Chapter 12 – Merciless Love

All this time, I thought I'd officially lost everyone. Thankfully, there is still one person who cares. One person that has overcome his blind emotions towards me. And with him in the picture, we just might stand a chance. Lookout Harvey because Luke and I are coming to get you.

"Well, well, well. What do we have here? A little reunion of friends. How cute. Why don't I just leave you two alone so you could…"

"SHUT IT HARVEY!" Luke interrupts Harvey as he punches him in the stomach.

"We aren't here to talk. I came to help out my friend, Zack."

"Well then. I guess I'll just have to take you out first so that I can continue beating on chicken boy over there."

So now I'm chicken boy… I guess I deserve that kind of title. After all, I've went from watching everyone on the sidelines to running away when I attempted to do anything useful. However, it isn't too late. All that ends here!

After a few seconds of watching Harvey pin Luke against the wall, Harvey smashes his own head into Luke's. I watch in fear as Harvey's head looks a bit sore and Luke's begins to bleed. He's gone too far this time.

"HAHAHAHA! How does that feel, Luke?"

"Zack..."

I charge toward Harvey and leap on top of him. Harvey tumbles to the ground, releasing his grip from Luke as I sit on top of him.

"First you turn my friends against me and now you hurt them. You've crossed the line this time Harvey." I say in a rather heroic tone.

"Too bad there's nothing you can do about it." Harvey replies as he throws a punch.

I'm not sure what begins to take me over, but instead of dodging the punch, as I normally would expect myself to do, I decide to catch it in a block. I feel a rather tremendous twitch creep from my arm to the upper and lower regions of my body.

After recovering from this twitch, with Harvey fist still cuffed between my hands, I use both of my hands to force his fist to bend backward beyond the limits of the typical wrist. Harvey begins letting out a scream as he recklessly throws punches with his vacant hand only to miss with every one. I will not let him get away. Not this time. Not after all he has done to me. He's hurt me too many times and he's going to pay for it.

"STOP! PLEASE! IT HURTS!" Harvey cries out with a similar expression as the one he gave during his silent treatment in front of Violet.

'Maybe I should let him go. I think he's learned his lesson and there's no need to go overboard… again…' I think to myself. I turn toward Luke to see his reaction toward my current merciless attitude. To my surprise though, I find Luke completely passed out with blood covering his forehead.

My eyes widen and my muscles tighten. 'Harvey did that… and I was considering showing mercy on him… on this heartless killing machine…' I think to myself as my grip on Harvey's fist tightens. I turn back around to find a bit of blood on Harvey's veins.

"Please… stop…" Harvey says, calmer this time.

"Shut up! I fell for the sympathy act once, but not this time." I say, finally overcoming any second doubts I'd had about breaking every bone in his body. I begin to use the hand I was squeezing his fist with to twist his fist to the right. About five seconds into the twist I begin to hear his bones crack.

"AHHHH… Don't…" Harvey pleads to me.

"Hmmmmm isn't that the same thing that I heard Violet tell you the first time I saved her from you. And did you stop? NO! YOU CONTINUED HARASSING HER!" I say with tears dripping from my eyes.

I release Harvey's fist from my grip and stand back up, watching him lie helplessly on the floor. I continue my assault as I continuously kick him, hitting him harder with every kick and hearing a yelp from him every time.

"This one's for Nicole!" I scream as I lunge a kick into his face harder than the previous ones.

"And this one's for Becky!" I scream yet again, kicking him with equal force in his stomach.

"And this one's for Cody!" I yell as I begin to cry. "YAAAA!" I scream trying to keep myself focused on inflicting pain on Harvey instead of my tears as I kick his chest.

"Did you like that kick to the chest? Doesn't it remind you of when you lashed out on my chest? Well it better!" I say to an unconscious Harvey.

"This one's for Violet!" I say, muttering underneath tears as I throw a punch at Harvey's cheek.

"And this one should remind you of an event that took place just a few minutes ago. THIS ONE IS FOR LUKE!" I erupt as I smash my head into Harvey's in a similar fashion as he did to Luke a few short moments ago.

After the collision of our heads, I begin to tumble to the ground. "It's done." I whisper to myself as a smirk forms across my face.

I pick myself back up as I see a rather large bump on Harvey's head. I stroke my own forehead to see the damage that had on me. 'Ack' I yell to myself as I pull my hand away from my head. It wasn't bleeding, but it hurt a LOT!

I stumble toward Luke, leaning against the wall with a throbbing headache the whole walk there. I place myself right beside him.

"We did it, buddy." I whisper in his ear as I wrap my arms around him for a hug.

I'm not exactly sure what taking down Harvey had accomplished, but I felt like a whole new person. Now that I think about it, taking down Harvey did have one benefit to it. I am now a bit more mentally secure. Not sure how long this feeling is going to last, but for now I am thoroughly pleased by its sensation.

I begin to slide down Luke's body as I continue leaning on him.

"I guess… a champion needs his rest too…" I force out of my mouth as I fall asleep on Luke's lap.

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... Zack... Wake up...

We're coming REALLY close to the end! Just one more chapter to sum up everything and then the chapter after that will be an introduction to the "Luke Version" of this story. Thank you for reading so far.

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