Transcending Fates

Floyd Bayly

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Transcending Fates, Arena Chronicles

is an Action-Horror story rolled into a Sci-Fi Thriller with a splash of Erotic fantasy… The story takes place on a barren planet that has hidden beauty and fantasy fascinations to behold and revolves around a small group of humans that journeyed to attend a Melee' extravaganza tailored to be the defining moment between two champions of no holds-barred fighting. The thrilling event of a lifetime becomes more than a battle for survival when deception and deceit complicate every turn as they try and survive the event of a lifetime, which becomes a nightmare in a world of alien terror.

Sujets

• Science Fiction
• Fiction

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• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 11 janvier 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765237915
• Langue: English

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TRANSCENDING Fates
 
 
THE ARENA CHRONICLES
 
 
 
 
   FLOYD BAYLY   
 
 

 
 
Copyright © 2023 Floyd Bayly.
 
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ISBN: 979-8-7652-3790-8 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-3789-2 (hc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-3791-5 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023900616
 
Balboa Press rev. date: 01/06/2023
An Action-Horror story rolled into a Sci-Fi Thriller, with a splash of Erotic fantasy…
This story is part of an interstellar odyssey that begins on a planet not so different from the hottest deserts of planet Earth. The Arena Chronicles revolves around a small group of humans that journey to attend a celebrated fighting extravaganza, tailored to be a defining moment of two champions. The thrilling event of a lifetime becomes a battle for survival as deception and deceit complicates their every turn. As they try to survive the event of a lifetime, supposed to be dictated by rules and honor, a nightmare of deception and shocking turns unfold. None of their lives will ever be the same after this fateful event, if they can even survive.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 Visions of Grandeur
Chapter 2 In The Eye of The Beholder
Chapter 3 The Unviled Deception
Chapter 4 Facing Fate
Chapter 5 A Time for Rememberence
Chapter 6 Mayham Among Us
Chapter 7 Misery in Waiting
Chapter 8 Carnal Violations
Chapter 9 Exodus, Escaping Carnage
INTRODUCTION
In this chronicle of adventure, love, and adversity, the fateful crossroads of time and place will be contested by the intervention of malevolence and death. Faith will be put to the test, as integrity over the irony of subjective morals will play a role in the balance of life’s never-ending gambit of choices. In the translation of this riveting chronicle about endeavoring in the face of malice intent, a crafted plot begins to unfold on a sweltering world of endless desert plains.
Highlighting the seemingly lifeless world of sand was intriguing prismatic curtains of colorful beauty that accented the perpetual twilight in the northern sky. The prismatic phenomenon frequently caused colorful waves of rippling effects across the granules of sand, which sets this world apart from other planets amongst the stars, and makes the world a celestial marvel to the ones who locate it. The problem with finding the shimmering planet is that from a distant stargazer’s perspective, the radiant ripples of light are easily mistaken as another twinkling star in the proverbial darkness of space… But for the enlightened, the view is a faint beacon of lure!
The almost barren world of flickering reflections could also be identified by a unique water mass, which was also a clue to the location of a spectacular city on the otherwise, barren world. The water mass was the key to the region’s bearable temperature on the searing planet. Notably the planet’s longest and tallest mountain range was just to the west of the spectacular city, like a dividing wall that sprouted out of the huge water mass. Oddly enough, or maybe understandably to the enlightened, there was a line in the water mass that defined a separation of two distinctly different colors of water that never mixed. The always-lighter tan colored water was on the east side of the dividing waterline, which was assumed to be the shallow side, while the darker and assumed deeper water was on the west side. The true reason for the color difference was the water composition that maintained the divide between the two uniquely colored water masses. The Colossal Mountain range was curiously in alignment with the dividing waterline and formed an almost straight latitude-line of reference. The long shoreline of the water was a perfect longitude-line that extended east and west. The two geographic markers were the unmistakable crosshair landmarks that could even be seen from space, and used to pinpoint the otherwise hard to locate city.
The name of the spectacular city that was associated with the elusive shimmering world was unknown in the original Chronicle but in this narrative we will pair it to the fabled names of two lost cities, which we suspect could be one in the same, Muron and Mirage. The second name is synonymous with the planet’s reference and why we suspect the city name of Mirage may be linked as one of the referenced lost cities amongst the stars. The fabled City of Muron, like the city of Mirage, was said to be a wondrous sight, and described as a luminous metallic City of monolithic towers. The skyscraping structures were said to also complement the peaking mountains on the western horizon, mirroring the mountains on a smaller scale. Designed to blend with the terrain, the city’s cusped towers extended out of the sea like the mountain range to the west, and its metallic exterior shimmered with reflective effects that mimicked the surrounding prismatic reflections of the terrain.

      ONE      
Visions of Grandeur
Our story begins along an ocean shoreline with a towering City as the backdrop behind two joggers, who were not your average fitness enthusiasts. Running side by side towards the colossal mountains in the west, on one of their jog-a-thon excursions, the sculpted male and female resembled a fitness ad in motion. Dressed in blue form fitting attire and sporting dark sunglasses because of the intense bright yellowish-orange star above, they were nearing the end of their training for the event of a lifetime.
For about six months they had been preparing to compete in the first competition hosted by the relatively young City, and much of that time was spent cooped up during their long travel from another star system. The competition was an interstellar fighting event referred to as Melee, or also called Cell Fighting. The Melee competitors were popular among the public eye and respected as an elite group of athletes who adhered to strict ethical standards. The Melee matches featured two classifications of competitors, vertebrates and invertebrates, and four weight divisions in each for one-on-one pound your opponent action. The only restrictions during the match were no throat or eye strikes, no biting or slicing or use of any weapon beyond one’s body.
The only sport more brutal was Bane Fighting and that violent platform allowed everything, even weapons, in which death was the usual determining factor of who lost the match! Because of the volatility and morbid conclusion to the contest, anyone could enroll in the Bane Tournaments so those fighters were not held to the same ethical standards as Melee players. The lack of standards hurt their respectability and celebrity status, but not their notoriety! The Bane contestants were still the most feared fighters in the galaxy; however, as one would suspect over time, Bane fighters were in a pool of contestants becoming extinct. Another distinction between the two fighting platforms, beyond the encouraged gruesomeness of the life and death outcome, was that the Bane Tournaments were illegal in most populated star systems due to the craziness that could accompany the event.
On the more orderly side of the violence spectrum, the Melee players were a glamorized group of stars that were a huge draw for any city and most commonly associated with inspiring festivals and charitable causes to raise awareness and finances. The pre-competition festivities were filled with adventurous activities, exciting parties, and a variety of shows for all plus the thrill of meeting and supporting your favorite Melee Player, which was called the day of reckoning. The Melee event always produced huge financial gains for the hosting city through festivities and gambling opportunities, which was why the League of Gambling sponsored and oversaw all Melee events.
As with any story, there can be many versions, depending on perspective. We’ll continue our story at the base of the Colossal Mountain Range, where the two fitness enthusiasts had jogged. The two athletes both reached for the rocky incline of the mountain that towered over the surf, like a cliff diver’s dream, as if it was a finish line except this was not the end. Without hesitation, the two almost jumped onto the rocky mountainside to continue their excursion.
The male,