Bandits in the Bar

[oblivion]

Since Xerby returned home two days ago he has been partying with his friends, this is because they are celebrating on him joining the marines. He also has been to his former dojo were he has taught the young kids about what it takes to be a very good swordsmen and about accomplishing there goals. In addition, he even taught the class for one day showing the kids new moves and stuff. He also gave advice to his teacher on how the teachings in the class could change so that the kids training at the dojo can become even better swordsmen.

While walking on to a bar in the main land of the island, he notices that there is a ship parked at the port of the island. However, he ignores it and continues walking to the bar where he will eat and drink sake until he is completely full. Even though he is considered some kind of famous person in this island because he is a marine from here, he still has to pay for his food and other things, this is unfortunate for him.

By the time that he gets to bar he sees that their has been some changes made to the island's main part. He has not come by this part of the island for over a year which is why he sees so many changes. One new thing that he noticed is that their are some old buildings that are now improved and have been remodeled. Another thing is that one of the places has been named after him, though this does not belong to anybody in his family. One more thing is that now there is a new shopping place for clothes and shoes.

When he opens the door to the bar he can tell that he was wrong. There is another change which is the inside of the bar. Now it looks much better and it is newer, also it looks even more clean and does not smell bad anymore. The roof is now in better condition, the chairs are not creaking anymore, the tables are not always clean, there is actually lights on the ceiling, and the employees do not act like @$$^*!#.

While drinking and eating in the bar he hears some people talking over at some table. What he overheard is them talking about taking or stealing something, though he is not sure what they are saying. However, he will keep an eye on them and will try to listen to their conversation.

The next thing that he notices is that the group of guys got up and took out there guns. They demanded to get all of the beli that the bar has. Once he sees this Xerby get up from his chair and takes out both of his katanas. He walks closer to them and is about 10 feet away from them. He then tells them, "I am a marine soldier and I will not allow for you bandits to escape from here after what you have just finished saying." After saying these words Xerby targets one of the bandits and does his Spinning Slasher attack. Xerby runs at his opponent and then spins either right or left. If he spins to the right he uses the bottom of his katana's hilt on his left hand to hit his opponent on the left of his shoulder, he then hits his opponent across the face the right hilt of his katana. Afterwards, he uses his left katana to do a slash straight down the body. It is vice versa if he spins left.

[deciduous]

The bandit was hit on his shoulder, as well as his face, with Xerby's Spinning Slasher attack, but he swiftly stepped back to avoid being slashed right down the middle of his stomach. He was still knocked down on his behind however. Four of the remaining bandits formed a circle around Xerby and began raising their guns. But, before they could fully aim their sights at Xerby, the bandit who was on the ground, signaled them with a hand gesture, to lower their weapons. He was apparently their leader.

The head bandit, stood up slowly from the ground, he had his right palm over his head, and was letting out a drawn out groan on his way up. When he was finally back up on his own two feet, he looked at Xerby and said: "I know you, your that new marine everyones been talking about lately, well us lowly bandits surely couldn't mess with the likes of you, what say you, I return everyone their stolen berri, and you let us off with a warning eh?" The bandit then bowed down in a sarcastic fashion, and with a large grin, which Xerby couldn't see from his angle. He waited a second or two, in which Xerby had seemed to slightly lower his guard, due to what seemed to be an apparent surrender by the bandits.

But it was anything but a surrender, as soon as Xerby lowered his swords, the bandit arose quickly and raised his hand, the 4 other bandits also quickly raised their weapons and they all shot a bullet, aiming for different parts of Xerby's torso! It was just a planned ambush from the start!

[oblivion]

Xerby did not know that the bandit's had no intention of surrendering, so he lowered both of his swords. He is a rookie so that is why he made such a novice mistake. Since he lowered his swords the five bandits aimed toward his stomach and pulled the triggers of there guns.

Even though Xerby gets fooled by the bandits, he is able to notice at the last second that it is a trap. He is able to drop to the floor, he did land on his back so it hurt him a little bit. However, this is not the most pain that Xerby felt, this is because as he dropped to the floor he got hit by one bullet and another one scrapped him. The bullet that hit him went through his left forearm. The bullet that scrapped him, injured his right shoulder. Falling on his back and getting shoot twice, caused Xerby to fell a lot of pain. Since he knows that if he stays here and just groans in pain he will get killed, so he musters all of his strength and gets up quickly and throws himself over the counter of the bar.

