Legacies of light

Interlude 2.08: The pyres of samhain part 2

"Don't get cocky little boy."

"Then come and prove me wrong then."

The grown man shaking swings his axe downwards towards Nero, but he just stands there waiting for the swing to hit him, and moments before it does he steps out of the way.

Then with his axe, Nero breaks the axe of the other man, then strikes the man on the knee with the blunt edge of the axe causing his leg to buckle and fall down.

Going around him Nero puts his axe near the neck of the older man and says, "What was that again?"

The man I hold starts to sweat and freak out, so I say, "You see this you old fucks, try me again and I will cut you down."

As the other men start to freak out, one walks forward and says, "Everyone calm down, remember there is far more of us than him."

Holding my axe closer to the neck of the man I have, I say, "Well you can try me all at once."

With a light confidence, he says, "Do you really think you could take all of us at once?"

"Not at all, but I am sure I could break your axes, and if y