MY DRAUGR SYSTEM; THE DUAL SENTINEL

THE TARGET

Under a bright morning on a busy street, a person in a black hoodie could be seen exiting a mall.

She had a tall figure with her chin held high. Her eyes were obscured by the bucket hat on her head and on her hands, a pair of gloves was worn. She also wore cargo pants with a pair of sneakers and everyone around could not help throw her strange gazes, especially at the fact that every single clothing item on her body were pure black, not a single hint of any other colour.

The girl reached a black compact truck beside which she paused before looking all around, her gaze lingered slightly on a gorgeous silver car parked at a distance, but she soon looked away before getting into the truck and soon it revved to life, speeding off.

…

In the silver car, Ushar sat studying his target.

“Did she notice me?” He muttered, looking on at the departing pickup with thinned gaze.

“She is leaving boy.” The Boss’s voice suddenly spoke in his ears and Ushar’s eyes widen. “Did I just phase off?” He thought in wonder, before blasting off after the pickup. Ushar, however could not get an image out of his head. The image of two silver eyes staring directly towards his through the strange lady’s hat.

“No, this isn’t happening.” He thought chuckling warily, he had seen so many girls in his life that he did not believe there was any other out there that could get him fantasizing any more. Of course this girl seems unique and all but Ushar was not planning to start swooning over a girl any time soon, and certainly not when this person just happens to be his target.

Swiftly, his car followed the pickup truck.

Minutes passed before Ushar saw the pickup take a sudden sharp turn and an excited grin crawled unto his face, “you eventually noticed.” He muttered excitedly before taking the same turn as well. The pickup immediately accelerated but there was a reason Ushar was using a sport car, just as he predicted, the pickup took another unlikely turn and he followed swiftly but the pickup followed up with another turn and when Ushar took this one, he could see the pickup slowly coming to a stop.

“Did she make a mistake?” He thought, looking ahead of the truck where a dead end could be seen, but again, he did not think this was a mistake since his target was a terrifying fighter herself. She had probably branched into this deserted alley to finish him off quietly, “that is way better than playing around behind wheels.” Ushar muttered as he stepped out of his car.

“Hey.” He called after standing for a moment beside his car, but the girl had refused to come down the pickup. “Well, it makes no difference.” He muttered before walking towards the truck.

On reaching the truck side, Ushar could see the windows were rolled down, but there was no one in the car.

“What is this?” He muttered, greatly confounded as he stared into the empty interior of the car with a bewildered face.

Suddenly, he could feel cold steel pressing tightly against his skull and Ushar stiffened as a clicking sound of the trigger being pulled reached his ear, “I am right here” a female voice said and then…

Bang! The bullet was let off.

“Huff…” Ushar sighed, grabbing the shooter’s wrist, as he looked at the g*n barrel from which a wisp of smoke was rising. By the side of his cheek, a burnt line could be seen which swiftly closed up and soon disappeared. Ushar had just been a few millimeters away from having his head blasted away.

“H… how?” The girl stuttered looking at him with an incredulous face.

Her g*n had been resting right against this man’s head and she hadn’t even hesitated for a moment before pulling the trigger. There was no way a person should have survived such close shot, but here he was, the one she had shot looking at her while her wrist was held firmly in his hand.

She couldn’t even understand what exactly had happened, it was all a blur and now she could feel the steel like grip of the man around her wrist, in fact, she even felt the strength within her bones being sapped away just with his grab and even more terrifying was that fact that the bullet seemed to have grazed his cheek but now the wound had disappeared like all she had seen was an illusion.

“How” Ushar repeated after some moment before adding, “what about you answer my question first, how did you manage get behind me without me noticing?” Ushar asked with a fascinated smile.

“Kill me already! That is what you came for right? I am still satisfied that I managed to kill a good number of your bastards before you got me!” The lady spat in undisguised disdain and wrath.

“Kill you? Okay let’s get this straight. While I indeed came aggressively after you, I am actually not here to kill you. I have simply been tasked to bring you by my boss.” Ushar said, still keeping his smile as he stared into the girl’s eyes, at this close range, he was now able to discern clearly her facial features and Ushar simply felt himself being drawn in into those silver eyes, he had in fact always loved silver but these were simply too unique and breathtaking.

“Bring me back, so that’s what you want, to use me as some lab rat just because I have some powers right? Well you will still have an easier time killing me right here than taking me anywhere.” The girl asserted while her other hand slowly crept out from behind her, in there she was holding another g*n.

“Don’t.” Ushar said applying more pressure on the lady’s hand.

The lady winced as she felt her bone almost being crushed, her grip turned weak and the g*n in her hand dropped to the ground.

“You see, now that I think about it, I should have actually asked to know more about the target before coming after you. I didn’t know I would be attacking such an innocent lady.” Ushar said, before unfolding his hand around the girl’s wrist and she staggered back, looking at her wrist which was now red and sore all over. Slowly she raised her face looking at Ushar with a confused expression.