8 Jinx The Janitor!! Return Of The Brothers!!

"Oops!! Guess I went overboard," Jinx said with a small laugh as he looked at all the guards who had collapsed onto the floor. "Nothing personal guys, but I have something I need to do and you left me no choice."

One of the guards pushed himself back onto his feet with great difficulty. He was the one that Jinx had injured the least, merely cutting him up and forcing him onto the floor. "What kinda monster are you? Your not normal!!"

Jinx raised the sword in his hand, resting it against his shoulder as he smiled. "I'm just a guy with immensely bad luck. While I may not be able to compete with you guys in your sword skills, I've been training since I was young to stay alive."

"As someone with bad luck I have to watch out constantly for things that can go wrong." Jinx tapped the flat of the blade against his shoulder as a reminiscent look flashed across his face. "I trained myself to be smarter, to be faster, to be stronger. Hell I even trained myself to kill someone by supressing all emotions. Everything I've done is so I can survive with the bad luck I've been handed."

"So your saying that your cursed," The guard asked as he struggled to continue standing. "Then your a cursed demon!!! As far as I can see your nothing more than a monster."

"Oh come now, surely I cant be considered a monster..... or rather YOU can't call me one," Jinx grinned and took a step forward, his eyes glossed over as all emotions were visibly supressed. "You people who staged a small scale coup against the current king? Your calling me a monster?"

The guards look changed from his look of rage into one of panic and terror as he watched Jinx come closer and closer. He could see that Jinx was preparing to kill him as he had already shut down all emotions which included both pity and kindness. He tried to flee but the multiple cuts on his leg prevented him from moving very fast.

Jinx caught up to him easily enough and stabbed through his back and into his heart, causing an almost instantaneous death. Jinx took a step back as the guard collapsed lifeless onto the ground, blood pooling around him as it left him through his open wound. Jinx wiped the blood on the part of the mans clothes that wasn't soaked in blood and then stood up.

"Its a good thing that those two girls left when they did, otherwise they'd have to see this," Jinx muttered as recalled the two females running out of the castle during his fight with the 9 guards. "Its better this way though, they wont have to see what I do to you guys."

"Your assuming we're like the 10 other guys you just killed," the lead guard said. Five more guards had appeared in front of him while he was dealing the finishing blow to the final guard.

"I only killed two guards," Jinx said, his eyes still emotionless. "However, I'll happily change that number to seven if you don't get out of my way. I'm here for the royal family and if you hand them over I'll let you all go."

"Hah, I heard you say something while I was coming down the stairs," The guard flicked his sword downwards as literal flames ignited along the blade. "About ridding yourself of emotion. Then why are you being so merciful as to let us go."

"Oh its not mercy," Jinx said, ignoring the now flaming sword. "Its just a logical request as it'll save me time if you step aside. Of course I have no disillusion that you'll simply move, so I'll just have to force my way to where the royal family is."

Jinx raised his sword and broke into a run, closing the distance between him and the guard with the flaming sword. The guard was obviously cocky and no doubt expecting to clash swords with his opponent, but Jinx chose to sidestep his sword strike, catching the man by suprise.

Jinx quickly flicked his wrist, slitting the mans throat as he ran past, heading for the next man. This guard put up his defense quicker then Jinx thought he would've, but Jinx didn't hesitate even for a second. Instead he increased his speed and dropped his sword while dropping into a low run.

The guard was so surprised by this action that he actually took a step back, allowing a split second opening for Jinx to slam his flexible metal glove (he never took them off from earlier) into the mans jaw. The guard quickly dropped to the floor like a sack of meat and didn't get back up.

The last three followed suit as Jinx picked them off with ease because they were nowhere near as strong as they claimed to be. The whole process took less than a minute, ending with all the guards unconscious or dead.

"These guys were highly trained?" Jinx said as he let out a sigh, his eyes still emotionless. "Its a wonder why you guys didn't get invaded. You probably slacked off because it was peaceful or something like that. People tend to soften the moment things seem easy and that seemed to be your mistake."

Jinx had no delusions that he some superior fighter, but he had never stopped training to survive. He had even trained with his brothers which had helped even more. He had never stopped increasing his own potential as bad luck came in many forms instead of just easy to identify ones.

"Well, lets go and clean up everything else in this castle," Jinx said with an emotionless voice. "It can't be too hard to kill everyome else. There are only around 64 guards left which is around the same number that was captured. Gotta wonder though why no one else showed up when I was fighting. I wasn't exactly quiet.....oh well."

Over the course of the next 2 hours, Jinx either killed every guard he saw or knocked them unconscious. They would mainly be in groups of two or three which made them easy to pick off, but occasionally he would run into packs of 4 to 5 guards talkong amongst themselves. However, though he got scratched and bruised in the process, he always managed to win.

It was finally after dropping his final group that he made it to the final room on the top floor and the only room he hadn't checked. He had eliminated around 59 guards through either combat or silent assassination, which only left around 5 more. He had no doubt that the remaining 5 would be the toughest to beat.

Jinx pushed open the door and walked into the room. The room was huge, about the size of an average house and contained various looking expensive things in it, but that's not where Jinx's focus was on. It was on the 11 figures in the center of the room. Five of them were guards, four of them were rather young looking girls, and the other two were rather good looking adults that Jinx figured were the current king and queen.

Jinx lowered his body close to the ground and broke into a full out run, heading for the five men with his metal gloves at the ready as he had ditched the sword long ago. However, one of the five guards ran out to meet him without a sword as well.

The two clashed in the middle of the room, a flurry of fists and punches following as they eached went all put from the start. It looked like the guard had the upper hand, but Jinx managed to parry one of the guards punches and slam it into his solar plexus, sending him flying backwards.

"Not bad," Jinx said with a short breaths. "You clearly know what your doing. Your not like those other scrubs I had to go through."

The guard stood up while also taking off his helmet, revealing his face for Jinx to see. It seemed odd for him to do, but Jinx took a good look at his face before finally relaxing. He had suspectwd it during the fight but as he had found it unlikely, he had let it go.

Now however, as the other five guards took off their helmets, Jinx couldn't help but break out into a smile. His glossed over eyes were replaced with warmth and kindness as he stared at the five familiar faces. Faces he had seen over and over again through school, constant training, constant studying, movie nights and anime watching.

The five guards were none other then his five brothers from the orphanage!!

"Man you guys never look any better everytime I see you," Jinx said as he walked over to the leader of the five. "However, just this once, I'll admit, you guys have never looked cooler."

"Shut up dude," Josh said as he pulled Jinx into a hug. "Its good to see you brother Jinx."