Takeshi had barely dodged that last dagger when he noticed something moving to his side. Huh...? ...! 'Oh, shit!' He hopped backwards to avoid the attack from the other Novice, but got cut and was slightly bleeding. He stumbled in the bush and rolled out of it into a stream with the cave wall stopping him. 'Oof!'
Hmph.. I almost got him. He turned to Takeshi and grinned. 'You're not half bad.' He shrugged, 'Too bad though, it's gonna be a waste if you're not alive.' He started to slowly approach Takeshi.
God.. this guy's psycho! He wants me dead for a few mushrooms that I didn't even get!? He could feel himself shaking from fear. I don't want to die now...! He stumbled onto his feet painfully, tightened his grip on his Blade, and charged ahead. 'Raaaaargh!'
'Hm? ...!' The Novice nimbly hopped side to side and dodged all of Takeshi's blows. 'You're weak, and only getting weaker.' He quickly grabbed Takeshi's neck and held it tightly, making it harder for Takeshi to breathe. He kneed him in the stomach and threw him a few feet. 'Now where were we again? Oh yes. I remember now.' And approached Takeshi as slowly as ever again, as if he had all the time in the world to kill Takeshi.
Takeshi was on the ground coughing and gasping for air. He's crazy.. He's crazy.. He's going to kill me! He painfully sat up and saw the crazy Novice approaching him ever so slowly. He tried to tighten his grip on his weapon, but he didn't feel anything in his fist. My sword.. my sword..! Where's my sword!? He frantically looked around and saw his sword laying on the ground a foot or so away from him. '...!' Takeshi scrambled for his sword, barely tripping.
'Heehee.. scared like a mouse.' He put the knife that cut Takeshi to his mouth and licked the bloodied edge.
Takeshi gulped hard and reached for his sword with a tight hold on it. He turned to the side and saw the Novice approaching him.. and getting closer. 'MAGNUM..' He turned around so that he was facing the Novice and stuck his sword into the ground. '...BREAK!!'
The Novice had his eyes wide from surprise, No..!, and was sent sprawling several feet from the explosion. The explosion caused dust to float around in the room, and the Novice laid in the dust using it as a cloak.. Before he could hear rapid foot steps coming.
'Raaaaargh!' As Takeshi ran past the Novice, he scooped down his hand and grabbed him by the neck, and slammed him against the wall.
'Heh.. Heeheeheehee.. You're good when you're scared,' he sneered.
'SHUT UP!' Takeshi tightened his grip on the Novice's neck so he could speak no more, and to the point where he was struggling for air.
'Wha..t're you.. going to.. do.. now? Kill.. me? Hee.. Kill.. when.. you're mad.. we're.. not.. so.. different..' The Novice continued with his taunts towards Takeshi.
'SHUT THE FUCK UP!' He was angry and annoyed with the Novice's taunts, and let go of his neck dropping him to the ground. He quickly grabbed the handle of the Blade with both hands and held it above the Novice's head. 'BASH!!' The sword started to shine and Takeshi was about to strike down on the Novice.
'Ye might hurt someone if ye do that.' Kaze was behind Takeshi and holding his arms from striking down with the sword.
'Huh..?' He dropped his sword and turned around to face a Kaze clothed in the Thief uniform. 'Heh heh..' He grinned and gave Takeshi a 'V for Victory' hand sign.
'Ah.. um.. congrats..! But..' Takeshi turned around to an empty wall. 'Where'd that psycho go!?' He quickly scanned each wall and noticed a moving shadow. 'You're not going to get away...!' He charged towards him and tackled him with his side.
'Oof!' The Novice fell to his knees, but Takeshi grabbed his shirt and pulled him up so that they were face to face. 'Heh.. what? Still scared? Angry? You still want to kill me?'
'Grrraaah! SHUT-' He pulled back his hand. '-UP!!' And punched the Novice in his stomach with all his might, and let go of him. He was gasping for air, tired from the battle he had.
