Fantasia
Arc1: Battle of villages
Chapter6: The Rocux brothers vs the Zedai brothers
And so in order to rescue Luffine the sage, Juan and Roné had to face the mercenary brothers of Sumeria "The Zedai brothers: Hegi and Samu":
"Okay bro! I'll take on the big one, you'll have the small one!" Roné said as he was excited, while rushing toward his foe, to enter the battle with a violent fiery punch the knocked Samu a distance back, the latter wiped his mouth and stared toward the beastman giving a scary gaze saying: "Prepare to die!" and in an incredible speed he slammed his foe with his left palm causing the floor to crack under Roné who tried to defend with both of his hands.
"Dammit! He's fast for his size!" Roné said, then he ignited his feet to push himself, but his enemy suprsied him by a horizontal slam with the right palm that sent the beastman to the wall.
In the same time, Juan was trying his best to hit Hegi with the iron bar he's holding, but the latter was too agile for him, finishing his swifty moves with a water blast released from his right palm to send Juan to the wall near his brother.
"Hmm nice view, isn't it big brother?" Samu said with a wide smile.
"Hmph, weaklings, they need hundreads of years in order to achieve our level!" Hegi said while adjusting his hair.
While the two gave their backs to the defeated brothers, a huge fire ball hit them, but it was partially neutralized by Hegi's water barrier, the smoke is lifted to reveal Roné who was angered, igniting his whole body in fire: "This fight had just begun!" he shouted while jumping at Samu delievering a volley of punches and kicks reinforced with flames, Hegi on the other hand recieved a violent blunt from Juan:
"Bastard!" the older ragon brother said.
"Never understimate a beastman!" Juan said giving a sharp stare to his foe.
"Beastman?...what the hell are you talking about brat? You are a human!" Hegi said scorning the shepherd.
"No I'm not!" was Juan's respond.
"Whatever you say…anyway it seems that I'm wasting my magic on you, I can take you on with my bare hands" the ragon boasted while taking a different fighting stance; seperating his legs more than usual, leaning to the front while extending his left arm toward his foe and keeping the right one at the level of his chest: "Here I come!" he shouted, and with incredible speed he slided to Juan, to hit him in the guts with his right hand, followed by a quick slap to with the left one and finsihed with a push from both hands, that made Juan spit some blood.
"Foolish critter! Know your limits!" Hegi insulted Juan before giving his back to him, but a small ice pebble hit him lightly, he turned to see Juan trying to stand, wiping the blood from his chin and smirking: "I told you never to understimate a beastman" he said while pulling the iron bar from the ground.
"Die scum!" the angered ragon yelled as he started to deliever fatal hits to Juan in almost every spot to his body, leaving him laid on the ground with heavy wounds.
Roné noticed what's happening to his brother so he rushed to help him, but unaware he also got hit by a powerful punch from Samu that made him hit the ground ferociously.
"The end!" the large ragon said trying to deliever the final blow to Roné but his hand was hit by the iron bar tossed by Juan, who still didn't collapse yet.
"He's such a persistent fool! eh big brother?" Samu said while rubbing his injured hand.
"I admire that, he should die honorably shouldn't he?" Hegi asked as well with an evil grin.
"Ah…that technique!" the large ragon smirked.
And so Hegi started to do some hand signs, and in an instant Juan found himself getting choked, in a floating water sphere, and it didn't stop here because Samu jumped inside the orb, and started to hit the shepherd with all his might, and with this Juan was trapped in the deadly technique of underwater execution.
"Juan!" Roné said trying to get up, but he was stopped by Hegi who casted a water current spell making him unable to move under the high water pressure.
On the other hand the young man started to loose sight, as he was getting out of air and the hits on his weak body were getting deadlier, he smirked telling his self: "So this is what it feels to fight for someone you love." remembering some of his childhood memories:
A six years old Juan laid on the ground, beaten up with his clothes ripped, he was bullied by some young beastmen who mocked his appearence:
"Look at this wimpy kid!"…"He has no fur on his body!disgusting bastard"…"His skin is softer than my baby sister's" and other insults that made him cry heavily, but the bad kids were defeated by Roné who stood for his brothers chasing the bullies away while shouting at them: "You goons! Hurt my bro again and the last thing you'll see is my fist!".
Then Roné headed to his brother helping him to stand up.
"So…sorry brother! I…" but the tears couldn't let Juan complete his words.
On the other hand Roné hugged his brother tightly saying: "Nah, nah no more tears for you bro! I'll be always here for you, c'mon wipe those tears, we don't wanna troubles with dad n' mom, stop it! I'll give you my share of dinner if you want!" with his usual sly grin.
Those memories warmed Juan's heart, but he was getting hurt badly, he couldn't see his brother defeated like that, so he encouraged himself more and blocked Samu's headbutt, then he wrapped his arms around the ragon's neck tightly, saying to himself: "Brother this time I'll be here for you!".
