Chapter 8. Bandits
Just down the road there was a large amount of rubble, it appears there used to be a type of check-point ahead. I kept my eyes opened as I cautiously approached the rubble. Just a few feet away from the rubble I could hear faint movement from behind it, it sounded like someone had jumped onto something. Thats when I saw the one with a bow, they had a arrow drawn and aimed at me. My adrenaline kicked in and I dashed towards the rubble as they let the arrow fly. I could hear the sound of the arrow hitting just behind me. My back hits the rubble as I draw my weapons again. Just as I drew my weapon two bandits jumped out on both sides of me. I quickly jump back from the wall I was leaning against with my weapons at the ready. The two bandits looked at eachother and one of them spoke "Were not looking to draw blood here. Give use your weapons, Valuables and money and we'll let you live". "Your not looking to draw blood? You shouldn't have fired that arrow at me while I was walking then" I responded. One of them had a longsword and was holding it with both hands, the other was holding a sword like mine and a shield. I didn't know where the one with the bow was but I had to keep an eye out for him or her. The only way anyone was leaving was from fighting. They were both clearly ready and had worked together before. They both charged me with the're two against one advantage, however I had an advantage of my own. My speed was something I have been working on most of my life, Not my strength I didn't need it since the force from how fast I was going would be my strength. Not my defence, I could dodge or guide the're weapons away from me from how fast I was. Speed was my offence and defence.
The one with the long sword pulled back to swing as the one with the shield did the same. I simply ducked under the longsword swing and guided the sheilded ones sword away from my neck. Since I had just moved my sword back in the process of guiding the sword away from me my sword was in position to thrust the one I countered. I quickly pushed my sword forwards only to have it blocked by the mans shield. I jumped backwards after this and waited for another chance to attack. It would be easier to kill the one with the longsword first since he doesn't have anything to block my dagger if I were to use it. I took a quick check for the archer only to find nothing other then the cold walls of rubble behind the bandits. Just as I looked back to the bandits the one with a longsword charged me alone, The one with the shield moved to get behind me. A longsword is a heavy weapon, you need to use two hands with it to use it effectively. You also can't do anything quick such as a jab or slash without tiring yourself out quickly. Therefor the man charged at my to swing for my mid section. Ducking under that would take my head clean off so just before he swung I jumped twisting myself into the air. Since I had jumped into her air and twisted how I wanted I swiftly kicked the man in the head before landing. I didn't give me man time to rest I quickly landed and dashed backwards. While dashing I had twisted my body to get a swing with my sword on the man with a longsword, however the man with a shield quickly jumped in front of my swing. I was already close enough as it was so I had hit the side of his shield and I ended giving him a deep cut on his other arm from the force behind my swing. This knocked his shield away from him and also knocked him off balance, so I followed up by taking a quick hop upwards slashing with my dagger giving him another deep cut from his waist to his shoulder. The man cried out in pain as he fell backwards, the force of him landing only made the cut on his chest worse as I saw it slit wider from the movement. The longsword bandit was my next target. He was already turning to see him friend bleeding on the ground, then turned to me in rage. I hopped away from his bleeding friend and readied myself from and attack. The man once again charged me with his long sword as he pulled back ready to swing. The way he was about to swing was unique I couldn't jump nor duck from the swing so as he swing I hopped backwards. However the man was currently enraged and repeated the swing as he pulled back each time. I couldn't do much more then dodge what I could and wait him out. After a few more swings the man had used up all his energy and with one last attempt he swung. This swing was weak and had no force behind it other then the weapons weight. I blocked the attack with my sword and moved forwards. I quickly hit him in the face with my left elbow and proceeded to stab him repeatedly. After a few stabs I stopped for a moment and held the blade to the mans throat. I whispered the words "Drop dead" as I slid my dagger across his throat. I could hear the man Choking on his own blood and he dropped his sword to hold his neck with both hands. The attempt to block the blood was futile since it kept slipping between his fingers and blow his hands. The last thing I did was kick him onto the ground and left him to bleed out.
I took a moment to look again for the archer however after looking around the rubble I could only find the supplies they had stolen from other travelers. I flung the blood off of my sword and dagger and re sheathed them. I moved up to check on the man with the shield. It turned out that the wound I did to his chest was to large to deal with and he bleed out as well. I moved the corpses to the side of the road and threw the weapons they had into the tall grass around them. I then moved to look at the supplies they had stolen. There wasn't very much a bit of noxian currency and what looked like a large bottle of ale. I wasn't much of a drinker as far as I knew. I hadn't drank any alcohol all my life and I wasn't going to start here. I smashed the bottle and took the currency. I was about to leave when I saw that it was getting late, the sun was on the verge of disappearing and it was getting colder. I decided to walk along the path for a hour before I stopped to camp out. It didn't take long to find another tree line. Once again I climbed to the top of the treeline and fell asleep.