Gladiator Diary

6:00 am My life as a gladiator started early morning, as soon as our cells were unlocked we walked to the eating area to have breakfast. I was used to eating my three meals a day, my breakfast was cereal, dried fruits and goat cheese and water. We were only allowed to drink water and occasionally goat milk, but never wine. During meals speaking was not allowed, and eating was somehow relaxing to me.
7:00 am I walked towards the center of the barracks to start my training of the day, it was my custom to train for hours by myself before pairing up with someone else to practice my single combat skills.
8:00 am The ground suddenly started to trembled, some of other gladiators did not seem to care at all. Others were pointing their fingers
But not any rain, it was raining small rocks. The others and I grabbed the rocks and were puzzled by the texture of this new rocks. The rocks floated in the water and the accumulation was happening fast.
2:00 pm Every gladiator in the barracks including me, were looking how the rocks kept falling. Just some started to look scared at this point, then for our surprise, really big and heavy rocks started to fall. They were not falling like the small rocks, these big rocks were falling strongly, breaking pots, roofs, and many other things. Now, we all looked scared, the fear started to spread and some started to run in various directions.
3:00 pm The rain continued and rocks looked seemed to be growing from the ground. Some gladiators and I decided to go south of the city, in the opposite direction of the mount. But we were unsure how far the rain of rocks extended. The streets were chaos, people was running in all directions, some bodies were already on the floor. My panic and fear grew more as I looked at the death bodies and the big flying rocks. Many of us were hit by the rocks, one big rock hit my shoulder hard. It started to be almost impossible to walk over the path of