As the towering enemy stood before me, an intimidating presence, I couldn't make out anything about him but I knew he was dangerous. He readied his sword before pausing to speak for a brief moment "I will allow you to pray to you're God before I slice you down."
I chuckled before I spoke "Why would I pray to myself." I said as I rolled up my sleeves revealing some faint markings on my arms.
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"So that was you're weird dream huh?" Said this kid holed up in the corner of the carriage. "Yes and I don't dream so this must mean something but I don't understand what those markings on my arms were." I said as I turned to look at the kid.
"Why don't you draw it then" said the kid as they reached inside their cloak and pulled out some paper and pencil, and a letter of suspicious quality fell out of they're cloak as they handed the paper and pencil to me. They hurriedly picked up the leather and shoved it back into his cloak.
I ignored this even though I was intrigued, it wasn't my business. And so I started sketching down the markings I saw in my dream, they were faint and had a green hue to them, they wrapped around my arms in a strange pattern and seemed to shine a little when I was preparing to fight that presence. I know it wasn't a tattoo because I'm against tattoos cause they hurt to get.
I held up the paper to the kid, I'm pretty bad at art but this was pretty simple just some lines, I didn't mess up that bad. "I've never seen that before but the pattern is similar to magic symbols but those shouldn't be on you're arms as that isn't possible, it overloads the human body. If you want to learn more you could head to one of the magic towers or temples.
I stared blankly at their face. "You do know only royals, nobles or those with extreme talent, skill or connections can even access those buildings and if I did manage to get there, I'm pretty sure information about magic which shouldn't be possible wouldn't be available to be or even in there" I was about to continue rambling about how this was impossible when I heard the stage coach scream about bandits, I got up grabbing my sword before looking at the kid "stay inside or be useful, just don't get hurt"
I rushed outside to see about 12 bandits in our path, I quickly unsheathed my sword and attacked the first bandit easily killing him but I could tell my sword wouldn't last much longer, I had to end this fast, i sprinted towards the other bandits and chopped them down. When I went for a downward slash I got stabbed in the stomach by another bandit who came from the side. I swung my sword at him but he blocked it with his knife causing my sword to chip and start to break even more.
I put more force into trying to push back the dagger and suddenly let go of my sword to elbow him then I grabbed his dagger and killed him. I quickly turned back around to look for the bandit I was attacking first but i saw him running away. That bastard was running to get reinforcements, I grabbed my sword and threw it at him but I missed and I saw my sword get hit a nearby tree and lose it's remaining durability points and disintegrate.
I watched him disappear into the forest, I knew they would be back so I hurried back to the carriage and saw that the horses were injured. I told the kid that we had to run for it. "We won't make it far if we run, we're in bandit territory and I can't abandon my luggage." Said the kid as they dug through their bag and pulled out a bow. It didn't look special and just had some engravings on it. Then they went outside and started making their own arrows out of some sticks.
"Well kid we have approximately 50 to worry about and a beefy-looking dude, he has scars must be the captain or leader" I jumped down from the carriage and rolled up my sleeves "Hurry up with those arrows and stay ontop of the carriage or hidden in the forest. I'm not good with fist fights so cover my back heavily, I can probably handle a 1v1 for everyone of them."
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(A/N) So this whole idea just popped into my head because of the lines "I shall let you pray to you're God before you die" and "Why would I pray to myself" and then it wrote itself literally I couldn't get it out of my head. So the writing might suck but stick around and I suck at writing fight scenes and maybe pacing. Meh turn off you're brain and enjoy the story. Btw if anyone is reading this in the early chapters give me a name for the kid and mc because I most likely won't have one until like chapter 20 or something. I will come back and rewrite the fight scenes cause I suck at those.