Jadax Firestorm

Day 24

Jadax Firestorm was asleep near Yehaskala (a port town
south of Rolin City). Soon he woke up and went into 
town for breakfast.  As he was walking through town, 
people were staring at him and some even ran away. Jadax
was confused at first but then remembered that he was 
dressed up as Giogio W' Tcaps.  Jadax just figured that
people were running for fear of being killed, after all,
Giorgio was an assassin and as long as he wasn't be
taken back to that prison for killing Mr. Zochi that was
fine with him.  Jadax strolled into the Sey tavern and 
sat at the bar to eat. Just as he was about to order a
short, fat man sat next to him and said, "Thought you 
could hide from me forever did you?"  Jadax was stunned
for a minute then tried to act like he thought Giorgio 
would act, "I don't know what you are talking about." 
The short man tipped his grey hat back and said, "Does 
the name Crunkar mean anything to you?"  Jadax stared 
at the man whom he could now see was wearing a fancy 
grey suit, "Names mean nothing to me."  "Well I'll tell
you who he was.  My boss was paying him to work for our
organization and he was an important part of the boss's
new plan.  But you killed him and cost us 5,000 talics!
I've been looking for you to collect."  "I have no money
so get lost," said Jadax as he turned away.  "Well if 
you can't pay me then I know what else you can do." 
"What's that?"  The man jumped off his stool behind 
Jadax, "Die!  Boys get him."  At his word a bunch of 
large men stood up in the room and drew different 
weapons, all aimed at Jadax. Jadax decided it was time
to drop his disguise because being dead was something 
very distasteful to him.  Suddenly though as Jadax was 
about to reveal himself he saw Araz walk into the 
tavern. Jadax was trapped between getting killed by Araz
or this band of men. Jadax made up his mind to face Araz
because he was one man instead of a whole lot of men.  
Jadax threw off Giorgio's clothes and said, "Wait!  I'm
not Giorgio, I just dressed up like him after I killed 
him.  I'm really Jadax Firestorm."  At the sound of the 
name Araz shot a glance toward Jadax and recognized his
brother. Araz pulled out his sword and advanced towards 
him.
	"So you aren't Giorgio?  But you are Jadax huh?  
I've seen you on wanted posters with a reward that could
make up for our loss.  Thanks a lot for telling us who 
you were. Kill Jadax boys and we might get a reward from 
the boss."  Jadax's face sunk and he felt stupid because
he had made his situation worse.  It didn't take Jadax 
long to decide to escape so he jumped over the bar, 
went out the back door, and took off toward the port.
	Araz and the men were hot on his trail and 
busted through the front door to follow him. Jadax
was almost to the port when he noticed one small boat 
docked close to where he was headed. It was better than
nothing thought Jadax as he jumped on board. Meanwhile,
fueled by anger for his brother, Araz had gotten far 
ahead of the pack of men and made it to the boat just 
as Jadax was shoving off. Araz and Jadax looked at each
other and then Araz leaped at Jadax getting ready to 
slash him.  Jadax dodged to the side and threw a knife 
at Araz, which he deflected with his sword.  Jadax tried
to reach for his sword but couldn't find it then noticed
it on the shore where the crowd of men had gathered, 
not able to reach the boat. Jadax's thoughts were 
shattered as Araz kicked him to the edge of the boat 
then raised his sword overhead, preparing to slice off
Jadax's head.  Jadax quickly reached for a wooden oar 
and used it to block Araz's sword just in time to stop 
it's course. The oar didn't last long though as Araz 
pressed down and it soon broke so Jadax rolled to the 
left to avoid Araz's downward strike. Unfortunately 
Araz's thrust had lodged his sword into the deck and he 
struggled to pull it out. Jadax got up and saw his chance. 
He ran up, punched Araz in the face, did a backhand to 
his stomach, and then threw him towards the rear of the 
boat. Jadax then swiftly ripped the sword from the deck 
and headed towards Araz.  Araz waited for the attack 
then looked around and said, "Wait!"  "What do you mean 
wait?  Afraid of continueing now that the fight is in my
favor?" Jadax replied.  "No you fool! Just take a look 
around you. We are lost!"  Jadax lowered the sword and 
glanced off the boat to see water, and more water, and 
more. Everywhere he looked, water.  How long had they 
been fighting and how far had the tide carried them?  
Jadax didn't know and Araz probably didn't either.  
"You are right.  We are lost. I can't see land for 
miles," Jadax said.  "I suggest we put a hold on our 
fight until we find land or else we will both die."  
Jadax put the sword down and said, "Agreed."  
	So for several days they worked together on 
sailing to dry land.  They had found a food supply on
the lower decks which began to get smaller as days 
progressed.  Finally after some days of travel they
hit land.  Araz woke up and could tell it was early in 
the morning.  Jadax woke up to and took the sword as 
he went to shore.  They both looked around this strange
land but then Jadax faced Araz and said, "OK.  Let's 
finish this!"