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Chapter 2:

Coming out of that cave I just had to check if my head was in place, I had seen a lot of things, but that, that was crazy!

"Well, I should be off, nice chatting you, Kurda, Seba, Darren," I nodded at each of their names and then walked off into one of the three gaming halls. There were less people fighting then before, but there were so many injuries. Vanez was still in there cleaning up, even though he was off duty.

"I just can't stand to see all the equipment all over, if I ignore it I'll have a bus load of work to do when I'm back on duty… I don't see why people don't just put them in their place!" Vanez scowled.

"If I help you… will you fight me on the bars?" I smirked.

The bars were by far my favourite and every Council I made a point to fight Vanez at least once, maybe more depending how bad I lost the first time. I'd always lose but it was always competition and Arra didn't seem too pleased about the bars after being defeated so I didn't want to ask her.

"It's a done deal lad!" Vanez shouted, handing me a bunch of spears, "Put those over there!"

I grabbed the spears and placed them in the right place, then after that I took all the staffs for the bars and put them beside the bars we would soon fight on.

There were other sets of bars and as I looked around I could see there were many empty. There was going to be a small crowd around us soon enough, Vanez was always popular with crowds, and me as a General, everyone knew my name.

"I think we're basically done cleaning, Gavner!" Vanez shouted across the room.

"Alright Vanez let's do it!" I shouted back grabbing my favourite staff.

Vanez grabbed the heavier one because it made it harder for him and he liked building muscle as he fought.

It probably looked funny in the crowds. Vanez was a big guy, really muscular and tall, and me a small skinny guy, I was muscular sure don't get me wrong, but Vanez was huge compared to me!

"Are you ready for this Vanez!" I laughed.

"Oh yeah Gavner bring it on!" He howled.

I took my fighting stance, and Gavner took his. When I looked over beside me I saw a whole bunch of vampires crowd around.

"We got visitors!" I said

"As usual!" Vanez replied.

I heard cheers for my and Vanez's name, I was surprised people cheered for me, we fought every time and every time I lost.

I held up my spear and lunged for his legs. Vanez countered with a nice blow to the head. The pain rung through my ears, and then I realized if I swung for the side of his head which had no eye, maybe I could get a hit on him. Not that I could have ever tried that, I would feel terrible if I did, but if worse came to worse I may have to.

"Cumon you know better than this Gavner, head up don't aim for that low you're not that short anymore. It's been twelve years, you're about a year older now, cumon mate!" Vanez yelled, "Chin up! Let's go!"

I nodded and aimed for his chest area, I hit him pretty hard. He hit me up my jaw and I fell onto the bars. I was lying on top of about five bars and I knew I wouldn't be able to get up without being hit. I summed up all my strength and hit Vanez square in the shins. He howled with pain and fell lower that I was. He was on the bar with one arm and I was lying over five. There was a good chance I could win, but there was a fair chance I wouldn't.

I poked my staff down at his chest and he knocked it out of my arms. There wasn't much I could do after that. I swung himself up and as I tried to lodge myself up he put his staff under my back and lodged me off the bars.

"You alright Gavner?" He asked as I lay there just staring up into the depths of the stony walls.

"Just dandy!" I said rubbing my stomach where he had hit me the hardest.

"Hmmm, good job! That was the hardest I've fought on the bars in awhile, well besides Arra but you can't get much better than that!" Vanez laughed.

He hopped off the bars and offered me a hand up. I shook his hand before he pulled me up.

"You're going to get really good at the bars with a little training; you could probably kill a whole pile of vampaneze with that determination of yours!" Vanez laughed.

My vision flashed to the vampaneze for a second and then I shook my head out of it.

"Y-Yeah!" I said grabbing hold of Vanez's hand and hurling myself up.

I heard the crowd cheer and I grinned slightly. I was glad to put on a good show.

As I walked out of the hall with Vanez beside me I could have sworn I'd seen a purplish hand coming from one of the larger cracks in the walls. I was hallucinating again from being hit in the head with the staff.

"You should have seen Gavner on the bars Larten he's getting better! Improved lots!" Vanez shouted.

"Oh really?" Larten asked raising an eyebrow, "Well how about you face me?"

My mouth began twitching into a laughter, and then until I couldn't hold it in anymore. Vanez and I howled with laughter, "YOU!"

"Well I don't see what's so funny…" Larten replied.

"It-It's just you NEVER go on the bars! You're like THE guy who stays out from the bars! You're usually doing that whole vampire martial arts thing whatever it's called!" I laughed.

"Well I guess I'll just have to spread it around that Gavner Purl won't take Larten Crepsley on at the bars!" Larten teased.

"You're on!" I laughed.

We both got back into one of the halls of games. There were close to no vampires in there this time.

"All gone to bed?" Vanez asked one of the people that was left.

"Oh yeah! After you Gavner and youfought everyone figured it was time to give it a rest! I'm leaving as well!" The male vampire replied.

He walked out of the room followed by the rest of the vampires. There was only Larten, Vanez and me. We picked the best bar and grabbed our favourite staffs and then we hopped up on the bars.

"GO!" Vanez yelled.

Larten was fast, quicker than Vanez was, but I was determined to beat him. This battle was going to end quickly I could feel it! Larten and I were about the same height so we both had the same advantage. I hit Larten in the stomach and he bounced back with a hit to my right shin. I winced a bit and put less pressure on my right leg and a little to my leg. I was slightly off balance but not a lot more than usual.

I struck back with a blow to the face and then a blow to my legs and before I knew it we were both holding on by one hand on the bars. At the same time Larten and I struck each other's hands and let go.

"It's a… a tie!" Vanez laughed, "Wow Gavner's gotten loads better!"

We shook hands and Larten nodded. He punched me in the shoulder, "Nice one Gavner!" and we all left the hall pretending that it never happened. Vanez, Larten and I were the only ones to ever know that Larten and I had fought that day.


Well, hope you enjoyed that one lol I wanted Larten on the bars just because I've never seen him there lol! R&R