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Chapter 14
I was now in full tears, I couldn't believe Christie killed Bayman on his knees. Such a weak display of honor, it made each and every muscle in my tiny body flex with rage. I couldn't feel the pain that I had felt earlier. Nothing matter right now but what I just saw. Why had it happened? I would kill that white haired assassin for this, he was. He was someone I had grown to love, I could truly pass the thought to myself. Everything Raidou had been mumbling about was brushed off as nothing right now. I felt full of sorrow and anger, whatever he was saying I couldn't even comprehend.
"I can't do this anymore!" A female voice startled me from the moment of despair I found myself clutching to. To my surprise La Mariposa was getting up, throwing her mask off. To my shock it was Lisa, the one I was greeted by when I reached the island. She couldn't have been the one I was fighting? Such skill, I had passed her off as nothing more than a secretary or something along those lines. Yet here she stood a fighter just like me, I truly had underestimated her skills to a true fault.
I noticed Raidou didn't seem to give a damn even as Lisa spoke up sharply. "Why... Why did he have to die Lisa.." My words were full of tears, the heated liquid trailing down my cheeks. I was full of so many emotions I probably looked like a time bomb ticking away till Armageddon would break loose. I kept waiting for some solace to come from Lisa, yet she seemed unwilling to answer me. My fingernails dug into my palm, I felt my skin tear and blood leak out. I was growing beyond frustrated now. "Tell me!"
I watched Lisa freeze in mid thought, like she was fighting a battle within her mind. Finally her head dropped in submission. "I am sorry Ayane-san. I was just following orders... I had no intention of doing this, but I had no choice he is a demon." Those words rang in my ears like an alarm clock. He was a demon, Raidou was an unspeakable evil, he could make anyone do anything. Could anyone truly stop him? I asked the question knowing the answer no longer mattered, a teardrop hitting my hand brought me out of my haze.
"I.." My words were stopped when I watched Lisa hit a switch on the wall. The barrier that had been separating the rooms would lift. I now witnessed Christie looking in my direction, handgun drawn. A smirk of glee was upon his face, she enjoyed killing Bayman. "Let this be my redemption Ayane-san." I heard Lisa's words and I could truly smile with vicious intent. The gun being raised to about my chest level was full of intent to kill me. It wouldn't happen I would get revenge for Bayman. He had given me so much, the least I could do was give him vengeance.
A shot was fired, my body reacted with instinct feeling the hit fly by my ear. I kept moving forward with a blitzkrieg pace, I wouldn't let her stop me. My legs pushing forward would allow me to gain altitude over Christie who seemed surprised by my sudden airborne tactic. Driving my heal down I caught her on the shoulder, it was enough to dislodge the gun from her hand. The metal spinning and sliding along the metal floor. Christie quickly moving back into a fighting stance, I noticed her glaring toward Lisa who stood off to the side.
"You are a cheeky one Ayane. Let me show you what I couldn't on the island." Without much warning Christie lunged forward her speed was so fast. I could hear wisping sounds while her hands cut the air striking toward my head, chest, and neck. I remember playing volleyball with her once, she played like she fought, cold. She was a kindred soul to me, I was full of the same hate and rage, able to contain it only to enjoy a kill. But today, today I couldn't forgive her, not for what she took from me. I felt her fingers push into my throat, it was enough to knock the air out of my lungs.
I should have expected her to catch me with one eventually she was just to fast. My right hand coming up instinctively to clasp my throat. This being a bad choice, Christie grasping my wrist and tossing me hard into the steel platform style floor. I felt my body bounce like a ball on the surface. "Oof!" I grunted with the landing, my back bruising up with a less than pleasant feeling, I could feel Christie stalking me now, like some panther. "Is this all you have Ayane? Even wounded Bayman put up a better fight than you."
That taunt sent a spark up my spine, my body reacting and allowing me to jump forward, I rose my knee up. This caught Christie in the abdomen, enough to stun her. Her head leaning forward was all I needed, leaping over her I grasped her shoulders under the arms. The quick weight distribution as I went over, letting my back become the fulcrum for the momentum shift. This allowed for me to complete a powerful throw, driving Christie head and neck first into the steel plates. I saw blood trail out from the corner of her mouth, it was satisfying to see it spill on the rusted steel floor.
