Asher sides steps and lands his bare feet on a splinter, he holds the pain in, trying to move his leg aside but it gets in deep.
He yelps a little, trying to hold back the screams.
The man is startled, he looks up, he sees the barefooted knight above him, he jumps off the wall and darts into the alley.
Well he's gone so, ouch! Asher screams and quickly jumps off the building after him.
As he lands the thought cross
Wait, I'm forgetting something, hmm.
The splinter!
His feet lands on the floor, the splinter shoots up deeper into his flesh, he feels it touch he's bone
Chills run through his body. He's yelps. The doll can barely hold back it's laugh.
Without stopping he immediately chases after the man. He quickly catches up to him
But the man starts running on all fours
What!, what is he doing Asher finds it's hard to catch up to him
They run through the crannies, getting father and father away from the bank. Asher takes out his sword.
Alright, let's see how to keep up in the cold. He slashes the air with his sword and bursts of ice spews out of his sword, the blast hits the ground instantly forming icicles they continue to form, trialing down the man.
The man turns back, he sees the icicles getting close, he tries to run faster but Ashers delivers another slash, this time the icicles form in front of him. He turns back, he can't see the knight beyond the cold mist but Asher could see flashing red eyes.
The man quickly jumps onto the building by side, grabbing onto the walls. He starts running on it.
There's no way that guys human. The doll says.
He's good. Well you're not getting away.
Asher quickly leaps in the air, his sword over his head, he swings downwards slicing through the air. The blast of ice hits the man this time and he falls to the floor.
Asher lands on his feet. The man crash on the ground but quickly gets up. His hands are covered with ice, he slams them together, shattering the ice. He cracks his knuckles.
He almost gave me frost bites, who's this man? The man says.
Asher slowly takes out the splinter. He peeps from behind the building resting on.
Good he's still there. What's this?
He notices his being covered in a green aura. He grabs his blade.
This is a healing aura, but where's it coming from? I'm being watched by someone else. He looks around searching for the caster.
Is that it? you won't let me go? I'll warn you you shouldn't fight me.
Yeah, why is that?
The man breathes heavily, his breathe are visible from the cold. .
You'll be in a world of hurt.
Really, hurt? I used to live there, but couldn't quite pay the rent though.
Tsk.. Lame, the doll says.
Asher slowly walks out of the mist,
Just what are you under that cloak?
It won't matter if you'll be dead anyways thief.
Thief?
Asher's taken aback and in flash the man appears before him, the cloak still fully over his face.
Asher is startled and out of the shadows of his cloak appears the glint of a finely sharpened blade, he thrusts it directly at Asher.
Asher leaps backs wards but the blade longer catches up to him almost instant
What!
He parries it away in mid air. It gets even longer, longer than a spear, it scratches against the walls on the left.
The man adjusts his stands, gaining better control of the blade, he swings the long blade again. Asher feel the wind rush at him. He tries to jump back.
Wait, is the blade getting longer?
He immediately ducks. The blade passes by his head and clashes against the floor by him, sending sparks flying, lightening up the shadows.
If I'd made that jump I would've been cut in half.
The long blade retracts back into his cloak, given off a mild yellow glint.
Just who's this guy? Asher hears a growl and the man disappears.
What!
He looks up and he sees the silhouette of the man bearing down at him, his blade raised over his head.
Asher quickly strikes his sword on the ground, and immediately a large cloud of cold mist fills the air. Regardless the man swings down cutting the cloud in half.
He lands right in the mid of the split. Asher darts out of the left split, thrusting his blade at the man's head, but he reacts quickly knocking the blade and asher arm across his side.
Asher chuckles, he fell for it
With his right arm across his left side, he reverses the motion, instantly swinging the blade back at him.
He's good, he swings his blade so fast there's barely even a blur but..
Asher feel a flush of air at his face.
What!, he looks up, he sees the man a great distance above.
How did he jump so fast, that's my fastest swing yet.
The jump takes him high enough into the moonlight and Asher could see up his hood.
Fur?
The man pulls his sword over his head, Asher gets on guard. The form of the man's sword change, the Excalibur it's made of melts into an amorphous shape twisting bending and in an instant it forms groups of clumped up cube and triangles all together shaping into a giant sword the shapes all blend into one
What the hell is that! The doll panics,Asher gasp.
He's trying to pummel me to death with that thing.
He sends the giant sword crashing down, like a falling comet with his hands still on the handle.
Asher sticks his sword into the ground between the cobble stones, theres a bright flash a huge ice wall forms almost instantly, he sends it high enough meeting the man half way. The giant sword crashes against the ice wall, shattering it instantly, the ground trembles from the impact.
The cold mist linger in the air as the ice melts, Asher takes cover within the mist watching his opponent carefully.
I can smell you, you know
It's my feet, isn't it, I've been meaning to get to that fungus for years now.
The doll chuckles. I like this kid
The man's blade let out a bright yellow flash and its form changed again.
His mid transformation is a chance.
Asher quickly jumps out of hiding and darts at the man, he hops in the air and delivers a deadly slash, the force pushes away the mist, the man is startled but he manages to block, just in the nick of time.
But with his transformation incomplete, his blade is still unstable. Asher jumps back unleashing another swing as he creates a little distance between them, then parries it easily. He lunges his blade in again, closing the distance almost immediately, the man parries it away, the sword still glowing brightly, cracks form on it from the impact.
Asher notices this. He immediately delivers another strike, he blocks it easily but the impact shatters his sword. He's shocked as he watches the broken shards fall all around him.
No!
Asher eyes glow a faint yellow,
I'm getting excited.
Woah, the dolls says, awed beyond belief. Now this is what I signed up for.
The man gathers his resolve.
I won't lose!
He swings the rest of the blade at him. Which is just the hilt and same piece of the blade left, it's still glowing.
Asher easily stops it. The clashes resonate through the alleys, with the impact reverberating through their arms.
They hold their blades against each other in mid air. Asher stares at him with his glowing eye, the man's cloak still over his face.
Now tell me. Just who the hell are you? Dog!?