Chapter 2 Compelling force

By the side of the room a woman with a sword by her side sat down on his chair sipping some wine. She wore military attire that was used for magicians and short blade fighters, to be specific armor that enabled them to be quick on their feet. Dwayne was annoyed that this person entered his house uninvited but was much more annoyed by the fact that the wine she was sipping was the wine he had been keeping for months. He was hoping to take it when he came back.

After finishing the wine she finally spoke to him. "I helped myself to a bottle of your wine since you kept me waiting."

She stood up from the chair and walked to the window in the sitting room.

"We need to talk."

This woman broke into his house and took his bottle of wine, there was no way Dwayne was going to listen to her.

Dwayne dashed forward and threw the table in front of him towards her. In reaction, she held her blade by the handle pulling out the sword from its scabbard and slicing the table in half. Dwayne used the to opportunity to smash the wall by the door. On doing this he pulled out a beserker sword from it. Beserker swords were huge swords that were used by people having a lot of strength.

The intruder prepared to defend herself as he dashed towards her at high speed. Swinging from below, Dwayne sword crashed into the sword she used to defend lifting her from the ground and throwing her into the window.

She broke through the window and fell to the floor rolling some distance from the house. The snow had broken her fall protecting her from any form of injuries. The same could not be said for the window she broke through as few pieces of glass had impaled her skin. She considered herself to be lucky as the injuries were not severe. She smiled as she fought back the pain, his strength and speed was beyond her imagination.

Dwayne jumped out the broken window running towards the intruder at high speed. Leaping into the air he lifted his sword high eventually coming down to strike at the left side of her neck. Bearly keeping up with his pace she held her sword up blocking the left side of her neck. Her left hand held the handle as her right was under the top of the sword acting as a wall for defense.

Dwayne came down colliding his blade into hers with great force. As their steels clashed, the woman was pushed down to a kneeling position. Her legs sank into the snow at the force of the impact. She could feel the weight of his sword from her sword to her bones.

"It's so heavy", she mumbled as the sword was coming closer to her neck. At this rate it was clear to her that she would be killed. Seeing she could not match up to him, she shouted at the top of her voice

"Stop! Stop! Stop!."

On hearing this, Dwayne felt a strong current flow through his body eventually forcing him to stop. It did not hurt him by any means but he could not go against the currents will.

The woman collapsed to the floor as the weight had been lifted. Dwayne however did not stop for long as he made an attempt to lift his blade to strike again.

"Don't move a muscle!", She said in a desperate voice as she saw his strange movements.

The same feeling stopped him in place making him unable to move. Have I been spelled?, Dwayne could not help but wonder.

"Now we can talk", she said while still gasping for air.

Dwayne suddenly felt able to speak. It was strange to him that she controlled his every move. One thing was clear to him at this moment and that was the fact that he hated being controlled.

"What is the meaning of this you pile of .....!", Dwayne shouted at the intruder.

"Am not a pile of whatever. The name is Emily, Emily Gray."

Dwayne gave her a questioning look, from her proud expression she knew what it meant. From her pocket she brought out a shiny rock and put it in front of his face. It was a amber looking stone, it looked like a gem and was glowing as it got closer to him. It seemed to react to him. In realization, he opened his eyes in shock. He knew what the stone was, he would never mistaken it for another. Besides he was the one that threw it in the sea some years back.

"Where did you get that?, That is impossible", Dwayne said in utter disbelief.

"Am not telling you anything, you almost killed me remember."

Dwayne knew it was impossible to resist the stone. This hurt him as this all reminded him of what happened in the Draco war. He was forever compelled by the will of this stone as a result of a decision he made in the war.

"Wow, you were much more stronger than I thought, no wonder you are a High blood", Emily said in a satisfying tone. "That is perfect because I need your help."

"You know I won't help you Emily, you broke into my house and drank my wine."

"You must have really liked that wine but I doubt you can refuse", She said in response.

Dwayne cursed as he knew what she said was true. She could simply just order him to do it now that she had the stone.

"Before we get started I should probably place some rules", Emily said.

She pointed the stone forward once again. It started to glow in response to what she was about to say.

"You will never try to harm me in any way, you will also refuse to do anything that would led to me been hurt, you will also never try to take this stone away from me and lastly you will protect me to the best of your ability whenever I am in danger."

On setting these rules, a circle with arrows pointing north, south, east and west appeared on the back of his hand. The symbol seemed to move and work like an actual compass. Dwayne couldn't help but wonder what it was for.

Dwayne couldn't also understand why she did not just order him to do whatever she said.

"You can move now."

On hearing this Dwayne could finally move again.

"Dwayne, you should follow me so that I can explain why I did what I did. Though it is your choice, I won't order you to do some things against your will. I am going to get a drink to celebrate."

Emily started walking away as Dwayne was thinking of what to do. The last thing he wanted to do was watch her celebrate but in the end he decided to follow this girl to at least figure things out.