Fate Of The Twelve (Completed)

Chapter 8: Collapse

          "Here, try it out." He said and tossed the two unsheathed swords at me which I surprisingly caught perfectly.

          Looking at the two swords in my hand, the feeling of them in my hands felt familiar and nostalgia washed over me as I looked at the blade of one of the swords and saw my reflection on it. My head throbbed again at the feeling.

          "Let's try you out." Leirum said and attacked me with his sword without warning. Before he could cut off my head, I blocked it with the swords crossed together due to reflexes.

             I pushed him off and charged, trying to control the battle but he wouldn't even let me.

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         We just watched from the side as the two fought, and we can't help but be surprised at how swift and fast Muriel moved. She wasn't anything like Yesterday at all and it didn't look like she practiced just a few days with the sword.

          "Are you really sure she never held blades or any weapons before?" I asked Kevin as the others continued on watching the two fight. They were absorbed by the sudden change and I wasn't an exception.

          "No. She never did. All she did was play games on the computer." Kevin said and the others 'huh?' ed at this. He wasn't looking surprised though, which reminded me about something.

          "What are computers? Is it one of the humans invented?" Ryouta asked as he reached for some biscuits from his jacket to reach. This guy. Doesn't he get full? He always keeps eating, almost every minute, he's hungry. I'm surprised he ain't bloated and fat at all.

         "Yeah." Kevin uncaringly said as he continued her sister fight with the first ranker.

          "She's getting better and better in the short period of time they trained. Leirum may really be a monster after all, and Muriel might just be able to defeat Lydia with this kind of pace they're going." Leo thoughtfully said.

         "Talking about that, you were actually good with the spear,Kevin. Are you sure you never handled a weapon before? Because basing on your performance yesterday at our training, you were pretty familiar with how it's used and you even managed to pull up a few tricks and techniques." I said and gave him an inquiring look.

         It was the truth. He was good with that weapon. Also, he was learning fast and he didn't seem to have a hard time carrying and slashing a metal spear all about like it's weight didn't affect him at all. It was intruguing, how someone carried a weapon with familiarity when one didn't handle even a weapon before.

         
        "I don't know. I'm confused myself. But it felt like I've been playing other weapons but especially spear for a long time, Even if I haven't. It's strange." He admitted and I saw a far away look on him.

           "Whoa!" Alfreed and Antoinette blurted out and I looked back to where the two were. With a slight smirk as the others disbelievingly stared.

          Muriel had the end of one of her swords pointed at Leirum's neck but Leirum also had his, pointed on the girl's neck.

         "I-Is it a draw?" Harumi sputtered while staring, her mouth hung open in shock.

          "Leirum will never loose." I said confidently and as soon as the words left my mouth, the upper half of Muriel's swords were cut off, some of her shreaded at certain parts but Leirum was a monster. Good enough to cut cloth with jerky movements but with caution as not to cut the girl.