Chapter 23. Bandit clan

I didn't waste a moment in time quickly quickly I drew my sword and got ready to fight. One of them had a rapier the other had two daggers. They both had strange costumes on, they were covered from head to toe in blue leaving a large hole for their eyes. The two saw me and moved in to attack at once. They clearly knew what they were doing as the one with the rapier led while the one with daggers moved to my side. The man with the rapier moved to thrust to my chest but I twisted my body from the blade as he did so. As I twisted I moved my leg with my momentum hitting the man with the daggers. He was slow but he did block it, I hit him in the shoulder and he backed off. Since the other man was behind my and my sword was in my right hand I spun and whipped my sword slashing the man along his arm before dashing away from the two. I began running out the door and down the stairs. If I was going to fight I wanted to do it in a place I had the advantage. I ran down to the main hall before I was cut off by two more men. They both had their weapons ready as the two behind me flanked me. The four fanned out to surround me. Before long I was almost spinning from how much I turned to check my back. I knew I couldn't last long like this so I attacked one of the men at the door. He had a sword that was around as long as his legs and before long he moved to block my attack. I dashed to the right of him and quickly drew my dagger slashing at him with my left hand. I wasn't able to hit him but the point was to get behind one of them. I quickly spun and thrusted my sword into his back. It landed slightly to the right missing his heart but wounding him. I jumped back to try to follow up by kicking off the wall behind me. I jumped at him with my weapons in front of me however he had turned to face me and the other men were not moving up to attack. I quickly sheathed my dagger and threw 4 small shadow knifes in front of me. Two of them hit the man in front of me while the others moved to hit the men behind him. The daggers hit the man in the shoulder and the other sliced across the right side of his neck before hitting the floor and disappearing. The man moved his hand to stop the bloody rapidly pouring from his neck but this game me an opening. I quickly twisted my body in mid air to give myself momentum to swing my sword for his neck. His hand got in the way as I cut away four of the mans fingers but missed his neck. I glided over the man and rolled as I hit the ground getting ready to deal with the other three. The first thing I did was draw my dagger again then I quickly checked to see who was closest. The man with the two daggers was so I was focused on him, the man behind me wouldn't be much help with a slit jugular and a fingerless hand. The man swung a dagger towards my head following up with his other dagger after for my body. I hit the dagger for my head with my own and hopped to dodge the second attack before I dashed past him with heartbeat slicing him open from the side. However I had dashed right into one of the men and he had his sword ready. He brought the sword down trying to hit me only just barely blocked by my own. The force knocked me down onto one knee however the advantage to having more then one weapon showed as I stabbed him on his side. He reacted as his strength in his sword weakened and I pushed the sword off of mine. With his body open I brought my own sword down on him slashing him from his shoulder to his hip. I would have followed up if I hadn't felt a large jolt of adrenaline causing me to dash to the side. I ended up dodging at fatal attack but I was still his as my arm was pierced by the man with the rapier. I nearly dropped my sword as the pain caused me to lose most of the feeling in my arm. I quickly jumped back as I sheathed my sword and readied my dagger. Now I was in a bad position, my dagger was shorter then his rapier and my dominant hand was my right. I jumped backwards in response to his thrusts as I waited for an opening. I was slightly scratched multiple times as I did my best to dodge the attacks. The man was fast enough that I couldn't quite predict his attacks but then he tried to attack my head again. I took the opening as fast as I had seen it as I brushed the sword away with my dagger before dashing forwards and holding his arm up with what little strength I had in it. Then I proceeded to stab the man in his chest multiple times. I lost count as I felt my breath get heavy from my low energy before I jumped back again. The man dropped to the floor with my support on his arm gone.

