Gorker and Slither looked deep into their enemies eyes, but nobody moved. Gorker's hand was always on one of his swords. While Slither started to grin. He had his huge metal club ready, and seemed to wait for something. Almost a minute went by and nobody said anything. The tension in the air made weaker Goblins stop breathing.
But suddenly Slither moved. He couldn't wait anymore. He wanted action. He took a huge step forward and swung his club down fast. It was almost as big as Gorker himself. One hit would probably end Gorker instantly.
On the other hand Gorker stayed calm. He jumped back fast and started to dash backwards. He knew what was coming.
The smash on the ground was shocking. The ground broke into all directions. The sound was deafening, as the front rows hold their ears shut. But the worst part was the flying rocks. Rosch had to block some to protect his own females in the audience, while Gorker was the closest and had to struck out 7 times to reflect the bigger ones. The smaller ones, he didn't care. Even though they made him bleed a bit.
The dust went down and Slither smiled, while Gorker looked calm without any emotions whatsoever.
"Come on, attack. It's boring to throw or smash rocks at you. I want a fight that makes my blood boil.", Slither shouted without being able to hold back. He started to walk forward.
Gorker on the other side just waited. It seemed as if he was just reacting, not fighting at all. Slither was 3 meters away now and again held his club high into the air. He got annoyed that Gorker didn't have any will to fight.
But that was his miscalculation, Gorker suddenly accelerated and tried to cut Slithers entire arm of. Slither was shocked and could rise his left arm a bit. The left arm had an arm guard. And it saved him. His left hand only got a deep bloody slash through the arm guard.
"Gyhahahaha. You dirty trickster. Almost had me fooled. Now let's get the real show started.", Slither said happily.
Gorker suddenly drew his second sword, which he only does against stronger opponents.
"He never did it in our training.", Rosch suddenly said shocked.
"Chiefling. I heard that Gorker uses his one sword style against many opponents or weaker ones, to train. It is more defensive, while his two sword style is against strong opponents, completely disregarding defence. Only concentrating on attacking.", Orosh suddenly told Rosch, making everyone worried. Because it seemed like this fight wouldn't be just a non lethal fight. They were going at each other with the intend to kill.
Gorker was fast, running into Slither's blind side. Slashing him up, while dodging the retribution. It was a fascinating experience for the audience, since it looked like Slither would be getting cut into a bloody mess, while Gorker was occasionally hit by flying rocks. It looked like Gorker had the upper hand, but the tough skin of Slither wore Gorker's blades down. Two times Gorker almost had to let go of his swords since it got a bit stuck inside the muscle of Slither.
The fight wasn't even going for half an hour, as both looked bloody as hell already. Gorker was dancing around, his cuts getting shallower, while Slither started to breathe heavily. Smashing such a huge metal club around must be hard, even for such a monstrous being like him.
"COME ON, fight like a male.", Slither suddenly shouted. He got frustrated, not being able to hit Gorker with his club. While he could have done more damage at the start of the fight, if he would have taken the fight more seriously with more ranged attacks, but his stubborn self wanted a slugfest. Now he sees his mistake, losing to a Hobgoblin will tarnish his reputation.
Gorker didn't listen and was jumping around even more, slashing Slither everywhere. The audience was shocked. Most believed that Slither would win.
But only Rosch looked grimly.
"Why isn't Gorker giving Slither the finishing blow. Slither is dead tired, because of that Gorker could pierce him from the side easily. Probably reaching all the way to the heart in one go and if it didn't work he could let go of the sword and take his distance again.", Rosch thought annoyed. Is Gorker trying to make a draw? Or do Ogars have special anatomies? Rosch had to many things going through his head at the moment.
Gorker on the other hand was able to slash through the fat skin on the right ankle of Slither, cutting the tendon clean through. Slither fell on his right knee with a loud scream, while Gorker was dashing further behind Slither. But he, too is getting more tired by the second and tripped on the completely destroyed surface of the plaza. Slither, who stopped smiling for a long time suddenly had the biggest grin on his face he could ever muster. He didn't think and just swung his metal club sideways towards Gorker.
Gorker didn't have time, he just could put his two swords in front of him to block the attack. But those swords broke like twigs, as they made contact with the huge metal club. Gorker tried to jump back with the force of the attack, but he was still hit in the right side. His right leg and arm were trying to block the club, but twisted and broke in different direction, as the club made contact with his chest.
Gorker didn't make a sound, but flew 14 meters away and smashed into the ground. His right side was caved in, but he was still breathing.
