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Chapter 24 - The war

Thaneiros took his sword that he kept at the gate and got ready for a war.

'Thank God I kept my sword at the gate, now it's time for a game.' Thaneiros said approaching Gideon.

' { ohh damnit, sup with this guy, I can't feel my legs, what's going on, who's he. My body has never been this afraid before. Grrrrrrrr, no matter who he is, I'm an ultimate weapon, and I should finish him with one strike.}' Gideon silently said, looking at the dark place where Thaneiros' voice came from.

Thaneiros kept appearing and disappearing. Gideon's eye's got tired of staring at the moving dark that kept on switching on and off. Suddenly, Gideon, had a whoosh sound from nowhere, thanks to his skills, he managed to dodge.

' Hoho, you are a hard one aren't you?' Thaneiros asked mockingly.

' tsh, so there you are, old man, or I can say my mone…..'. this time the whoosh sound was lower than expected and Gideon got a scratch on his face.

' Ohh, I missed? Lucky you, but next time I won't miss.' Thaneiros said, looking at Gideon with a scary eye.

' oooooo, old man, no.. my money, why are you dancing like a kid, come on, come at me, I'm free , I want to play.' Gideon showed that he was still into fighting.

'Ohh, according to your body (meaning Gideon's big strong body), I guess you didn't feel any pain, good for you. By the way, I should teach you some manners before the climax of either you or me winning.'

'Wait, what is Master doing?? And that guy looks strong, which means, he's reading his opponent, that's cool. What should I do before I get spotted?' Akirion said, while he was still in the woods.

' Good luck with that, old man , let's see you try, by the way, I was taught some manners by my grandma, so I'm good at manners. So…. let's see you try, my mone….' Thaneiros launched another attack at Gideon, but the attack was blocked faster than he expected. They started exchanging blows with Gideon. The viewer's sight was blocked with flying swords and fire sparks due to the clashing of swords.

Some crazy wind was going out from the two fighters. The nearest places, like where Akirion was, were actually being blown.

' sup with this wind?' asked Akirion, facing the wind that was blocking his escape.

The same fierce fight caused the wind to blow to the other allies of Gideon.

'Not the wind at a time like this.' said Ryder.

' Yeah, we can't see anything with this wind blowing around, it's too much. And the dust will cause an actual defeat? Said Haruto, who had his eyes closed to keep the dust away from his two eye balls. He continued saying; 'By the way , where is your guy, what's his name again? Yes Gideon, where is he?'

'I'm sure he's hunting Sir, and this dust will get him lost. I guess we should check him out.' said Ryder, concerned about his ultimate weapon.

They moved for some few steps, and suddenly, Kragg stopped everyone.

' shhh, Do you guys here that?' Kragg asked.

' what do you mean Kragg, we are all hearing the wind!' Haruto replied.

'Wait Sir, you don't hear that?'

' Even I don't hear anything.' Ryder replied with no clue.

' Listen close.' the fierce fighters stopped, they jumped back and took a breath.

'What is it Kragg? Now the wind stopped and we are hearing nothing , what's up with your ears? I guess those two satellites of yours are deceiving you.' said Haruto.

'{grr, great, they didn't hear that? Or it's my ears, but no, I heard something.}' Kragg silently blabbered to himself.

 

The two fighters started fighting again and Kragg gasped, with his orbs wide open. The others heard his hissing and their breaths were snatched away because they thought maybe he was attacked or something like that.

In Kragg's ears, he heard the sound of swords clashing, and he reacted faster than expected. The others didn't hear anything, and that made Kragg to disappear in the dark rather than guiding those who were mostly concerned about their buttons that were browsed by the dusty wind, and that made them go around blindly.

They got surprised by Kragg who disappeared in the middle of the thin dark air.

The two fighters continued to exchange some blows. During the fight, Gideon had more than three scratches on his face, and as for Thaneiros', it was blemish- free. The fight fiercely continued but during the fight , Thaneiros launched another attack and cut Gideon's long black jacket into a short funny thing.

