The women scream in fear at the sight of the boy covered in blood.
The sight is quite terrifying.
A young boy, with weapons in both hands and bloodstained clothing. The still bleeding corpse at his foot adds to the terror of the scene.
"Shss. I'm not here to hurt you." Ikarus tries to sound reassuring.
It doesn't do much.
"Over there!"
Ikarus turns his head, the remaining bandits running towards him.
He tightens his grip on his weapons and bows slightly.
The first bandit tries to cut him in half with a halberd twice his size.
He raises his sword and blocks the blow.
Clang!
The sound echoes throughout the camp.
The two struggle. The bandit, a tall man about two meters tall full of muscles, tries to overpower Ikarus. The Senju easily wins the contest of strength and the giant bandit backs up a few meters. Ikarus lunges forward, leaping to the giant's side and thrusting his sword into his neck.
The giant falls to the ground with a loud crash.
"Damn monster"
"Go get him!"
"You're not getting away assassin!"
"Yes! No one challenges the Bloodbrothers!"
`29 down, 10 left. '
`These idiots only know how to talk. I've killed two third of them still think they're gonna win`
Three bandits lunge at him.
The first attempts to stab him with an iron-tipped wooden spear. Ikarus jumps to the side dodging the blow. He tries to move towards the bandit but another man's ax blow makes him take a few steps back.
The hairs on his neck stand on end.
***Flashbacks***
He feels the hairs on his neck rise but lost in his arrogance he ignores his instincts.
FUUSSHHH
"Ah!"
Ikarus screams in pain - he feels a prick in the back of his right shoulder, in the scapula. His grip on his sword de él loosens and he jumps to the side dodging the swordsman's slash-
FUSSSSSHHHH
"!"
He feels another prick, this time on his side.
He looks down and sees an arrow sticking out of his side from him.
`I've been shot...`
***End Flashback***
He listens to his Spidey/shinobi-sense and jumps to the left.
FUUUSSSHHH
The bandits don't give him time to breathe, another one lunges at him with a mace in the air. Ikarus blocks the mace with his sword and quickly plunges the dagger into his throat.
`30 down, 9 left`
As the bandit gurgles blood the shinobi feels his hair stand on end again.
Ikarus grabs the bandit still bleeding from his shirt and pulls his body towards him, turns and uses him as a human shield. He hears the sound of arrows piercing flesh. He moves his human shield a little to the right and looks at the archers, there are four of them.
He advances towards them with the human shield raised.
The other bandits look at him in disbelief.
"What the hell?"
"For the gods..."
"..."
A bandit snaps out of shock and attacks the shinobi.
He attacks Ikarus from behind with an axe blow. Without turning around Ikarus raises his sword above his head and blocks the blow. He wins the struggle and quickly spins around and plunges the sword into his chest.
`31 down, 8 left`
Wasting no time he puts his sword back in his sheath and grabs the bandit's body before he hits the ground.
He concentrates chakra in his hand improving the grip on the corpse. He turns to the archers and throws the corpse at them.
He hits one of them directly, the archer is knocked to the ground with the corpse on top of him.
He throws the second corpse drifting to another archer.
All the remaining bandits gape at him.
"What the-?"
Giving them no time to react as the shinobi runs towards the archers, he throws his dagger at one of them. The dagger hits him in the chest.
Ikarus jumps towards the other archer, turning his body in the air and readying his sword.
With a horizontal cut he cuts off the archer's head.
His head flies a couple of meters landing at the feet of two other bandits.
"AAAAHHH!"
The Senju ignores the cry of terror and approaches the fallen archers. He plunges his sword into their chest killing them. He then walks over to the other archer and picks up the dagger.
The bandit is still alive, Ikarus looks into his eyes as he pulls his dagger from his chest.
`35 down, 4 left`
"Pl...e..s He..p"
He ignores the dying bandit and walks over to the two bandits who lunged at him minutes before.
`A spear and an axe`
Only three bandits remain in sight. Those two and another armed with a whip.
Seeing the shinobi walk towards them the bandits drop their weapons and kneel before him.
"Please have mercy!"
"Spare our lives!"
"We'll do whatever you want-"
"- Aye, I'll follow you-"
Ikarus doesn't let them continue wailing and begging for their lives. He cuts off their heads.
He looks at their corpses.
He doesn't feel anything.
Neither pity nor remorse.
"Scum like that doesn't deserve the air they breathe."
The Bloodbrothers awoke the sleeping assassin within Ikarus. It should not be forgotten that Riku Senju was a powerful shinobi specializing in assassination.
Ikarus ignores the carnage around him and walks towards the large tent.
The leader's tent is quite large.
`Its interior has to be bigger than my room on earth`
He opens the flap and goes inside.
The scene before him is not what he expected.
In front of him is a young giant dressed in black pants and a white shirt, in his hands a greatsword is held firmly. Behind him, half hiding, are two girls.
The girls are young, the youngest about nine years old and the oldest about eleven or twelve years old.
Their clothes are old and threadbare, their faces somewhat dirty but they have no visible injuries.
"Torrhen." He accidentally blurts out the boy's name.
"Do you know who I am?" The young man is somewhat puzzled. "Then you know who my brother is. If you touch these girls you will pay!" He tries to brag but the tremor in his voice betrays his fear.
Ikarus sighs and puts away his weapons taking the boy by surprise.
He only knew the boy for a little while but his impression of him was quite positive.
`If he's really just a kid who got mixed up with the wrong crowd I'll give him a chance- Those girls weren't beaten or... They feel safe with him, he didn't hurt them. `
"I'm looking for Frosteye."
Torrhen lowers his sword a little and looks at him strangely.
"Frosteye?"
"Yeah, I thought I'd find him here but I see he's not in the camp"
"I-if I tell you where he is will you let all the women go?" Torrhen squares his shoulders and tries to appear more courageous.
"The women?" Ikarus looks at him strangely.
"If you don't let them go I'll kill you-" The boy tries to threaten him, the shinobi cuts him off.
"I think there's a misunderstanding here. I don't know who you think I am or what you think my intentions are but you're wrong. I mean no harm to these women. My business is only with the Bloodbrothers and Frosteye."
"Wait. Aren't you Brandon Smallfoot?!"
"Who?"
