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Apologies for a late post, but here we go!
Chapter 17
Friend or Foe
As Captain Del and I rush towards Jolly Roger, with the explosions in the background and the adrenaline rushing through our veins, we go full force into the scene of battle, to confront and become victorious against Jolly Roger.
As quick as we had rushed, he had disappeared.
He was gone, nowhere in sight, but his voice still lingered in the air and spoke to us.
Your power... is weak.... Your power shall be tested upon the fury of this one skeleton.... beware the might.... of this ghastly demon......
Delmaria then shouted:
Get over here you scallywag! Only an addle-minded fool would run away from two people! You are a scallywag and bilge rat!
Jolly Roger replies harshly back to Captain Del:
My power is nearly unmatched to you fools, thinking you can win is a foolish dream. I shall give you a chance to win the New World Daggers, by confronting the demon before you. If you win I shall leave, but be warned I shall come back for blood, particularly yours!
Suddenly, out of the thin air a shadowy demon appears before both of us. It was skinny, and had short arms, obviously a femalish look as she had a petite body frame and small stature in size. Assuming it was a she, she had a singed shirt on, and pants that were destroyed and ripped, the buttons being pulled out and the strings being ripped apart, along with the no boots.
Del and I recoiled at the sight of this.... thing, and then when we examined it more closely, it looked more humanish, but the eyes, the eyes were a dark red, as of blood color, a dangerous color.
Then, all of a sudden the demon starts to rush at us, having a sword materialize into her hand out of thin air, and the sword was a curved sword, curved and had spikes on the end of her sword with the curve. The blade, did not like normal, but more cursed instead. Whatever it was, I had no time to find out.
As she approached us quicker, Del shouted,
Go right! I'll go left! Go around her and make sure you stay whole!
As I hear his words, I wield my sword, remembering the power surge into my hands, giving me the strenght I needed. I quickly rolled to one side, making sure I was out of range from the spiked sword's range. As I regain my vision and steady it, I see Captain Del battling it out with the demon.
A thrust by the demon, the sudden clang as I recognize that Captain Del had blocked the thrust, and the familiar sliding of blades as he puts his blade into a circular motion, rotating his body and hips smashing the sword into the ground and doing a return rotation, only this time aimed towards a rib.
Suddenly, any idea that that was going to work was suddenly diminished, as he was quickly dueling it out with the demon once more as she suddenly got the sword out without a hint of suffering or use of energy and started to press upon Del once more.
Del looked like he was struggling with each blow, as each blow started to get quicker and quicker, and Del became slower and slower.
I knew I had to intervene, so I rolled towards the demon, and landed squarely on my feet, and then using my hips and arm, I used all my force to stab directly at the demon's stomach.
The demon screamed, a screech that made our ears throb in pain for a few seconds, and then she took her hand, grabbed the tip of the blade and twisted it, making it so that I was unable to pull the sword out.
Then, she turned her head, a full turn so that the handle of the blade had left my hand, and as it turned it had the hilt of the blade whack Captain Del straight into a rib, making a familiar cracking sound as metal made contact with bone.
Del dropped his sword, clutching his rib and fell down to the floor, making sure blood didn't spray out, causing the situation to become worse.
The demon had those red eyes directly looking at me, straight at the face where I could see the blood red eyes studying me, looking me over, probably to figure out the best way to make me suffer and kill me.
In a heartbeat, she was attacking once more with that spiked sword, and as I tried to step sideways to avoid it the blade that was coming in a cleaving motion, she raises her left leg and kicks me clean in the stomach, knocking the wind out of me.
I may have been kicked in the stomach, but I wasn't going down without a fight, as I take out the pistol that was dangling, I aimed it straight at her hand, the sword in her hand that shined with the green skies and moonlight, and I fired.
I fired, and I hit my target.
The sword leaping into the air as the demon howled in pain, her eyes turned a dazzling crystal blue, very dazzling to any human's eyes.
It spoke two words...
Help me....
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There you go!
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