"Well, I think that our little friend here should fight. And my opinion is better valued than yours, after all," said Queen Turquoise, quite possibly dooming Fraud.

"No!" Me and the others all screamed in unison. Queen Turquoise grinned, almost as if she was enjoying our pain.

"Well, that settles it! To the pit he goes!" she said. The guards seized Fraud and marched him off down the hallway. Queen Turquoise turned towards us. "And as for you, my little dragonling friends, you can watch your friend die! Guards, take them away!" she started manically laughing. This couldn't be happening. I must be having a nightmare. My guard jabbed me in the back with his spear. I stumbled forward. We were walking towards a different hallway, which, according to the signs, led to the pit.

"What's happening right now?" I asked, knowing I probably wouldn't get an answer.
"Your friend is going to fight in the pit," responded the guard, surprising me. "Oh, and he's probably going to die," he added.

"What!?!" I asked. Queen Turquoise was sending our shyest member to fight in a pit against who knows what? This day just kept getting better and better. Poor Fraud.

"She likes it when they die," said the guard, with something close to sadness in his voice, as if this has happened before. Fishy can't die though! He's part of a prophecy. That's what I told myself. It didn't help at all.