Origin
I looked to Udinie for a split second, but when she glared at me and began her own fight, I focused on the man I was to fight. He was extremely muscularly built even for a human, and I was just as willing to admit that I was indeed impressed with it.
“Will you truly fight against a summon of the earth you stand upon?” I asked calmly.
“To complete the mission at this point, I will,” the man answered and he tapped his staff on the ground. In that instant rocks burst from the ground making small mountains around us.
“So it seems were are both equally matched in element, but do we match in strength?” I said not smiling but not frowning either.
“We will see,” the man answered. “I am Sarixen.”
“How noble of you to state your name,” I said calmly. “I will say mine again then. I am Origin.”
Sarixen gave a nod and then tightened his grip on the staff between his fingers. He raised it up quickly and then slammed it into the ground. The rocks around up exploded and shot at me. I took the hunting sword from my side and cut the rocks to bit and flinging them back.
I started my on attack and lunged forwards on all four legs with my sword held high and my muscles arched back. With a swift movement, I forced the sword forwards ready to pierce the man through the head. Just as I was within striking distance, Sarixen brought up his staff and blocked the sword instantly. I used all my shoulder muscles to blow back the staff, but both our attacks seemed frozen for our might seemed to be equal.
“You are a very strong mortal,” I commented. “You have earned my respect as a warrior, but you are not strong enough to beat me.”
“It would seem you are wrong for you have yet to get a full attack in,” Sarixen answered. “Do not think so highly of your summon spirit status that you forget the battle at hand.”
“Oh very wise as well,” I answered as we both backed away and tried one more to release our own attacks. “I commend you.”
“As I to you,” Sarixen answered.
“But now is not a time for words now is it?” I answered. “Let our weapons speak our honor, and the most noble shall win.”
Sarixen nodded quietly, and the battle became serious as neither of us talked any more. I swung my sword to the right, but he backed up before I could do any farther damage than cutting his clothes. He recoiled the prior attack by swigging his staff downwards aiming for my shoulder tendons. The horse half of me reared backwards before the strike could be finished. To keep myself from falling backwards completely, I formed a piece of earth and then leaned forwards on it regaining my hoving once more.
Neither of us waited a moment more as the battle continued on. Neither of us tired it seemed, and we both had an abundant variety of attacks. As I made diagonals with my sword, he countered by blocking with his staff and then repelling the attack. As Sarixen formed rocks and began beating them towards me, the horse half reared once more and kicked them away easily. It went on like this as neither of us got anywhere close to finishing the other.
“Your will is strong, and there is no doubt about your honor,” I said as we had both classed again and were at eye level with each other with our weapons being the only thing separating us. “If you were not a nobody and lived a warrior’s life, I would honor you with my strength in battle…”
“You are honorable as well,” Sarixen answered. “But the one you have made a pact with is not honorable, and therefore you are stained with his misdeeds.”
We both broke apart again, and I flipped my sword to my other hand.
“Indeed,” I answered. “Kratos has done things that are vile in nature, but is goals are pure in form. I not only fight as part of my pact with Kratos, I fight to revive the goddess. In this way, I am still honorable.”
“Actions speak beyond honor though,” Sarixen said. “You must see what will be the consequences for his deeds. He must be stopped.”
“I cannot stop him,” I answered shaking my head a bit. “I am already bound by Kratos’s pact no matter what path he chooses to take.”
“People will suffer,” Sarixen continued. “How can you stand by with such high honor and not fight to protect them?”
“I cannot do anything,” I answered. “But I see…..and I understand…but there is nothing I can do….nothing to be done for the pact is already settled.”
“Then I will break that pact,” Sarixen answered. “I will shatter it to pieces.”
“You are strong, Sarixen,” I answered. “But there is no way to break a pact, and so I must continue fighting.”
Without another word, I attacked once more with my sword ready to see just how far this man was willing to go. The earth around us began to quake with the intensity of our attacks, but still neither of us was willing to give up. My ears heard each crack of earth along with the melody of water that was Udinie’s fight not far off.
Neither of us gave an inch, and finally it came down to one large scale attack. I charged forwards ready for a death kill, and Sarixen seemed to do the same. As I brought down my sword to release the final attack, I felt something dull pierce through me. Looking down, I saw that Sarixen had slipped in at the last moment and had managed to make his own attack. A crack ran through me, and I felt a change. Kratos’s pact had shattered with Sarixen’s attack.
I nodded my head a bit and disappeared into spirit form disappearing from the eyes of mortals. Sarixen seemed to back up a bit and looked down for a moment. In spiritual form, I saw Maxwell waiting for me not far off in spiritual form as well.
“Maxwell….I see that you have been defeated as well,” I said calmly.
“Indeed these children are strong, and they fight with such a purpose as no other. Even if they are nobodies, they have earned their will to live,” Maxwell answered nodding a bit. “And now Pactmaker Kratos has lost two pacts. No doubt he is feeling the effects quite painfully at the moment.”
“Now both of us are free to do as we wish as summons again….” I began.
“Oh indeed,” Maxwell answered. “But I was thinking of watching how the rest of this plays out…”
“Would you interfere in this though?” I asked.
“It is no longer our place to,” Maxwell answered. “The pacts we have made are done, and we must return to watching over our own home. The last pactmaker’s pact with us is done…..it is done.”
“Indeed,” I answered.
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Bah not as long as my last post. =-= I still have many posts to go hahahah.
-Soji
Ps. I WANT CHESE FRIES!
