Guilty Escape

Wu and Guilt

I gave one last battle cry as I slid Frost Bite and Guilty Blade through two separate monsters. They gave horrendous roars as they fell to the ground and melted into the same old tar substance. I gave heavy, exhausted breaths, and dragged my swords as I ran forward.

Two days I had been fighting monsters and gaining new parts of Guilt's Castle. I had a dangerous cut on my left ankle and on my right shoulder, and had been deprived of sleep. But I couldn't rest. Not now.

I heard a fierce roar behind me and back flipped just in time to avoid being crushed by a humongous dragon claw. I ran up the scaly leg to the Death Dragon's chest, stabbing both my swords into its heart and racking down its chest. It roared and chomped at me. Death Dragons were taller than twenty men and slightly wider than a bus. They had five hearts.

I gasped as one of the dragon's teeth hooked on my overcoat, and it tossed me across the room. I flipped and jumped from the wall to avoid being crushed but the dragons tail. It roared as I climbed up it's back by digging my swords into its flesh. I eventually reached its head and jumped, putting my full weight on my swords as they drug into the pure black eye.

The dragon tried to shake me off, and succeeded as it shot me near a door. The dragon snarled at me, baring its blue venomous fangs. They were similar to the Devourers teeth, and could turn you evil. The only difference was, was that it would take immediate effect and would only take seconds to turn you evil.

I gasped for air and looked around, my swords held tightly in my hands. I stood and ran to the door, slamming it shut behind me.

I leaned on it, taking heavy breaths, sweat dripping from my face. I drug my swords into the ground and leaned on them.

So… tired… and… and…

I looked up as I heard an evil laugh. A dark figure stepped down a spiral staircase across the large ballroom ahead of me. I snarled and tried to dig out my swords, but I was too tired.

"Guilt! What have you done with my parents and Milla!?"

Guilt laughed and continued to walk towards me. He eventually stood directly in front of me, a smirk on his face. His smirk grew as he lightly touched my chin, lifting my head up.

It felt like his finger was a white-hot piece of iron. I bit my lip and held my scream as I looked into his blood red eyes. I snarled and tore my swords from the ground, swinging my swords so he couldn't evade. I gasped as I saw the swords pass right through him. I snarled and continued to slash through him, earning a loud laughed from him. I fell to my knees from exhaustion and stared at him with lazy eyes.

"Why can't I…? Have I not discovered my swords potential yet…?" I whispered to myself.

"Oh? You mean these toys?" Guilt said with a sneer as he stared at my swords. He laughed and picked them up, swinging them in front of him, inches over my head. "Heh, I have seen infants with better weapons than these letter openers."

He twirled to swords until their blades were above me, pointing to the ground. I stared at them. My own swords, ready to impale me and end my life.

"Wu! Come and finish this garbage for me." Guilt said with a sneer.

I looked up to see an old man walking towards us. He had a long beard and wore a black ninja uniform.

I had heard of Wu. He was the Ninja's Sensei. Zane's and Lloyd's. Unfortunately that's all mom told me… but Julien said he killed my father.

Wu stepped where Guilt was as the evil entity handed him the blades. He stared into my eyes with youthful, yet terrified golden ones. I closed my eyes, accepting my fate. I placed a hand around the necklace that my parents had gotten me on the day that they were taken.

"Just… just do it…" I whispered. I heard Guilt laugh as I heard Wu raise the swords.

Wu sighed and stared at me again. He mouthed a simple sorry before closing his eyes. The next thing I saw was a bright light.

Then, nothing but pure blackness.