Chapter 4
Authors Note-There will be a mention of the other 4 vault hunters in this chapter, will be zer0 and lilith development in here so...yeah.
Cold.
That was how zer0 felt right now.
Bored.
That was also how he felt right now.
It turns out following your target through a blizzard has it's downsides, like running the risk of hypothermia whilst simultaneously keeping an eye on a fiery siren, it wasn't even a challenge, heat vision through his helmet and her constantly using her siren powers to heat herself up, he almost envied her, he would envy her if she didn't have one of the most efficient killers on Pandora after her.
After a good few more hours of walking she changed course, this provoked zer0 to look ahead through his zoom enhancement and see a bandit camp, much larger than the other one, zer0 prepared his blade and by the looks of things the siren had prepared herself too, if the huge inferno wings protruding from her back was any indication that is.
He drifted across the landscape, no more than 6 feet from her now, and she jumped, far and fast she plummeted towards the ground at tremendous speeds, he watched as she walked through the camp, seemingly unhindered by the nomads and goliaths, he saw the psychos try and swing at her, but she turned them into puddles, it was almost...a certain type of beauty that she held while fighting, it was...indescribable.
It was at this point however that he noticed the nomads and goliaths do not fear him like they fear her, they began shooting but hitting nothing but his hologram, the siren was too far to hear or even care at this point about gunfire so, before he split a nomad in half he thought 'Let the slaughter begin'
And with that being thought (?), he split a nomad in half, he stabbed a maniac through his lungs and decapitated a midget, at this point he heard, a miniguns barrels spinning, he turned to see a huge towering goliath with a minigun, zer0 put 5 shots from the revolver to his helmet and he...went rage-mode.
A nomad turned to spray him up with fire, but the goliath tore through him screaming "MORE!", he became stronger, harder to kill, and faster like a predator, the goliath ran into the camp and began tearing through his fellow bandits, every once in a while zer0 heard him scream "DIDN'T EVEN FEEL IT!" The hud on zer0s helmet showed him to be something known as a God-Liath, something that was truly a menacing thing to come charging through a camp at you, knowing it wouldn't stop.
As zer0 entered the cave, he felt the ground begin to shake, the God-Liath was approaching him, fast, zer0 threw his kunai at the bandit, slashed his knees until his left one fell out, the bandit was bleeding profusely and zer0 should be happy to see this, a bleeding giant, fallen to him, but he was angered by the fact that the siren had got away due to this, thing. He simply shot him through the head and began to progress through the cave, he encountered the odd psycho and nomad throughout the cave, they were no challenge and he let out a sigh, as he walked up the metal stairs and outside the cave again, he saw a truly bone-chilling site, a mutated psycho was lumbering towards him, his left arm was shrunken and the right arm was enlarged, he wielded a huge pipe with screws and nails sticking out from it, he charged at zer0, screaming incoherent sentences about eyelids, he simply stayed there, unmoving and unfazed by this huge menacing thing that charged him, he instead activated his deception, slipped out to the side and split him in two, horizontally.
The next chunk of camp was an even bigger disappointment, just psychos and nomads, no goliaths, no huge psychos that were mutated, no challenge.
He sliced throgh the camp in a matter of minutes, coming upon another cave, this one lit up well and having pipes protruding from the walls, a mutant psycho had began to charge him, but died before he could reach zer0, who was stood at the entrance, 'AHHH FOR FUCK SAKE!' zer0 screamed in his head, he was close to killing himself at this point.
He wandered through the caves, avoiding the plumes of fire that came from the pipes, they killed off his challenge before it had reached zer0 before,also needing to pole walk across a spike pit,suddenly zer0 tensed up, feeling the familiar sensation of siren energy hit him, he snuck to the shadows and entered a huge room, an open room in a cave, thinking fast zer0 leapt onto the huge chains that held up the platform, on which, the Firehawk dwelled.
Zer0 jumped out onto the wall and nimbly climbed and manoeuvred his way out to the back of the cave, back into the snow but able to scout the lair of this being rather efficiently, he pulled his revolver out, popped in some bullets and just as he was about to shoot her, he paused, he heard rumbling and an explosion sounded, a vent on the roof of the lair popped open and psychos came crashing in, too many to count, of course she began to fight, blast and generally destroy the bandits, until he saw it, it was small but it was there,another glint from a scope,this one hidden slightly better, he charged to his left,out into the snow, another glint from another assassin, he was fed up of this, he will send a message to this 'HYPERION', and it will be a strong one.
As he neared the target, he saw a yellow uniform, a big yellow 'H' on the back of the unaware assassin, he leapt through the air, closing in quickly on his target and brought his blade down, it took the head clean off and he was lifeless, he heard the faint screams from psychos and cocky remark from the siren.
He lifted the head of this would-be assassin and held it infront of his helmet, taking a picture through his camera in his helm, he wrote under the picture:
"You know i accept this contract on the siren, yet another has appeared, you insult my skill by doubting me, you will know the full extent of my efficiency in klling as i will kill any you dare to send, you have started a fight you will not win."
