The Legends of Nethiah Page #5

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It's what the coaches

always said.

Go ahead, give it a try.

Sweet!

You want to talk about it?

My parents are splitting up.

The "D" word.

I should have known.

So which one are you

gonna live with?

That's the thing.

They want me to decide.

Ah, hell.

Excuse my French.

That's a hard place to be in.

I'll tell you this.

You're not the first kid

whose parents got the big "D".

Great. I feel

so much better now.

I'm serious.

It stinks, but it happens.

It'll be hard, but it's livable.

What makes you so sure?

Why do you think I left home?

Just because they can't

live with each other

doesn't mean they can

live without you.

How am I gonna make a decision

without hurting one of them?

You can't.

Someone's going to get hurt.

I'll tell you something else.

They're scared.

Scared of what?

You're the glue now, kid.

You can keep them as close

or as far apart as you want.

You understand?

So this is where

you've been hiding out.

Who's this?

Grandpa, this is Tully.

Tully, my grandpa.

Nice to meet you, Grandpa.

Nice to meet you.

I gotta go pick up some trash.

I'll catch you later.

You know him?

He's a friend of mine.

I don't like him.

You don't know him.

Didn't know bin Laden, either.

You want an ice cream cone?

Yeah.

Let's go.

Grab your stuff.

You better hurry up or

I'm gonna eat yours, too.

So are you gonna

continue the story?

Sure. Just let me

sit down first.

Come on!

Okay. Where were we?

When Nethiah got captured

by the Strifer King.

That's right, he got captured.

But they didn't enslave him.

No. They did

something much worse.

They made him

into a pit fighter.

The young boy grew

into a strong man.

And they taught him

how to fight,

kind of like the gladiators

of ancient Rome.

And did he learn.

He was the best.

400 times they lowered

him into the pit,

and 400 times he raised

his arm in victory.

The only time he was allowed

to leave his cell

was to train or fight.

And for the longest time,

that's all he knew.

He became like an animal,

like a savage,

as savage as the Strifers

who had locked him up.

And one day, suddenly,

something changed.

What? He had enough.

He reached his limit.

He just couldn't do it anymore.

The fighting, the death.

He was a man at

the end of his rope.

There comes a time

in everyone's life

when a decision has to be made,

and Nethiah made it...

no more fighting.

When they came for him,

he refused to leave his cell.

He didn't care what

the consequences were.

He was finished.

Nethiah was given a choice.

Fight, or be taken

to the Strifer King,

a fate that no one had

ever returned from alive.

That was when he met Sir Hanif.

He was a freedom fighter

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