The only one left was the man I slashed across the chest. He was still rising to his feet as he looked up at me in rage. The man grabbed his weapon and got ready for my attack. I decided since we were both hurt to try to wait him out, his wound was more severe then mine but my had immediate effects. I couldn't hold my sword much less swing it and I couldn't move it quickly. The stab wound has hit my muscles not doubt but it didn't break any bone. I waited looking at the man standing in front of me, I tried to see if there was any sign of pain as we stood their. Then the man tried to dash forwards to me weapon in hand aimed at my chest. He thrusted from a range only he had with his sword. However with both the wound and the fact that a sword is easier to deflect the farther from the hilt you his I pushed it away with my dagger. I followed up quickly as I took my dagger and plunged it into his heart before ripping it back out and stabbing him on the under side of his head. After a moment his arms dropped and his body went limp. I pulled my dagger from his head and let him drop. I stood there looking at the bloody seance in front of me. I wasn't sure who had attacked me but they did. I flicked the blood from my dagger and sheathed it, I took a seat at one of the tables and before long the owner had arrived at the inn. He looked at me in surprise at the seance in front of him taking a moment to recover from the shock. All I did was point to the wide hole in my coat spilling my bloody "I could use a decent bandage".

It didn't take long for me to get medical help and the place to be closed from the body's. The police of the town took a look at the scene and told me the men I was fighting were from a clan of bandits. They tend to target high profile people and don't have much in the ways of tactics. I sat there while my arm was getting healed looking at the men cleaning the blood form the floor. In that moment I felt a bit of remorse, My life had taken quite a deadly turn. All I did was protect the only people I've known all my life and because of that I'm now a assassin... almost a assassin. The training as they called it at noxus was more for my survivability and the order of the shadow will help me learn more about assassins. "You should be fine now" the owner said as he tied the bandage around my arm. He began clearing the table of supplies as he got up and sighed before walking into a room behind the counter. My coat was starting to get ruined with more and more holes or tares in it as well as more blood. Before long with coat will before a blood red coat instead of a black one. I decided to go back to my room and clean it before I left to enjoy myself in the town. While cleaning my coat Sona came to my room and asked what happened. Shortly after explaining she left but not before leaving a note on my desk. The note read about areas in the town I might want to see. One of them caught my eye, it was a small lake located in the middle of the forest two hours away from the town. It might be fine for me to try and find a way to relax. My nerves were going to be shot soon if I didn't and my emotions have been rather non-existent lately. Perhaps I was depressed. I cleaned the last of the blood from my coat and sowed the last of the rips in both my shirt and my coat before I left from the town. I took my sack of goods with me and locked my money in the chest they left in the room. I also bought a cheep pair of paints from a shopkeeper before leaving as well. With the key to both the chest and room in one of my coat pockets and the pants in my sack I delved into the forest. I took the time to watch where I was going along with watch for any animals and such to avoid. I came across a few foxes and snakes but nothing that seemed to abnormal or dangerous. The most dangerous creatures were likely the spiders I came across in their webs that glowed in the sunlight. They didn't seem to move to try to attack me but with with them being spiders I doubt it would mean much. I was in roughly one and a half hours of walking before I began to notice the sound of what sounded like animal footsteps following me for the last 15 minutes. At first I thought it might just be stalking me so I threw a dagger towards the animal, but after waiting a moment then moving again I could hear it still... faintly behind me, following me. I was starting to get annoyed by the noise of being followed so I decided to try to lose to animal. I waited until I was at a light cliff I could see ahead of me before I began sprinting as I jumped down the cliff. I hit the ground and dashed forwards through the forest. I had run for 3 minutes before I jumped up into one of the trees and listened for the noise of the animals footsteps. After waiting for 5 minutes I decided I lost the animal and began walking again. It took another 10 minutes of walking before I reached the spring. I sighed loudly as I took out the pair of pants. I cut the pants down into shorts before I looked around making sure I wasn't followed. I didn't see anyone around so I changed into the pair of shorts and jumped into the water. The water wasn't cold enough to want to get out but wasn't warm enough to want to stay in it for long. Before long I was floating on the top of the water looking at the sky above. I could feel the wound on my arm irritated by the water but most of my muscled relaxed so I payed little attention to it. I took a deep sigh before I pushed my body under the water. I hadn't been swimming before but the large spring wasn't deep were I was relaxing. Before long I had begun cleaning my clothes and letting them dry, most of the time I was in the water trying to loosen up my muscles. I could tell I was going to be sore now that my muscles weren't as tense since they suddenly relaxed. Eventually I started to attempt to learn how to swim. I understood the concept but never did try to practice it, mainly because I never got the chance. However while I tried my best to learn to swim I could hear the noise of an animals footsteps again and was starting to get annoyed again. I could feel my muscles slowly tense up again as I could see someone appear from the forest surrounding the large spring. It was a woman... with ears and a tail?