Inner Core (Book 2) (Completed)

Chapter 9 *Fighting A Bandaged Man*

(Cloak stood on top of a building. His hair flowed with the wind. He looked down on the city, watching it. Looking for someone new to battle. Cloak was into fighting with swords. He believed he was the best swordsman, but he needed to prove it, to everybody. You can say something is true and have no proof whatsoever. Some will believe, some will not, but Cloak wanted everybody to believe him. He started as just running around looking for a group of drunk guys messing with swords. They were easy, but that's how people started to notice him. Some figured out his pattern, and they would walk around with swords to battle Cloak himself, but they did not win. No one did. After a while they started to come up with a name for him. Some called him the bandaged swordsman, others called him the injured killer, but one name that stuck was Cloak. He doesn't know if it is because of his bandages, or because of the way he is never caught, but that is what everyone started to call him. He doesn't care what he's called, all he wants is to show the world who is the best with the sword, and that is what he's gonna do. He heard yelling in the distance. It sounded close. Something about bonding, but Cloak was already off. He stabbed his sword into the side of the wall and started to slide down. He got to the bottom, but stayed on the wall for a minute. He was hidden in the darkness, but you never know what someone's core is. Cloak is always careful. He got quiet. The yelling stopped. Cloak decided it was his time to go. He jumped off the wall, but hit some trash cans. It was a loud sound and he heard someone say come on. Cloak had to think fast. He jumped into the dumpster and hid under a bunch of trash. He slid right in, but Cloak needed to be careful. He heard footsteps near the dumpster, then someone said damn animals. The footsteps disappeared. Cloak thought he was safe, so started to get above the trash, he accidently banged against the side of the dumpster. Cloak stopped for a minute, but he didn't hear any sounds. He thought maybe they left, but then the top of the lid was thrown open. Cloak was no longer under his trash pile. He slowly looked up to see a blued hair guy who looked really pissed. Cloak went to take his sword out slowly, but the guy jumped back.)

Reo: "Kazu, he's here!"

Kazu: "What?"

Reo: "Cloak is here!"

Kazu: "Wait what?!"

(Kazu made a portal down there and walked through it. He was side by side with Reo and looking at Cloak.)

Kazu: "Wow, looks like we found him. Ok bud come on, let's take you down to jail."

Cloak: "Jail?"

Kazu: "Yeah, Jail. You've killed so many people. You're definitely going to jail for a while."

Cloak: "Listen, let's make this easy. You let me go, and you two don't have to die."

Reo: "How about this?"

(Reo pulled his sword out and pointed it at Cloak.)

Reo: "You come with us over to the prison, or you'll die."

Kazu: "Not die, but get hurt."

Reo: "Well if you resist enough, you will die."

Kazu: "No one is dying."

Cloak: "Well you two are, at least the blue hair one will. Reo was it?"

Reo: "Yeah, and why am I gonna die? I'd be the last to die out of everyone here right now."

Cloak: "Well you see I fight those with swords, you have a sword. Do you understand?"

Reo: "Yeah, there's only one part I think you messed up on. You'll be the one dying."

Cloak: "Haha, well we'll see."

(Cloak charged at Reo swinging his sword. Kazu teleported up to the top of the building. He would've helped, but he knew Reo would only get mad at him, so he decided to watch until things looked to bad. Cloak took a hard strike at Reo, (you can tell he's done this before) luckily Reo had been hard at work on training with his sword for most of his life.)