The wind blew across my face, waking me up for the second time. I lay in the massive, scorched crater I had "accidentally" created.. the girl, sleeping next to me, was fast asleep, battered and bloodied as if she had taken a massive beating, could never guess what had caused it? Oh yeah, me.
I got onto my feet, scooping the girl into my hands and leaping as high as I could, catapulting out of the crater at unimaginable speed, the forest zooming past me rapidly as I crashed to a stop in a grassy hill. When the morning had arrived the girl, once bold and aggressive, was not trembling in a corner, holding up her hands and sobbing silently. "Please, have mercy upon me master, for I had acted up, I pledge my life to your cause my lord!" She shouted and shivered uncontrollably, in absolute fear.
Sighing, I looked at her and put on a smile, stretching out my palm for her to lift herself up.
"Come on, get up" I spoke, grabbing her hand and pulling her up, "there's no need for such honorifics, is there?" I spoke and she hesitantly nodded her head standing in a slightly cowardly position, indicating her fear. "Um.. what's your name?" She asked nervously.
"Bruto." I replied softly, returning the question "what's your name?"
"Elizabeth von vlardvorth the third.." she said her name clearly a mouthful.
"Are you perhaps royalty?" I asked, genuinely intrigued by how politics work in this new world.
"I am of nobility but I'm not quite considered royalty in your regards, you can just call me Elizabeth.." she spoke, a bit more confident about her background.
Suddenly, an arrow travelling at incredible speed approached her head rapidly, quickly, I caught it with my bare hands and flung it back as hard as I could, the projectile breaking the sound barrier and striking its target with a boom! I immediately got in a fighting stance holding my fists up In Front my face. Suddenly a dark figure, cloaked in a dark cloth and a mask, covering the person's face descended upon the land next to us holding a sharp longsword, bringing it down in a downward arc towards us. Quickly I threw Elizabeth into the bush next to us and I barely managed to block the blade, the force of the strike causing the ground beneath us to crack and splinter.
Retaliating, I threw a punch towards the person with unimaginable speed. Suddenly my punch was caught and the attacker dealt a blow to my face. However I counter-attacked with a spin kick, breaking the person's mask and sending the person flying, crashing into the ground, decimating the area around us. The attacker got up and sped towards me, kicking up a ploom of dust, BOOM! The attacker dashed forwards and tried to punch me but I comboed them with rapid fire punches as fast as bullets and sent them to the knees. Just as I was about to finish them I suddenly felt a blade cleave through my stomach, spewing blood all over the place..
"AREEEGHH..!" With that final scream I collapsed to the ground, clutching my stomach as I coughed out a bucket of blood and guts. Suddenly darkness took the corners of my vision and before I completely blacked out all I thought about was Elizabeth..
I CAN'T LET
HER DIE.
TBC