Subject of Faith: A new Paradise

The Demon Realm - Fighter pit - 2 years ago

I can still remember my battles in the fighter pit, but these were not typical gladiator battles.

These were moments where you would be fighting for the sake of your own life, whether you were strong or weak didn't matter to our slave masters.

My first fight was a horrible one, I was going to fight against a kid who was around the same age as me.

The kid was beyond scared, I could see the look on his face.

I knew what was at stake, either I die in battle and he gets to live or he dies and I get to live.

Refusing to fight would automatically result in option number 3 wich meant we both would die.

We weren't given any weapons, we were pretty much forced to use our hands to cut each other's throats.

Judging by his scars this wasn't the first time this kid had fought, so I had best not hold anything back.

I was in deep thoughts when the kid suddenly said: "I am sorry!! I don't want to kill you but I don't want to die either!! It's going to be one of us, only one of us is going to get out of this alive!"

Even tough he did shouted it with a lot of aggression I could see that he was having trouble keeping himself from whimpering.

I couldn't blame him in any way, I was having similar feelings tough not as hard as his are.

"BEGIN!!" shouted one of the slave masters with a menacing voice

The kid sprinted towards me and called first blood by punching me in the face.

The punch was so fast I didn't  see it coming.

That one punch did manage me to snap back to reality.

I acted quickly and jabbed my right elbow in his stomach with a strong force, knocking the wind out of him.

I then trusted my right fist upwards against his chin, performing a strong uppercut.

The kid was flung into the air and then fell to the ground with a small impact.

It seemed I hit him rather hard, he was choking up blood after only 2 blows.

He managed to regain his bearings and tried to punch me again but with much more force this time.

I saw this move coming and quickly dodged his arm while I made my move.

I acted fast and held him into a choke hold, trying to make him pass out.

He, unfortunately, managed to escape my choke hold by headbutting me in the face with his own head.

My vision became blurry from the headbutt but I could barely make out what his next move was going to be.

Sadly I didn't have time to counter as he dealt 5 deadly blows towards my body, making me yelp and fall to the ground with lots pain.

Suddenly I felt something boiling up inside of me, pumping my body with adrenaline.

He was about to make his final move when I shot up and grabbed his fast with my bare hand.

I used my other arm to hammer fist him on the sensitive part of his elbow, breaking the bone that held it together.

He was screaming in agony as his right arm was bungling next to him.

I grabbed his head with both hands and used my knee to jab him in the face.

He collapsed to the ground with a broken arm, a ruined face and lots of pain.

I stood over him as he pleaded with me.

"Please.... Kill me.... End my suffering from this hell hole... I b-beg of you!!" Despite all the terrible damage, I did to his body he pleaded to me like we were best friends.

"Don't worry, I am going to set you free from this place, you may not have your body but your spirit will be at rest," I said with a calm voice.

"T-thank you... I will not forget what you did for me.." I could hear a hint of happiness from his voice.

I grabbed him by the throat and snapped his neck with a fast twist.

His lifeless corpse fell to the ground.

I can not explain why but... For some reason, I don't act like the way used to be.

Sure I may be willing to use brutal tactics in fights if need be, but I would never end someone with such disregard.

Normally I show compassion those who have not yet succumbed, but during the battle, something changed in me and made me act like his life was worth nothing to me.

I would never act like that, all that warp exposure must have gone to my head during the fight.

"It seems you have survived the battle new blood." The voice sends shivers to my spine.

I looked around and stared in the face of a rather old holycat with a body full of scars and burned skin.

"But your fun ends here, now it is time to devourer!!" the man shouted with range.

He unsheathed his knife and stabbed me in the body, I started to black out while screaming out my last breath.

"Aaargh!" I yelled out in pain when I woke up, the way I got stabbed in my dream felt like it happened in real life too.

There was no wound there but the pain still came from that spot, I couldn't wrap my mind around it.

"Are you ok?" came a concerned voice from close by.

I decided to take a look at my surroundings and I was in some sort of house.

I saw tables filled with potions and ingredients.

There was a variation of weird mask hang up to the wall.

Finally, I saw that the voice came from the alien.

'This must be her house I.' I thought.

She came close while she said, "How are you feeling right now?"

I looked at her with a blank expression "it feels like somebody stabbed in my chest but I am used to this type of pain so no worries.

"During our first conversion you blacked out so I took you to my house, but I am curious.

I looked at her with confusion "Curious? Curious about what?"

"I want to know what kind of creature you are, I have seen any of your kind in the everfree forest let alone Equestria before."

"So this planet is called Equestria? Huh, never figured it would have such a name."

I saw a change in her expression from my remark.

"But to answer your question I am not from this planet, I crash landed here a while ago."

"You mean you travelled trough the stars? You managed to go trough your planet's atmosphere?"

"Well my kind has travelled trough space since aeons ago, but back then they used wat we call warp portals, but since now we already long invented spaceships that are capable of fast travel trough space."

"You're kind must be pretty smart, for pony kind, space travel is way to hard."

"What is up with the rhyming?" I said with a *I do not understand* tone.

"Sorry about that, it just a habit of mine and if you want me to stop it that is fine."

"It would be best if you hold that habit back if you talk to me, no offence intended of course." She smiled at this

"None was taken."

"But while you explained how you got here, you still haven't told me what the name of your kind is".

'Oh boy, time for another history lesson. Dad would have loved to hear this..'