Author's Note: I apologize for not getting to this sooner. It has been a pretty rough week. :/ But either way, here is the next chapter! We meet a new character in this one so, read on! Please review! Thanks!

Chapter Ten: Two Faces... One Coin.

After Kade had separated himself from the rest of the group he had chosen a player-bounty quest to follow-up on. Reports have said that a PKer has been running rampant the past two floors and needed to be stopped. The client, family of the recently injured... He approached the area where the quest report said the man or woman would be waiting. That is when he saw her, a beautiful young lady. But something was greatly troubling her. Kade automatically knew that this was my client. Kade walked up to the young lady and asked, "Excuse me... But are you the one that filed this quest?" Kade sent her a headline of the quest.

"Yes... Are you willing to help? So far no-one has taken the quest. All of them saying that I was mad for even wanting someone to go after the person." The young lady said.

Kade sat down across from the lady and said, "Well... I am very interested. And what may I ask is your name young lady?"

The girl said, "Angela... Ang for short..."

"Okay Ang... First tell me, what happened..."

15 minutes later...

Ang finished explaining, "And then I posted the quest asking if anyone can hunt this man down... I don't want anyone else to get hurt..."

Kade sat back and breathed... "This guy is someone that I can't take lightly. It sounds like he and I are stacked the same way... Except for the fact that he uses two axes..." he thought.

Ang asked, "So what do you say? Do you think you can help me out? I only have 500 col to spare..."

Kade stood up and stretched, "Well... You keep the money. This guy sounds like a monster... It would be wrong for me to walk away. You said that he was last spotted an hour ago outside of town?"

Ang simply nodded.

"Then I will be back before too long. If not send this person a message saying to continue without me. Make sure to put at the end, Codeword: Pheonix. She will know what it means... Thank you..." Kade said as he gave the young lady Sam's player info.

Kade then walked away from the table rolling his right arm in his socket. He then said under his breath, "I hope I make it back..."

Once outside the town…

Kade walked the roads, looking for this killer… Ang said that he would probably be out looting someone else by now. Kade heard shrieks coming from over a hill. He broke out into a run trying to crest the hill.

Upon reaching the top of the hill, he saw the source of the disturbance… Down in the valley below was a group of players who had apparently been trying to power-level. There were about six of them… Four of them were guys, two girls. One was apparently not a member of the group because the other five were focusing on the one man. At first I thought that they may have been ganging up on the single guy, but I soon found that I was mistaken. I recognized the solo-player as the killer Ang had described… He was fighting with such ferocity. From the sound of the clashing metal I heard the sound of one man yell out, "Run!"

The two girls started running towards the town, along with one guy… This left two guys behind. As the two started to move forward the single man activated a sword skill, slashing the two and bringing them to the ground… He then started after the rest of the group, his dual axes gleaming in the setting sun.

Kade drew his spear as he was running. When he was just a few feet from the right side of the man he yelled, "Hey!" A split-second after which he layed into the man with the shaft of his spear, sending him sprawling. The man turned in mid-skip across the ground and opened into a three-point stance. Upon observing the man Kade noticed a deep murderous look behind his eyes. He felt a tinge of fear, but did not allow it show.

Kade said to the man, "Are you the one that has been killing innocent players?!"

The man stood up and then belted out a malicious laugh. He then said, "Isn't that obvious?" He then broke out into a run, charging at Kade.

The man swung the axe in his right hand, Kade side-stepped it, but only to be caught with the second strike. Kade drew back in pain and took a few steps backwards… He was not used to handling dual-wielding adversaries… Kade took a breath and asked the man, "What is your name? If you are to kill me, I would like to know the name of my better so that I may hunt you down in the next life if given the chance."

The man smiled and said, "My name is Fury… Or at least I think it is… It doesn't matter… And I want to know your name so I can find you in the next life as well… And then kill you again."

Kade smiled back at Fury for his blind confidence, "My name is Kade… Now shall we?"

The man nodded and broke out into a run, Kade switched his tactics twisting and jabbing, pivoting and slashing. Each stroke was either parried or blocked in some fashion.

Kade said, "You are no amateur… That's for sure."

Fury yelled, "Unfortunately you are an amateur!"

Upon yelling Fury slashed horizontally with both of his axes. Kade ducked down and came up with a rising butt stroke, catching Fury on the end of his chin.

Fury backed away, touching the spot that Kade had just made contact with. "I guess you aren't and amateur. But that still doesn't matter!" Fury activated a sword skill, his axes glowing a crimson red he leaped around and flipped about, delivering choice strikes here and there. Most of his attempts were warded off, however a few made contact. As Fury went to leap over Kade's head, Kade reached up and grasped the man's foot. Pulling him downward, Kade slammed Fury into the ground.

But Fury was far from done, while lying on his back he torqued his body and swiped at Kade with an axe at the same time. Kade was barely able to get out of the striking range, the very edge of the blade glided it's way across his shin. It was a weak cut though because of how little it penetrated. Kade looked to his HP bar, he still had four-fifths left. And thanks to the people he was fighting before, his opponent had only half left. Kade reared his spear back and then jabbed it at Fury. Fury easily parried this and moved into striking range. Kade tried to counter by releasing his rear hand from the shaft and attempting to punch Fury, but Fury continued to move instead of stopping to attack. Fury had moved behind Kade now and took both axes, making an X-shaped cut across the broad of Kade's back. The hit was critical and both did substantial damage. Kade was now down to a quarter health. Kade pivoted on his right leg and sweeped the feet of Fury using the butt-end of the spear. As Fury fell to the ground, Kade raised his spear above his head and began to bring the tip of his spear toward the man. But he stopped just inches from the man's face.

The expression behind Fury's eyes had changed… They were no longer murderous, no, behind the glassy surface lurked distress and grief. Kade shot at him sharply, "Who are you really?!"

The man stuttered and said, "M-My na-na-name is Vince… What happened? Did he hurt someone?"

Kade couldn't believe what was happening, it was a possibility that it was a façade to save his life… But Kade didn't believe it. Kade then said, "Yes you did… You have killed 8 players… Get up…"

The man got to his feet and began his story…

5 minutes later…

Kade asked, "So you have a split personality? You alter ego being this Fury character?"

Vin nodded…

"Wow… That's some pretty rough stuff. You are a victim yourself… Come with me… You have some explaining to do to some people."

Vin and Kade then walked back to the town