~ Chapter 16 – Fight in the Staduim

Recap:
The village leader suggests that Athena and Raeken train
at the henesy facility center. After witnessing Raeken,
Ruben, Dark, and Ryan, the village leader do the trials
at the facility center, Athena is reluctant to try her trial.
Before she was announced of her trial though, the familar
face came once again to cause a ruckus.

Story:
Once the dust cleared away from the explosion, I could see the
Dark Lord’s face. He was smiling. Ignoring the shocked faces of
the audience, he made a big leap from where he was standing
all the way to the other side of the stadium, facing us.

“Hey, short time no see huh?” Dark said with a grin.

“Perfect timing Dark Lord. Now we can kill you to bring
back Tai’s conscious.” I said standing in the middle of the crowd.

“I am here to bring back Tai’s conscious. Well sort of, but
…never mind. Just bring Tai over and I’ll give back his soul.”

I was so intreasted in all the places at Korean Folk Town and the
trials that I forgot about Tai during all that time. He was still next
to Raeken. Shoot! We’ve got to hide him! If the Dark Lord finds
him, who knows what he’ll do next! When the Dark Lord turned
his back on me, I waved my hands In a desperate attempt for
Raeken to hide Tai, but there was no need. He already did that.

“There’s no point in hiding him. I know Tai’s with you Raeken.
I don’t want to cause a ruckus. If you don’t agree with me. I’ll
let all the audiences run away before It gets ugly.”

He didn’t say it extremely loud, but he was loud enough for
the people near him to spread the words to the people next
to them and the next until It reached the whole staduim and
the people took off except for a few who stayed. Ones
who were fighters and weren’t afraid, or just people who
were getting excited.

“We’ve got no problem fighting you to keep you away
from Tai. Right Dark?” Ruben said with a smirk.

“Right.”

“A bit unfair though huh? 5 vs 1? Plus If It gets ugly. Maybe
some of these people will help us fight you?” Ryan
said with complete confidence we’ll win the fight.

“Why don’t you find out kid?”

With that said, Dark lunged at Ryan. It was unlike last time.
He was fast, really fast. But this time, he was insanely
unbelivablely fast. Way faster than Ryan and WAY WAY
faster than Tai. Ryan wasn’t expecting the quick speed
and got tackled hard. Ryan got up before he could attack
again and lashed out his kandine. The dark lord also
didn’t expect he could react so fast, but he was now
fast enough to make many mistakes and not get hurt.

Stopping for a break, the Dark Lord quickly jumped backwards.
That was my cue. I shot strafe arrows at him. He
avoided them. I couldn’t even keep up. It was like a small
hurricane. Sooner than I could put another arrow on my bow
string, he was right in front of me and kicked me hard in
the neck, pushing me foward and I crashed down to the ground.

“Perhaps I should explain. I already absorbed the power of
Tai’s soul. It’s useless now. So I’ll put it back into him.”

Everyone then had a face that said “Ohhhhhhhh…”. The dark
lord was beggining to open up his mouthto say something, but
Ruben quickly took the oportunity and dashed at him and jabbed
6 quick jabs. 5 missed, the other one made a small bleed.
Then Raeken lashed out a thunder spear, Ryan lunged at him
and did a savage blow, and Dark swung his blade like a polearm.
Raeken’s attack made a scratch, Dark’s caused him to dodge the
attack and move closer to Ryan where he savage blowed him.

It was a lethal strike. The crowd did not say a word. They watched
intently. Getting up slowly from the big crash, I picked up my bow
and aimed it at the Dark Lord.

“I knew even with my new strength It would be hard. So I brought
my own men.”

Suddenly a couple dozen people came in filling half of the staduim.
They were the Dark Lord’s accomplice. He probaly would
of brought his best men, so It wasn’t going to be easy. We were
relieved when the fighters in the staduim helped us fend them off.
They were good too, but there were too many and some chased
after us. Slowing them down. I unleashed an Arrow Rain, stabbing
many. It was extremely hard not to kill some, but they intended
to kill us, so I didn’t try my very best not to spare them.

Some got killed. Even our fighters. I saw barrages of savage blows.
I was ready to look at the savage blows for 2 more seconds and
then stop the blinding slashes with my bow and arrows before
the Dark Lord got together with a group of thieves and than
they made a strange formation. I then knew this formation. It
was “Band of Thieves” The attack was well cordinated.

A combined attack of savage blow, assualters, and increased
strength due to Chakra forged into one colorful attack. The attack
blew up the path in it’s way. Raeken teleported out of the way and
casted lighting on the thieves. Of course he hit all of them except
the slippery Dark Lord. Something made me angry all of a sudden.
Someone pickpocketed me! They stole the 15+ atk work gloves.
…………….OMG AH!!!!III!!!WTH@HHh BBQ!!!!!

