“How about that one?” asked the man who was standing in front of me. this was in 69 b.c. The next thing that he did was load me and a few other slaves onto a wagon. I did not know where he was taking me and the other slaves and I did not Know why.
Finally we stopped and I realized that it was a training camp for gladiators. When he took us out of the wagon we immediately started training. Often we had to practice against wild animals.
Every couple of days some of us were taken away to fight at arenas. I never thought that I would be one of the one’s to fight at the arena. But one day I was loaded back into a wagon once again not knowing were I was going.
After a while the wagon stopped. I thought that we were there. But then I heard a man say “We can stop here for something to drink before we go to the Colosseum.” After hearing this I leaned up and realized that we were in the forum.
I looked around and I saw a man talking with allot of people standing around him listening. I also saw allot of fruits and drinks for sale. The men who had brought me there were eating and drinking when one of them asked the other “Do you think we should feed him before he fights.” “No” answered the other man.
I wanted some water they did give me this. I did not ask for any more water because I knew that if the men got angry they would not feed me for the rest of the day. We left the forum a few minutes later and went to the Colosseum.
When we got there some men gave me a sowerd and a shield. The fight between me and another gladiator was about to begin when the guards started running towards the doors were they other gladiator was. They killed him because he had attacked the two men who tried to get him into the center of they arena to fight.
Now I had no one to fight, So they went on to the next fight. The next morning I was brought back to the camp were I had learned to fight. I knew that I was lucky and in a few more days they would come to get more gladiators to fight. I though that I might be one of the ones to go.
But the next morning instead of taking more Gladiators away, they brought more. Most of them were real big and strong but there was a few that were about my size. All of these men had not been trained go be gladiators. Over the next few days The people who trained the gladiators spent all of there time Training the new gladiators. So we did not have to be trained for a few days.
During this time I got to know one of the other slaves who were also forced to fight as gladiators. He was about my size. The next day it was time for more of us to go fight at different arenas.
Once again I had to go. But this time it was not the Colosseum but another smaller arena. I did not know who I was going to fight against. They immediately took me in to start the fight. I was very surprised to see that the man I had to try and kill was the same man who I had to try and kill was the same man who I had became friends with.
Because of this I did not want to fight him. I did not think that he would want to fight me either. I swing my sowerd but did not hit him with it. But he fell As if I had killed him. They took him away. after I had left I thought that I had really killed him but then I seen the guards leave him were they put the dead gladiators and when they were gone he got up and came over to me.
He tried not to let the guards here him when he said that he just acted like he had died. He said that now he was going to go live were the Romans could not find him. More and more gladiators started to do the same thing. Every time the Romans went to go get ride of what they thought was a gladiators body the saw that the rest of the body’s were gone. They thought that it was some kind of animal that was carrying them off.
But the slaves had one more problem. they Had no place to hide from the Romans. They wanted to try to get a ship and sail far away from Rome.
But they did not know were they would get a ship. When there were so many slaves that had freed themselves by pretending to get killed by their opponent. When the count reach 100 all of the men went around freeing other slaves.
When there were allot of slaves freed they all went and stole the Romans ships. They took three ships. and they left. They did not know exactly were they were going but they hoped to land in Egypt or Afercia some where.
But the Romans had one more ship that the slaves did not take. And they tried to come after them in it. There was a very big battle and many of the slaves where killed. But in the end than got onto the Romans ship and set fire to it. This Slave was killed but he freed the Rest of from the Romans.
So all of the slaves just kept on going until they came to another ship when they asked the men on the ship were they were they said that we were almost to Egypt. When they finally got to Egypt and where now free.
All of the slaves lived in Egypt as Egyptian Citizens. The Romans never found the slaves or there three ships which were burnt by the slaves on the shores of Egypt.
The End.