User blog:Wolf985/A Tale of Two Rogues Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Crash! The two blades slammed against each other as Nathaniel charged the hare. His eyes had become a deep blood red. Bloodwrath red. Dagwood easily blocked the next attack, forcing Nathaniel towards the wallsteps which led to the belltower. The Major kept blocking and dodging the sea otter captain's blows and kept pushing him towards the steps. Nathaniel tripped backwards on the bottom step and landed on his back. Dagwood saw his oppertunity to strike and sliced Nathaniel's shoulder. He yelped in pain and quickly got up before the hare could take advantage of him again. Dagwood hadn't expected him to recover so fast and was surprised when the sea otter took off his ear with one swing of his cutlass.Dripping blood, Nathaniel ran up the wallsteps out of the hare's reach. Dagwood followed him. The captain ran into the belltower and after he was inside realized what a stupid mistake he had made. There was only one way out and Dagwood was blocking it. The hare was a fearsome sight with only one ear and the stub of the other and with dark crimsion blood running down his face. Nathaniel leaned against the stone wall and placed the paw that was still holding his cutlass over his shoulder to try and staunch the bleeding. His eyes were still red but were slowly fading back to brow as the pain of his wound overtook him. Dagwood took advantage of this and charged Nathaniel. He quickly blocked the attack, but he was also disarmed as his cutlass slipped from his paw which was slick with his own blood. The Major's rapier was suddenly at his throat. "Is that all you've got? I was expecting more from a captain." Dagwood said.

He pushed Nathaniel towards the window, but the sea otter caught himself on the window ledge before he fell out of the tower. The hare swung at him again and managed to cut a line across Nathaniel's cheek. Sticky hot blood ran down his face and dripped onto the cold stone floor of the tower. Dagwood lifted Nathaniel by his shirtfront. "You sicken me sea otter."

nathaniel spat in the hares face. "Good." He replied hoarsly as he pulled the revolver out of his waist sash and aimed the barrel of the gun at where the hares heart would be.

At that same instant Dagwood pushed him out the window.

Everything around the sea otter seemed to happen in slow motion. He felt suspended in the air as his claw culed around the trigger of the revolver. It seemed like an eternity as he pulled it back. Crack! At the sound of the gunfire everything returned to it's normal speed and now the sea otter captain was falling towards the pond below him. He had to fight to stay falling backfirst towards the water. Splash!

Nathaniel sank down in the pond and hit his head on a rock. In seconds everything in his vision went black.