The Battle

Rowan grabbed his knife and put it at my neck, "well this is where we battle." He said in a dangerous voice, I punched him in his face, I got up and got my knife out. I looked at Rowan who got up and we both started to tackle each, I kicked Rowan down in the water. He got up and grabbed my shirt and threw me into a tree, I felt a sharp pain in my back, I tried to get up but I fell, Rowan grabbed me and picked me up and threw me into the water, I felt a great pain in my leg, when he came closer I kicked him in his stomach, he clutched his stomach, I quickly got up and punched him, he got his knife and swung it at me, his knife went through my leg, I screamed in pain.

Night already fell and Rowan got his knife out from my leg, he swung his knife, but my hand quickly got a hold of it. I felt blood wet my hands, I felt my hand on the blade. The blade was slicing my hand open, I felt the blade ripping my skin apart. I just felt anger. "Well Jeff, does that pain hurt?" He pressed the knife deeper into my skin, it hurt like hell. I got a grip of the knife, I pressed it deeper into my skin. I grabbed the knife out of his hand, I twisted it out from his grip. The blade was piercing into my skin. I looked at him in the eyes, but his eyes were like playing with fire. He is dangerous, like he's the devil himself.

My body was in pain, I was tired, hungry, and in pain badly. But this was my battle, I had to revenge my father, I flipped the knife around, so now that the handle was in my grasp. The blade of the knife was sharp, the teeth of it was pointed outward. Rowan slowly started to circle me, like a predator would do to its prey, like it's about to lunge any minute now. "If your father was here right now, what do you think he would have said?" I just stared at him with dead cold eyes. How dare he talks about my father like that. The knife was still faced toward him. Rowan suddenly grabbed my arm, he twisted it behind my back. I tried to get out from his grasp, but he was too strong. It started to pour, the cold rain hit my face, and I muttered. "I can't die like this; I have to kill you." Rowan laughed, "this is the way you're going to die."

I kept trying to kick him where his balls where, but then I felt him kick my leg. I fell forward and he was now on top of me, my arm felt sore from where he pinned it. It started to thunder and lightning. The lighting was like fireworks in the night sky. Rowan slugged me a couple time across the face, the pain hurt badly, if I had some alcohol then I wouldn't be able to feel this pain. He leaned down towards my ear. When he whispered it was like Death was coming toward me to finish me off. "Your father was pathetic, and now look at you, you're the one who is pathetic."

After he threw another blow to my face, everything was black. It felt like I was out for days, but I been out for about an hour. I'm surprised that Rowan didn't kill me. I rose from where I was laying. The mud clung to my clothes. I was in pain; every inch of my body is in pain. I was so worried about the pain, that I didn't notice where Rowan was. I looked for Rowan but didn't see him. I heard something behind me, and someone kicked me down, I quickly got out my Karambit and yelled: "Rowan I will kill you!" He laughed and said in a dark voice. "I'm not the one who's going to die this night." He paused for a moment and said softly. "You are going to die this night; I'll slaughter your neck." He laughed darkly, in the distance I could hear the thunder this time, booming like fireworks in the night sky, out of the corner of my eye, I saw Rowan who stood there.

He looked at me for a moment, I could see his blade gleaming in the moonlight, he walked around me, and then he came up behind me and put his knife at my neck. I felt the sharpness of the blade at my neck, when he was about to slide the blade over my neck, but then a lightning bolt hit a tree and I saw the tree, tipping over towards us, Rowan let go of me and started to run, as fast as he could, I ran too. I tried to run fast but my leg really hurts, I got out of the tree's way, when it hit it made a loud noise, I looked back at the tree, which just laid there, the tree was caught on fire. It was burning slowly as it crept up toward the leaves. I looked over my shoulder and saw Rowan. "Well, Jeff now where were we. Ah yes, now I could just end your life here and right now." When he came closer, I quickly kicked him in his leg, he stabbed my good leg, I threw a punch at him. He slipped in the mud and he swore at me.

"I'm going to kill you." He said while spitting blood out.

"I would like to see you try you little thug." He came running towards me and his knife sliced my arm, I clutched my arm and I swore at him. "You're going to pay for that." I grabbed my knife and I faced towards him, I felt blood on my hands, I was hurt, tired, and exhausted from battling for many hours, I was brave but scared at the same time. If this is where I'll battle, in the cold and windy night. Then I'll take it.

I felt my weary body trying to stay up, but I just couldn't no more, finally my body gave out. I thought that I had to kill him, I just can't lay here and die like this, not now. Not ever, Rowan hovered over me with his knife, I struggled to get up, I clutched my knife tightly. I looked at Rowan, what I saw in his eyes, I saw a killer. A killer who wanted me desperately dead, Rowan grabbed my neck and he held me down, he placed the knife right at my neck, it looked like he was about to slaughter a pig's neck, I tried to speak out, but he pressed the knife down harder, I could feel my flesh ripping like a piece of meat getting cut, his smile was dangerous and dark like a storm in the midnight sky. He looked at me for moment and muttered in a dark voice.

"Now that I have you, I could finally kill you, and before I kill you, I have a little secret to tell you, before I end your life, now where should I start-" he paused then laughed darkly. "Now when I was with your father, he did carry me for 4 hours, it's true but when we were alone, I was still on his back, I got my knife out and I sliced his neck because when I saw my dad die, I knew that I should get my revenge on your father, so I did. It was fun watching him die. Slowly suffering in my hands, his blood was spilled onto the ground." He laughed. His laugh was soft but dangerous, he looked at me more closely, and grinned.

When he was about to drag the knife across my neck, I quickly kicked him off me, I got up and saw Rowan who just laid there, I kneeled and said: "I'll kill you, this is your last and final breath." I put my knife at his neck. I pressed it closer and Rowan said in a still dangerous voice but shaky. "You can barely kill me, you're afraid." He laughed, and I could see death in his eyes, he wasn't scared of being killed. "This is for my dad; this is where you die Rowan." I dragged my knife across his neck, he shrieked in pain, I could see his blood on the ground, his blood pours out like a waterfall. Then his lifeless body went still, and his eyes went black like the night sky. Rowan was dead, I got up. I looked up at the night sky and muttered: "I was going to die, I won this battle, I ended it, but now I was going to die, I could see it". I walked for 6 hours, suddenly my body fell, I was tired, hungry, but happy that I ended the battle.

I heard helicopters from the distance, then after a couple of minutes, a helicopter landed right by me, suddenly I saw 2LT. Liam and Captain John, they both yelled at the other people, then I saw a stretcher, two men put me on it, then they put me in a helicopter. 2LT. Liam was sitting by me, he looked at me and said. "You did well out their son, I'm surprised that you didn't get killed." I looked at him and smiled, but then my eyes got heavy. I tried to keep them open, but my body was tired. Soon my body began to rest, and I fell into a dark deep sleep. There was another battle coming, so I'll fight for my father and my people.