The forest night was cool. A girl in a green hoodie was sleeping peacefully on a makeshift leaf bed. However, a loud crash awoke her instantly, her orange eyes wide. The girl listened to the forest night. She realized that it wasn't just one sound, but many. She peered though the thick bush to cachet a glimpse of what was coming her way.
Her leather gloved hands parted the thick bush just enough for her to see what was going on. She had not prepared herself for what she saw. Just a few feet beyond the bush was a group of at lest thirty zombies. The zombies were all moving toward something. She followed their course of movement and found herself looking at the side of some iron claded figure.
Cupa froze when she realized how close the iron claded figure was to her. She also noticed the sword it was holding. It was a diamond sword that seemed to be tinted purplish. Cupa had heard many tales of miners possessing something called "enchanted" items. While she didn't know much about these "enchanted" items nor how true the stories about them were, the only thing she was sure of was that she didn't want to get struck by that sword. She thought of what to do.
Cupa was pulled from her thoughts when she heard the armoured figure speak in a booming gruff voice. "Do thee think that a score and a half of your kin would be enough to slay thy? I think not!" Cupa was now sure that the figure was a man. She watched as the man raised his sword high and charged towards the zombies with great speed. Cupa wondered if the human had a death wish. She watched as the man rushed into one of them, knocking it to the ground and stumped on it's neck. He then swung his sword in an arc, cutting five zombies in half. He spun on his heel and cut down another three zombies.
Cupa soon realized something was off with this human. "Where is his face?" She asked herself. It looked as if he had yellow eyes placed slightly above where she thought they would be while the rest of his face was black and featureless. She continued to watch the man fight.
Already ten zombies laid dead. While he was getting ready to finish off two more, another zombie came up to him and punched him in his near featureless face, below the left eye. That blow made him stumble while the same zombie punched him again, sending him tumbling down a small hill.
Cupa realized that she was now looking at the man's left side and that he was only a few yards away from her. She watched as the man got up and while doing so, something black fell from him. She looked back to his face and saw that something had changed. Cupa could now see a cobalt blue eye surround by pale skin. "He was wearing a mask?" Cupa thought as she watched in awe. From what little of the man's face she could see, Cupa could tell that he was angry.
The man let out a roar of rage as he charged forth into the remaining score of zombies. The man was now holding a diamond sword in each hand. The new sword, which he held in his left hand, seemed to have sparks dancing along its length. Cupa saw a zombie get struck by that sword and watched it be flung back and set ablaze. Within three minutes, the rest of the undead were slayed. The man looked around him only once before setting off left from Cupas point of view. Something about that man made Cupa curious, but she decided not to follow him. Instead Cupa went right, in the direction of the desert. The moon was in the center of the night sky.
It was around the point were the moon was half way between the center of the sky and the horizon when Cupa realized something was off. She slowed her walk as more and more bodies of monsters littered the ground. Bodies of zombies laid torn in two, spiders with most of their legs gone oozing green fluid, and piles of burnt bones that were once skeleton archers were struned about. Cupa then heard sounds other than the night wind and jungle insects.
She carefully approached some bushes that were in the direction of which the noise seemed to be coming from and peaked out them. She saw that on the other side was the desert biomen. Cupa could see on a small dune was that man, surrounded by many mobs. She also realized that a little bit more of his face was reveled. He was still holding a diamond sword in each hand.
"Come on now! Ti's be the best you have?" He exclaimed as he stabbed two zombies through their heads with one sword as the other set a spider aflame upon striking it. Cupas eyes widend when she realized that the man was surrounded by one hundred and fifty-six or so mobs. As much as she tried to look away, she couldn't look away from the doomed man. Yet, it appeared not to be what Cupa thought it would be. After a minuet, Cupa realized with a gasp that the man didn't seem to be doomed at all.
In the soft silvery blue-white light of the full moon, the man seemed to dance as he fought the mobs around him. Everytime the man turned or spun or swung his swords; the reflections of the moon light seemed to complement the extraordinary grace he performed each action with. It was like a deadly yet eerily beautiful dance. Cupa could not help but to watch the unbelievable spectacle unfold before her.
The mans "dance" abruptly stopped. Cupa didn't understand why he would stop fighting when he was still surrounded by mobs. It the began to dawn on her why the man stopped. All of the mobs that surrounded him were dead. "When did he kill all of those mobs!?" Cupa thought as she pulled out of the bush. After a minute of thinking about it, she had her answer. Every single move the man had made must have killed a mob or two. Thinking about it farther, Cupa realized that the man didn't seem tired. She decided that was the time to leave before he noticed her.
After a few minutes of walking, Cupa looked over her shoulder. Though she could still see the man, he was so far away that she could hardly see him. Cupa breathed a sigh of relief and stopped walking cautiously. She took three steps and stepped on a dry stick, which made a loud snapping sound. For reasons unknown to her, Cupa looked back again before shaking her head."Cupa, come on. There is no way he could have heard that or see me." Cupa thought as she turned around and continued walking in the direction she was going.
