Hetalia – Of Magic and Might
Chapter 17! Oh boy, starting playing your mortal combat and street fighter music because we have our first fight scene!
Enjoy!
5 kilometres from the floating Isle known as 'Whale-tail Island', The Air Ship 'The Fair Lady', Cabin corridor south of the Dining Cart.
Arthur stood frozen in front of the hijacker mercenaries. The tall lanky man who had opened the door was Hyde, his straw blonde eyebrows frowned at the sight of Arthur. Behind him, his two accomplices stepped up threateningly behind Hyde.
"Well well well boys, looks like we got ourselves a peeping Tom" amused Hyde flourishing and twirling his switchblade. Arthur's eyes darted between the faces and a bead of sweat formed beneath his bangs.
"Ha ha! It's funny! Because his name is Tom!" The one known as Dodger crackled, earning him a elbow in the ribs from the bald man beside him.
"No you idiot! It's an expression, his name isn't even Tom! Uh is it?" The one Arthur would come to know as Skipper said, directing the last question to Arthur.
"No" Arthur answered with a small dismissive wave of his hand, the mood suddenly seemed less tense.
"Oh that's good, you know it's just so awkward when you get someone's name wrong. I mean I have a cousin who's called Mary. But for some reason I always call her dairy. Dunno why.I'm pretty sure it was because she smelt Swiss-cheese, or maybe that was my ma?" Skipper continued to ramble. Arthur got the impression that the truly threatening one was Hyde. The other two sort of seemed like twiddle de and twiddle dumb.
"It's an honest mistake" Arthur joined in playing along, nodding in agreement. While this bizarre conversation played out, Hyde began to lose his short temper.
"Skipper! Dodger! Enough of this stupidity! He knows of the plan, get him!" Hyde yelled as he went to grab Arthur, who turned tail and fled back the way he came.
Why the hell did this have to happen to me? Arthur thought as he sprinted down the corridor, ducking as a bullet lodged itself into the ceiling plaster above his head with a loud bang.
"Bloody hell! How'd they get that past the guards?!" Arthur silently cursed as he breached the Dining chart door with full force. The residents of the Dining cart were in hysterics at the explosive noises of gun fire. Alfred, Kiku and Francis were all on their feet and turned towards the door as Arthur threw it open with his continued momentum.
"Everyone take cover!" Arthur screamed as his pursuers exploded into room. Screams and yells polluted the room with chaos. Without missing a beat Kiku overturned the company's dining table. Creating a temporary cover. Alfred and Francis took Kiku's lead and ducked behind the makeshift cover. Arthur legged it over to his friends. Sliding behind it baseball style when he got near.
"What the actual hell Arthur?! Who are these goons!?" Alfred yelled as Arthur leaned back against the table panting.
"I don't know! I literally just passed them and they tried to jump me!" Arthur cried over the deafening gun shots. The other passengers had flattened themselves against the floor. They had switched from screaming to openly weeping. Risking a peek over the edge of the table, Arthur peered from his table cover.
By the exit he saw Skipper and Dodger halt their barrage, it appeared Hyde had ordered them to stop. Arthur looked over to his crouching comrades, motioning that it was relatively safe to take a look. Over by the door Hyde wore a smug victorious grin on his face.
"Alright alright ladies and gentlemen, we've had our fun. Now listen up because I'm only going to say this once" Hyde spoke aloud enjoying himself throughly, loving how he held the room's attention. "You, are all now hostages. My hostages. Now after you've all handed over your valuables, I'll pop off to talk to the captain. This party boat has a new destination"
"Whatta we gonna do?"Alfred hissed as he eyed up their opponents. Arthur was still recovering his breath with Francis by his side, checking for bullet wounds.
"We can't let them change the course of this ship. Everyone on the count of three, we lift the table and rush at them. Francis and I will take Thing 1 and 2, Alfred and Kiku you get Mr Hyde. He's got a knives so be careful, ready?" Arthur strategically planned, meeting each pair of eyes as he spoke. The company exchanged nods of determination and gripped the table in preparation to run.
