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“Rise and shine. It’s time to dine.”

Rythian snapped out of his deep sleep and awoke with a jolt. His vision blurred and spun the world around him. There was a white shape sitting on a log in front of him. The smug grin spiralled and swirled in his mind. He looked up above at the orange, ashy sky.

“Smoke…Fire…” Rythian muttered. He tried to stand and managed to balance himself for a moment before dropping to his knees. He dry heaved on the ground. He spotted a thick purple substance on the ground as well as his arm.

“W-What the h-hell happened?”

“Just took some of your blood like you promised I could have.” Rythian looked up at the figure in white.

“How the h*ll did you find me?”

“Player tracker. Usually admins have them, but I picked mine up off of Xephos’s body.” Lalnable giggled slightly.

“Did you know that our blood is surprisingly sweet? I expected it to be bitter.” Lalnable licked the blood off his teeth. Rythian touched his arm and hissed at the sting.

“Y-You bit me!? Cut me!? What the f*ck!?”

”At least this explains why we can’t see for crap.” The voice in Rythian’s head screamed. It echoed loud and made his head pound. He pressed both hands to his forehead.

“I wanted to wait for you to wake up before I killed you. I’m looking forward to seeing you writhe in agony.” Lalnable stood up. Rythian stumbled to his feet and leaned against a free for support.

“Oh I also got these for you.” Lalnable tossed Rythian a stack of clothes, which he caught and threw into his inventory.

”You can’t fight like this he’s drained almost all your blood from you.” Rythian’s body twitched and fidgeted; parts of him blurred and became static.

“C-can’t teleport. D-d*mn it!” Rythian grabbed his head.

”Cause you can’t focus and you have no energy left.”

“That’s a good thing you can’t.” Lalnable sticking his blood stained tongue out. ”it wouldn’t be much of a fight if you just kept running away.”

“I-It’s not gonna be m-much of a fight i-if I can’t fight at all.”

“You will it’s natural human instinct.”

”Come on…” Rythian gasped and fell to his knees again. A force was pounding on his forehead now. His body felt like lead sinking in water.

”You know I can do this.” Rythian’s body glowed a dark purple.

“S-stop it y-you’ll kill everything.”

”And who can stop me? You’re too weak to keep me caged anymore.” Rythian looked up when he heard shuffling in the grass. Lalnable was running at him now. Lalnable stopped a foot away from him, pivoted and kicked his foot into the side of his head. Rythian flew back, his body hitting a nearby tree. Rythian slouched against the tree and stared up at where his attacker was standing.

“Look, I’m not trying to hurt you. I just want to get home to Zoey and Teep.” Rythian mummbled. Lalnable chuckled slightly.

“You’re the sole surviver of my murder spree do you really think that I will let you walk free?” Rythian nodded his head to the side.

“T-to be honest, I should have seen that coming.” Rythian stood slowly and cracked the vertabrae in his back. “So now let me guess. You’re going to want kill me so I can’t warn other people that you’re free?”

“Yes that’s pretty much it. People might see the destroyed and crumbled buildings, but let the nuclear waste spill a little bit and people will learn to stay away one way or another.”
Lalnable was inches from him now and slugged him in the jaw. Rythian’s head snapped to the side. He snarled at Lalnable. He threw a punch that landed in Lalnable’s open palm. Lalnable grabbed it and pulled him forward to punch him. Rythian pulled back and placed a swift kick to Lalnable’s side. Lalnable gasped as the wind was knocked out of him. Rythian punched him twice in his jaw and then again on his temple. Lalnable stumbled back and shook his head clear. Rythian went to kick him in the side again but Lalnable caught his leg and punched him three times on the side of his knee. Rythian ignored the sudden pain and pivoted to punch him. Lalnable responded by pulling his arm out and dislocating his shoulder. Rythian screeched and pulled back away from him.

“Don’t worry I only dislocated it along with your knee cap.” Lalnable equipped his cleaver now and stabbed at Rythian who barely ducked away quick enough. The knife embedded itself into the tree next to Rythian’s head. Rythian stumbled away and leaned up against the tree for support.

“I’m tired of this sh*t. Do whatever the h*ll you want.” Rythian snapped and let go of what little energy he had left. Lalnable ran at him scraping his knives against the tree’s as he did so. Rythian held an arm up to defend himself when Lalnable swung down on him, hard enough to decapitate someone’s head off.

“CLINK.” Lalnable’s teeth chattered when the force of his hit crawled up his spine and bounce him back from Rythian. Lalnable looked at Rythian and found his arm completely intact except for a tiny cut on his forearm.

“Ahh… Thanks for making him snap.” Rythian removed his hand from in front of his face revealing his completely purple eyes. “I was really iching for a fight.” There was a thin cloud of smoke that covered the area and when it cleared Rythian stood with his arms crossed back in his old clothes. He sneered at Lalnable and snapped his hand down, igniting it into a burst of purple flames. The sudden burst of heat burned the wrappings on his arm to burn up, revealing the trail of scars leading up to his elbow.

“You’re welcome. I wouldn’t want the chance to miss such a good fight. No matter how powerful you think you are you still are weak due to the blood loss but this seems fair enough now.” Lalnable grinned.

“I’m still way stronger than you.” Rythian flashed a short smile. Lalnable turned and flicked his wrist at him. Rythian stuck his hand up and caught the throwing knife next to his head. “And by the way you’re a horrible shot.”

“Am I?” Rythian felt his mask slipped off his face and onto his neck, He examined it, spotting the small slit on the side. Several other small and sharp cuts appeared around Rythian’s face. He turned and looked at the many throwing knives pinned into the tree behind him. Rythian growled, narrowed his eyes, and bared his sharp teeth. Lalnable took a step back, when he saw how angry Rythian was.