OOC: I think I have to much time on my hands...
Sitting on the log near the fire, I watched the girl closely. She lifted her one hand and started rubbing her forehead until she turned her head and looked directly into Veds eyes.
"Hi." Ved said, she freaked and jumped up reaching for her weapon. But I moved quicker and grabbed her arms and held them behind her back. I heard something pop and then she somehow flipped over me and I heard the popping sound again. In the corner of my eye I seen her pull a kunai out from behind her and hold it to my throat. Ved raised to his feet, his palms open with mist floating off them.
I shook my head acknowledging I'd be fine.
"If anyone does anything stupid, he dies." the girl said with a raised voice. "Come on."
She was tugging on my shoulder trying to get me to follow her, but I stayed still. Then she gave a strong jerk and I spun around, using my one arm knocking the weapon away and then grabbing her wrist. The other hand clamped onto her throat.
What is wrong with you? We did nothing for you to try and attack us. I said to her and added more force to her wrist making her drop the kunai. Ved put his hand on my shoulder and I loosened my hold. She was scared, I removed my hand from her throat and placed it on top of her head. Both our eyes met, I could see all the bad things that happened to her. The first years of her life were nothing but joy and wealth, then her parents died to an illness called the Red Death . Similar to the move I call Bleeding Sorrows but is curable now. She lived in the streets for years, poor and scared like she was now. On one night a man dressed in all black picked her up and trained her in the ways of an assassin, now she is here trying to kill us.
"It's alright, there's nothing to be afraid of." I let the girl go and Ved took over talking to her, I was only there to kill her if she got out of hand. Hm? Your bleeding. Ved reached up to wipe the cut away from her face. Must’ve cut herself when I pushed the kunai away.
"Dont!" She smacked his hand away and covered the wound.
"I just want to help, let me take a look."
"No If you touch my blood you with die..."
"But... Isnt that what you were here for, to kill us?" Ved asked.
"Not yous... Only him." She pointed at me. I let out a quick breath. "I'm a demon hunter. A client paid me 5K to take care of him, but what I don’t get... Is my client was a warrior who could've taken you out by himself."
"Your client was setting you up. If he could've taken me out by himself he would have done it, but then again not many people can take me out. And I highly doubt your client is even strong enough to handle my skills."
The girl sighed, still not letting her guard down. "Why didn't you kill me? This is a disgrace to my honor, kill me!"
"Well," I said drawing my blade "You heard the girl." When I stepped forward Ved got in my way. I sheathed my blade looking at the girl and then back up to Ved. He kneeled down next to her.
"Theirs no reason for any of us to have to kill you. I mean, you tried to kill Hazard and all. But I bet he’s had something like this done to him plenty of times." Ved looked up at me, I grinned and looked back at Eve and Xenek. Eve had a confused face wondering what was going on. Xenek was just watching closely, His eyes never leaving the girl. I heard the girl stand with Ved, I turned my head so I could look at her. Her eyes were cold when she stared at Ved, he disgraced her honor by letting her live after failing her mission. I knew the feeling, I may have never failed in one of my missions like this. But I've seen plenty people do so and feel the shame. I've seen plenty more do so and lose their lives.
"So what's your name?" Ved asked the girl.
"Telling you would be a disgrace. I an only tell the person I'm hunting my name, and that's when their on the ground breathing their last breath."
"Well good luck with that, cause I'm not gonna die just yet." I said turning my entire body to face her, my hand on the hilt of my blade. I seen she had her hand in her back pouch where she keeps the kunai's. But Ved stepped in between us... Again.
"I don't think fighting will solve this problem." Ved said.
"Of course it won't. If she's hunting me, then that means once they find out that she has failed others will keep coming until I am dead.." I answered him. The girl stayed silent, still with her hand in the pouch. When Ved was about to stay something the girl pulled a small crystal ball out of the pouch and slammed it onto the ground, creating a wall of smoke making it easy for her to get away. I drew my blade and pushed Ved out of my way. I left the smoke and looked around for the girl. Right when I exited the smoke, I seen a fire ball, and inside was the girl panicking. Xenek and Eve were walking over, Xenek had one of his hands out to hold the barrier. As I walked towards her, Ved followed me.
