[ Back 6 months ]
[ On 04/07/499 ]
[ In the forest around Yo ]
I don't know how long I've been unconscious, but I'm finally starting to come to my senses.
I still can't make a single move and my body doesn't give me any sensory signals, but I can speak in my head with some difficulty.
This is the first time I have felt this sensation. I feel nothing, I hear nothing, I see nothing, and I can't even feel the air passing through my lungs. The only sound I perceive is the beating of my heart and the blood flowing in my veins.
Strangely enough, this sensation is rather unpleasant.
And even though there is absolutely nothing around me I feel like there is a presence beside me, as if she is lying behind me, if I concentrate well I can almost feel her breath caressing my neck.
Unfortunately, this rather special state did not last any longer, as I finally managed to feel the ground under my hands.
Given the hardness and the dust, I think I am sitting on dirt.
My hearing started to come back to me little by little, at first it was just a simple buzzing sound, but this same buzzing sound continued to intensify until I managed to identify a total of 3 voices, Alia's voice, a rather high pitched voice, but which seems to be a man's voice all the same and the third voice I think is a woman's voice as it slightly resembles Alia's.
Then the smells start to come back to me, a smell of heated earth, that's what I smell the most, then a smell of food, of cooked meat, and finally I would say a rather unpleasant smell, a bit like sweat, but stronger.
And finally, it is the sight that comes last. Even though I was immediately dazzled by the sun or the daylight, within ten seconds my eyes were totally used to the sun's radiation. Looking ahead, I could make out three figures that remained blurred for five seconds and then I managed to make out Alia, a man and another woman who stared at me all three.
"Is it okay, your boyfriend finally wakes up?" Said the man with his oddly high-pitched voice considering the size of his body.
At first glance, he must have been almost two metres tall and over 100 kilos, but it wasn't fat. His shirt proved it, his arms were as thick as a tree trunk and his legs were twice as long as mine.
To think I was rather proud of having developed legs, they looked ridiculously thin compared to hers.
"How many times do I have to tell you. He's not my boyfriend. We just met yesterday." Alia replied.
"That's odd, your behavior when you woke up didn't seem to say the same thing." The woman replied.
"Wow, are you deaf and dumb or what! shouted the man.
It took me a while to come to my senses and understand what he was saying. And finally I managed to answer them.
"Nah, but if you keep yelling like a pig in a very short time I might be there."
While Alia looked at me stunned, the second woman laughed out loud and the man who was starting to get annoyed walked over to me, lifted me up by my shirt and said.
"Oh, but we're dealing with a funny guy. But if I were you, I wouldn't try to be clever, considering the look on your face, all I have to do is hit your nose a little too hard and you'll die for sure.
He was totally right about that. The pain wasn't very strong anymore, but just touching me hurts, so if he hits me, chances are I won't survive it.
But I'm going to play on that point and force him to hit me.
"Ahah, you can always try, but even with a knife, you would be unable to kill me."
"Yù, stop. If he hits you you will really die." Alia said in fear.
"Oh, but you're challenging me, kid. Very well I accept. The man replied happily.
"Take a knife and come. He continued.
"Okay, but first we're going to set some rules.
"Go ahead and say your rules."
"So, first rule, Alia will decide when the fight starts. Second rule, only slabs and bodies are allowed as weapons. Third rule, it is forbidden to kill the other opponent and if he admits defeat, it is forbidden to continue hitting him. Fourth rule, the winner has the right to take all the goods of the defeated and last rule, if one of us hides or runs away for more than one minute, he will be counted as a loser and his goods will go to the winner. Are these rules acceptable to you?
"Yes no problem." He replied with a smirk.
"Oh and of course, if one of these rules is broken by one of us then the other has the right to kill him.
"Okay."
Oddly enough, his smile and left at the same time. Which means that he certainly didn't remember that it was impossible to kill before the war started.
We then stood ten metres apart from each other
"Alia, please do a five second countdown." I asked her.
With great trepidation, she began the countdown.
" 5
4
3
2
1
Go."
No sooner had she finished her countdown than the man charged at me, knife in front.
But I managed to dodge him without any great difficulty by taking a step to the side.
He stopped short, took a knife from his pocket and threw it in my direction.
Surprised by his throw, I had no time to move and the knife came to stick in my left arm.
At the same time I let out a cry of pain and a spurt of blood came out of my wound, unfortunately I didn't have any respite, because he came back at me. The duel had not even begun for 10 seconds, but the disadvantage I had from the start only increased.
This time he came at me with two knives. But I had seen it coming, so I took the knife out of my arm, moved back to my left and with my right arm slashed his flank as he passed me.
But he didn't seem to mind, so he kept coming at me, but his wound made him lose his balance, so I was able to go around him, and stab him twice in the back.
But he got up, this time with a little more difficulty, looked at me and took 6 knives out of his pockets and threw them all in my direction. I managed to dodge the first three, but the next three hit me, one in my right thigh, one in my right arm and one in my right shoulder.
Three new sources of pain appeared and made me drop my knives.
Both my arms were now injured, one of the worst scenarios that could happen.
I was starting to feel dizzy, I could feel my footing getting more and more shaky and my strength getting weaker by the second.
At this rate, I don't think I can fight for more than two minutes, so I have to finish as soon as possible.
I hurriedly raised my head and for the first time since the beginning of the fight I finally saw him in trouble, the wounds I had inflicted on him had indeed taken effect.
As I was removing the knives I had stuck in his back, his belly was completely open. So I decided to remove the knife in my arm and run in his direction.
On the way I managed to remove the one in my leg and threw it at him, it stuck right in his knee, he lost his balance and I was able to deliver the decisive blow.
His neck was finally within my reach, I took the knife I had in my hand, and struck him with all my strength with the guard in the back of his neck.
And suddenly, as expected, he fell to the ground, soundlessly, unconscious.
I went to him, to check his health, his pulse and breathing were completely normal and he bled very little despite the various wounds I had inflicted on him.
I turned towards Alia, walked towards her and said.
"You see, I told you I would win.
But I couldn't say anything more because I felt the ground give way under my feet, but I managed to land on my knees.
When I looked up, I saw her kneeling in front of me, also crying and saying.
"Yù, promise me that this is the last time you will scare me so much.
"Yes, I promise."