That scene was short lived when Christie drove her feet up catching me in the jaw, I felt my tongue nearly get bit in half from the clap sound my jaw made. "Gruahh." My voice squeaked a little feeling my mouth swell up with blood. My hand covering my mouth, this did nothing but damn up the blood in my mouth. I would now cough hard, my vision blurred by the fierceness of my cough. Blood spilling out between my fingers and falling on the ground. I noticed some of it had spilled on the dog tags around my neck. My free hand coming up to hold them, a moment out of place was what I was feeling. "Ahh!"
A sudden pain shot through my chest when Christie leaped onto me by surprise. My head needed to be more into this battle, yet I found myself clouded in thoughts. I was thinking of Bayman, I could see out the corner of my eye his dead lifeless body laying in the center of this room. Christie managed to pin my arms above my head using her hands. Only to add insult by locking my wrist above my head, I felt my breast push out a little, the weight actually choking me a little. Do to Christies well place weight on my abdomen I couldn't reach her with my legs to counter throw her off.
"Well now, are we daydreaming?" Christie asked me this question with a sinister smile upon her features. I wanted to tear her eyes out for this. My wrist quickly twisting trying to get free, I cursed myself for not developing strength in my arms like I did with my legs. "What do we have here Ayane?" I froze watching Christie lift up the dog tags that were resting between my breast. "This is his dog tags?" Christie asked in a questioning way while looking toward his body. "Go to hell!" I screamed at Christie, for that I received a painful elbow in my cheek.
My eyes closed on the impact feeling the swelling form, my eyes widening feeling Christie trail her fingers in between my breast. Her fingernails brushed along nicking the very edge of one of them. My cheeks flushed with embarrassment, "Let me go!" I was now fighting a little harder , twisting my hips to get free. This stopped when I felt the smooth lips of Christies touch mine, her tongue slipping within my lips. I not only blushed but screamed out for her to stop, only to feel her break the kiss. A trail of our mixed saliva leaked from Christies lips.
"Mmmm. That was a good kiss Ayane, I am glad I stole that kiss. I bet it was your first wasn't it?" For some odd reason my fighting had stopped, this awkward moment with this woman through off all my trains of thought. I could feel heat rising in my body, and especially in my cheeks. I knew it was embarrassment and not from swelling and bruising. I just tilted my head down in a lost moment. "I see so it was your first kiss. I am glad Ayane, that means not only did I still your first kiss, but I stole that man's first kiss. Don't worry I will steal your life just like his too."
My eyes shot upwards hearing the last set of words from Christie, my confusion and feelings of lost faded into jealousy and rage. "Get off me!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, slipping my right foot into the corner of Christie's hip. Thrusting back I tossed her off, yet I felt a pull, then a pop sound. The dog tags being torn from my neck, the little beads spilling on the steel plates. Christie landing several feel away from me, her fingers clutching the metal tags in her hand. "These are nice, I think I will keep them."
My fist balled up, only to open again, the anger I was filling long past, this woman had done so much to me in a short span. She stole my first kiss, she stole an item I held dearly to me, she took the life of someone I loved. All these things were unforgivable. I would kill her for this insult, I would kill her for my revenge, I would kill her for the repayment for Bayman-sama's help and the love I felt toward him. All these crimes would receive proper retribution, my body taking over rushing forward only to spin to the side.
Christie through a predictable straight upward thrust with her hand. My body spinning allowing my back elbow to block the attack. When she spun around I kicked her under the chin, doing a back flip making sure I got full leg extension. I felt her jaws pop together when I struck her, the body flying back and bouncing a little on the ground. I must have knocked her out with the attack. My right hand coming out and catching the metal tags while they plummeted from the sky they were tossed into when I struck Christie.
I took in a few breaths, looking in the corner of my eye Lisa hadn't moved one bit, still standing to the side. I could forgive her now, she allowed me to get vengeance for Bayman, something I was glad to give him. Moving to his side I knelt down by his form, he was laying on his stomach. I found my hands quivering a little, I had seen dead and dying men before why was this so different. My right hand took the dog tags and then I removed tore a piece of my shirt, placing the metal tags inside the wrap. Only to let them slip between my breast for safe keeping, it was a way where I could feel closer to him.
