There is a night most sacred to the Amazons. A night where winter waned and summer waxed. Two gods held sway this night, one of war and the other of life. One of winter and the other of summer. In this night the amazons dropped their spears and shields, preparing to pick up the scythe and swaddle.
And on that hallowed night, a sacred ceremony is held, the tournament of Aima and Sporos.
Arete, champion of queen Anadosia stood before the crowd, naked as the day she was born. She moved to decapitate her fallen foe, sweat and olive oil accentuating the way her hips and breasts swayed with each step. With a graceful swing of her sword, she dislodged his head. Triumphant, she raised the head to the queen, bathing in the cheer of the crowd before tossing the lifeless ball unto the stand. To Arete, the night was proving to be a bore. Malnourished slaves and desperate prisoners offered little challenge to the lithe warrioress. She craved a real challenge, one to truly test her skill at arms.
He could feel the fire coursing through his veins. The amazons had poisoned him, heart pounding as febrile images of nubile bodies and salacious acts filtered to his head. Many a times he felt his mind wander to the amazon guards flanking him. The taste of their tits in his mouth. The sound of their sighs whispered in his ears. The feel of their legs wrapped around him. The sight of their stomachs, swollen with his child.
Hearing the crunch of sand beneath his feet, Leontios awoke from his haze. Before him stood feminine perfection. Arete, the very picture of amazonian beauty. Lithe, tall and dangerous.
She glistened in the moonlight, her breasts heaving with the nights exertion, nipples perked from the cool hair. He saw no scars on the olive skinned warrioress, a testament to her abilities as a fighter, her luscious raven hair falling to her waist in arrogance.
Leontios stared mesmerised as the olive skinned amazon moved towards him. Those tight stomach muscles that rippled as she moved towards him. Those shapely legs that carried her with such flowing grace. Those limber arms that carried those kopri with such a deadly affinity, now raised as if to strike him.
He suddenly felt himself laden with the weight of a hoplon, a matching kopri in his hand. With the deft grace of hard earned instincts, his shield came up with lightning speed, deflecting Aretes blow in the nick of time.
Yet she was equally fast, immediately swiping his legs, feeling the top heavy warrior topple at her assault, her kopri coming down fast to finish the fallen man.
He rolled away from her thrust, the cold steel biting sand where his neck had once been. She cursed her overconfidence, leaving herself wide open with her coup de grace, an opening that let the man kick her likewise to the sand.
Now they were both scrambling on the sand, the crowd in shocked silence, the first fight in the evening that had not ended in seconds. Catching her fall in a tumble, Arete rolled away from the man.
They circled each other on the blood soaked sand, neither one leaving an opening. It seemed she would have her challenge, Arete relishing at the thought as she prepared for her next strike.
The fight continued for some time, both expertly parrying and dodging their attacks, the clang of steel ringing through the night. The crowd cheered at the display.
Eventually both parties discarded their shield, too tired to carry the heavy bulk. This fight had to end, lest they both be dishonoured before the eyes of the two goddesses.