Siera sat there in the corner staring at the door that she could barely make out in the dark and gloomy room.  She was surround by what looked like walls made out of black smoke; and if it wasn't for Peanut's flame shinning brightly in the room she wouldn't have barely been able to see her hand in front of her face.  She could still hear the roaring of the frantic crowd cheering on the games.

"That's one down"  She said to herself wondering if it was one of her crew members that won.  She figured it was since she knew that there was no way they would go down that easily.  She had heard of the games before and had watched them with her mother when she was growing up, but she never knew that it was random people who were thrown into the games just for coming too close to the island itself.  She had always thought that it was for bad men who had done something wrong and were caught by the marines.  Her mother told her that it was the only way the people could ever escape there life sentences they were given by the marines.  After this though she knew that it was not the case and looking back at it she almost wishes she hadn't participated in watching the games in the first place.

"If only I could get my chance at the GM's head then we would see who the real winner was" she thought to herself sitting there frustrated waiting for her time to shine.  That's when she could hear big head taunt the GM with his bet that his crew would take home the win and they would be set free because of it.  She laughed out loud putting her hands over her face to stop herself from showing any emotions in case the GM had been keeping an eye on her to look for any kind of weakness.  She remained in the room silently staring at the door burning a hole into with her gaze awaiting her moment still when all of the sudden the door slowly started to open and made loud screech as it did.  "wow they can't even afford to make decent doors out here for even games just as big as this, maybe I should let them know about their master builder Klank so we can get some decent carpentry in this place!" she thought to herself as she put her hand on the floor and slowly stood up.  She felt like she was in that room for years.  By the time she got close to the entrance her eyes were seared in pain by the bright light radiating through the doorway.  She took her first step through the doorway and kept her eyes closed slowly blinking until they got used to the bright light. Peanut laying on his stomach with his eyes closed and his little hands across his face like he was scared but ready for what ever was on the other side of the door.   Before she even opened her eyes she could hear the loud roaring of the crowd cheering her on.  When she was finally opened her eyes she at first could only see the crowd circling the her and practically jumping out of their seats.

She looked to her left and saw that she was standing in the middle of a long rectangular platform with no more then 3 feet wide and 20 feet long.  The platform as standing 5 feet above the water and it looked like the water was swarming with sharks.
"well this looks like it's gonna be a lot of fun!" Siera thought to herself as she leaned over the edge of the platform waving her wand over the water saying "here sharky sharky come get some dinner"  She let out a little giggle thinking about the impending doom she was in and then stood up and took a glance at her surroundings. Each of the contestants were standing about 5 feet away from each other.  There were two men to the left of her, they had matching clothes like they were in a crew both with white shirts that looked like the sleeves were ripped off and black pants.  They both had swords on their right side and what looked like the end of a barrel to a pistol holstered on the left sides. They were older men but they looked like plain old deckhands,  She knew that considering that was her first job in the marines and she had worked with a lot of them cleaning and picking up around the ship when she first started out on the open seas.  They were not much older then she was, but they were definitely not here on their own accord nor were they battle ready because the site of the sharks in the water spooked them so much they looked like they were ready to defecate their pants any minute now.  She looked at the man she was standing next to on her right side and noticed that he was not only a big guy but he was very muscular and looked like he could hold his own in a fist fight and he had an expression on his face that screamed I'm ready for anything, bring on the worst you got. He wasn't wearing an shirt at all but he was covered in tattoo's and had a staff strapped to his back with a rope going down the front of him and connecting to the other side of the staff keeping it on his back.  Siera blushed at the half naked man covered in muscles until she notices a woman standing next to him who was definitely older then she was but she was more womanly then her with her long flowing blond hair her big breasts barely contained by the short pink crop top she was wearing.  She had long thin legs that were toned like she was also used to strenuous activity and a big old smile on her face as she waved to the crowd trying to get all of the attention. The woman had a long whips wrapped around her leg and the handle was on her left side.  If you looked at the woman with a quick glance you would have thought that it was just and elaborate tattoo on her leg but sierra knew better.  "I'm way more prettier then she is" she thought to herself as she grinned over at the women trying not lose focus of the task at hand when she could hear the announcer speak.

"Here we ready for the next round and boy have I been waiting for this one, since this game has been banned for a while due to it's graphic nature."  The crowd roared in excitement ready for the games to begin."

She looked up to see the announcer floating in the air above them looking down at them with a grin on his face.

"The rules to this game are simple,  Each contestant is standing on in the middle of a red circle hovering over shark infested water."

Siera looked down and noticed the circle she and the other contestants were standing in the middle of. "Wow I noticed everything else but the damn circle i was standing in the middle of great job, Sierra" she thought to her self while the Gm was explaining the rules. 

"Once the game begins the platform will disappear and the only thing left will be the circular platforms that the contestants are standing on.  Slowly the platforms will get smaller and smaller until they are completely gone.  If you touch the water you're out! the last person to make it wins"

"LET THE GAME BEGIN"  the announcer shouted and before Siera knew it the platform de-materialized and the only thing left was the 5 circular platforms.

"Hmmm I wonder how fast the these things were gonna disa..." Siera said before she was cut off by the noise of the wood hitting the water from the pieces falling off of her platform.  it was then when she noticed the 5 minute timer counting down as it floated in the air above the contestants. Of course it was only a little bit at a time but they were falling off fast and Peanut started to rustle around her back from one shoulder to another worried that he was about to be fish food for the sharks circling underneath them.

