The Underground

Story Form By Panda (altered)

Originally by Nate Docken

Chapter 2: Caution

"How did you find us, Prophet?" Koe spat.

"Followed the Agents..." the man shrugged. "I'm rather surprised you didn't suspect us earlier, or if you did, didn't call upon the help of your friend Apollo."

"That's Phoenix to you. He has better things to do rather than to waste his time fighting small prophet scum!" Koe grasped the hilt of his sword at his waist.

"Ah... yes. Phoenix. How could I forget..." he said, almost mockingly. He began walking around Koe. "Phoenix. The man who cheated death..." he said calmly. "...and casted death upon Prometheus..." he breathed. "...Be well aware as you die that your friend shall not have long to live, and you shall suffer for what you did to Iris."

Koe glanced at the woman bleeding on the other end of the area. She was very beautiful with an elegant black China dress with small red flowers. She looked Persian with a natural tan and thick wavy brown hair. He shifted his eyes back onto the man and sighed.

"Prophet, I grow tired of the chit-chat." he drew his sword with a questioning, but daring look. "Shall we dance?"

"Kazna, be careful-" Iris said, but saw him not listening.

Kazna growled in rage. He slipped off his short cut jacket and threw it aside. "You will die!" he charged after Koe while unsheathing his sword on his back and bringing it down onto him vertically.

Koe blocked the attack, throwing off the sword and returning the attack with a horizontal slice. He bent back barely dodging the blade. He straitened and attacks vertically again but as Koe began to block, he attempted to kick his knee. He stepped aside to block both attacks, making Kazna stumble. Koe charged in, bringing his sword to his side and attempting to cut his side. He parried, bringing Koe around him. Koe attempted to horizontally attack but he blocked it. He suddenly brought up his knee into his stomach, causing Kazna to hunch over in pain. Koe then brought his sword down over him but he rolled to the side and recuperated.

"You're pretty good." Kazna said, panting hard.

"You would have to be if one is the representative to a leader of an organization, now wouldn't they?" Koe threw a knife at Kazna. He quickly dodged it, but didn't have the chance to notice him right up to his face when he turned back.

Koe knocked the sword out of his hand and swiftly raised the sword for a vertical attack. Kazna caught it between his hands, trying carefully not to cut himself.

"You will die by my hands! For the sake of Iris!" he growled.

"Correction!" Koe sneered. "You will die, bleeding in a ditch you son of a bitch!" he twisted the blade and pulled it out, cutting deeply into Kazna's hands. Kazna backed away. He brought his hand to his face and licked the blood tauntingly. He prepared to fight Koe unarmed. Koe sheathed his sword and tossed it aside, engaging into an unarmed fight.

Kazna charged in with a punch to the face, but Koe knocked his fist away. He threw a fist at his stomach but Kazna stopped himself before he fell onto it. The fight lasted several minutes, consisting mostly of blocking each other's attacks. They hadn't hit each other yet.

Suddenly Koe grabbed the coming fist and thrusted it down and punched his jaw upwards, making him stumble and fall backwards. He then picked up his sword and pointed it at Kazna's throat, who was bleeding from the mouth.

Koe chuckled. "Such a shame..." he said. "You're a good fighter... but you must die!"

"You're the one who will die you bastard!" was the last thing he heard before his senses started numbing. He felt the knife penetrate through his throat, blood rushed through his esophagus. He unknowingly choked and fell onto the ground on his back. His eyelids became heavier as time passed, almost slowly. Everything became slow in his vision, and the last thing he saw was Iris, holding her bleeding shoulder and a knife in the other hand.

"Iris..!" Kazna was surprised she could walk. "Are you all right?"

"Yes..." she said, her normal voice so smooth, fitting her personality. "I should be fine. Let's leave, we must inform the others about this."

Kazna nodded, both turning away from Koe's lifeless body and heading a different direction.

TBC