Desires

I woke up. There are three enemies in front of me.

I roll quickly to the right. I don't stop until I hit the wall.

I look at them: they're wearing chain mail and leather helmets. I look at my axe: it should be enough to kill one of them.

My enemies look confused, I need to take advantage of this moment to attack.

I launch myself at the nearest enemy, striking him downwards in the head. The axe lodges in the enemy's head, and he falls to the ground. I quickly retreat.

"What the fuck?!" One enemy says.

"How did he move so fast?"

"It wasn't fast. He just didn't doubt."

My enemies are distracted; they are putting my survival in jeopardy. They are dangerous. I need to eliminate them.

They try to corner me. I don't have any weapons remaining; recovering that axe right now is dangerous.

I run in circles unpredictably, zigzagging. I grab anything I can find. Rocks and sticks, I also gather dirt and put it in my pockets.

"As he gone insane?"

"I think it's best if we stand our ground."

They thought they could kill me because I was weak. Ha! I'll show them.

I stop.

What?

"Why did he stop?"

"He must be messing with us."

"He took that punch on purpose?"

They look at Gerber. Gerber is as confused as they are.

Why was I grabbing all this? Oh, is true. I did it to survive. I desired to survive, but that changed. My desire is now... showing them how cool I am?

I look at them, they look back. The situation gets awkward. I stand idly while the stones and sticks are in my hands.

"So, um. Why don't we end the fight here?" Gerber says.

No, I can't end it here. Even if my 'desire' has run out, I need to kill them. I already killed one of them, I can't stop now.

I approach them quickly and throw all that I gathered on their faces, in one go.

They try to dodge, I use that time to run towards the dead bodyguard. They predicted this, so they attacked me.

Slash.

They try to cut my back with a slash. I throw myself forward to the ground, dodging the attack.

I landed as close as I could to the corpse. I grab the sword and turn around. As I expected, one bastard tried to kill me while I was on the ground. I block the attack just barely.

I roll to the side and get up They try to thrust me while I'm getting up, but I dodge the attack, jumping backwards.

I take a fighting stance. Seeing me now on equal terms makes them scared. How pathetic.

I approach the one who is closer to me, I try to thrust him carefully. He dodges, jumping to the side. His chain mail is quite loud.

I try to keep on the defensive, I'll attack the moment I see weakness.

"Hey! Are you guys scared?" I try to taunt them.

"He's getting cocky."

"Should we just leave?"

"There are two of us, we can take him."

"Why are we fighting in the first place?"

"...It doesn't matter, we can't run away because of this pussy."

"This is stupid."

It didn't work, the fight is on a stalemate. If I keep on the defensive they could run away. I need to kill one of them quickly. If there is only one remaining, I could chase him.

I launch myself at one of them, I jump, and make a thrust using all the weight of my body.

I aimed at the torso, he wasn't able to dodge or parry. My thrust hits his guts.

His chain mail didn't protect him, I kept my sword encrusted on his body. I push the bodyguard forward, trying to throw him to the ground.

He doesn't fall, however, I recover the sword and run past him. As I expected, the other bodyguard is now chasing me. He must have tried to kill me while I was focused on the other one, but I managed to leave on time.

His loud steps can be heard if I turn back now or if I stop; he will have a great advantage. I keep running in a straight line towards the wall. When I reach the wall, I use it to give me an impulse and turn around.

Slash.

I give a preventive slash with my bloody sword. It misses, he expected my attack and approached me from my left side. Since I am right-handed, I didn't manage to defend myself on time.

He kicked me on the side, making me gasp. That stunned me a bit, I kneeled quickly and thrust him with my sword.

He stepped forward. Easily avoiding my attack, and swings at me using his entire arm. I fell to the ground.

I turned around while on the ground and thrusted at him in the stomach. My thrust connected.

Even then, he still had the strength to continue his last attack. He aimed at my neck. I grabbed his sword quickly by using my left hand. My left hand got cut, using also my right hand I managed to contain his sword.

Thanks to his injury, his energy ran out swiftly. I kicked him on his right leg repeatedly, I continued even though I missed a couple of hits.

Finally, he fell to the ground. I grabbed his sword and pierced his head with it. Killing him instantly.

Blood dripped from my hands, especially my left hand. I didn't let that distract me. I looked around to try to find the last bodyguard.

He was trying to escape. But he was too injured to run. His guts were visible, and he had a hole in his body.

"I'm not going to let you escape."

"...Please, I...I'm...sorry."

"Do I look like I care? Those injuries are probably mortal already. Stop and let me kill you."

"...Bastard."

He continued his escape, one step at a time. I approached him, walking also. But faster.

When I reached him, I gave him the coup de grâce, with a thrust to the heart.

He dies. After killing him, I threw my sword aside.

Clank.

I take a look around, Gerber is having a debate with himself. It's almost as if he can't decide whether he should run away, or beg for mercy.

The bodyguard's corpses are on the ground of the church, spreading blood around slowly.

I sigh. What should I do now?