Short small gasp, because his lung collapsed. He needed to be treated fastly.
"FUCK, Silvana go.", Rosch suddenly jumped up and shouted waking most beings up from their shock. But to his surprise Torkel stood up and wanted to interfere with Rosch. While Slither simultaneously, stood up and went towards Gorker. He was slow and hurt, but the unmoving Gorker wouldn't be able to do a thing now.
Slither stood in front of Gorker with a smile and this time he didn't say anything. He just moved his arm up with the club in hand, looking down into Gorker's eyes, who didn't seem scared or in trouble at all. He seemed in peace, as if everything is okay. Slither was annoyed by that and wanted to end it.
"SLITHER. You said a non lethal fight. You asshole, what is going on?",Rosch shouted deeply, his crimson eyes came out and some blackness inside of them, too. The Nightwalker and Goblin bloodline reacted to Roschar's pure rage right now. He released a terrifying aura, pressuring even Slither and Torkel a bit.
But they weren't intimidate by it that much. They were veterans. Slither looked at Rosch and gave him a smile.
"Do you hear him giving up? Look at him. In my eyes he wants to fight. Non lethal to me means unconscious or he has to give up.", Slither's smile grew even further. He knew exactly he had Rosch. If he killed or didn't kill Gorker, Rosch would want to fight him now. The fight in a year would happen to 100 percent now. So the promise of non lethal fight was not needed anymore. He could do whatever he wanted and that was Slithers favorite thing.
But before anything could happen, Rosch who was still in rage started to smile. He was furious, because he got lied to and Gorker's conditions. But he had a trump card.
As Slither swung his club down, his right arm got slashed deeply. Slither dropped the metal club centimeters away from Gorker, while his hand was bleeding profusely. Everyone looked shocked, but Randan the most. He looked around and smelled the air, but nothing was out of place. Slither looked threateningly at Rosch, as if it was his doing. But Rosch just put his hands in the air as if saying, buddy look, how did I do that? I was standing here all the time.
"Good, seems nobody could feel, see or smell anything. Thanks Cathy, good that I talked with her this morning. I even smeared on her some of Galia's tonic, which covered up her smell. I was only scared that one of the shamans would feel anything, but since it is camouflaged with water magic, the entire opposite of their power, which is fire. We seem to be save. But such tricks won't work always, after seeing it and feeling it more often they will guess what it may be. I have to use Cathy's camouflage in emergencies only. ", Rosch thought happily, but with caution about the future.
" Slither, it seems you angered the mountain spirit. Just like the mountain spirit attacked the Goblins till now. It may have chosen you as its newest target. ", Rosch said threateningly. You could hear gasps in the audience, since some truly believed in the mountain spirit and not Cathy that attacked them till now. At the same time Rastar suddenly came from nowhere whispering something into Randan's ear.
Rosch didn't see any of that. He was completely occupied with Slither.
Slither went to his club, he didn't care about spirits or anything else. Right now someone tried to take his fun away and he was pissed. As he wanted to attack a sudden weak voice sounded.
"I.... I gi.. give up.", Gorker said after throwing out a mouthful of blood. Rosch, who heard that suddenly accelerated. He drew his bone blades ready to attack, shocking everyone around.
The fight was over. And now the family heads shouldn't have a problem with interfering. Orosh, who saw that went with his other guards towards Torkel to buy time for Rosch, even though they knew they hadn't got any chance.
Rosch run straight up to Slither ready to take him on. He was tired, hurt and couldn't move well. It was his only chance to take Slither out right now and save Gorker. But to their surprise Randan shouted.
"STOP. This is over. We have a war to fight. Everyone is needed. Every family head will be needed. All of you have ten minutes to be inside my cave. ", after the sentence, Randan just disappeared. Leaving a stunned crowed. They wanted to see a fight to the death. They got excited by Slither and Rosch, but now chaos broke out as everyone rushed back home waiting for orders.
Silvana run up to Gorker, starting her treatment instantly. While Rosch glared at Slither.
" Seems you got lucky.", Rosch suddenly said, trying to make Slither attack him. But Slither just turned around and left.
This time he knew, he couldn't get his fun.
Rosch went to Gorker and looked at him. He looked pretty bad, but nothing Silvana couldn't handle.
" What was going on? I really thought you had some chances to take him down, but you didn't.", Rosch said wanting to know what happened, but Gorker used up his last energy to say, I give up. Now he needed rest and Rosch saw that. He helped carrying him back into Moonwalker territory, as the entire audience left the plaza chaotically.