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Chapter Twenty Eight: A Golden Defeat •EDITED•

Now or never. . .

The two men charged at each other.

Corey narrowed his eyes at Gideon and just when his axe had slammed down to hit him, the minister struck the weapon just below the blade and sent flying it into the air. The action shook the vice minister's left arm and stunned him for a second.

Seizing the opportunity and not giving the general time to retaliate, Corey slammed his knuckles into the man's throat, the force sending him into the floor.

At the same time the minister was kicked away by Gideon.

The points rolled and finally settled at 6-3; the clock lost one more second and the time had run to five minutes.

Corey stared at the screen then at the staggering General. He needed a knockout to win. He needed to win.

Things had gotten serious.

He couldn't afford to lose, the consequences were obvious by now. Any slipup and Gideon could easily petition to replace him as minister.

As the Corey thought the scenario through he suddenly noticed the pain in his right arm, a slow burning ache that tore at his flesh. His vision blurred slightly as he looked down at the blood dripping from his hand. He hadn't noticed the blood until it came as steady drops down his white gloves.

He tried to ignored the symbol that was being formed on the back of his palm, the images that danced around his eyes made him look away. He forced himself to forget about his past and when he looked up the gleaming blade of the Bloodless was already at his neck.

Corey watched everything slowly and oddly enough the first thing that worried him was the glint of the stage lights off the axe, his reflection. His eyes were no longer a stormy blue but a startling shade of metallic yellow. The color was not from the axe, that much he was sure of.

Golden eyes.

Braek. . . Like a reflexive response, blue instinctively crackled along his fingers. The danger had finally arrived and he could see it in Gideon's eyes as they went wide with shock. A volt of visible current snaked over his blade and wormed into his forehead.

At that crucial moment the lights in the arena were turned off-a mental order Corey had given Kathryn seconds before-and just like that the fight was over. Corey had won by knockout-confirmed by the announcement on the screen above him-and the General laid paralyzed at his feet.

The lights flickered back on some short moments later but the deed had already been done, before anyone could stop him, Corey rushed out of the arena.

I should have waited for her. He hoped no one would realize that he had almost killed the ancient vice minister. . .

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I'm lame at fight scenes, but hurray for Corey! He won!
Of course, Gideon is not really okay right now and if he dies we can just say that he has lived a rich long life.

Who expected that? To the people who thought I would be mean and make Corey lose. . . He is a ******* badass. Mind my language.

Golden eyes. Everyone should have them. Edythe and Corey are so lucky, they are really rocking this blue to gold transition.

Now, time for questions. It has be brought to my attention by jjeweled-who writes much better fight scenes by the way-that I should include recaps for chapters with characters that have been spaced so far apart (like Corey's last scene in chapter 9 and this one.) Should I?

I'm really itching to write way-cooler-that-what-really-happened summaries, so give me your verdict. Also, check out The Celestial by jjeweled when you have the time, it's a great story!

Question of the chapter

Will Gideon live to see 200? Haha.