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MARJA, HERCULEAN QUEEN GLADIATRIX (05)

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05. THEN, THE QUEEN FIGHTS WITH A TIGER IN THE ARENA

The Imperial Prince exclaims: She succeeded! It's amazing!
The King Hagbard replies: Yes, she is extraordinarily strong and that is why she is very dangerous and why we must to submit her. You see how she provokes us! And how she attracts the compassion and the kindness of the people! But it is not finished for her! This Barbarian woman wants to challenge us, and she will still have the opportunity to face challenges!
The Prince: What do you mean?
Hagbard: I have said it, She will confront lions and tigers with bare hands! She has mastered a lion, and now it will be a tiger!
The Prince: She will face a tiger now? But this woman is exhausted and she is terribly wounded! Look, she is covered with blood and she can barely walk!
Hagbard: My officers that she killed can no longer walk nor! And the populations that her barbarians attacked always ask vengeance! I want to offer the greatest show to the people of my Kingdom, and what best show that this barbaric Queen fighting against a tiger?

The Prince Eurysthe was appalled even though he reconize that this enemy Queen deserves death for having attacked and invaded the Empire. But her strength and her courage would also justify clemency. Nevertheless, it is the King Hagbard who decides and he decided. Trumpets sound again and soldiers take place to reopen the tunnel door. At the center of the arena, the Queen understand: she is going to face another battle! She turned to the entrance of the tunnel, ready to fight. She probably knew that she would have to fight twice. Or more?
The Prince turns with concern to Hagbard: If she defeats the tiger, will she have to face yet another animal?
Hagbard responds: I would have liked to make she fight until her death. But as I said, she is a Queen and she should not die so. No, there will be not another fight for her today. Other challenges will come later...
The Prince, reassured by this response and anxious of the outcome of this second fight, is internally surprise: he would rejoice of the torture and the death of this enemy Queen, but he take compassion for her! Could she put a spell on him?

The second fight of the gladiatrix Queen looks like the first: a terrible confrontation between a tiger of two hundred pounds and a woman exceptionally muscular and strong, but injured and exhausted. Unprecedented violence! The body of the woman is shaken, hit, projected, dragged, flayed. Blood and screams. The woman screams when the tiger grabbed her shoulders, her back, her thighs already nicked by the lion in the previous battle. The spectators can sometimes see splashes of blood. The sand of the pit is reddened where the gladiatrix and the beast are struggling. How to describe the horror of this hand-to-hand yet? The horrific brutality of contacts between the tiger fur and the skin of the woman? The unbearable suffering of women mistreated, clinging, hung the tiger?
And the fight lasts. It lasts long minutes. The woman tries to resist the furious aggressiveness of beast while grabbing it. The minutes pass. The woman resists despite her multiple bloody injuries. Little by little, the Prince understands the tactics of the gladiatrix: she had already applied it in her fight against the lion: to resist long enough so that the animal gets tired, until she can submit it. But what incredible resistance and what prodigious force that requires! And this tactics of Marja succeeds. Finally the tiger slows its movements and she manages to surround and tighten its neck between her arms and to master it ground by mobilizing the extraordinary strength of her phenomenally muscular legs! Neck clamped between the awfully muscular arms of the woman, the animal seems fall asleep.
The tiger remains ground, submitted by the strength of woman. The gladiatrix straightens with effort and is slowly recovering. Her face betrays cruel pain. Her body is bloodied: the wounds caused by his fight with the lion were added abrasions and cuts of her fight with the tiger. Even filed, claws penetrated her flesh, skinning and ripping her skin in multiple places. The woman trembles with fatigue and pain. But in a last effort, she grabs the tiger and she slides under it to put it on her shoulders. She manages to stand, faltering. Fortunately, the beast does not react... Then the Queen Marja walks unsteadily and limped toward the tunnel entrance of the arena where she leaves choir the tiger...
See pics on deviantArt site of “Eurysthee”, folder “Marja, herculean challenges/Marja fights lions and tigers in arena”.
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You have to continue this story it’s too good!