Chapter 10
Life or Death Battle
Bella was running through the streets, she could easily see where Lucila had been. The essence less bodies gave proof to that, she was weak from earlier, but that didn't matter to her. She knew that Derek was getting their secret weapon. Derek had his essence returned to him before Lucila left, once he was on his feet Zhar just up and left. Her guess was because he never wanted to be seen as doing something good. Which made sense to Bella and Derek, yet as she ran and thought about this, she knew that the odds were stacked up high against her. Normally that would bother her, yet right then and there she could care less. Her father always felt that way, so now she knows how it feels, and now to prove that she was a real Rivera.
Bella soon heard tanks, and she knew what was going on, the Policia were fighting Lucila, and her aunts were the Police chefs. Bella was angry now, she had to save them! As she ran down town, she saw a couple with their essences still in tact, being attacked by skeletons; she stopped and grabbed the guitar off of her back. "Well I'm not much of a guitar player." She pointed the guitar at the banditos and plucked the E string and was nearly blown out of her red boots. The banditos were blown to pieces and the young couple inside were confused, until Bella jumped on top of the vehicle and motioned for them to get out of there. The guy behind the wheel nodded and left, Bella grappled to a nearby light post and was going to rest for a second to catch her breath.
She soon smelled something however; it smelled like she was near an open dumpster she looked around and saw a skeletal bandito right next to her. She jumped out of the way to another lamppost, and it swiped where her head was a few seconds ago. She didn't like the looks of that, if it could sneak up on her so easily, she was going to be in for it when she fights Lucila. Bella looked towards the prison and ran as fast as she could to get there.
Anita and Nikita Suarez had both just cuffed two banditos at once, the smiled and went back to back against each other. They could see a new plague in their office; it would be like their fathers old one. Anita grabbed her radio as Nikita kept the skeletons at bay. "Rodriguez and Philippe what's your status over?" There was a long pause before a reply came to Nikita.
"This is Ramirez, Rodriguez and Philippe are down, the shadow creature did something to them." Both Anita and Nikita gritted their teeth, the word retreat was on the tip of their tongs, but two large skeleton banditos had come up from behind them, they wouldn't be able to get out of the way in time. Then all of a sudden, something crashed into both skeletons and destroyed them, standing on the wreckage of the two skeletons was none other than Anita and Nikita's niece Isabella Rivera.
"Isabella! You're alive!" Both said that the same time! They were grateful to see their niece up and conscious again but they were worried about her physical condition, she looked like she had just run about a hundred miles in only five minuets.
"Good to see you both too, listen you need to get all of your men out of here. I can handle this creature." She jabbed her thumb at herself. Then after she said that she tackled her aunts to the ground, just before two large tentacles could suck out their essences. She looked up at the tentacles and sliced them into pieces. Once it was gone, she looked at her aunts with a serious look on her face. They knew that they needed to trust their young niece.
They both stood up and pulled out their radios, and both yelled at the same time. "Ramirez and whoever else is with us, fall back La Tigresa is here!" There were many excited responses that came in return to the news. Anita and Nikita looked at Bella one last time before they ran off and made sure to get everyone out of danger.
Once they were gone, Bella turned her attention to the skeletal army before her. Derek wasn't there yet with their secret weapon so she would have to hold her own until he got there. She looked around and smiled, she then let out a thunderous roar that shook most of Miracle City. Her roar got Lucila's attention, she was feasting on the essences of the prisoners and she smiled when she saw Bella.
Bella attacked the skeletons, but they just kept coming in bigger numbers until suddenly they stopped attacking her. They started backing up, Bella turned and saw why, and Lucila was shrinking down to her size, she smiled a wicked smile at Bella. Her costume moved away from her face and showed her now sinister purple eyes. She walked towards Bella hands folded neatly behind her back. "So you beat my parents, big surprise. I knew they were weak, he told me so." She rolled her eyes and then she was petting her costume.
