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Chapter two: From Practice in the Field to Fighting in the Woods

Even if Torn barely had time to visit his daughter, that didn't stop him from training her. After a day rest from the never-ending work cycles he must do to earn money for his child, the tattooed elf made sure that while upbringing her, he would teach a new tactic each time he returned to Nodina and practiced with her until it became second nature to her. He seemed to be succeeding in it, too.

Except, today he wanted to review in everything he had taught her so far and see if she remembered anything. The first thing he wanted to go over was how she was doing in blocking. That was a tecnique that every person becoming a warrior, or is already one, should know. It is one of the basic rules that Torn's father had taught him.

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The Nodinean child continued putting all her effort into trying to beat the one person she never could, her father. "Block Kelsey, you must learn to block or your foes will take advantage of that!" Torn exclaimed as his daughter fell to the ground again for the eleveth time or so.

The older Nodinean elf was using a long, wooden stick that he had found earlier to practice with her so he wouldn't accidently wound her with his curve knife which was attached to the side of his pants. His daughter was panting a little from what she believed to be "intense workout" as she puts it. Plus, the sun was beating on them from being on top of them with its heat. "I'm...trying," she puffed out.

"Well, you must try harder. Now try again."

Kelsey got back on her feet and put her knives up, putting her feet in the right position to begin another practice round of blocking with her father. Torn swung down on her from above fast. She blocked them quickly. He lifted the stick off and tried for her side, but she also blocked that by crossing the two knives together.

Torn swung under her feet to trip her, but Kelsey saw it and jumped over it and went to kick it out of his hands. He saw this and pulled up his weapon fast then went to hit her back. Kelsey saw the stick from the corner of her eye and turned around to block it, but the force of it made her fall back while her father had the advantage now. She fell on her back, hard but had no time to react to it as she had to roll fast so the stick wouldn't slam into her.

With her foot, she kicked it out of his hands and went to stab him in the stomach, but he flipped over her, grabbed the stick and put it over her neck so it was pressing on her throat, but gently. "Better," he said. " Your kick was very surprising, but I was reviewing blocking, not getting: rid of your enemy's weapon," Torn loosened his grip on the stick and stood up.

"Now, time to review on your fighting, My Little Warrior," Torn seemed to order.

He reviewed Kelsey on everything. One of them was what she had done earlier, how to strike the weapon out of the foes hands. Another was how to see when an enemy was going to attack or how to trick an enemy when you were going to strike.

He also reviewed her how to kick in the air and flip backwards and frontward. She still didn't do the flips right and failed in every attempt she made. "Just keep praticing and you'll get it," Torn said while seeing her land on her back again. He grimaced at this...once more.

The two reviewed for hours in what the Nodinean learned until the afternoon soon rolled into being evening. " Good job, Kelsey," Torn said." Next time, we won't review and I'll teach you how to do one-on-one, and I'm not just saying your fists. I already know you can fight in hand combat," Kelsey giggled at that. He looked at her, seeing how she was all sweaty and tired like himself. " Let's go to river to wash up a little before heading home," the girl nodded and they both went to the woods as the long grass that they walked in tickled their ankles and legs.

It was pretty quick to get to the river inside the woods. Kelsey fell to her knees right next to the slow current of water and scooped it up with her hands to drink. Torn kneeled next to her and did the same thing. He swallowed slowly so to savor the taste as the coolness of the water helped his dry throat. He drank a couple of more scoops before he relaxed against a rock and watched his daughter wash her face.

Kelsey dried her face with her arm and stood up," Are you ready to go, Father?" she asked. He was about to answer when he heard a rustle near by.

Torn got up instantly, with his curve knive in his hand." Kelsey. Get behind me," he whispered hastily. The girl ran behind him with her knives ready at hand, but from the glance of her face her father caught, you can tell she was a scared. Torn, though, wasn't scared at all, but only made sure that his daughter was safe from whatever was making the noise that had a threatening tone to it.

He heard it again, near a bush and this time heard a low growl. It was almost hissing, but it sounded more then just one, almost like a few Metal Heads."Wait! Metal Heads!" thought Torn." Kelsey, be careful. We're dealing with Metal Heads...and more than one," he whispered behind his back. He didn't get a reply, but hoped that she understood.

Something jumped out of the bush suddenly and in the air was none other than a Metal Head that the Nodinean had told his child, with its razor, sharp claws and teeth that bared out towards him. One of its claws was determined to take a chunk out of him from up above as it gave that sadistic look like all the others like it. Torn lifted his knife just in time to block it.

The Metal Head jumped back and hissed in anger. Torn got in his fighting position with his curve knife while protecting his daughter.

The Metal Head striked again, slashing at him with such ease, but Torn blocked every last one of them and this time he attacked the creature. He cut its arm making an uneven black line in it as the horrid thing hissed from it and jumped at Torn, causing him to fall backwards while the Metal Head was on top of him. Kelsey had got out of the way and stood there watching her father helplessly.

