Riders In The Wind

Chapter 15: More fighting

Sentrayah P.O.V.

I turned around looking for Aurora but she was no where to be found. I heard footsteps coming from down the hallway, something didn't feel right though. Then Aurora's words came raced across my mind "Rouge is not one to give up easily when he believes something is unfair." I pulled Mau behind me out of instinct. She stood there silent even though I knew that she had a million questions to ask me. Rouge came through the doorway that led into the library, I could see anger and disgust in his face that he was trying poorly to cover up. I saw the glint of something shiny on his side due to the lanterns that filled the colossal library. I guessed Mau did too because she hugged me tighter, I couldn't see if she did because my eyes were locked onto Rouge's. I also didn't notice that he had started walking faster towards me, everything seemed to fade away as I kept looking into his eyes, the amount of negative emotion coming from them seemed to hold me in a trance. When he was in front of me my trance was broken by Mau practically screaming my name, I was so distracted I hadn't noticed Rouge pry Mau off me and put a blade to her neck. "Let her go!" I screamed about to lunge, but I stopped when he threatened to pull the blade harder on Mau's throat. What can I do? Where is Aurora when I need her?!

Aurora P.O.V

Sentraya was defenseless, she had no weapon and Rouge had two, the blade and Mau. I wanted to see what would happen though, how she would react. "Come on out Aurora! I know you won't let the girl get hurt!" Rouge called out to me. Alex had gone searching for more books on dragons and he was probably to fixed on that to hear. I walked out from my hiding spot, "Alright, if you want a fight you'll get a fight but not here. Go tell your sister to get clear the training hall for me and we can fight then. The only rule is that we cant kill each other or hurt anyone else but each other. Deal?" Rouge smiled and released Mau, then walked out stopping long enough to say "Your on." before he left. I ran towards Mau and Sentraya to make sure they weren't injured, Mau had a sight cut on her neck nothing serious. "You said you would look after us and protect us if he tried anything!!"Sentraya half screamed half cried to me. I stood there silent for a few seconds, she wasn't totally wrong. "Your right I did say that, I wasn't going to let him hurt either of you. You stood there though and didn't do ANYTHING to help your sister you fell for his little trick as well. Trust me if he had meant to hurt her the second to even tried to speak he would have killed her. I kept in the dark because I knew if I came out to soon he would have hurt her much worse. I also had to think of something that would keep him from doing anything rash. Come watch the fight if you want to keep Mau far away though, maybe you will learn a few things." After saying this I turned and walked towards the training hall.

I could hear her calling out to me, but my mind was somewhere else I could not loose to Rouge under ANY circumstances, even if it costs my life. That's how I was trained, and I will not betray my mentor's teachings. Anger was rising inside of me, anger turned to rage, and rage.....welllllll.......rage ended up with me punching a wall.

When I reached the training hall Kystetra, Blade, and Rouge were standing in the center. Sentraya appeared behind me a few seconds later, then Kystetra spoke up, "There is only one rule in this fight, you are not allow to kill one another, your opponent can be on the verge of death,but you can not finish them off." Rouge and I nod in agreement. I can't make any promises if my true side comes out....oh well. Once everyone had cleared off to the side of the hall, which is now kind of an arena I guess, the fight started but I didn't attack I waited staring Rouge down. I was trying to psych him out but I did train him so it wasn't really working all that well. I moved my foot to the right slightly indicating I was about to make a move and Rouge flinched in anticipation, Good he's on guard, that makes things a little more interesting. He won't go down easily that I know of, the shadows I can use to my advantage he'll know I'll use them as much as possible. He doesn't know how much of an actual assassin I really am though, he'll never see my attacks coming....I hope. I took a dagger in each hand from my sides, and took my fighting stance, Rouge drew his sword also preparing for the fight to come. The rules might say we aren't allowed to kill each other but, one of us will have to die by the end of this to settle this whole damn thing. "Rouge you know you've walked into a fight your not going to win, I'll give you one last chance to back down or I will finish this once and for all." I said calmly, "I know and I'm willing to fight you, I will not turn down this opportunity to show you how good I really am with a sword." Rouge replied, I simply nodded in return.