She looked to her right and saw the man and woman talking to each other like they knew each other some how and they were figuring out a game plan to get them both out of this.  Little did they know that the two deckhands on her left were freaking out already.  The deckhand who was standing on the end platform to her left was freaking out so badly that he started yelling "I'm not waiting to die" as he leaped off of his platform on to the guy standing next to him pushing him off of his platform and sending him flying down to the water below.  right before he hit the water a giant 30 foot shark comes flying out from beneath the bright blue water and into the air swallowing the man hole before it gracefully landed back into the water cutting through the waves like butter with his pointy snout and smooth grey colored skin.

"Wow so those huge sharks can practically flying through the air!  Well that's another thing I've got to worry about now great! Flying sharks" sierra said.  

"One down already and we're only 30 seconds into the game 4 more to go I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next"  the announcer shouted and the crowd started to get louder making it hard to hear anything in the arena.  

Siera looked at the man on her left who was still shouting but for the life of her she couldn't hear anything he was saying because of the noise from the crowd cheering them on.  His eyes staring straight at her as he lowered himself like he was about to jump at her.  Before he made any move he opened his mouth and started to let out a loud roar like a warrior in mad rage, before she could respond she heard a very loud squeak and she looked over at her shoulder and saw peanut with a ferocious look on his face screaming towards them man flailing his little arms like a mad man before he leaped off of her should and landed on the mans face scratching at his eye and kicking him in the head.  The man screamed like a girl in a panic and lost his footing and started to fall backwards.  Peanut then leaped off of his face kicking the man sending him flying to the water below were he was swallowed up by the sea and given the large shadow moving towards him underneath the water the sharks swallowed him whole as well. 

The platform had reach half it's size by now and they seemed like they were descending closer and closer to the water below. Once Peanut had landed Siera turned to her right to see the man and the woman standing there laughing at what had just transpired.  

"Well little one that was quite the show" the rippled man said as he started to grab the the staff off of his back.  The women next to him nodded in approval as she grabbed the handle of her whip and it started to uncoil itself from her leg like the tattoo was coming to life and it was ripping itself off of her skin.

"I really feel bad about having to do this and I know you understand it's for the game little girl, but it's time to go"

Siera's face had turned almost beat red at this point out of anger.  "Little girl" she said, snarling at the man as he loosened his staff from his back and held it at his side ready to attack her at any moment.  Both him and the women were staring at her like she was there prey about to be demolished.  The man lowered himself and was about to leap at her when when one of the 30 foot sharks leaped out of the water and in a blink of an eye the shark flew threw the air and snatched the man off the platform swallowing him whole leaving the women and Siera standing there covered in water from the tail of the shark flapping in the air as it flew by them with the man in its mouth screaming all the way down until he was silenced once plummeted into the sea being swallowed up by the enormous shark.

They both stood there staring at each other as the announcer shouted "Ooooooo and big bessy got another this time they didn't even see her coming. Give Bessy a round of applause everyone that might have been a new jump record for her"  The crowd somehow managed to get even louder as the games came closer to an end.

Siera and the women both stared at each other shocked but only for a moment before getting back there composure and keeping en eye out for the other sharks.  Peanut remained standing on her shoulder with his mouth wide open in shock thinking about how that could have been him in that's sharks mouth.

"get it together Peanut the game isn't over, and I don't plan on being shark food anytime soon!"  Peanut crawled underneath Siera's shirt and popped his little head out underneath Siera's head with his hand still over his mouth trying not to think about becoming shark food.

"I have to end this quickly" the older woman said under her breath as her foot slipped off of the side of the platform.  At this point the both stood there on one foot balancing and trying to keep an eye on the sharks below and each other.  The platforms were just barely big enough for them to stand on with one foot and they were still getting smaller. Siera made a quick glance up at the sky above them and noticed that there was only 60 seconds left on the clock. At the pace these platforms were disappearing she was gonna have to start balancing on one toe very soon.  When she looked back down at the woman's platform she was gone.  she looked down at the platform and she noticed the whip was wrapped around the base just under her feet.  she had been swinging beneath her going very fast and just dodging on of the sharks that leaped out of the water to grab her as she swung by.

She flew straight up into the air behind Siera and was coming down flying towards her with a kick to send Siera flying off her platform.  Before the woman landed her kick Siera turned towards the woman and back flipped off of her platform; she just barely landed on the man's platform that was right in between their's.  The older woman landed on Siera's old platform with the leg she was going to kick her with and laughed as she went to stand straight up.  By then it was too late because what the woman didn't know was that Siera had left a\ sheet of ice on it, so thin that you had to really pay attention to it to even know it was there.  The older women slipped off the platform falling backwards towards the water and noticed Siera looking at her with a grin on her face.

Siera looked up at the GM as the woman was falling towards the shark infested water.  She had a big grin on her face as if to say 'is that the best you got' when she felt something coiling around her leg that was standing on the plat form.  She could feel the tight squeeze around her leg and she braced for the weight that she knew she was about to take on. She knew it could only be one thing...

"the whip" she thought to herself as she looked down to see the woman hanging on to the whip wrapped around her leg.

"I'm not out yet" the woman shouted at Siera holding on for dear life as the sharks started to circle in the water underneath her.

Siera looked at her with a big smile and said "yes you are" It was at that moment when Peanut lifted his head out of Siera's shirt and gave her a smile and waved at her.  He took in a deep breath and shot out a huge line of fire at the middle of the whip, incinerating it and sending the women crashing down into the water. The woman disappeared underneath the waves, and the sharks diving in and out of the water frantically. 

"Weeeee have a winnner"  the announcer shouted and the crowd cheered as Siera stood there on one leg with her arms crossed and pressed against her chest and a smirk on her face; and of course Peanut standing on her should mimicking her pose as they appeared on the screens all around the Colosseum. 

"You got lucky little girl, but even kids get a win every once in a while at the games!" the crowd cheered and Siera shot the GM an irritated look like he was next before she disappeared from the Colosseum in a poof of black smoke