The Chronicles of Guertanna: The Sword of Light and Shadow

Chapter XII

The sound of iron blades echoed in the Gym and filled with joy the ears of the audience. It has been a while since they watched a good fight like the one witnessing right now. The two creatures seemed to be prepared for the match, Light flying and darting out of her mouth rays of light, while Shadow was so fast that could evade every of them and vanish in darkness to appear again somewhere else. Rinna and Kenor had went again to their old routine of crashing their swords one against the other.

Speed and strength increased with the power of the Dandelions, and both felt the impact in every movement or hit. Rinna had the ability of the shadows, which let her move faster and almost not seen by Kenor. Kenor was quite visible, but his swings of swords became more effective, launching them to Rinna without hesitation. Close combat wasn't out of the question either, when they had the chance, they would punch or kick.

Kenor swung his sword against Rinna; once again she was able to jump back without any problem. The ability of the shadows was really effective for her to move faster without a lot of effort. Kenor followed her and kept trying. She used her sword to blockade his and used her magic to push him away. He fell on the ground and almost gets stabbed by her; he rolled to the side and stood up. He crashed his sword against hers, maybe a couple times, and then threw away her sword. Rinna's heartbeat dropped, her eyes went wide looking at the sword on the floor.

There was no time to waste and turned her gaze to the victorious eyes of Kenor. His sword was swinging again and he only thing that she could do was putting her arm first. Then iron sounded. When she looked down she found claws hooked on her knuckles. Without trying to question them much she pushed the sword away, take it from Kenor's hand with her other claws and swung her right-hand claws on his stomach. She could feel how the claws grazed on his clothes and some blood was visible coming out of his abdomen.

She panicked for a couple seconds.

Kenor was smart to jump back at the moment she set her claws on him, but he still moaned with the slash that may be now in his body. She followed him forward, ready for the last attack. It was the perfect moment; he was hurt, in pain, and couldn't move a lot. She swung her claws again, this time Kenor jumped...too high. Rinna followed him over her and how he landed behind her, slowly on the floor. Some feathers grew on his arms at the moment he expanded them when jumping. Now they were already gone.

Rinna looked at him perplexed, then grabbed her sword from the floor and didn't hesitate to keep attacking. Now with the easy way out, Kenor extended his arms, let the feathers grow and jumped again, taking the sword when he landed and hurrying to Rinna. She wasn't fast enough to turn and Kenor hit her with the hilt of the sword on the back. She twisted in pain and fell on her knees, but rolled aside expecting Kenor's attack. Indeed he was about to stab her, but that didn't happen.

She used the claws instead, one hand to block the sword and the other to slash him. He stepped back but lost grip of his sword again. She managed to stand up, only to be thrown again by him. He was close, maybe to close to her; he formed a fist with his hand and marked it right in her jaw. She fell helplessly to the floor. The audience motivated by the impact covered their mouths, some even stood up astonished. Trey was one of them.

Rinna didn't seem to stand up, her mind went blurry. She felt exhausted, maybe too much for a ten minute battle. She felt the urge to scream but didn't know to whom or where.

That's when Shadow stopped fighting against Light and turned to her carrier, thrown at the floor. He made a last push-attack to Light to gain time and went running to tackle Kenor and growl at him. Light wasn't going to be left out so she went and pushed Shadow away from her carrier. Kenor then went for Rinna who was barely standing up. He grabbed her hair and threw it again.