New Flames, Dumb Enemies

Idiots seem to be everywhere. No matter how strong you prove yourself to be, there will still be stupid individuals who want to challenge you. All of this over the pettiest reasons…

"Look at what we got here boys," Spoke a man with around half of his teeth. "a kid all on his own."

I myself resist the urge to face palm, though I heavily roll my eyes. I don't know what group they're from, but random 'thugs' have been showing up. It started after the dirt stand incident and it sure was repetitive. Every time I left the house one or two people would ambush me, if you could call it that. It seems like they don't know what ambush means.

"Never should have come here." Says eyepatch guy.

That was weird, could have sworn I heard that twice already. This was getting old fast.

Which one will run at me first? It didn't take long to know as a shuffling was heard to my back left. Crouching, I ducked under a sloppy punch. One step to the side foot held out and the guy was on the ground. All that awaits him now was a kick to the face.

Even as he watched me down his friend, the other guy didn't seem to get the hint. It wad embarrassing, and not only to them. I half drew my sword to jab the imbecile in the gut with the pommel. There they're down now.

They were lucky it was illegal to fully draw a weapon in town. I wouldn't be adverse to giving them a few cuts here or there. These people were really trying the last of my patience.

Finally arriving home for the day, I absconded to my work room. I beheld what I've made yesterday. It was a little reddish sphere surrounded by a corona of light. This particular item seemed to be weightless and gave off more light than heat normally. I found out that if you contain it tightly, it could heat up just enough to barely boil water. I call it nitor.

It seems to be ever burning. I really don't know what I can do with it yet, but it could be very useful. Now all it does is look pretty and light up my room. Guess I wouldn't need to buy candles or lamp oil now. Wonder how I could sell this. It would need to be more expensive than the glow stone used to make it.

-Crash- a rock sailed through my window. Startled, I looked outside.

"What the, seriously! Why are you people so stupid!" I yelled out of my window.

The problem was apparently five guys outside my yard. Why are they there? I don't know, but I know what I am going to do now. Grabbing my sword, I headed outside.

I was going to break either an arm or a leg on each of them. They have annoyed me for the last time. Hopefully I could get them inside the gate. That no weapon rule was void while inside my own , my mother's, ground. I could beat them up so badly. That was just what I wanted.

It was a massacre, or would have been if people died. They rushed in as soon as I unlatched the gate. Pretending to be scared, I ran closer to the house and they predictably followed. Slowing down, the gap was steadily getting narrower. Now! I drew my blade and used the blunt of it to strike the leading man in the leg. With a crack he fell forward screaming in pain and skidding across my lawn.

At that moment I spotted grins on the rest of their faces. Surrounding me, they actually did something smart. These guys were actually going to fight me together? Dodging so many things at once is hard. I sidestepped one kick to get punched in the shoulder. I blocked another punch, not with the flat or blunt of my sword, with the edge. She fight tapered to a standstill, as we watched in morbid fascination. The one guys hand split from the knuckle to the center of the hand. It was disturbing, to say the least.

I took my attention of of the sight before the others. Managing to land the flat up against a distracted thug, I only had two left in any fighting condition.

Seeing that the last two ran back towards the gate, with me chasing.

Getting nearer I sough a guard and yelled to get his attention.

"Halt, in the name of the law!" He demonstrated his authority.

Just as I had begun to feel relief, half teeth from earlier stepped out from behind him. "See I told you, he has his weapon drawn and is attacking my friends!" Displaying false concern.

Now I knew why they were grinning. They wanted to frame me. That is probably what was going on all week. They would wait until I'm close to a guard, then try to bait out my sword.

It would have been a good plan, if they hadn't intruded on my lawn. I was just laughing so hard inside my mind. This was priceless. They did all that to try to get me imprisoned. Now all of their plans were for nothing. Truly they were the epitome of stupidity.

"No sir, these guys attacked me at my own home. This is my yard. Here I can use my sword all I want." I said, watching in glee as there faces paled. "Would you kindly arrest these people? I've also got some more around the corner."

The guard gave me a good long stare down. "Ok." He pulled out his shackles.

And that was the first of the dumbest enemies got what they deserved…