Lost and Found
Chapter 6: Rumble in the Capitol"Hay, get back here", shouted Moses as he chased the young boy through narrow city streets! The lad was quick on his feet and thought he could loss the burly man by jetting throw narrow alleyways and taking sharp turn on the city streets. To his dismay however Moses was not lagging behind and as a matter of fact he was catching up.
"Get lost you doggy bastard", shouted the pickpocket as he turned another corner. His comment did nothing more than to enrage the already furious Moses.
"You little brat", shouted Moses as he followed behind. "When I catch you I am going to beat you black and blue. You won't be stealing wallets anymore once I am done with you!" Moses voice rang throughout that city grabbing the attention of several residences in the area.
"Wallet", spoke the young boy to himself as he reached into his pocket. He though he had stolen the man's coin purse and the term wallet was new to him. To his surprise he found a thick piece of leather. "What is this", he spoke as he tripped over a misplaced stone.
The young boy fell scrapping his knee as he hit the ground. Moses' wallet fell only a few inches in front of him. "Ouch", cried the lad as he held his knee. For a moment he had forgotten that Moses was chasing him, but he was soon reminded by Moses boot on his chest. The boy struggled to break free, but was soon dociled by Moses iron sword at his neck.
"Do you want to die boy", spoke Moses as he stared into the kids eyes. The young man answered with a simple shaking of his head, and gave up any all his attempts to escape.
"Sit there", spoke Moses as he withdrew his sword from the boy's neck and lifted his foot off the young boy's chest. He reached over and grabbed his wallet with his free left hand and examined its contents. To his great joy his five dollars and all his cards were still inside. "Well you lucked up kid", spoke Moses as he turned back towards the boy. Moses lifted his hand to sheath his sword when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him.
"Get back", a voice rang out from behind Moses. It was soon followed by unsheathing of a sword. Moses immediately turned and pulled his right sword at the ready. The two swords clashed and immediately Moses knew his blade was inferior quality. His opponent's sword nicked the blade upon impact sending a great shockwave down into the duel swordsman's hand.
After the initial chaos of the clash Moses was able to get a clear look at his assailant. To his great surprise it was a woman and with navy blue hair no less. It seemed that Robin's words were correct. It appeared as people in this strange land had natural hair colors he had never dreamed as possible.
"Blue", spoke Moses as he stared at the maiden's long hair. A frown crossed her face as she began to push the duel swordsman back. Reading the writing on the wall Moses broke the dead lock and put some space between him and his foe. In doing so however he had lost his position near the boy giving the pickpocket free reign to move.
"Now run", shouted the maiden as she looked at the young boy. She quickly turned her eyes back toward Moses as he drew his second sword.
Seeing his opportunity the young pick pocket bolted off, holding his knee as he ran. As he faded around the corner he took another look at the maiden giving her a look sign of thanks.
"Get back here you little runt", shouted Moses as he motioned to followed the lad. However he was son cut off by the fine blade of the maiden. Like before she slashed at Moses using both her hands, but this time however the advantage lied with Moses as now he was able to block her sword without damaging his blades.
As the maiden's sword clashed with Moses blades the shock was evenly dispersed amongst both swords neutralizing the finer quality of her sword. Immediately Moses began to push the maiden back showing that he was the stronger of the two. However the maiden proved to be more skilled as she lowered her blade and took a knee. Her jester caused Moses to stumble forward leaving the inside of his right leg open for attack.
The maiden quickly swung her sword aiming to slash open Moses inner thigh. Immediately Moses allowed himself to fall back toward his left side. His right leg flew into the air and dodged the income strike, however Moses was now on the ground and his opponent would not let him recover.
Without wasting a moment she attacked. The maiden began her assault with a stab aimed at Moses' mid section. Moses predicted her choice of attack, as the mid section would be the hardest to dodge. He waited for the maiden's sword to come more than half way down before he rolled to his right. He had to be sure she would not change her stab to a slash as he attempted to roll out of the way.
The sword cut through the earth as Moses was able to roll out of the way. Using this opportunity Moses was able to get back onto his right knee as the maiden charged forward. In order to stop her charge Moses slashed with his right hand. The swing itself, though not powerful, it caused the maiden to jump back none the less.
Her sword cut through thick stone of the rode as if it was cutting through butter, but Moses was able to get out of the range of her sword. Immediately Moses sprung up and got back on his feet. He was more than ready to go on the offensive. Moses charged forward leading off with a horizontal slash with his left. He made sure to slice from across his body to set another attack. The maiden seeing the incoming slash dodged the blade as she knew his second strike would not be far behind, but this was exactly as Moses wanted. As she stepped back to avoid the slash Moses shot forward. He extended his along with the motion of his body giving it some extra speed. His primary sword stabbed forward aiming to pierce the maiden's skull.
Through quick reflexes the maiden was able to avoided Moses' lunge by rotating her body to her left. However Moses' sword still managed to cut her right cheek and as the blade sailed through the air it took with it a lock of her navy blue hair. An expression of shock crossed her face as she felt the sharp pain from the blade. At that moment she realized that Moses was not simply some punk with a sword. He was actually a threat, and if she was not careful he could end up killing her.
The expression of shock soon turned to anger as the maiden raised her blade to counter strike. Moses left flank was now left exposed as the lunge had left him stretched out forward. The maiden quickly countered with a horizontal slash, but her blade was soon met with Moses secondary sword. The duel swordsman had blocked her two handed strike with one arm, and at the hilt of his blade no less. However the maiden's sword still continued to eat into his blade, a fact the Maiden had just noticed.
