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the girl’s fighting
words.
Having finished speaking, Elena suddenly found herself breathless. It was just such
a silence.
“You called our princess a monster, didn’t you?” said the Blue Knight.
“Those words shall cost you!” the Red Knight declared.
Seeming somewhat more personable than the other two, the Black Knight muttered, “Does
their idiocy know no bounds?”
“What is it we’ve done that’s so terrible? Haven’t you been given a life of peace
and plenitude?” asked the Blue Knight
“And how many people have been killed in return?!”
“You can’t get something for nothing. It’s a fair price.”
“A life of peace in exchange for the lives of our friends? Spare me! The others may
be able to stomach that, but not me. I spit on your deal, and will till the day I
die.”
“In that case, your spitting days will shortly be at an end,” the Blue Knight jeered
as he jumped down to the ground.
At the same time, smoke and blue flames poured from the motorcycle’s exhaust pipes.
The ancient garden was shaken by an engine roar that hardly suited such a place. Elena
meant business.
“Insulting our princess is a grave crime. Your death won’t be an easy one.” To D,
he added, “Stay out of this, Hunter.”
“You took the words right out of my mouth!” Elena said, kicking firmly off the ground
and sliding to one side. The wheels of her bike could be turned a full three-hundred-sixty
degrees. “Even without his help, I can still take out the likes of you one-on-one.
I’ll show you what a human’s capable of, you monster flunky!”
“That does it!” the Blue Knight exclaimed, the brief phrase seething with anger. Lowering
the lance in his right hand, the Noble’s knight was a daunting sight as he took a
purposeful step forward.
Elena rolled back a pace on her bike. And stiff though it seemed, she definitely had
a smile on her lips—the girl certainly had nerve to spare.
D didn’t move. He wasn’t there to keep the other two knights from interfering. Rather,
he’d become another observer of Elena’s deadly conflict. Everyone understood the rules.
“I shall bring the battle to you,” said the Blue Knight.
“Come and get it!”
The instant Elena shouted that, she angled her exhaust pipes toward the ground and
shifted her bike out of its current acceleration mode to activate its boosters. Nozzles
wailing all the while, the bike carried Elena straight to the left.
The blue figure was still in the same spot, his lance unraised.
I’ve got him baffled , Elena thought as she felt an explosion of delight. Her right thumb pressed the firing
button.
Go! An ember hit the tails of the rockets in the launch tubes mounted on either side
of the girl’s bike. Shooting sparks all the while, a trio of three-foot-long implements
of death streaked at the Blue Knight.
Not moving from his spot, he merely rotated his blue wrist a bit. The Blue Knight’s
whole body grew hazy, and at that instant, the three missiles were easily deflected
right in front of him. A mere twist of his wrist was enough to keep his lance spinning
like a windmill. And that was only the beginning—the knight’s superhuman skill made
the tapered projectiles shoot up for an instant, then sent them speeding back at Elena
retracing the very same path they’d followed to him.
The girl straddling the bike had no way to escape them.
But just then, it seemed as if the roar of her engine threw the missiles into disarray.
The trio of murderous projectiles hit the ground some forty feet from her at an acute
angle, and then fell over as if their own weight hadn’t driven them in deep enough.
“Fancy that,” the Blue Knight muttered.
About six feet from her original location, Elena sat on her bike grinning.
It was difficult to believe a machine and a mere slip of a girl were capable of a
feat of such ungodly speed. As she’d slipped to one side, the Blue
words.
Having finished speaking, Elena suddenly found herself breathless. It was just such
a silence.
“You called our princess a monster, didn’t you?” said the Blue Knight.
“Those words shall cost you!” the Red Knight declared.
Seeming somewhat more personable than the other two, the Black Knight muttered, “Does
their idiocy know no bounds?”
“What is it we’ve done that’s so terrible? Haven’t you been given a life of peace
and plenitude?” asked the Blue Knight
“And how many people have been killed in return?!”
“You can’t get something for nothing. It’s a fair price.”
“A life of peace in exchange for the lives of our friends? Spare me! The others may
be able to stomach that, but not me. I spit on your deal, and will till the day I
die.”
“In that case, your spitting days will shortly be at an end,” the Blue Knight jeered
as he jumped down to the ground.
At the same time, smoke and blue flames poured from the motorcycle’s exhaust pipes.
The ancient garden was shaken by an engine roar that hardly suited such a place. Elena
meant business.
“Insulting our princess is a grave crime. Your death won’t be an easy one.” To D,
he added, “Stay out of this, Hunter.”
“You took the words right out of my mouth!” Elena said, kicking firmly off the ground
and sliding to one side. The wheels of her bike could be turned a full three-hundred-sixty
degrees. “Even without his help, I can still take out the likes of you one-on-one.
I’ll show you what a human’s capable of, you monster flunky!”
“That does it!” the Blue Knight exclaimed, the brief phrase seething with anger. Lowering
the lance in his right hand, the Noble’s knight was a daunting sight as he took a
purposeful step forward.
Elena rolled back a pace on her bike. And stiff though it seemed, she definitely had
a smile on her lips—the girl certainly had nerve to spare.
D didn’t move. He wasn’t there to keep the other two knights from interfering. Rather,
he’d become another observer of Elena’s deadly conflict. Everyone understood the rules.
“I shall bring the battle to you,” said the Blue Knight.
“Come and get it!”
The instant Elena shouted that, she angled her exhaust pipes toward the ground and
shifted her bike out of its current acceleration mode to activate its boosters. Nozzles
wailing all the while, the bike carried Elena straight to the left.
The blue figure was still in the same spot, his lance unraised.
I’ve got him baffled , Elena thought as she felt an explosion of delight. Her right thumb pressed the firing
button.
Go! An ember hit the tails of the rockets in the launch tubes mounted on either side
of the girl’s bike. Shooting sparks all the while, a trio of three-foot-long implements
of death streaked at the Blue Knight.
Not moving from his spot, he merely rotated his blue wrist a bit. The Blue Knight’s
whole body grew hazy, and at that instant, the three missiles were easily deflected
right in front of him. A mere twist of his wrist was enough to keep his lance spinning
like a windmill. And that was only the beginning—the knight’s superhuman skill made
the tapered projectiles shoot up for an instant, then sent them speeding back at Elena
retracing the very same path they’d followed to him.
The girl straddling the bike had no way to escape them.
But just then, it seemed as if the roar of her engine threw the missiles into disarray.
The trio of murderous projectiles hit the ground some forty feet from her at an acute
angle, and then fell over as if their own weight hadn’t driven them in deep enough.
“Fancy that,” the Blue Knight muttered.
About six feet from her original location, Elena sat on her bike grinning.
It was difficult to believe a machine and a mere slip of a girl were capable of a
feat of such ungodly speed. As she’d slipped to one side, the Blue
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