Avalar's Redemption Ch 2
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"Sh-, off all the bad timing. When do we ever get a break around here?" Zunde practically yelled out.
Unsheathing his blade, "Manuel, get your blade pronto! I don't want to be stitching up your chest again when get a blow to the chest before you could defend yourself."
Running past him, "You try carrying a blade that heavy all day when we're exhausted even before the ambushes start."
Running for my blade, 3 men were already upon my blade, putting them between me and my blade.
Hearing blades lock behind me, I hear Zunde speak out, "As much fun as it would be to watch you whip them bare-handed, I want to end this as soon as possible, we're exhausted enough as it is."
Taking his advice, I quickly ran along side the wall straight to the men, receiving surprised looks and grins as I made my way to them.
Seeing their confidence reassured me that they figured I was heading for them. Right before I got into blade range, I quickly threw my weight into the wall, planting my feet into the wall to push myself higher up, straight over their heads and made way to my blade.
Upon me picking up my blade, I quickly sidestepped a vertical slash to my head, upon using the time to firmly grip my blade into a defensive stance. Placing the blade between me and them, I begun an assault to drive them back to the gate they had busted open to keep them from getting too far into the guard post to break our defensive position.
Yelling back, "Any luck back there Zunde?"
Between clenched teeth due to the pain, Zunde replies, "A few dozen or so are felled, but about 5 are barely hanging on now."
"Push them back my way, we need to double side them to break their formation."
After wearing down the last 3 men that blocked my blade, I told them to leave or fall where they stand. When they practically spat in my face, barely able to hold their blades any longer, I quickly cut their throats, knowing full well that they did not dare fail their power-hungry dictators.
Turning around, I sighted Zunde dealing with the last 6 men with about a dozen or so bodies lying around, scattered around as they had fell.
Making my way through the tree infested yard inside the guard post, I cut around the tree, flanking 2 men unfortunate to having their backs turned and quickly took the slice to their back of the neck, quickly dropping the odds in our favor of 3 men vs. us 2.
When the last 3 realized that I was behind them, they quickly spread around us, forcing us to deal with someone on 3 sides of us. Every time we would attack someone on any side of us, the one left behind the one that attacked would be left open to 1 of the men from behind, leaving the other to block the blow and repel them back as we would then alternate attacking and defending the men and protecting each other.
As they slowly wore us down, Zunde hastily made a risky move by blocking the blow that was aimed for my back and tried slashing his arm enough so he couldn't lift the sword. While his blow did the trick, the one he left himself open to kicked him hard enough to slam him into the tree 6 yards behind us, snapping his spine easily due to weariness and fatigue on his body and mind for the past 4 or so months.
As that blow that connected to Zunde hit, that man also left himself open. I quickly made for his arm to force him to block the blow while all-the-while the blow I aimed for his arm was a fade to his leg, quickly changing direction into his muscular leg, quickly severing his muscles, leaving him unable to move.
Quickly dispatching the fallen man, I made for Zunde, the last man making way for him before Zunde could get away.
Rushing up behind him, I quickly shoved the man right before his sword had struck Zunde in the chest, knocking him 8 yards back, sliding straight for the wall.
When I saw that he hit he wall enough to daze him, I quickly picked up Zunde and let him lean on me for support and carried my blade in the other hand as I pressed towards the guard tower where I could protect him without the last man going for him.
With Zunde holding on to his sword barely, he hit me with the pommel in the back, shouting to me, "Its no use, I will only get you killed trying to save me. Your already past your limit as am I, but you won't stand a chance if you use your last energy trying to carry me back inside the guard tower.
As his words fell from his mouth, the last man shook off the impact and quickly dashed for us, knowing full well that we were out of energy to be defending ourselves in combat.
When the man quickly closed the gap on us, Zunde pounded my chest again with the pommel of the blade, " he's gaining on us, just leave me here and get back into the guard post where you'd stand a chance!"
Quickly putting that thought out of my head, I yelled back, "No! What kind of person would I be to leave you here to die when we could both make it out together! Besides if you die, who else would I be fighting for? I'd be here alone in this maddened world with everyone else killing for power! Besides, you've always had my back, now I'm going to have yours!"
Upon hearing those words, it left Zunde stunned and speechless as he kept on walking with me to the guard tower.
Right as I was about to close the metal door right behind me as I put Zunde down, the man that was behind us quickly made to stab me in the back, his blade piercing my lungs and coming out the other side.
Maddened by rage, Zunde quickly raised his sword with his only good arm and quickly pushed the blade where his heart would be, instantly killing him where he stands before he could retrieve his blade out of my back to defend himself.
As the man fell over, Zunde quickly put me on my side to inspect the wound as blood came out both sides and out of my mouth.
As I coughed out blood, I said in a raspy voice, "I told you I would have your back and prefer to fall for you than you to perish. I just wish I would have pushed a little harder to the gate, but my body was already dying on me trying to get you through the gate and lock it behind us.
As I coughed out a larger amount of blood, Zunde quickly made to look for any medical supplies to bandage the wound or ease the pain in a panic to try and save me. When he came across the supply kit, he staggered back to me near the metal gate that separated us from the outside. Before he could get close to me, he fell onto the ground, the kit falling to the ground and busting open, sprawling all over the ground.
As Zunde's adrenaline effects gave way, he begun to feel the full effects of his injuries and fatigue on his body, quickly falling into a coma as I fell into a coma from the loss of blood and all the pain, all fatigue forgotten from it all.
"Hmmmm... It's rare to see two humans looking out for each other, especially those who wish to be no part of the war between the world for power and struggling for survival...Perhaps these two aren't apart of this world, seeing as they don't hold any behaviors close to their "kind"...I think I'll allow them a second chance, far from the madness that this world has fallen into and into a world where peace is just beginning to reign."