'Heh..' The Novice was on his knees, holding his stomach, wincing from pain. He was looking up at Takeshi with a grin.
'What.. what're you smiling at?' Takeshi was looking down on him with angry, tired eyes.
'You have questions.. don't you?'
Kaze approached them and looked over Takeshi's shoulder. '...?'
'Why'd you want to kill us over a few mushrooms we didn't even get?'
'Heh.. heh heh heh.. because someone told me.'
'Someone.. told you..?'
'HEY! YOU! OVER THERE!' The man in the white coat outside the cave pointed at them.
'Whoops, I guess I should've killed him too.' The Novice chuckled.
What the hell..? Takeshi shifted a scared look at the Novice.
Mr. Irrelevant approached them with a hand over his stomach.
Huh...? Takeshi squinted a little to see what was wrong with him. Red..? Oh god...!
There was a wound in his stomach and it was bleeding all over his arm, he was wincing slightly, and was breathing hard. 'You!' He pointed to the crazy Novice. 'You're coming with me to the Thief guild.. we'll figure out what to do with you over there.' He grabbed the Novice's shirt and crushed something in his hand that left purple dust on the floor, and disappeared.
Takeshi and Kaze exchanged glances, and ran out of the cave and headed towards the Thief Guild.
They ran into the room, and the Novice was tied to a chair with Mr. Irrelevant standing over him. The male Thief was leaning back in a chair on the inside of the counter with the female Thief who was leaning on the counter.
'Yeah, yeah.. He's probably gonna be sent to a jail or executed.' The male Thief waved his hand nonchalantly. 'Hm?'
They all noticed Kaze and Takeshi standing by the doorway and turned to them.
'Hey.. what's going on?' Takeshi pointed at the Novice while looking at them.
'Oh. Him? He's been wanted for a while now.' He sat in his chair upright. 'Something about murdering people..' He shrugged.
'Yeah, and now he forcefully tried to get in the Thief test, you guys were also fighting in the cave right?' Mr. Irrelevant looked at Kaze and then at Takeshi.
'Huh..? Uh.. yeah...'
'Yeah, he's not gonna have a bright future.'
'Anyway, that aside, where're your mushrooms?' The female Thief asked Takeshi.
'Uh.. ah..' Oh, crap...
'Well?'
Kaze put his hand on Takeshi's shoulder and grinned, 'He changed his mind!'
'Eh? You changed.. your mind?' They all had a blank look on their faces.
'Umm.. ah, yeah! I.. uh.. changed my mind, that's right.' He rubbed the back of his neck, embarrassed.
The Novice laughed at this, but said nothing.
Kaze and Takeshi exchanged nervous glances at the laugh.
The male Thief shrugged, 'Whatever floats your boat kid. You probably won't make it as a Thief anyway, what with the sword and all.' He pointed at the emptysheath by Takeshi's side. 'Might as well be a Swordsman.'
'Ahahaha..!' Takeshi laughed nervously, 'Uh, yeah! A Swordsman, right. That's what I'm gonna be now.. yeah..'
The female Thief gave him the thumbs-up sign, 'Good luck!'
'Um, ah.. yeah, thanks!' He grabbed Kaze's arm and ran out of the room.
The male Thief leaned back in his chair, 'I still think he's weird.'
Kaze and Takeshi were sitting in the shade of a house in Morroc. Takeshi was putting on his Swordsman uniform, and already had the shirt and pants on and was putting on the gloves and boots.
'That was friggin' close...' Takeshi put on the last glove and stood up.
'What do we do now?'
'Hm.. we still have a few days left before we go to Glast Heim, we should train some more, and I know where we should go!'
'Alrighty!'
((Yay! After a month of not updating. XD; Thanks for the reviews all, and, um I really did mean Romantic Gent. oo RG is the white hat with the brown belt buckle on it. The LoD sprite I based my description on was on ROEmpire.. so.. yeah. XD; I have no clue where they got it from.))