MacTavish lunged towards Shepherd, but in his weakened state, the General was able to retaliate just before he could deliver the blow, taking him by the wrist and sending his head smashed onto the vehicle's frame, temporarily rendering him unable to move. His body fell onto the floor with a thud, and he could see Shepherd taking his knife, about to stab it into him... He was a man accustomed to pain, trained to withstand torture, and he knew that Shepherd would not hit his heart, judging from his position and the way he held the weapon...
A gunshot was heard.
When MacTavish opened his eyes again, he saw Shepherd, kneeling on the floor, clutching his side. He would definitely die of bloodloss from that shot, but who was the one responsible for it?
"This ends now, Shepherd," it was a voice of a female, a woman. MacTavish slowly got up, and found a woman with gold hair and sapphire eyes, in body armor, carrying a M4A1 in her hands. "You won't be able to send more Americans to their deaths any more, Makarov's men have already destroyed Shadow Company, and you're gonna be a dead man."
Shepherd winced, and looked at the woman with great vehemence. "Allen," he spat, "Never thought that you'd actually associate with the man that you were sent to take down, but it just makes the two of us the same people, right?"
Whatever it was, the woman did not allow him to speak further. She pulled the trigger of the weapon in her hands, and Shepherd was dead within seconds, lying in the pool of his own blood. "He always talked too damned much," she told MacTavish, picking up his knife, and did the unthinkable... Blood trickled down the corner of her mouth, leaving the knife in her abdomen in full view of MacTavish. Her sapphire eyes were turned towards the distance, as if she could see someone else that MacTavish could not, and she smiled before she collapsed onto the ground...
HAN: To all of you who might ask: HEY, it's just the same as the previous "Beautiful"! Well, it is, technically. I made a mistake in not standing my ground to what others have thought about this little fanfic of mine, trying to change in to their liking. But now, I've seen the light, and I'm putting my foot down. If you don't like it, don't read it. If you feel that the OC in this one is almost like the OC in the Red Dragon, then it almost is, because I imagined how would it be if Ryuka was sent for Joseph Allen's part instead, but that would be highly confusing, so I projected her in another likeness with some quirks of Anya/Maria's own. I have pretty much of the plot planned out, and I really hope that you all have a great time reading this. ^.^