The audience's cheering and chanting could be heard echoing from the arena to the entrance of the waiting room. Rainer pushed the button on the wall and the door slid open. The cheering was louder than he thought. He walked out of his room and down the hall, the louder the cheers, the more his chest began to tighten.   "Well this is just great; I have an audience cheering for my death. Wonderful. Come on Rainer, fake some confidence!" He thought to himself.   Rainer finally reached the end of the hallway, the open entrance to the dirt arena was right in front of him. The guard in blue armor walked up behind him and nudged him forward.    "Get going, skinny, we have others who need to use this arena" he taunted Rainer.   "Any chance you could tell me who my opponent is?"   A small pause fell between them and was suddenly broken with a simple “No.” 

"You managed a scratch, nothing more!" he yelled at Rainer   Rainer stood back on his feet and regained his stance “Just a lucky hit, I need to time my attacks perfectly if I want to win. I need to be faster, but I have limits and can't be as fast as these guys. The only other thing I can think of, is to somehow get him to lower his guard. I have to provoke him!” Rainer gripped his daggers and walked forward towards the lizard   The lizard stared at Rainer with an intense glare "I'll end this, with the next attack." He declared with confidence.   The lizard man charged at him, this time Rainer was ready, he swung his daggers in front of him to stop the attack. There was nothing in front of him, the lizard had run behind him. His four swords struck at once, Rainer managed to run forward but was a little late, he had taken a cut from two of the swords. With that dodge, Rainer followed up with a strike of his

The minotaur roared, lifted its sword above its head, and struck down with all its might. A loud clunk could be heard across the arena. Rainer had lifted his sword and blocked the attack while somewhat leaning up from the ground.    The minotaur lifted its sword once more and roared loudly. Rainer opened his eyes as the blade came swinging down, he rolled to the side and dodged it. His scarlet eyes gazed at the Minotaur.   Almost as if it was frightened, the minotaur began to back away from Rainer. Those eyes seemed to pierce through you if you looked at them. His face was expressionless, but it instilled fear in most of the audience. The minotaur grabbed its sword and swung at him, Rainer jumped into the air above it, and cut one of the horns off it