Chương 3: "not getting away with that!"

"I don't understand dean, Who am I searching for?" I was not giving myself away so easily! especially without knowing if I should trust her or not.

Dean sat beside me opened her diary to make it look like we are discussing, "Aphie, I know who you are and you can trust me! Afterall we are in this together, we should stand together and work together."

I shifted in my seat trying to evaluate the situation, the person sitting beside me was someone I trusted with my academics and to a lot extent my professional life as well, but thats as long as it goes. The look on her face was something different and for the first time I actually observed her, how young she was for her position! 34 maybe 36 yrs old, that is not too old for her to be involved in the war for throne! she could be friend or a foe.

"Dean shagen I trust you! but what do you mean? I don't really understand?"

Shagen froze in her chair for a moment lost in her thoughts afterall even she was taking it safe in this matter, and this was a game of who breaks first, 'well I wont be the one for sure!'.

After a moment she looked at me and said, "well Aphie, here is the thing I know you belong to one of the branch families! and over the period of time I have come to trust you that you could be a worthy suitor for the throne. The war between the branch families have taken a massive toll massacring a lot of families, as of now including you and me there are only 5 branch families left all over the world and we have come to a peace pact, one of us will descend the throne and be the crown- that one will be the last one standing. Since the main family never had an heir and disappeared in thin air after the big war!"

she completed and looked at me for my reaction. That was a story only a person knowing the truth about this war for throne would understand, others would definitely think of it as some random blabbering done for a child's bedtime story.

I had a second to react and I chose to not let her know that I was the one she was finding, I reacted with a big question mark on my face, "Dean shagen are you all right? what was all that story about, that really sounded like some historic war arc!", I wanted more out of her.

I laughed a little keeping the professional relation between us in mind. This could go wrong or I nailed it.

She ignored my detour from the topic and got up, "Aphie, I understand the need to hide it from me! But you can trust me, afterall we have been in a very trustful relation for past 3 years." she looked at me again for my reaction but now I had started to doubt her motives so I decided to remain neutral and not react to her.

She turned and started walking towards her table, "Now since you might not be knowing a lot of stuff let me tell you about this, there is family of noble lineage that is supposed to be the crown's moon, in other word the shield of the crown. They are called as moon because they have to protect the crown over their life; just like the moon! It has to set for the sun to rise, the crown's moon has to die before the crown could raise their weapon and fight"

She sat on her chair and I looked at her, 'what was this feeling? everything about the room, this conversation felt fishy to me! what went wrong since the beginning!?'

"So you were planning to go to India in search of the crown's moon right? even I got a news that she would be there" Dean said it to me in a rather calm voice now as if talking to a family member.

My absence of words so far had already given me away, she knew for a fact that I was involve in this war so I measured my words well this time and spoke, "How do you know it is HER? isn't a boy more suitable for this job of being a crown's moon?"

Dean looked at me for a minute, this time even I didn't knew the meaning of the look on her face but it felt like she was seriously thinking about something. Before I could break the silence she get something from underneath her table threw it at me full force, from afar I could see a sharp object coming towards me breaking swiftly through the air.

In seconds my body reacted and caught hold of it tilting my head just in case it missed my grip and scratched my ear bit. I brought in front of my eyes to see what it actually was, it was a 3 blade ninja star! it was sharpened to a extent that the blades glinted even in slightest of sun.

"I knew you would be capable of this much! so I made extra some provision for you dear", Shagen said that and clicked a small buttoned device in her hand. I threw the star away but wasn't fast enough and it blasted a little farther from my face.

The blast could have blown my face away but it only burnt the skin on the right side of my face, but that is not where it stopped! the blast released a black gas in the air and I immediately got away from it, 'Shit I was too careless I inhaled some of it!'. It wasn't poisonous but I felt it shut my neurotic functioning starting from my nasal passage.

Right now I had to make a run for it, I didn't know how potent it was but fighting in this state can prove fatal for me right now.

But shagen was well-prepared, she got her nun-chucks out and jumped in between me and the door. The nun-chucks had tiny blades at the end of them, pretty sure they must be poisoned as well! on top of that she must be way too skilled to use this dangerous weapon.

I could feel the senses in my face and the air passage collapsing as my nerves failed to react to the orders given by my brain. 'This is bad!' I stepped forward ready for the strike, right now I only planned on relying on my defense mode.

She played her nun-chucks gracefully in the air and landed her first strike on my right side which I blocked off with my forearm, 'Shit they are heavy, I need to slip or I wont be capable of blocking these strikes within next few minutes!'.

I tried to catch hold of her nun-chucks but she moved it like it was and extension of her own body. She landed a hit on my right shoulder again and my arm failed to block of the hit this time, the nun-chuck turned in a way the blade slashed my right shoulder

"Ahhh!" I screamed in pain, now I was well poisoned with probably only some minutes to live, "you are not get away with that" Now I was angry! purely angry! if I can't leave, I'll fight her to death, nothing could stop me from killing this women in front of me now!