Tumble Left.

You quickly tumble to the left, dodging his Halberd thrust, you roll back onto your feet, blood still running down your left side. You really can't feel any pain at all as your adrenaline is pumping full **** throughout your veins. High Guard Cliffton continues his **** on you, quickly pulling his Halberd back and thrusting it at you over and over again.

Unfortunately, at this point, you pretty much don't stand much of a chance against him, but with your thin steel plated armor & only wielding a short sword, you are able to dodge his attacks over and over again. You keep an eye on your dagger, which is still on the ground, but out of reach. Cliffton, on the other hand, still has his long kite shield, his halberd and his full suite of steel armor. You know it's heavy duty so for the time being you think you're best chance is to just keep dodging his attacks, keep him moving, keep him dancing around and hopefully he starts to run out of steam. That armor really must weigh a shit load.

High Guard Cliffton stays on the offensive, thinking he has you on your last stand. *CHING* you knock his halberd up as he thrusts at you. *CHING* you knock his halberd to the left as you hop to the right. You go to slice at him with your shortsword, but he quickly bashes you with his shield again, causing you to stumble backwards, **** to an attack.

He thrusts his Halberd once more, you just barely dodge to the right, but as he brings it back toward him, the axe on the halberd pierces into your side, the same side that he got before, causing a much deeper wound. "Ughhhh!" you scream out as you try your best to hop backwards, gaining distance on Cliffton.

Cliffton stumbles backwards, furthering the distance between you two. You can hear his breaths, you can hear that he is slowly running out of energy. It's at that point, you hear a loud screech of steel on steel.