AN: Hey peoples, I've been really wanting to get this idea out of my head, so here it is. My new Jumper story, if you like it don't be shy and leave me a review so I know its not totally crap and I should keep going. please excuse my grammar mistake and misspellings for I had no time to proofread before going to work.
Chapter One - Paladin Hunter
He walked briskly through the streets, almost as if he was happy for some unknown reason. Perhaps it was because he had finally escaped the tower of doom that his so called partner had abandoned him in. Or it was because he was back to his old job, and a few guys with briefcases and trench coats had started following him about two blocks ago. It had been a while since he let off some steam, frankly some of the paladins had been wondering where there unwanted friend had gone, needless to say they had hoped he was dead. But no, Griffin was someone who was not easy to kill, regardless of whether or not someone betrayed him and left him for dead.
After David had so rudely abandoned him Griffin had been stuck in that blasted tower until someone had finally gotten him down, well, he'd been unconscious when they'd done it. All he remembered was waking up and not feeling electricity coursing through his veins, someone had gotten him out, but the simple question was who. Not that he really cared at all, probably some boring human, or someone else that didn't know what he was.
Glancing behind him again Griffin almost smiled when he saw that they were still following him, stretching his fingers and balling his hands into fists he was anxious to smash some faces in. But what happened next was something he'd never expected to happen.
Another jumper popped up right in front of them, he looked frantic with worry and there was a strong emotion of fear stretched across his face as his eyes focused on Griffin and the paladins.
"I've found her," he said taking a few steps towards the paladins.
Griffin shot out his hand to stop him and gave him a dark face, what was this idiot doing? Walking up to a paladin so easily, and without worry, perhaps Griffin should just let him get killed, it would be one less imbecile jumper in the world.
"Please you have to help me kill her, she too fast for me," he said still looking at them. "You'll help too, won't you?" He asked looking at Griffin.
"Get out of here before they kill you," Griffin whispered lowly to the jumper.
The other man looked at him with an odd sort of expression, something that said he was very, very confused at what Griffin had said. He opened his mouth to speak before Griffin heard something behind him drop as the paladins opened their briefcases, so he simply jumped away behind them. But they didn't turn around when he disappeared, which made him slightly angry, did he have to shout at them to tell them that he had jumped right behind their backs?
"Any second now," the other jumper laughed nervously.
"Are you sure it was her Jonathan?" One of the paladins asked the jumper.
Griffin grit his teeth and jumped to a nearby roof so he could stare down at them from above, also to plan a sneak attack since they were so preoccupied with something else. For now he could watch to see what would happen, since he was more curious than anything else, paladins talking to a jumper without trying to kill him. Because something was bugging him though, they had called him Jonathan, why did they know his name?
Jonathan was in a fit of worries, he'd met her, the one that they had been trying to kill for a long time now, and she was everything that they had said she would be, but he had been expecting her to be slower. The way she jumped everywhere all at once, he couldn't keep track of her at all, he couldn't describe it either, it was something that had to be seen.
There was another annoying thing about her that had not been mentioned by anyone, because everyone she fought had been killed so no one had been able to say it. When she fought she had music playing, almost as just a way of saying screw you, because if he couldn't see where she was jumping he could at least hear the music that came from her. Which would make him jerk back and forth trying to catch a sight of her before she would jump right in front of him and throw him across the room.
But that was who she was, Magdalene Quartz, a jumper who knew everyone's name and who's side they were on, and if they weren't on her side, she would kill them. The paladins had been searching for her for years, and yet anyone who saw her was dead the next morning.
Maybe he'd been a bit presumptuous to think that he could handle her, because he had been trained, but not enough for someone like her.
What scared him the most was that he had been tracking her, following her like a fox, but when finally he had her and stated it out she laughed at him and said something that sent a chill down his spine.
And I've been waiting for you.
She'd been waiting for him? That meant that she knew he was following her, that she could have jumped him at any time, and yet she'd waited for him to find her.
"Jonathan?" The paladins behind him sounded disappointed and said his name with a sigh.
Jonathan turned around to look at them with anger in his eyes, she would follow him here, he was sure of it, but why was she taking so long to show up? Suddenly he stiffened, which made the two paladins wonder what had happened, that perhaps he had realized that Magdalene had been playing with him, but it was something else entirely.
In the distance behind them there was a girl, with every moment that passed she got closer to them, until suddenly there was a blare of music and sound and a strong blast of force that made the three of them travel many feet before coming to a skidding stop on the ground.
"She's here," Jonathan said with a new look of determination on his face. Now that he was with some paladins there was no way that she could beat them, right?
