"Watch out!" I pull Ren towards me way too fast because we both fall backwards. Damn my height!
"Thanks." Ren looks down at the river below.
"My god. Ren I told you not to stand so close to the edge." Daniel scolds Ren but helps him get up.
"Sorry." Ren apologizes.
"Stay in the middle of the group or else you might actually fall down the next time." I order him.
"Over there!" Daniel points to a direction.
"So you chased me. Isn't this courageous of you?" Toshio Ikeda mocks stepping out from the forest.
"So you ran. Isn't that cowardly of you?" I mock him back.
"Hahaha. Do remember who has the advantage here?" Toshio laughs.
"Do remember that you weren't so good at covering your tracks?" I smile at him.
"Interesting. What family are you from?"
"One that you wouldn't know."
"Hahaha." Toshio laughs that horrible laugh. Seriously he should get it checked.
"Haha." I imitate his laughing. "So who's your partner?" I ask the smile completely disappearing from my face.
"Oh. You mean Andy Sato from Sendai. He died. Yeah I killed him. Didn't want any witnesses around did we?" He laughs.
"Let's make a deal. I win we get to walk out alive without being harmed in anyway but if you win you can do anything." I propose.
"Chikara-chan!" Quantum whispers tugging my clothes.
"What?" I ask him.
"I don't think it's a good idea."
"Why?"
"He seems experienced."
"So? I'm experienced."
Quantum gives up trying to persuade me out of it.
"So how about it?" I look at Toshio for an answer.
"Okay but what are we doing?" He asks.
"Fighting." I answer.
Toshio sizes me up to see if I'm lying. "Okay." He agrees.
I start to taking off my backpack when I'm shot in the leg. "Hey! Don't you get the concept of fighting?" I ask him clutching my injured leg.
"You didn't say what kind of fighting." Toshio shrugs his shoulders innocently.
"Why you!?" I lift the hand that hold my leg but my leg stings with pain so I put it down. "What kind of bullets did you use?"
"I don't know. I found them last night and thought that they looked pretty so I just took em."
I look over at Daniel. 'Why would there be spirit bullets here?' I ask him through mind link.
'I have absolutely no idea. Perhaps someone left them behind accidently.' he suggests.
I reach into the wound and grab the spirit bullet out. I see that the bullet is blue so it was made of a blue spirit stone. "Okay let's have a proper fighting duel." I say.
"Okay." Toshio agrees.
"Okay." I step up and take a fighting stance which Toshio does the same.
Toshio makes the first move with a weak punch which I easily dodge and kick him in the back of the knee bringing him to his knees. I quickly grab the gun and bullets from him and throw them off the edge of the waterfall. Toshio scoops up dirt and throws it at my face which gets into my eyes. Being caught off guard I loosen my grip which Toshio slips out of and runs into the forest with a paintball gun which he picked up from beneath the snow. A gunshot is fired from the direction he just left in. Ren steps back from surprise and falls off the cliff just as I turn to face the four boys.
"Ren!" I shout. I jump off the cliff, grab him and quickly turn our bodies around so that I'm the first to hit the water.
Splash! Smack!
"Ah! I let out a small groan from my back hitting the water and a rock afterwards. I resurface with Ren and take him to river shore. I mind link Daniel to come down another way because I don't want anymore people of my team to get hurt.
[Ouch!] Astrid says.
I look over to see a hole through my abdomen which the rock created. The wound starts to slowly heal but not fast enough for me to lose a lot of Royal blood. I look over at Ren to check if he's hurt.
"You alright?" I ask when he opens his eyes.
"Why did you save me?" Ren asks looking at the wound on my stomach.
"I promised Kiyoshi that I'd protect you so I did and we're friends."
"Are you alright!" Daniel says running towards us. He looks at Ren when he passes but stops before me.
"Yeah. Just a scratch." I say.
"She had a massive hole on her stomach." Ren dobs.
"Well it's fine now." I look down at my stomach to see a long scar which is fading fast. "Let's go." I say grabbing my bag and paintball gun from Quantum.
"Here." Quantum and Quasar help Ren up.
"Let's go." Daniel repeats following me.
We go back up the waterfall and find Toshio Ikeda after quite some time.
"So you're back for another round?" Toshio laughs stepping on a student's dead body.
"Yes and as long as you're here and alive I'll continue to do so." I vanish into thin air and reappear in front of Toshio. At lightning speed I kick him in his abdomen sending him flying into a couple of trees.
"Oh, you're strong." Toshio smirks before throwing a smoke bomb on the ground. When the smoke clears Toshio's nowhere to be seen.
Bang!
A bullet lands at Quasar's feet.
Bang!
"Run!" I yell to the boys before climbing a tree. I grab Toshios' arm and tilt it upwards. I look back at where the boys were to see them disappeared. I pin Toshio to the tree trunk and knee him in the stomach making him cough up blood from the force. "Let's play a game of chase." I smile at him before jumping down the tree and running the opposite direction.
"Finally a great opponent." Toshio smirks and laughs before following.
I run through the trees at a fast pace to humans but not that fast to supernaturals. The weird thing is Toshio manages to keep a good distance between us something that normal humans can't do.
"Sh*t!"