Kombat

Angelo and Melaina had been walking for two days, hopping from town to town on their way to the Kingdom's capital. In that little time, he had managed to see many fascinating scenes in this new world he was in. Animals of different species, from horned rats the size of a bear, spiked lizards that were big enough to be used as muscle to pull carts and carriages and insects the size of small dogs.

He fell deeper in love with this world and its people, seeing the different races he only ever seen in movies and read about in novels.

As the pair was approaching their next tow, the darkness was beginning to creep in and the only visible light sources were from his torch and the distant lights of the town shrouded behind the tree line they were in.

The small forest they walked in was unnaturally quite tonight and soon Angelo would discover the dangers that lurked in the very same world he found fascinating.

"We need to pick up our pace, I have a bad feeling creeping in" Melaina said as she quickened up her strides with Angelo doing the same.

Angelo could hear rustling in the underbrush. He thought it to be a wild animal foraging in the night but the sound seemed like it was quickly headed their way.

"I sure hope you can use that sword of yours, just be prepared to defend yourself. It's most likely a dire wolf that stalks these parts of the woods." Melaina said as she took out her wand in preparation of the incoming danger.

"Yeah, I did some fencing back on earth, so I think I might manage, though I'm not sure if it will be so well applicable fighting an animal." He replied as he unsheathed his weapon.

"Well I guess you're lucky we ain't no animal, or maybe your just as unlucky that we aren't" A rugged voice called out as a man coved in seemingly self-inflicted scars on his face made into a pattern as if it was cosmetic scarring, emerged from a bush dagger in hand. Two more men and a woman came of different areas surrounding the pair.

"You boy, it'd be best for you to hand over your valuables, that includes the fancy sword and armor you have there." The scar-faced man said as he approached the two.

"Step back, these are dangerous grounds you tread on" Melaina said as she frantically pointed her wand at the group surrounding her.

"A spell caster huh? I've dabbled in a little spell casting myself when I was 10 summers old, so don't hold yourself high girl." The woman said as she charged up a spell in her left hand.

Angelo was frightened, he knew he was bound to run into some trouble sometime, otherwise why else had Chuck given him the armor and sword. He gripped the rapier's handle hard as he could feel his hand become sweaty and got into the fighting stance had he had practiced since he was 7.

"And what if I refuse?" Angelo asked as he stepped back counter to Scarface's advance.

"Then I gut you like a fish and we'll take our sweet time taking turns ploughing your little friend here" Scarface said as the other men hoarsely chuckled.

"That merchant said your sword certainly has value and would pay us a grand some to relive you of it, now hand it over and we'll let you go unharmed, can't say the same for your lady friend though." One of the other men spoke up.

"Over my dead body! The sword and I aren't going anywhere with you!" Melaina said as she charged up a spell of her own, facing towards the other spell caster and pointed her wand to her abdomen.

"Your death it is, get em' " Scarface said as he lunged towards Angelo. Angelo braced for the incoming fight as Melaina activated a barrier around Angelo that deflected the incoming strike.

"Your fight is with me missy!" the woman said as she flung a fireball towards Melaina which she easily deflected and countered with her own thin beam of light which pierced the woman's left leg resulting in her grunting in pain as the beam went through her.

Angelo soon took advantage of the deflected attack to launch an attack pf his own. One of the other man came to the defense of Scarface and parried Angelo's sword strike with his own curved short sword.

The man as successful in pushing Angelo back just enough for Scarface to reorientation himself and pushed the man aside yelling out "This is MY fight!" as he quickly made his way towards Angelo.

The woman who Melaina had injured tried to get up but right before she could stand, Melaina shot another beam of light but the woman was able to quickly deflect her spell with her own fire spell which narrowly missed Melaina's face, giving her enough time to get herself up and charge another spell. The two other men lunged themselves towards Melaina daggers and swords in hand, quickly closing the gap between each other and allowing for their female counterpart to charge the decisive spell that would end her.

"DISARM!" Melaina cried out as a huge wave of wind was directed towards the incoming men which flung the weapons the men had in their hands as far as the spell could, disarming the men and stopping their charge.

Angelo tried his best to get the upper hand in his fight between Scarface but his opponent was much larger and skilled in close combat. He had to distance himself with him to avoid the dagger strikes more easily or stun him with an aggressive attack that would give him a chance to get a strike in.

He had to think fast as he was already being pushed back into a tree and it would be the end of him if he was cornered. Angelo decided to launch an aggressive attack. He stopped moving counter to Scarface's advance and made a straight thrust with his sword towards his opponent's chest area. Upon seeing his opponent sacrifice his attack for defense. A successful riposte, Angelo struck Scarface's dagger to gain priority and continued the attack on his chest. His many years of discipline in fencing had started to show its results.

Angelo complimented the beat attack with a disengage attack, threatening Scarface's lower abdomen to which Scarface took notice to.

