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Copyright: I own Cadoris so please ask if you want to use him.
A Final Fight
Cadoris was right about the next three fights that he had. None of them were that tough and he won with quite a bit of ease. He only took two more wounds out of the three fights and none of them were too serious. Of course his movements were becoming sluggish from the loss of blood he had sustained.
Cadoris had fought another Maggog and a couple other races that he didn't know. He just fought them and killed them because he had one goal and that was to save his friend no matter the cost to himself. He could deal with anything that was done to him but if anything happened to her he couldn't be able to live with himself.
Cadoris found himself liking the women who were there to greet him after every match and were there to sew closed his wounds after every fight of course his next fight would be his last one way or another. He had been told that the next man he would face was undefeated in more than four years of fighting in the arena. He had retired but had came back for one last fight in order to fight the little human who had dared to enter his arena.
Cadoris was sitting in the room that used to be one of his opponent's but was now his. The woman Lorianna was stitching his cuts back together and she was pursing her lips just like a mother would at a disobedient child who had just injured himself. She shook her head and Cadoris had to smile. "You are going to get yourself killed you fool. Why are you even fighting in this tournament. No human has a chance of winning," she said as the needle flicked in and out of his flesh. They didn't have none of the fancy machines that the other's had so Cadoris had to settle for old fashioned stitches.
Cadoris decided that he should answer the lady since she was helping him out. "I may die but that would be better than doing nothing to help a friend out. You see I have a friend and her name is Trance. She is being held prisoner by a nightsider who said that the only way that I could get her free is by winning this tournament. I intend to do that because I will not let her be sold into slavery or any other type of servitude," he said vehemently.
"Who is she and why does she mean so much to you," Lorianna asked quietly.
"She is a friend as I said and all my friends mean that much to me. I would die for them if it would keep them safe," Cadoris said.
"She is a lucky girl to have a friend like you," Lorianna said as she turned away so that Cadoris couldn't see the tears that started to fall.
Cadoris looked over to her and noticed that her shoulders shook with suppressed sobs. He didn't know why but he felt as if it was his fault and decided that he had to do whatever he could to make her feel better. Cadoris reached over and put his hand on her shoulder and turned her to face him. Cadoris saw that tears were making their way down her face and he reached up and brushed them aside. "There is no need for tears my lady for I have what I will ask for when I win. I will ask for your freedom so that you may live the life that you want to. I will ask for all of you to have your freedom and it is something that I feel they will not refuse me," Cadoris said as he pulled her close and held her while her tears soaked the front of his shirt.
Cadoris held her until she stopped crying and then he was called to the arena. He left her then with a kill on the hand and the words, "I will return and when I do I will have your freedom. I will not lose I promise you that."
The women watched him go and they felt that it would be the last time that they would see him alive. They liked the man for he was a kind and gentle man except for when he fought. They wanted him to live but it would be next to impossible for him to beat the opponent that he had to fight. They were glad that he was thinking of them but they knew that if he won he wouldn't ask for their freedom and so the women went and sat down and waited for their new master to be dead or return to them.
* * * * *
Trance couldn't believe that Cadoris was still alive and had made it to the final battle. She knew that he was good but she had had no idea that he was such an exceptional warrior. He had bested some of the more violent races and he had done it with ease. She was cheering for him in every fight and she hoped that he would win not only for herself but because she didn't want him to die.
She noticed that he had taken many wounds but that he didn't show any outward sign, except him slowing down, that the wounds bothered him. She was impressed by how he didn't even notice the wounds when he took them. The more she watched him the more sure she was feeling something for him. She felt responsible for him and yet she couldn't do anything for him. It was the other way around and he was doing everything in his power to help her out of a tight spot.
Trance was just worried that Cadoris was not going to be able to win the final fight since she had already seen what he would have to fight and it didn't look promising. She was filled with excitement no matter how much she wished that she wasn't but she was also filled with dread because she didn't know if her new friend would live past the day. She wanted to know more about him and other such things. She wanted to learn about a time that was long gone and about the way people acted in that time. She wanted to learn about the plants from his time and other such things.
