The Chronicles of Guertanna: The Sword of Light and Shadow

Chapter VI

Two long chains with a round purple light as anchors where thrown and entangled in the gun, snatching it away from the hand of Kenor. The audience held their breath, stared astonished to the man that suddenly jumped in front of her as the chains pulled back the gun that dropped away of his reach. Rinna stayed motionless, watching how the man used his own body as a shield. His weapons were chains with purple magic anchors, something quite familiar to Rinna.

Trey...She recognized him.

Indeed, it was Trey Freush in front of her. The students were speechless, staring at the handsome noble doing a heroic act. His shiny brown hair moved with the breeze of the evening and his shiny mahogany eyes that melt the hearts of all the girls. After taking the gun away, he kept holding the chains for any chance that Kenor attacked again. But Kenor kept the same emotionless expression as always, something in his pupils changed when he saw Trey, surprise probably; something that happens often.

"She said she didn't want to fight, that cancels the duel." He said, relaxing his body and taking in his hand in his pants' pocket.

Kenor shook his head a little. "This is not your duel, Freush guy." Kenor answered and mare his sword appeared again. "This is about her and me."

Trey went again into his tough character, spinning his chains and getting ready for the battle. "So let's make it between you and me."

Kenor gritted his teeth and swung his sword against Trey. Trey followed along spinning the chains, a way to block the blade of the sword and hitting occasionally Kenor. The fight increased, and Rinna tried hard to stand up, but the pain wasn't on his foot anymore, was in her whole body. Trey, don't...She tried to make her words loud to stop it, but Trey kept evading and blocking Kenor's sword at every rate. The crowd went crazy, the rumors begun spreading fast. Even she thought that there were more people than before.

But suddenly, the chains got stuck in the blade of the sword. Kenor pulled, dragging Trey along and punched him in the face when he was at the right distance. Trey let go of the chains and fell half-awake to the floor, his face hitting hard. Rinna stared at the whole scene and felt incredibly ridiculous for doing nothing. Kenor approached Trey, and that's when Rinna knew that it had to stop there.

She struggled a lot to get up, to walk and to make it on time before Kenor could swing his sword against Trey again. She blocked the sword with her own, facing him once again. Her eyes screamed in pain and tiredness, but she didn't let that bring down her sword. Kenor stared astonished, "I won't let you hurt my friends!"

He pushed his sword against hers; she lost her balance but managed to stay in her feet. He swung again, and she kept blocking, "This was between you and me since the beginning, noble bastard! No need to bring your friends for your rescue"

She crashed her sword, rage was the only thing that kept her in her feet, "Why, Kenor? Why do you say that?!"

He pushed her and gain time to respond her question, "Because that's how you all are! All in the damn school! You all nobles, with the benefit of having the unlimited magic at the reach of their hands!"

He swung it again, she almost didn't block that one, "What are you talking about?! You are on the same school!"

The next move took a pause. His eyes fixed on her; it gave her strange chills, for the first time she could say she was scared of him. He moved his sword forwards, already expecting her sword to block his attack. That's where, between the blades, they could see their eyes, face to face; "I'm not in GGA because I want to." He said, for one split second she could see how his expressionless face changed into something else--still unknown, "It's because I need to."