I Lost

The words of Anki

I don’t know what happened. I thought I was ready. I must have out weighted him by twenty pounds. The men had formed a circle and then pushed me into it. There he was, Maul. He had just been pushed into the circle, too.

I was looking him up and down, trying to see how he was setting his muscles so I might guess how he might attack, when someone pushed me from behind. I stumbled forward and I guess that was the opening he was looking for. In a flash he charged me and threw himself against me.

We both toppled over, me backwards, he landing painfully on top of me. He lifted his head and then brought it down against mine. Light flashed through my vision and I instinctively pushed up on him – throwing him back. I rolled over onto my hands and knees.

I was about to push myself up when his knee landed in the middle of my back, followed by the rest of him. Luckily my arms slid out from under me instead of breaking. I landed painfully on the ground and my face smashed into the ice covered ground.

When I picked my face up I saw that the ground was covered in blood. I turned just in time to see Maul’s foot streaking towards my side. I didn’t have time to get out of the way, but I did have time to reach up and pull his foot into my side and hold it there. With his foot held, Maul couldn’t control his momentum and continued forward falling over me.

He screamed as his leg twisted the wrong way at the knee and he continued to the ground. I smiled thinking that I might have just turned the direction of the fight. As I got up, he had pulled his legs close to his chest and continued to scream. I charged him, ready to put my knee in this face. At the last moment he spun on his back and placed his good foot in my gut and flipped me over him.

I landed painful on the ground and before I could react he was on top of me. He pulled my head back and then slammed it into the ground. I don’t know how many times he repeated this because everything soon went black.

When I work up my whole body hurt. I was cold and wet, and covered in a fresh coating of white. I managed to get up and walk slowly back to the boy’s hut. It felt like every eye in camp was watching me. I guess I was lucky that nothing got broken. I wish I knew who pushed me.