Jurie watched as Rami and Captain Montero stared each other down, as if looking for each other's weaknesses.

Hmmmmm. She mused. This is going to be an interesting fight. 

The two continued to eye each other, waiting to see who would be the first to make a move.

Alas it seemed as if Rami had finished inspecting his opponent and sprung forward, his motion so sudden that it startled Montero into springing backwards. Their swords clashed with a clang. Montero with his sword upwards, warding Rami's sword blade away from him.

Rami smirked and jumped back lithely, landing steadily onto his feet.

Narrowing his eyes, Captain Montero, studied Rami once more, before stepping forward, swinging his sword with him, the muscle on his back rippling tensely. Bringing his sword up to block the swing, Rami danced from the blade, twirling around on his feet.

Neither made a sound. Pulling back, Rami leapt over Montero's shoulders and raised his sword, poised to strike him on the back. After all he was an assassin, specialising in attacking from behind. Montero swung around, just as the pointed end of Rami's blade touched his broad left shoulder.

It seemed that while Captain had more strength and was more, burly, with a more well toned body, Rami was lightweight and more flexible. These were both strengths and weaknesses. While, being physically stronger was an advantage when it came to how deep a wound could be, it also meant that there was less flexibility, less room for change or improvisation, because it meant you relied solely on strength. While flexibility meant you could do a range of different attacks, whether from behind, front or the sides, it could also mean less accuracy, more room for less fatal wounds.

Returning to watch them again, she realised that in the time that she had been analysing them, Montero had injured Rami on the arm. A long gash stretched down his left arm, dripping  with blood. Jurie sighed, realising that she had another injury to tend to after the fight was finished. What had she expected? No blood. That wouldn't have been possible. Especially since the two already weren't fond of each other, they had probably been dying to get at least a drop of each others' blood.

Jurie watched as they attacked each other, wondering about what could possibly be going on in their minds.

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He could feel the lash marks re opening all over his body and everything hurt like hell. Why did he decide to fight the Captain?

The answer came quite quickly. He for some reason hated the man. There was no reason why he should. Other than the fact that Montero seemed to take a liking to Jurie.

He eyed Montero carefully, analysing him. Montero attacked once again.

Montero's fighting style was heavy and inaccurate. Which was alright for battle, but not of a one on one duel. Rami was at an advantage, if only blood stopped flowing down his body, reminding him he needed to be careful. Why did he have to get so injured on missions recently?

With reluctance he realised it was because he wanted to protect someone who probably didn't love him back.

He blocked everyone of Montero's attacks. Finally when Montero seemed to take a small break from the fighting, Rami attacked and gave him a small cut to his wrist, making Montero drop his sword. Rami's Kirpaan was at the Captain's neck. Montero held out his hands in surrender. Rami had won.

He lowered his Kirpaan with a knowing smirk. He turned to the crowd of soldiers, who still seemed to be processing everything.

But then he felt a weight around his lower back knocking him to the ground. He lost his sword and small shield.

Montero wasn't going down so easily, and he didn't mind fighting dirty.

Rami threw himself backwards, so now Montero was laying back down with Rami on top. Rami got up with Montero still trying to get up. Once he did though, the two men were circling each other.

This wasn't good. While Rami may have been tall and strong, he was more lean and lithe. Whereas Montero was a formidable force. He had landed in sh*t. Deep sh*t.

But then he remembered Jurie. How she had won by simply evading him. Then he remembered wrestling with Babar, who was practically the definition of formidable. He knew exactly what to do.

Montero lunged at him. Rami moved away from him, putting Montero off balance. During this imbalanced moment Rami launched forward and knocked him to the ground.

Rami was using a mixture of evasion and attack. While he was tiring the big man through evasion he was also weakening him through attack.

This went on for a full fifteen minutes before Montero was puffing rather loudly. His movements became sluggish and slow as they circled each other once again. Rami deciding to finish this for once and for all lunged forwards and brought the big man down.

And this time Montero stayed down.

"Class dismissed" announced Rami. "I hope you have learned something new."

Indeed the soldiers not only learnt of Rami's fighting style, but also of basic fighting techniques learned through Rami and Montero's fight. Montero finally got up and out of the arena to set up for telling the army about the plan of attacking the Unspeakable. The attack was due to happen tommorrow so it was vital that the plan was practically ingrained in the soldier's minds.

The soldiers started filing out.

Rami, Derek and Jurie were the last to leave.

Just as they reached the door, Rami collapsed in exhaustion and pain.

"You really are a Fool" muttered Jurie. "You knew fighting him will get you even more beat up than you already are. Why did you do it?"

He didn't want to tell her it was to impress her and upstage that pig of a Captain. So he smirked and said:

"Still worried about me Angel."

"In your wildest dreams Baldy" she huffed as both her and Derek helped him up.

"Baldy?" he scoffed clearly offended.

But as he was being helped up he couldn't help but think:

But life with you is wilder than any dream.
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