The reason that the bandits could not react fast enough to him doing this, is because they actually thought that they killed him.

While he is on the other side of the counter, Xerby feels that pain that his body has already suffered. While he is here taking a glazed at his wounds, he quickly remembers about how much he trained for this moment and about how he cannot hide here. Also, he remembers that in his training he learned that pain is in the mind, so he simply has to try and block it out.

He looks around and notices that he left both of his katanas on the other side of the counter. He takes out the sword on his back so he can fight with it. However, before he took out the sword on his back, he crawled all the way to a open door that led to a back door entrance. He does not escape, he just comes here to get a break. By the time he gets here, he hears that the bandits have gotten over the counter and are approaching him.

He gets up and gets one of his dagger's out from his lower back. He puts the dagger on his right hand and the sword on his left. Since he got shoot on his forearm, it makes it hard for him to move it, for this reason he does not want to use it unless he absolutely has too. He waits for one of the bandits to approach the opening, when he sees the bandit he throws his dagger toward him.

[deciduous]

The leader of the bandits, was beginning to grow frustrated from Xerby's constant fleeing. His face swelled up with a gentle red color, and his pupils dilated, both signs of his frustration. He walked over to his 4 bandit subordinates, and slapped each of them on the side of the head, " You good for nothing trogg-pickers, Your great leader bowed to a scumbag to trick him into letting his guard down, and you couldn't even shoot him from point-blank range eh! Redeem yourselves and handle this rat!"

Next, he walked off into the corner, and the 4 bandits all withdrew their cutlasses. Their leader intended on letting them handle Xerby, while he sat in of the tables, furthest from the battle. The 4 bandits seemed confident, and were synchronized, all of them standing in the same posture, and pointing their swords in the general direction of Xerby's. "cam OUUT" they said in unison.

There was a weird and unexplainable symmetry to their movements, its like if they were a synchronized swimming team. All of them staring down their opponents, with the same stance, and short controlled heavy breaths. Their muscular appearance, as well as physique are all similarly strong. And now they waited patiently for xerby to come out of hiding. As they saw the dagger flying through the air missing its target.

[oblivion]

Xerby cannot believe that he missed his target with his dagger. He has always gotten his target back when he was in training, but then again this is the real deal not training. Now he knows that the bandits are probably going to wait for him to come out since they do not want to run into another dagger throw.

He starts to think of what he can actually do now. Looking around in the room he feels the door behind him once again and starts to think about escaping. Though he convinces himself that escaping is not an option, he is a marine soldier and will always fight for justice until the day that he dies. He gets up from the floor and starts to look for things that can help him. One of the things that he fines is a first aid kit, which he uses to help him cure himself in his wounded areas. The wounds are not completely healed, but they do feel a bit better now. Another thing that he found is a lighter and some rope.

Since everyone is outside of the bar he figures that it will not be dangerous to play with fire. He first lit the rope on fire and then approached the door and throws the rope over the counter. The fire starts to spread but not quick because it is a small peace rope that he lit on fire. In addition, the place where he threw it too has some metal around it which helps the fire not to spread so fast. He knows that the bar will probably burn down, but he hopes that he can make it up to the owner by taking the money that the bandits have and giving it to the owner.

Anyway, he forgets about that for now and refocuses on his real job. He pulls out his sword on his back and his other dagger. He takes a peak out from the door to see what the bandits are doing. He notices that the bandits are still there and are just standing, though one of them is missing. Right after taking a peak, he sees some water being thrown to where the fire is. The fire has been put out so it ruins his primary plan. Lucky for him, he has a backup plan to fight the bandits. He puts his sword and dagger away as he takes a few steps back away from the door.

Now it is time to put his B Plan into action. He starts to run toward the counter and throws himself over it. He then runs toward both of his katanas and picks them up. By looking at the bandits he can tell that they are surprise by what he just did. This of course is good because he now has both of his swords to fight with and now he waits to see the next move from the bandits.

[deciduous]

All four bandits simultaneousnesly shift, in order to face Xerby. "So you finally decided to come out an play, eh?" One of the bandit says, in attempt to mock Xerby. The bandit's then charge forward towards Xerby's location in their patented formation, called the syncro-shift. Basically, these group of bandits have fought so many battles together, that they know each other's tendencies, strengths, and weaknesses. They have developed a 6th sense, sort of speak, which allows them to determine the exact location of each other at all times, without having to visually look at each other. This allows them to do perfectly coordinated attacks, and defend each other's openings.

