My neck

As the Cutlass approached my neck, I ducked my head. The Cutlass swung through the air as it went for the antennas that were attached to my helmet, and then the strangest thing happened.

I heard a sound that was like the sound of a tree branch snapping in two, but what happened was not that the antennas snapped in two and fell, rather, they snapped into action.

The moment the Cutlass came in contact with them, they began to stretch out and move of their own accord. They wrapped themselves round the Cutlass, and like some sort of super fast creeping plant, they made their way to the hand that held the Cutlass.

Responding in the nick of time, dark boy retreated by jumping back to his initial position, just as fast as he attacked. I stood up in a mix of shock and awe. He just retreated like he was scared of something, and my antennas, as thin as broom sticks were carrying a Cutlass far beyond their weight.

In the midst of my awe at the strength of the most frail part of my armor, a bigger surprise followed. I heard a sound of twisting and bending metal. I watched as two antennas crushed a Cutlass as though it were paper.

To let you understand how shocking this was, imagine seeing two sticks of broom crush the blade of a ceiling fan into a ball. I now understood that I was way stronger than dark boy.

As though they were watching a movie, Goldie and the crew just stood there and watched. It then occured to me that they probably wouldn't do a thing until I commanded them to.

So I turned around and pointed to long silver,

"You, what is your name?"

"My Lord, I am Eleazer, the son of Dodo" he said as he bowed.

"Take care of dark boy"

I hadn't explained to Eleazer who I was calling dark boy, but he understood immediately. He pointed his sword at the sky and began to recite something over and over.

"And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."

He repeated this over and over and over, and I was beginning to wonder what he was doing. Perhaps he didn't understand my instruction?

While Eleazer was reciting the memory verse like a child in children church preparing for a presentation, I looked at dark boy and discovered that he had covered himself with an armor of skulls.

Dark boy reached into the darkness behind him and brought out a much bigger sword. It was pure Black, from the blade to the handle, and it looked very heavy to carry. Dark boy held it with both hands and locked his eyes onto me once again.

Usain bolt was the fastest man alive when I was younger, but Dark boy was running at me a whole lot faster than Usain bolt ever ran. There was a distance between us, but by my estimation, it was only a matter of five seconds before Dark boy came into swinging range.

What do you call it when you suddenly realize something you needed was with you all along? We really need a word for it, because somehow I discovered a huge sword was on my back the whole time. I pulled it out of it's sheath.

The amount of strength it took to hold the sword alone was insane. I was beginning to respect Dark boy at this point, because his sword of darkness was even bigger than mine.

With two seconds left for Dark boy to reach me, Eleazer stopped repeating the same verse he was ruminating over and He pointed his sword at Dark boy and spoke ever so calmly,

"He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth."

It seemed to have skipped my attention, but a small cloud was hovering over the battle field. It was disconnected from the sky and still far higher than the earth. The moment Eleazer spoke, that one cloud began to rain. And it didn't rain water, nope. It rained swords.

The rain of swords was like a thunderstorm. Just as Dark boy was about to take a swing at me, he fled for his life. The rain began from my very front, so if he hadn't moved soon enough, he would have become shredded meat.

The range of the rain started out small and focused as it chased Dark boy, but as he began to run further away from me, the range widened.

Have you ever seen rain falling in a particular place, and you decided to run in the opposite direction? I tried it before, but the rain caught up to me before I could find shelter. Same thing happened to Dark boy.

One blade pierced through the skull at his foot, and that was it, the rest followed. He was pinned to the ground as the rain of swords continued for nothing less than five minutes. I heard the sound of blades crushing unto skulls and sinking into flesh. When it ended, I walked over to see just how bad he had been damaged.

The aura of darkness and the armor of skulls were gone, a dark skinned man lay there, covered in holes, bleeding. The moment the rain ended, the swords that fell like rain drops vanished, but they left the wounds behind. As I walked towards him, I was overcome with fear, as I realized I might have just killed someone.

The face I saw was a familiar one, it was Red. Remember back when he slapped me? He was immediately covered in wounds back then, but it was only his arm. This time, it was his entire body, bleeding and unconscious.

I couldn't understand what this meant. Was Red still coming after me? As I thought to myself, I saw the face begin to change, as the dead body began to clone itself. Kind of creepy, but like some huge specie of micro organisms, it began to split up.

Once there were three of them, the splitting stopped, and I saw a different set of faces. It was Ikulore and the two members of his gang who died while fighting me.

I started to add things up. This whole thing was an explanation of the things that had happened to me of recent. I turned to Goldie and his gang, but they had vanished. And as I wondered what would happen next, I saw a flow of ink began to cover the floor.

The ink flowed in my direction, and I followed it to a stream of ink. As I stepped foot in it, the ink became sparkling clean water. I was perplexed, but in my curiosity, I immersed myself in the stream.

It was a small body of water, so I had to lay on my back for it to cover me. The moment the water flowed over my face, I was back at home, on my couch, and with my book in my hand. I looked all around me, there was a door, and there was no ink.