Trance closed her eyes and rested while she waited for the fight to start. She didn't want to see the way the other spectators cheered and booed when the combatants came out. She was sickened by the way everyone reacted but she had to put up with it because she was a prisoner. She wished that she was anywhere but where she was at the moment. She was nearly asleep from exhaustion when she felt a prodding in her ribs. She hadn't slept for over twenty hours and it was taking it's toll on her. She felt heavy and her eyes wanted to stay closed but the prodding was insistant. It was then accompanied by a voice that she knew only too well from her time near the nightsider, "Wake up you don't want to miss this. My warrior will destroy the little human and then you will be mine. Also I wanted you to see the reaction on the face of your friend when he comes face to face with Bull."
Trance looked and saw that Bull was already in the arena since he was the champion or had been she had been told. He had been champion for more than two years before he retired. As she watched the crowd jeered as the doors opened and Cadoris came out with his usual calm. He walked over to stand right across from his opponent and just waited as did everyone else in the arena.
* * * * *
"All right folks and other creatures we have here our final battle of the evening. It is going to be huge and bets will be great. Men will become rich while others lose their lives. IT is our Final Fight," The announcer blared over the intercom so that everyone could hear. Cadoris hated announcers, they made everything out to be much worse than it really was.
"We have our champion Bull who is undefeated," at those words the crowd erupted and Cadoris didn't really care. "He is our champion the champion of the different races. He is undefeated in more than two years of combat!"
"We have our challenger. He is a human and to be quite truthful I don't think that he can win. He has surprised us all and he goes by the name of Darkblade!" Cadoris was surprised to find that the crowd actually cheered for him. He hadn't been playing to the crowd and he didn't care what they thought of him but it was a good feeling to be cheered instead of booed. That was when he deigned to notice his opponent.
Cadoris stood across from his opponent, his last obstacle, and was stunned. Stunned was the only word for what he saw standing across form him. He didn't let it show but he was stunned. The reason he was stunned was because standing across from him was a creature that he had been told was nothing more than a myth. Standing across from him was a creature that had horns protruding from its head with straggly brown hair covering it's body. It stood over seven feet tall and was more heavily muscled than any man. The creature had large eyes and a large black nose that was flattened to it's face. Instead of feet it had hooves that were black. Cadoris blinked his eyes and when he opened them still standing where it was before was his opponent a Minotaur.
Cadoris didn't know what to think but he knew that this fight wasn't going to be as easy as he had hoped. He didn't ever dream that he would be fighting a creature out of myth. He was not going to give up but if the myths were true then the Minotaur was an amazing fighter.
Cadoris stood with his hands on his sword hilts and waited for his opponent to make his move as he always did. His opponent though held a very large sword in one hand a large axe in other. Cadoris knew that if he was going to win then it would have to be with his skill and with his speed.
The Minotaur charged forward and as it neared Cadoris it lowered it's head and tried to skewer him. Cadoris wasn't expecting that and so just barely swayed aside from the horns that would have pierced his lungs. Cadoris watched as the Minotaur pulled up short next to where Trance was and bow to the nightsider that was beside her. The man smiled and gave the Minotaur a pat on the head and he tied a kerchief to his horn! The man was honoring him as a champion! As his champion! Cadoris couldn't believe it.
The Minotaur turned back around and looked at Cadoris. It's eyes were bloodshot and fevered with anger. It ran forward and swung the sword in a cut that would have taken Cadoris across the chest had he not ducked it. But as he was crouched the axe came down in an overhand chop and Cadoris just barely rolled out of the way as the axe buried itself into the sand of the floor. Cadoris rolled to his feet and glared at his opponent. This was going to be a lot harder than he had hoped.
