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As always, comments are very welcome!

(Part 9 to hit the boards on Monday!)

I'm sure they poisoned Clark's food just to make sure he died! Which is kind of overkill, but Tempus doesn't want to take any chances.

I didn't know they had female gladiators, but I'm glad Xena's close anyway, if she can just get out of that cage.

I love the way you showed the differences between Mad Dog Lane and Lois. It's almost like she has her own alter ago.

And not to be sarcastic or anything, but what a great place to end the chapter.

No! You can't stop there! That's just cruel! Although I really like this chapter- the battle scene was well written, and Lois's personality shifts are very good. As a side note, I also liked Lois coming up with "Sangria" for a name Very clever.

Can't wait for more! Clark needs help!

Well, it wouldn't be Tempus really. Remember, Tersius stands to make a *lot* of money if/when Clark dies. Tempus is just the one demanding that Clark die.

In real life, I don't think there were female gladiators. However, anything and everything goes in the Xenaverse.

Glad you liked the switch between Mad Dog Lane and Lois. I wasn't sure if that worked the way that I wanted it to. Looks like it did though.

As for the ending.... *insert maniacal laughter here*

Thanks Mouse! Don't look at it as a chapter break....look at it like a commerical break. Besides, I never promised to play fair in this story.

Glad you enjoyed the battle. I love writing action scenes, but I am always afraid that they might not translate well to the reader. Ken J takes about half the credit on this particular fight scene though.

Glad you liked "Sangria" - Xena and Hercules had a history of using ridiculously funny names (like Archivus the scribe). I was just upholding tradition with Mimosa and Sangria.

Humbly, I beg to differ. The original concept was yours. All I did was clean it up a little bit to correct some minor errors.

Still, it flows much better thanks to you, Ken!

Oh no! You can't end it there! (But you just did.)

I didn't know that about the ridiculous names - good job!

Am I wrong in saying that you have more blood and guts in this fic than they ever showed on the "Xena" TV show? I saw it once or twice and there seemed to be a lot of stunts (for some reason, Lucy Lawless flipping through the air comes to mind) but I don't recall overt bleeding.

Regarding female gladiators: Noted historical novelist url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_bradshaw]Gillian Bradshaw[/url] has a book out, "Render Unto Caesar", where a main character is actually a female gladiator. It's not the best Bradshaw book ever, but it's very readable. Plus, you learn a lot about gladiators.

Thanks Io!

I'd say that I'm on par with some of the gorier episodes. Actually, the first season finale "Is There A Doctor In The House?" almost never made it to airing because some sponsers thought it was too gory and they wound up cutting parts. (Xena actually aputates a leg on screen and a lot of that footage wound up on the cutting room floor so that it could actually air.) There were definitely a lot of stunts on the show (Lucy flips a *lot*) and some episodes were far less bloody than others. We do even get the ocassional throat slit right on screen and plently of people being impaled by various weapons.

Is the blood a problem with the fic though? Should I consider scaling it back?

*ducks and hides as there is more fighting yet to come*

Clark's likely not dead yet?

Since it gets more obvious later on... And yeah, I did read sort of ahead of FDK Anyway, aren't centurions the officers only, not the regular soldiers?

Nono, only on the first day. Later on, there will be a knitting contest, a Rome's Got Talent show, clown acts, and on day seven, it will culminate in a free-for-all-free-Romans orgy on the arena sands.

And there's still so many parts left. What will they do after they fail?

Michael

/pushes fast-forward on timeshift recording of fic to skip commercial break/

*Best Monty Python voice* "Bring out your dead!"

Layman's terms mostly.



Erm, kinda. We met some of his followers in Season One's episode "Dreamworker" not the god himself. But he didn't seem to be a very nice god, what with wanting Gabrielle to kill and then be sacrificed to him as his bride and all.



Xena's good at poker, but not that good?

I actually hadn't thought of that when I wrote this. The names just popped into my head one night as I getting ready to shower.

He is kinda Jimmy-like. Without the Interruptus part.


Glad you are still reading!

Last week's been kind of , getting-home-early-wise. Lot's of official and unofficial company events.

Michael

Ick!