Planet Tetro ~ Page 85

Smiling and reveling in his battle achievement . Royce still wasted no time in charging right after me . His speed was surprising when you count his size and strength . I tried to block his attack with my drill . I blocked him but like Jerry before me I was still sent flying . I did backflips into the air and he was still on my tail . While I was still flipping mid air from the impact of his first attack he appeared again to strike me . I was still a little disoriented and dizzy but I managed to wrap my drill around his arm .

Wrapping my drill around his arm didn’t seem to help much ether , because he landed on the ground still holding me and my drill ! He swung me around before throwing me and sending me crashing on the ground. I drilled my drill into the ground to send me in the air again . So that I could stop crashing through the ground . I still have the will to win , even though my body wanted to give up .

I thought to myself , moments like these are when warriors become champions . I have to learn how to battle with the best . He attacked me again . This time I blocked his attack in a way where the impact would only set my feet dragging on the ground a little bit . As long as I swing my drill in a certain way I’d be able to block his attacks without so much recoil . The fact that I use a non-traditional weapon helps me to achieve this feat.

He noticed this and started getting frustrated. So he ripped off a branch and started to attack me with his club and a thick tree branch . I guess he had the idea and goal to overwhelm me . His first attack was the hardest for me to deal with , but after a while I got used to it . Just like when he was striking me with only his club . His attacks would only send my feet dragging through the ground at the most.

Our allies that have been fighting on both of our sides have still yet to recover . Me and Royce kept our 1 on 1 going on for at least 10 more minutes . Then Royce started to get the upper hand . Fatigue started catching up to me . I just now started being able to fight at this level . I needed more practice to be able to keep it up for long amounts of time.

I was mixing in my blocks with my attacks . I was hoping to do a fatal blow to him before I gave into my fatigue . I also kept striking my drill at his feet . I felt those attacks would leave him at a great disadvantage if they landed. These efforts seemed futile because even the attacks that landed only grazed him . They seemed to barely affect him . As his body was still covered in stone . The battle was also starting to wear down on my confidence. As my confidence and fatigue started to wane I decided to continue to give it my all . Royce knocked the drill out of my hand it was about to do the finishing blow . When the bottom of a giant staff came flying towards him and smacked against his body. Sending him flying through five trees and rolling off into the distance .