTER 1

A warrior has born

Long ago there was a little kid named Amar. He lived in Rome and he loved coliseum fights. He wanted to be a gladiator when he grew up, and being a gladiator was an honor. He and his friends had wooden swords and shields and would make mini tournaments and would fight. Amar was one of the first ones to lose in the tournament but he still enjoyed it. He was fast but not strong that was his problem.

He kept growing and getting stronger, eventually he beat all of his friends in the tournaments, and he was getting stronger. It was now sure that he would grow up to be a gladiator. He started to train with animals, with tigers and lions. He loved to fight and he would do anything to become a gladiator.

He finally grew up to age to be able to participate in a real tournament. He was going to fight for the first time, I could not believe it, um I mean he could not believe it. Okay okay, you got me, I am Amar. I grew to age to fight in a real coliseum and I was ready to win. My first opponent was a man called Graecus. He was tall and looked strong, if that was my first opponent then it would be really hard to win the tournament. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, my first encounter and I almost died. I won but it was close. I had to train more. The next fight would be in two days, I needed to train harder.

The next fight was against a young man like me, his name was Detoko, I beat him easily. But because and only because he was my age and I was stronger than the average men my age. Next came Judas, I barely made it out of the coliseum. He was super strong, I won because he cheated but I would have died if not. Being a gladiator was harder than I thought.

I fought Glavius, Nereme, Selem, Derek, Ivor, Nutrel, Clatius, Gaiax, Demer, and finally the champion Festus. The festus fight was horrendous. I was almost killed so many times. I was stronger than ever, but at some points my strength did not seem enough. In that same fight I remembered how fast I was when I was little. I won the first few fights because of that, now I am strong but slow. I had to try to be faster, unpredictable. Quick hits to distract, strong hits to attack. That was my plan, I had to put my mind into the fight now. He slashed and pushed and punched and kicked, but he missed all of the tries. He started getting mad, I was too fast for him. He finally got a hit on me, fortunately I had my shield ready all the time, but it pushed me back enough so he could walk to me and try to kill me. I had to roll out of the way so I didn’t get sliced in half. I stood up but he was waiting there to kill me. I ducked in the last second so I didn’t get beheaded. I felt the blade go through my hair. But I poked him hard with my sword in the stomach, he fell to the ground. I raised my sword and slashed down. I killed him I had won.

CHAPTER 2

The prize

There I was, a young man standing at the dead body of a man, with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, looking around himself not believing what was happening. I survived the whole thing. I drop my shield and raise my sword with both hands, I start shouting. “ROME, ROME, ROME.” The emperor will be here soon, he will give me my prize. I can’t believe it, I start running around the coliseum with my sword raised, and keep saying, “ROME, ROME, ROME” and the people grow wild, shouting my name, “AMAR, AMAR, AMAR.” So both shouting noises mix and sound like “RAMER, RAMER, RAMER.” It is crazy until a voice shouts, “Stop the shouting now.” You hear silent voices saying “The emperor is here.” I can’t believe it, I can’t believe he actually will prize me.

The emperor’s loud voice echoes

“Amar son of Augustus, winner of the fifty-eighth coliseum tournament, I call you up to my podium.”

At that moment my legs start to shake, I go up the infinitely long staircase, or at least thats how my legs felt and reach the top. I look down, It was just about twenty stairs, well my legs felt two-hundred. I go inside the podium, the emperor Cesar looks at me and invited me to take a seat right next to him. I sit, and wait.

“Amar, here has won the tournament, he has shown us his strength, his intelligence, his speed...”

I can’t listen to him anymore, I am too distracted about thinking what my price be, too distracted to even listen to him. He finally asks,

“Are you willing to take the prize, the prize of honor, the prize you’ve earned?”

I hadn’t noticed he had said what the prize was already. I hadn’t listened to him, what can it be! It finally occurred to me what it had to be. Honor? Something I need to want? Joining the Legion, the ultimate prize I could even dream of, been given to me. I say,

“Of course, yes!”

CHAPTER 3

The legionaries

I am sitting among all of the legionaries, the youngest one there. I am at the end of a hallway sitting against the wall, looking at everyone, my hands are shaking. I don’t try to make eye contact with anyone, nor anyone try to make eye contact with me. I can’t stand it anymore, I get my sword out and look at it, it is a dark iron blade, with a golden handle and a leather grip, it looks deadly. I fetch for my shield but I left it in the coliseum when I started running. Since I don’t have it I try to remember how it looked like. It was triangle shaped, with black iron at the edges, the center was yellow and had a white iron cross on it. It didn’t look deadly but it looked nice, it protected me all the way though.

“My fellow men,”

Says a loud voice

“I invite you to meet me in the town hall. A discussion about the Legion that only you will know about.”

He comes out of the shadows, the emperor Cesar. Everyone including myself stands up and then kneels and says “my lord.”

We are at the town hall, sitting each in a place around the main table. I am next to a guy that is tall and has dark hair, base on what people have called him, his name is probably Jake. And to my other side there is a man that is short with dark hair, I don’t know his name but he seems to be a funny person.

“I want to announce you that we finally reached our number, our number to become strong enough to defeat Sparta! We will kill them!”

We are going to war, I can’t believe it, it is an honor for me to be in the legion, and more of an honor to defeat one of Rome’s enemies, Sparta.

“Meet me in the training room in two hours, meanwhile show Amar around.”

He leaves the room. Well I hope I make friends, I thought. It’s funny, I am about to go to war and what I want is to make friends. But I know that the important thing now is to go and kill every Spartan.

