Chapter 17. Full Power

I dragged myself towards the top of the stairs. I had to go see Swain at his request. I wasn't sure what he wanted, maybe he was going to kill me after what I did. I wouldn't blame him but if he doesn't then I suppose I'll just keep living on. I walked into the main hall and found it full of soldiers. Most of them didn't seem to notice me but as I walked past most of them the murmur of talking faded to silence. Something was going on, while I wasn't sure what all I knew was to be ready for anything. I stood in front of the door to Swain's office, I sighed and knocked on the door. It opened almost instantly.

However it wasn't Swain who opened the door but the man from last night"We don't have much time". He grabbed my coat and pulled me inside the office. My dagger and sword laid there on the table.

"It wont be long until they realize what you did" He said "I'm just glad the note got to you before he did". I didn't wait, somehow everything made sense to me. He had set up another chain of events from my massacure. I had to run or I was going to die and because of this I threw the soldier's sword from my sheath and put mine back. I strapped my dagger to my waist again and threw my bag of supplies over my shoulder. Just as I finished this the door bursted open.

"Get them!" A old man's voice yelled, It must have been Swain. Me and the man didn't even wait for them to burst in as he knocked the soldier who knocked the door down out. He kept moving pushing or killing people that got in the way. It wasn't long before we made it into the main hall, where soldier's sat there waiting for us. At the front of the group were three people, I knew two of the three. One of them was Talon, the other was Swain and the last was a noxian soldier holding and large axe. The man in front of me hesitated for a moment and he turned back to see the soldier's that were still alive closing in from behind. We didn't have many way's out. My eye's scanned the area looking for a way out, however any way out was now blocked with soldiers. Swain walked up to us "I believe that's enough".

"If I had known that Zed sent men to recruit you Blade I would have had you train with Talon" Swain sighed. Zed? As in the letter Z? I kept that thought to myself as I looked to the man. I could properly see him now, he was wearing a strange helmet as well as gauntlets with two blades sticking out of each one. He also carried two stage blades on his back. He looked to me and started talking inside my head again "There's no way for both of us to get out of here, My mission was to bring you to Zed. Go to the clearing in the treeline more of us will be there". I was going to ask him what he meant when I got a head splitting headache. My head felt like it started to burn as I could feel my heartbeat pulsing inside my head which gave me a shot of pain each time. I couldn't stand any longer as I fell to the ground with my head in my hands. I started to feel sick and I could feel the need to vomit much like yesterday. However something very very strange happened. Shortly after I vomited my head cleared up and I felt much more focused, then a voice in the back of my head spoke. "So I've reached you... no only faintly" the voice didn't sound like the man behind me no, it was much for rough and it felt like it was whispering and screaming all at once. "This Zed, will help you with your problem. I still find it insulting how I've helped you all this time and you call me a problem. These men stand here look to betray you and use you until you are broken. They have already made you into a weapon... I have already made you into a weapon. A weapon beyond anyone control, you do not deserve to be commanded. You should be feared, honored, praised even for what you can do. The very sound of your name should send the most brave men into a panic. These men that stand in front of you are nothing, cut past them with your skills. Use the power you call 'Heartbeat' since I will let you use it at it's full power, I will show you what you can do" The voice disappeared and didn't come back. I waited to see what he meant and looked up to see that it had not even been a moment. Swain had been saying something and he was still speaking as if the time the voice spoke to me hadn't even happened. I got up off the ground and wiped my mouth of my vomit before drawing my sword.

"Blade, You dare to stand against me. Even with all these men you still stand with your sword in hand. Brave... but foolish" Swain said as he approached me "Kneel and I will let you live".

While he was talking I could feel my adrenaline rising higher then before, I could barely maintain my composure as I felt a smirk widen across my face. "Swain" I spoke "Your a fool to try to control me".

I wasn't quite sure why... "You still stand against me!" but any doubt... "Very well then..." all my worries... "Kill him" were replaced with energy. I could feel my body moving faster then every before and with such force to kill a man if I were to slam into him. I drew my blade and dashed past all the men in front of me. I didn't quite understand how but I moved through all of them, all the steel, flesh and iron in front of me was nothing. I was able to dash past all of them and found myself at the entrance of the building after I stopped moving. I turned around to see nothing had moved. My blade didn't even have blood on it "Now then, Show them why hey should fear you". I felt as if I knew everything that had happened, I understood what I had just done. Heartbeat was a attack where I moved in a single direction and swung my sword cutting past everything in my way as well as moving through them. The more energy I had stored up the faster and farther I would move. What I had just done was the strongest attack of it I can possibly do. I had moved so fast to me it seemed everything had stopped moving. If I were to moving from my spot right now I would die, however the same goes with everything else. Once I made a sound I would return to real time and the effect's I had caused would rip everything I had touched to pieces. To them it would all happen in a moment and the effect's would take a moment to happen. I grinned as I snapped my fingers. A wave of wind brushed my face as I did and I could see faint movement as well as hear the soldiers breathing. I held my blade up and saw blood appear on it slowly, I swung my blade flinging the blood off it and slowly sheathed it. As the hilt hit the top of the sheath everything came into effect. I could hear all manner of screaming, blood spraying, metal hitting the ground and flesh ripping behind me as I felt a small amount of warm blood hit my back. I turned to see anything behind me on the ground, however what I found interesting was Swain was not among them. I didn't take a moment to wait as I ran towards the entrance and started moving to the noxus gate.

