A Cold heart

Michael waited in the bed feeling nothing but happiness.
~This is strange.. I\'m feeling happy. I usually never feel happy witless I have done good on a mission.~
Michael stood out of bed deciding to explore his surroundings a bit more.
~Quite nice wall. Good solid door. Correction: A good solid locked door. Looks like someone wants to keep me out of here.~


Michael smashed his fist against the door trying to get out. He kept smashing so hard that blood started to dribble down from his fingers. He didn\'t care.
He kept hammering the door in a good 10 minutes until he realised it was futile.
With hands embedded in blood he sat down on the bed just waiting for someone to appear. He didn\'t have to wait long.
The door was opened and a old man with a long white beard and white hair came in.


\"Sorry for taking so long. Welcome to the renegade encampment.\" he spoke in a friendly humming voice.
\"Renegades?\" Michael asked curiously.
\"Yes. Renegades. It is us who didn\'t complete our ninja training for one reason or another. We’ve build a settlement because we had no way of returning back to the mainland.\" He spoke again with a little hint of sadness in his still friendly voice.
\"Oh... So i don\'t suppose you...\" Michael was about to ask but was interrupted \"No we don\'t hold a grudge against ninja\'s\" The old man answered and chuckled a bit.

Michael sighed relieved.
\"Well most of us don\'t but our current leader does and he wants to battle you. If you win. You get to be the leader. If you lose. You die\" The man said with a voice almost shaking with fear at the mention of the word \"leader\"
\"Well can i at least get my Runeblade back?\" Michael asked without even a small hint of fear in his voice.
\"Either you\'re very brave very foolish or very dumb. Perhaps all three.\" The man said chuckled a bit and threw Michaels runeblade over to him.
\"You better get moving. The duel is about to commence and you get executed if you\'re late\" The man said with his usual friendly voice.
\"Thanks I\'ll get going\" Michael shouted on his way out


Michael ran in a big arena like building. ~Looks like i found the arena.~
When he came sprinting in on the battleground he saw someone with a huge steel armor on a combat horse.
~Hmm judging from the size of the armor he\'s either all muscles or all fat. If it\'s the latter it\'ll just take a little push to get him off the horse and a stab to kill him.~
Without any additional thinking time the battle began. It was in a pretty open terrain with only a few bushes rocks and a tree.
~Works to his advantage.. No hiding places.~
Michael thought as he jumped behind a rock to avoid the leaders blade just about to hit him.

Michael suddenly heard a scream. \"1 point for the ninja!\" ~I don\'t have time to worry about that now..~
The leader turned around his horse and charged for Michael again. Michael this time unaware didn\'t reach to completely dodge his blade so he got a bruise in the shoulder.
\"1 Point for Kazum.\" He heard the commentator scream again.
~Kazum? Is it him or just a imposter? It must be him. He\'ll die for betraying me. IS THERE NO ONE I CAN TRUST ANYMORE!!?~
Michael nearly didn\'t reach to think that thought because Kazum hit him with his blade again and made a deep cut in Michael’s shoulders.
\"DAMNIT\" Michael screamed in pain and threw his Runeblade after the unarmored horse which was hit right in the stomach.
\"1 Point more for the ninja!\" The commentator screamed as Kazum\'s horse fell to the ground and Kazum barely reached to jump off.


~Now i can finally kill this imposter.~
Kazum ran and lunged for Michael who barely avoided his blow.
Michael ran to the horse to pick up his Runeblade. At the moment he picked it up he saw Kazum making a strong swipe with his sword towards Michael\'s left shoulder.
Michael who couldn\'t reach to parry tried his best to avoid Kazum\'s blade with a backflip.
He was not fast enough though. Kazum’s blade made a long cut in Michael\'s shoulder who screamed in agony.
Michael took up his blade with his right hand and jumped a good 10 feet away from Kazum.
\"And the points are now...\" Michael blocked out the commentator\'s voice because he didn\'t have time or concentration enough to listen.
~Damn that bastard. My left arm doesn\'t work because the asshole stabbed me in my bloody shoulder.~ He thought as he avoided another of Kazum\'s lunges.

\"Release your inner wrath boy!\" The whisper commanded Michael. ~Why not? It\'s not like I’m gonna survive anyways...~
Michael barely reaching to react before Kazum\'s blade was in his left shoulder again.
\"Can\'t hit the right eh?\" Michael grinned through the pain and stabbed his runeblade through Kazum\'s armor with all the strenght, and hate he could muster.
Kazum screamed in agony as the pain went straight through his heart. Then Michael stabbed again. And again.. And again...

Kazum lay dead on the floor and Michael fell down exhausted... ~Finally he is dead.. Finally~ Was his last thoughts before he passed out.

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