Chapter Four : Fighting!

A/N : Hello my fellow readers! With my new computer, a new editor came along. I hope the text formatation is being saved now! Thank you for the reviews. The characters of this story were remodeled, to make them more realistic. This is the start of a new story!

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"Yes, i am one of Ryu's friends. You seem to know him, even tough you aren't treating him with...- Rei looked straight to the cage on the camp -...pleasurable manners" he finished.

"Hmmm...let's say Ryu isn't very welcome here - Jack harshly took his partner's knife and pointed it to Rei's neck - Neither do his friends" as arrogant as always. His partners started to surround him and Rei.

"Knives, eh? I guess this means fighting, but..." Jack threw the knife at Rei's, who quickly avoided it, and calmly continued his sentence "...I guess we can solve this in a non-violent manner, can't we?" Rei avoided another projectile. Jack was starting to get angry.

"So, you like avoiding, eh?" Jack ironically asked Rei, but before he could answer he entered one of the tents and vanished for a second.

"Running already?" Rei was rather puzzled by his opponent action. The group of shadows doing nothing but watch.

"I guess not" Jack appeared again, this time with a purple snake-like staff.

"Can't you stand up without the help of this walking stick? You don't look old enough, i would say." All the people surrounding them started to laugh furiously, Jack felt ridiculous. Rei was trying to act funny, even tough he was a bit scared by the number of foes.

"Walking Stick? How dare you..." Jack silenced for a moment. Rei then turned to look at Ryu's cage. Suddenly, Rei shivered, and looked back to Jack. A big frozen spike hit him on the chest, hitting him hardly on a tree that was close by.

"Ouch, attacking by the back? This is not a fair game, you know!" For the first time since the whole scene started, Rei was angry. He got up, still shivering, and run up as fast as he could to hit Jack. He almost did, but one of the shadows jumped in the front, punching his nose and head, making he feel the power of gravity.

"Come on, Rei. I defeated your little dragon friend, do you really think you're a threat to me?" Rei felt shocked. "He must have caught Ryu off-guard" He tought.

"Yes, i do think i am a threat. And i don't think you defeated Ryu...you got him off-guard, i know it" Rei yelled.

"You're brighter than you look, Rei - Now it was Jack's turn to be ironic - I did caught him off-guard"

"Coward. Let's stop the talking now..." Rei threw his knives to the ground and got his hands on his head. He started to yell, and his body began to glow. Soon, he wasn't human anymore, he were a tiger. When the shadows saw Rei's changing into something else, they did not ever waited to see what he was gonna turn into, they ran, but Jack didn't noticed this.

"Nice, Rei. Let's start the true fighting now." Jack pressed a button on his staff, turning it into a sword.

"Tought you were a magician" Rei said. Jack were extremelly shocked.

"You can talk in this tiger form? You got good domain over your power. It's a shame that i will kill you now!" Jack then noticed that he was alone in the field "Cowards, they left me...".

Rei dashed at Jack, and deeply wounded him in his right arm. Jack cried in pain, but parried Rei's next attack. But he were no match for Rei's speed in weretiger form, and Rei cut him on the left leg as well.

"Ouch, you're fast Rei! - Jack smiled confusing Rei - But the fight is not over yet!" He said in a exclamation and lifted his hand up in air and cried "Rejuvenate". In a glimpse, lots of little balls of holy energy fell all over his body, healing a good amount of his wounds completely.

Jack shot another ball of ice in Rei, who avoided it easily. Rei dashed at jack again, and when he was about to hit Jack on the face, a huge stone pillar popped out of the ground, not only hitting him hardly, but also taking him very tall on the skies."Argh, this just can't get worse!" Rei tought. But it did. The pillar vanished, and Rei crushed on the floor. He was bleeding already, but he still got up and cried "Mjollnir!". A huge bolt of lightning came down from the skies, but it did not hit Jack.

"Hahaha, I guess you aren't that great in magic Rei!" Jack chanted again at shouted "Quake!". the ground surrounding Rei started to tremble, and Rei realized what was about to happen. Rei quickly jumped off the ground to a tree, but he still got hitten violently by one of the stones that were throw away, while the ground opened in the middle, almost draining up to his darkness everything around. Rei fell of the tree again, this time hitting the head on a part of the soil that still weren't affected by the Quake spell. Rei were too wounded, and couldn't help but see the soil slowly cracking and getting closer and closer to him.

"Die fool!" Jack yelled, laughing like a demon. Rei couldn't do anything else to protect himself. He closed his eyes, to try and find a solution, or maybe to pray to Ladon. hatever he did,he felt the earth was stopping to shake. He opened his eyes and saw a shocking image. Jack chest was bleeding like hell. There was a blade across his chest.

"I guess it weren't a smart idea to open my cage, Jack" It was Ryu. His cage gotten opened somehow, fast enough for him to realize what was happening and help his friend.

"B...But how?- Jack was coughing blood, already bowed in the ground - I got defeated by you..."

"Yes, we are tough fellas" Rei smilled. He was already back to his human form, still very wounded from the last battle with Jack. Jack fell to the ground, dead.

"Rei, are you still alive?" Ryu walked towards Rei, helping him up.

"Doesn't that just beat all? Look at me, these were my favourite clothes!" Ryu smiled.

"If i recall correctly, you only have those!" Ryu teased Rei.

"Never mind. How were you able to escape that cage?" Rei asked Ryu.

"I don't know. All i remember was a huge thunderbolt hitting the door and bursting it apart" Ryu looked at Rei, who was laughing "What's so funny about it?" he asked

"I am a great magician" He replied.

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