She was panicing and frighten at what she saw while didn't know what to do. The Nodinean child heard some hisses at her right. As she turned her head, Kelsey saw three more of the devilish creatures stalking on her. Torn saw this at the corner of his eye and yelled, "RUN! KELSEY RUN!" She didn't have to hear it twice and turned around to run but saw the river in front of her now; she hopped on the rocks as fast as she could without falling and landing on her feet on the other side, running as fast as she could with the Metal Heads right on her pursuit.

Torn saw her run while trying to fight off the Metal Head on top of him. Its claws dug in his wrists as he held them in front of him as his hands clutched his opponents hand to try and puch him off. His curve knife was right beside him, but he couldn't get it. The Nodinean elf could smell the creature's breath on his face as some of its saliva dripped on him. He gagged from the smell of it as it had the odor of a person who hadn't taken a shower for two months.

The Metal Head snapped its jaws at him, trying to bite his face, but couldn't by Torn pushing him back. With all his strength, Torn twisted one of the hands of the Metal Head. It howled in pain as it arched up, giving a advantage for Torn to kick it off him. The malformed creature fell on its side, while trying to get up with its hurt paw.

Torn wasted no time and grabbed his curve knife while his wrists were hurting him. They stung from the skin being scratched there, but he didn't care. All he cared about was getting to his daughter, but he had to get rid of this thing first.

"You wanna fight? I'll give you a fight," Torn spat out coldly to the Metal Head. As if the thing heard him, it got in a fighting position as he did the same.

They circled each other while both tried to stare down the other to strike first. It was the Metal Head who went as it charged to slice Torn's stomach open, but he already saw it coming.

Torn jumped out of the way and kicked it in the face, making the beast fumble backwards a little as its face was screwed up from the hit. The elf jumped in the air and made a flip as he came down on the creature. With his curve knife above his head, he saw the Metal Head look above and it was about to move out of the way, but it was too slow.

Torn slammed his weapon into creature's head where its gem was held. He felt the Metal Head froze and its breathing start to become heavier. It fell to the ground with a THUMP as its golden gem on top of its head fell out with dark eco coming out of it.

Torn pulled his curve knife out of the Metal Head and just held it in his hand. His eyes gazed over the beast as black blood was pouring out of its head, but it was still breathing...barely. "Pitiful," Torn spat out and sliced its throat. It made a gurgle sound and let its last breath out. The Metal Head became limp and just laid there...dead.

With his hands covered with his opponents blood and his own, Torn ran the direction where his daughter was, praying that she was okay.

Meanwhile, farther in the forest

The girl ran and ran with the three Metal Heads behind her. She seemed like she was running forever and was getting tired, her panting increasing with every step, but never did she stopped. Her feet was hurting her as she had to run over rocks and twigs on the dirt ground with her barefeet.

Kelsey forced her weak body to work harder while jumping over tree trunks and under tree's limbs until she reached a dead end. A never ending wall that would take days to climb, stood in her way for safety. She stared at the cliff's wall, but turned around quickly to greet her three foes. The Nodinean child was scared, very scared as her breathing was heavy from the lack of oxygen.

They surrounded her as she subconsciously walked backwards, but didn't go far when her back hit the cold, jagged wall behind her. She squeezed her eyes shut. This was it for her as she knew she was going to die, here in the woods where her father would never find her. If he was still alive.

As Kelsey thought that, something inside her began to get angry. What if that stupid Metal Head killed him? What then? If she died, no one would ever find them. Would she just die like a coward?

"No.."

Her voice sounded...deadly. She opened her eyes fast, glaring her eyes like daggers at the three Metal Heads. They stopped in their tracks while looking a little confuse from the way the child glared at them. Kelsey smirked evilly as she got in her fighting position like she had done this before. Not like practicing with her father, but like she was going to fight to the death.

And she was...

Kelsey felt this new kind of power in her unlock, or blossom inside her. It was like she knew exactly what to do, but being a different person at the same time. The power felt alien to her, but she loved the feeling of it.

The feeling of seeing them beg for mercy at her feet, bleed at her hands as well as causing them pain, with a sick desire of watching them die. It made her want to have this thought become reality...this thought of torment to her opponents so she could enjoy such pain.

It was almost like she felt a loving affection to such a horrid thought.

And she did...

Kelsey charged at the right one as it was surprise seeing her. With the two knifes she held in her hands, Kelsey went to its throat and puncturing its vocal box while seeing the end of the knife come out at the back of its neck. Blood seeped onto the knife and trailed over her arm as she smiled wickedly. " Yes...bleed for me...I want to see this," She pulled the knife out of it, making its blood spill on the ground. The Metal Head fell to the ground while making a hoarse sound before it died.

She turned around to the two that watched at what she just did and smirked at them. They stepped back a little, becoming rather not that interested in her. " What? You guys don't want to play now?" she asked like an innocent child would as she smiled at them." You did before, remember? We were playing that you guys had to try and kill me to win? Well, now I'm it and its my turn to get you guys, but who to get first?" she said while acting like she was thinking.

