William Rose: The First Adventure

A Confrontation With The Confederation (Part 2)

I stood in the dark room, with the ten shadows glaring at my like knives through my chest.

I glared back, of course, but still.

They all looked at me.

Everyone was.

Huh, reminds me of when I'm on stage and it's my line.

But if feels like i'm forgetting my line or something like that.

Whatever.

I looked towards the ten shadows, and saw only three things:

Darkness, Power, and Fear.

I asked the ten shadows, "So, what now? You going to attack me?"

One responded in the form of rushing at me, mind you, he came at me in about 0.3 seconds.

So let's just say he surprised me when he came at me.

Maybe a bit TOO surprised.

I saw the hooded figure coming after me, kunai in hand, and a mask that looked like a yin-yang based mask, but the yin side as the main focus of it, with a mini yang side on it on their forehead region.

They swiped at me with their kunai, but I dodged just in time.

Maybe it's best that I don't reveal my secret weapon just yet.

They swiped at me once more, and I dodged, just like before.

I then decided to throw a punch with my left hand, rather than right. (Because of the metallic right arm and all.)

They then pulled a sword out of nowhere, and I decided to kick their arm, grab the sword, and slash their arm, but before I could do that....

They pulled a kunai out of their coat, too.

These damn Japanese ninja-wannabes. 

They're good at imitation, I'll give them that.

But, I guess imitation is the sincerest feeling of flattery.

Whatever.

I continued to engage them in this confrontation of force, until I realized:

I could just let go, swipe up, and cut their arm off.

Damn Anishiki, giving me tips.

Well, I guess I do owe him for that much, at least. 

So that's what I proceeded to do.

After I took down the fake Anishiki, I proceeded to go after another member.

Luckily, I didn't have to.

They already sent two more.

Both of them threw a punch at me, and I crouched down, leg swiped them, and then kicked both of them into their separate walls on my left and right.

The big man told me, "You know kid, your moves remind me of someone who used to be in the Confederacy."

"Oh yeah, who?", I asked him, whilst punching one guy.

Wait.

Where was the other on-!

I was stabbed in the back by a kunai, by the other dude.

"You know, it's a shame."

"I think you two were related.", another member of The confederacy continued.

The man behind me sounded really familiar.

"His last name was Rose, just like yours."

Dad?!

No, it couldn't be.

The big man told me, "You two even looked the same. Sounded the same, too."

That just... That doesn't make sense!

I then had visual memories of my father, ones that I thought were once good, all bad.

I punched the person behind me.

"DON'T YOU DARE TALK BAD ABOUT MY FATHER, EVER AGIAIN!", I yelled.

I felt a hand hit me straight into the floor.

I had already lost a lot of blood with this damn Kunai in my stomach....

If I could just pull it out....

I then, once again, fell into darkness.

I was almost used to it.

Almost.

Something about this time felt different, though.

I don't know what it was, though.

I just know something about it was different.