The Past Returns: Chapter Thirteen



Spike tossed his gun to the floor. "Ready when you are", he said.

Vicious quickly delivered the first punch, which Spike easily blocked. Multiple combinations of kicks and punches were thrown however, both men were well talented in fighting that they kept blocking each other's moves; it was as if one anticipated with the other was going to do.

As Julia, Jet, and Faye stood by watching. The imperial guards started to move in closer to them, probably they planned to come to Vicious' aid. Faye sensed this so, she reached out and grabbed one guy's arm. "I don't think so", with that said she swung the guy into her upper right kick and send him down to the floor in pain. "Didn't your mother ever teach you not to interfere with a man's fight?" she asked as she put her arms on her hips.

(With this done, all of the guards were now on their feet and move toward Faye however, Jet and Julia were now taking them on).

One man come up behind Faye and swung a staff at her, she naturally ducked the blow and instead yanked it away from him and used it to pound his body to the ground, down he went.

She glanced around the room and saw Jet was taking on one guards when another was running up from behind him. Faye took the staff that was in her hand and threw it, sending it flying through the air and knocking the guard to the floor as well. When Jet was finished dealing with his guard he turned and realized what had happened. He looked at Faye and nodded, his way of saying "thank you", she nodded back.

She now directed her attention back to another guard who was approaching her. Instantly she delivered a right punch, swirled beside him, elbowed him with her left elbow, and flipped him over onto his back. She looked behind her and saw guard number four running to her so, she side kicked him with her right leg, upper cut up, and grabbed him by the collar, dragging him to the floor with her, throwing him over her with her feet; in the process sending him colluding with guard number five. Faye flipped back onto her feet and stared upon guards number six, seven, and eight. She gave them an evil grin. "So, who's first?"



Julia was going well herself. She had now taken out four guards and was dealing with guard number five. She decided to give him a left hook kick then, walked up to him and kicked him twice hard in the stomach, he was out cold. Another guard came up bear hugging her from behind, almost lifting her off her feet. Luckily she regain her balance and leaned forward kicking him in the groaning and turning around, grabbing him by the head and kneed him with her leg. "These fools are just so pathetic", she said. (Sorry that Julia doesn't have a big fighting scene but as you can see I'm not very fond of her. Thus giving her a small part and Faye the cool big part. She's just so awesome)



Meanwhile two guards were holding Jet and a third approached him. He quickly gave the third guard a left bow kick and a left sidekick, pushing him away. Jet then glanced at the two guards who were holding him by the arms, he stepped slighting back and slammed the two into each other, knocking them unconscious. A fourth guard came running to him, he stepped aside and managed to grab him by the neck. He directed his attention to a fifth guard, who was screaming while holding onto a staff; so Jet once again stepped slightly aside so that the guard he was holding got hit with the staff and immediately grabbed onto the fifth guard by the collar and send him flying up against the wall. "Piece of cake", he said as he wiped his hands clean.



Meanwhile the fighting between Spike and Vicious had grown intense. Vicious had a slight swell on his right cheek and Spike had a deep cut above his left eye brow that was bleeding down the side of his face. Vicious threw two straight punches at Spike he dodged the first punch but blocked the second and kneed him in the stomach. He thought that by kneeing him he himself would now have the upper hand however, Vicious surprised him and recover and managed to kick him across the face; causing Spike to bleed from the right corner of his mouth. Vicious then elbowed him in the ribs and did a spinning back kick to push him away. Spike staggered a bit and saw Vicious coming after him, punched him once again in the ribs. Spike then caught his arm, as he was going to punch him a third time and twisted it, causing Vicious to cry out in pain, and sweep kick him from under his legs and falling hard onto the floor. Spike then hovered over Vicious, staring down at him.

"I haven't lost this fight", Vicious said as he stared up at Spike.

"Yes you have. It ends here", he responded.

Vicious looked to his left and noticed that the gun Spike had tossed aside earlier was now lying close beside him. Quickly he reached for it and pointed it to him.

Spike's eyes went wide with bewilderment. "It'll take more than just bullets to stop me Vicious".

"Then I'll wound you where it hurts you the most". He then drifted his aim to Faye who was so distracted with her fight against the guards she didn't even notice what was happening.

Spike saw what Vicious wanted to accomplish so he yelled out to her. "FAYE!"

She turned around and saw Vicious holding a gun to her. He immediately fired two shots before she moved out of his aim. To Faye this moment seemed to last forever. She saw the two bullets moving toward her, it was as if time had stopped and was now moving in slow motion; this is how she saw the bullets, moving in slow motion. The bullets were about to impact with her yet, instead another person intervened, Julia.

Julia received the two shots, which had landed such below the ribs. She coughed out blood and fell hard to the floor. All of the imperial guards had been dealt with so, Jet and Faye were by her side.

Vicious on the other hand had seen Julia take the shots that was meant for Faye. He was studden by this; Spike saw that he was distracted so he took this opportunity to dive for the gun. Vicious had quickly regained his consciousness and both were now struggling for the gun. Both had a hard firm grip on it however, Spike decided to let one hand loose and punch Vicious in the face twice. This caused him to loose his grip and Spike quickly yanked it away and held it to his head.

Vicious now stared at the gun that was being held to his head. "You know at the beginning I did envy you because in the syndicate's eyes you were the better person who had better qualities. Of course I was assigned leader of our little pack because I had been there much longer than you have, in a way I thought they even felt pity for me. But I see the years had made you grow soft Spike. You were always the fool!"

"Yeah? Well I'm also the fool who's holding the gun", with that he fired one bullet to his brain. Vicious' body fell to the ground lifeless. Dark red blood spilling all over the floor.