"Nice one." I said to Xenek when we were side to side.
"We don't want to kill you. But if we have to we will." Ved said. "We're looking for a portal out of this time and back to our own. It kinda looks like and ancient passage statue."
The girl was calming down since Xenek was lowering the fire ball. "I did see something like that when I was looking for yous..."
"Think you could show us where it is?" Ved asked. The girl stayed silent. "Please?:
"Alright." The girl started. "But only if afterwards, I get to fight him." She pointed at me. "One on One. No one else gets involved."
"Whatever. If you want to die that badly, then so be it. Just show us the way to our destination." I said to the girl.
"Hang on. I was hoping you wouldn't want to go through with this." Ved said. He was getting on my nerves with this shit too.
"Stop being a f*cking pussy!" I shouted. "If you ever want to see that girl again then shut up and accept the facts that some people are going to have to die along the way. Now, show us where the passage is."
The girl nodded and started walking ahead of us. I was right behind her, Eve was next to Ved talking to him and Xenek was last in the line. The girl was putting a patch over the cut on her face, I seen her pull some type of medicine out and pour some on a rag. Then she damped it onto her face and kinda let out a yelp of pain, after that she put a band-aid over it and looked back at us still walking. Her eyes were cold with plenty of hate in them for me and everyone else that was following her. After she reached a four-way intersection she stopped and looked back, waiting for us to catch up.
“So which way? Or are you trying to lead us into a trap?” I asked her waiting for the others to catch up.
“I already told you I’d lead yous to this artifact your looking for. After that, I’m going to kill you and take your head back to my master to collect my pay.” The girl said looking past me and at the others who were just catching up.
“We need to go this way.” The girl pointed to the east. “Continuing down this path, we’ll enter a city known as KnightFall. There you’ll find your artifact, then I’ll be able to finish my mission.”
“For now. Let’s just stick to getting to the city, I’m hungry and my meal was interrupted.” Eve said walking into the center of all of us. The assassin just looked at her, then up to Xenek.
“What?” Xenek asked coldly, the assassin blinked slowly then turned her head towards KnightFall.
Without saying anything she continued walking. We followed her this time Xenek was next to me and Ved and Eve were last in the line. I looked over at Xenek, he had his arms in the sleeves of his robe and was watching the girl until he noticed me looking at him.
“I take it there’s something you want to ask me?” he asked looking back at the assassin.
“Yeah. When are you and Eve breaking off of this little party? I could care less about you, but ever since Eve has joined this team, she’s been making everything harder. Plus she’s always the one getting captured.”
“So, you do actually care for someone other then yourself.” Xenek answered. I simply looked at him. “Ever since I joined up with you and Ved, you were always cold-hearted and out to kill everyone who got in your way. I bet if it wasn’t for Ved, you would’ve sliced my throat and left me to die when you had the chance. But the one thing I never could figure out, a person only ventures for so long unless he has a reason to venture. And killing isn’t a very good excuse, there’s something that your hiding form us. What it is, I may never know and I may not want to know what it is.”
I looked back at the assassin when Xenek was done explaining himself. She had a walk that I recognized, I seen it when I was still in training. I thought about it for a few seconds ut nothing came to mind. I looked back at Eve and Ved, Eve was holding her stomach and ranting to Ved about something that made him chuckle. I looked forward again and noticed that the assassin had stopped at the top of a hill, she was looking down. When I neared her side she pointed, I gazed at the sights, past the fog and through all the trees, there laid a village, KnightsFall.
The sun was setting, and the tempature was dropping. If we could make it to the city, then we could sleep in an inn until morning. But the assassin was restless for a fight, and I was willing to give her one.
“All we have to do is get down this hill, and near the city is your artifact.” she neared the hill and started to slide down it. I followed first, Xenek pulled eve in close and started levitating down, Ved stuck his hand out and made an ice slide. When we all made it to the bottom, the assassin continued walking. When we were close to the city she did a sharp turn and cut her way through the forest until we were led to a wide open field, and at the end there laid the portal. From the designs, I knew this one. It could only be activated when blood was offered to the demon guarding the way.