As they charged Xerby, they all raised their hands in the same, precise moment, and each of them moved to a different side of Xerby. One bandit swung towards Xerby's leg, and the other swung towards his neck, attempting to decapitate him. Another bandit swung from the sky, downwards, slightly to the left of where Xerby was standing, preventing Xerby from dodging to the left. And the last remaining bandit did the same attack to the right of Xerby, preventing him from dodging the attacks by stepping to the right side.

During this whole time the leader of the bandits, stood sitting with his head down towards the corner of bar. He may have even fallen asleep, It must take someone extremely conceited, to fall asleep while his sub-ordinates are fighting for their lives! But that's just the type of person he was.

[oblivion]

While he gets ready to fight the bandits by getting his katanas, he sees that four of the bandits did not waste any time and charged him. Something that he really disliked from this, is that the leader of the bandits is acting like if nothing is happening since he is asleep on the table in the far corner. However, he knows that he will make him pay but later because right now he has to worry about the other four bandits who are attacking him.

One thing that he notices from the attack is that the bandits are attacking as a combine group. For this reason he now starts to wonder what combo attack are they going to do. He figures that it is better to simply wait and see how they are going to attack him. As he is waiting patiently for the attack, he sees that one of the bandits is going for his leg area, another bandit seems to be aiming for his head area, another bandit jumped into the air is coming down toward his left side, and finally the last bandits seems to be doing the same thing that the third bandit is doing except on the opposite side.

Flashback

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This quadrapole attack reminded him of one of his training simulations when he was in Marine HQ. He remember that while he was training his instructor told him that when he is attack by multiple people make sure that he would focus on where the open place is.

Present

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After remembering this important fact, he notices that the only open spot left by the attack is behind him. To avoid this attack that nearly seems impossible to avoid he performs a double back flip after putting his katanas away. After doing the double back flip he takes out his last remaining dagger and throws toward one of the bandit. Afterwards, he grabs both of his katanas and takes them out once again.

[deciduous]

The dagger which Xerby throws, spirals violently towards one of the bandits blind spot, but another one of the bandits steps in front and deflects it with his blade. The dagger spins rapidly towards the direction of the the bandits' leader. It just grazes the side of his ear, making a small cut and spirals onward until it crashes down on the table. The bandit leader, quickly wakes, and is momentarily startled. He then looks around and recognizes that the dagger in front of him is one of Xerby's dagger. His face begins to turn demon red, as he wipes the blood off the small cut on his ear. "YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING MARINE, YOU WOKE ME FROM MA SLEEP, NOW IT'S PERSONAL." The bandit leader then rose from his seat, reached into the side of his belt slowly, then quickly withdrew his gun and began shooting wildly in the direction of Xerby, during this time he was laughing hysterically.

Meanwhile the four other bandits looked at each other with an astonished facial expression. Eventually one of them said, "The boss is mad now, we should get outta his way." So the bandits fled from the battle scene, and instead each of them stood near an exit of the bar in order to prevent Xerby from making an escape if he ever tried to flee.

[oblivion]

After seeing the leader of the bandits getting up from his nap he says, “So the SCARDY Cat has finally decided to defend himself instead of hiding behind his idiots.” He hopes that this could maybe anger their leader so he can lose concentration from the fight. However, he did not need to say this because the leader himself goes crazy after having the tip of his ear cut. Xerby sees that he starts to randomly shoot around toward where he is. For this reason he uses one of the tables as cover, he flips the table over and gets behind it. Also, just to add more protection for himself, he gets two chairs to use as cover too.

After a few moments of being behind the chair he hears that the shoots have been stopped. He does not know if it is because the leader has ran out of bullets or because he wants to make him believe this so he can just come out and then shoot him. For this reason he starts to look around to see if he can find a way to get out of this predicament.

Once he has finished looking around and has done some thinking, he decides that it is best if he simply just rushes himself out from behind of the table and toward the leader. The plan that he has come up with, is to get both of the chairs and throw them over the other side of the table to the area around where the leader was shooting. Afterwards, he will push the table to around that same area and then he will charge at the leader. He does indeed proceed with this plan, though the only bad thing is not he does not really know the location of the leader, he will have to find him quickly and het to him quickly. Once he has thrown the three objects he gets up and starts running as he pulls his katanas out to do combat.