Cupa continued walking for two minutes before before she heard very faint crashes. She looked over her shoulder and saw that, though still very far away, the man seemed to be running to her. Cupa could see that he still had both diamond swords drawn. Adrenalin coursed though her veins as she ran as fast as she could; still being a creeper though, which were never good at running.
With fear clouding her mind, Cupa ran through a bush. She didn't see the tree root on the other side of the bush until her boot caught it and tripped. Not having time to put her hands out in front of her, her forehead slammed hard into the knobby tree roots as she fell to the ground. Without thinking, Cupa rolled onto her back and rubbed the angry red mark on her sore forehead. She was dazed.
Cupa froze however when the bush she had just came through erupted into a flurry of twigs and leafs as the man plowed through it. She could now see that the man was far tall than what she had first thought. "My god, he's almost as tall as an Enderman!" The black mask which he wore still obscured most of his face, save for both of his cobalt blue eyes and the pale skin of his temple. The intent to kill was so strong in his cold eyes that Cupa thought she could actually feel it. Cupa closed her eyes and awaited the blow from either one of the diamond blades he held that would end her life when those eyes fell upon her.
But it never came. "Huh?" Cupa said as she wondered why she wasn't dead. She opened her large orange eyes to a sight she wasn't expecting. The man, who practically stood over her and looked ready to kill her a moment ago, was now kneeling down before her with a hand extended out. He had only one diamond sword out. All traces of the intent to kill was gone from his eyes and was replaced with concern. "Are you okay?" The man asked in a gentle voice that she didn't think he would have. Cupa was too shocked to answer.
"Are you okay?" He asked again with a more concern filled voice. Cupa, still in shock and unsure of what to do, simply nodded her head but hesitated in taking the mans gaunlented hand. She then decided it would be best to take his hand. Cupa noted that the diamond sword was in the ground with the mans other hand resting on the bottom of the hilt. She was surprised of how effortlessly the man lifted her to her feet.
"What are you doing out here by yourself? Don't you realize how dangerous it is?" The man asked Cupa."I'm lost." Cupa lied. The man looked over her carefully."Well then, you should bring some form of protection if you're doing anything which has the possibility of you getting lost. There be many dangerous things out here." He said as he pulled his diamond sword from the ground. Cupa eyed the sword with a fearful look.
The man must have noticed the fearful look in Cupas eyes."Why are you looking at my sword like that?" The man said as he swung the sword over his right shoulder, the broad side facing down. Cupa tore her gaze off the sword and looked the man in the eye."Sorry, I didn't mean to stare." She said nervously."What, did you think I was going to cut you down with it?" He asked in bewilderment.
"Kinda." Cupa truthfully said. She flinched when the man chuckled."Oh you don't have to worry about me. I'm not the kind of person who kills people just to get their stuff." He said to her in a reassuring voice. Cupa breathed a small sigh of relief."Anyway, it'll be dawn soon. There's a town," He gestured with his sword." Half a days hike that way. Well, half a days hike for me anyway. For you," He paused, looking at Cupa once over."You might make it there by nightfall if you start now." With that, the man walked opposite of where he said a village would be. Cupa, feeling awkward and bewildered by the strange encounter, walked in the direction of the village.
The first rays of dawn were just starting to paint the sky and bath the forest with a faint light when Cupa saw a small group of human men. There was only three of them. Two wore iron chest plates and leggings with leather boots and caps. The other man wore an iron helmet, chest plate and leggings with leather boots. The first two men had iron swords while the last man had a gold sword. Cupa hid behind a nearby tree as soon as she had saw them. She waited there for a minute, wondering if they had noticed her.
When Cupa peered around the tree, she did not see them. "So what is a cute girl like yourself doing out in the middle of nowhere?" A voice said, off to the side behind Cupa. She jumped and turned around to see one of the men off to her left behind her. She backed away from him only to back into the other. When Cupa jumped from him did she realized what had happend. She was surrounded by the three men. The look in their eyes made her uncomfortable.
"I was just a little lost, but I'm fine now." She said to them before she tried to step away. One of the men that was wearing a leather cap blocked her way. "Lost eh?" The man wearing the iron helmet said while grinning. Something about that mans grin unsettled Cupa. Then the other leather capped man spoke."It's been a long time since I'v had some tail."