Griffin watched the whole thing with an air of amusement, this jumper was something else and it put the paladins to shame, he'd done something similar when he'd been fighting Roland, but this. It was like she'd gathered the force of a tornado and thrown it at them for the three of them to travel so far, and as quickly as she had appeared she was gone again. This was why Jonathan had been so scared looking? Because of one jumper who knew what they were doing? What a wimp.
Suddenly hearing the soft sound of a jump behind him Griffin turned around to see a girl staring at him with a curious stare. She was slender, wearing a pullover jacket that seemed to have speakers embedded in the hood that she had pulled up over her hair. Her eyes were a light grey color that clashed with the color of her light brown hair and white skin; he imagined that she would burn easily under the harsh sun.
"Griffin right?" She asked him. Her voice was soft and yet stern, but Griffin was nowhere near ready to trust anyone again so he stood up defiantly and looked down at her.
She was shorter than him, came up to about his nose, so it was easy to try and intimidate her.
"Relax my man," she said with a laugh. "I know you like to hunt the paladins, I mean; everyone knows that you're very good at killing them. And I don't want to have all the fun, so, care to join me?" She asked with a polite grin.
"Fuck you," he growled darkly. This bitch thought she was so good just because she could jump rather quickly and throw people across the street, but no, he wouldn't let her act all high and mighty around him.
"Well fuck you too, and see you around," she responded with a smirk on her face. She then turned on her music again before jumping away from him and back in front of the three men on the ground.
Griffin had the urge to jump away and let her die, since he didn't think that she would be able to kill them all, but something told him to stay, what if she failed and the paladins got away? If he was here he could kill them and maybe even save the stuck up girl, not that he wanted anything to do with her. But it would just be a side effect of killing the paladins.
Magi smiled at them when they saw her standing right there, and they smiled back as well, tightening their grip on the weapons that paladins oh so loved as their own children. She had tried to be nice to the one called Griffin, but perhaps their ego's had clashed, Magi thought highly of her jumping ability and knew that the man was also pretty good at what he did. So of course he would refuse, but it had been worth a shot, it was always good to have another jumper on her side.
All at once they came at her, Jonathan jumped as quickly as he could and swung his fist at her before she simply dodged him and jumped at the wall. Pushing off of it with her legs to gain momentum she disappeared right in front of him before appearing behind one of the paladins and kicking him in the back of the head. He hit the pavement like a rock and lay lifeless, making the other two in the alleyway look at her angrily, but she simply smiled at them.
"Show me what you got," she said turning her music up louder.
In a flurry of movement Jonathan jumped to a few places before popping up right behind her while the other paladin shot his weapon out at her. She jumped away from them so quickly that Jonathan had to jump away as well unless he wanted to get shot by his own comrade. The paladin turned just as she tried to hit him, making her growl darkly before dodging her and jumping away again, but Jonathan was waiting for her and followed to the roof she jumped to.
Making a swing at her again she dodged the first hit before he swung at her again and missed, but he had been aiming to take out her legs and did so with a kick aimed at her knees. Magi did her best to dodge but only succeeded in jumping away after he had already knocked her down; she landed on her butt a few rooftops away.
"Need some help? I'll do it if you say please," Griffin asked appearing beside her with a sneer.
"Oh please," she started. "You don't even know who I am," she sneered right back at him before getting up and huffing darkly. "Tootles," she laughed before disappearing and reappearing right in front of Jonathan who looked pleased with himself.
He jumped away from her quickly, but it wasn't fast enough because when he stopped she was right in front of him, frowning he jumped away again, this time he was right next to the paladin. Hoping that she would jump right into a trap he was pleasantly surprised when she jumped a few feet away from him throwing a baseball bat at him before jumping again.
When Jonathan ducked to get away from the baseball bat she was ready to hit him in the face, getting him in the cheek he jumped away from her next to the other paladin. Magi walked over to the baseball bat and picked it up slowly, running her fingers across the metal surface of it she looked at them with a smirk. Jonathan shivered visibly before getting angry at himself for doing so, the song she had been jamming out to faded out abruptly before another one came on, it had more of a cheery beat with some playful guitar in the background.
"Love this song," she said before charging at them.
Jonathan charged right at her as well, this was where he would be praised for killing Magdalene; he wouldn't end up like all his other friends who never came back after facing off with her.
The next thing he knew Jonathan felt an aching pain in his head and a solid thudding sound as something connected with his forehead. It made him crash into the ground and his vision get blurry before he realized that he must've gotten hit with the bat, but why hadn't he seen her? The paladin next to him went down in a few moments; a resounding crack went through the air before the paladin fell right next to Jonathan. A little bit of blood started to move towards Jonathan from the man, which made him jerk back and moan slightly in pain, it was obvious the man was dead.