[deciduous]

The bandit leader kicked all the objects being thrown in his directions, causing tons of debris to fly in the air. When it was cleared he saw that Xerby was charging at him, full speed. The bandit leader then tossed his gun a side, because he had no ammunition left, and withdrew his cutlass. He pointed it straight at the charging Xerby and said: "Fine, its time to get serious, no more tricks or hiding, ama show you that no one messes with the southpaw bandits. We'll see who's the real idiot after we exchange blows, you self righteous marines piss me off. It would be my pleasure to take your life away, and rid this world of another snitch."

Meanwhile, the four bandits where angered by Xerby's comment of them being idiots. So they withdrew their guns and aimed at Xerby while he was still charging at their leader and began to shoot before he was able to reach the bandit leader. Even though the bandit leader said he was prepared to fight he allowed his subordinates to interfere, at least for the time being. Their was a total of twelve bullets fired, aiming for Xerby's head, neck, arms, legs, and chest!

[oblivion]

While charging toward the bandit leader he sees the wooden table and chairs being broken into pieces and flying all over the place. Instead of surprising him, he becomes happy because he knows that this leader is at least not as weak as he looks. As the spacing between both of them becomes smaller he hears some four clicks at the same time coming from the direction that the other four bandits where standing. These clicks make him deviate from his current action of charging the leader with his swords.

Now instead of clashing swords he falls down and slides while on both of his knees. This starts to rip and dirty his nice long robe. Due to him sliding on the floor all of the bullets that were aimed for him missed. Luckily for him he was able to hear the click of the pistols and is able to dodge the bullets. After sliding he goes past by the leader and lands several feet behind the leader. He actually gets close enough to one of his daggers so he put one of his katanas away and gets the dagger. After he throws the dagger but not to the leader, instead he throws the dagger to one of the other four bandits, specifically the one guarding the main entrance. Now that the dagger in on its way he takes out his katana once again.

He is ready to fight now so he decides to charge the leader. However, this time he is not going to simply cut him instead he actually uses one of his attacks. The attack that he does is Spinning Slasher, which means that Xerby runs at his opponent and then spins either right or left. If he spins to the right he uses the bottom of his katana's hilt on his left hand to hit his opponent on the left of his shoulder, he then hits his opponent across the face the right hilt of his katana. Afterwards, he uses his left katana to do a slash straight down the body. It is vice versa if he spins left.

[deciduous]

The bandit standing at the main-entrance had his pistol withdrawn, and was holding it upright with his both hands, when Xerby threw the dagger at him he dropped his gun, and tried to pull out his sword in time to deflect the dagger, but the dagger was small and moving quickly, the dagger was dangerously approaching the bandit's heart, but he managed to side-step slightly, on pure instinct, avoiding a fatal blow. Instead the dagger punctured his chest and ripped through his ribs. The bandit screamed in pain, and dropped to the ground. While on the ground he raised his right hand and made a gesture with his fingers to the other bandits. It was an indication that he could no longer fight. One of the bandits, then hurried over to his fallen comrade, picked him up on his shoulder and began to flee, the fourth bandit also shifted his position to guard the main exit, this way his ally could get away, and he would also prevent Xerby from escaping.

Meanwhile, Xerby is attempting to hit the bandit leader with his spinning slasher attack. When Xerby charges the bandit leader, the leader has a nice posture and is ready to defend at first, but is then slightly thrown off when Xerby spins to his right. When Xerby attempts to hit the leader with the sword of his hilt, the bandit leader brings his sword ( Wielded in his right hand ) all the way across his body in order to block the attack. This however leaves his entire upper body and head exposed to the katana Xerby is holding in his right hand. The Bandit standing at the door way notices his leader might get hit so he shoots a bullet at the gap between Xerby's hilt and the leader's face. As Xerby, lowers his hilt for a devastating blow on the leader's face, his attack is deviated by the other bandit's bullet, causing him to miss the bandit leader's face, by a slight margin.

The bandit leader then grabs Xerby by the neck, with his, now free to move, left hand, and slides his sword off of Xerby's left-hand wielded sword. This lowers Xerby's sword while freeing the bandit leader's right hand, allowing him to attack. The leader then tightens the grip on Xerby's neck in an attempt to disrupt his breathing and then lunges his sword with full strenght aiming for Xerby's lungs!

