POV: Tian Fei
LOCATION: Fort Neiser
As you watched the red skin monster in the dark armor smiling like an eagle who have caught its prey you could not help wondering how exactly you ended here. From what you could remember you simply finished your day as usual and lay down to sleep when you woke up in that pool just like anyone else. However unlike the rest of the people gathered here you did not stepped forward to take the monsters hand because you had already realized a terrifying truth.
JAYDEN: (Booms) Idiot all of you. Do you think your acceptance of the situation changes anything? The only choice you had in this situation was whether to open the hellsgate or not and since you all chose to open it then your choices have simply become either to survive or die. Those who survive here will be conqurors and those who fail will become nothing but ashes and bad memories."
Female Monster: (Shyly) Um excuse me sir. If we die here as you said will we die in our own world?"
Jayden approached her with a warm smile and a terrifying look in his eyes.
Jayden: (Warmly) "Did you think this was a fun game where you can fail as many times as you want? You are only given three lives my fledgling demon. Three opportunities for failure in your Grand quest to conquer and be rest assured that if you dare to sqander it then the world will be better off without you. Are there any more questions?"
You turned to look at your fellow participants in this program expecting to see even a hint of defiance but all you could see in the nine faces was pure unfiltered fear. To be honest their feelings was a bit contagious and you could not help finding yourself growing weary of this whole suspicious setup.
Jayden: (Booms) "Each of you will be trained in the martial arts to the point where you will defy the masters. You will be taught the ancient arts to the point where you will rival the gods themselves. You will be taught the basics of command and tactics and most importantly you will be taught to discard and rip away all sorts of pitiful hindrances like morality, conscience consideration and pain. However the first thing for each of you must do is to prove to me that you are worthy of my teaching and the first way to do this is by showing me that you have what every truly powerful man must possess."
Tien Fei: "And what exactly is that if I may ask?"
The muscular red skinned monster simply smiled a cruel smile that brought all his fangs on display, stomped his left leg heavily on the ground and yelled
Jayden: "(Chants)Semo revera reckros"
And just like that some very identical clones began stepping out of the body of the monster who was standing before you. This continued until there were ten clones standing in the field alongside the original.
Jayden: "As you can clearly see, each and every one of my clones are carrying a large two handed long sword on their backs. Your task is to defeat them with everything you possess and retrieve the weapons before the time runs out. Those who succeed will be accorded the knowledge they have earned whereas those who fail will be accorded nothing except the eternal slumber that comes with death. Bear in mind that this is a fight to the last extremity and if you fail here you would be deemed worthless and undeserving of a second chance. Are you all prepared?"
Second kid Monster: (Coldly) Do we have a choice?"
Jayden: ha ha ha BEGIN!!!
Immediately all the clones broke out into a mad run for each of the participants who were then forced to use their claws and teeth to fend them off. The clone that came for you was fast, aggressive and highly skilled, and before long you found yourself on the receiving end of several vicious blows. However since you did not spend seven years in the Chinese army in vain, you quickly side stepped one of vicious punches and used his own momentum to deliver a shattering elbow to his nose. Unfortunately the blow did not even faze him and he used his over extended hand to grab the back of your life and deliver to knee strikes to your stomach than drew blood from your mouth. Having no other choice you delivered a fierce punch to his family jewels and followed up with a roundhouse kick that sent him some distance away.
Clone: "Impressive little one. You fight much better than the rest of them. Are you perhaps trained?"
Tien Fei: "I served as an infantry officer in the Chinese military for 7 years. Are you going to hand me your weapon?"
He unseated his long sword from his back and stamped it deep into the ground beside him. Then he looked at you with challenging glint in his eyes and declared
Clone: "Come and get it?"
Immediately you close the distance with a Russian tackle but he just side stepped it and sent his vicious looking claws scratching through your chest. You barely had time to scream when he rushed you into the ground and pulled your head into a grabbing lock with the palm of his right hand locking your neck in place.
Clone: (Angrily) Is this the best you can do? Is this the best your military has to offer? How dare you bore me with such a mediocre performance?
Tian Fei: (Struggling) "You want mediocre I will show you mediocre."
You quickly moved your face to match his fingers and used your sharp fangs to bite two of them clean off. This provide you with a small window of escape which you took advantage of by elbowing his face and kicking him of you. Before he could recover you took advantage of the small time you had bought for yourself to rush towards the sword that he had left behind. Seeing this he swiftly followed you from behind while yelling all sorts of cusses at you. Being faster he slowly closed the gap between you and reached out with his left hand to grab your back. However since you were ready for it you grabbed his hands in return and judo threw him face first into the shining blade of the two handed sword which sliced clean into his face.
Tien Fei: "Do you call that a mediocre performance now you bastard?"
(You said while trying to catch your breath)
The clone smiled despite the blood rushing down his head.
Jayden: ENOUGH!!!!
(Jaden cried and heads around you began to explode in a gory shower of blood)
When it was all over you turn to see all ten of the clones and three of the participants left without heads on the floor.
First kidparticipant: (fearfully) Are they all dead?"
(He asked in obvious fear while trying very hard to hold back his puke)
Jayden: (nods) Yes my child. Do you realize why they died?"
The kid shook his head to indicate his ignorance.
Jayden: They all died because they do not possess the drive to push themselves to be better than they are. They died because they were too comfortable in what they knew that they saw no need to expand their limit. Keep in mind all of you from today onward I will rank you from 1 to 7 based on your performance and any who is sezes the lowest ranking twice in a row will be evicted from life itself. My superiors have given me the task to create a greatest army ever known and you can be rest assured that that is a task I take very seriously. The question is are you the warriors that I seek? Or are you mere experiments that will be scrapped into the dust in favor of something better? Think about it."
He turned to leave you all sitting in the field but he went halfway before he turned back
Jayden: "One more thing, as I am sure you all should have been made aware by now, the moment you opened the hellgate you have discarded everything that is connected to your world and I have no wish to hear anything about your lives beyond this place so if you even think of introducing yourself by your names here I will wipe you out sooner than you can speak. Am I understood?"
You could hear some murmurings from the rest of the participants but only one of them was brave enough to ask his question.
Shen: "(cautiously) Forgive me if I give offense but if we're not allowed to use our names how are we supposed to be called?"
Jayden: Names will be issued to you upon your arrival in fort Neiser fledgling. Until then your numbers will serve as name enough for you. Are you curious? Are you excited? Are you afraid? Well you should be because this is only the beginning.
Welcome to hell boys and girls and I am Jayden stormfort your personal demon.
Be the most powerful or you are nothing, dose that rule even apply in our world?