story cont. pt 12

"Why'd we come here? Did you have laundry to do?" Roybin couldn't believe her ears, she knew that voice!
"Quiet, I smell trouble." Someone growled and Roybin tensed.
"I'm not that stinky am I?" The other voice teased, then muttered, "Sorry." a moment later
Roybin was hiding around the corner of a double stacked washer, she could hear their breathing. She took advantage of the quiet by going completely silent. She heard a light sniff, and footsteps coming closer. Then the stranger jumped. Fortunately it wasn't Roybin's row yet, but it soon would be. The stranger growled again and said, "Just stay out of my way, boy."
"Ok, ok." Roybin heard the boy back up. With her keen hearing she hear the faint drawing of a sword. Roybin didn't panic, yet. There was a rolling basket in the isle that she could push at him if necessary. It soon became essential because just then, the stranger rushed into her isle. Roybin caught the stranger by surprise who was hit fully by the cart. Roybin dashed by him before he could recover. She didn't expect him to recover so fast, she nearly got cut. The stranger was blocking the exit as he chased her. Roybin acted on impulse and ran into an open restroom where she found a toilet plunger and a toilet brush before the stranger burst in. Roybin managed to block the sword with the toilet plunger and brush thinking, 'If I wasn't doing this to save my life I'd be laughing hard that my life depends on a toilet plunger.' Some might call it luck that a beginner was able to deflect a sword but really it came from Roybin's Karate class that she knew some and improvised to fight this sword until her attacker lost hold of it. Roybin then knocked the guy out somehow with the toilet brush. Roybin circled him cautiously. Her attacker morphed into something else as she watched in horror. She stumbled out of the restroom backwards, afraid to turn her back on the thing. She closed the door and backed away. Just as she was far enough away to turn around, someone tackled her. 'I forgot about the boy.' she thought as she fell.
"Who are you?" The boy demanded, propably thinking she was pinned to the floor. Roybin was not pinned, in fact she twisted and rolled out of his hold. The boy was sitting on the floor, stunned. Roybin slowly stood against a washer.
"I know you." Roybin said
The boy looked confused, "I don't remember you. Where's Saur Sword?"
"The name fits the thing in there like a glove. I know you from school, but it's ok if you don't reconize one of your oldest best friends, ."
The boy still looked puzzled but then enlightenment dawned on him "Roybin?!"
"Yep. What are you doing here?"
"Saur Sword volunteered to help me find my mentor."
"I doubt that, I think he was ordered." Roybin replied
"What makes you say that?"
"Go check the restroom but be careful, Seamus."
Seamus got up and opened the door to the restroom. Inside the creature stirred, and Roybin noticed it. "Get away from the door and close it quietly." She instructed him and he managed to shake off his shock enough to do so. Just after Seamus closed the door, it hurled open, throwing Seamus across the room.
"I was hoping you wouldn't recover so fast." Roybin muttered
"YOU!" the creature screeched
"Yes me. Now what?" She asked, "More fighting?" but the creature slumped and collapsed on the floor.
Roybin went a tad bit closer to understand his mutterings. His mutterings began to get slower.
"Master says find the heir. Not so simple, they know about me and hide. Keep the apprentice occupied, don't alert or hurt him. Master... never... mentions..." The creature, Saur Sword, stopped talking. For a moment, Roybin thought he was dead, but saw a twitch in his hand and then he/it dissappeared.
Roybin heard Seamus groan, bringing her attention back to the present.