Octavius POV

Chapter 8: A great leadership

The rest of the night we stood there with our backs turned to each other and we didn't speak a single word. The night turned into day and then it was night again. I blinked with my eyes and felt the energy flowing through my body. I turned around and saw how Jedediah stood there with his back towards me.

"For how long are we going to stay like this?" I asked to make it clear I had enough of it. Jedediah turned around and looked hostile at me.

"Did you call my name already?" was the first thing he said.

"No…," I answered slow and a little bit confused.

"Good," he said just before he took his two pistols and aimed at me.

"Jedediah, put those things away," I said fast and hoped we would be allies again.

"Listen. Yesterday night we had a perfect developed plan and even that plan almost failed. Because of you!" Of course, he had to make that clear again. "And now we have no idea what is waiting for us and we don't have a plan. One of us needs to take this great leadership."

I was shocked, he was right. Immediately I took my sword, who was, like every night, terrible blunt. I attacked immediately and aimed at his head. But Jedediah crossed his pistols and stopped my blow easily. I pulled my sword back, but then I felt a hard kick to my knee. It took all my strength to keep standing tall. Just in time I could stop Jedediah's pistol with my left hand. And at the same time a gave him a hit with my sword at his side. Jedediah jumped backwards, but I didn't give him time to discover. Immediately I went forward and pushed him hard to the ground. With my knees I held his arms to the ground and my sword laid against his throat.

"Looks like I am the leader here," I said before he could do anything.

"Forget it, I can still fight," he yelled back and he tried to realise his arms. It didn't take long before I had enough of it and I hit him with my elbow against his ribs. And immediately he laid still again. I stood up and putted my sword back in his sheath.

"My first order," I said calm. "Stop shouting like that."

"Never do that again! I can't breathe!" he kept on yelling like I hadn't say a thing.

"That is the purpose of it," I answered calm again. "But stop shouting now. You lost the fight, so now you have to accept me as your leader. And my first order for you is to stop shouting." Jedediah stood up and looked angry at me.

"I won't accept you as my leader," he said when he stood in a fighting stance.

"Jedediah, we've been through this." "That fight wasn't fair at all." "It wasn't? How could that be an unfair fight?" "You, eh… It was a surprise attack." "That doesn't make sense at all." "It does!" "Whatever, attack me then. And stop shouting."

I could read the anger in both his eyes and when you attack in anger you lose your focus. I couldn't blame him for forgetting that little, but important rule. I would be pretty mad too if Jedediah would hit me to the ground, but that barbarian deserved it.

It didn't take long before Jedediah ran towards me. All that time I had my right hand with my sword before me. When he was pretty close to me I gave him a strike with my left hand against his head. He fell down before my feet. I enjoyed it how Jedediah laid moaning on the ground.

"We're going," I said and walked away from him.

"My rope," Jedediah said kinda soft, because of the pain. I turned around again. Jedediah tried to stand up again and walked towards his rope.

"Just leave it there," I said annoyed. "We're going. And wait, you still have to call my name."

"I refuse," he said and looked really mad at me.

"You are not even allowed to refuse," I said strict. "Make haste! And if you don't call my name I will bind your hands with that rope." I meant it and he knew it.

"Octavius," he said like he started a threat, but I decided to leave it be. I started walking and Jedediah followed me without his rope.

Soon we saw it was impossible to go back to our cities. The glass was already between us and the cities and we wouldn't be able to move them. I gestured we had to keep on walking and Jedediah obeyed me without saying a thing.

The entire way he walked behind me and kept silent. If I wouldn't hear his footsteps behind me I would've thought he wasn't there anymore. After some time I couldn't stop myself from turning around. Jedediah still walked behind me, but he stopped when he saw I stood still. He looked kinda amazed at me.

"Why are we just standing here?" he asked after some time. I didn't reply, simple because I didn't know what to say. I looked forward again and saw a fork in the path before us. And then I knew what to say.

"Do you see that fork in the road over there?" I asked, but he said or did nothing. "Which way should we go?" He went to stay besides me and looked amazed at me.

"Left," he said after some time. I could see the satisfied twinkle in his eyes and well, I just couldn't take that.

"All right," I said. "Then we're going right."

I didn't look at him and I didn't have to. I already knew how he looked at me. Shocked, confused and angry at the same time. I waited for him to yell at me, till he would call me names again. And of course he would refuse to go right. And I was already prepared that he would attack me again.

But instead of that he walked past me and by the fork he turned right. I couldn't see him anymore, so I ran after him. I also turned right by the fork and saw he still kept on walking. But why? Why didn't he just attack me again? Suddenly I really wanted to know what he thought and how he felt. I ran towards him and stopped when I reached him.

"Jedediah, what are you doing?" I asked directly.

"I do what you told me to do," he said without any emotion.

I blinked with my eyes and felt really amazed. And for a second I wondered which of us was really the barbarian.

Lolz, Octavius is kinda a dick in this chapter! XD And I want to give Jedie a hug right now... =S

Anyways, hope you enjoyed it (like always) and a message is always appreciate (like always again). ^^