We equipped our best shoes getting ready for what was about to happen[Camera pans from the floor up to my face]. You needed all the grip you could to stay out of the burning lava right in front of our feet. We all wanted the prize at the end of the course, a golden crown that had the words bragging rights engraved across the gleemering band of the crown[The camera circles the crown at the end of the course with a beam of light shining on it]. This competition was like no other, you have to use your strength, parkour skills, and wits to beat this competition. With lava at your feet the entire time if you make one false move you are gone forever. People risk their lives just at a chance to get that golden crown. There are only 2 ways out of this competition, you make it to the end or you fall into the boiling soup of magma. The other runners and I know what we signed up for but what we didn’t know was who was gonna win the crown this time. Many different people have won it over the years but I need to make sure one person doesn’t get it... Bob[snap to Bob who has a red glow on him from the car he came out of]. Bob has gotten it 3 years in a row now and he has always rubbed it in our faces that he is better than anyone he faces. Well this time I am going to give him a run for his money. Bob is fast and strong but he doesn’t have the wits to him and that is one advantage I have over him. I have the will to win that crown. The rule master reads us the rules,[camera zooms in on the rule master] “The goal is to get to the other side and secure the crown, who ever makes it to the crown first is the winner, you are not aloud to go back if you get scared you have to either get to the end or take a dip in the lava, and last, you may not physically hit any other person off. “Racers take your positions”. I can feel the nerves rising inside of me but I am ready to make the run of my life[The camera zooms in close to my face exposing all my emotions]. “3...2...1... GO!”

I can feel the air move past me as I start to sprint my way towards the first obstacle[The camera follows me running to my side]. There are 5 poles all evenly placed apart that you have to make way across. Now starts the dangerous part, all the rest of the course is over lava[The camera zooms past the whole course showing how it is all over lava]. I go to grab the first pole in my hand expecting it to be annoyingly cold but it wasn't. It was the opposite: everything metal was so hot that if you were to stop for too long it would burn you[The camera zooms in on my hand showing my hand getting burned on the pole].I swing my way through the first obstacle with ease. I have trained to do vertical pole swing since I was 6. But for some reason I still was nervous to do them. I meet the second obstacle which is a pit full of balance obstacles and spinning platforms[The camera floats upwards showing the circular pit full of obstacles]. The further I make it the more I start to feel dizzy and want to give up. There are 4 more spinning wheels and 1 more balance beam in front of me. In my head I am thinking I can’t [Camera moves into a first person view] do this but then I see Bob next to me about to complete this stage, that alone gave me the willpower to keep going, he couldn’t win… not again. I make it to the end but the nausea is starting to catch up to me[The camera is right in front of the end so it shows me finishing]. The last and final obstacle is a rock wall that has hand holds that change positions every 20 seconds. [Camera switched back to first person] I start the climb with the nausea climbing up my body and the rock wall swinging me around doesn’t help either. I can’t go on for much longer. I look up and there is Bob two holds ahead of me. All of a sudden Bob kicks my hand and I fall, I thought this was the end for me falling into the beast's stomach[The camera is positioned where the lava is so it looks like I’m about to fall on top of the camera]. [Back to first person] There was one last hope: a small rock at the very bottom I could hold on to. I reach for the rock and grab it and hold it with a death grip. “I’m alive!?!?” I thought in my head. I manage to get myself back up and again I make the accent. I use all the rest of my strength to get to the top…but Bob is already there crown in hand. I lost, after everything I just went through and I still lost. I accepted the defeat because I knew I gave every ounce of my body to that course but not winning that crown still hurt [The camera is to my side showing me slumped over on the ground breathing heavily].[Back to first person] I look up at the crowd and I notice no one is looking at us, they are all looking up at the jumbotron. Over the ringing in my head I heard a shout “he cheated!” I look back and see a video playing of Bob kicking my hand off the rock. Everyone wore a face of shock, even me.  A cheater is automatically disqualified so that meant the crown went to whoever was second[The camera zooms in on Bob looking mortified]. It took me a second to realize but I was the one in second place[The camera is positioned in front of me, showing my joy]. The crown went to me, wait! The crown went to me! I’ve never felt so many emotions at one time but what I did know now that I have proven to myself and many other people that I am a winner and I deserved this crown. [The camera zooms out to show more of what around me with the crowd in the background as I hold the crown high in the air in victory]