The Fall. Part 2. This starts to get bad…
Tales of the Blade Chapter 7-The Fall 2: Trouble
"Ok. What the hell are we going to do?" said Nathaniel. "He killed my son. We have to do something."
"We should apologise." says Alan. There was an incredulous silence. "Lewis tried to kill Adam. Didn't you see?"
"No. We didn't." said Nathaniel, coldly. "All we saw was MY son cut down in cold blood."
"After he attacked when the fight was over, with his blade unsealed."
"He was trying to regain some honour by fighting the last two rounds."
"Beginning with an unjust attack."
"Why are you arguing with your own son?" said Melissa, Nathaniel's wife.
"Don't worry Mel, it's only natural he's defending his girlfriends family honour."
There was silence.
"What the hell are you talking about?" asked Alan.
"Oh come on Dad, we all know you're fucking Lauren." said Nathaniel.
Another silence.
"Oh? Why's that?" he turns to the rest of his family. "Come on, you can't really believe it."
No-one meets his gaze.
"See? They know it's true."
Nathaniel's eyes go slightly cold.
"I see. Then you don't need me here. I know you won't listen to me. Go dig your own graves. I'll have no part in it."
And he leaves the room.
"I hope Lauren can persuade her family to see sense…" he says to himself.
"Ok, we all saw it." says Lauren. "Lewis tried to kill Adam."
"Yes. It's outrageous! What are we going to do?" said Laurens son, Jonathon Lorn.
"He must have been acting on his own. It was a sloppy attack." said Lauren dismissively. Jonathon nodded.
"True. But there is another problem. They didn't see him unseal his sword. From their view, Adam, you killed him for no reason."
"I didn't!" said Adam.
"We know that. They'll probably challenge you to another duel. To the death." said Jonathon, grimly.
"What? But it will probably be Nathaniel… I can't beat him!" said Adam.
"I can." Lauren said quietly.
There were two sides in the meeting the next day. All of the Jasters and Rofani's were on one side, while the Lorn and Verin families, along with Alan and Catherine, who knew the truth, were on the other.
As always, the Sonais were silent, not interrupting the matters and taking neither side.
"What do you have to say!?" demanded Nathaniel.
"I only defended myself!" said Adam.
"You killed my son in cold blood." he said. "I challenge you to an honour duel. To the death." he said.
"Your challenge is accepted, Nathaniel Jaster." said Lauren. "As you know, a challenge is between families not people."
Nathaniel gaped. This was more than he could handle.
"I will fight for the Jasters." said Sam Rofani. Everyone knew that he only wanted to kill Lauren. But it was permitted.
"Yes. Sam will fight for us." said Nathaniel, hugely relieved.
Once again, the fighters assembled. This time there was no sealing.
"I've waited a long time for this, bitch. Hope Alan can live without his girlfriend."
Lauren just smiled, saying
"Even if I was his girlfriend, he could congratulate me when I gave him your bastard head."
But the talk was over.
Sam immediately ran at Lauren, screaming something inarticulate and swinging his giant weapon at her. She just ducked, running under his arm and lashing quickly, opening a line of blood along his leg. He screamed with pain and anger, a flood of anger pouring out of him, slowing her reactions. Not that that made much of a difference to someone who was often said to be faster than lightning.
He put his finger on his sword, drawing blood. He licked the blood off, and then shouted.
"Bloodwind!"
It did what it sounded like. A storm brewed, raining blood, with a wind blowing the blood straight at her. Within seconds she was almost covered.
She ran right past him with insane speed, cutting a tiny nick in his arm. The pain was enough to end the attack.
Lauren looked like she had the fight in the bag.
Nevertheless, when Sam swung his blade faster than ever before, Lauren was too off balance to dodge it. She brought up a golden sword to block it.
The sword smashed right through it, slowing down enough to save her life as it cut into her shoulder.
She looked at the shards of the sword, stepping backwards.
"You broke my sword." she said, in disbelief. "This is one of a kind…"
The shards seem to melt, flowing towards her, up her leg and onto the broken sword, until it looks as good as ever.
"Well, that's new." she says. Then she feels the pain from her shoulder.
"You actually hit me. I… do not… get HIT!"
He was smirking. Lauren screamed at him, and ran at him. She prepared a guard, but at the range when he expected her to attack, she shouted.
"CHAOS BLADE!" she screamed, ballistic with fury.
In the audience, Adam's mouth opened wide.
Her first attack was obvious and easily blocked, regardless of its speed. As Lauren vanished, reappearing behind him, he just managed to block the next. She vanished again, reappearing with a both bladed attack from above. To his credit, he ducked one and blocked the other.
The fourth strike cut him in the back, making him cry out in pain.
The fifth cut across one arm, opening a huge cut that immediately started bleeding badly, leaving him to hold his sword one handed, regardless of its weight.
The sixth stabbed through one leg, causing a giant wound.
The seventh whistled past his stomach, scoring a long line across it.
The eighth chopped down onto his shoulder, in a stroke leaving the same wound as Lauren bore.
The ninth strike saw Lauren, her eyes cold, slash down and completely sever the hand holding the sword.
The tenth strike. Lauren reappeared directly in front of but a metre or so above Sam, falling quickly and slashing with both blades. Sam's head parted with his neck. Lauren landed on him, kicking him down and standing on his body.
She sheathed her swords.
She turned to Adam.
"And that is how you do a Chaos Blade."
It was at that moment that Celebi and Mew ran in to stop the fight.
"Oh." said Mew, seeing Lauren with her swords covered in blood. "Is now a bad time?"
Yes, she's slightly psycho. Where did you think Ellen got it from? Waddya think, anyway? REVIEW!