"Hey ... What's your name?" Hunter asked the second girl. She had light brown hair and yellow eyes.
"Karena," she replied.
"It's nice to meet you, Karena. Tell me this, can you walk?" The dark-haired mystic asked.
She shot the teal green-eyed boy a nod as he helped her up to her up to her feet.
"Let's get out of here ... It's luck that Baron hasn't come down here yet."
"What about her?" Michaela asked, looking pointedly at ecru-haired Sasha who lay defenseless on the ground.
[She should remain that way, moving her could damage her mind.]
"She needs to remain that way for now, I'll come back for her once I take you two to the others."
'I could always bring her to my location using soul magic.'
"Now, come on!"
They raced down the row of prison cells and then up the flight of stairs.
The trio got out of the Retribution building and started towards the furniture store when Karena suddenly crashed face-first into the sand. The sprite stopped and crouched to pick up the yellow-eyed girl. He asked how she was but when he turned her around, he found a bullet hole in the middle of her forehead.
"Oh my!" Michaela gasped, placing both her hands over her mouth.
"Mich get do --"
Hunter's words are cut short when Michaela falls to the ground and the sand around her head soon reddens with blood.
Hunter looked up to try and find who had shot them.
[Building with the brown roof.]
'Baron ...'
The dark-skinned man looked into the scope of his sniper with great calm and focus. He aimed at Hunter's head and with no hesitation, pulled the trigger.
The projectile covered the distance between the two in just barely two seconds but the sprite grabbed it from the air before the bullet pierced his skin.
Hunter started running towards the building Sasha's father was, while the latter who was, at first, stunned by the dark-haired boy catching the bullet, regained his composure and tried to aim at the quick-footed sprite who raced across the streets to get to Baron.
The brown-eyed man pulled the trigger on his gun but it ended similarly to the first time the former Bureau agent had shot at the teal green-eyed boy - Hunter caught the bullet.
Baron realizes his bullets might not get to Hunter so he tosses away his gun and jumps from the top of the building down to the ground where he was only a couple meters away from the Metropolitan School of Mysticism student. Baron raced forward, the dark-skinned man launched himself at the sprite who quickly moved to block the brown-eyed man's hand before it reached him.
Hunter's eyes widened as he realized what had just happened. The sprite did manage to block the leader of Retribution's attack with the back of his left fist but it wasn't a punch as he anticipated, rather, the brown-eyed man had pulled out a weapon. The weapon looked like a knife but was not pointed.
The teal green-eyed boy swiftly regained his composure and threw a right at the weapon so that he could punch it out of his opponent's hand but the dark-skinned man only tightened his grip on the weapon before spinning to strike the sprite on the head, forcing the latter to duck and somersault backward.
'What the hell is he holding?'
[His weapon is made from a red neem tree, it temporarily locks the energy of whatever it comes in contact with.]
Hunter charged forward and so did Baron, they threw a couple of punches at each other while also spinning and making sure to avoid their opponent's attack with the former trying to avoid Baron's weapon which soon proved difficult as Baron began blocking with his weapon.
The former Bureau agent took a step back.
[He's faster than you.]
'I noticed.'
Baron presses something on the weapon and it transforms into what looks like a triangle. He then throws it at Hunter.
'Shit! No time to dodge.'
Hunter quickly raised his hands and punched the weapon, it flew backward but rotated, spinning about the axis perpendicular to the direction of flight and returning to Hunter.
'The fuck is with the Batman-level gadget?'
Hunter hits it with his elbow but it circles back to Baron who throws the weapon over Hunter's head before throwing a cross.
Hunter blocks the punch before he jumps and spins in the air, avoiding the weapon as it flies back to Baron. The latter catches it and throws it at Hunter, forcing the latter to block with his left forearm.
Baron catches the weapon and hurls it at Hunter, the sprite blocks with his right forearm but the former doesn't relent. He grabbed the weapon while it was in the air and threw it at Hunter again.
[Block with your leg.]
Hunter raises his legs and kicks the weapon away. The sprite leaves his leg hanging as the weapon spins and flies back towards him again, he turns before kicking it but the move brings him too close to Baron who punches him backward.
The sprite doesn't rest, he dashes forward at full speed - a move his opponent mirrored but the sprite picks up on a whooshing noise from behind. Hunter slides as Baron grabs his weapon and swings it at the dark-haired boy who barely escaped with his head intact.
The sprite swiftly got up to his feet and raced towards the dark-skinned man.
'He may be fast but he never looks below.'
The sprite rocks Baron with a kick to the jaw. 'Got you!'
He grabbed the brown-eyed man's arm and pulled him close before delivering several jabs to his body. When he noticed Baron's grip on his weapon was loose, he punched his arm. The weapon flies up into the air and the sprite caps his series of attacks with a spinning heel kick that sends Baron several feet away and onto the ground.
Hunter spins the weapon around his fingers on the right before catching it and setting it on fire, his teal-green eyes on Baron as he burns the weapon to ash.
[Good choice. That weapon repeatedly hitting the same area could permanently block energy flow to said area.]
Baron got back up to his feet. "From the moment I saw you, I knew you were trouble. I thought the Bureau had forgotten all about me," he added.
"Oh I'm not with the Bureau, I'm just some guy who got tired of seeing your ugly face," the sprite said. "I'm here to destroy you and your operations," he added.
"You cannot defeat me."
Hunter scoffed. "You lost the moment I landed that kick."
The dark-skinned man races forward.
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Hunter closed the gap between Baron and himself, moving faster than he ever had before shutting down the brown-eyed man with a fiery punch.
'Shit! I was almost starting to lose control. "
The sprite looked down at Baron who lay motionless on the ground. 'Too much?'
[That last move was a bit --]
Suddenly, Hunter heard clapping from behind him. The sprite turned and his eyes widened at the sight in front of him.
'Baron? How the hell is he still alive?'
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