19
(Season 2, Episode 6)
Monster of Mass Destruction
Kahn had caught up with Mary and Zachariah after they teleported
into Avalon. She was lucky because when
she, herself beamed in, the guards were distracted with an obnoxious Zachariah.
It gave Kahn the opportunity to become
hidden. Being a ninja of the highest order this was not a problem, even with
the high level nexes and druids present.
If a true ninja does not want to be seen, they are not seen.
From there Kahn kept with Zachariah, listening to all the drama
in between. The charges were ridiculous.
Having spent quite a bit of time with,
and following Zachariah, she was positive he was incapable of the murder of
which they were accusing him. Not to
mention the fact that Zachariah was incapable of killing one ward, let alone
three.
She stayed with them and managed to gain entry to their room
as well. Being as big as it was, staying
hidden was almost too easy. She was
worried about how enthralled with Mary Zachariah had become. Considering what she was, it would mean the
end of him. Kahn had begun brainstorming
on how to get rid of her when the orc crashed through the front door.
Kahn’s first instinct was to rush in and assist, but her
experience held her in place for a time. She had to come up with a plan, and fast, or
this would be over. Kahn had met very
few orcs in her time since they were exclusive to Avalon and ninjas were
considered criminals.
She, of course, knew the stories though.
Huge and muscle bound, their green skin is bulletproof. Add in their pension for violence and they
were just about the most deadly thing you could come in contact with, outside
of a dragon.
Kahn would need firepower to deal with it.
She pulled a small pack out from her robes and grabbed a
book from the shelf she had been perched next to. She quickly dipped her hand into the bag and
came out with two fingers covered with a black, ink-like liquid.
Blast ink.
She quickly drew the Japanese symbol for fire on the book
and it began to glow. She looked up and
the orc had Zachariah by the throat. It
was now or never.
She revealed herself and hurled the book.
****
Zachariah had experienced lack of air before. Once, he had jumped into the lake and forgotten
which way was up. The green monster
squeezing Zach’s throat was a completely different feeling.
Not pleasant.
This was when the book struck the orc in the side of the
head, and for no reason which Zachariah could understand, exploded.
The blast was like that of a small flash bang or an M-80. The orc released Zachariah’s throat and went
head over heels to the ground. Zachariah
flew backward and slammed into the stone wall. His ears were ringing and all he could hear
was that wah wah voice from those old peanuts cartoons.
He tried to get his bearings and saw the lumbering green
beast starting to come to his feet. His
head swiveled and he saw the ninja woman explode out of the shadows grabbing
wood from the debris left in the beasts wake. She pulled her fingers out and drew a symbol
on the wood and it began to glow.
“Kahn?! What the hell
are you doing here?!” Zachariah yelled, trying to pull himself to his feet.
****
Kahn heard Zachariah yell and she turned. “Get into cover!”
“What?!” Zachariah yelled back.
“Hide, you fool!” Kahn yelled back.
“What about a pool?!” Zachariah yelled, still unable to hear
her.
She grunted, frustrated with his inability to help at all.
She hurled the small piece of debris and it exploded on the
beasts back. This time the monster was
ready and powered through, launching himself at Kahn. Kahn leapt into the air and flipped over the
monsters head. Her blade lashed out but
it barley made a mark in the monster.
She knew she could not take a blow by the orc. With its power, it would spell doom for the wily
ninja. She landed and rushed away as the
orc spun, enraged. Kahn needed something
big to take this guy out in one big blow. The blast ink was the only way but the
explosion it created was directly related to the size of the object marked.
As the orc charged, Kahn decided to buy herself sometime by
slashing the monster across the nose. Still, this did not do a lot of damage but was
extremely painful. The orc raged and it
staggered. Kahn turned, rushing to the oak
table top. It had been broken in half in
the initial attack but one half was thick enough to cause a massive blast. If she could mark it and get the beast to walk
on it, she would have a chance.
She had seconds…
****
Zachariah was confused and nearly deaf, but he had still put
together what Kahn was doing with the blast ink. He watched her cut the orc and rush to the
table to mark it. The orc was not as
distracted with his bleeding nose as Kahn had expected and was already moving.
Zachariah had to give her time. He rushed forward and dropped to one knee in
front of the rampaging orc, balling his fist and delivering one hard punch to
the only place he thought it possible to hurt the lumbering monster.
The crotch.
It was like punching an elephant’s truck. The punch was deigned to have two effects, to
stop the beast and to hurt it. While he
had managed to stop it, hurting it was a different story. The orc stopped and looked down at the little
man with no pain. Instead, Zachariah saw
murderous rage.
“Sorry?” Zachariah
asked in fear.
****
Kahn wrote the symbol and just as the table began to glow
she looked up and saw that the fool gaijin, had gotten himself into trouble
again. She had seconds to act.
She did a quick hand gesture to increase her speed and broke
into a full sprint. The world had slowed,
still the orc’s massive fist moved at terminal velocity.
She got there and grabbed Zachariah by the back of his
collar, pulling him backward and hurling him back the way she came. She then had to move or get hit herself...
…that’s when she saw stars.
****
Zachariah closed his eyes as the massive hand came down to
crush him, but instead of being killed he was hurled backward. Kahn had saved him again, and he watched as
she took the blow in his place.
The fist flattened the ninja and instantly sent her face
first into the unforgiving stone floor. Blood
dripped from the ninja’s mask. The orc
didn’t care. Instead, he looked to
finish the job and end her once and for all.
Zachariah turned to his right and saw the glowing table and
knew what he had to do. “HEY!”
Zachariah yelled as he forced his bruised muscles to pull
him to his feet. “Hey, you stinky fuck!”
The orc stopped mid swing and eyed Zach. “Yeah, you. I thought you were here for me.”
The orc’s eyes narrowed and Zachariah smiled. “That’s right. You came for a shot at the title.”
The orc broke into a full sprint, his powerful legs shaking
the room, his huge fist cocking back to deliver the death blow. Zachariah stood his ground waiting for the
right time; the point when the orc couldn’t stop himself.
Zachariah saw his moment and quickly reached down grabbing
the table edge and pulling it up in front of himself, just in time to meet the
orc’s massive fist.
Zachariah saw an orange light, then blackness.
Big Boom! The fight has come to
its conclusion but questions are left unanswered. Did Zachariah defeat Vul’ garr? Was he killed in the explosion? How much do you hate these cliffhanger
endings?
That and more answered next week!
Stranger things: Zachariah’s Trial
TO BE CONTINUED…
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