The other leather capped man suddenly lunged forward from behind and grabbed Cupa by her wrists. Cupa opened her mouth to cry out for help when a hand clasped around her mouth, stifling her cries. While the second leather capped man held her wrists together and above her head, the first leather capped man spoke as he moved his sword closer to Cupa's chest."Not the kind of girl I normally like, but you'll to do." With that, he began to slowly cut open Cupa's jacket, starting from the top of the zipper."Now don't you move or else you'll get hurt." The man with the gold sword said as he stood off to Cupa's left, grinning. It was around a quarter of the way down the zipper where the man, with his other free hand, began to open Cupa jacket."Well what do you know, she isn't wearing a bra!" The man said while both cutting open and opening up Cupa's jacket . He had the look of a wolf eyeing an injured sheep in his eyes. Absolute panic filled Cupa's mind at this point when the man suddenly stopped and started to gag. Cupa, who was looking away from the man, looked back to his face to see a shocked expression on his face and his eyes bulging.
Cupa's eyes traveled down from his face and happend to catch sight of something glimmering. She focused on the glimmer to which she found a strange and alarming sight. Sticking out from the center of the man's chest was what looked like a diamond sword that had within it a line of red down its middle with golden branches sweeping out from it at regular intervals with a blue orb to each golden branch. Cupa also noticed the blue-white and orange-white sparks that crackled from the blade.
It was then that a familiar voice boomed in her ears."Thou shalt not rape!" The smell of burning flesh struck Cupas nose. The man coughed once more before the sword was removed from him. The man looked down at the glowing white spot in his iron chestplate where the sword had existed. Cupa was surprised at the fact that the man was still alive. The man looked back at her when an iron gaunlented hand balled into a fist connected the right side of his head. Cupa heard a sound similar to what bare rock would make if a creeper exploded on it. She felt two small, hard things hit the base of her neck while feeling something warm and wet hit her face as she watched in horror as the man's right eye popped out of his skull and his head seemed to elongate at an angle as he was sent flying.
It then occurred to Cupa as to what she had felt hit her when she took a quick glance down. On the ground near her feet were two of the mans teeth. With fringe horror did Cupa also realicze that the wet thing that had hit her face was the mans blood. The man holding her wrists release his grip from the shock of the sudden attack. The man with gold sword too seemed to be shocked at the sudden appearece of the masked man.
The other two men snapped out of their stupor. The other leather helmeted man tried to slash at the masked man but the masked man blocked it with his diamond sword. Cupa noticed something odd."Either that isn't the same sword he had a moment ago or I was just imagining it." She decided that now was her chance to escape. Cupa looked back over her shoulder as she ran. She stopped immediately when she saw how far away she was from them. "How did I cover that much distance in so little time? There's no way I can run that fast." Cupa said to herself as she watched. She was easily fifty feet from them.
Cupa got her answer when she saw the masked man punch the other leather capped man in the chest. The man was sent flying and landed twenty-four feet away. Before he could get up, the masked was over him. He slashed the leather capped man with his sword while his other free hand beat him. After two minuets, the leather capped man screamed nor moved no more. He was now nothing more than a gory mess that was half sliced and half pulped.
The man with the gold sword charged the masked man from behind, sword thrustted forward. Just when he had reached him, the masked man reached behind himself and grabbed the gold sword's hilt with one hand and the man's forearm with the other. In one motion, the masked man hurled him over his shoulder and throw him thirty-five feet away. It was then that Cupa realized that the man was thrown in her general direction. The man landed hard on his stomach. Cupa was surprised when he started to slowly get back up. As he started to push himself up, he looked at her with hate filled eyes."You." He said threateningly."When I get up, I'm going to snap your neck you bit-ARGH!" He was cut off as the masked man stepped on his back and yanked his right arm behind his back.
"What did you say you were going to do to her when you got up?" The masked asked the man in a low, menacing voice. Cupa cringed when the masked man twisted the mans arm with a pop. The man screamed in pain as his elbow was dislocated."Well?" The masked man asked the man in the same voice. Cupa detected something else besides menace in the masked mans voice; rage. He twisted the mans arm again with another pop. The man screamed in greater agony as his elbow became even more twisted and his shoulder dislocated."Did thou think that I would just stand by and let you rape this girl?" The masked man asked a little louder. The man's silence was rewarded with more twisting of his elbow.
The masked man bent over a little before speaking to the man."Now normally I don't believe in making my enemies suffer, which is why I usually give them a quick death. But," He paused, twisting the man's forearm some more as rage seeped into his voice."Scum like you, who would rape an innocent girl like her," The masked man pointed to Cupa with his free hand."Are people I will never give mercy to." With that, the masked man began to twist the man's arm at the elbow and did not stop. Cupa finally noticed something about the man's elbow region. Seeping from the iron armour plates was the mans blood. Then Cupa heard a sound other than the man's screaming. It took her a moment to realize that the strange screeching sound was the armor around the man's elbow that was being twisted. Then, with a loud heavy sheer the armor gave just as the masked man twisted the man's arm off at the elbow. The man screamed in utter agony and horror as he felt his forearm get ripped off and saw it get dropped in front of his face. The masked man touched the now bloody stump of where the mans elbow was and the blood coming from that wound lessened greatly. The masked man then stomped the man's left leg hard enough to leave a large dent in the iron legging. Cupa now wished that the mask the man was wearing wasn't broken. The look of satisfaction in those cobalt blue eyes sent chills down her spine. He watched the man a moment longer before speaking."Let you torment the innocent no more." Then the masked man turned to Cupa.