Magi jumped in front of Jonathan with a bored expression on her face, her music blared through the dead dimming light of the sun setting. She held the metal bat on her shoulder, which now had a bit of blood on it and a few dents from hitting things that she shouldn't have with it, things like people.
"Wait, please, I'm one of you," Jonathan begged trying his best to jump away. His head hurt too much to focus on anything particular and he only succeeded in backing against the wall. "I'm a jumper, you can't kill me," he said trying to get through to her.
"Oh, I beg to differ," she snarled swinging the bat at him again.
Watching his limp body slump towards the ground Magi growled and grabbed his body venomously, jumping him into a cave before jumping back into the alleyway quickly. When she got back Griffin was looking at one of the paladins quizzically before he turned his attention to her with a bored sort of expression.
"Didn't want to intervene, but why kill him?" He asked referring to the jumper who had begged her not to kill him.
"Would you like to go hunting with me?" She questioned ignoring his own.
"I don't need help hunting for paladins," Griffin spat out at her. For a moment Griffin was surprised by her shocked face before she blew chuckled at him lightly and went towards the paladins bodies. "Was something funny?" He growled feeling more pissed off than usual.
"Hunting for paladins is so easy, usually they just come to you," she muttered leaning over to pick up the body. "No, my prey is more fun to hunt," she said before jumping away for two seconds and she was back again. She turned her music down until he could only softly hear it as it echoed around the alley.
Griffin had to admit that he was impressed by how quickly she jumped, it was like he'd only closed his eyes for a second and she was back again, it was no wonder they hadn't stood a chance against her. The only way he knew that she had left was because her music had left with her and then returned when she had.
When she had charged at Jonathan he saw that the jumper didn't even have enough time to react before she swung the bat at his head and went down like a ton of bricks. She jumped everywhere so quickly that even Griffin couldn't follow her with his eyes, it was exactly as Jonathan had said, she's too fast.
"How did you know my name?" He asked her remembering that he still did not know hers.
"I know almost everyone," she laughed reaching for the other paladin before Griffin stepped in her way and glowered at her.
"Stop dicking around with me," he growled forcefully.
The girl stopped short and looked at him defiantly, standing as tall as she could the girl made a quick smile before frowning at him. Her eyes turned cold and icy towards him before she pulled off her hood and let her hair billow out around her.
"I hunt jumpers, paladins are just an extra surprise when the jumpers get scared," she explained saying the last word in a fake fearful voice.
"Why hunt jumpers?" Griffin pushed further when she stopped.
"You better catch with the war buddy," she said pushing some of her hair behind her ear. "Not all jumpers are running away from paladins, some of them are fighting with them," she said glaring at the place where Jonathan had been a few moments before.
"Paladins wouldn't want to work with jumpers," he sneered at her icily. The girl had to be deluded if she thought that jumpers had started to work right alongside paladins.
"Shouldn't," she said correcting him. "But they do, because the dumb jumpers like Jonathan, will betray the smarter jumpers like you, Marcus, Gillian, and I," she muttered staring up at him. "Or have you forgotten what David did to you?" She questioned making Griffin stop cold and turn her eyes on her in a deathly glare, which made her smile at him. "If he had been working for the paladins you would be dead," she murmured.
Suddenly enraged Griffin jumped towards the girl and pinned her to the wall threateningly.
"How the fuck do you know about that?" He growled slamming her against the wall again. She didn't jump away from him, merely smiled and looked at him kindly, as if she felt bad for him.
"I have my ways," she said before looking at the arms that held her tiredly.
Pulling himself away from her Griffin cursed loudly before turning back to her angrily, but he had nothing to say. The topic of David was still touchy, so touchy in fact that whenever he heard the guys name he had the sudden urge to smash someone's face in with an ax.
"Your hideout got destroyed, but I saved a bunch of papers if you want them," she said sliding down the wall.
Griffin jerked towards her suddenly interested in what she was saying; she'd saved some of his research?
"Oh," she stopped herself. "And I stole your game system," she added before jumping away from him. It was only a second before she was back again and looking at him with a bit of a bred expression. "Come here if you want it or, whatever," she said pushing a picture into his hands before vanishing again.
Looking down at the picture in his hands Griffin almost laughed when he saw that it was a postcard that said Happy Trails, before he noticed that there was a picture taped over top of the postcard. It looked like some old ruins, or a deserted town or something, the writing on the bottom on the picture read.
Craco, Italy.
He probably wouldn't go there.
AN: First chapter roughness, it'll get better I promise.
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