Somniya took a deep gulp, sweat rolling down his cheek and saliva down his throat as his eyes hesitantly rolled to his left where the knife had pierced the tree, although his body refused to move one inch.
Some kind of long silver thread was connected from the dagger to the left wrist of Skinny.
'Another string is connected to that other knife in his right hand. But what are they for?'
Somniya had no idea the purpose of the threads but couldn't care less to find out either, he was already battling with his terror-induced impulses.
He had to run.
He had to get away.
The three bandits took a step towards him and the moment Skinny's front foot perched on the ground Somniya dashed to the right.
Yet his extremely short-lived escape abruptly ended as the second dagger pierced into a tree in front of him, Somniya was plunged towards the ground unable to maintain his footing after such an abrupt halt to his momentum.
However, before Somniya was even able to reach the ground Skinny drew his arms back from the X overlap they had created over each other, connecting to each of the knives by the threads.
Inevitably Somniya was spun around warping his vision into a short blur until he was completely wrapped as tight as the handle on a kite and the next thing he knew once again his body was dragged to the ground, all whilst still contemplating what had occurred all in that split of a second.
"We weren't going to hurt you."
"Just rob you."
"But that changes now."
Said Fat Skinny and Medium one after another, completing each other's sentences as if they were one.
The strings around Somniya tightened numbing the muscles within Somniya's left and right arm, completely leaving him at their mercy as they continued their mildly inconvenienced march towards him.
The deafening silence of the forest and the thick sturdy branches of the trees blocking out the sun enhanced Somniya's feeling of loneliness in turn complete helplessness.
"Just daze him a little, quick," Skinny commanded towards Fat. However not for a second removing his fixed glare on Somniya.
And as if orders given to a robot, Fat pulled back and swung his bat across Somniya's head, causing a jet of blood to spray out and flow down from his head.
His vision began spinning as he his eyes left his body, the grass and trees in front of him became a blurry mush.
His stomach began turning as fast and as strong as his mind, he was going to throw up.
and the next thing he knew.
Was darkness.
'I was going to run away,'
'Oh well I tried, I can rest now perhaps HE was right about me being pitiful ha-ha.'
At least I tried, I can finally rest now right?-'
'NO!'
'I'm not going back there!' Somniya proclaimed to himself within his head as his mind shot back into his body.
By the time Somniya remembered where he was and his dilemma again skinny was digging his hand into Somniya's infinitely empty pockets, almost looking as if he was attempting to pull down the pants in the process.
'I have a reason to live now, and I can't run away anymore, or I'll just be proving that bastard right.'
'I need to live.'
'If I want to live.'
'There's no other option.'
'I must Fight!'
Without having the leisure of hesitation Somniya seized the opportunity and tossing his body backwards he launched both his legs forwards like a spear, directly stamping both his feet into the centre of Skinny's face a trail of blood spewing from both his mouth and his now broken nose.
"You bastard how dare you!" Yelled Medium as he pulled out his dagger and leapt towards Somniya.
Somniya's heart leapt in fear and his body froze up for a moment, however, Somniya bit his lip shrouding his fear with self-inflicted pain as he decided "I have reasons, I have reasons I can't die here!"
And battling against every one of his instincts Somniya darted forwards, sliding under Medium whilst on both knees right as he swung his dagger.
Somniya's clothes had been dashed in half, and a slit across his right cheek began drawing blood.
Yet completely absorbing the sensation into the back of his mind he persisted.
Somniya stood back to his feet, and all the wires once encasing him like a small cocoon floated off his body.
Both Medium and Fat watched in astonishment as Somniya knelt down and picked up one of Skinny's daggers.
"What are you doing then!? Get him!" Commanded Medium, roaring at Fat like he had made a mistake, and pointing his dagger towards Somniya.
Yet seeming completely unphased Somniya stood silent for a moment, 'I've got to make sure that big guy doesn't get up for a while otherwise he'll definitely be a problem for me no matter how dumb or slow he seems, he's still abnormally strong.'
Somniya pounced to the right just as Fat launched his entire body weight into the swing allowing Somniya to stretch out his leg, tumbling the giant to the floor.
Just before leaping into the air Skinny's dagger tightly clutched in his right hand, slashed it forward dealing an agonizing slice to Fat's ear cutting it clean off all whilst still mid-air.
