My blade cut through his neck cleanly. Its magical red, hot blade searing the cut closed to keep it from bleeding. I hate blood. Five more warriors leaped at me, but they were too slow and my blade made each of them legless eunuchs before they knew I'd moved. I glanced back at the door and then at the crowd of warriors flowing in to the room.
The amount of people didn't scare me, I'd faced many more in other raids. People had always attempted to get to the door, and just because this time it was Egyptians didn't mean I couldn't take every man in that room with my eyes closed.
So I closed them and jumped. I could smell the steel as a blade nearly took off my nose, and decided that it'd gotten too close.
The wielder never swung again.
I felt their confidence turn to fear as one after another fell with out screaming out. I heard the young ones run when they realized that fighting like a beast while blind wasn't something they could deal with. I didn't follow, my job isn't to kill; it's to protect.
"It's just a girl. Stab her all rea-" Don't scream next to a blind warrior.
When they stopped fighting I stood and sheathed my sword. The room's feeling had changed from a group of desperate men, to something that I had never felt before. Someone new was here.
"Christina." I knew who that was.
"Patrick." Now my confidence wavered. I had to fight to keep my face from showing the growing uneasiness.
"So, you were set as the guardian of the door? The warrior who fights better with her eyes closed?", I heard him laugh. He'd gotten closer with out me realizing it.
"It's much more noble than what you're in charge of. Waste duty, is it?", I felt his annoyance and smiled.
My blade was out to deflect his fist in seconds. I heard the men at the sides gasp as though I'd done something unheard of. Patrick's next attack came from below and connected cleanly with my ribs. I was lifted off the floor and felt the wind as he spun to put a leg in to my side. I flew toward the wall and at the last second was able to right myself by dragging my blade along the ground.
"I need the door Christina. Just stop fighting."
"You stopped your job and now look where you are. You'll have to kill me before I stop." I stood up and picked up my weapon. Patrick attacked again but I was ready. I knocked his fist away with my blade and laughed I heard him cry out as it cut in to his flesh. He was too powerful to lose a limb, but it stalled him enough.
I leaped into the air and introduced his face to my foot. He grunted as he was knocked back on the defensive. I swung at him knowing they'd be blocked by his wrists, but I wanted him to stay on the defensive. When his concentration was only on my blade, I swung my foot forward and connected where no man wants to be hit.
A collective gasp from the male warriors nearly made me laugh, but I kept it in as I looked down at him. I couldn't see him. I was mainly doing it for effect. Nothing more belittling than being looked down upon for real.
"Christina, I urge you to stop. I don't want to kill you. I'm not a bad guy."
"If you are trying to put this door in human hands . . . then you are a bad guy, and I have to stop you."
His feet swung up and I dodged backwards. I felt the blade enter me from behind. A lone soldier had gotten up the nerve to step forward and was in the right place at the right time. The wound was nothing, but it made me too weak to stop Patrick from round-housing me in the face.
"Bring it in! Bring in the urn!" I heard the dragging of stone against stone and opened my eyes to see Patrick kneel next to me.
"I'm not going to kill you Christina, but I need your help. He's coming back and we have to stop him. All the others don't believe it, which is why I'm stuck doing the job I'm doing. I'm going to keep you in that urn until you're needed, and then you will be released. I'm sorry, but it has to be done this way."
I saw the urgency in his face, "Are you sure he's coming back? I can't feel anything at all."
My strength was getting lower as I lost blood, so I didn't bother fighting back as he lifted me up and slipped me in to the jar.
"I'm sure, Christina. If you can't feel him when you come out then you can kill me."
"I look forward to it." My vision faded.
The darkness of the urn and the screams of people outside startled me as I woke up, but what startled me more was the feeling I got.
He was coming, and very soon.
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