12 The Bone Scythes Appear (2/2)
”Look, do you want to humiliate me when I'm down on my luck? Just let me go home and change, my wife will be looking for me.” Lineir hoped the casual mention of a wife would help make him appear older. Mei, despite the situation was still laughing endlessly,
”My, my, don't get caught for underage drinking! That would be terrible, your family will be so ashamed!” She stopped laughing however when suddenly the guard whipped out his sword from it's sheath and leveled it at Lineir's throat.
”No, I don't think you're quite old enough to have a wife yet. As a matter of fact, you look remarkably similar to another youth I saw a few days ago. Somebody who brought the dead hammering on the city gates and caused quite a bit of trouble. There's even a reward out for this person. You wouldn't happen to have come from the deadzone would you?”
With that, he took a slow step closer. Lineir's heart began to beat even faster, each thump feeling like it would hammer out of his chest. He had never had this sort of feeling before the events of last night. In the past he had always kept his cool but right now he couldn't seem to control himself.
”Master, you're controlling this undead heart of mine right? Could you slow it down a little? I'm getting a little shaky here, it's kind of hard to lie like this.” Mei however was stumped.
”It's not me kiddo, this heart is acting up to your fear. I can't slow it down without stopping it, and you don't want that. You'll just have to bear it. Hold strong and find a way out or let me take over like you should have from the beginning, you're still too soft, at your age I killed without hesitation.”
Badump, Badump, BADA, BADA, BADA, BADA
His heart was completely out of control. As the guard reached him, his sword a few feet from Lineir's throat Lineir turned and faced him. ”Pull your pants from your face kid. If you're innocent, you can be on your way after I get a good look. What the hell is that crap on you anyway, it almost looks like... blood...” The pants slipped off of Lineir's face then and the guard's eyes widened as his sword came ever closer.
BADA, BADA, BADA, BADUMP, BADUMP
Heart going crazy Lineir shouted,
”Mei-Mei, don't kill them!”
At that moment however, something strange happened. As the guard's sword came to his throat, Lineir's eyes followed the wicked steel's arcing path, the world seeming to slow down. He leaned backwards, and the sword passed over his head by inches, yet at the crawling speed the sword was moving in Lineir's eyes, those inches might as well have been miles. A huge wrenching pain came from his chest, and then his arms felt like they were being ripped out of their sockets. an enormous curving sickle of bone shot out from his right elbow, following his forearm before ending a good six inches past his fingertips. His hands outstretched and waving in the wind from dodging the guard's attack, the bony attachment immediately sliced through the guard's throat. At that moment, another guard behind yelled out in astonishment and rushed at Lineir. To him, this guard might as well have been walking. As the guard's sword came towards him, a second bone sickle erupted from his left elbow and his arm outstretched automatically towards the rapidly approaching man's chest so that the guard impaled himself on the sickle, face twisted in shock.
”You... you....!”
Lineir, speechless, immediately ran off into the city terrified of what had just occurred.
”Master! I told you not to kill them!” Mei said slowly,
”Foolish kid, I was going to... but you killed them before I could do anything...”