S17 - Kunai Steal

The kunai sailed across the water and the man caught it with his bare hand. He grinned smoke rose from his charred skin. Hanzo yanked the chain, but he stood still.

"It's an interesting weapon," said the man. He held his free hand to the side.

CRACK. CRACK. CRACK.

From the water, a tree branch shot out. In sudden, jerky movements it grew closer and closer to the hand. When it reached his fingertips. Te wood slowed and slithered up his arm, twisting into a long latticework of wooden chains. And at the end, a knife. An imitation of Hanzo's own weapon.

Hanzo leapt forward. He would not let this man make a mockery of him. The man twisted his wrist and tightened the chain. He whipped it to the side and slammed Hanzo into one of the half-sunken roofs. In the moments before the water rushed in to fill the space that was smashed, he did it once more, releasing the chain and sending Hanzo skidding across the water's surface before finally collapsing against the stone of the mountain.

Just as Hanzo regained his bearings, the wooden kunai careened over the water stabbed into his chest. Something burned. Branches sprouted and tore through the skin, leaves unfolded and blocked his esophagus. He gasped for air, but it could not reach his lungs. Wind whipped past Hanzo and felt weightless, formless, lifeless as he sailed over the water. The man pulled him in and gripped him by the throat. Without saying another word, he crushed his windpipe.

Hanzo's vision exploded with light, and then darkness. He fell into the depths, water rushed through his compressed throat, and he died.

- Season 17 Round 0, /u/Ragnarust