Ruin

 

It was as I journeyed through a war-torn land. I awoke on day to find myself in a barren land with a city in the distance. I felt the land shake in earthquakes and saw the land blasted by sudden storms as I journeyed to the city. When I came to the city, I found a city in ruins but still there were being there. They seem intent on fighting small groups clashed with a variety of weapon. Some I recognized and others were of a form and fashion that I had never seen before. The beings fought in the streets and in the buildings across the ruined city. I moved through the city trying to avoid the worst of the fighting. Occasionally I was forced to fight. There did not seem to be any defined groups for the fighting. With some battles being free for all and others being small group battles.  

It was as I was trying to get out of battle when a great horn sounded. All the fighting stopped, and the beings gathered at a great hall. The hall was curved around a great arena pit. The stands around had great tables heaped with a great multitude of food and drink. I sat at the table as the beings all sat and began to eat. The arena seemed to hold all the great multitudes of beings, and I saw at the distance a great box where in an armored giant sat. The giant seemed to watch his people as the ate and reveled. The Giant gestured and another horn sounded and out on the arena. Armored beings marched out to the center of the pit and began a series of battles. As the fighting occurred the beings around me screamed in strange languages and using strange gestures. The fighting in the arena lasted for a time until only one contestant stood among the bodies of his opponents. The armored giant gestured, and the crowd exploded at the soldier left the arena. It was after this that the crowd lost control. I tried to protect myself as the crowd began to fight again and the tables around the arena were overturned or shattered. The crowds began moving out of the arena as they fought with each other. I rose wonder what this place was and how I got here when I saw the armored giant watching me. He sat on his great throne, and I could feel his presence and attention on me. I was drawn forward, and the giant spoke in my mind. This was the realm of ruin a realm of devastation and constant conflict. I looked around a saw that the arena had been repaired and the soldiers who had fallen stood back up. I understood that the beings outside will be gathered to feast, and the arena would be destroyed again.  

The Giants attention brought me back. I was told he was the Archon of Ruin and this was his realm. He told me that I was to be sent back to for this was not my place. I felt a pull and then I awoke again. I was back in my own world journeying back through the war-torn land. I kept in my mind what I had seen in the realm of Ruin.