"i must keep running! I can't let him die! He saved me so i will repay him, i must!" Tahir thinks while running through a town looking for a doctor but most ignore him while others look out in disgust.

He knows why, its not the first time its happened. People who needed help get refused service for their manna potential and often get attacked as an easy target. Even his mother died in his hands because he had no manna.

In a moment's time, he crumbles down in the middle of town out of exaustion, Ezra's heartrate is begining to speed up and Tahir hyper ventilates out of pure fear. In a fraction of a second a person snatches the unconscious Ezra and takes him to a dark alley.

Tahir runs after the misterious individual and follows them into the alley, he sees light coming from it and the person trying to heal Ezra.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?!" Tahir asks in a panic.

"We don't have enough time, the child is dying! He has went into severe shock due to a high loss of manna, if i was even an hour late he would have been paralized."

"Who are you!" Tahir yells loudly, taking the attention of people on the street.

"My name is not important, i need to save his life. Here, the healing is done but you will need to go to the capital. Its not to far fro-"

"That won't be possible."

"Why?" The person asks.

"He is wanted in the city." Tahir says reluctantly.

"Wait... Ezra...? Leave." the person says while recollecting their thoughts.

"What?" tahir asks in a confused manner.

"you're lucky if you don't run into the royal police," the person hands him a pouch, "the fluid within the pouch will heal him enough to wake up. But the rest of the injuries will be hard to heal. Now, run!" Tahir complies and runs away with Ezra while many people give him shocked and confused glares.

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While at the towns gate, he gives Ezra the fluid in the pouch and Ezra takes a deep breath, as if coming back to life, but he still remains unconscious.

Again, Tahir keeps on running farther away from the town and towards the capital city. In the distance, Tahir hears marching sounds and sees soldiers accompanying Aisha and coming closer to them from over the horizon. He quickly hides Ezra in a faraway bush and prepares for battle.

The soldiers arrived at his location not long after and Aisha demands, "Hand over Ezra. Do not make me kill you."

"He saved my life, and i owe him mine..." Tahir fearfully draws his sword.

"Very well then... As you wish." Aisha nods to the guards next to her and they come forward and attack.

Each swing of their spears is coordinated and they make Tahir return to his cowadly self, too afraid to even defend himself, while barely dodging any of their attacks. He gets slashes on his arms and legs and kicked in the abdomin, throwing him into a tree.

After standing up he catches his breath and calms himself down, analyzing possible attacks while putting himself into a sideways guard.

They attack but Tahir is now prepared, and when one of them jumps at him he cuts the guard in half and the other gets his throat cut by the same motion of the sword.

Aisha congratulates him by clapping and then combusts the ground bellow Tahir launching him in the air, but Aisha then combusts the air above Tahir and he falls at insane speeds down at the ground.

He stands up again but is not able to react as he gets kicked and punched in all directions brussed and burned as much as before. He swings the sword at her neck but she blocks with her arm and the sword gets stuck as if she is wearing leather armor.

With every attack he gets hit with, Tahir begins hearing a bell in his head, it gets louder and louder as if to tell him something. A few attacks of his manage to break through the barage but they all barely penetrate skin and it looks more like a scratch then a serious wound, she has clearly improved in battle from the last time they fought and even then it was still due to Ezra's help which he doesn't have anymore, it would be useful to have guidance or help when it comes to a situation like this.

The fight continues, Aisha is more-or-less fine with a few scratches while Tahir looks like he can fall over and die any second, two, three or even four hours might have passed from the start of their fight, although he doesn't want to end the battle just yet, its clear he has reached his limit and in his final moments of disspair, he sees a bright, yellow light.

Two final torches light up and he again hears a voice. "Vini. Vidi. Vici"

He comes back to reality, sees Aisha standing across from him, more beat up than usual and clearly exausted.

To end the battle, he finally utters the words "Vini. Vidi. Vici" out loud and with flame in his eyes he yells on top of his lungs: "Domain: Gladiator's haven!"

To be continued...