Roman Fight Club (Zidane/vivian)

[levifaollan]

It was one of the worst kept secrets ever. But gods was it so much fun. The roman version of Fight Club. Of course it was something that was more along the lines of a one on one melee exercise without weapons or gifts. It did mean that Levi was on equal footing as the rest of his companions who decided to pay the 25 denarii to enter into these brutal training sessions. When your sword broke and your shield was too battered to hold against another blow, you always had your fists. Levi knew how much ‘brawling’ if you would, was something that could really save your life one day. It had done so on more than one occasion for him. Few people could really stand against a bare knuckles boxing match. It was brutal and it hurt him viciously more than once. But he had been training like this since he was little. With his two best friends, Jukka and Jussi, this was how he worked out his anger and aggression. He had broken his fists a few days ago, but now he was ready to take on his challenges for this night time melee match.

He grabbed his roll of athletic tape and a flask of ambrosia. That was a must to have at these sorts of things. On second thought, Levi grabbed a few bandages that he had made himself. He wasn’t as good as his buddy Jason, that kid was going places with his medical skill, but they were much better than his Wal-Mart brand counterpart. These had been soaked in an herbal solution that was good with helping clean and aiding in the healing of deep wounds and cuts. He was supposed to meet up with his buddies before going to this little bit of training fun. Sure the praetors weren’t supposed to know about the little get together that happened nearly every Friday weekend. Zidane was a cool guy and Levi had a feeling he would do great in this week’s pot. Of course he was the undefeated champ the past five weeks, so both Zidane and V would have their work cut out for them. Levi could only wonder how Vivian would do. There was maybe one daughter of Mars or two, but there wasn’t enough to post separate listings. But Levi had no trouble in believing that Vivian could hold her own in a fight. Zidane would really impress him. Levi stopped thinking before shoving the stuff in a gym bag before walking out of the barracks.

The sun was dipping low in the sky; Levi made his way to the forest. Above the tree line he could see a stream of smoke. Levi grinned. That was the bonfire. He stepped over the brush and fallen logs before moving his way through the underbrush. Already there were many people crowding around the large bonfire. Levi waved at a few people, a son of Vulcan who had mustered out just last year and then once to a friend of his who was a Son of Mars. Most of the Mars veterans and campers were extremely put out that a son of Venus was on the top tier of the match ups. Of course there was a reason behind it, but nothing would stop him from doing his best at fighting. IT was strange for a son of Venus to do so well. But of course he wasn’t exactly a normal son of Venus to say the least. Levi went ahead and signed in, putting the money for his friends to participate, or at least they acted like they wanted to. Well for now it was either fight in the match ups or wimp out.

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Even for romans, having a Fighting Club inside the Camp wasn't the most intelligent thing to do. trianing was one thing and the praetors would allow anyone to train and fight, but all of them would have to do it under the supervision of an authority. A fighting club meant that it was on the dark side of the law, none of the Praetors, not even Lupa should know about it. If any of them knew and told Lupa or Lupa herself knew about it, the people in those combats would be in very deep troubles. Not even the worst and most evil punishments thought by Mars himself would be evil enough for those who had broken the law in such way.

Although all of that was real and true, there were some in the legion and some veterans that went hiddenly in the night to the forest and gathered in a Fighting Club. One of them was a veteran called Vivian. She was daughter of Victoria, even when she found the idea of a club like that very exciting, she only knew about it very recently. She still could remember the talk that she had with Levi and Zidane about going to a club like that one. She smiled when she remembered Zidane there, he was a praetor, yet he had sworn not to say a word about the Club while they celebrated the fights. She smiled even more when she remembered Levi's excited face, he seemed a child with new toys when he talked about that club.

She placed her sword on her hip, you never knew what you could find in the woods. She grabbed some ambrosia she had in a small casket on her kitchen's cabinet. Then she put it in a small bag and put it in a bigger bag. In the bigger one she had already put some bandages. She knew that in fighting actions you didn't know when you would need a bandage or something stronger like ambrosia, so she just grabbed them and walked to her door. Five minutes later she was walking down the streets of New Rome. The sun was already docking on the horizon, she knew that people would already be gathering in the woods, so she needed to hurry up without leading attention to herself.

She crossed the bridge and looked around, then she walked to the woods and got into them. the woods were silent and dark, not that she was scared of that, it was only that she felt much better when she didn't listen any sound in the woods, but the common owls' sounds. Suddenly she heard the sound of steps, she looked around with her hand on her sword, suddenly she saw the shape of a man that she knew. "Levi?"