Chapter 26

Zedd, Senro and Sasha stepped out of the carriage respectively. Senro dipped his hands deep into his pockets, in order to hide the two sheathed daggers, hidden in both pockets. He felt relieved that he brought daggers with him, instead of a long sword; daggers were a lot easier to hide, whereas a long sword wouldn't have escaped the scrutiny of this two pretend guards. If he had brought a long sword along with him, how would he have been able to explain to this two men, what he was doing with it? What could he have possibly said, that would have alleviated the suspicions of the two men; considering the reason why a teenage boy had such a weapon with him? It would have been a huge tipoff to the two men, that their travelling party wasn't a regular, normal one.

Well, it wasn't like he was even good with handling a long sword, in the first place. Mom was the only one among the three monsters (Mom, Zedd, Sasha), who knew how to handle a weapon. In fact, Mom couldn't just handle a single weapon, she could handle almost all kind of weapons. Daggers, long swords, bow and arrows, Sai, knuckledusters, spears, knifes, you name it. She was literally a weapons expert.

The funny thing was though, Mom never used any weapon to fight, as she also fought bare handed like Zedd and Sasha, but she trained every single one of her warriors in handling the weaponry of their choice and she also trained him, Senro, in handling daggers. She taught him every single technique there was to know about handling a dagger and even taught him how to effectively fight with two daggers simultaneously.

Mom had a deep hate for long swords, though this was the weapon most of her warriors trained with and used in battling bandits. She would always state that "long swords were meant only for cowards and fools, who only knew how to fight, while they keeping their distance from their opponents. The dagger was for real fighters and courageous men, who had the balls and the audacity to challenge their opponents by sticking up close and personal with them. No coward wields a dagger."

When Senro inquired about how she knew so much about weapons, when she herself doesn't even use this weapons in combats, she replied and said that she had to learn to fight with different sort of weapons in battles and wars, when she was a little girl, even before Zedd was born. This reply caught the interest of Senro, but when he sneakily tried to find out from her about the battles or wars she fought in, in the past or why she even had to fight in this battles, despite the fact that she was just a little girl, she just flashed a sad smile at him and ignored his question. Well, at least he got to know a glimpse of the past life of his Mom. Even though that glimpse was as minute, as a mustard seed.

Mom didn't train Sasha in how to handle any weapon. She stated that barehanded, knuckle fighting was the most efficient way for her to fight. Handling or using weapons of any kind would just get in the way of Sasha's combat potential and so learning this, was a complete waste of time for her. She could only unleash her growing, abnormal strength with her bare fists and her leg work.

Although Senro hadn't fully mastered the art of dual dagger handling, but he was very confident, in the single dagger handling skills and techniques, his Mom had painstakingly taught him. He believed that he could go up against any person or any sort of weaponry on his own, with this skills of his. Except for Mom and Zedd, of course. Those two are simply monsters. As for Sasha, well, he could hold his own against her, but truthfully, just barely.

He, however, brought two daggers on this mission, so he could train himself on fully mastering how to simultaneously handle two daggers and perfect the art of dual dagger handling. So, this mission was in a way, a sort of a training ground for him to grow and develop himself to be much stronger.

The trio watched as the two men carefully inspected the passenger's area of the carriage for any illegal materials. As the two men were pretending to be guards, doing their jobs, Senro quietly observed Zedd closely. The fake, sweet smile, which she flashed to the two men, some seconds ago, was no more on her face. What had replaced it was a malicious sneer, so evil, that it would even scare off a demented serial killer. She eyed the two men, with the look a wolf would display, when patiently stalking its marked prey. Senro could tell that she was forcefully keeping herself from attacking and maiming the hell out of this two men. This two men who were fooling nobody, but themselves. Well, they fooled the carriage driver, but the guy was not really important in their cause.

They couldn't attack this two men yet, especially now that the theory of there been an ambush lying in wait for them was becoming more and more precise, due to the actions of this two men. If they attacked this guys and they showed off their prowess, the ambush unit, whom Senro believed, were monitoring and observing the situation outside the gate, might escape and signal to the headquarters; alerting the headquarters to the fact that dangerous elements have entered into the town. Then, all the black moon bandits in the town would be on high alert and raise their guard and awareness, hence increasing the difficulty of the already difficult mission.

They needed to act like regular travelers, whom were unaware of what was going on and when they had passed through the gates, and the ambush unit had stepped out of the shadows, were all gathered together and were underestimating them as simply been, a fragile woman and two young teenagers, whom weren't expected to be able to put up a fight against them, then that was the time to swiftly pounce and finish them off. That way, no one would be able to escape and alert the bandit headquarters of their arrival.

So, Senro and his two female relatives waited and watched, as the two pretend guards, searched in futility, for close to three minutes; two minutes more than the men promised. The trio waited patiently, for the appropriate time they would strike.