The Legend of Azhakkstadd

CHAPTER XVIII : WOUNDED

-Kurezma-

    Kuzma started running towards me in a zigzag direction, why is that? My face frowned due to confusion, is it because the thunder sign is zigzagged? Or because he really runs that way? ahahahahah he's so silly, yet now's not the time to joke around. 

    I hopped back to avoid his attack, that one was predictable yet it caught me off-guard. Plus he's a silent fighter, I see his heavy breaths, but he doesn't even let out any sound, it's making it hard to catch him. He swung his sword again as he chased me, I could hear my little screams escaping my mouth as I tried to run and avoid him. 

    He's really fast, he's swaying his sword left and right, both on-ground and mid-air. He really moved like a lightning, I can't even do anything except to dodge his attacks. I can't actually imagine fighting my own brother, but I badly need this.

    He swayed his sword again and nearly got my left hand which was holding my sword, I gasped loudly as if I'm losing my breath, thankfully I dodged that and kept gripping upon my sword. I backflipped as I kicked his hand holding the sword, I succeeded though. His jaw clenched as he accidentally released his sword due to that, I heard him grunted aloud. 

    Now it's my chance. I flinched as I kicked the ground with my right foot and bolted to attack him. He didn't even get the chance to get his sword. I swung my sword towards him and tried hitting him, but he's even faster now. He can avoid everything I threw him. Is he that fast or I am just slow? I kept on attacking him with my sword, I saw him look away, probably gazing for his sword.

     I jumped right to him and did a round off which I let my foot hit his jaw then added force into it. I heard myself squeal a bit due to the force. He flew to the air spinning and fell to the ground. That was quite hard, I could hear him groan, hardly caused by the pain and the thud due to the impact of falling, all the way here. 

    I hopped back as he jumped up and then came running towards me again, but now he's even faster and with a smirk on his face. He seemed to lock his gaze towards me, which made him look tougher. Now I looked like his prey, and he's my predator.

    I hopped back again to prepare my self, he picked up his sword as he did a back handspring and in just split seconds, he's in front of me spinning his sword, and what shocked me is he looked calm as if he's doing that kind of technique lightly like it doesn't bother him at all.... effortless. 

    I came near him as I forced my sword right through him, but his sword blocked it and shoved it away. I heard our swords clang and clash as they hit each other. I didn't give up, I swung and swung as soft yells went out my mouth then I went forward, making him pushed backward. As we reached the wall, I heard a soft thud as I pinned him into it.

     I was about to sway my sword but he just slipped himself in the middle of my legs and pushed me to the wall. I gasped due to shock. Luckily I had my sword to prevent me from hitting it, it'd be painful, this wall is sturdy. I whipped back a couple of times to get to him, strong enough it almost became a quadruple somersault, I almost exceeded him, so 

    I swung my sword to attack him standing underneath me. Yes, literally, I swung my sword while I was in the air, upside down, I didn't expect I could do that, I never knew. I landed behind him, but not so soon, he turned around and ran to attack me. There's his gaze again, his mood got darker, his eyes looked mightier, his mouths closed as his jaw clenched, and his aura felt so wild.

    Faster enough, I blocked his sword with mine and leaned back a little. I started to groan louder and my face is clearly tired showing the pain that I am starting to feel. He attacked again but I still managed to block it. He was pushing me as our swords were colliding. Now, I hear him growling loudly as if he's so eager to defeat me. 

    There was too much force that grew in between the tension, lightning suddenly burst out from our swords, electricity banged horridly right in front of us forcing us to push ourselves away from each other. But before we could be thrown by the force, I saw him flinch when I kicked his leg hard. 

    Then I was pushed hardly opposite from his direction. I screamed in pain as I crashed on the ground. I could see him lying on the ground too, holding his leg and pain on his face. But he quickly recovered and ran towards me again, he was too fast, and it's impossible for me to run on both my sides because I'm trapped in the corner of the walls. 

    Gosh, what should I do? what should I do? He's fastly approaching towards me, so I had no choice but to whip back onwards. I was successful again, I just flew above him and landed somewhere I'm not trapped anymore.

Noticing that I'm not there, he stopped and turned around to face me with his looks that kinda scared me. He's now wearing his strange smile which I don't understand what he means. 

    He jumped ahead and landed in front of me, I mean long jump, how could he possibly do that. He was a bit far to just jump and land in front of me. He jumps so far incomparable to a usual human ability. He's really strong, and now, I'm feeling my body weaken. I am slowly gasping for air so that I can keep up. 

    I rolled over to the ground to my left and rose immediately to reach our swords, it's somehow near me so I thought it'd be a good idea. I couldn't hold both though so I just picked up mine. But I was able to get his sword by my left foot and threw it further so that I'll have my advantage.

    I started attacking him again as I swayed my sword in different directions, but he just kept on dodging them. I put pressure and force into my attacks to make it harder and faster. Maybe I put too much pressure on it realizing that my blade sliced his calf.

     I heard him groan in pain then I saw blood suddenly dropped from it, I panicked a little and immediately stopped myself from attacking him then eventually dropped my sword to the ground. My sword clashed to the ground as I ran towards Kuzma to check his wound that I caused. The place went silent for my ears as I was focused on him while he's suffering from the pain. 

"Gosh, I'm so sorry" I exclaimed and came closer to him as he lay down on the ground. His eyes are just shut while he's holding his lower leg and raising it higher than heart level. 

"No, it's ok" I heard him scream weakly. I can hear pain out of it. I quickly turned around to get some stuff to give him first aid, but Aisha suddenly appeared together with Ashtan and Nazif who drifted over here to check on Kuzma. I saw Aisha holding a bag of... I think some kind of first aid.

"What did you do?" Nazif asked me with a laugh, I looked at them while they clean up Kuzma's wound

"I-I don't kn-now, it was so f-fast" I stammered as I answer him "I'm so sorry" I continued and kneeled down to see him closely

"I guess you were so indulged into it" Kuzma playfully said but still with pain on his voice. I looked at his ripped pants which had drops of blood on it.

"Yea, I'm sorry big bro" I sincerely said and sat down properly to the ground catching my breaths

"No, it's ok, it won't kill me though unless you wanted to kill me and put poison on it" he answered as he laughed but there's no sign of pain anymore "this isn't too deep anyway" he assured me