The steel gates open, Askari, a large male lion crawls out of the passage way from the gate, right in front of him is a young man, who is tied to a cross, with an expression of fear written on his face, the crowd of people sitted around the gymnasium echo screams of excitement, Askari, instead of pouncing on the man, moves close to him, and just stares at him, the lion seems to have compassion on the man, Askari then sits on the ground, as if in relaxing mode, the excitement of the crowd of spectators dies down as the entire gymnasium falls silent, the roman emperor is awestruck, he then commands that a tiger be released into the arena, this happens, as the steel gate opens and out of the passage way, a large menacing tiger, crawls, growling, and staring at Askari, who's standing at this point, "I've waited for this very moment" says the tiger, "The moment when you die by my fangs?" says Askari, "The moment when you die by mine" says the tiger rawing, and running towards Askari, who runs towards the tiger also, the two beast clash, Askari, slaps the tiger, the tiger retaliates, there's a lot of biting, scratching and slapping, the tiger seems to have the upper hand, as the lion seems to tire out, the tiger slaps Askari, who slumps to the ground weakened by the blow, the tiger then proceeds to bite Askari, at the back of the neck, "The young man tied to the cross then screams out loud "Hey", the tiger looks up to the man, "Hey" the man continues shouting, the tiger then shifts his attention to the man, as he begins to move towards him, with the intention to attack, the crowd of spectators are filled with excitement at this point as they scream at the top of their lungs, the tiger leaps from the ground about to descend on the young man, when Askari from nowhere, swipes the tiger away, the two beast fall to the ground, Askari proceeds to grab the tiger by the back of the neck, the tiger struggles, but Askari, who's a this point untop the tiger, does not let go, the tiger stuggles to no avail, before long, the tiger, is suffocated to death by the gripping jaws of Askari. the victorious lion then puts a paw on the tigers head,"I AM KING"Askari says, he then lets out a thick loud raw, which makes the full gymnasium silent for a short while, suddenly the gymnasiumm resumes it's noise, as the crowd of spectators begin to shout in excitment, as they applaud Askari, before long the young man tied to the cross is freed, Askari then crawls back to the passage way to the steel gate which closes behind him.
Great story! @kemaemina Got that nostalgic Roman feel. What a great lion Askari is! Keep it up!