The Minotaur started to play to the crowd and so Cadoris walked over to Trance slowly and kept his eye on the Minotaur waiting for him to charge and yet he didn't. The crowd fell silent as Cadoris walked right up to Trance who had a seat at near floor level on the first row. The crowd was wondering what he was going to do and they held their breath in anticipation. They had been kept on their toes by the human and they were starting to like him even though many wouldn't have admitted it.
Cadoris knelt in the sand in front of Trance and put his hand to his heart. He looked up at her and said, "My lady it seems that my opponent is championing this creature. If that is the case then I must champion someone as well and I would champion no one but you."
Trance couldn't believe what Cadoris was doing. It was absurd and quite frankly it was embarrassing. She looked around but everyone was staring at her waiting for her to give him an answer but she couldn't at least not yet. He was offering himself to her she knew that much. He was offering his services to her for this fight to champion her and it was unheard of in the tournament for anyone to champion anyone especially since the losing gladiator would cost the person who he was championing their life. Trance though didn't care about that because she would rather be dead then be a slave.
Trance smiled down at Cadoris even though she didn't feel like smiling. He had his head down and was waiting for her answer and so was his opponent. She reached up and pulled the ribbon from her hair and said, "Very well Darkblade. I shall let you be my champion and here wear this ribbon as a token of my favor." She knew that she had to say that to make it official. She also didn't have to worry about speaking loudly because the arena had speakers set all over where everyone could hear what she had said and what Cadoris had said.
Cadoris stood up and walked to her. She was so beautiful he decided as he stood there waiting for her to put the ribbon around his neck. She leaned forward over the railing and wrapped the ribbon around his neck and kissed him on the cheek to the roar of the crowd. At that time Cadoris heard a snort behind him and he spun just in time to see the sword descending towards his neck. Cadoris rolled forward and the sword whistled by where he had just been. Cadoris came back to his feet and faced his opponent who had already turned around and was coming for him again.
Cadoris shoved his blade down in the sand and waited. As his opponent drew nearer he flipped his blade up and the sand on the blade flew up towards the Minotaurs face but the Minotaur ducked the sand. That was all the opening that Cadoris needed to go on the offensive. He charged forward and cut down at the minotaur who barely parried the blade before it would have hit him in the side. Cadoris thrust that blade forward and it sliced along the ear of the minotaur who growled at shoved Cadoris back as their weapons parted.
"I will enjoy killing you human," the minotaur growled as it stalked forward this time more wary.
The charged each other and their weapons clanged together with the sound of steel against steel muted by the thunder that was the crowd. The minotaur and Cadoris had their weapons locked in front of them and the minotaur tried to head butt Cadoris who moved his head to the side but only partially. The horn hit Cadoris on the side of the head and sent him reeling. The minotaur attacked in full force then and swung the axe in a cross cut for Cadoris as he thrust with his sword where he hoped Cadoris would be.
Cadoris jumped back though instead of ducking and both weapons missed him except for the sword which just barely pricked him in the chest. Cadoris felt blood flowing down his arms from his earlier wounds and he felt blood trickling down his head from taking a horn to the head. He was definitely not finding this an easy fight.
The minotuar bellowed out a blood-curdling yell and charged yet again and as the sword came in a slash for his chest Cadoris spun on his heel and the sword passed where he had been but the minotuar brought his sword around in a reverse cut and Cadoris was just not fast enough from blood loss to get out of the way. The blade cut into Cadoris's side and Cadoris fell to his knees. The blade had traveled until it had hit his bones and then had stopped. Blood flowed down his side and down his leg but Cadoris wasn't thinking about that.
Cadoris smiled at his opponent who looked surprised by that and then Cadoris whipped his sword up in a underhanded cut that caught the Minotaur by surprise and split it's chin. The cut was not a bad one but it was a cut and the minotaur had never suffered a wound before in it's life.