“Now I lived up to my end of the bargain, it’s time for yous to get out of this fight.” The assassin walked to one side of the field waiting for the others to take a seat and watch the battle. I took the opposite side, I took my coat off and laid it on the ground behind me. The girl removed her four kunai from her pouch and dropped the rest on the floor. She turned them all on her fingers and formed a claw like weapon, I also noticed at her side a short-sword. I glimpsed over at the others, Eve had an exciting expression on her face as always when a battle was about to start, Ved seemed disappointed, and Xenek looked serious, as always.
The girl lifted her hand and threw one of the kunai at me, I quickly drew my blade and knocked it away. She smiled as if she was pleased, then she used a technique that I seen in my past. She jumped back and teleported. After seeing this technique, I lost focus and just dodged a death-strike that was aimed for my head but only hit my back when I rolled out of the way. I turned to face the girl but she was gone, I turned to block her, but she wasn’t there. Then I heard her footsteps behind me and turned just in time to stop a kunai from hitting me head. The girl stayed there this time to show a grin, then she teleported again and immediately appeared in front of me shocking me, she made a kiss and struck at me, but now she was in my domain, I easily dodged attacked with a flurry of y own. Amazingly she dodged them all then back flipped away and teleported to the other side of the field.
“Not what you expected is it Hazard?”
“What? How do you know my name? I never told you it.” I said to the girl.
“Of course you did, you obviously don’t remember who I am. Let me remind you.” The girl lifted up the part of her shirt showing her stomach. There laid a scar that I remember making in training, then the girls name came to me.
“Lylia Why would you hunt your own kind? Forget that, how did you survive all this time?”
She smirked “I met up with your friend Stuzzie or whatever his name was. Then I found out he created and Elixir of Youth, took advantage of him, and stole the elixir whenever I could and stashed it away. I’ve had over 500 years of training, something you’ll never have And now, I’m going to collect my bounty, whether you want to go peacefully or not.”
“Ha ha ha, you actually think 500 years of training will make you better then me? I’ve fought in thousands of wars leaving unscratched. Although, I will admit, you’ve gotten stronger. And I’m very proud you’ve over came everything the trainers said you wouldn’t. Although, using your body to take advantage of a moron like Stuzzie is just low, you forgot all about honor, and for that I will kill you.”
After our little chat she teleported and this time I was focused, I blocked her side attack and then she teleported behind me, at which time I ducked and swept at her feet. She jumped over me and front-flipped with one hand, using the other to try and cut at me. I blocked that attack and pushed her to the side. Before she touched the ground she teleported again and appeared at the end of the field.
“What’s wrong? Afraid of death? Then maybe you should’ve chosen and easier opponent ” I shouted at her.
“Your not that tough, believe me. I’m holding back greatly.” Lylia sheathed her blade and threw the remaining kunai in the ground. She stuck her arms by her side in an ‘L’ shape. Her eyes were closed, then something that shocked me happened. An electrical aura started to surround her, small rocks from the earth were being lifted into the air and crumbling into smaller rocks, when I looked at her hair I knew what was happening. It changed from dark brown to a bright purple, at the end she stretched out her arms creating a ball of energy which created a small crater in the ground. She was able to go ascended whenever she wished it, she was stronger then me, but I’m not going to give up without a fight.
“Like I said, I was holding back greatly. And there is nothing that you can do, your death is inevitable. And just to make this fair, I won’t use any weapons. But you still can.”
I dropped my black and removed the sheath. “I don’t think I’ll need weapons to beat you.”
Lylia smiled and looked at me with her big, bright purple eyes. They were as cold as I remembered them in training, I would always taunt her when she faced off against me, well I guess this is her payback. She teleported and I anticipated her attack, but now she was much faster. I wasn’t able to block her attack. She started off with something simple, a hard hit to the gut, then she teleported behind me and swept me off my feet, while still in the air, she slid herself underneath me and thrust kicked me in the back, sending me straight into the air. With pain coursing through my entire body, I turned my head to look down. Lylia wasn’t there as I expected, when I looked back up I seen her back, but she quickly turned and smashed her leg into my chest. If I were human, I would be dead by now.
