Yuki's POV
I wake up to the sound of fists clashing and a crowd yelling, I open my eyes to see men fighting, my arms are tied up and it looks like I was just dumped in a corner. If only these brutes knew tying me up like this is pointless. I stand up and untie myself while they are distracted watching the fight, I'll just disappear into the shadows and figure out my target from there, right as I decided to take a step I feel an arm grab my shoulder "You didn't think we'd leave you unguarded did you little man?" A deep voice says to me, I look back to see this big muscular viking wearing a bear coat, I'm pretty sure he killed that bear himself by the looks of him. At least he speaks English, quite fortunate considering I don't speak norse, I smile at him, even tho he can't see it through my mask "and who might you be?" I ask.
He stares at me for a moment raising an eyebrow, the he squeezes my shoulder with a strong grip and picks me up "Do you think you are in a position to be asking questions boy?" He says to me with a serious look on his face "ngh, that kinda hurts, would you kindly let me go? I would rather you didn't lose your arm" I say to him with pain in my voice.
He looks at me confused, then proceeds to laugh at my threat as if it was being made by a child "Welp can't say I didn't warn you" I say to him, looks like they took all my weapons, bare hand it is, I push my thumbs into pressure points in his wrist forcing him to release me, then I wrap my entire body around his arm and twist, dislocating it "Ah!, Ngh" he lets out a scream that alerts the others and they stop their fight to look in this direction.
Crud, 3 vikings decide to run at me.... I may be the weakest in the group... But I'm still an assassin, 3 vikings aren't enough to beat me.
The fastest one jumps and tried to tackle me to the ground, but I evade and push his head into the dirt as hard as I can knocking him out, the other 2 pause in shock for a second, then look at each other as they rush forward to attack me, they rush me from 2 sides throwing punches and kicks but they are too slow to me, I evade all their attacks effortlessly, forcing them to hit themselves a few times, then I jump and split kick them both in the face,
As they fall to the ground more of them tell war cries and race towards me, "STOP!" The man in bear skin yells "he's mine" he says as he pops his arm back in place and stretches it.
I'm glad he stopped them, I'm not so cocky as to think I could best them all, I'm not like the others, I would actually die.
"Well you're quite strong for a small man, you have my respect" he says to me.
"Thank you, you vikings are quite resilient to pain I must admit, what's the name of the man I will be facing?" I ask him.
"My name is Ragna.... Ragna Lodbork" he says.
Ragna Lodbork huh? I should have known, the legendary viking that gained respect across europe, does that mean, he's my target? His head will be a great prize to bring back "I'm Yuki" I say to him. "Yuki? Sounds like a woman's name, not a warriors name, how bout this, if I beat you in this fight you'll work for me,and I will give you a norse name,a strong one befitting a warrior" he says to me.
Hm he's a rather weird man, but this might be my chance "Alright then, but if I win... I get to take your head" I reply. He smiles at me and nods his head. I walk with him to a spacious area.
He stops to take off his coat before looking at me and saying "here we fight bare knuckled, so take off that weird garb little man" says Ragnam. I'd prefer not to but I guess it can't be helped, not like my face can be documented.
I walk 5 feet in front of him and stare him down... Well technically up, he's fairly taller than me, I'm about 6 feet but this man looks at least 6'5... It's kind of intimidating. I remove the top half of my uniform and he smiles at me and says "I should have known those nimble movements would come from a Chinaman".
The irritation in my face is hard to hide "I'm Japanese" I say before launching a kick to his head, he blocks with one hand and whistles briefly "Straight for the killshot I see, assassin's don't like to enjoy fights?" He says as he reaches for my neck, my leg hasn't touched the floor yet so I don't have enough time to block so I fall on my back defensively and spring back up. Without hesitation I hit him with a combination of jabs to the stomach, punching him 5 times in a second, it seems to faze him a bit but not knock him down, before I can deliver the 6th blow he punches me to the ground as hard as possible and my face plants to the mud but I quickly spring up without hesitation, his hits are like a jackhammer but I won't give up yet, I just won't let him hit me, I need to be smart about this. He rushed at me with a kick aim for my chest I dodge and grab his leg but he flicks his leg and flings me to the side and I crash to the ground "You know for an agile little fucker you sure do end up on the ground a lot" says Ragna. I'm so irritated by the cockiness of this man, but it's hard to match his strength.
I stand up from the ground ready to keep going but he mediately jumps towards me aiming for a punch to my head, I have to react quick,so I jump back and kick mud in his face to blind him then try to axe kick him and the top of his head.... But he still blocks "What the hell you shouldn't be able to see" I say in shock.
"Do you know how many times in a fight people try to kick sand or mud in my face? It becomes easy to predict, all I have to do is close my eyes before it gets there" he says right befor punching me in the gut, I cough out some blood as I fall to my knees, another hit like that and I might be down for good... One more try, I stand up again but he immediately headbutts me back to the ground... The crowd cheers as I'm faced with my own weakness "I must say... I'm disappointed" Ragna says as his smile turns into a frown and he walks away... He turned his back to me... He doesn't see me as a threat anymore... Well I can't blame him, I'm barely even conscious anymore, it kinda feels like time has slowed down, I'm weak unlike the others, always dragging everyone down, always being protected. I can't do anything on my own, I'm sure the others are having no problem in their battles, their all stromg and I'm just- "Poor little Yuki" I raise my head "who said that? I reply, I look to my left to see Kai squatted down staring me in the eyes, his stare was cold and ran chills down my spine.