'Ohh thank you old man, I love the style. ( Said Gideon , looking at his jacket.) It was difficult to fight with this hood on, and again, I appreciate your well trained tailoring skills.' 

' you are mostly welcome.' Thaneiros happily replied, and then he continued saying;

' it's been long without this kind of a workout, I guess I should be thanking you not receiving your thanks.' 

' Ohh, you are welcome, let's continue the work out. Hahaha '.

 They continued the fierce fight until another enemy arrived at the scene. Thaneiros sensed the upcoming danger and got more than alert.

Thaneiros moved as if he was about to attack Gideon but he jumped and escaped danger from two sides. The other one was coming from the back and the other one from the front. The back stabber was going to be Kragg, because he was the one attacking from the woods, thinking that Thaneiros didn't notice him. Surprisingly Thaneiros did, and he dodged the attack and at the same time, Gideon and Kragg were attacking from different fronts. Lucky for their cautious eyes, they blocked each other's attacks and wondered about where was Thaneiros.

'You?!' Kragg got surprised by seeing Gideon. But it was obvious that he knew that it was Gideon fighting because, only the two of them were hired and the hirers looked like they said no to brawling with the ghost of steel. So riders question proved to be a lie, but to Gideon it was a surprise.

'You? What are you doing here?' Gideon was genuinely surprised, and his astonishment proved to be true because he didn't see or sense anyone coming.

'I should be asking you the same question, battling with my money without saying a word to us.' Kragg proved to be jealous that Gideon attacked first.

'Aren't you supposed to be guiding the clients?' Gideon asked.

'Wait, how about you, aren't you supposed to be protecting that slim guy?'

'Yes, whatever, now you scared my bird away. He might have found his way out and escaped.'

'mhhhh, better you are done arguing, I almost slept.{damn, two guys, and they are both talent in my point of view. And Akie, where are you, keep your cool.}' the two wheezzed, scared and surprised by Thaneiros who was around them all along. If he was someone, he was going to attack while they were arguing. Suddenly, they wiped out all the fear and astonishment and faced the future.

' Wow, seems like my bird didn't go that far, maybe it's struggling to fly. I'll help it, poor thing.' Gideon said, with a scary smile on his face and Kragg was also doing the same. The two started attacking Thaneiros.

Thaneiros started dodging their attacks, jumping around to avoid contact.

'You have started dancing around old man?' Kragg asked, but his reply was not in words. He heard a swift sound and suddenly he felt pain in his face. He got three scratches in an instant. Thaneiros started disappearing in the dark, confusing his opponent. 

Kragg and Gideon started to stand back to back, watching the scary shadow appearing and disappearing infront of them.

'By the way, ultimate weapon, do you think the guy is still here, or we are facing our mind's trauma?' said Kragg, asking Gideon Gideon about the black shadow they were watching.

'Don't call me that, ultimate weapon.' Gideon returned the sentence.

'Come on, ultimate weapon one, don't call me that, I'm Kragg the great, every fighter in Elysia knows me.'

' Mhh Kragg the great, okay, I'm Gideon, the undefeatable , fighter of the southern side of Elysia and you are from the Eastern side of Elysia, isn't that right?'

'Wait a second, aren't I going to be fighting with you in the upcoming week?'

' Kragg the great, Yes, I was supposed to fight with you.'

' Hii, do you mind, if we can just start it here and finish it in the stage?'

' That will be so boring.' said Thaneiros standing beside them.

'Huh, old man, when did you get here, weren't you flying around a second ago?!' Kragg gulped and said that with a scared astonished face.

'No, I did that a minute ago, not a second ago.' 

' Grrr, youuuu!' Kragg got angry and started attacking Thaneiros.

'Ohh fool, what does he think he's doing, being controlled by anger, he can't attack that guy head on.'

'What's that.....?'

' GET AWAY FROM MY MAASTERRR!!'

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