[oblivion]

Seeing that his dagger which he has thrown to the bandit guarding the main entrance has been successful makes him believe that it is a good way to start. Especially since one of the other bandits has now distracted himself in trying to help his buddy out with the injury. This little success does not make him get distracted from his primary goal of taking down all of the bandits present. For this reason he continues with his attack toward the bandit leader who he hopes he can defeat quickly so he can also take on the other bandits.

As he is charging toward the bandits’ leader, he performs his spinning slasher attack. Normally this attack would capture someone off guard due to his spinning and the speed that he can do it in. As he fakes the move left he spins back toward the right and seeing the expression on the face of the leader, he can tell that this move has caught him off guard. Then he tries to perform one of his attacks, in which he tries to hit the leader with the hilt of his left hand, though this attack is not successful since the leader blocked it. Afterwards, he tries to strike the leader with his right sword. However, due to the intrusion of one of the bandits, his attack could not land on the leader successfully. This gave the leader the opportunity to perform a counterattack on Xerby and it did catch Xerby by surprise. Not expecting this, made it impossible for Xerby to block the leader’s attack, which is grabbing him by the throat. Due to the loss of oxygen throughout his body, he started to gasp for every bit of last air that he can get and also starts to blackout. Out of just pure instinct, Xerby moves both of his arms with his swords in order to try and protect himself from the stab attempt that the leader tries to do to him, but he will not know if he is successful until he either hears the clash of swords or the pain in his stomach since he cannot see where the leader is aiming his stab attack on him.

[deciduous]

As Xerby blindly attempts to doge the dodge the bandits fatal, he is blessed with a plethora of luck. His sword diverted the potentially fatal blow from his lungs. But, Xerby was still not unharmed or free of further attacks. When the bandit leader lunged forward, Xerby's blade deflected the shot, changing its trajectory and sharply lowering the strength behind the attack. So, as the bandits blade struck Xerby's blade, the bandit's sword was lowered, puncturing Xerby just in between two of his ribs, The wound was still about three inches deep, and immediately, blood began to flow outwards from it. The bandit leader knew that this blow was not fatal, and he wasn't willing to give Xerby anytime to recover. So, he immediately let go of Xerby's neck as well as the sword, in which the tip of the blade was stuck in between Xerby's ribs. And planned to land a barrage of punches to the face of Xerby. He started the barrage with a straight right hook aiming straight for Xerby's cheekbone!

Meanwhile, the attitude of the bandit in the exit had changed, he was no longer in a gloomy mood, due to the incapacitation of one his fellow bandits. Instead, he was overjoyed by how his boss was controlling the fight, he was almost confident the boss had ended the fight. This caused him to put his guard down, out of overconfidence, leaving him open to attack, due to his overconfidence.[/size]

[oblivion]

Xerby felt the impact of the right hand hook that the leader landed on him. Fortunate for him, he did not become unconscious due to the punch; the punch helped him because it sort of woke him up. The impact and pain of the punch made him wake up and stops being groggy because first of all, he felt the punch and then the aftermath of the pain did not help him go unconscious, it just made him grab his left cheek. However, there is not much time for Xerby to worry about this one punch since the leader has already sent another on the way. Due to him being more awake now, he sees the punch coming at him and moves his right hand in the way to intercept it. Now the leader did not expect this, so he launched another punch with his right hand, but once again Xerby blocked it. Yes he is in pain though he has been train to sort of put it aside and just focus on the battle. He uses leverage against the leader as his next move. Since both of the leaders’ arms are being grabbed by Xerby, he uses them to help him left his legs to kick the leader in the midsection area and let’s go at the same time; this sends the leader back crashing onto a table.

After fighting back, Xerby gets back up slowly and feels the blood coming from his mouth as well as the one from his stomach area. He also fears the sweat coming down from his forehead as well as the one running down his back. In addition, the sweat starts to burn his open wound in the stomach area which causes him to feel more pain. He knows that there is not much time left, but he has to defeat these bandits because it is his duty to fulfill everlasting justice even if it means death. He decides that it is time to try and end this small brawl. He puts away one of his katanas and starts to run toward the leader who is getting up from the crash table. He uses his Single Thrust attack, with either his sword, katana, or dagger Xerby leaps toward his opponent and hits him with the hand that he is not wielding with his swords. He makes a fist with the hand that he hits his opponent; this hit can be on any part of the body. He then stabs or slashes his opponent on the stomach.