"Ready. Fight"
I wanted to wait to see what he would try and then counter, but our legs rushed forward with our left hand trying to strike him.
"Hun?" I grunted because I was in control of the legs for a while until this moment where I assume Blood Stalk took over now.
Rod backed up and countered with a upper cut with his right hand, hitting us in the armor part protecting our neck.
"OW." He said recoiling trying to evade our punches.
I wanted to back off a little to let him recover, but Blood Stalk was putting more pressure on him. Never letting him have a chance to breath. Striking with our left palm over and over. Though only a few connected.
Blood Stalk is seemingly angry by the way they were attacking, thought I don't know why since it has been rather peaceful.
We were still only attacking him with our left hand and Rod kept evading and blocking our attacks while trying to find opening to counter. He might be trying to tire us out a bit before he goes in for a full offensive. Just a thought for now though.
"Is that all you have." He said trying to provoke us.
I guess I should pitch in now because he seems confident.
I decide to through a quick jab at him with the right which doesn't connect fully, only grazing him.
He tries to hit us at the same time but we move away.
I return to a guarded position while Blood Stalk is still pushing Rod back.
We keep hitting each other until I hit him square in the face and he starts to fall on his back.
But he puts his hands on the ground and then hits us with a surprise swing kick to the face.
My vision gets a little fuzzy like a screen shaking.
He then get back to a standing position and charges at us.
Rod throw a left hook and hits us in the right side. I don't feel anything, but Blood Stalk and Rod grunted at that.
"I think I hit your weapon." He said with a now bleeding left hand. I look at our side and see some blood is on the gun now. It still had the camera bottle attached to it.
"Are you good?" I asked before getting hit with a right uppercut.
"You shouldn't loose focus in a fight." Rod said while preparing another punch.
We block it and return one of our own.
Back and forth landing hit after hit.
I was getting the hang of moving with Blood Stalk more in control now with the way they handled our body. They moved almost beast like in aggressive and powerful strikes. All aiming for a decisive blow to take Rod out then and there.
They seemed to be a born fighter. Maybe I'm just holding them back.
I was brought out of my thoughts as we got hit in the legs by a surprise kick.
We retaliated with a kick of our own and we started to move a bit faster. Blue like energy was starting to come off us now.
His movements were now a little easier to track now and we capitalized on it by doing a spinning axel kick.
It barley scarcely hit his face with a small cut starting to leak blood.
"Nice." He said while retaliating shockingly fast.
Rod then sweeps our legs and makes us fall on our left side.
As we were falling I braced for the impact, but our back didn't hit the ground.
Blood Stalk used our left hand to hold up our body before it landed, and then perform another kick, this time to Rod's stomach while upside down.
"Hgg." He grunted and fell to the floor for a moment.
He was about to get up but Blood Stalk closed the distance and was inches away from smashing Rod's face in.
"Wow, wait." I said as I try and grab our left hand with our right, though it proved useless as our left hand pushed through and hit Rod in the face. He landed hard enough for cracks to appear on the ground.
He went limp and was now lying their not moving.
I start to panic a bit.
"Oh no, oh no. Are you ok?" I asked with no response.
I got control over the legs and went over to his body.
Before I could Njord came by to check on Rod. I couldn't see his face since his back was turned to me.
He checked his head and I waited nervously. Don't tell me he's.
"He's breathing. He is just unconscious." He said relieved that must mean it's not that bad, right.
"That was to far." I said to Blood Stalk who didn't reply and stayed silent.
Njord looked back at me with a look that went through many emotions all at once.
"Is there a doctor near by." I asked trying to come up with helpful.
"Gh."Rod started to move a little and made a grunting noise.
"Hey Rod, how are alright?" I asked.
"What hit me?" He said scratching the back of his head all groggy.
"Uh, Us." I said pointing to our chest area.
"How long was I out." He still recovering.
"I didn't keep track after you fell. Maybe a minute. " Njord said still worried about Rod.
"I guess that mean's you win?" Rod said as they looked at me.
"I don't feel like I won." I said back feeling bad about this hole situation.
"Hey, I asked for this. Don't blame yourself to hard." He said in a comedic tone trying to cheer me up.
"Maybe we should have had you take of the armor though. This feels like I'm just hitting metal over and over." Rod complained while getting up on his feet. Shaking his arms because of the damage that has been done to him.
"Yeh, Sorry about your hands, I didn't mean to scratch them up like that." I said feeling regretful about hurting him unintentionally.
"Oh no it fine. Show's I've been trying and getting better so it's all good. Though you could have hold back a little." He said still reeling from the kick we delivered.
"Sorry? I was trying to hold back." I said failing to stop Blood Stalk from smashing Rods face into the ground.
"Really? That was you holding back?" He said questioningly.
"I said trying." I said failing to make a good argument for him.
"Phah." He said with a sarcastic puff.
"Heh." I chuckled a little at that and we started to laugh at the absurd statements I made.
Njord also joined in as we started to walk back to the city.
By the time we made it back to their home the sun was now a little bit down now. So it was probably around three to four o'clock.
"Thanks for walking us back." Rod said as we arrived at what I think is his house.
"No problem." I said back casually walking with them.
"Guess this is it, hun. Thanks for everything." I said preparing to head out to the City of Monster's. What was it's name again? Orlando or something. Eh city of monster's is cooler anywise.
"Write to us when you make it there. You know how to write right?" Rod said and Njord asked.
"I do and I will." I said back with a determined face.
Rod held out his hand for a handshake.
I grabbed his hand shaking it, then I decided to do something special.
I readjusted my grip then did a quick fist bump turning his hand into a fist as well.
Then using my fist I hit his hand from above then below fast enough so he couldn't react too what I was doing.
"What was that?" Rod asked confused at what I just did.
"Friendship Handshake. Means we're officially buds now." I replied while sliding my right hand back across my helmet.
"Nice." Rod said back with a mischievous look on his face. Like he was planning something.
I offered the same to Njord and he obliged.
"Good luck with finding your family. I know how important they can be." Njord said with some sadness in his voice and eyes.
"Thank you." Was all I could say to that as they walked away. I made two new friends this day.
I turned and started to walk away in the direction that they pointed to for the city and continued our journey.
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When we made it out of the town I wanted to talk to Blood Stalk about what happened but didn't know how to start the conversation.
"Hey, how are you doing Blood Stalk." I finally asked.
"Better..." They said back.
"That punch to Rod. Was it an accident?" I asked Blood Stalk wanting to know if that was the case.
"No..." They replied immediately. Shocking me a little.
"Why did you go that far? We could have really hurt him." I spoke with confusion.
"I... wanted to leave." Blood Stalk said after a few moments.
"Why didn't you say anything then?" I wanted to know what they were thinking at that time.
"Because … you were happy." They said which confused me more.
"Why do you want to go to this place so badly?" I decided to change the topic.
"I... was made to..." They said back which confused me more.
"What do you mean?" I asked and they went silent.
Guess they don't want to talk about it.
Well we will be their around 40 minute anyway, so might as well enjoy the scenery of the land.
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(4 Days later)
"HOW ARE WE SUPOST TO FIGHT A DRAGON UP HERE?"
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At the time of writing this chapter we hit 69.6K views. Nice.
Also for newer people who are just starting. I am uploading once a week for longer chapters and so I don't need to stress as much about life getting in the way. Its also theme appropriate.
I thought about adding some covers to some of the chapters. I don't know how yet but I will figure it out.
By the way, if Rod had the Rider system, what Rider would he be?
Personally, I think Kamen Rider Delta would be an excellent choice because of their identical color schemes. Black and White with a little Orange.