A Battle Unseen

[Dredd]

[Legionary Youth Training Center 2-(REDACTED) Lirnak Mountains]

The room was dimly lit except for the cage in the middle of the room, observation windows with dark faces observed behind the young boys lined on a small bleacher. Yevgeny looked forward at attention not moving a muscle, listening attentively to the loudspeaker with the calming voice reading to him.

"A soldier does not speak until spoken to by a superior officer
A soldier shows no mercy
Mercy is weakness
And weakness is death
The Legion are his family.
He is most happy when following orders"

A small tunnel connecting to the chamber on both sides were suddenly opened, on one end a wild boar entered foaming at the mouth bearing blood covered tusks, the other side filled with multiple frothing rabid dogs enter barking wildly. The doors opened and the chamber became a horrific scene of screaming and fighting. Blood sprayed through the chain links on the floor before Yevgeny, he turned his head away from the scene disgusted, only to have his head pushed back, eyes front witnessing the gore fest before him.

"A soldier lives to kill
A soldier needs no friend or family
War is his friend
Kundrati is our friend, The Legion is our mother, The Supreme Comrade is our father"