Sir-dik-dik can't eat and type at the same time so buzz off.
I really have to thank everyone for the support and criticism I've been getting. I really do want to know what I've been doing wrong so getting what I did right and wrong are highly requested. I want to thank Mark20 for the last review I will listen to what you recommended and I recommend people to go read your story cause it's got some major potential. So here it is the 9th chapter to this epic trilogy, yes there will be two stories dealing with the after advents of this one all dealing with the words breaking in them, The brains behind the operation. Disclaimer, I don't own Fable as much as I would like to.
Blood poured from the wound as Raven tossed aside the severed arm to the ground. The man's eyes were red with rage as Raven came in for the finishing blow by charging the blade through the man's stomach. The injury would have been fatal to any body else but the man took the blade out of his stomach and threw them both into a wall. The wounds sealed over but he did not grow back his arm, he then jumped back to the ledge that was behind him.
"Before I go all out, I wish for you to pass one more test." He smiled.
"More test? I fell like I'm back in school." Raven drew his sword but all the man did was whistle and out came a giant mantis about the same size as a rock troll came out with bloody claws.
"I just fed the mother mantis so your death will be a slow one as it plays with your corpse." He laughed as he vanished to leave them to fight. It came out swinging towards Raven but he was too quick to for her. He just jumped on top of each one and running his blades across its wrist. It screamed out as it flew up in the air and came down hard using double claws trying to kill Raven for a hardy snack. Raven again dodged out of the way this time being more offensive. He climbed up the thing's arms going to sever its head off but it shook him off in a violent rage as he tried to kill another time driving the blade into its chest. Green blood poured through the wound as he retreated to finish it off with another charge. Before he could cast it the beast threw off its mighty claws at him. It caught Raven in the side and it vanished? It was an illusion that he casted the real Raven was just above her with his sword raised and he put it back in his scabbier. "Okay now where was I again?" He spoke out loud as he continued to the hand motions and chats required to prefect the spell. The beast again raised its right arm and began to swipe towards Raven, he did nothing. Right before it hit Raven the arm fell off. Green blood squirted from his arm, as Raven the yelled out the name off his will spell, "Inferno!" A ring of fire circled Raven as flames covered the mantis. It fell over screaming and kicking for dear life as it went down, dead at last. The man walked out and started to chat with Raven.
"My name is Vladimar, the guardian of the earth element and servant of the king Torment." He took out a small orb that it brightened the cave's dark walls with a bright brown color.
"What kind of name is that?" Raven asked as he withdrew his blade ready to finish his match with Vladimar but he had one more trick up his sleeve. He took his remaining arm and drove it and the orb into himself. There was a bleeding cavity in Valdimar's chest and then what ever he had took effect. His skin became the color of clay and his arm came back. Spikes popped out of his back as a long mutated tongue formed. His arms grew mantis blades and he looked at Raven and laughed. He jumped up and drove his claws into the ground next to Raven. Raven then landed a combo of blows to his face all, of which were lethal. It just left a few scratches on his face and he got up and sliced Raven in the chest with his blades. His armor protected him from most of the blow but still it had taken a toll on Raven. The cut was deep and slowly bleeds but it felt like something else was in there.
"I hope you like my special gift, it is a parasite to turn you into one of my worker mantises." He was now big and sturdy but he couldn't run as quick enough to caught up with Raven. Raven then jumped off the cave wall and tried to drive the blade in, it would either kill Vladimar or break the blade and Raven took bets on the blade going his skin but was wrong. I chipped and the top part shattered.
"Let me guess… killing you will heal me?" He said as he used heal but nothing happened.
"Very good, your smarter then what I took you for." He laughed.
"Your not the first person to tell me that today." Raven smirked as he really panicked. He used the broken shard and charged it into the gut of Vladimar. Blood came out as he slowly removed the blade putt in the scabbier over it. The small orb fell out of his chest and Raven picked it up. The blade glowed and eerie red as he combined the blade with the orb. He felt like he was remembering something he long forgot. It was a spell, Rock Solid; it was called as the incantation played through his mind. He also felt what was ever in the cut go away but then he heard the sound of clapping.
"Congratulations, you've managed to defeat one of my fathers worst men. I was thinking of ways to kill him but I can only manage one element at a time." It was a tall redheaded boy holding a legendary kitana.
"My lucky day, two for the price of one." Raven took out his blade and Ren froze in his tracks.
"You… you broke the blade?" Ren looked shocked at the sight of the broken tip of the blade. "You don't deserve a blade of this magnitude, give it to me or die." He held out his hand but all Raven did was smirk.
"You'll have to take it from my cold dead body." Raven then charged the boy but missed by a long shot. Ren then kicked Raven in the face and out came his blade. "I will give you one chance before I lose my patience, now give me the blade." He stroked the blade across the floor and a large wall of fire swept across the cave. The fire would either burn down the whole place or choke Raven to death.
"Damn, you're fighting cheap." Raven used force push to try to get a clear view but he was gone. Ren then put his arm around Raven's neck and almost broke it and pushed him down and picked up the sword. He lifted the blade two inches and it happened, a volt of energy sparked and cut his hand severely.
"Makes sense, his father wouldn't let anybody hold what he once use, damn that old man. Ren cleared the fire and made a path for him to leave. "I hope you like my own personal hell!" Ren called out as the unconscious Raven lay in his grave if he didn't wake up soon.
"So, Ren, did you mange to retrieve the sword?" A tall man walked over to his son.
"No father, the sword is covered by a barrier that would sever my hands if I tried to carry it here." Ren bowed to his father.
"This is disappointing, although to be expected, I do not enjoy failure." The man shocked his son with electricity to a point where he could hardly move.
"Sorry…father…where…is…my…brother?" Ren coughed up blood.
"I sent him to get the young boy I asked for." He pointed to the ceiling; it was covered in artifacts and drawings of a great ruler restoring the lands. "One day we will find the savior, but this one isn't what we want. He will bring nothing but destruction to us if he were to get it. This boy however may be just what we are looking for. The other's father betrayed the army of Alister and attacked him, thus ending the war. As they always say, once a traitor always a traitor, it's in his blood." The man said getting up from his seat.
"You must admit though he is a very skilled warrior but has no chance of living now, I made sure he would never get out." Ren smiled as he thought of his victory.
Three men in assassin armor and covered in demon blood walked out of a just cleansed area of darkwood. As they told each other how much they had accomplished in the past few days Alex waited outside.
"So this is the man that has cleared out most of the forest is it?" Alex asked as his blue hair waved through the wind.
"What is it that you want?" The boy's father asked.
"I came here for Claudio, the youngest one." Alex pointed at him and spoke to him. "Go on Claudio, kill them, you're better off with me." All of the colors from the boy's eyes were gone as he took out his two hooked blades. He tore into his father's back and decapitated his sister.
"Good, you are just as good as they say you are." Alex smiled as he walked with the boy into the darkness.
End of chapter 10. Yes I know the ending was a cliffhanger but I don't feel like writing anymore.
