Chapter 3: The hooded figure

Everything was black. Smoke and ruins everywhere. Fresh ruins of a proud and mighty fortress, was now reduced to ruble. The ground was still hot after the explosion, buildings was set ablaze. The air smelled like iron and was visibly tainted red.

Amongst the ruins, bodies of men and women in armour were littered; it was as if the Earth itself was painted in blood and corpses of dead warriors.

Through the remnants of what was the gate of the grand fortress, entered two figures. One of them was a dark haired lad who had a humongous sword strapped to his back. Aside him waked a female who was wearing black hoddie rob. She showed no regard for the corpses as she walked through them.

"What a bunch of weaklings, to think that these mighty soldiers would fall so easily makes me extremely pissed. I was expecting a little more challenge," the girl said as she stepped on the face of a corpse that had its gut pouring out.

"The objective was to finish them as quickly as possible,"

The girl turned and game him a murdering gaze. Even though he couldn't see her face, he would sense her murderous intent that was oozing out of her. "Did you just question me?"

Her tone was extremely calm and silent. He could sense that he'd end up dead if he spoke back. Knowing her, he wondered how he was still alive.

"No, not at all," he mumbled.

She turned and marched forward. "Damn this sucks!" she yelled as she kicked a head of a mangled corpse. The head was isolated from its body and was sent flying.

"Not one survivor, I really should have held back more,"

She suddenly grabbed a dead corpse by the neck and lifted it with one hand. "WHY THE FUCK DID YOU DIE?" she yelled as she tossed the corpse several meters in the air. It covered an incredible amount of distance before landing in a pile of bodies. A shriek was heard from where it landed.

The hooded woman's ears seemed to shoot up as she turned towards the pile. She ran towards the sound, the boy followed her half heartedly.

A man was desperately trying to crawl away. His armour was broken, he was missing a leg, from which blood was oozing out leaving a red trail. The hooded girl ran up to him and slammed his face to the ground with her hand. "Well well well, what do we have here?" she said while licking her lips in anticipation.

She turned him over. One of his eyes was damaged, his nose was broken and he was missing an incisor. He struggled in vain as she grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up.

"Do... you have … any idea what you are doing..." The man managed to blurt out while struggling.

"Oh I have no idea. Do enlighten me," She said laughing loudly.

She slammed his face to the ground kicked him in the stomach. He winced in pain.

"You… witch! Do you think an attack on the Rune knights will be tolerated by the king of Fiore?!,"

She grabbed his neck once more as she rested herself on his stomach. "You will be hunt down! By the name of the king you all will perish!", he yelled. She released his neck and twirled her fingers in his chest.

"You sure are a fiery one…."

"but…"

She retracted her hands and struck him on chest. Her hands pierced through the flesh and the sound of his ribcage being broken was heard. He screamed in agony as she pulled out his heart, which was still attached to the blood vessels.

"…you should worry about yourself," she said as she took his beating heart and rubbed it against her cheeks.

"Hey mister look! I have stolen you heart!," she winked as she showed him his own beating heart. He gave cries of terror and agony which no sane human could've bared to hear. But it just seemed to turn her on.

"Too bad for you mister, but my heart belongs to another," she said as she crushed his heart. Blood sprayed everywhere and his cries were silenced.

"Am sorry that I broke your heart," she said with a tone of fake sympathy. Then yanked the heard apart from the body, and tore apart the blood vessels. She flung his heart away and turned to face the boy. He looked a bit uneasy.

"Your heart belongs to another?"

She gave a squeal when she heard that. The boy just flinched upon hearing her squeal. He wondered what sort of a horrible monster would want to have this woman.

"Well you go on ahead, I have some work to do," she said as she turned and hopped away joyously, like a little child, while humming a melody.

"What are you going to do?"

"It's been a while, so I am dying to see my beloved Natsu,"