Chapter 6

Rules Of Combat

I woke up about four hours later on the infirmary bed with a transfusion bag beside me and Selene sitting in the corner of the room. I tried to sit up but I couldn't because my heart hurt too much. I remember what had happened and lifted up my shirt to see a pentagram scar engraved into my torso. I looked up at Selene. She was sleeping quietly in her chair. I thought she looked calming while she was asleep, despite her aggressive nature. "Yo, Selene." I tried to get out through the pain. She woke up and looked at me and saw that I was having trouble opening my blood packet. She got up and opened it for me and handed it back. I took it and drank it all in one drink. I felt my heart starting to feel better but she had to go and sit on my stomach facing me for some reason. "That scar isn't permanent you know." she said. "It isn't, how do I get rid of it." I asked. "By learning the rules of combat." she explained. "They are as follows:

Show no mercy but show discipline

Show no passion but show strength

show no knowledge but show stance

Take no pride in victory, take pride in life

Respect the living, honor the dead

Kill them before they kill you

Never underestimate your opponent

Show no weakness but show stance

Never say no to blood

Even in war innocents must die

Never show an opening

Love in a way that doesn't show lust, but shows respect for the other

Eat no matter what it is

Never show that you are powerful, for you will attract attention to yourself

Never be the aggressor

Never make the first move

NEVER show pain

Once you learn these the scar will disappear and you can not be defeated." she explained. "Wow that is a lot to remember." I whined. I thought about the rules for a moment. I thought that I should make a checklist and check each one of them after I learn them. I then noticed the chain link that intersected at the middle of my torso had been broken by the incantation she used. "Where are my chains?" I asked. "Do you still want them. I took them off because you weren't able to breathe lying down in them." she said. I nodded. She exited the room and went to her supply closet and grabbed the chains that were once on my torso. When she entered the room I was sitting on the edge of the bed. She handed my the chains and I fell right off the table and my hand shattered underneath the weight of the chains. "FUCK!!! God damn that hurt!" I said. I picked up the chains with the same hand that I broke and put the chains around my torso through the pain of my hand. When I got them on I went into the kitchen and grabbed a medical packet and drank the last one. My hand healed itself almost instantly. "That feels so so much better." I said with relief. I went outside and started to do pull ups. I was at about 250 when Selen came out and sat on my shoulders making it harder to pull myself up. When I hit 300 on the way down I pulled my right shoulder and dislocated it. I hung on and did the rest of my pull ups with only my left arm. After I got done I dropped from the bar and hit the ground with a thud. I saw a deer off in the distance in the field and asked Selene if she had a bow and an arrow that I could use. She went into her shed and came back out with a Yumi and three arrows. I knocked the arrow from where I stood and aimed intensly. "How many pounds of force is this bow?" I asked. "About 125 why?" she asked. "This will be good training then." I replied. I aimed at the deer and started to focus my aura into my eye. It then seemed like it zoomed in on the deer and it was like it was five feet instead of 300 yards. "No way you are going to try and hit that from here its 1500 feet!." she said. I focused and let go of the arrow. The arrow flew and struck the deer right behind the right shoulder blade at a downward angle. I dropped all my weights and disappeared in an instant and was back in less than a blink of an eye with the deer decapitated in my arms. I put my chains back on and skinned the deer and got what meat I wanted from it as well. I pulled out a solid iron slate and a couple sticks and propped it up like a gril and lit a fire underneath it. "Ahhh deer steak. It smells good. Do you want some?" I asked. "Sure..." she replied. I gave the first one that was done to her and then cooked mine. "Wow this is actually good. Very juicy and rejuvinating." she said. I then picked mine of the grill and ate it with my bare hands. I felt good as well because my right shoulder just relocated itself. I then looked up and saw Selene staring at me. "I am very thirst now..." she said. I sat there...Just silence... She then tackled me and dug her teeth into my neck and stayed lying on top of me for about fifteen minutes alothough only two was drinking my blood. "Great I know I am a beverage now..." I said. "Yea but you are my beverage." she replied. "I don't even know if I should be happy right now." I said. The moon started to rise to the middle of the sky and there were no clouds so the view was perfect. I looked down and saw that she was asleep so I didn't feel like moving. I looked up at the moon and fell asleep.