The Challenge Begins

Stepping forward, your short sword in your left hand, your dagger in your right, you just look at the four warriors ahead of you. The lone leader with his giant axe is snarling at you, ready to claim victory and abuse his power with all the defenseless women.

"FOR THE SYNDICATE!!!" he shouts as he runs towards you, holding the handle of his axe with both hands, ready to swing with all his might.

Sidestepping his attack was as easy as could be. Your light leather armor allowed you to be much more mobile then he thought, with a quick duck to the left and dropping to your knee, you took your dagger and stabbed him straight through his calf muscle. The pain in his voice echoed through out the town as he plummeted to the ground, gasping in pain.

As you stood yourself up, his three friends were already charging at you.

"Die!!!!" one warrior shouts, stepping forward.

"FOR THE SYNDICATE!!!" another warrior shouts, mimicking the first, rushing into you head strong.

Your short sword blocks the first's short sword, making sure to reflect it backwards. You push off with your right foot, lunging your body to the left, your dagger slashing across the stomach of one of the warriors, deep enough to be fatal as you see blood pour down from his stomach. He stumbles backwards, caught off guard as blood spews down his torso.

There isn't much time as the second friend lunges his halberd towards you which at the last moment are able to deflect the blow with your sword, sending it just off to your side. As he does pull the halberd back though, part of the head slashes across the side of your body, luckily not deep enough to puncture your side, but causing a slight tear in your armor.

You can only snarl at the warrior who finally was able to make contact with you. You quickly regain your footing and roll forward, once more dodging the blade of the first friend. You immediately refocus, slashing your short sword against the one with the halberd. It connects with his leg, causing him drop his guard, with a quick flick of the wrist, you force your dagger to the side, piercing directly under the rib cage of that warrior. Blood dripping to the soil below, his mouth dropping open, his head swaying in the wind, his memory of the world fading.

"Another one down..." you think to yourself.

"Ahhhhh!!!!" another warrior swings his axe as hard as he can, trying his best to decapitate you.

Without any trouble, you duck under his axe, you side step a few more swings from this axe wielding warrior as the first one begins attacking into you with his short sword. It's not long before you can trail your blade down his sword and slice part of his thumb completely off, causing him to drop his short sword to the ground. Blood flying into the air as he drops to his knees, screaming in pain. His stomach slashed deep and now his thumb and part of his index finger are sliced off.

One more leap to the side to dodge the axe of your next attacker, you raise your hand high into the hand, slashing down with all your might. It connects on the wrist of this final friend, his hand disconnecting from his body completely. The look on his face once he notices his hand is completely detached was devastation. Knowing he will never fight again for the Syndicate. With a quick thrust you jab your short sword straight through his neck, instantly ending his life. His body, immediately falling into the dirt ground below.

You twirl your dagger around your hand then pocket it, walking up to the warrior with the sliced finger, him on his knees, he looks up at you, holding his hand with his other, tears flowing down his face as he's in extreme pain. Your short sword enters his throat, ending this one instantly as well.

"Please..." the original warrior cries out as he's still on the ground, the main warrior who tried to rape Zoe, the warrior who questioned your word. "I surrender...Darien I'm sorry!"

You rub the side of your short sword against your armor, leaving a trail of these warrior's blood across your armor. You walk up towards this warrior, looking down at him, your hood still up, the vision of a sabre toothed tiger looking down on it's prey, ready to feast, ready to kill.

"Please...I'm sorry!!!" he begs once more "Please!"

You stand over him, glancing over his beaten body, the look of fear in his face, the blood pooling on the ground below his calf gushing out that deep red liquid. You kneel down next to him, looking into his terrorized face. "Defy me again and you will meet the same fate as your friends." you threaten the warrior "But so you learn your lesson..." you bring your short sword down between his crotch.

"Darien, Darien please!" he pleads.

With a slice forward, your short sword punctures into the crotch of his pants, cutting him extremely heavy which causes him to yell out in deep guttural agony. Blood pooling out hard where his privates would be. "Ahhhhh!!" he yells out as loud as he can, both his hands reaching down towards his crotch, applying pressure, crying in pain.

You stand up and sheath your short sword, circling around as you look upon your warriors "Does anybody have a problem with my orders?!" you look around all the Sunriders and Warriors around you. "ANYONE?!" you shout out loud.

Everybody stays silent. So many eyes are as wide as can be because they just witnessed their leader completely dominate the challenge.

"These civilians will remain unharmed. Understand?" you yell "Now, get a healer here" you order "Tend to his wounds and get this warrior back to the Syndicate, his war is done." you say loudly as you walk back towards the Tavern.

You decide to spare this warrior, even though he defied you. He bared arms against you and tried to challenge you, but now all his closest friends are dead, and that's on him. You expect him to be loyal now after what just happened.

As you get towards the entrance of the Tavern, you see Ashe. The look in her eyes, a stare from her you've never seen before, your high commander was scared of you. She's never seen that type of display before, the anger, the strength, the power in your eyes. "Darien..." she mumbled out.

"Patrol the city. If you find anyone that defy my orders, report to me." you direct her.

She can only nod at you as she swallows deep.

The spattered blood of these Syndicate warriors smeared across your armor, you turn around, looking out into the crowd of Sunriders and Warriors, your face still shielded from your hood.

Applause.

They all started to applaud and cheer.

The Sunriders, the Syndicate Warriors, they were finally starting to understand how powerful you really are.