And with that he sent it to Hyperion, makng sure there are no others, zer0 walked back to the cave and saw the siren was, down, she was bleeding and a maniac was laughing as he was ready to finish her, but one of the so called 'Crushers' of the camp stopped him, and shouted out "Hey boys, Jack wanted this siren bitch, but i think we deserve some fun with her, right?" A flurry of cheers and dark laughs came from the group of 6 or 7 marauders that began to circle her, zer0 knew what they were planning and he would not allow it, as he was thinking this he heard the siren scream out, "Touch me and i'll turn you all into smoothies you bunch of scum!", zer0 appreciated her defiance in the faces of these rapists, but knew she could not fight them with internal bleeding and injuries that would take days to heal, he acted fast, zer0 brought up his revolver and shot, a satisfying 'squelch' came from the bruiser of the group and the rest went on alert and began to spray around the cave carelessly, the siren stuck out her arm and lit a marauder on fire, a psycho noticed this and charged her but burst into a pool of acid as one of zer0s kunai lodged itself in his head, '5 left' zer0 thought,' time to butcher' as he leapt through the air, he noticed the siren eye him before narrowly avoiding a shot from another bandit, he landed and used his combat rolls momentum to split a marauder in half and kick a psycho over the edge, another bruiser came running at him but he simply sidestepped the walking muscle and took his arm off, a psycho came running at him but was liquified as the siren grabbed his ankle and melted him, he suddenly heard the siren scream 'Behind y-BANG" and a shot rang throughout the cave, she flinched slightly at this but noticed the figure that saved her had de-materialised, she saw the shot was not from the bandit but from the figure as he was at the opposite end of her platform and a smoking jakobs revolver in his hand.
He walked over to her, but she stood up and aimed her revolver, the one from the snow at him and said, in a warning tone"Who are you, How'd you get here and what the hell do you want from me!?"She heard him chuckle, and he said "I'm here to help, i saved your life so why do you threaten me?"
"I was doin just fine before you showed up"
"You were about to be raped, kidnapped and muredered, you were and still are bleeding and injured"
"I don't need advice from some, ninja cliché wannabe badass, I'm a siren who coul-"
"i know what you are, and so does Hyperion, you have been targeted by all assassins on Pandora and i have eliminated two that were going to kill you, i was here to kill you and if i wanted to, i could have"
Lilith thought he was a cocky son of a bitch, it irked her a little"So what do you want?"
"I was insulted, doubted and left for dead at a train wreck by Hyperion, they doubted me so i insult them"
"By doing what, sending them a hurtful letter?" Lilith added with a chuckle
"No"
"Look, get the hell outta my cave"
"Siren, or do you prefer Lilith, i'm here as an insult to Hyperion, i will be staying"
"Look, freaky mask dude, i don't want or need you here, leave before i put a bullet in that pretty mask of yours"
As she said this she passed out, she collapsed in a pool of her own blood, zer0, being the gentleman he was, slung her over his shoulder, dropped her on the bed and pulled a sewing kit from his belt, and began stitching her wounds.
As zer0 finished her stitches a few hours later, he began to pace around her cave, he noticed she has nothing worth any value so, why would she stay? He walked up to where she was sleeping to clean her wound, as he pulled out the ice cold water and clean-ish rag, he couldn't help but notice how peaceful this being was as she sleep, chest slowly moving up and down, her hair covered her eyes, before he knew what he was doing, he moved it back to her head, with the gentlest of touches he began to rub his thumb on her cheek, feeling her warm flesh and soft cheeks, he moved his hand so it ghosted over her lips, feeling soft and warm, like the rest of her,he quickly shook the thoughts from his head and began to clean her wound.
She stirred at his touch and her arm drooped over the side of her bed, zer0 moved the arm back in place and brushed her chest accidentally as he did so, she let out an almost inaudible moan, zer0 wondered why these humans were like that, the softest of touches on certain areas and it drove them wild, it has always been a mystery to zer0 as to how this was, perhaps he may find out sat over the edge of the bed after he moved the water and rag back under the bed, hunched over and hands on his knees, he turned his head to the sleeping siren next to him, although she was a deadly fighter, she had a thing that no other human had, a natural beauty, perhaps because sirens are naturally beautiful she has this, zer0 had the lightest of blushes as he thought this, the crimson emoticon flashed from his helmet and began to stir her from her sleep, she lazily opened her eyes to a sight that she never expected;
1)A creep in a mask at the end of her bed, flashing some red light
2)A stitched wound and bandit-free cave
"What the hell are you still doing here?" she asked lazily, he responded by getting up and leaning against the railing at the opposite end of the platform,"I apologise if i woke you, you need rest, go back to sleep"
"Look, i know me better than you, and on that i don't even know you, if you're gunna be staying at least give me a name"
His response was to flash a digital '0', she was beginning to annoy him, she should just accept that he saved her and needs a place to rest, she should be obliged to help
"Okay, em, zero?, get the hell outta my cave"
"Be silent siren, i saved you from rape and murder, and you thank me by being hostile?"
Lilith was ready to say something but when she opened her mouth to speak, nothing came out but air, he was right, should she be more accepting towards him?, for all she knows he could rape her.
Zer0 thought he has quieted the beast, he turns to leave and she shouts after him
"Hey, where are you going?"
"Hunting, there is a blizzard approaching and we are in need of some food...i doubt you care as i'm leaving"
The last part pinged inside her, she should have at the least apologised for her hostility, but she has the right to-
"OW,what the fuck?"
She then remembered her stitches and layed back, waiting for either another group of psychos, or the masked weirdo, either way she thought she was a little safer with the stranger, she closed her eyes as sleep enveloped her.