After a Greek uprising against Rome, Xena and Gabrielle are captured and separatedly sold on the Sicilian slave market. Xena ends up in a school for gladiators owned by praetor Quintillianus, an ally of Pompeius and Caesar's enemy. She will be trained by lanista Barca of Carthage, to gain her freedom and get reunited with Gabrielle. But events take a different turn...

This story follows the 2017 movie up to the moment of Wonder Woman's final battle with Ares. However, what happens from there on turns out somewhat differently. Steve is dead (sorry, no miraculous savings here), and Ares too, but Diana is captured by the Germans before the signing of the armistice. She faces court-martial as a British secret agent, but the Amazons get wind of it...

Timeline: between The Bitter Suite and One Against And Army. My second piece, actually, but the first I publish. It explores what happened when the couple, after their return from Illusia, encounters the Amazons, who are NOT amused. They do not take attacks on their Queen lightlly and Xena is getting a hard time. It came all by itself in my mothertongue, Dutch/Flemish. Sorry guys!