When I hit the ground, the impact was so great that my body was outlined into the ground. Through the smoke, I could see her up in the sky. Her arm extended fully, only two fingers pointed outward. Then I seen a pink ball of energy from on the tip, the ball quickly multiplied, then I heard her shout and her attack was unleashed, I started rolling to the side evading the attack, then when I had the chance I flipped up off the ground using my back. I landed on both my feet and looked up, not to my surprise she was gone. Luckily I looked down just in time to push her knee to the side and get a powerful haymaker right into her face sending her flying into the trees. I seen dust clouds from and trees fall. In a short while, lights from energy seeped through the cracks and then a ball of energy formed and disintegrated everything it touched. The energy died down and Lylia was standing there.
“That hurt you know.”
“Yeah, well imagine all the shit your doing to me, how do you think that feels?”
“Hm... Good point. But I’ve had enough of this, it’s been fun Hazard. Too bad we couldn’t do the other we used to do.”
After she was done talking she extended her arm again. This time her palm was wide open, a small red energy ball formed and in seconds it grew giant. “Bye.” The attack glided towards me for a few seconds, then impaled itself in the ground leaving behind a trail. I stuck my arms out and caught the attack, but I knew that if I didn’t change, it would be all over. I heard Lylia laughing at my attempts to overcome and defeat her.
“Come on Hazard, just give up. All your doing is making your friends have to hope and see you win. But don’t worry, after your gone, I’ll finish them off. But your blue haired friend, I think I’ll just take control of him and use him as a puppet. Just like I used you when we were training, my mind was stronger then, and it still is now.”
“You never could beat me, so you used one of your tricks...” I struggled to speak and hold my own. “To get me kicked out of my own realm... Right after I lost the dearest person to me, the only person who didn’t judge me The one who made me who I am today ”
“She was a full for thinking you would become something great, and I’m glad she died the way she did.”
I could feel the rage within my soul growing, I could feel the power within me start to increase beyond anything Lylia could dish out. She could disgrace me and the clan in whatever way she wanted, but I would never let her get away with saying something like that about the one person I cared about so much. I could feel the energy ball getting lighter, I could see the lightning aura starting to surround my body, chunks of earth were being removed from the ground and were simply being broken into handfuls, I seen my arms and the rest of my body glow bright red, then I extended my arms from blocking, straight down. The energy ball hit me, but did nothing as my body unleashed loose energy like Lylia’s did. Except my explosion was stronger and much bigger. It pushed the ball into the sky and out of view. When I could see Lylia, her expression showed nothing but fear.
“Do you see now? You can’t win You never could, you may be able to change whenever you feel like it, but I am a true Ascended, my power comes from deep within. You are nothing, and it does end here!”
I levitated shortly off the ground, and in the blink of an eye, I moved right behind Lylia and struck her in the back of the head with my right elbow. She staggered forward and teleported away. I could sense exactly where she went and followed her. I appeared behind her, she attacked the area where I was with a small beam attack that was aimed for most likely my head, she didn’t bother to even look. She just left it go and created a giant cloud of smoke. When she thought she had me, I reached around and grabbed her throat with my right hand. At the time it was empty, but as soon as I grabbed her, I created a ball of red energy and threw her along with it. It guided her along the air burning into her skin, she grabbed it with her hands and pushed it away sending it into the air, once it was a few feet away it exploded with enough force that could’ve killed her. When she looked at me, I moved quickly again, this time right in front of her. Before she could act, I kneed her in the stomach and then spun around behind her and kicked her in the back of the neck with my shin. When she was almost near the ground, she forced herself from hitting the ground and was only feet in the air. I could see her bright eyes look straight up at me, there was nothing but hate and anger left in them.
