RoaR#8

Roar kept on walking on the path and singing. a few hours passed and he saw a town in the distance. He was intrigued as to what it was and moved with great speed towards it.

A few minutes later the barbarian arrived at the entrance to the town. He was really surprised to see this many people going about their life. “WOW! I didn’t know there were this many people!”. And he just looked around with a smile on his face.

The people saw a half-naked barbarian that they never saw before arrive at the entrance and start to just look around with a smile. They were alarmed at his behavior. One of the people who was close to him started looking at him to see what his intention was. Roar saw that he was looking at him and narrowed his eyes and growled. The man ran away, scared.

“Stop it you dumbass!” shouted the stone at him.

“What did I do?” Roar was confused.

“This is not the jungle. We don’t want to scare the people.”

“What happens if I do scare them?”

“No meat.” Replied the stone with a cold voice.

Roar was scared stiff.

“Act natural you idiot!” shouted the stone. Roar started acting naturally.

He walked about in the town and was looking around and seeing new things. He was impressed with the buildings. “Wow. People live in these big stone and wooden things?” Roar was looking at all the new things that he was seeing for the first time. “I still prefer my cave.”. he saw that people had a lot of stuff with them and on them.” Won’t they be free without these stuff? Weird people.”.

He then heard a building where people were laughing and went towards it. He reached an inn and saw the people inside were eating, drinking and laughing. He became excited and went inside as well. Once inside, he shouted. “Give me meat!” with a smile.

All the laughing stopped. They all got up and were looking at him. One of them was a thin man with a mustache, he spat on the ground and broke his bottle on the table and looked towards the barbarian with a nasty look. Suddenly a big man got up. “Calm down everyone.” Everyone calmed down and sat back down at his order except for the thin man. “Especially you Spitty”. The thin man spat on the ground again and sat back down but his hand was bleeding from the bottle that he had just broke. His friends saw him and rushed to him.” Not again Spitty. Stop breaking bottles.”. he spat again.

The big man was very built, tall and handsome as well. He had big blue eyes and long wavy orange hair and a big beard that was trimmed in a unique style. He had very heavy armor and a big shield, as well as a sword. “Welcome my friend. Sorry for what happened. Folk here, act like this towards strangers.” Said the man while looking at the barbarian that had just entered.

“I don’t care. Just give me meat.” Roar said with a straight face. He wasn’t even threatened by them.

“Oh? I like your attitude. You exude confidence. About the meat. You can’t buy meat unless you prove yourself here.” Stated the big man with a smile.

“How?” Roar asked.

“Arm wrestling!” as the big man said these words everyone in the inn started shouting and they all got up and cleared the inn and put only one table in the middle.

Roar was confused at the speed that they achieved this feat. It was as if they practiced this, many times. He heard some of them telling each other that this time they did it faster than the last time while wiping the sweat off of their foreheads. “What a bunch of weirdos." Stated the stone in Roar’s mind. Roar laughed.

“So?!” The big man looked at Roar with a smile and asked while holding his arms open.

“Do it Roar. Play along.” The stone told Roar.

“Ok. But will I get meat after?” Roar looked at the man and asked.

“Sure. If you can win, that is.” The big man’s smile widened. He turned back to the people in the inn and shouted.” Let the game begin!”. Once he said that all the people in the inn started shouting and head butting.  

“By the way I’m Lion. What’s your name my friend?” asked the big man while looking at the barbarian.

“Roar.” Roar was just looking around with a smile. He liked the atmosphere of the place.

“Roar? Strong name. I like that!” Lion said while looking at Roar. He guided Roar to his seat on the table in the middle and then started shouting. “Ladies and Gentlemen. Who am I kidding? there are no ladies here among you filthy dogs.” And everyone started laughing and drinking. “Our challenger’s name is Roar!” shouted Lion. Everyone cheered. And Roar cheered with them. “He will be arm wrestling three of our members. If he manages to beat two of them. He will be granted access to this inn and be recognized as a member!” Everyone cheered even more.

Roar looked towards Lion. “Meat?”

Lion then smiled and shouted “And get meat!!!”.

Everyone cheered and Roar cheered with them.

“Ok. Who here wants to Arm wrestle our half naked friend?” Lion said while looking around with a smile.

Suddenly the ground started shaking and a big bald man appeared from within the crowd. He looked towards Roar and moved to sit across him.

Everyone grew silent and whispers could be heard.

“Damn it, it’s the bald basher. He must really not like this new comer”

“Yea, he never lost to a new comer before.”

Lion looked at Roar and saw that he was unfazed and smiled. “Do you accept?” Lion asked of Roar.

“Why not.” Said Roar without a worry.

Lion liked Roar’s answer and shouted. “Get ready!”. Everyone cheered.

The bald man saw that Roar was unfazed and became angry. “I will crush your arm. Boy”.

They both put their arms on the table and locked them together while maintaining eye contact. Roar was smiling and that made the bald man even more angry.

“Get set!” Lion shouted while holding their locked arms together while the crowd was going wild. The shouting and the cheers attracted a lot of the town’s people and they were watching the match as well.

“Goooooo!!!”. Shouted Lion as he lifted his hands.