The vision from outside the sphere got blurry because of the bubbles coming from Samu's struggling to free his neck from Juan…but it was a matter of a minute until Samu fell on the ground unconscious and blood coming out from the gills on his neck, followed by Juan, who stood up slowly coughing water off his lungs.
"Brother?!" Hegi exclamated.
"Hehe…when a ragon is underwater, he uses gills to breath…however those parts are the most sensetive, even a small pressure of mild duration will cause respiration troubles and knock the ragon out for about an hour…I guess reading books isn't that boring after all…eh brother?" Juan explained what happened finishing his sentence with a light smile.
"Bastard!" the ragon insulted Juan and headed toward him saying: "With this torn body of yours, defeating you will…" but he was hit by a ferocious kick from Roné who commented: "Dude! That's my brother you are callin' a bastard! And when someone pick up on my bro…I ain't gonna be happy".
And so the Rocux brothers joined each other to face the angered Hegi, who entered his melee fighting style stance again, Juan barely could keep his balance, but he whispered something in his brother's ear.
Right before the ragon managed to reach them to deliever his first punch, he was blocked by Roné who used his left leg to hold Hegi's left knee, then quickly hit his foe to the face pushing him away.
"How the hell?!" Hegi asked Roné about the way he managed to block his combo.
Juan smiled again and explained: "You thought I was taking hits like that for nothing,…I was memorizing your habits while you deliever your hits, I know my body is weak to block such fast moves, but Roné isn't like me, he's a total tank!".
"Dude that's the first time something nerdy sounds so cool…it must be my name that made it like that!" Roné boasted finishing with a laugh then he added: "But seriously bro you looked scary back then when you defeated that big goon".
"Hehe" Juan blushed.
"Damned fools!" Hegi said while standing up, he wiped his mouth, and faced his palms toward the brothers: "Face the tidal stream!" he shouted releasing a powerful water torrent from his hands.
"Water!..." Juan said in fear as he started to get dizzy.
"Bro! get a hold of yourself!" Roné shouted at his brother.
"Hold?! You bastards will see the true power of my magic!" Hegi said making the current more devestating pushing the two out from the tower to fall toward the jagged icy cluster on the bottom of the prison.
Roné was falling too fast until it was an inch between his head and the giant icicle, but suddenly he stopped falling, he rised his head slowly to see something unusual even in a magic world; he saw his brother holding him with one hand from the belt, while the other hand was drastically stretched from the tower's top to its shoulder.
"What the fu…" Roné exclamated trying to express his surprise using a swearing word, but he was interrupted by his brother: "Don't say it!".
"Hehe sorry" Roné apologized then he asked: "But How?".
"I myself don't know, but I have an idea, quickly push yourself more to the ground" Juan instructed his brother.
Meanwhile Hegi was heading slowly toward Kura to get rid of him but suddenly he heard Roné's loud voice: "Ohoy! Fish face!".
He quickly headed to the edge of the tower and looks down asking "How…" but he was surprised by Roné's fiery kick empowered by the elastic force gained from Juan's arm.
Juan's arm returned to its original size: "Wow! That was strange!" he expressed his surprise of his unknown ability.
"Wait a minute!" Roné said then he added: "God! I'm such an idiot!".
"Eh?" Juan asked.
"I could've defeated this dude with ease, but I forgot I can do it!" the beastman answered.
"This is really getting out of control" Juan said.
"I'll kill you flame eaters!" Hegi said preparing a water spell with his hands.
Roné took a deep breath that his stomach bulged.
"Stop it! dad banned this move for you!" Juan warned his brother.
But the latter ignored his brother, and released a powerful fire breath from his mouth, it was simply a devastating attack that swallowed Hegi evaporating his water barrier, piercing the other side of the tower making a long stream of flames that can be seen even from the rebellion camp.
The fire got extinguished, Hegi was dropped unconscious and Roné started to cough smoke, he turned to his brother who was stunned of surprise, he winked asking: "What do you think bro?".
The latter answered: "Never, never do it again!".
Then Roné headed quickly to the injured Kura:
"Old man! You alright?" the beastman asked.
"Yeah I'll live…" the ragon answered, then he added: "Check Luffine, he's more important than me."
At the same time Juan freed the old sage from his shackles:
"Lord Luffine! It's me, Juan, wake up!" the young man said.
Luffine smiled barely breathing, Juan pulled the bottle Kura gave him earlier and made him drink it, and in mere seconds the weakened old man restored his vigor, which made the brothers wonder why.
Kura simply answered: "When Lord Luffine lost his fight, Lord Ramusus pulled his magic force out his body and liquefied it…I sneaked past the guards and contained that magic into the bottle I gave you, so when he drinks it he'll restore what he lost, and then he can…", but Luffine completed instead: "No worry son, I'll take care of Ramusus myself…and this time no tricks!" and so the sage of Ardneria headed toward the royal palace of Sumeria.
To be continued