Biter rules

"Are you ready?"

"..."

"Maxie!"

"Just give me a minute~ stretching after all!"

"I'm starting to regret agreeing to this,"

"Because you know you're gonna lose? Hah! Take heart brother, not everyone can be as superior as me!"

".... so what do I get when I put you in your place?"

"The honour of being the better runner?"

"..."

"Fine, fine..... how about loser sacrifices their morning rations? that's fair right!"

"..... that's too boring..... WHEN I win, you have to come with me to train Peters, He might be too brash but his ideas do make.... some semblance of sense, either way I still need an extra hand in culling the beasts in the forest near the town,"

"Isn't your training on Thursday? I have a date with Nikki that day! there's no way that'll work!"

Nikki.... Dorian's little couz..... Peach blonde, Grey eyed wild little thing..... the girl is a genius healer, she might become the next Crescent Saint after brother Jon.... too bad the girl is a slave to her desires, I can see why someone like Maxie might interest her.

"That's my condition or no deal!" I shouted.

"Bu-"

"No deal!"

"Fine! Fine..... let's just start already.... remember Biter rules bitch! Ready? Go!"

The bastard dashes away from the temple steps instantly..... I watch him run down the corner before dissapearing into the alleyway, covered in his dark mist, the bastard isn't even pretending to play fair! Biters rules huh? Guess I'll play him at his own game then!

"Ekaterina!"

"Yes, my lord?"

"Can you do that now?"

"The 'shadow chase' my lord?"

"Yes do it now!"

"At once! Target: Maxie Freemason! "

She activates her new power, the shadow chase, it allows one to be pulled by the shadow of the selected target, in this case it's Maxie, the faster his shadow moves to stronger Ekaterina will be pulled towards it! With me riding on her back!

"Hmm~" I start humming a tune as we casually drift towards Maxie, wow... the sly bastard is really going at it, huh? I knew we'll get to him, but this... this Is to easy, I can already his back, he's heading right towards the city brothels.... though no one visits there anymore for obvious reasons. The trickster begins to scale the building to get across, the east gate isn't far from here now.

"Almost there~ just a hop, skip and-"

"Jump away," I finish his words, "Hey! Hey! that's cheating! don't you have some semblance of honour!?" He complained.

"Biter Rules, that's what you said right?" I replied while grinning, "Just because I cheat doesn't mean you should too!"

"!"

"Yes that's-"

"Fool! Duck now!" I shout but it's too late, a Rouge entity slams into Maxie, sending him straight through the roof of the brothel, "Maxie!" I cried.

KREEEEEEEE

I look up to see the entity hovering over me, it had reptilian eyes and a bird like body, it had bright red and green feathers, dangerously bright! almost like a warning! The creature glared at me with hungry eyes.

"A Basilisk!? here!?" I said incredulously.