The excess blood staining Somniya's already devastated shirt.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Fat wailed like a chubby child kicking his feet back and forth whilst clutching where his right ear used to be.
Although now the bloodied ear lay peacefully detached on the ground, still oozing blood. However at a pace nothing compared to the river of red gushing out from the side of Fat's head.
Without uttering a word, or moving more than an inch Somniya turned back to Medium flailing towards him. Although infuriated and desperate, it was all overshadowed by the overwhelming terror in his eyes.
Although a menace in Somniya's eye so powerful and chilling, it made Skinny's previous stare look like a cheerful gaze.
Suddenly as if time froze for a moment Medium completely halted in his tracks.
He squashed his facial features together, shamelessly squeezing out his cowardice as he made a cowardly sound similar to a pig's oink.
Silently Somniya turned back and began walking back in the direction as he had initially intended to, plunging both his increasingly heavier hands into his pockets. Deciding to spare Medium from any further embarrassment.
"I did it...ha-ha... am I... still... pitiful?" Somniya mumbled to himself with a weak smile
Somniya, barely able to understand what he was mumbling himself anymore, as his vision got blurrier and blurrier, his entire body boiling with heat with the weight of a bag of stones Somniya barely gripped onto consciousness.
He tilted his neck downwards to witness the continuous downpour of his own blood mixed in with that of Fat's and dirt on his torso almost completely hiding the fact there was ever a shirt underneath.
"Oh...no..." And before he knew it his body began gliding towards the ground he just decided to look down upon.
Completely out of his control, unable to contain his further descent to the ground he plummeted on the grass his entire body growing numb.
And yet again his consciousness flickered out.
Medium stared dumbfounded at Somniya's lifeless body lying on the ground, at a loss for what to do for a moment. "Huh, what happened did that monster just collapse?"
Hesitantly Medium began creeping towards Somniya, still overrun with anxiety.
"He's really knocked out huh, I knew no one was taking a direct hit from Biggy and walking away like that." He said becoming extremely confident all of a sudden whilst crouching down and lifting Somniya's limp arm before dropping it down again taking a deep sigh of relief.
'But that seriously scared me, I thought we were done for. How did he switch from that cowardly aura to pure merciless drive in such a short span of time.' Medium pondered to himself once returning to his feet he grabbed a brown potato pack from Skinny's hip and turned towards Biggy (Fat).
Who was still whimpering curled up like a ball on the ground as he gripped his ear with his painfully jittering hands, the blood seeping through his thick fingers and trailing down onto his face.
"Okay, Biggy stop your crying, you big baby." Medium commanded as he ripped the sleeve of his shirt, "We'll deal with the rest of this after just help me carry this guy's body." He continues as he wraps the torn sleeve around Biggy's head which instantly becomes soaked in red.
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"Come on! The tavern was literally like 10 minutes away and on a god damned straight path, where could that idiot of ran off to...-
Somniya!"
Medium and Biggy paused their packaging of Somniya within the brown potato bag halfway, to turn their heads towards a heavenly panting Eve, now dressed casually in a red crop top and blue short shorts along with her hair now tied back in a bun.
"It was a straight line; how did he mess up a straight line!" Eve cursed into the sky closing her eyes and resting the tips of her left hand on her forehead.
"You know this guy?!" Medium snarled dominantly rising to his feet whilst pulling out his clean dagger.
"Unfortunately, yes," Eve replied calmly crossing her arms.
'It's that girl that abandoned him before, fuck!' Medium swiftly realised, as he just as swiftly drew his knife in front of himself Medium declared "Don't take one step closer if you don't want to join him, wouldn't want to ruin that pretty face!"
Although their boundless threats fell upon deaf ears.
Completely unphased Eve stretches out her arm, Medium and Biggy's faces becoming increasingly concerned. "I don't need to."
"El-"
"She-she's definitely attuned run!!" Medium wails as they leave everything behind, except for Skinny, Biggy quickly lifts him to his shoulder before galloping in the opposite direction.
Alas, it was all futile.
"Toraaaa!"
2 small stone boulders instantaneously emerged from the ground and shot right towards Biggy and Medium like bullets.
And within the next moment, the collision swept both of them across the ground, their faces reduced to a makeshift mop for the dirt.