"You little turd, you're not half bad. It's the first time I've ever witnessed a technique like this in all my years of combat. But this game has to end sooner or later." Scarface said as he switched his dagger for a scimitar he had unsheathed from his back and swung at Angelo in arcs pushing him back once again.

Melaina seemed to have the upper hand in her own battle as she struck down the disarmed men with a wind spell. She then swiftly took out a dagger from her cloak and lunged at the woman who was still preparing her spell, catching her off guard and digging the dagger deep into her shoulder.

The woman screamed in pain and kicked Melaina off her with a boot to her abdomen.

"You bitch! You're going to pay dearly for that." The woman said as she painfully pulled the dagger out of her left shoulder but before she could do anything more, Melaina shot a light beam to her face which seemed to do nothing.

"HA! Was that all you could do, pathet-." but before she could continue, her face exploded a few seconds after the blast to the face. An puddle brain matter and skull fragments fell to the ground before the woman's body fell to its knees and hit the ground with a muffled thud.

The two men that had witnessed the gory sight immediately got up from the ground and retreated in horror, afraid that the same would be done to them.

"Get back and fight you fucking cowards, I did not pay you to run at the first sight of danger!!" Scarface said as he saw his companions flee. But the slight distraction was all Angelo needed to gain the upper hand on Scarface. Angelo dug his rapier deep into Scarface's chest and followed up with a slash to his throat. Scarface's corpse fell down with his head barely attached to his body by a piece of his skin.

Angelo and Melaina both fell to the ground, panting from the fatigue of combat. Angelo looked around, taking in all the sights of blood and gore. The sight sickened him to the core. He could feel his previous meal rushing to escape as he vomited what little was not yet digested in his stomach.

"Fuck… I just killed a person." The realization finally dawned on him. He never really thought about the prospect of possibly having to ill another human being when he arrived on this world. Angelo wiped his mouth of the vomit; he had to steel his nerves because this was certainly not the last time he was going to do the same. He got up and walked towards Melaina.

It appeared as though she had completely spent her energy during the fight and could not stand any longer. Angelo wiped the blood off his rapier and offered a hand to Melaina.

She grabbed his hand and Angelo helped her up. "I expended way more mana than I should have, I can barely walk now. You can get me to the town on you back right? I mean, I don't think I'm that heavy"

"Yeah, I can try. Come on, up…there we go." Angelo said as he managed to get her on his back.

"You're definitely heavier than you look" Angelo said as he chuckled and Melaina bumped his head lightly as a reply to his statement. He soon began walking towards the nearby town to find an inn to rest for the night.

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A young woman woke up and found herself in an unfamiliar bedroom decorated by various paintings of people dressed in fancy 15th century clothing though a bit off. She looked around the room but she couldn't see anyone else in it. She also noticed that she was dressed in the same kind of clothing as the paintings.

The woman was Jenny, and it seemed like she had finally came to. She got off the bed and walked towards the window of the room where she opened the curtains. It was dark outside but she could see lights in the distance which indicated that she was in a town or city.

Jenny closed the curtain and looked around the room once again when she spotted a glowing bow at the other end of the room. She walked towards it and discovered that the closer she got to it, the brighter it would shine same for the armguard she had on.

She picked up the bow and slung it over her chest then exited the room.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" Jenny called out as she traversed the empty and quiet hallways of the large building.

"Oh my god!" she shrieked as she saw the bloodied bodies of what she would assume to be maids and butlers by the clothes they had on.

'What happened here?' she thought as she maneuvered her way around the bodies, resisting the urge to vomit. As she turned the corner looking for an exit, she could hear gurgling in another room. She hesitated to enter it but her curiosity was peaked.

Jenny peeked into the room and saw what would appear to be a dining room with three bodies sat at the table. The first thing that caught her eye was the body of a little girl. "Oh dear god!"

"Y-you, help me..." one of the corpses called out in a muddled voice. It was Charlion, and he had his hand on his throat trying desperately to stop the blood flow.

Jenny rushed over to him, she took a napkin that was on the table and pressed it against Charlion's throat. She noticed the cut wasn't too and a vital artery probably hadn't been cut otherwise he would have died already.

Charlion pointed over to the little girl over the opposite side of the table and weakly uttered the word "necklace, bring". Jenny wondered what he meant and left Charlion to keep pressure on his neck. She quickly rushed over to the girl's corpse and saw what the man was talking about. She delicately removed the necklace off the little girl's lifeless body and took it to Charlion.

There was a small crystal that seemed to contain a liquid in it and Jenny could vaguely understand Charlion's thought process. He signed for her to break the crystal over his neck to which Jenny did so.

A quick dim flash of light soon shone from his slashed neck as the liquid came in contact with him and soon Jenny could see the wound slowly closing itself up as if the cut was being undone.

Soon after, Charlion faded out of consciousness and Jenny sat beside him, still in shock and awe from what she had just witnessed.