Moses retaliated by throwing off the maiden's sword and slashing with his primary blade. The slash as he predicted created space between him and the maiden. He charged forward leading the way with his secondary sword. The blade was deflected by the maiden who was beginning to pick up on Moses' attack pattern. She immediately countered with a slash of her own attempting to capitalize on the lag between his two strikes of his swords. Moses however defended with his primary and pressed her blade to the side with secondary blade. Every clash with her sword ate at Moses blade. He felt his inferior iron swords giving way as he exchanged several slashed with the maiden.
"Damn", spoke Moses as he separated once more from the maiden. "If this keeps up my swords are going to break." Only one solution came to Moses' mind. He had to finish this battle in his next strike, if not he would end up breaking his swords and be cut down by the maiden.
Without wasting another moment Moses charged forward like always did. The maiden lifted her sword at the read expecting him to attack. As Moses entered the range of her sword he jumped forward into the air. With all his might he swung both blades forward toward the maiden with entire bodyweight behind his duel slashes.
The maiden however saw it coming. She had taken notice to the damage her sword had done to his blade, and realized that he would have to end this in one strike if he wanted to win. As the duel swordsman jumped forward she jumped back. His blades sliced through air and smashed into the hard stone. She knew better than to simply charge forward and swing at Moses. He had dodged such an attack before when she had him on the ground. He would do so again. Instead she decided on an aerial attack of her own.
The moment the maiden jumped backwards she launched into the air. As Moses' blades sliced the ground the maiden began to spin through the air with an uncanny velocity. Moses looked up expecting her to charge with a slash.
"What the", spoke Moses as the Maiden's abnormally large shadow gave her away. The duel swordsman looked up to the maiden coming down like a spinning pinwheel. "Shit", spoke Moses as he realized he had wasted too much time. Dodging was no longer an option. Moses was forced to raise his swords in defense knowing full well they would give way. The maiden's sword smashed into Moses iron blades. The force of the impact sent a terrifying shockwave through them that shattered the blades like glass. By some luck however Moses himself was unharmed, however a quick follow up from the maiden would soon see to it that statement was undone.
As the maiden finished her attack Moses fought against his initial shock and jumped backwards attempting to put some space between him and her sword. The maiden however was quick to counter as she bolted forward bringing a slash with her. Moses was doomed as the jump had taken all the strength from his legs and his blades were nothing but shards on the ground.
"Moses", his name rang out from behind him as Robin shot forward and blocked the incoming attack strike. Robin's silver sword was on equal quality with the maiden's blade. The advantage lied with neither as the initial clash ended.
"Lucina", spoke Robin as she got an eye full of her opponent. From afar she could not tell who it was as her focus was on protecting Moses.
"Mother", spoke Lucina in shock. She had not seen her mother in a decade, and now out of nowhere she suddenly returned. As she stared into Robin's face tears began to flow from her eyes. She lowered her sword, and opened her mouth to speak, but was soon cut off.
"Bitch", shouted Moses as he dashed from behind Robin. In one swift motion he slammed his fist into Lucina's jaw and knocked the poor girl into the ground. Without delay Moses pounced upon Lucina pining her hands to the ground with his knees, and proceeded to beat her face in with his fist.
"Wait Moses", shouted Robin as she moved to stop conflict, but she was soon pushed down from behind by a great force. "What", spoke Robin as she turned to see several knights pushing her into the ground? One of them quickly tied her hands and another placed a bag over her head. Robin struggled, but it was too late. Two of the knights picked her up by her chest and her feet, and carried her away.
Moses would receive a greeting from the guards however his would be less friendly. As Moses was raining blows upon Lucina's face his head was smashed by a shield. The force of the impact nearly knocked him out. As Moses fell to the ground he heard a loud ringing in his head as a wave of confusion rolled over him. He looked up to the see the knight he had met at the gate standing above him.
"I knew you were a craven from I laid eyes on you", spoke the knight as he gloated over Moses. "Bag him and gag him", spoke the knight as two other knights steeped forward. Immediately they jumped on Moses attempting to hold him down. Though still groggy from the blow to his head Moses resisted. He kicked the first Knight in the knee causing him to fall over and the second knight he rolled as he grabbed his shoulder. Eventually two more knights joined in, but the burly young man still refused to go without a fight. Eventually they resorted to flogging him first and then tied him up. They stuck a bag over his head and carried him away like they did Robin.
"Come with me boy we are going to need you for a witness", spoke the first knight as the young pickpocket nodded and followed behind. He stopped for a moment and turned to look at Lucina.
"Thank you lady", he spoke as he followed the guard.
Lucina watched as Moses was carried away. Her face however was being to swell up thanks the firmly placed punches from Moses.
As the knight disappeared from view Lucina was reminded of her mother. "Mother", she spoke as she turned around to look for her. To her surprise she was gone with no trace of where she could have gone. It never crossed her mind that she could have been bagged and gagged with Moses, but instead she question whether or not she was actually there at all. Her thoughts were broken by the pain of the swelling of her face. Lucina decided that she had been seeing things and left to find a medico.
Yeah, in this Chapter I showed the real ugly side to Moses. Normally Moses is not that violent … ok maybe a little, but there are two things in this world he hates the most. The first is a pickpocket, and the second is people who try to kill him. Both of these people where in this chapter so the worst in him came out.