Cadoris stuck one of his blades in the ground and forced himself to his feet. He was in a lot of pain now but he would have to deal with it or lose. The minotaur was growling a spittle flew from it's mouth. It's eyes were almost completely red now and Cadoris couldn't do anything but laugh. He found it funny that he had angered a creature that he shouldn't even be fighting since it was nothing more than a myth.
The minotuar took the laugh the wrong way and charged forward and slashed with both weapons. Cadoris leaped back and then back again from each cut. Cadoris soon found himself pressed up against the wall and as the blade of the axe was desceding he leaped aside. Cadoris heard a scream and looked over to see that the axe had just missed hitting Trance. Cadoris couldn't believe that he had almost gotten her killed. He was struck motionless by what he saw. The axe was buried in the seat right next to her and it had cut her arm slightly.
Cadoris lost it at that moment and charged forward without making a sound. The minotuar turned rage filled eyes to him but it wasn't going to stop Cadoris now that he was angry. The Minotaur cut and thrust with his blade and scored a couple more hits on Cadoris who wasn't trying all that hard to get out of the way. One cut he took to his temple and another to his thigh but they didn't slow him a bit not even when the blood dripped into his eye.
Cadoris was waiting for one mistake and he would then capitalize on it. The Minotaur thrust with it's sword and put it's weight behind it thinking that Cadoris wouldn't be able to get out of the way. Cadoris waited until the last second and spun away from the thrust and did a full circle spin and brought his own blade down on the minotaur's sword near it's hand. The sword was knocked from the minotaur's hands and Cadoris brought his other blade around in a cut and traced a line across his opponet's throat. As the blood gushed Cadoris stood there watching.
The minotaur released it's hold on it's axe which had been useless as a defense for the minotuar had been off balance and couldn't have wielded the axe properly. It was also in it's other hand and couldn't have brought it across it's body. Cadoris caught the minotaur's throat in his had as he dropped one of his blades and hissed into it's face, "You hurt a friend of mine. When you did that you died. Now I will finish you quickly." With those words Cadoris tightened his grip on the minotaurs throat and pulled his opponents throat out ending the minotaur's suffering.
Copyright: I own Cadoris so please ask if you want to use him.
A Final Fight
Cadoris was right about the next three fights that he had. None of them were that tough and he won with quite a bit of ease. He only took two more wounds out of the three fights and none of them were too serious. Of course his movements were becoming sluggish from the loss of blood he had sustained.
Cadoris had fought another Maggog and a couple other races that he didn't know. He just fought them and killed them because he had one goal and that was to save his friend no matter the cost to himself. He could deal with anything that was done to him but if anything happened to her he couldn't be able to live with himself.
Cadoris found himself liking the women who were there to greet him after every match and were there to sew closed his wounds after every fight of course his next fight would be his last one way or another. He had been told that the next man he would face was undefeated in more than four years of fighting in the arena. He had retired but had came back for one last fight in order to fight the little human who had dared to enter his arena.
Cadoris was sitting in the room that used to be one of his opponent's but was now his. The woman Lorianna was stitching his cuts back together and she was pursing her lips just like a mother would at a disobedient child who had just injured himself. She shook her head and Cadoris had to smile. "You are going to get yourself killed you fool. Why are you even fighting in this tournament. No human has a chance of winning," she said as the needle flicked in and out of his flesh. They didn't have none of the fancy machines that the other's had so Cadoris had to settle for old fashioned stitches.
Cadoris decided that he should answer the lady since she was helping him out. "I may die but that would be better than doing nothing to help a friend out. You see I have a friend and her name is Trance. She is being held prisoner by a nightsider who said that the only way that I could get her free is by winning this tournament. I intend to do that because I will not let her be sold into slavery or any other type of servitude," he said vehemently.
"Who is she and why does she mean so much to you," Lorianna asked quietly.
"She is a friend as I said and all my friends mean that much to me. I would die for them if it would keep them safe," Cadoris said.
"She is a lucky girl to have a friend like you," Lorianna said as she turned away so that Cadoris couldn't see the tears that started to fall.
