A New Flame
"What are we going to do?"
"What do you mean 'what are we going to do?', we're doing what we always do: We sneak inside without causing any noise, search for the safe room, take what we can and get the hell out of there." Leon said while scanning the building from a bush outside. Leon was a brown eyed, grey haired thief. He had a red band on his head with a yellow line around it and a yellow circle on the front of it. He wears a green shirt covered by a purple cape with a red sphere and some gold on the front of it. His hands were covered by gauntlets, brown at the wrist and red at the palm, while wielding two small swords often. He wears blue pants and brown boots as well. His companion was a mutant boy named Zegar. He grew up abandoned in the jungle, but without much memory, he started growing into a beast of his own! His physique and claws gave him a dominant aura, as well as his fiery orange and red hair. He has shoulder armor and hard metal gloves specifically made for his claws, given to him by Leon. He has brown eyes and a red skirt-like cloth around his waist, the top is blue though. He wears brown shoes, also a gift from Leon.
Leon was an orphan, apparently he was dropped off to an orphanage when he was two years old. The woman who dropped him off disappeared from the Agni Empire and hasn't been seen since. Leon was bullied by the other kids for being an orphan, thus starting his life of thievery at 10 years old. He started sneaking into people's houses, specifically the ones of the kids who made fun of him. He wasn't caught until last year, when he was 16. He got bolder as he grew older and stole money from the wealthy. However, the house he tried sneaking into had guards patrolling the area at the time. Leon didn't bother to do his research and got caught. He didn't have any evidence of his other heists, so he only did several months in jail. In there he built up his physique a bit, while maintaining his amazing speed. When he got out, he went straight into stealing again. He went for another wealthy house, but they almost caught sight of him. He went dashing for the small woods near Agni. Once he got far enough, he rested to catch his breath. After a few moments, he heard something running towards him. He picked up his dual swords and got into a fighting stance, facing the direction of where he heard the noise. He looked beyond the bushes but couldn't see anything, and the noise came to a stop. Leon shook as he a large figure came out from the trees attacking him! It was some kind of claw handling man, and it looked like he wanted to kill Leon. Leon went quickly into a defensive state. The man attacking swiped at him over and over again with his sharp claws, but Leon was significantly faster, and once he found his repetition, he knocked the man off him and strongly kicked him in the stomach, knocking him back a few feet. The man smirked. He let out a roar towards the sky with his claws stretched out. His eyes were blazing, and Leon was his target. Leon blinked and the man was already in front of him, almost catching him off guard. Leon defended the first swipe, but the quick second attack was too much and knocked him back. Leon could barely catch his breath before the man released a barrage of attacks on him, Leon put up his shortswords in defense he was slowly losing his energy. He was gradually moving back towards a tree, Leon had one last plan. Once he was close enough, he used whatever strength he could muster to push off the man. He then jumped on the tree, and dashed from the log, lunging at the man. He couldn't handle it and got knocked down, with Leon on top holding one shortsword to his neck. The mysterious man said "You know, you're the only person to ever defeat me in battle...I respect that." Leon was shocked but didn't show it. To end someone's undefeated streak was impressive, and Leon knows he wasn't a pushover from how close Leon was to losing. Leon had a different intention though. "How would you like to be my partner?" "My name is Zegar, let's start right away".
"Alright Leon, then let's go." "You see that tree Zegar? It has a long branch a little close to the window, we'll climb up and work together to get across." Leon took out his short swords and stuck them in the tree one by one to climb, while Zegar was behind him, doing the same with his claws. Once they got to the branch, Zegar got to the far end and went on one knee. He almost slipped but regained his balance. "Leon, let's hurry I don't know if this branch will hold." At that moment Leon ran at full speed to Zegar and hopped on his hands stretched out, and Zegar threw Leon to the window. He barely made it as he stuck one of his swords into the wooden pane, but because of the way he was thrown, his body swung into the building. "Damn it" he coughed under his breath. He pulled up and into the window. He mouthed the word "now" and held his hand out the window. The branch started shaking immensely as Zegar dashed across and leaped to the window with his hand out. Leon grabbed his hand and he used his left claw to prevent himself from crashing into the wall like Leon did. "You're so lucky you have that claw" Leon muttered. "It's common sense do more research hehe". Zegar chuckled as Leon pulled him up. The claw made a good amount of noise so they had to hurry. They fell inside a room of no importance, just red robes on the floor and red drapes with a chandelier. "These people have more money worth in this room than our house Leon". "Why do you think we're here?" Leon looked at Zegar and smirked, Zegar grinned. But then they started hearing Orthos, guard dogs with two heads and a snake tail, barking down the halls. "Crap! Zegar down this way" they ran to the hall on their left and it led to two pathways. "Zegar go right I'll take the left. Get what you can-" "and get the hell out!" Zegar said to Leon. They grinned and took their ways.
A/N: For clarification, Leon is in his 3-star form right now and so is Zegar. This is my first story so I'll accept any advice, because not only do i want to be better at writing, but I want this to be a good story!