“I will not lose to you again! Today is the day of a new beginning! And the day of your demise!” she shouted at me, then extended her hands out like a cross. Her purple lightning aura appeared again, surrounding her body and coursed to her arms, through and out to her palms creating two big purple energy balls. She combined her arms fusing her attack together making it even stronger. She pointed at me, “DIE!” She shouted, her attack came at me in a giant beam form. I stuck my arm out, palm open, her attack met my hand and stopped there. Their was great force behind it, and for a moment I thought it was going to overwhelm me.
“Have you ever heard of an attack by the name of “Nova?” I waited for an answer, but didn’t hear one. “No?! Well guess what, your going to witness it first hand!” A small burning dot formed into the palm of my hand and expanded. It grew bigger then Lylia’s attack, and soon started to engulf it. “It’s over! And this is where you die!” I pulled my arm back and pushed it forward sending the giant fire ball towards Lylia. I heard her start to panic and add more power to her attack, I also seen it start to come near me. I laughed evilly, and sent more of my own power into my attack. It started to overwhelm her attack again, after a few seconds, her attack was completely gone and I heard her start to scream as she tried to push it back. I smiled and quickly flew down, pulled my right arm back and hooked it with an energy punch. The ‘Nova’ attack exploded, shooting straight up into space. The brightness from the explosion even blinded me. After a minute or two, the brightness died down, when I could seen again Lylia was gone and I couldn’t sense her life form anywhere. There were craters all over, I looked over to where the others were, there was a giant sheet of ice created by Ved covering them that was also enchanted by Xenek. I looked at my chest, my shirt was shredded, my gloves had holes in them, my pants had rips and tears in them. My aura was still surrounding me, I tried decreasing my power so I could go back to normal but it wasn’t working. Walking over to where I placed my blade I picked it up and placed it into my belt, then went and picked up my coat. I heard the ice melt and the enchantment dispel. I looked back at the others. Eve was the first to charge at me, she punched my chest but was shocked by my aura and she jumped back. Ved and Xenek came over after they heard her yelp.
“What’s going on?” Xenek asked.
“He shocked me.” Eve said rubbing her hand.
“I didn’t mean to, for some reason I can’t go back to normal... Although, I don’t mind harnessing al this power.”
“Well... You do have a new look. It might keep people away from us.” Ved said, then he looked at the statue. It was still standing straight up, as if nothing happened around it. Ved was the first to run at it, Eve followed shortly afterwards, Xenek and I were the last ones to reach it. “We’ve finally made it...” Ved said.
“This is the one... Although I don’t know where it’ll take us. I do know it’ll take us to the right time we need to get to.” I said, I walked towards it.
“How do we activate it?” Ved asked.
“Gotta give it some blood. For each person going through, the demon has to drink their blood.” I said unsheathing my dagger. “Who’s first?”
Xenek stepped up, “I’ll go. Make sure it’s safe and then Eve can come through.”
“Alright... But I’m not up for this bleeding thing.” Eve said. Before she noticed I made a small cut on her forearm that was big enough to let some blood out. I handed the dagger to Xenek who cut the back of his hand and placed his hand over the demons mouth. It’s eyes glowed brightly and a blue portal opened up, allowing Xenek to walk through. As soon as he did, it closed. I looked down at Eve, who didn’t notice the cut yet. She held her already cut arm out and closed her eyes. I grabbed her wrist and wiped my finger across where the cut was. She jumped and then opened her eyes to see the wound. Placing her arm over the demons mouth, it’s eyes glowed again, and then the portal opened. Eve walked through looking back until the portal closed.
“So... Whose next?” Ved asked.
“You go. You want to get back to that time more then I do.” I answered holding out my dagger. He nodded and cut his forearm, held it over the demons mouth until the portal opened, doing the same as everyone, he walked through and the portal closed. I was the last to go through, I held my dagger over my forearm and cut. I let blood drip out before the wound could quickly heal. The demons eyes glowed, the portal opened, and I looked at myself one more time, still Ascended. Looking up, I walked through the portal and rejoined the others. Maybe now we'll be able to find the other's we once left behind.
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