Cadoris looked over to her and noticed that her shoulders shook with suppressed sobs. He didn't know why but he felt as if it was his fault and decided that he had to do whatever he could to make her feel better. Cadoris reached over and put his hand on her shoulder and turned her to face him. Cadoris saw that tears were making their way down her face and he reached up and brushed them aside. "There is no need for tears my lady for I have what I will ask for when I win. I will ask for your freedom so that you may live the life that you want to. I will ask for all of you to have your freedom and it is something that I feel they will not refuse me," Cadoris said as he pulled her close and held her while her tears soaked the front of his shirt.
Cadoris held her until she stopped crying and then he was called to the arena. He left her then with a kill on the hand and the words, "I will return and when I do I will have your freedom. I will not lose I promise you that."
The women watched him go and they felt that it would be the last time that they would see him alive. They liked the man for he was a kind and gentle man except for when he fought. They wanted him to live but it would be next to impossible for him to beat the opponent that he had to fight. They were glad that he was thinking of them but they knew that if he won he wouldn't ask for their freedom and so the women went and sat down and waited for their new master to be dead or return to them.
* * * * *
Trance couldn't believe that Cadoris was still alive and had made it to the final battle. She knew that he was good but she had had no idea that he was such an exceptional warrior. He had bested some of the more violent races and he had done it with ease. She was cheering for him in every fight and she hoped that he would win not only for herself but because she didn't want him to die.
She noticed that he had taken many wounds but that he didn't show any outward sign, except him slowing down, that the wounds bothered him. She was impressed by how he didn't even notice the wounds when he took them. The more she watched him the more sure she was feeling something for him. She felt responsible for him and yet she couldn't do anything for him. It was the other way around and he was doing everything in his power to help her out of a tight spot.
Trance was just worried that Cadoris was not going to be able to win the final fight since she had already seen what he would have to fight and it didn't look promising. She was filled with excitement no matter how much she wished that she wasn't but she was also filled with dread because she didn't know if her new friend would live past the day. She wanted to know more about him and other such things. She wanted to learn about a time that was long gone and about the way people acted in that time. She wanted to learn about the plants from his time and other such things.
Trance closed her eyes and rested while she waited for the fight to start. She didn't want to see the way the other spectators cheered and booed when the combatants came out. She was sickened by the way everyone reacted but she had to put up with it because she was a prisoner. She wished that she was anywhere but where she was at the moment. She was nearly asleep from exhaustion when she felt a prodding in her ribs. She hadn't slept for over twenty hours and it was taking it's toll on her. She felt heavy and her eyes wanted to stay closed but the prodding was insistant. It was then accompanied by a voice that she knew only too well from her time near the nightsider, "Wake up you don't want to miss this. My warrior will destroy the little human and then you will be mine. Also I wanted you to see the reaction on the face of your friend when he comes face to face with Bull."
Trance looked and saw that Bull was already in the arena since he was the champion or had been she had been told. He had been champion for more than two years before he retired. As she watched the crowd jeered as the doors opened and Cadoris came out with his usual calm. He walked over to stand right across from his opponent and just waited as did everyone else in the arena.
* * * * *
"All right folks and other creatures we have here our final battle of the evening. It is going to be huge and bets will be great. Men will become rich while others lose their lives. IT is our Final Fight," The announcer blared over the intercom so that everyone could hear. Cadoris hated announcers, they made everything out to be much worse than it really was.
"We have our champion Bull who is undefeated," at those words the crowd erupted and Cadoris didn't really care. "He is our champion the champion of the different races. He is undefeated in more than two years of combat!"
"We have our challenger. He is a human and to be quite truthful I don't think that he can win. He has surprised us all and he goes by the name of Darkblade!" Cadoris was surprised to find that the crowd actually cheered for him. He hadn't been playing to the crowd and he didn't care what they thought of him but it was a good feeling to be cheered instead of booed. That was when he deigned to notice his opponent.