"I am sorry Bayman-sama.." My hand placing on his back would jump again, the platform was now moving. My eyes hurriedly looked around for an answer. Even Lisa seemed puzzled by what was going on. The platform was rising, I noticed the night sky above. There were even a few stars visible, it would have been a beautiful night to be outside in the village. "Hahahahaha!" The laugh of my past haunted me, my eyes noticing Raidou standing across from us. The platform had stopped at the roof of the complex. Raidou was waiting for us, his eyes as menacing now as they were years ago. He was laughing at me. "So this is what happened to you. Crying for this dead man? Pathetic." My teeth bit into my lip, "Silence! He was stronger than you!"
Raidou only scoffed at my outburst, his hand raising up as he smirked, "Women are useless. So are weak men, what I have here is both." Raidou moved toward the unconscious body of Christie, only to slam his heel into her elbow. The bone cracked, Christie's head lifted up like she had been struck by lightning. "Ahhh!" Her scream hurt my ears, though it was silenced with a blunt sound that followed. Raidou backhanded Christie her body sliding along the platform, her body half hung over the side of the roof.
"Christie!" Lisa spoke sharply, running toward Christie who dangled by a thread. Raidou smirked sweeping Lisa, her head slamming into the ground hard. "Another useless woman!" Raidou's words stung with venom each time they fell from his lips. He kicked Lisa with such force she was brought up to standing. I winced feeling the force, and hearing the sound of a rib break on contact. Lisa's eyes were wide, the shock of pain visible for everyone to see. Her mouth left open, it was a silent scream. A pain so bad when you opened your mouth to scream nothing would come out.
Raidou easily backhanded Lisa sending her crashing onto her back near the body of Christies. Even in all that pain I witnessed Lisa through sharp choked breaths attempt to save Christie pulling her back up onto the platform. Raidou was now a few feet from me, "What will you do girl? Will you prove to be as useless as them?" Raidou taunted me, but I couldn't back down now. I would not be able to face Bayman in hell if I did. My legs pushed off the ground aiming a kick for his temple.
This failed even before I got within striking distance. His open palm pushed my leg down, only to strike my throat with his other hand. My body collapsed forward, coughing hard blood spilled out of my mouth. He was just so unrealistically strong. What in the hell happened to him here? It wasn't possible for him to be so strong, yet I felt the blow first hand, I truly thought I was dieing. My head landing flat on the steel plate. I could only hear that evil laugh of Raidou's echo through the night it sickened me so much.
"Was this it? Of all the people here I expected a kunoichi of the Mugen Tenshin Style to be more fierce. Pathetic and useless." I was in a half daze but I noticed Raidou looking over to Bayman. "Don't look at him!" I spouted my words which came with my blood and saliva. Raidou scoffed at my words, "Pathetic defending a dead man, you are truly a worthless woman." A kick sound would follow, I saw Bayman roll along the steel platform several feet. Raidou had kicked him just to spite me. My eyes flashed with concern when I realized where he was being kicked toward.
He intended to kick Bayman into the jungle below, I wouldn't allow him to suffer anymore shame. I found power within me and lunged from where I was, Raidou simply slapped me from the air, my body crashing onto Bayman. "Ahhh!" I cried out in sharp pain with his blow, but I had reached where I wanted to be. Raidou laughed loudly, "So this is all, you wanted to die with your man huh?" He spoke so nonchalant about it, someone like him would never understand any of this he was a fool plain and simple.
"Ahh!" I cried out feeling a strike aimed into my side, his foot drove like a nail into my side. Raidou seemed annoyed his kick didn't knock me off Bayman. "Stubborn bitch." I was crying tears of pain now, I clutched onto Bayman, I didn't want to be away from him, the only satisfaction I had now was I would die with him. This was the only true happiness I could expect. I noticed a shadow growing below me, it was over this was it. Raidou's voice rang out, "Die!" I could only utter softly feeling my end now come. "I love you Bayman-sama..."
