The Seven Descendant #Wattys2016

CHAPTER 16

Caleb Smith

Tuloy pa rin ang pakikipaglaban namin sa Orcs. Namangha ako sa galing nina Kurt at John. Patuloy pa rin sa pakikipaglaban si John gamit ang slender daggers na hawak ng kanyang magkabilang kamay. Mahusay ito at napakaliksi tulad ng bampira. Halos hindi ko na siya makita sa tuwing tumatakbo ito para magpalit ng posisyon. Si Kurt naman, sa tuwing tumatayo ang mga Orcs ay ginamit nito ang kanyang Seismic attack kung saan lumikha ng lindol. Malakas na lindol na pati kami ay natumba. Hindi naman kami mahirapan tumayo tulad ng mga Orcs dahil sa bigat na kanilang dalang sandata. Sinamantala naman namin nina John at Ellias ang pagpaslang.

Lumundag ako patungo sa natumbang orc at binalibag ang ulo niya. Kinuha ko ang kanyang mabigat na sandata, isang malaking palakol. I spin it through the others. The tingling of the sounds that clash with their scarlet armors makes me want to break their faces. I kill twenty orcs using the big axe. Kahit mabigat man ito ay kaya kong buhatin dahilan na rin sa kakaiba kong lakas. Inikot ko ang sandata at hinampas sa ulo ng orc. Agad naman naging abo ito. I stumble back down when an orc trying to smash my head. I kneel down, a strange feeling rush all over my body. It begins to overvome me. It is wramth, beginning in my solar plexus and radiating from there; it is a foreign sensation, yet one I embrace immediately as I feel it giving. I am overwhelmed wih this new power. I stand strongly, fearless, and, ferocious. My world like slowly moving. I see the flaws and vulnerabilities of my enimies. I know how to defeat them. For the first time the world, rather the universe comes in my own will. Like we are together. Like the nature has connection between us. I mages flash before my eyes. I see myself training with Ellias, recalled my endless sparring. My learning how to feel pain and not be stunned, how to fight several attackers at once. I cross the crowd like my world slowly moving. Like the ratation of the earth slowly moving. Smashing and spinning the axe to kill the orcs. The anger fills my body and the senssation of killing evaporates on my head. I dogde at the side of orc and plunge the axe on the orc's knee. He stumbles and I dive off with the axe and plunge toward his head. I go back tumbling when an spear comming my way. Getting on my feet and look at the orc carrying a big spear that will break my body anytime it hits me. I dodge again at his back, then kick his knee to stumble. Yet he falls outbalance. Roaring of pain and desperate to stand. I smash his head so hard that I could hear the crack of his skull. They gluttural roar as I hardly smash, plunge, stab, and clutch their lives. I am craving to kill everytime the vision keeps on flashing back in my mind. The invasions. Because of them my parents were all dead.

"Ahhhhh!" I shout as I plunge the axe on the orc's back. He turns into ash. I cough as I smell the bad scent of the ash. Though, I don't stop at all, this is just a practice. I am thingking about it, there awaits us for a real battle. I am not going to let them fail me just by this a mere battle. A small battle. I will be one to kill all my enemies asmuch as how they had killed my ancestors, my family, my blood and the reasons of what I am now.

I smash, and smash, and smash a hundreds head of Orcs. Jumping just to get through their heads. I feel a solar plexus rush all over my body. As I feel more nimble. The orcs are too strong but I am nimble than them. And I think it surpass more than their abilities. I can jump high just to level their eyes and break their heads into unfix pieces. But we don't defeat them at all. They pop up from the portal where their kingdom is.

"There are more of them, gonna die eh!" John shouts, he looks at me.

"Tiger strength!" Sigaw ni Ellias kasabay ng pagsuntok niya sa tiyan ng isang Orc. Minasdan ko ang kalaban namin, parang hindi na uubos. Sumusulpot lang sila galing sa bilog na liwanag. Ang lagusan papunta sa kanilang kaharian. Satingin ko umabot hanggang Ten hundreds Orcs ang kalaban namin, na mas lalo pang dumami. Hinihingal ako at napapagod. Pero hindi ako huminto.