Bella glared at her and then leaped at her and clawed at her face, she wasn't able to leave a deep wound there. She jumped back and looked at her; Lucila was smiling, like what Bella had just done was nothing at all. "How very amusing, you shed my blood. Like it matters I don't bleed easily like I could before." Then right before Bella's eyes Lucila's wound healed, Bella wasn't too concerned about that.
"Then I wonder how well your bones can heal!" She leaped at Lucila again, only this time she clawed left and right. Then she threw punches and kicked her in the ribs too. She wasn't going to let her get away with torturing her loved ones so easily. She pounded her into the ground and she was ready to make her suffer. Until something hit her and she was blown back about five feet out of the crater Lucila was in.
Lucila stood up and slowly made her way to Bella, who was having a hard time concentrating. Her vision was fading, going in and out, and reality was becoming weaker and sharper from every now and then. It was disorienting. When Lucila was in front of her she didn't know until it was too late. She grabbed Bella by the collar and lifted Bella up to face her. "How does it feel Bella, reality becoming dull one moment and then sharp in only a few seconds, this is what happens when only a nibble of your essence is taken." She smiled and then noticed the guitar on her back. "Oh and what were you going to do with this?" She grabbed the guitar and looked at it un-amused. She tossed it to the side, as her costume was soon moving all around Bella; it soon consumed her form and was now moving towards her face. Bella was trying to struggle free but she couldn't break the shadowy villains grasp. Just as Lucila could taste Bella essence something clanked at her feet. She looked down and saw a small red remote control car with a large bowl of tortilla chips attached to this. She looked at it confused, "What the…?"
Then Bella started laughing, "It's not over yet Black Titan, not by a long shot!" All of a sudden a green blob was shot at Lucila, it hit her arm and she screamed in pain. She dropped Bella and cradled her wound, Bella turned to see Derek riding on the shoulder of a giant guacamole monster.
He jumped down and ran towards her, and she did the same. They hugged but only for a brief moment, then as they parted, Bell couldn't help but smile at Derek. "Did I make it in time?" He asked.
"Right on time now are you ready to do this?" She smiled at him, but he was confused.
"Where is it?" He asked and realization hit Bella, she looked around until she found the guitar right where Lucila tossed it. She shot her grapple at the guitar and grabbed it, she retracted it and she gave the guitar to Derek. "Much better, you want to get the monster to cooperate or me?"
She rolled her eyes at him as she turned to face Lucila again, she had grown in size again and tentacles were lashing out at Bella, while Derek was getting the guacamole monster to attack Lucila. After only a minuet had passed, Bella was pinned down by Lucila and Derek had stolen the chip bowl from the guacamole monster. Lucila's costume was about to cover Bella completely and was ready to suck out her essence when all of a sudden the tortilla chip bowl was thrown at Lucila's arm. She was confused by this action but, just like her mother, she pondered the action one moment to long. The guacamole monster all of a sudden attacked Lucila, but Bella was still stuck under the black alien costume. Derek blasted most of it off with his lasers and peeled the rest off of Bella.
She then sat up and barfed up some more, she looked disgusted, "Gross, it was like liking something dry and stale!" She was slapped on the back and she threw up more of the costume. She stood up and was ready to fight for her life; as was Derek. Then something unexpected happened, Lucila grabbed the steel doors of the prison and slammed them down on the guacamole monster, she stood atop it for a good few minuets.
Bella and Derek gulped, "Are you sure you don't want to run while we still can mi amore?"
She looked at him and smirked, "No way, there is no where else I'd rather be than by your side fighting an unstoppable battle."
He smiled at her and they hugged another quick hug, when skeletons soon surrounded them. Bella was ready to destroy them, as Derek tuned the blood red guitar in his hands, they were both ready to fight the battle of their lives.
TO BE CONTINUED……………………………………………..
More will come when I get the patience to write more, so yea. Oh and if anyone is curious, this is one of the two stories from DA that I want to finish before I continue with my others here. Well that's all, please review. :)
