Chapter 43 - The duel! (2/2)

”Well I fought Gary and lost in under a minute, I honestly don't think Monk stands a chance.”

Everyone's attention now went to the two people standing inside the square. Kyle was being a type of ref for the two of them.

The two had their weapons ready in hand facing off to each other. Kyle stood in the middle with his hand in the air.

”3..2...1...Fight.”

Kyle's hand went down to signal the start of the fight, he quickly went back into the crowd. Monk started as the aggressor striking Gary as soon as possible. The crowd was impressed Monk was moving and attacking from all different angles. Left, right, below above. The impressive thing was how quickly he would move from one stance to the next.

It was amazing as Monk was using his small body frame to his advantage. People in the crowd were shocked at would they were seeing but what was as equally impressive was Gary, who was managing to block nearly every single one of the attacks.

”Phew, Monk had me worried there for a second,” Dan said.

Monk was relentless with his attacks but he was soon running out of stamina and energy unable to keep up the pace. Gary saw this and used the opportunity to strike back.

When Gary went to strike back at Monk, Monk seemed to switch gear with his footwork. His feet were now nearly moving similar to Sir K on the knight test exam. Gary was finding it hard to keep track of Monks movements. Every time Gary would strike were Monk was, he would have moved before his weapon reached his target.

”Go Monk! Don't give up!” Martha shouted.

The fight continued to go back and forth between the two of them for a good ten minutes.

”It looks like this match could go on for a while,” Slyvia said.

”No it will end soon, our techniques are used for an assassination. Our whole aim is to defeat our opponents quickly. Monk knew this, that's why he's been trying so hard this whole time. The second it went over the ten-minute mark Monk lost this battle, unless...”

Although I said this to the group, there was still a chance for Monk to win the fight. The fact was that Gary had been underestimating his opponent this whole fight. Gary hadn't been using his full strength this whole fight. He had been playing along with Monk making him go past the ten-minute mark.

Monk was now visibly sweating buckets of sweat, whereas Gary barely had any on him.

”Ready to give up?” Gary said.

Monk didn't say anything and tried to control his breathing. Gary had gotten frustrated at this point and finally used a full-strength attack against Monk. Monk lifted his blade to block the attack. The attack was so powerful from Gary that the wooden sword had snapped into pieces.

”It's over,”

Just then, Monk grabbed one of the broken parts of the wooden sword and held it in his hand like a dagger. He moved the dagger with full strength aiming right for Gary's neck.

The wood splinter had made the weapon sharp. It was no longer the blunt piece of wood that we used for training but a real weapon now. When the wooden dagger was just about to reach the Garys neck. A hand came out and Grabbed the blade stopping it inches away from Gary's neck.

It was my hand.