As soon as he had turned to face her, all of the malice and brutality left his eyes. He covered the fifteen feet between them in just a few long strides."Are you alright?" He asked in a gentle voice. Cupa was dumbfounded by this sudden change. She was snapped out of her stupor when he spoke again."Did they hurt you?" Cupa could see that his gaze fell upon her damaged jacket."I'm okay. They just damaged my jacket, that's all." Cupa replied nervously as a slight blush spread across her face.
The man sighed."That's good hear. I thought that I was too late." The masked man said in a relieved tone. It was then that something struck Cupa as odd."How...did you find me? Weren't you going in the opposite direction in the jungle?" The masked man's eyes suddenly looked nervous."Yeah, about that. Now don't take this the wrong way, but I was following you." He said nervously. Cupa was shocked and unnerved that this man was following her.
"Why were you following me?" Cupa asked nervously, with a trace of fear in her voice."In the jungle, I saw that you didn't have any armor or weapons to defend yourself with and I figured that whatever luck Notch had blessed you with would run out sooner or later." He answered in a serious tone."Besides," His tone became solemn."I got sick and tired of most of the lost strangers I help dieing." His eyes weren't focused on her, but rather some doleful memories that his statement had brought to mind.
He snapped out of his stupor when he caught Cupa looking at his bloody covered gaunlented hand. It was then that he realized that she had seen how brutally killed those two men and maimed the other."Sorry that you had to see that, but I absolutely hate people who rape." He scratched the back of his helmet out of nervousness. Despite his answer, Cupa was still uneasy. She didn't know weather or not if this man was insane. He apparently caught the worry in Cupas eyes."Do not worry, I bring you no harm. If I had meant to harm you, then I would have already done it." He said in a stern voice.
He then looked up once into the clear blue sky of the early morning before looking back to Cupa."Come on now." He said. Cupa was taken back."What?" She asked, bewildered as to what he meant. The man sighed."Though it may be the morning, we're still quite a ways from the village. If we get moving now, then we'll be in the village by dust." He said flatly."Oh yeah, that's right." She said as she remembered what she was doing before those men showed up. She really didn't want to be near this man, but she figured that she wouldn't be able to out run him nor over power him if she didn't follow. Nor did Cupa think it would be a wise idea to use her powers on him. After seeing what he did to those three men, Cupa didn't even want to attempt that.
With no options left, Cupa sighed and started to follow the man. They walked in silence for what seemed like a long time before the man spoke."By the way, what is you name?" Cupa was taken back by the suddenness of the question."Why do you want to know my name?" She asked a bit nervously."I'm just curious, that's all." His eyes then sifted to the ground."But it's okay if you don't want to." He said in a slightly sad tone. Cupa found it odd how different this man sounded now than what he did from before. She decided that is was safe to tell him her name."Cupa." She said a bit softly."Huh?" He cocked an eyebrow at her statement."My name is Cupa." She said a bit more clearly. Cupa thought she could feel his mood lighten up. She couldn't shake the feeling that under that mask he was smiling."That sounds like a nice name." He said while he turned to look Cupa in the eye as they walked."My name is Logan." He said with a more lively tone. There was something in his eyes that told Cupa that he was not a threat to her."Maybe," Cupa thought."Maybe I shouldn't be afraid of him at all."
It was dusk by the time the two had reached the village. By the time Logan had found a place in the village to for the next few days it was just the beginnings of night.
Notice: The reason why the paragraphs seem so short for the most part is because I actully have to write this on paper first before typing it. The reason for this is simple: I am incappable of typing from mind unto computer because of the fact that I can not type fast enough to keep the trian of thought. That is why I must write it out on paper first. Also, when I had posted this chapter, I was over 50% done with the second one. At this point, I am over 75% complete with chapter two. On paper, it's about 10 pages long on college rule paper, front to back in smallish writing. Though I will not know until it is posted, but I'm pretty sure it may contian twice of the amout of words that chapter one had, or even more. O.O I will try to write as often as I can and type as often as I can so that chapters come in frequently, but it seems that I really can only write in a school enviroment. :/ So I'm going to have to figure out a way to write at home more often than I do at school. Please, if you find any words that are not spelled correctly or sentences that seems off, like for exmaple missing a word or having the wrong form of a word; then please notify me in your review.
Also, these non-story sections will be seldom, so dont expect something like this section often. In fact, this may end up being the only one in the entire story. But only time will tell.