CHAPTER 4

Time to train

After meeting Leonidas and speaking with him, and getting to know the place it is time for me and everyone else to go to the training room. It is a big room like half of a coliseum arena, there are swords and shields made of wood. On the left wall there are paintings of the past Legionaries, on the right wall a lot of armour scratched and broken, probably the armours that the famous legionaries have used.

The emperor enters from the back door.

“Today will be an extreme training session. You will use stone swords instead of wooden ones. They are heavier and if you get hit it will hurt. Only the strongest one of you will be the leader of the Legion.”

So we will train extremely, and I will fight other men that are bigger, stronger, with more experience and with stone swords.

“You will be in partners. The partners are:

Kevin and Giuseppe

Jake and Severus

Sernway and Carlus

Bacchus and Gordon

Martin IV and Gerald

Gredos and Belarus

...”

I stopped listening after a while, untill he said,

“Amar and Brutus.”

I stand still, I look at Cesar, I see that he is looking at Brutus, I see brutus, I start to panic. My hands start to get sweaty like all the times I get nervous, I wipe them on my shirt. I see Brutus once again, he is at least twice as big as I am, and by big I mean fat and tall. He has no hair and a wicked smile. I stretch trying to hide my nervousness.

We stand facing each other in a small wooden arena, as long as Brutus twice and as wide as Brutus three times. I then notice we have to fight. There are no shields and just swords. I pick up mine, it is the same as everyone elses, long and thin, but super heavy. When i see Brutus I almost jump, he’s holding two swords, one in each hand. He looks at me and smiles, but not a mean smile, a gentle smile.

“If I hurt you tell me ok, I don’t like people being scared of me.”

“But if I tell you then you loose.”

“I don’t like to scare people.”

“But you...”

“The fights will start now”

Sais Cesar.

Now I can only think about not getting hurt and if I do don’t say it, I don’t want him to lose. I’ll do my best just as in the arena. The fights start, and I look at Brutus, he looks at me. I raise my sword, he raises both of his swords. I jump toward him and he does too. We crash hard against each other, each of us pushing, I can feel Brutus pushing more and more. My feet start to slip, I try to push harder but it does not work. I jump sideways and Brutus falls to the ground, I run to him but he stands up, he pushes me to the side. He will hit me with both swords, he raises them. I put my sword in front of myself, the sword breaks from the impact. I see my broken sword, drop what’s rest of it and launch myself to him. I hit him with my fists in the head the chest, I put my leg in the middle of his and throw him to the ground. He turns around and I punch, he blocks, I punch again he blocks again, I keep trying but nothing, eventually he grabs my arm and throws me to the ground. He is about to punch me hard in the face when I twist and roll away. His fist hit the wood so hard that it cracked and his knuckles are bleeding. I run to him and punch him as hard as I can in the face. He goes to the ground. I won, I felt bad to beat him up but I had to if I didn’t want Cesar to do something to me. I hoped he understood why I did it.

CHAPTER 5

The spearmaster

After the fights were finished they announced all the winners, they were:

Kevin

Severus

Carlus

Bacchus

Gerald

Gredos

Tyson

Funbla

Bertrum

Vicent

Demetre

Mytek

Shoenet

Leonidas

Verticilo

Zeusmo

Haderness

Amar

We were the winners from that phase. One of us would be the Legion’s leader, but we needed to fight once more. We would partner up once more and fight. The teams were:

Carlus and Kevin

Severus and Tyson

Bacchus and Gerald

Gredos and Bertrum

Funbla and Haderness

Demetre and Vicent

Mytek and Shoenet

Leonidas with Zeusmo

Myself with Verticilo

Verticilo was the short guy I sat next to in the Town Hall. He looked strong but he was really short. This time we would fight with spears. I got my stone spear with one hand and left the other one free to one on one combat. Verticilo is not a funny guy as I thought because the first thing he said was,

“I’mma kill you today, right here and right now. I won the tournament by using a spear. Cesar knows me as the spearmaster.”

The fight starts and I only think one thing, speed. I launches himself at me, I dodge, and swing my spear down. He cries wildly and stands up, he hits the tip of his spear against my chest so hard I stop breathing for a moment, (good thing the spears have no sharpened points.) I stand up fast and grab my spear with both hands, I put it above my head, he comes at me I let go of one hand, I grab the spear as hard as I can and I swing hard on his face. He falls to the ground. When I think its over he stands up and throws his spear at me. I make a quick circle with my spear to deflect it. I stand on to of him and say,

“Nobody can kill me.”

I push the spear down, not too hard to wound him but enough to hurt him hard so he stays down. Again I did something I thought impossible I defeated the spear master.

CHAPTER 6

The leader

“The best fighter was...”

A huge moment of silence passes.

“Carlus!”

Everyone including my self cheered. Well it was not me but I challenged myself and beat something I thought impossible.

So I am working on a project. It is a dragon. A mindstorms dragon that I estimate will take me a year to make it because I need to design the robot, the program and make it. I am in the stage of designing the dragon. It is really hard because I nee to figure out a mechanism to make it work. I need to make it look like a dragon and to make it movable. It needs to be strong and resistant because if not it will fall apart. I need it to be strong so it can move itself without me pushing it. Once I finish the design I will build it. Then I will design the program and make it work in a video so you can see it working. I hope I finish quickly so you can see it. I can't wait to finish it. And hopefully I make it work. So this is all for this week. I just wanted you to know what I'll be working on!!! See you next week!!!