New Enemies Pt. 1

 

            Two months had passed since Raven and Spell Master were defeated. It was a cool, sunny morning; in the midst of a green forest two people played out a beautiful sword dance of death. The two people dueled obviously to the impending doom about to fall onto them.

            “Is that all you got?” a beautiful blond, dressed in an eloquent sapphire blue armor, asked as she parried another blow from her opponent.

            Her opponent was a handsome man dressed in a light blue outfit, a long light blue silk scarf covered the bottom half of his face, his long brown hair was pulled back in a tight pony tail, he wielded a sleek looking katana. He seemed to have little trouble blocking the counter blows from the lady in blue.

            “I just didn’t want to hurt you,” the man answer, with a hint of a smile underneath his scarf.

            In little time the duel had ended, the man swiftly disarmed the lady in blue.

            “You’ve improved a lot, love,” the lady in blue smiled as she reached down to pick up her sword.

            “Thanks, I couldn’t have done it without you,” the man leaned down to pick up the lady’s sword for her.

            “Awe you are so sweet,” the lady hugged the man.

            “How sickening,” a voice said from behind the couple.

            From out of the thick forest a small black-cloaked man approached the couple, in his right hand was a long staff with a gleaming red-eyed skull on tops of its hilt.

            “So this is the legendary Silver, and his lovely wife?” the man asked as he peered at the couple in blue, “You don’t look like all that powerful to me.”

            Silver smiled, “I’m honored you think so highly of me, but I’m far from legendary. So who might you be, and what business do you have with me?”

            “The name is Crimmn I have been hired to kill you.”

            “Well, I’m sorry to say Mr. Crimmn, you won’t find that an easy task to accomplish.”

            “We’ll see about that.”

            The eyes of the skull on Crimmn staff started to grow bright red. Soon the ground started to shift underneath Silver’s feet, as bony hands could be seen popping out of the ground. Two of such hands grabbed each of Sapphire’s ankles, preventing her from moving.

            “Let her go,” Silver demanded.

            Crimmn shook his head no, “Sorry I can’t have her interfering.

            The hand continued to rise, until there were at least twenty skeletons surrounded Silver and Sapphire, including the two holding Sapphire captive.

            Silver blinked, surprised at the great number of skeletons, “Is this supposed to scare me?”

            “Scare you? No. Kill you? Yes.”

            The skeleton’s charged towards Silver.

            “You have to do a lot better than that to kill me, Twin Dragons!”

            Silver raised his hand, producing two snake-like trails of fire.  Soon the long trails of fire formed twin dragons’ heads, as they charged towards the skeletons. One by one, each skeleton was disincarnated to nothing but dust leaving only the two holding Sapphire. Silver called off his dragons before the reached the final two, not wanting to harm his lovely wife.

            “Impressive trick, but it only take me a second to call forth more skeletons,” Crimmn raised his staff high into the air as the skull’s red eyes started to glow again.

            “I know more than one trick, Blue Flare!”

            Silver extended his hand producing a bright blue light, blinding Crimmn, causing him to drop his staff. Silver casually walked over to the dropped staff, and placed his foot over the skull, threatening to crush it. “Give up, unless you want to lose your precious staff.”

            Crimmn rubbed his eyes, just now getting his vision back, “Please don’t, you win.”

            Silver kicked the staff over to Crimmn, “Now get out of here.”

            Crimmn picked up his staff and slowly retreated back into the woods from which he came from.

            Silver rushed over to Sapphire to help her fee from the two skeletons that still held her captive.

            “My hero,” with a mighty gust of wind, Sapphire blew the two skeletons off of her and rushed up and hugged her husband.

            “If you could have done that the whole time, why did you let the skeletons hold you captive, you worried me to death.”

            Sapphire winked, “I like playing the damsel in distress.”

 

            “That was pathetic,” an arrogant voice said as Crimmn entered the woods.

            “I like to see you do better,” Crimmn retorted.

            “Silver better enjoy that victory for it will be his last; tomorrow Silver will die.”

 

To be continued…