"3…" Francis whispered beginning the count down.
"2…" Kiku continued steeling himself to run.
"1…" Alfred gritted tensely.
"Now!" Arthur yelled giving the signal to lift the table. Altogether the company raised the table like a shield and charged, yelling their war cries as they did. Hyde, Skipper and Dodger all snapped to the screams of the advancing warriors. Skipper and Dodger raised their flintlock pistols and began firing once again. The bullets nailing the table but not penetrating through. Hyde had drawn his throwing knives and switch blade, raising them as the table drew closer.
When they were about a metre away from the gunners, Arthur and company threw the table at Skipper and Dodger. Knocking them down to the ground with a crash. Arthur and Francis splitting left and right. Both of them landing on top of the fallen gunners.
As Arthur and Francis pinned Skipper and Dodger. Alfred and Kiku bee-lined for Hyde. Dodging the spinning blades he threw in their direction. Changing to his switchblade, Hyde slashed in a wide arc at Alfred. Alfred dodging left as Kiku got close, jabbing at Hyde's abdomen. Kiku's punch connected, knocking the air out of Hyde. The punch caused Hyde to step back and instinctively bring up his elbow to counter Kiku's follow up uppercut. Alfred attempted to tackle Hyde's side, however missed as Hyde swiftly sidestepped. Turning his attention back to his Japanese attacker. Hyde kicked at Kiku's leg unbalancing him and elbowing him in the face, knocking Kiku backwards.
Taking his advantage Hyde lunged at Arthur, knocking him off Skipper. As they rolled off him, Skipper reached for his pistol and aimed at Francis. Before he could fire though, he felt something heavy smash into his hand. Hissing in pain Skipper let go of the gun and rolled away.
Alfred had noticed Skipper grab his pistol and had kicked it out of his hand. Spinning he saw Francis struggling with Dodger. Dodger had managed to rollover and now had Francis pinned by his neck. Kiku was running towards Francis, however was rugby-tackled by Skipper.
Alfred was about to rush to Francis' aid when he heard Arthur cry in pain. Hyde was dragging Arthur by his hair towards the pilot's control room. Knife to his throat.
"Arthur!" Alfred shrieked in distress causing Hyde meet his wide eyes. A cruel dry smile stretched onto Hyde's face as he reached the control room's door, Arthur continued to squirm in disparity.
"Sorry lads, but Arthur and I have an appointment with the pilot. If you jokers behave and don't follow, then maybe wittle ol' Hyde will think twice about slitting Arthur's throat" Hyde wickedly smiled as he walked backwards, pushing the door open and disappearing as it shut.
"I'm going to help Arthur!" Alfred shouted to Francis and Kiku as he ran past them, toward the door Arthur and Hyde had just entered though.
Francis threw a punch at Dodger on top of him, catching him on the edge of his jaw. Dodger's face snapped to the side and Francis continued his assault with a sloppy punch of the gut. Gripping Dodger's clothes, Francis ended his combo by twisting his body so Dodger's weight shifted and rolled Francis back on top.
"Go Alfred! Kiku and I'll cover you!" Francis replied as he began to continuously slap and backhand Dodger "Don't let Hyde hurt him!"
Alfred nodded sincerely and hurtled past Francis, reaching the door and bursting into the room. Before even processing the contents of the room, before Alfred could even understand what was happening. Alfred felt the splatter of hot red liquid land on his cheek.
Ooh. So this is my first attempt at writing a fight scene. As I have no idea if this is any good or bad, I would really appreciate it if you could let me know how well I wrote this. If it's good, I'll include more action and more physical fights. But if it's not very good, I'll try to write less. Feedback will help immensely :) so on other notes, we see that our loveable French snob can fight rather well! Also talking about fighting, I see Dodger and Skipper like the comedy duo in Pirates of the Caribbean, or Team Rocket. I quite like them, Hyde (inspired by Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) is just mean. So anyway thank you for reading this chapter and I hope you enjoyed it. If you are enjoying this story please take the time to review (particularly on the fight scene :)) and follow this story to see more.
Untill next time folks!