Chapter 12
I was left to wonder what Bayman might encounter on his journey down his chosen path. My mind forced to concentrate ahead, I did have my own task, the goal was to find Raidou? I wondered if I could face him on my own? My thoughts stirred seeing the lights begin to brighten a little while I moved down the hallway. I supposed I had been expected wasn't I? A sound would catch my ears a voice speaking in my direction, "I am sorry, but I can't let you go any further." My eyes lifted to this voice, the sight of a dark skinned woman draped in some sort of bathing suit style attire. She had a mask, which resembled a butterfly.
"Just who do I have here madame butterfly?" I spoke with an arrogance getting ready to teach this intruder a true thing about combat. I noticed the masked woman carried an odd swagger to her approach. "I am La Mariposa. I cannot let you go any further I do hope you can understand." I would growl lowly, "Fine!" I would spin my body forward in the quick spinning cannon kick I used often. Yet I received a painful surprise when she blocked the attack, only to ground my leg and spin around. I felt my thigh tense up, my knee joint being stretched painfully when she locked her leg in position.
"Ahhh!" I felt the stretch of my knee when she pressed her foot into the back of my calf. It was a new shocking pain, this woman had a counter based fighting style like Bayman. My free right leg would kick off her thigh and roll backwards so I could stand. My leg aching when I limped back a little, looking toward this woman. I underestimated her from the start, I can't do that again. My eyes closing to feel the pain strike my knee and up along my thigh. La Mariposa was up to her feet as if nothing happened. "I don't want to hurt you. Please just surrender. This mad man Raidou is just to powerful."
I now sneered shifting my weight forward throwing a back elbow toward the woman, "Its only because you are weak!" To my growing dismay, La Mariposa would block with her right arm. Only to hook her left arm into my elbow. When she achieved that she tossed me like a rag doll into the plexi glass style wall. My spine popped loudly as I groaned sliding down the material falling onto the ground with a low groan. I had seen this style of fighting before, yet in the moment I couldn't place it. I had to many thoughts in my head at the moment. To many to fight with a clear head.
I could only watch La Mariposa strut around in front of me. I had fought opponents ten times stronger than this one. Why was I letting this woman get the better of me? My hands pushing off the ground, I needed to stand to even prove I could fight. "Get out of my way, or I will kill you." La Mariposa could only shake her head moving back a little, "This is not personal Ayane, I am sorry." My eyes shot wide open when the woman said my name., just who in the hell was she? How did she know his name, this alone confused and concerned her greatly.
"Hahaha. Little Ayane thinks she can kill me." The dark voice of Raidou would pierce the large room. His face appearing on a large monitor. His devilish glare would watch me with little care or concern. My teeth clinched tightly into my bottom lip. "Raidou!!" I found myself full of rage watching this demon of a man stare at me with little concern. Fist clenching tightly, blood pooling out from my palm. I was then struck with a fist my head whipping to the side, I had lost track of La Mariposa. Eyes cutting toward the dark skinned woman, blood leaking down my lip.
"Never take your eyes off your opponent, or you will never get where you want to be." I quickly did a back flip and slid along the ground. I had been fighting in a less than calm stance. It wasn't something I did often, I was usually more relaxed. The tense situation was becoming to much, I was worried about Bayman, was he okay? My thoughts were interrupted when La Mariposa moved into my left side, raising her knee she caught me in the stomach. I hunched over, only to be thrown by my arm into the wall again. My back snapped back hard. I was now coughing blood up into the floor.
"So this is the proud kunoichi who was going to kill me? You are pathetic, just like your bitch of a mother Ayame." Raidou was not taunting me. My anger getting the better of me, using momentum I pushed off the ground flipping onto my feet. Doing a back flip I caught La Mariposa with my outstretched leg. Her form sent flying backwards landing on her back with a heavy thud. Landing back on my feet I turned to face the monitor screen. "You are wrong Raidou. I will kill you. I am nothing like my mother or my weak sister! I will finish what she should have done!"
Raidou would just laugh with to much calmness that shook me to the core. "I bet you are just like that bitch of a mother. Crying out for a man to save her life." My eyes slanted when he taunted me with such an outlandish claim. I didn't need anyone to save me, I was always alone, he was just being a fool. "Go to hell Raidou!" Raidou would only laugh again, what was he thinking,, had this place take this insane man's mind to the further reaches of despair and idiocy? I asked the question wanting an answer but I was yet to receive one that made since.
Raidou would shift in the monitor screen, I now witnessed something I hadn't expected. I saw on the screen Bayman on his knees. There was Christie walking around him, she was laughing. What in the hell happened? I saw tons of blood pooling from his wounds, it must have been the bullet wounds. He was not fighting in a fair fight, my heart began to hurt seeing him in this position. "Bayman-sama!" My voice cried out in vain knowing he wouldn't hear me but in this very dire moment I felt helpless and didn't wish to see him that way. I wanted to be there to help him.
Yet I couldn't, my muscles aching with pain from the previous attacks from La Mariposa. However now it was even worse, my body felt weak and helpless. A feeling I hadn't felt in several years, why did I feel it after seeing Bayman. I was a cold hearted assassin wasn't I? "I see you are just as weak as your mother! Hahaha! So this man, this weak fool has your heart? Pathetic, even for you, letting a simple set of wounds stop him from winning the fight. Well I suppose its a fitting end, say good night to this weak pathetic man."
My eyes now widened witnessing the white haired woman known as Christie raise a gun toward Bayman. His head was lowered blood pouring from his mouth. There would come a loud shot, I watched Bayman fall toward the ground, blood beginning to pool from beneath him when he collapsed onto his chest. "No!!" My heart sank as I dropped onto my knees, the monitor turning back to Raidou who could only laugh as tears poured down my cheeks. "Hehehe.. I hope you enjoy your death, I will be waiting on you kunoichi! Hahaha!"
