The entrance of the small little girl annoyed Dan. He wasn't that surprised or shocked because he knew that Heroes always arrived at the last second.
Dan looked at the energetic kid who seemed like she had eaten a shit ton of sugar. The queen fell on her knees and grabbed the little girl by the shoulder.
"Medusa, Is that you? Please... please protect me from him... he's trying to kill me, he already killed Monik." The queen begged the small girl crying on her clothes.
The small girl patted the queens head. "Don't worry, I'll protect you, if I do sir Joshua will be happy with me and give me as many head pats as I want."
Dan stood up from the crumbling wall he had been thrown into and stretched his back, cracking his back and arms.
"Whew! That felt good!"Dan said to himself.
""Hey, attacking someone is quite rude you know!"
"The small girl smiled at Dan and bowed. "I am sorry for that but I can not let you hurt Porva here or Sir Joshua will be upset with me."
"Sir Joshua? Who is that?" As soon as Dan asked this question he did not know he sealed his fate. It was like asking a hardcore comic book fan at comic con who the greatest superhero was. (Obviously spiderman. Not the Tom Holland one, he sucks ass.)
"Sir Joshua, Sir Joshua is the greatest hero ever. He is really kind, generous, really strong and he gives me head pat's. Lots and lots of head pat's. He has the most handsome face in the world and he serves the Church of New Born light."
Dan was surprised by the babbling of the girl as he did not take her for the talkative type, he just thought she was incredibly energetic.
"But you..." her voice changed instantly. It went from strawberries and sunshine to a raging thunderstorm at sea. Her eyes widened as her sclera turned red.
"No, I can handle it... Stop... I said I can handle it!" Dan muttered under his breath.
Medusa pulled out a small dagger and cut the air. Dan did not know what happened but for some reason she was in front of him. He thrust his sword at her only for it miss her. It wasn't a miss but more of a dodge. Medusa tilted her body to the side and grabbed on to Dan's hand and climbed onto it and thrust her dagger at his throat.
Dan raised his palm and the blade cut through it. It was painful but at least it stopped the dagger from entering his throat.
He pulled her forward with the dagger stuck in his palm to her headbut. Sadly for him that did not happen. She pulled her dagger out and jumped down on to the floor from his arm. She stabbed him in his leg twice before Dan managed to launch a punch at her.
She dodged by rolling to the side and stabbed him in the other leg.
After a few seconds of dodging and stabbing Dan finally had enough. He let out a roar and summoned the darkness to surround him.
Medusa created a distance between him and her. She also charged up her dagger until finally a bright golden light emanated from her dagger.
Her dagger and Dan's sword clashed once, then twice, then tens of times and before they even knew it, they had exchanged over a hundred sword strikes.
The queen who was watching could not believe her eyes. How was it possible to move that fast? She had never seen anything like that. Maybe it was due to the fact that she spent most of her time in the palace but for some reason she was getting excited. Even the Colosseum did not get her this excited. The humans would fight to death until there was only one person left left at deaths doors. The winner would then be fed to the tigers but that practice was stopped after the hero came and put a stop to it.
"How about you stand still and let me hit you?" Dan shouted. He didn't actually mean it but he was surprised when he saw the small girl stand still.
His veins bulges in his biceps as he punched the girl in the face.
PAAAAAMMM!
Dan flew back and crashed right through the wall that he had previously gone through. He fell on to the floor and bounced for quite a while before he stood up and looked at the little girl who was standing at the hole in the wall.
She had gone back to her cheery self except for her eyes as she did a little dance before jumping from the second floor.
"What the fuck was that? Attack redirection? No, that is a martial arts move. it can't be something that complicated. She stood still and let me hit her so I'm guessing that was some kind of skill that deflected the attack and returned it to the sender."
Dan felt his legs quaking as he was hit with his own strength. Dan was plenty impressed by his strength. "My attack is stronger than my defense it seems."
"Anyways, I've had enough, I'm just going to end this now."
Dan held his sword out and held his shoulder with the other arm.
Medusa stared at him with a confused look. Was he going to charge up? If so she would let him, after all that is what Sir Joshua told her to do, to let your enemies power up as attacking them while they were powering up was nothing but disgraceful. This would be a huge mistake that she would later on regret.
Dan's sword screeched as the souls inside it cried out. The wind howled as his sword called forth the darkness. Several cracks started to appear on the sword which were instantly removed as the (reconstruction) ability took effect.
Medusa could not move once she saw the sword. She could sense mana, aura and killing intent but this was not any of that. It was something else. A powerful and dangerous energy in the form of a ball was a centimetre away from the edge of the sword.
Dan grinned maniacally before firing the ball of violent energy. In that instance Medusa regretted her decision to let him power up. She could only describe the expression on his face as what the devil would look like.
The small ball of violent energy headed for her at an alarming speed.
"I can't dodge... it's to fast!"