Walking up to Mia in a prey and predator manner, Mia could tell from the look in her opponents eyes that he wanted to hurt her bad, which he has already but seemingly not satisfied just yet. He had this sadistic look on his face that says he was enjoying every moment of what was happening. Before the fight had begun she had considered running but not only did her pride get in the way, the trio blocked the exit as well, so she had no way out.
"I'll... I will deal with you!...I'll show you!". Out yelled the last standing guy of the previous trio.
"You will do no such thing!!". Yelled Rodney from the back standing at the exit. He was so mad he was visibly shaking and his eyes screamed run for your life.
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Rodney was having a hard time finding who it was that was on a fight, as the system only gave him the quest to save the person, no name, no location whatsoever. So he was found to be running through the entire hunters base. Even as the faction wasn't massive per say, it was reasonably large enough to give one a hard time shouldered with such a task.
And right now Rodney was still running around checking or should the right word be " barging" into every open space he could find. He had done this a couple of times and gotten told off, but he wasn't going to quit as he could see right now that who ever was in trouble, was getting into more trouble as time passed so he had to hurry.
*Bling*
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" oh no...I gotta hurry" Rodney thought as he continued to go around but then suddenly he heard a bang going off in the distance
"Huh...I better check it out".he thought as he ran towards the direction came from. He got to where he thought he had the noise from and at the top of the entrance he could see the sign that said this was a dojo. So it made sense to hear sounds like that coming off from this place, but just to be sure he decided to go in and just at the entrance, the sight in front of him made a flood of emotions rush inside him.
Rodney had finally found the one in trouble and of all people it turned out to be a girl who was been beaten up by three other guys, well one since the other two were on the ground. He didn't know what to feel at the moment, was he to blame himself for not coming here sooner?, or should he pour out the anger he felt now on the only human being he could see still standing and stalking a bloodied nose girl who was dragging herself away on the floor with exhaustion written all over her face.
"You ...you went this far..this far with a lady!!!?" Rodney questioned looking ever so pissed.
"Walk away and pretend you didn't see this now you have the chance!" The sleeveless guy replied. Looking at the two yelling at each other, there wasn't much difference between them except one was more muscular than the other. Otherwise they were pretty much the same height and looked to be evenly matched if a fight broke out.
"I was hoping I wouldn't cause trouble while we are here..but this...this is unacceptable!" Rodney said as he drew his weapon going all out.
The sleeveless guy had somewhat expected this to happen so he held his two daggers firmly and took a stance as the Rodney closed in on him, jumped and took a fast swinging looking to slice his head open. The guy moved to the side just in time avoiding what would have been a fatal blow and then retaliated with his daggers by thrusting them forward not even giving it a thought at all. Rodney knew he was open so he wisely jumped back avoiding the attack.
Now they both stood looking at each other. That little exchange had thought them both something, for one Rodney knew he sucked in a sword fight. And the sleeveless guy came to the conclusion that if he hadn't move in time he would have been dead because he felt the power behind that single swing.
"Hey.. You wanna fight huh....well fight with honour... No blades" the sleeveless guy said as he lowered his two daggers carefully watching Rodney.
"Fine"..Rodney said as he got into a fighting stance. He was happy the other had suggested this for two reasons. One was because he knew from the little exchange that the guy was better in the weapons department. As for the second reason, he just wanted his fist to meet the guys face.
They both charged in at each other this time, the sleeveless guy threw a punch aiming for Rodney's jaw which he managed to avoid narrowly, then the guy went for a thigh kick and Rodney was able to Dodge that as well. But then, the guy wouldn't let up as he came in with different jabs all to different body parts. Rodney couldn't avoid it all and took a punch to the chest and one to the jaw which staggered him but angered him the more so he went in for his own attack.
Clenching his fist hard, Rodney threw out a punch with a lot of power aiming for the guys face but the other was fast enough to dodge and that's when Rodney paid for his lack of training and experience. He had put so much power into that single punch but now his opponent had dodged it, it was heading straight for the wooden dummy.
"Argh" Rodney let out a scream as he could feel the bones in his fist were broken.
"Haha...foolish amateur" the sleeveless guy said as he stomped hard on Rodney foot and followed up with a kick to the stomach making Rodney to bend setting him up for a proper knee to the face which ended up sending Rodney on a trip to the floor.
"Is this it....is this your saviour?!" The sleeveless guy asked Mia who had made her way to the side of the wall with her back leaned against it.
The first guy Mia had beaten up had recovered enough to watch the fight while still holding his mouth in pain from the knee Mia had delivered.
Rodney who was now getting up looked at Mia for a second and then stood up facing the guy.
"You get up ag..." He was about to say when a fist landed on his face and another was on it's way to his midsection but got blocked. He then held on tightly the arm that was between his armpits and proceeded to deliver three hefty blows to Rodney's face in quick succession before letting go and allowing Rodney stagger backwards.
"Face it!...you can't beat me!!" The sleeveless guy said as he walked towards Rodney.
"You are right...not...not like this" Rodney said with a smile before holding out his hand pointing at the sleeveless guy.
[Shadow trance]
Mia seeing this gesture thought Rodney was going to do something drastic but then nothing seemed to happen as both of the people fighting just stood looking at each other.
"Did it work?" Rodney thought as he was looking at the guy who a fee minutes ago had this smug look on his face that was slowly turning into one of horror.
"No..no..No!!leave me alone!!!" The guy yelled out looking up to the roof with his hands by his side looking almost defenseless.
"The skill...it worked!"..Rodney thought. As for the skill, this was what he had unlocked from "surviving" the wolf back in the forest. Like his fellow legion members, he had received the notification after the beast was killed, but was in no mood to check it out. He only decided to check it not too long ago before he got this quest. He had unlocked what the system called "shadow trance", as the name suggests that's exactly what the skill does.
[Shadow trance: once used victim is trapped in a void of darkness with victim's worst fears]
[Skill will last for 5 secs and only works on those with low mental fortitude].
This is the description the system gave. The skill would work only if the person had a low mental fortitude, so most likely it would work on some people and not others. Though what Rodney was wondering was if the skill could be used on beasts. Now wasn't the time to think about that as he could see his opponent standing off guard at the front.
Quickly moving in as he knew the skill only lasted for five seconds and wasn't sure when it took effect. Rodney then went in with a punch packed with equal power as the one that had hit the dummy from earlier only this time it was hitting flesh and not wood. It landed hitting his opponent's jaw but Rodney wouldn't stop there as he let out a barrage of punches to his opponent's stomach and then the icing on the cake was he swift uppercut to the jaw sending his opponent to the ground.
The two who were at the side watching were shocked at the turn of events. Mia found it strange that the guy who was been beaten up didn't try to block or anything, he had simply remained in place to be abused brutally. This also was the thought going through the head of the other guy who watched his friend get beat up even worse than he was. He couldn't wrap his head around what just happened. Different thoughts were going through his mind like...
"Why did it look like he wasn't present....like he wasn't registering what was happening to him?"
Another person who found this strange as he had been standing at the entrance through out the whole fight. Now Quickly snapping out of his thoughts to arrest the situation as it looked like Rodney was not done.
"Enough...I said enough!!" Yang said.