11 Chapter 10: Marsens Resolve

Panting heavily and coughing up blood Marsen managed to hide from the Balamont, when the monster swung at Marsen he tried to thrust at the monsters bicep to parry however the pure brute strength was no joke. The monster overwhelmed him making his counter attempt in vain. Marsen got away by using loose dirt and gravel and flinging into the beast eyes allowing him to slide past the beast and hide in the dense part of the forest leaves.

A loud and frightening roar could be heard throughout the mountain side, causing even the lower tier monsters to hide in fear.

"Think Marsen, think." Pondering to himself Marsen couldn't find a way to beat this monster or even a way to escape. The senses on this beast were exemplementry, he could hear a birds wings flapping, let alone Marsen if he were to make a idiotic move.

As Marsen sat aganist the tree roots, he had a flashback from when he was a kid about his older brother. His older brother was 21 years older than him and was ranked the most skilled Royal Guard in Archlion Kingdom, His brothers hair was the same as his a greyish ash color, he has a stubbly beard and was definitely sought after by all kinds of women.

Thinking of his older brother made him remember the last words he said before he sacrificed himself in the Drakin war.

"Marsen, when the time comes when I'm not around anymore I'll need you to surpass me, protect the legacy and the family." He smiled and rubbed Marsens head before walking out the castle gates with the Guards Corp to war. Marsen had a tear come from his eye because he failed his older brother in protecting the family. All he had left was the legacy name Reinhardt and the spear Gungnjr.

Before he could rest a moment longer, the Balamont was locked on to his scent and was charging straight at him again. Marsen stood up, with 3 cracked ribs, a fatal cut to the head, and blood in his lungs he let out a war cry preparing for the onslaught from Balamont and his inevitable death.

"Mmm I see so this is Cyodan's younger brother, you've got the same fighting spirit as Cyodan, so I shall help you with this break through." An unknown voice talked directly to Marsens head.

The moment Balamont lunged at Marsen a bizarre bolt of lightening hit in-between both Marsen and Balamont the lightening then latched onto Gungnjr. Balamont went into a frenzy after receiving a wound from the random strike.

Balamont swung again at Marsen but was left roaring and whining in pain. Marsen was different, in fact there was no life in his eyes, his body reacted on it's own severing Balamonts left arm completely off, Gungnjr was coated in a beautiful purple streak of lightening almost to blinding to look at.

Marsens body hoisted the spear as if too throw it at Balamont, with such precision and speed Balamont couldn't even react, it took a huge chunk of the Primates right knee out. However now Marsen was left without a weapon, Balamont limping over to Marsen to attempt to kill him, but was stopped by the spear, piercing through his back and out the front. The spear will always find it's way back to it's owner.

Balamont collapses and Marsen stands over the body pulling the spear from the pierced heart of the beast, Marsen himself collapses next to the tree again. "Wake up, please wake up!!" Coming out of unconsciousness Marsen is blinded by the sun's rays.

Marsen can't speak let alone even move but he looks over and sees the dead Balamont, then at the the spear gripped tightly in his hand. He's struggling to see clearly but can make out a darkish brown hair color with beautiful fox like ears... Marsen feels himself drinking a liquid, he knows the taste all too well it's that horrible elixir for healing wounds.

It works fast and can now see almost clearly but the blood in his left eye still makes it hard, it's Dogbite, she's forcing Marsen to drink the elixir by using her own mouth to feed it into his. After every drop is out he coughs violently "Dogbite... why are you here and why did you force that down my throat?" Marsen was in shock of what Dogbite did, He's always liked her since he's first seen her.

"You fool, you've about died if I hadn't shown up in time, what were you thinking fighting a Balamont by yourself, even if The Old Man tasked you with it, without proper training and preparation you could've died!!" Dogbite like usual lecturing him but Marsen couldn't help but smile at the end of it all he himself couldn't believe he won.

"Dogbite, instead of lecturing me how about rewarding me with another kiss." Marsen said in a confident tone and with a smile

Dogbite stared at Marsen seeing the weakness he overcame, The Old Man was right, this was something he needed to overcome by himself and he did, Marsen was always afraid of everything but to say something like that in confidence made him appeal better even in Dogbites eyes. However, she grabbed his cracked rib and squeeze hard for his immature jesting.

After the events at the mountain they made their way down to GrandStone to collect the reward and to rest before heading back to the capital. Marsen was sitting in his inn room in a meditating pose with Gungnjr in his lap. "Talk to me once more." Marsen said to the spear.

End Chapter.