One of them got enough courage to step up to her with its head high," I guess your first. Come on, let's see what your made of," she announced while just standing there. The Metal Head ran at her as it tried to dig its claws in her abdoman, but Kelsey flipped over it and stood behind it.

The Metal head saw this and turned around. With one of its claws, it punctured the girl in her left forearm near her albow. Its claw went through both sides ( without going through the bone) as it smirked at what it just did. "You shouldn't have done that," the malformed beast looked up with the girl just staring blankly at it with no pain showing on her face.

It froze up suddenly as if it couldn't move because it was stuck. It was literally stuck somehow, but knew for sure it was the child's purpose. " Have you ever felt a sword or knife that had just come out of a fire?" she asked while her knife started to became a orange and red color as the center in her amber, brown eyes went black. When the Metal Head did nothing, Kelsey smirked. "No? Well, now you will!" she stuck the knife in the Metal Head's arm. The creature shrieked in pain by the heat as it tried to writher its arm out of it, making its claw slice the top of the gril's arm by a cenimeter.

Kelsey pulled the knife out of it and cut the creature's arm off. It howled in pain while it tried to stop the black blood pouring from its no longer arm from flowing out. The girl pulled the claw out of her that was still attached to the hand that was attached to the arm and dropped it to the ground, "Time to put you out of your misery," she said and with no effort what so ever. She sliced the Metal Head in half with both of her knives as the two halfs fell to the ground, making blood splatter from her actions everywhere. A golden gem from its head fell out for her reward of killing it, but Kelsey stomped on it, making it shatter to liquid.

"Your turn," she said and turned around to greet the last one of her chasers that had its golden eyes wide open. It stepped back a little as she walked towards it with her enemies' blood on her clothes with those haunting, black eyes. She started to speak to the Metal Head that didn't make sense.

"Fire... for giving me strength..."

The creature stepped back until it hit the rocky wall. Its eyes just watched in horror at the girl.

"Water...for keeping me alive..."

The child started to smirk evilly as she watched the Metal Head helplessly try to find where it could run. It began to try to climb the walls but didn't progress in the tinest bit.

"Earth...for molding my body..."

The beast gave up and turned around to meet Kelsey's piercing eyes and... its fate.

"Wind...for giving me life..."

The girl was now in front of it. Smirking at it as the Metal Head trembled from what she was going to do- knowing what she was going to do.

"Darkness...for my hatred..."

The creature of darkness could feel her breath on its face. It could of bitten her- killed her, but it was scared to death to even do anything.

"Light...for protecting my soul..."

That was the last thing he heard from her as she stuck the knife in its cold-blooded, heart. The last thing it saw before it died was her face with the sadistic smile on her face, her eyes looking like they were Hell's entrance themselves.

The Metal Head slid to the ground and was limp as she ripped the knife out of it. Blood slid down her arm as she began to laugh insanely from the sight she saw.

The feeling that Kelsey felt was wonderful. Seeing all that blood come out of those Metal Heads as their life slipped away from them because of her, made her feel proud of herself. She enjoyed watching their deaths and wanted to see more.

Kelsey loved the scent of their blood on her as loving the feeling of them being scared of her. She wanted more of that. Wanting to kill more, to see blood and death around her while wanting to see them suffer so she could drown in her sick pleasure she got from it.

"KELSEY! WHERE ARE YOU KELSEY!"

That voice? It sounded familiar to her... Very familiar. The feelings she felt before- killing- blood- death- started to fade away as her eyes went back to their original color.

Then...pain.

It shot up her body quickly like electricity would. The most pain she felt was on her left arm as it thobbed with it increasingly. She held it as she saw blood slowly oozing out of the holes on both sides, falling to the ground in a rythem.

Kelsey heard her name louder as the person who called was coming closer to her. She heard footsteps that were running then stopped as did the yelling. The next thing she knew, she was in someone's familiar arms being cradled like a baby. She glanced up and felt relief wash over her at the person she stared at. Her father, Torn.

"Did...did you do this?"

He hesitated at first as if not to believe that a five-year-old did this destruction. Kelsey nodded." I did, and I did it how you taught me," she lied so she could give him an answer. There was silence between them for awhile until Torn finally spoke." Come on. Let's go back home so I can clean you up," Kelsey nodded and let herself fall back. She was about to close her eyes when she caught something or someone in the dark. The silhouttee was all she could see from it but it made eye contact with her for only a second before it turned around and walked the other way.

The child didn't see what the color of the eyes were but she had a sense that she knew the owner of them for some reason.

She was about to tell Torn, but for some reason didn't. No matter how hard Kelsey tried to ignore it, the thing in the dark wouldn't leave her mind as did the fighting with the three Metal Heads wouldn't either. She knew that the way she acted wasn't her, but almost like someone else.

Or was it?

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I'm still new at fighting but I hope it wasn't bad. So tell me if this got your excitement up a little or something else. Either way, please review.