Here's my first fighting scene, I hope it's good.

Disclaimer: They own it, not me.

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Chapter 5: The first fight

Muarim's PoV

Muarim woke up by a small sound. His first thought was that Tormod was up early, but it was still the middle of the night. And Tormod was sleeping peacefully next to him.

'Maybe it's only my mind playing tricks on me...´ A another sound, louder this time. Muarim gave Tormod a quick glance, the boy slept on unaware of anything that happened. Muarim got up and decided to check what was going on. He sneaked out of the room they slept in and tried to detect anything that wasn't the way it should be, besides the odd sounds in the middle of the night.

After a few moments his nose told him that there was someone there.

'Beorc, more than one...´ He thought. His ears twitched when he heard someone talk.

" Are you sure?" A mans voice.

" Yeah I'm sure! I saw a sub-human here earlier today and it should be hiding here somewhere." A second man.

" How many do we got now?" Third man.

" With this one, seven." Second voice.

" These half-breed should sell quite good, huh?" Fourth man.'

"Yeah!" All of them.

'If there is only four of them then I should be able to take care of them on my own...´ Muarim thought.

" Did you see anything else than the half-breed?" First voice.

" Umm... Yeah, a human. A child."

'Tormod!´

" A child eh? Do you think the sub-human kidnapped him, or her, what was it? Boy or girl?"

" I think it was a boy. Do you think the monster is going to eat him?" " I don't see that as an impossibility. You never know what those monsters might do. If we find the boy, do you think we can recruit him?"

" Yeah! He can help us and get his revenge at the sub-human!"

'They really think that I would hurt the little one... Fools. But if they find him he could get hurt. I can't allow that! If Tormod gets hurt because I didn't protect him I'd never forgive myself!´ Muarim thought and started to transform. His muscles shifted place and his whole body changed completely until his transformation was at its end. He hid behind a wall and peeked at the humans that had interrupted his sleep.

Two Myrmidons, a Fighter and a Knight. The fact that a knight was there at all confused him since heavy beings and horses had an awful lot of trouble in the desert because they couldn't walk in the sand. But he didn't have time to worry about that. He made a dash for one of the Myrmidons and hit him in the neck as hard as he could before the others could react. The swordfighter fell to the ground, dead, with a broken neck, and his friends gasped at the sight of the oversized tiger.

" There it is!"

" It killed Rodney!"

" Die you monster!"

" No! Don't kill it! We have to catch it!"

" But it killed Rodney! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!"

" And a half-breed for a shitload of gold! Catch it!" After their little discussion, the three remaining fighters readied their weapons, that Muarim now noticed was anti-laguz weapons. He could only rely on his agility in order to attack and then avoid their attacks. The Myrmidon and the Fighter charged at him, but the Knight stood still.

Muarim leaped forward, giving the fighter a quite serious wound when he passed by. The Myrmidon tried to spin around and slay Muarim, who jumped out of the way and therefore leaving the Fighter in the Myrmidons range, and the Myrmidon accidentally cut his companion instead of Muarim.

" Noo! Sorry! I-I didn't mean to..! Don't die!" The Myrmidon screamed when he realised what he had done. " Kim... You... Urghh... T-traditor... Augahhh..." The Fighter said before dying.

" Noo! I said don't die! Ohh, you never listened to me!" The Myrmidon sobbed. Muarim just gave them both a blank stare.

'Are they really this inexperienced?´ The Myrmidon stopped sobbing and stared at Muarim, anger blazing in his eyes.

" You... It's your fault! You killed him! Die you fiend!" Muarim tried to protest but in his current shape he could not talk with the beorc tongue so it came out as a roar. When the Myrmidon dashed towards him he turned around and was just about to leap out of the way when he felt a sharp pain above his hind leg. He roared and looked back to see the Myrmidon burying almost half of his sword in Muarim's hip.

He pulled it out and was about to attack Muarim again but Muarim was quicker. He used his front legs to pounce on the swordfighter, knocking him down on the ground with his paws. Then he put one of his paws on the Myrmidons shoulders and the other on his swords arm to hold him down and making him unable to defend himself.

" G-gah! N-no! Wha-what are you..." Muarim was letting his face get closer to his enemy's throat and let out a growl that meant:

" I'm sorry, but if I don't do this you'll hurt the only family I've got..."

Then he quickly bit the Myrmidons throat to kill him of, almost ripping it off. The metallic taste of blood filled his mouth, telling him that he was successful. He backed off and looked around. The Knight was still there and he had barely moved during the whole battle.

'That's strange...´ Muarim thought before he closed the distance between him and his laguz-lance wielding enemy, thinking that he had to end this quickly as he was getting dizzy from blood loss. He leaped forward and, despite the injury he had, managed to land a quite powerful blow that made the Knight step back. But the Knight only suffered a few deep scratches on his armour.

Then Muarim saw something he didn't notice before, a blue necklace where hanging by the Knights neck.

'A laguzguard! Oh no! Then my attacks are almost useless!´ Before Muarim could react the Knight attacked with a well aimed lance thrust, and with surprising speed for a heavy armoured fighter, and hit Muarim at the right side of his ribs. Muarim screamed, or roared, higher than any other time only to regret it immediately.

Tormod could wake up. He panicked, first at the thought of Tormod coming there and get hurt, and then at the feeling of shifting muscles.

He had used up all of his energy and was starting to transform back to normal! That must have been why the Knight hadn't joined the fight in the first place. He was waiting for the right moment! Muarim could almost see how the Knight smirked behind his helmet.

" Y´know, we where going to let you live. But I changed my mind the moment you had killed all of my friends. Die." The Knight said and raised his lance. Muarim closed his eyes and prepared himself for the final blow.

" FIRE!" A fire orb crashed into the Knight's back. The orb shattered and every piece searched for a opening in the Knights armour that also where warming up rapidly. Soon the Knight screamed in pain and turned around with anger written all over his face (not that anyone saw that, his face where covered by his helm).

" What are you doing you little brat!" Tormod was standing there, one Fire tome in his hand and a another at his waist in a little pocket attached to his belt, already looking for the next spell.

" You where going to hurt Muarim! I won't allow it! I won't! Fire!" He released a another spell that hit the Knight right in the chest and the magic searched its way into the unguarded flesh. The Knight screamed again.

" Why you little...! Take this!" He charged at Tormod that avoided the attack without much trouble.

" Fire!" A another spell burned the Knight. Muarim thought that Tormod was doing good since magic where strong against warriors like knights and others with low resistance. But since Tormod where training so much his tomes wore out quicker than usual. His thoughts where interrupted by a scream. Tormod's scream.

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Lame cliffhanger. I know.

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