Phoenix Blade Chronicles, Alley Fight  |
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By ShroudedOne No Comments Posted Post Comment |
August 18, 2008 |
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Phoenix Blade Chronicles, Chapter 2: Alley Fight
The katana came down just as Ruby groaned. “Stop making a fuss please, and let’s just leave……,” Ruby sighed lightly. She rose from her chair with a graceful posture, and put 50 notes on the table. “Please, keep whatever leftovers are retained,” Ruby said to Jodi. She then proceeded to drag Sapphire out of the restaurant by hand. The old men sighed, but, at least Jodi was still there.
The moment Ruby had marched Sapphire over into an alley on the side of the restaurant, Sapphire shrugged out of Ruby’s grasp and glared viciously at her.
“She threw that banana like she wanted to kill you; you do realize this, right?” Sapphire asked dubiously.
With no warning, Ruby pinned Sapphire to the wall adjacent to the restaurant. This close to her, Sapphire could smell Ruby’s clothing, which smelled powerfully of cinnamon. Sapphire could also notice how pretty Ruby was. She turned slightly pink, ashamed of this thought.
Ruby backed off a bit, still pinning her to the wall. “We are following a trail of suspects to find the ‘Green Veil.’ We are NOT here, if I may be so kind to remind you, to fight with people,” Ruby lectured, truly annoyed by Sapphire’s guard dog qualities. She was unwavering in her loyalty, which was good, but it usually got the best of her.
“Mmmmmm, ladies!”
The two girls turned around to face dark cloaked men. Three of them were blocking where they had come in, and two others where blocking the rear. “Grr….” Sapphire growled, rather annoyed, and Ruby stood in amazement at how the men had been so stealthy.
“Now, why don’t you hand over all of you money right now and we’ll let you off by letting you serve us for eternity, huh princess?” leered the man who had previously alerted the girls to the presence of the thugs.
“Lecherous toad!” Ruby hissed.
“And she tells me to calm down and not fuss…,” Sapphire griped.
“Yes,” Ruby retorted, “I do.”
The two in the back went for Sapphire. One of them daringly lunged at her with a dagger. Sapphire gripped the dagger on the sides of the blade, then pulled the man in and grabbed as arm and swung him over her shoulder. She then tossed him back over her shoulder, ramming him into the other rogue, rendering them both comatose.
Sapphire wiped her hands off and looked over to Ruby’s side, curious.
Ruby had just knocked a rogue unconscious with the side of her sword. “Ugh…..” He groaned and fell. Another unsheathed a dagger and threw it. Ruby hit it out of the air with her sword, and gave that rogue a sardonic smile. She swung her sword around in a rather unpolished move and cut another rogue down.
She now stared into the masked face of the leader. The leader unsheathed a cutlass, ready to fight. “You’re powerful lass, aren’t ye?” he asked. Not waiting for an answer, he charged. Ruby side-stepped him, and he kept going. Ruby swirled on the spot.
Sapphire was standing there, looking bored. The leader was behind her, his sword over her throat. “Come a step closer, and she dies,” he threatened rather menacingly. Ruby took a step forward and he brought the blade to Sapphire’s throat. But Sapphire had thrust her own katana up towards her throat so that the two blades were locked in combat.
“Quite skillful,” the leader groaned, but could not do anything. Sapphire then squatted and pushed with all her strength upwards, so that the leader of a once-conscious group was in the air over her head. He fell back down, and Ruby kicked him from over Sapphire’s head, and he flew through the air, hit the ground with a thud, and did not move again.
“And that’s how we do it!” Sapphire said, triumphantly punching the air. Ruby smiled slightly, and then motioned to Sapphire to follow her out of the alley.
The two girls were currently in the city of Godrim, home to nobles, kings, queens, chancellors, merchants, the proletariat, and dirty old men. The city was very vibrant and had a feel to it that just invited any soul. The shops and buildings around the restaurant they had left moments before were vibrant and very colorful, advertising everything from sword-polishing kits, how to charm girls (the old men liked this especially), to a seven-thousand page encyclopedia on the properties of aura, the life force that inhabited every living creature. Legend decreed that Corona, the goddess of purity had bestowed the ability upon humans to be able to manipulate aura to perform acts of “magic,” things humans would not be able to dream of without this power source that enabled life.
Ruby did not know that, because of her special blade, she was one of the few in the world that could use infuse aura in her sword, and fight with it. She was not aware that this fact would change her life and shape it into a saga of events that would mark themselves into the great history of the world forever.
She just wanted vengeance.
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