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Chapter 5
When the man grabbed the tarp a villager yelled "It's time! Everyone get to a safe distance! Hurry!" And everyone started to run inside, just as Michael's sword went through the man's chest.
The man's blood splattered onto Michael's face, "Are you surprised that we're the 'gifts'?"
Athena pouted at the action, she was about to strike the man when Michael suddenly went in front of her to kill him instead. 'Why did he do that? It's not like him to get in my way like that…' she wondered
"What the hell just happened? Who are these bastards?" The thieves yelled
The mercenaries slowly came from under the tarp while Michael removed the corpse from his sword.
"Everyone calm down! Let's show them how strong we are!" He yelled
A knife on a rope was tossed and slashed one of the thieves' necks, killing him on the spot. Baroona smirked and pulled it back to him with no effort at all. 'Wow… he makes it look so easy…' Athena thought.
"Who the hell are you, and why are you attacking?"
"Who are we?" Athena asked, shocked that the thieves didn't recognize their group. "We're wearing this thing and you still don't know who we are?" she said while poking at her helmet
"I don't know bitch!"
"Ok. Then we'll have to make sure you remember even in the afterlife." She said in a happy tone
"We don't know who the hell you are and you're mocking us?" One of the other thieves yelled while pulling out their swords "Let's kill them all!"
The mercenaries waited with their swords drawn. The battle was not much of a battle, the lower level mercenaries teamed up to take the thieves down. Michael jumped above one and sliced his skull in half. Athena was easily holding her own, looking even graceful while slashing through her enemies. 'That Athena… She's a lot better than she makes herself out to be…' Baroona thought, amazed at her skill and grace.
Michael smirked knowingly as he watched Athena battle out of the corner of his eye. 'Hm… I knew she had a lot of skill in her. I didn't really expect that level of grace though, considering how clumsy she normally is…'
:Inside with the villagers:
Mickey was watching from the window, amazed at the sight of real combat. "Mickey, don't look! It's too dangerous!" One of the villagers yelled.
"Dangerous?" Mickey exclaimed in an almost laughing manner "The fight… is already over!"
"What? Already!" The villagers exclaimed
:Outside:
Athena swished her sword to remove the blood, Michael pushed his last victim on his forehead to reveal the hole. "Only one left…" Baroona said while looking towards the last thief.
"Hey, you with the band-aid! Come here. Don't worry, we won't kill you." One of their fellow mercenaries said as he approached the thief.
'These bastards are too strong!' the thief thought in panic. "Screw this! I'm getting out of here!"
None of the mercenaries followed. "Running is useless." Baroona told the running man
The thief kept running though, right into another group of mercenaries and their leader. "Lead us to your headquarters… Now." He commanded
"Yes sir…" The thief said in sheer terror
:Back with Athena:
Gohu lied 'dead' on the ground. Until Athena poked his head "Gohu, the fight's over… you can stop pretending to be dead…
"What are you talking about! I wasn't pretending to be dead, I just fought their leader and passed out for a bit. That's all." Gohu yelled at her, insulted at her blunt description of what he was doing
"Liar…" Athena replied
:Thief Watchtower, Later on:
"Sigh… So boring! Let's see what's going on." A thief said while reaching for his telescope
"The air seems thick, looks like rain." His comrade said
"Huh? What's that?" the thief wondered as he caught sight of the mercenaries "Holy, so many… Hey, go tell the boss Now!" he yelled
His comrade picked his ear, not understanding what was going on "Why?"
"It's the enemy! There are so many!"
:Inside Thief Headquarters:
"Boss, the enemy is coming! A large number of enemy soldiers are coming" the thief from the watch tower yelled
"What! This is bad!" His comrades replied
Their leader brought his fist to his chair and yelled "Shut up! Who gave you permission to talk? Everyone calm down and call the Budumok*! From what army are they?" he asked the thief that brought the news
"Um... There was no flag, but they had a snake symbol on their helmets."
"What? No flag? It's probably a fake army."
"Snake symbol…" A man with a scar on his face and two swords at his belt, who just entered said "That means they are the Tample Mercenaries."
"Ah. The Budumok have arrived. Tample Mercenaries, eh? Ah, I remember now. Carnival, weren't you in the Tample Mercenaries once?" The boss said as he was watching a fly that wouldn't leave him
"Yeah, I was." The man with the scar replied
"This thing keeps bothering me…" The boss started. He didn't need to continue, Carnival had already took out his sword and swung at the fly in question
"You are very skilled with your sword. Are the Tample Mercenaries strong too?"
"They used to be. But they're probably trash now." Carnival replied with a smirk
*Budumok: Second in command
OOO. Carnival just smack talked Athena, Michael, and Baroona… Well, wait till next chapter when he gets quite a surprise…
