Surprises all around [Sam]

After a good days workout at the local gym, Sam was ready to head home. He took a quick shower and tossed his gear into a bag before double checking his locker and seeing that he did in fact lock it. He was one of the last few to head out, he doesn't normally stay so late, but he got caught up doing something else earlier in the day and that threw his whole schedule out of whack, what surprised him even more was that he wasn't the last person out and there had been people in there all day that still had not left, their strength must be incredible if they could train all the way through the day, something that Sam was slightly jealous of.

The streets seemed pretty quiet at this time of the night, although perhaps the fact that this was a different area altogether than his previous apartment had something to do with the business. The walk didn't need to take too long, he would just need to walk past the park, take a right and he was at home. He liked walking past the park, it was quiet throughout the entire day, even when people were in it, at least this city still had some respect for its environment.

This walk would have been like all others if it wasn't for a young boy who was about to be stabbed by a sword, what has the world come to that adults are stabbing little kids? With swords no less? Sam flashed back to his old hero days when he dropped his gym bag to the floor and teleported into a shadow behind a tree to the left of the sword wielding maniac, he managed to reach the kid just in time as the male began his downward thrust towards him on the ground, Sam swung a strong right hook and caught the maniac by surprise, hitting him in the jaw and possibly knocking him out as he fell to the floor in a heap. Sam had only just healed from the markings on his knuckle from the ball, and now he was going have even more markings, but it was worth it. He got down on one knee to check on the boy who was surprisingly quiet throughout the whole thing, "Are you ok kid?" he asked.

"I may have these pal, but I'm not quite like you" he said as he tugged at his collar to show off his Titan tattoo's. The cloaked man thrusted his sword into the ground to make an annoyingly loud ringing noise, the high pitched noise screeched in Sam's ears for a few seconds, but it did not last too long. The Titan appeared to take his chances with just his fists, Sam would have preferred for him to just turn and run and forget that this had ever happened. He swung two cross hooks, one with each arm which Sam easily ducked under, Sam had tried his best to stay away from violence unless he was provoked first, which he has now been and even then he had to try his best to stop himself before he went too far, the time that he had spent in Thailand taught him many things and he tried his best to stick with the teachings.

After dodging both blows, he sent one shot into the gut of the opponent, sending him a few steps back and hopefully making him think twice about the whole thing, however it had only spurred him on. He slowly placed his hand on the hilt of his blade and slowly yanked it back out of the ground, now things were beginning to get a little bit serious, without his own sword, there was not much he could do other than try to disarm him.

The enemy Titan ran forward and swung wildly with his blade, Sam took several hops back to dodge each swing, fortunately there were no bystanders around otherwise they would have no idea what was going on. The Titan lifted his blade of his head and forced it down towards Sam, he stepped back at the right time and waited for the sword to hit the ground before treading on it, the Titan tried his best to pick it back up, but with Sam's added weight, there was not much he could do. Sam kicked out with his other foot and sent the Titan far away from the blade, with his weapon taken the opponent appeared to have given up as he ran into the forest under the cover of the trees. This gave Sam the opportunity to see if the kid was ok once again.

"No worries" Sam replied to the child who was brushing the dust off of himself. "It looks like you and your friend have dabbled with their kind before, sometimes its a shame to be associated with people like that, that's why I try to be as different from them as possible, sometimes I feel like a human again until I look at these." He tugged his shirt collar down to reveal some of the tattoos that his Titan heritage had given him. Sam then realized he was speaking to a child who probably had no interest in who he was or what his life was like.

"Anyway... Couldn't just walk by and let a stabbing go down in a forest, so now that you're ok, I'll be on my way" The adult with this child seemed to be able to handle himself very well so it wasn't like Sam had to escort this kid to his home, the whole meeting was kind of odd for Sam, but it was over now and he was heading home.

Sam stepped of off the path and cut across the grass towards the wall where he had left his bag, for all he knew it could have been stolen whilst he was fighting, but he peeked over the wall to see it was still there. Sam hopped the concrete wall and started to double check his bag to make sure everything was still there.