The Lost Samurai

Chapter 8 - Defense

“So come at me, if you don’t come all at once it won’t be fun.” A maniacal grimace formed in his skeletal face and the dragons that were so fearless just now turned into scared pussys.

“Yo-you morons! Attack, we won’t come back defeated today!” Roaring with enough power to bring down entire houses the leader woke his subordinates up from their daze.

*Pah!* A dragon rushed towards Keshin but got smacked in his face with the back of the skeleton’s left hand stopping mid-air, with a turn of his waist Kenshin avoided another dragon jumping at him from behind and grabbed his throat throwing him at the other dragon, sending both flying away

*s***h!* Striding forward Kenshin reached a third dragon within just a second and slashed him in two without any chances for defense.

*Thud*Thud* The two parts of the diagonally cut body fell on the ground without resistance, seeing their comrade cut in two pieces all the dragons were bewildered and couldn’t stop roaring with all their might, some tears even dropped from their eyes as the group thought about this dead friend.

“Idiots, he will s*******r us one by one if we keep on fighting like this, let’s use our advantage and fight in the air, he has no wings so it’s impossible for him to counter us.” The leader managed to maintain his cool and spat orders to his subordinates in order to ensure their victory.

“Surround them!” Master Hori ordered her disciples around and she did it herself too, with a single gesture several fox illusions surrounded the two dragons they were fighting, some of them were real and some false but it was almost impossible to discern between the two options because they were moving at an amazing speed.

The duo was cornered and they needed to think fast to get out of this situation as the circle was closing slowly giving them less space, even the sky was closed with foxes so their advantage was null.

“Just ignore it! Breakthrough by force, else it will get harder every second!” Now flying in a formation with the subordinates by his side the dragon’s leader felt safer and took a bit of his time to assess the situation, looking at how their subordinates were being trapped by his opponent’s helpers he quickly helped them with his experience.

Even if they feared that trap the duo instantly obeyed the orders as they believed their leader with all of their lives, so there was no doubt no matter what situation they were in.

*Bang!*Bang!* Flying at full speed towards their barrier the two giant bodies destabilized it and paid the price with some profound wounds but now they could easily exit the trap with another charge.

“Coff! Coff! Retreat and regroup my girls!” Master Hori and her disciples were also wounded in the confront and 2 disciples were almost falling unconscious so she acted fast to preserve them.

The skeleton that Kenshin turned into was worried but seeing Hori retreating he became calmer, even if seven dragons were currently attacking him with fire he was calm and didn’t really receive any damage at all, so looking at the battalion commander spitting orders like he was fully protected in his current position a bewitched expression arose in his face.

His body disappeared amidst the flames and slowly reappeared behind the leader with a faint grin on his face, holding his sword tight he swung the blade towards his opponent’s back.

*s***h!* Feeling the heap of chi behind his back the dragon quickly bent his back to avoid the blade, avoiding a death blow but still being hit and suffering from the sharp pain the flamed blade caused him, falling from the sky with the impact.

All the dragons noticed Kenshin with their leader’s fall and tried their hardest to run, but Kenshin was faster, they couldn’t run from him if he was so close. *s***h!*s***h!*s***h!* He ran wild cutting all the dragons in sight and making them fall from the sky.

“Gotcha!” Kenshin’s expression sent shivers upon the dragon he was holding, he grabbed the last dragon that he hit and used his free hand to put his sword in position right above the dragon’s heart.

“GAAAAA!” Mid-fall the dragon got his heart pierced, struggling and screaming for a split second before they hit the ground, the skeleton unscarred and the dragon just a lifeless body now.

“I knew dragons weren’t aware of how to use chi, but not knowing that chi spirits can fly, and not thinking i could fly as i was now fused with mine was too much, sincerely you should take more care or this fight won’t even last until it starts getting fun.” Walking towards the dragons that were struggling to lift themselves from the ground Kenshin couldn’t hide his disdain.

Meanwhile a fierce clash was happening between Master Hori and her disciples and the two dragons they were designated to fight, both groups were already bloodied and the foxes were trying to choke the dragons while they used their breaths to fight back so the wounds in both sides were stacking.

“Master, another sister has fallen, we won’t support this longer!” The fox composed of the disciples' chi was already almost transparent and 5 girls had lost consciousness, the situation was not good.

On the dragons side they were already too weak, the amount of blood in their bodies had fallen to a level where they couldn’t exert their full strength anymore, and the choking was draining their oxygen and even with their dragon physique they had a limit.

“Aaargh! You beasts! I won’t let you hurt my beloved disciples anymore!” Her veins were almost popping from the effort and blood was coming out from her mouth, but she persisted in increasing her grip in the dragon she was holding and used the fox’s tail to get him off the ground.

*Bam!* With all the strength she had left she spinned the dragon’s body and smacked the other dragon using his comrade, the ground gave in and a huge crater was formed with two bloodied motionless dragons in it’s center.

Seeing this Kenshin’s heart had one less thing to worry about and he just focused on his enemies looking at him with hatred gazes.   

 “Don’t you dare look down upon any of us! We’re mighty dragons, we don’t lose to mere humans!” The battalion commander was rispid and still wouldn’t drop his arrogance even a bit no matter the situation, it was something deeply ingrained in his mind.

“I don’t care what a dead body says, and you won’t be living beings in a few minutes, just look at your friends' examples, i already killed two of them.” Kenshin wasn’t affected a bit by this dragon shouting nonsense, this group couldn’t possibly win from him.

Dashing towards he approached the dragons and they couldn’t help but freeze for a moment, shaking that off in a moment as they needed to concentrate on the fight, it wasn’t the easy win they had thought, it was the hardest deathmatch.