Chapter 7. Dagger
I started walking down the path to the opening in the Ironspike mountains, a large belt of mountains the separates Piltover and Zaun from the rest of Valoran. It would be a few days before I got to Demacia and I wasn't in any rush so I took my time with going there. Not long after first leaving Zaun I pulled my sword out and started swinging it around. I was trying to get used to the sword so I sung it around in many different ways, as well as practicing that strange attack I did to kill that man at the orphanage. I managed to get used to the attack, I could only do it so often and so many times. After I had run out of energy I noted how many times I did the attack and how long it took to do the attack again. In the end it turned out to be 7 times in 32 seconds. I put my sword away and kept moving. I also toyed with the knife I had found. I learned by practice that it was a throwing knife. It felt to light and small to be used like a normal knife unless you absolutely had to. It also had no hilt to block attacks, so dodging would be my only option. While that isn't a problem to me it's still bad. After throwing the knife so many times along the way I got used to the weight and eventually I could effortlessly stick the knife into anything I saw just by throwing it. After I had gotten used to both my new weapons I decided to take a break. I had been walking for 3 hours and I was starting to get hungry.
I took out a two apples and drank from one of my waterskins. After my light meal I got back up and went on my travels yet again. However just as I got back on the road I could hear what sounded like rushing horses coming from behind me. I turned to see a strange sight. A coach was being pulled by two horses and wasn't being guided. Perhaps the man guiding them fell off? I didn't want to kill the horses but I also wanted to stop them from running me down. I could just dive out of the way but I was getting bored of just walking. I decided to try to stopped them the one way I didn't know how, guiding them. I waited for the horses to get closer before I grabbed on by the reigns and hopped onto the back of the horse. It moved very fast and was trying it's best to keep moving while trying to get me off. I held on without fail and did my best to slow the horse down. After 8 minutes of trying I was starting to get annoying so I grabbed both reins and pulled back as hard as I could. This pulled tight around the one horse's neck and slowly the cart began to stop. After another 6 minutes the cart had come to a stop and I took a moment to look inside. I was expecting to see someone inside the cart but it turned out to be a cargo cart filled with all sorts of stuff. It was a huge mess with barrels spilling their contents and cut open sacks but the one thing that caught my attention was a strange dagger. I picked it up and pulled it from it's sheath to be greeted with a sinister looking dagger. The dagger seemed to curve backwards and was also black on the sharpened side and red on the other. The hilt seemed to curve across and handle protecting the user's hand, while it did the same on the other end but going along the blade instead. The handle was a strange red hex mesh across a soft red cloth. The bottom of the hilt had a small fake black skull on it that seemed to stare out into the open. I decided to steal the dagger as payment for stopping the horses. I strapped it on the back of my waist under my overcoat and tied the horses to a piton I got out of the cart.
I was now much farther down the road from the cart, I didn't see very much movement from the cart while I was leaving. I didn't want to get called a thief so I waited until I was farther from the cart before I started to toy with the dagger I 'borrowed'. After walking for around half an hour I drew the dagger out of its sheath. It was light, almost weightless. I felt as if I could lose the dagger and it would return to me as well, Which I found strange so I wanted to test it. I took the dagger and threw it into a small treeline and waited to see it anything would happen. After roughly 3 minutes of waiting I deemed I had wasted enough time and went to go look for the dagger. I figured maybe it had gotten stuck in a tree so that was the first place I looked. I would have seen it if it was on the ground since there was no tall grass around the trees.
I was starting to get frustrated. After 15 minutes of looking I still couldn't find the dagger. It was only a small treeline, How could I lose it? I decided I had both wasted enough time and lost my reward. While looking I could hear the cart pass by, when I looked to see if someone was guiding it I saw a old merchant. I jumped down from the tree I had been climbing and started walking down the road again. I didn't want to waste any more time so I walked a bit more faster then one would deem necessary. But while I had been walking so roughly I remembered I still had the troublesome dagger sheath. I reached to grab it after I undid the strap but I was greeted with resistance. I pulled the sheath out from behind me to be greeted by the dagger, the same dagger I had throw back at the treeline. How I didn't realize this before is a mystery to me but now I was curious. I took the dagger and threw it as far as I could again. After a minute of waiting the dagger reappeared in the sheath in a black fog. Interesting, I suppose it's not as much of a troublesome dagger so long as I keep the sheath on me. I strapped the sheath to the back of my waist under my coat once again and started to mess with the dagger. Throwing it around, Swinging it, basicly getting used to the feeling of it as well as the weight. It took longer then I thought to get used to the dagger, I kept tossing it to high or far due to its low weight. I decided to practice with my sword as well. I drew my sword in my right hand with my dagger in my left. I started of by slowly swinging both the dagger and the sword to get a feel for dual wielding. I knew from the encounter in the orphanage that a second weapon is a good idea for someone like me. After I got used to the two weapons I slowly started to move faster and faster until I found myself running out of breath. The weapons both felt perfectly fine to me, I eventually started to try holding the blades backwards as well. However no matter how fast I moved the sword couldn't keep up, the dagger however felt better then when I held it correctly. I started swinging again only with the sword held correctly and the dagger held backwards. I found I would used the dagger for quick blocks or slashes as well as powerful stabs. The dagger was longer then my forearm so I also practiced guiding a enemy weapon away from me. This particular skill seemed like one I would use a lot. It's possible that I may even use it now, since just as I was about to put my weapons away an arrow flies by my head. Bandits.