transported.

~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.

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