Cadoris stood across from his opponent, his last obstacle, and was stunned. Stunned was the only word for what he saw standing across form him. He didn't let it show but he was stunned. The reason he was stunned was because standing across from him was a creature that he had been told was nothing more than a myth. Standing across from him was a creature that had horns protruding from its head with straggly brown hair covering it's body. It stood over seven feet tall and was more heavily muscled than any man. The creature had large eyes and a large black nose that was flattened to it's face. Instead of feet it had hooves that were black. Cadoris blinked his eyes and when he opened them still standing where it was before was his opponent a Minotaur.
Cadoris didn't know what to think but he knew that this fight wasn't going to be as easy as he had hoped. He didn't ever dream that he would be fighting a creature out of myth. He was not going to give up but if the myths were true then the Minotaur was an amazing fighter.
Cadoris stood with his hands on his sword hilts and waited for his opponent to make his move as he always did. His opponent though held a very large sword in one hand a large axe in other. Cadoris knew that if he was going to win then it would have to be with his skill and with his speed.
The Minotaur charged forward and as it neared Cadoris it lowered it's head and tried to skewer him. Cadoris wasn't expecting that and so just barely swayed aside from the horns that would have pierced his lungs. Cadoris watched as the Minotaur pulled up short next to where Trance was and bow to the nightsider that was beside her. The man smiled and gave the Minotaur a pat on the head and he tied a kerchief to his horn! The man was honoring him as a champion! As his champion! Cadoris couldn't believe it.
The Minotaur turned back around and looked at Cadoris. It's eyes were bloodshot and fevered with anger. It ran forward and swung the sword in a cut that would have taken Cadoris across the chest had he not ducked it. But as he was crouched the axe came down in an overhand chop and Cadoris just barely rolled out of the way as the axe buried itself into the sand of the floor. Cadoris rolled to his feet and glared at his opponent. This was going to be a lot harder than he had hoped.
The Minotaur started to play to the crowd and so Cadoris walked over to Trance slowly and kept his eye on the Minotaur waiting for him to charge and yet he didn't. The crowd fell silent as Cadoris walked right up to Trance who had a seat at near floor level on the first row. The crowd was wondering what he was going to do and they held their breath in anticipation. They had been kept on their toes by the human and they were starting to like him even though many wouldn't have admitted it.
Cadoris knelt in the sand in front of Trance and put his hand to his heart. He looked up at her and said, "My lady it seems that my opponent is championing this creature. If that is the case then I must champion someone as well and I would champion no one but you."
Trance couldn't believe what Cadoris was doing. It was absurd and quite frankly it was embarrassing. She looked around but everyone was staring at her waiting for her to give him an answer but she couldn't at least not yet. He was offering himself to her she knew that much. He was offering his services to her for this fight to champion her and it was unheard of in the tournament for anyone to champion anyone especially since the losing gladiator would cost the person who he was championing their life. Trance though didn't care about that because she would rather be dead then be a slave.
Trance smiled down at Cadoris even though she didn't feel like smiling. He had his head down and was waiting for her answer and so was his opponent. She reached up and pulled the ribbon from her hair and said, "Very well Darkblade. I shall let you be my champion and here wear this ribbon as a token of my favor." She knew that she had to say that to make it official. She also didn't have to worry about speaking loudly because the arena had speakers set all over where everyone could hear what she had said and what Cadoris had said.
Cadoris stood up and walked to her. She was so beautiful he decided as he stood there waiting for her to put the ribbon around his neck. She leaned forward over the railing and wrapped the ribbon around his neck and kissed him on the cheek to the roar of the crowd. At that time Cadoris heard a snort behind him and he spun just in time to see the sword descending towards his neck. Cadoris rolled forward and the sword whistled by where he had just been. Cadoris came back to his feet and faced his opponent who had already turned around and was coming for him again.
