Chapter 6

I roll past the first two that rushed at me and as I roll back onto my feet I slash both across the back. As they are all more approach me from the left, they both swing at me at the same time. I flip my left sword into a reverse grip and catch both their blades on the flat of mine. I rest the flat of my blade on my forearm to support both of them. Using the sword in my right hand, I slash across both of their chests. While dealing with them the other two had time to move behind me. I hear one of them steal p towards me and turning to the left just in time, to avoid the first's slash.

Unfortunately, I was not so lucky with the second one because of my turn his attack came straight down on my shoulder. I am lucky that I have on armor, cause if not it would have done a lot of more damage. "By Rai almighty this is annoying!" (Rai is the god of the sky, storms, and thunder) I complain as I lash out with my right sword cutting down the first one. Then I stab the second with my left sword and turn towards where their commander stood outside the room. "If you all are going for the most annoying attackers of the year, I would say you all win. So get in here so I can give you the award!" I get my first look at him as he bends down to enter the room. He stands at 7 foot and looked to be about 350 pounds, though he was, wearing full armor so I could not see any more than that.

"So what is this reward you were speaking of, all I see is someone losing a battle." He laughs as he crossed his arms.

"Losing, ha-ha don't make me laugh. I can keep this up all day long, and it seems you don't have enough of these Southern Goblins to keep throwing at me." I say as dispatch another two goblins. "How many have I killed now is it like 10 or 12, which leaves you with about 18 cause you killed or injured at least 2 earlier and 3 more went with the body's right?"

"They were all weak and stupid, they got what they deserved." He motions for them to attack again. This time it was not just one or two it was the rest of them, and I did the only thing I could think of I jumped straight up. To my surprise and everyone else's I cleared a good 6 feet right before I got to the full height of my jump I flipped backward outside of the circle of rushing goblins. As I landed, the ones in the middle crashed together and fell all over each other. For a few seconds, I just stood there in total shock and awe of what had just happened. I had never done anything like that not even before that day. In the time I stood there, the goblins had time to regroup and come at me again.

I looked up in time to see them move straight towards me, as I brace for the fight. The first row hit me like a tidal wave I block an ax to the left, then a dagger slashed down towards my face and I am almost fast enough to avoid the slash. I get a large gash from my hairline to my left eyebrow, which starts bleeding badly, my eye starts blinking to clear it but the blood just keeps flowing. Now being half-blind put me at an even more of a disadvantage than before, as I back up to get some room I bump into the desk. Then I leaped onto the desk and turned my right side towards the oncoming horde.

"You see, you are losing just like I said you would." Laughed their Lord as he leans against the unbroken door. I look at him and smile. "Why are you smiling, you are about to die and have nothing to be happy about."

I laugh at him saying "I do not fear death, I would finally be at peace and be with the ones I love and care about." That is when I launched myself off the desk over the goblins, right at him. As I neared him, he stood up and punched me right in the chest knocking me into the ground and the wind out of me.

The Goblins turn to rush me and he puts his hand out. "No, if he wants to fight me, then so be it. I will end this in 5 minutes." Laughs the lord as I struggle to get to my feet.

"As you command lord Bu.." Golrick starts to say as the lord yells at him

"He needs not know my name you stupid thing. Now shut up before I kill you myself."

"Apo.. apologizes, m'lord meant no disrespect, please not kill me. I am a good leader I personally bring my people here for master and lead them to food a glory!" Golrick pleads.

"And that is the only reason I have not killed you as of yet. The Master actually favors you for all that you have brought him." Smirks their Lord

"As you say m' lord, stand down!" Golrick calls to his troops who spread out around the room to give us room to fight. Their Lord reaches up and grabs the hilt of a sword on his back. He unsheathed it and pointed it right at me, it was an 8-foot long blade. It has a double edge and an oddly shaped tip, each edge comes to its own point and a crescent curve between the two points. He motions with the blade to make my move I grin at him as I flip the blade in my left hand into a backhanded grip, and lower myself into a good fighting stance; I point the blade in my right hand at him and start circling to his right.

"Let's do this little man, I want to see if the legendary Zeke is as good as they say!" he moves towards me and slashes at me and I block with my left hand. The blow is so hard that it sends sparks off from where our blades meet. If I had not used my forearm to brace the sword, I would not have been able to block it.

"Is that all you got, I have seen 70-year-old grandmothers hit harder and with more skill than that." I laugh as I move my hand to slide his blade off mine. As his blade starts to slide off, I take a step towards him and slash at his chest.

"I have not even started trying yet!" He roars as he bats away my attack with his gauntlet clad hand. He then slashes up towards my face; I quickly flip my left blade into a normal grip and parry his slash. Causing his blade to go to the outside leaving his left side completely open I stab at him. But it slips off his armor, he laughs as he moves his sword to his left and punches me in the chest with his right. It knocked me back a good 2 feet,

"This is getting fun, now it's my turn!" I say as I charge him. I slash from the top right then across from the left, then slash up from my right and down from my left. I barely give him time to defend with such a large sword, though I am still not able to land a solid blow. Every slash from the sword in my right hand is followed by a strike or slash from my left. I am attacking with great speed and strength but I still cannot land a blow on him.

Then I hear him start to laugh. "You are very good, I will give you that. However, not the stuff of legends I would say. If you want to get serious then so will I." I am shocked to hear him talk about me like that, so much so that I overextended myself. My blade slipped off his arm, then he grabbed my arm and flipped me over him. I land hard enough to make me lose my breath. I slowly get to my feet as he grabbed the sword with both hands. He flipped a latch on his sword with his right hand, and then the sword came apart, the flat of the blade that had looked so solid now is jagged like shark teeth. He charged towards me swung each blade hard and fast, I can barely block the strikes, and he seemed to just get faster with each attack.

I see a small opening in his attacks and take advantage of it, his slashes from the right were slower and weaker, or so I thought. I flip the blade in my left hand to a normal grip and swing up at him. As I do this, he slashes at me with his right sword, our blades meet and mine broke right down the middle. His blade bit into my shoulder, and he pulled the blade down and out tearing into my shoulder. I drop to my knees from the force of the strike and as it is ripped out. As I let out a moan of pain, I drop the broken sword and stumble back.

"Well, well, I now know who you are," I say as I take a few more steps back.

The Lord looked shocked to hear me say that and stepped forward. "Is that so little one, then who am I?"

"You are the dragon of the wastes, they say you have teeth that can rend steel. But what they meant was your sword and strength can." I grit my teeth and laugh through the pain. I try to unnerve him because now I am in real trouble.

"Yes that's me, I am the Dragon of the Wastes." Laughs the lord, from the set of his shoulders I could tell that he was relieved by what I had said. Which made me wonder what he thought I would say, I have had a feeling while I fought and talked to him that we have met before this? However, I could easily be mistaken, I have been before.

"Now let us finish this little farce, I grow bored of toying with you."

"You know what I was just thinking the same thing. This shall be the last of our little dance, and you will not win!" I laugh at him as I reach over and activate my shield. Though if I think about I have no clue how I have the strength to continue this fight. However, it is probably best if I don't question it and just go with it, I laugh to myself as he charged at me. He slashed with his right sword and I block with my shield, and his left I ketch with my sword. I push with my shield and slide down both his blades. As I get close to him, I duck down below his reach and slash straight up at his face. He stepped back to avoid the slash, but the blade caught on the bottom of his helmet.

It pulled up and off his head leaving a deep cut from his left cheek to eyebrow, I get a good look at his face and I am shocked at who stared back at me. "No, it can't be you I saw you die that day. Your father even though you was dead. How can you be alive?"