Chapter 8 : The Assassins On The Road 2

One stood in front of Kutote with a sword through his chest, another held a blade to his neck.

" No!" Itekan gasped.

Itoyea reached there in time to see the stab too.

"No!" He gasped, he shot through the clearing, his sword swift, cut through as he sliced the back of the assassin in front of Kutote.

The sword seemed to move through air, as the image of the assassin faded from sight.

Itoyea gasped, an after image.

As he turned he was struck and was sent flying backwards.

" Boss, we got an extra" the one Itoyea attacked said.

" Do what you want, make sure the target is down"

Their boss said from behind.

Itoyea stood in front of Kutote his sword in his hand.

The assassin in front of him, noticed this and laughed.

" A mere trainee like you-" he started advancing, his guard down.

" Way of the wind; 1st form, Lonely wind!" Itoyea said as he swung his sword, a sharp gush was invoked, and tore through the shoulder of the assassin, who was flung backwards.

Kutote was shocked and it showed on his face.

" No! Dodge!" Kutote said to Itoyea as a sword appeared from the darkness behind him

Just as it was about to hit, it was parried by a darkness, that took the form of man.

Itekan had joined the fray.

He parried the downward slash, in his hands were a pair of dark daggers, with red runes on the blade.

Itekan a few seconds ago had felt something moving in the shadows behind Kutote, immediately as he rushed at it, the two daggers had materialized in his hands, then he parried.

He landed in the middle with the other two, but they could not see him.

" Mini Chajama!!" Itekan said, two balls of dark fire formed above him, he sent it, to the assassin, who were hidden from the sights of Itoyea and Kutote.

The two assassin lit up in flames, revealing them to Itoyea and Kutote, who were livid, because the assassin were surprisingly very near.

Infact if Itekan had not intervened they knew they would probably had died.

" Who's there?" Kutote asked, Itoyea rose his sword, ready.

" It's, me Itekan" he replied, as he revealed his face to them.

A few meters back the two men who were watching the attack scoffed.

" They really lost to mere stage 1 trainees" he said, he looked at the other, " let me go"

The man nodded and the man who spoke jumped down, fading into the night.

Meanwhile, Itekan stood with Kutote and Itoyea, there was one more assassin nearby.

As he shot forward, itekan went too, fading into the dark, he rushed in towards the assassin, who parried, Itekan's advance, with one hand, with his second hand he flung, two shurikeins the two.

The shurikeins curved around, each moving around them.

Itoyea rushed forward and blocked the one headed his way, then in the same moment he appeared in front of Kutote defending him from the attack.

Then it exploded.

Right in his face, Itoyea yelled as he fell back, his face was a deep mess, blood splattered everywhere.

Itekan on the other hand had just sliced through the assassin, who could not locate itekan.

It was like the aying about the big fish that lived in a lake but wanted to go to the deeper Seas. His stealth was nothing before itekan, who saw he as bright as day.

Itekan turn to check on the other, then he heard a crackling laugh that made him shudder.

Itekan turned to see a large man, walk towards him, Itekan knew he couldn't see him, so he wondered why it felt as if his very soul was being searched.

Itekan leaped back immediately, standing in front of the man.

" Good, gather together, make it easier for me!" The man said, itekan froze, he literally couldn't move, he looked at his feets.

Beneath them were chains which wrapped around his legs tying them down.

Yes, his legs.

They had turned back to normal, itekan saw it was the same for itoyea whose hands were chained.

" Good !, Green Veins!" He said, his hands forming hand signs, a single whip formed, made from the trees in the area, it stretched back, arching out.

Then, Bang.

It swung towards the three who remained frozen.

Boom!!!

The impact was massive, a large sonic boom ensued, itekan held his hands to his ears as blood gushed out.

Itoyea rolled on the floor violently, his mind had been affected badly by the blast, in his struggle to get free, he unknowingly dislocated his arms from their socket.

Kutote felt it worst, he was already just surviving on a thin line, but the moment the sonic boom had occurred, he had gone unconscious, as he vomited out blood, and his insides.

" Are you kids alright!" A voice said, his hand had blocked the impact of the green whip.

Itekan could barely see thee face in front of him, they were blurred out, his ears were ringing terribly, then he fell, he couldn't stand, his sense of balance had been sorely disoriented.

The sounds of a battle were the last thing he heard as he fell unconscious.