"Who are you" I asked. I waited to see if the voice would respond but was only met with the sound of my feeting hitting the rooftops. I sighed lightly as I kept running, I didn't want to run along the roads in case I run into any more guards. I tried talking to it again as I reached the lower district. "Was it you who killed all those people last night" I waited for a response. "I feel you know that answer to the yourself" it responded. "I've been with you your whole life Blade. I know everything you know as well as my own life knowledge. You are not the first to have my kind inside you". "Inside me? Explain" I said. "I have been with you since your birth, I am a being from the shadow isles. Something few people even know exist. We are called Living shadows" It spoke "This talk has drained me of my energy, you mind is still preventing me from my full power..." the voice said as it faded from my mind. A being with me since birth... Perhaps it know's of my origin. I didn't bother to ask, my parents would likely never know who I was if I saw them. I kept my pace as I jumped across a large street and grabbed onto a window cell. I dropped down and started running towards gate only to be greeted with a figure in my way. I kept running until I could properly make out who it was, and just at the gate Talon stood there waiting for me.

I slowed my pace to a walk until I was a few steps away from him "I'm guessing your not going to let me pass" I said. His response was a simple flick of his wrist to pull out two knives. I responded by drawing my sword and doing the same with my other hand. We both stood there staring at eachother looking for a opening. I made the first move ripping through the air as I tried to slash through him only for him to dash away. I didn't give him the chance to recover as I swung my blade towards him. He blocked it with his arm blade as he tried to stab me with one of his daggers. I quickly kicked his hand away from me as I spun with my kick to try and swing at him from the other side. He was just as fast moving to block my attack as he locked blades again. I was already getting frustrated that nothing was working but he didn't even change his expression. He saw this and tried his best to take advantage of it by jumping back to make it seem like he was wide open. While it wouldn't be foolish to take this opening it was foolish because I knew it was a trap. I stepped forwards with a thrust only to have my blade brushed aside by his. However I saw this coming and as he tried to trust for me as well I kicked it away from me and spun with the momentum of my kick. As I spun I planted one of my two daggers into his shoulder and jumped back gaining distance. We both locked glares again as he pulled the dagger from his shoulder. I was fast but that didn't mean I was strong, anything that seemed strong was just momentum from my fast movements. A axe can cut a man's head clean off but a dagger can do the same if it's moving fast enough. I put my other throwing knife away and pulled my black dagger. He gave a slight glare, the first change in his expression. I suppose he never saw my dagger after all. I held it close to my face and held my sword to my side. I had my left foot planted in front of me and my right jutting out to the side. This time he made the first move, Throwing three daggers at me I was focused enough that I was able to kick them all as they flew in the air, since he had thrown them all at once they also all flew in a line which made it easy to block or even hit them in mid air. However while I did this he had dived and flew over top of me. He swung his arm blade and I just clumsily blocked it with my sword which stopped the blade but knocked me off balance. I stumbled backwards slightly as he dived for me again swinging his blade in a wide arc. I blocked it again with my sword and tried to follow up with my dagger but he moved just out of it's reach, we continued on like this up to the point where I was able to scratch him with my dagger. He didn't wince but I had hit him on his right arm rather well. Even if he didn't react to pain your body is still damaged which make's it harder for it to work. I followed up with a wide kick and knocked his arm blade away. However just as I did this he disappeared right in front of me. Not only did he disappear but blade's were also flying at me and since I had just kicked I was in no position to block. I did my best to dive backward onto the ground but still caught a blade in my leg since I kicked. Shortly after dodging the blade's I got up and swiftly pulled the dagger from my leg. I scanned the area to see where he had gone but I couldn't find him. I kept my weapons up as I slowly exited the city but just before I crossed the bridge I saw a flurry of dagger flying my way. I jumped out of the way only to slam into the side of the bridge. I kicked myself back to my feet only to see Talon was only moments from slashing my with his blade. I tried to get my weapon's up but was to slow as I took the full force of the blow. I felt his blade cut across my chest from my shoulder to my hip. Even thought it felt like fire had just crossed my body I held my sword and dagger ready as he pulled his blade back to try and stab me with his blade. I felt a surge of adrenaline as my sword and dagger pushed the blade out of the way. I moved with the momentum swinging my dagger back and used my sword to continue to push his blade away from me. With him wide open I plunged my dagger into his chest with the momentum of me swinging it behind me. I stood there for a moment, just taking this moment in before kicking him back into the moat below. I wasn't sure if he was dead, most likely not but at least I was away from him. I didn't wait any longer using the last of my adrenaline to power my legs as I sprinted for the treeline. Not even 15 minutes later I arrived to see two men waiting. However my leg's were about to give out and my wound had bleed far to much. I fell to my knee's as landed with a thud onto the ground. The last thing I remember was being lifted up and carried somewhere.