Cadoris shoved his blade down in the sand and waited. As his opponent drew nearer he flipped his blade up and the sand on the blade flew up towards the Minotaurs face but the Minotaur ducked the sand. That was all the opening that Cadoris needed to go on the offensive. He charged forward and cut down at the minotaur who barely parried the blade before it would have hit him in the side. Cadoris thrust that blade forward and it sliced along the ear of the minotaur who growled at shoved Cadoris back as their weapons parted.
"I will enjoy killing you human," the minotaur growled as it stalked forward this time more wary.
The charged each other and their weapons clanged together with the sound of steel against steel muted by the thunder that was the crowd. The minotaur and Cadoris had their weapons locked in front of them and the minotaur tried to head butt Cadoris who moved his head to the side but only partially. The horn hit Cadoris on the side of the head and sent him reeling. The minotaur attacked in full force then and swung the axe in a cross cut for Cadoris as he thrust with his sword where he hoped Cadoris would be.
Cadoris jumped back though instead of ducking and both weapons missed him except for the sword which just barely pricked him in the chest. Cadoris felt blood flowing down his arms from his earlier wounds and he felt blood trickling down his head from taking a horn to the head. He was definitely not finding this an easy fight.
The minotuar bellowed out a blood-curdling yell and charged yet again and as the sword came in a slash for his chest Cadoris spun on his heel and the sword passed where he had been but the minotuar brought his sword around in a reverse cut and Cadoris was just not fast enough from blood loss to get out of the way. The blade cut into Cadoris's side and Cadoris fell to his knees. The blade had traveled until it had hit his bones and then had stopped. Blood flowed down his side and down his leg but Cadoris wasn't thinking about that.
Cadoris smiled at his opponent who looked surprised by that and then Cadoris whipped his sword up in a underhanded cut that caught the Minotaur by surprise and split it's chin. The cut was not a bad one but it was a cut and the minotaur had never suffered a wound before in it's life.
Cadoris stuck one of his blades in the ground and forced himself to his feet. He was in a lot of pain now but he would have to deal with it or lose. The minotaur was growling a spittle flew from it's mouth. It's eyes were almost completely red now and Cadoris couldn't do anything but laugh. He found it funny that he had angered a creature that he shouldn't even be fighting since it was nothing more than a myth.
The minotuar took the laugh the wrong way and charged forward and slashed with both weapons. Cadoris leaped back and then back again from each cut. Cadoris soon found himself pressed up against the wall and as the blade of the axe was desceding he leaped aside. Cadoris heard a scream and looked over to see that the axe had just missed hitting Trance. Cadoris couldn't believe that he had almost gotten her killed. He was struck motionless by what he saw. The axe was buried in the seat right next to her and it had cut her arm slightly.
Cadoris lost it at that moment and charged forward without making a sound. The minotuar turned rage filled eyes to him but it wasn't going to stop Cadoris now that he was angry. The Minotaur cut and thrust with his blade and scored a couple more hits on Cadoris who wasn't trying all that hard to get out of the way. One cut he took to his temple and another to his thigh but they didn't slow him a bit not even when the blood dripped into his eye.
Cadoris was waiting for one mistake and he would then capitalize on it. The Minotaur thrust with it's sword and put it's weight behind it thinking that Cadoris wouldn't be able to get out of the way. Cadoris waited until the last second and spun away from the thrust and did a full circle spin and brought his own blade down on the minotaur's sword near it's hand. The sword was knocked from the minotaur's hands and Cadoris brought his other blade around in a cut and traced a line across his opponet's throat. As the blood gushed Cadoris stood there watching.
The minotaur released it's hold on it's axe which had been useless as a defense for the minotuar had been off balance and couldn't have wielded the axe properly. It was also in it's other hand and couldn't have brought it across it's body. Cadoris caught the minotaur's throat in his had as he dropped one of his blades and hissed into it's face, "You hurt a friend of mine. When you did that you died. Now I will finish you quickly." With those words Cadoris tightened his grip on the minotaurs throat and pulled his opponents throat out ending the minotaur's suffering.