Unable to control my rage for losing a valuable work glove, I stabbed
everyone with my arrow rains. Even my allies almost got hit. It
was easy to tell who took it. Everyone were wearing dark mischiefs
except for the guy who stole my gloves. I found him after a barrage
of arrow rains and strafes. A grin returning back to my face, I calmed
down as I took my time to wear my glove. The strength flowed back into
my hands. A nearby thief was about to stab me in the back but I quickly
jumped foward and shot an arrow in the neck, finishing him.

~ TIME SKIP ~

30 minutes later……….

– A bunch of savage blows, lucky sevens, double stabs, avengers!

1 hour later………..

– More Stuff happen…fighting* Insults*

~ We’re back from the Time Skip ~

Only 5 thiefs and the Dark Lord was left. I was panting hard.
Everyone was. We were beat tired. We could of died if we didn’t
take a couple of breaths. Even the Dark Lord was breathing
hard. With the last sap of Ruben’s strength, he released a strong
dragon roar, finishing off the rest and damaging the Dark Lord
severly. After the attack, Ruben fell down from exhaustion.

Ryan was the only one in a okay condition. Bruises were scattered
everywhere on his body though. Even more on Ruben and Dark.
Dark was still standing, but barely having enough energy to and
I was in the same position. Raeken was lying on the floor, but still
awake. Taking a short breath break, Ryan jumped at Dark
to give him the final blow. That should return his soul back to Tai.

The knife was about to stab Dark Lord in the right shoulder, but he
used chakra again to put temporarily energy into his body and avoid
the attack, then double stabbed Ryan in the back. Ryan couldn’t take it.
He was the one who fought the Dark Lord and damaged him the most.
He was through for now. I launched an arrow at him but It wasn’t
a focused accurate shot and even with almost no energy in him,
he avoided with ease. Seeing how he fell down to the floor, he
was really tired as well.

The whole place was filled with either tired or a few dead people.
There was blood too. It wasn’t a very happy sight. It was all the Dark
Lord’s fault. He caused all this. The people were outside of the staduim,
hoping their friends and family were okay. It was terrible. I could hear
some people crying outside. This kinda felt like me and Raeken’s fault.
If we didn’t go with Ruben and Dark…this never would of happened.

“You guys…..I’m really sorry.” I said with great effort.

“It’s alright…….It’s not your fault the Dark Lord is
a messed up jackass.” Ryan said while coughing for breath.

Ryan coughed up his last needed breath rest and than
spoke again.

“So why did…you come here in the first place? You just
came to…give back Tai’s soul?

The Dark Lord stopped taking a breath to chuckle a bit. Looking
really retarded. Raeken was pissed off at Dark Lord and threw
his last thunder spear at him and It stabbed his right shoulder.
He groaned with pain, but he was still alive. He took out the
the eletric spear and tried to stop the bleeding.

“Heh…I guess I should tell you guys now. I put part of my soul
into his soul. So once he gets It back. He’ll follow me. He’ll…listen
to me. He’ll be mine. I even took the lives of some my men
to charge up his soul.”

“Do you really want Tai that bad?” I asked.

“He’s talented. Ever since I made him a thief, I knew he had talent.
I could feel his soul. Not just because he’s half demon. He seemed
to love archery…but his real talent was in thief skills. I’m gonna change
his mind and make him a dagger master. He’ll be sorta like my sidekick.”

“You’re sick.”

“Maybe I am.” he smiled.

Walking up to me slowly, he took out his rusty blade and jabbed it straight
in my back. I screamed with agony and pain. Blood leaked out everywhere.
It was like last time. I was still barely alive. Dark lunged at the Dark Lord
and he was sucessful by stabbing him deep in his stomach, but his new
strength prevented the loss of pain and blood and he kicked him aside.

He walked up slowly, with that grin on his face. When he was next
to Tai, he stopped for yet another breather. Then he held out his hand
and focused energy in it. A blue energy that looked like mana power came out.
It caused him some pain, but not much. Than with the mana infested hand he
dug his hand deep in Tai’s souless hole in his stomach. Suddenly Tai reacted
and screamed in pain and agony. Life was coming back to him and soon he
was back to normal.

He was diffrent though when he woke up. He looked more threatning.
He faced the Dark Lord and began to speak.

“I’m here to serve you.”

“Excellent. But try to act normal. It’s wierd if you talk like that.”

“Sure.”

Not believing what the Dark Lord said was true, I desperately reached for my
bow, but I was way too tired and weak. The remaining energy was gone
and before I fainted, I took a short weak glance at Tai and saw blazing
fire red color in his eyes.

~ Chapter End
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