The Swordsmen's Race

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Near the beginning of all this fighting, EM had sent Walker down underground to hunt down Mix. Seeing this of course, Morgan's Uncle pursued him. Walker hasn't even made it through the first floor of the flipped building before he found a familiar katana coming for his throat.

Once he was caught up to Walker, the search for Mix essentially became the two of them clashing swords while slowly working their way down the building. Several times this was done by the floor beneath them being destroyed one way or another. If they'd counted correctly, both of them knew they were fifteen floors down or so. How deep did this building go..?

Walker: This is turning into quite the long search, huh?

Walker blipped out of the way of Uncle's katana before continuing to speak.

Walker: We could find him a lot faster if you'd give up and let me kill you.

Uncle: Heh. I've never let you win, Walker. I won't start now.

Walker: Unfortunately, I am painfully aware of that. I've spent too many revivals fighting you to believe otherwise.

They began clashing again. Walker blipping around the dark room while Uncle followed him incredibly fast, striking rapidly but always being met with sword or shield instead of flesh.

Uncle: If you'd stop coming after me every time you're revived, maybe you'd get stronger!

Walker: I have plenty of time in the underworld to get stronger. And since my people are no more, there's no point in me doing anything else but seeking my revenge!

Walker teleports behind Uncle and goes to stab him in the back, only for him to spin around like a blur and block it.

Uncle: And let me guess, that revenge gets bigger each time I kick your ass?

Walker: Good to know you understand how it is.

Walker then kicks Uncle, knocking him back a step so he can teleport to the stairs leading to the next level below.

Walker: Anyway, shall we continue on the next floor? Maybe it'll finally be the one I win on.

Uncle: You can hope.

As Walker blips down to the next level, he speeds after his long time opponent. These two had known each other for a long, long time. Walker had been beat many times in that span of time, all of those defeats being by Uncle's katana. So each time he was brought back, Walker's need for Uncle's death only got stronger. It couldn't be more perfect that Uncle was one of the few Guardians that were here in this world.

As the two of them once again resumed their sword duel, the room quickly filled with the sounds of colliding metal once again. More so this time as they'd stop talking to focus on speed and hitting their opponent. Said focus was soon interrupted by a third person intervening with blades of their own.

Kohina: Hehehe, I wanna play too!

Both fighters jumped back to dodge as Kohina came darting in from the stairs, swords swinging for both of their heads.

Walker: The kid..

Uncle: Careful, Walker. You wouldn't wanna die to another person, right?

Walker: Grrr..

Without another word, the duel became a three way battle between Uncle, Walker and Kohina. No one on each other's side, just a three was battle of swords. The ones on the offensive and defensive changed quite rapidly, as they all fought in their own unique ways. Actually everyone was often doing both at the same time, as they all switched who they were attacking at any given moment.

Uncle, thinking: Well this just dissolved into chaos huh. Great.. At least Walker isn't getting to Mix while this is going on. Still though..

One thing was clear in his mind. While he also had to get Mix, he also had to get back to the surface. There was a very large amount of chaos and fighting going on up there, and he needed to get back out there and help. And he couldn't do that if he was stuck in a three way with an old rival and a psychotic little girl!

As he was trying to think of a way to slip away and get to the lower floors, he decided on a solution in the form of his secondary weapons.

Blocking a rapid barrage of strikes from Kohina, Uncle took a few steps back quickly and sheathed his katana, only to reach behind his back and draw two pitch black, obsidian sai.

Uncle, thinking: I'm no Railgun, but these old relics get the job done just fine.

As Walker came at him once again, he slid to the side, parrying Walker's sword and darting to the center of the room. Once he was there, he basically just spun in a circle as the sai quickly charged up, then let out massive bursts of electricity strong enough to crumble whatever they hit. Be that random debris, or the floor and ceiling. In a matter of moments, he began to rip their little battlefield apart.

Kohina: W-What the heck?!

Walker: Damn.. Didn't think I'd see this trick.

Both opponents were caught off guard as the ground beneath them was destroyed and they fell to the floor below. Then the next and the next, over and over as Uncle darted around the rooms and destroyed as much of the area as possible in order to get lower. Attempting to keep track of what floor they were on, Uncle believed they were at floor twenty five when he finally stopped, to his enemy's relief. Both of them had put in quite a bit of athletic ability to bounce around on the falling chunks of floor to not fall and get crushed beneath it.

Uncle put away the sai, drawing his katana once again as he smirked, but was clearly out of breath.

Uncle: Heh.. I'm a little disappointed neither of you got taken away in the debris.. but I guess it's not unexpected.

Walker: It'll take more than that to kill me. You of all people know that, right?

The two of them shared a grin, both out of the joke being funny and yet also painful for the one who said it. Meanwhile Kohina just shrugged, not getting it at all.

Kohina: Can we keep fighting now!

Uncle: Unfortunately, yes. I have a feeling we don't have any other option as long as we're all down here.

Walker: Agreed. I'm not leaving until I've taken both of you out, and gotten the boy.

Uncle: It's not gonna happen. That should be pretty clear by now, Walker.

Kohina: I just wanna cut people! No more talking!!

Kohina then darted forward out of frustration and once again collided swords with User, who deflected her attacks and was soon met with more strikes from Walker.

Uncle, thinking: If Kohina wasn't a wild card fighting both of us, I have a feeling they'd both be going for me. Glad that's not happening.. It'd be a pain to out speed them both.

Little did he know that the need for speed against these two would be gone in about ten seconds, as when Kohina came at Uncle again, Walker saw it as an opening and slipped away down to the lower floors. His two opponents would notice, but not for a while. He'd have plenty of time to find Mix.

Walker: And once I've got the kid, I can come back and finish the fight. For now though, he can entertain himself with that blue haired kid.

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