Soldier of Time

XLIX: Deer Season (4)

He escaped forward to get away from him and prepared to hurl a bolt of lightning in his direction, but when he turned to aim, the man was gone.

Jerome thought he would attack Nicol and ran with speed, only for the man to smash through the wall next to him to grab his head and slam it hard against the glass wall on the other side.

The glass wall of the office shattered on the impact, and without stopping there, the man hit the boy’s head three more times without mercy.

The young man tried to defend himself and putting his fingers together, he tried to fire a lightning bolt at close range, but his opponent noticed that fact and, piercing Jerome’s body with his own power, positioned himself on the other side of the wall of glass evading the boy’s attack.

The hand of his enemy was still going through the wall to hold the back of Jerome’s neck and forcefully smash him once more against the glass, finally breaking it.

The young man was about to fall unconscious, but his look of anger was planted in the eyes of his opponent, and the boy made the electricity run through his body, which would have worked if it had not been for his opponent moving away from him when he noticed the attack.

Jerome did his best to stay on his feet, but a strong slingshot from somewhere else hit his body, lifting him into the air and causing him to crash into the ceiling violently.

The young man still struggled to keep himself conscious, but his body did not respond. The pain was such that he could barely keep his eyes open.

He tried to turn around to look at who had attacked him and watched as the young woman he had knocked down now stood up and walked in his direction.

The boy was seriously injured and could not move when from the office where he was. Nicol appeared holding a gun and pointing it at the woman in front of them.

The girl pressed the trigger, but her shot was deflected by the intervention of the man who was passing through walls.

He had gone through the glass and was taming the girl’s wrist, while he with his free hand, pressed her neck against the office wall. The girl was trying hard to defend herself, but nothing she did work. The man smiled in the direction of the young woman and said.

“So you would find us!” The madman said brightly. His smile widened even more, when he saw the terror-filled eyes of the young woman. “This is what you get for looking for the masters of death...”

The man ran his tongue over the girl’s cheek generating a grimace of terror on her face and her own partner, only to get away from her and open his mouth to everything he could.

The subject was about to bite the girl, and his mouth was slowly approaching her when suddenly a complaint of pain came out of him.

An invisible force separated him from the girl and smashed him against the glass wall once more. His confused partner wondered what was wrong with him when she looked at Nicol, trying to point her with an expression eaten away by her anger.

The girl’s partner struggled to separate himself from the glass wall, but suddenly a large amount of blood began to flow out of his abdomen.

The young woman raised her hand to attack the girl who was aiming at her but an impact that she could not foresee deflected her hand to the wall causing the sling that the girl was throwing to hit the wall, and the impact made her fly backward abruptly.

The man who had attacked Jerome kept his head glued to the glass when he felt an awl drive into his stomach over and over again. Both Jerome and Nicol saw the man and did not understand his behavior until, in a second, the figure of Karen appeared.

The young woman had her knee planted on the young man’s back and her hand on his head while she drove a knife into his abdomen with force.

The man finally understood what was happening and activating his power through the wall, and he planted himself on the other side of the glass. His abdomen was bleeding, and his hand tried to stop it.

The man looked at his attacker and said in unmasked disdain, “This is nothing! You don’t even know how to stab, you damn b***h!”

He stopped, and when saying those words, he felt a pain like never before in his back. A knife penetrated his spine.

The man could barely turn his eyes to see how the Deer at his back stuck another knife and said, “Don’t worry. I’ll teach her later!”

The man tried to formulate a word, but the Deer twisting his knife dropped whatever intention he might have to speak.

The subject fell to the ground instantly, and his eyes were still open as the Deer looked at Karen and said with affirmation, “Well done.”

The young woman looked to the side and saw how Jerome did his best to get up. Nicol approached him to help him up.

Across the hall, the slingshot woman stood up and faced Karen. The girl looked at the young woman, and her hand moved quickly towards her firearm, but the girl heard a loud crash from the other side of the floor as Jack got up violently.

The Deer looked at him and said, “I’ll take care of this one. You eliminate that.”

Karen calmly nodded as she turned her face to Nicol and said, “Get into the office, and we’ll take care of it.”

The girl nodded and, with great effort, tried to drag Jerome into the office so they wouldn’t be caught up in the chaos of the battle to come.

On the other side of the building, two men glared with fury and respect at a subject who did not seem of this world. One of them lunged hard at him, throwing consecutive blows trying to land a good impact with his claws, but Hanibal evaded them all with complete tranquility.

Suddenly Troy appeared beside him to kick at the killer’s legs. He evaded that blow by jumping out of his reach, but out of nowhere, Troy’s figure moved from where he was,  and the kick was now directed at Hanibal’s face, who in the air had begun to outline his body placing his hands in a position that helped by the turn of the jump allowed him to evade Troy’s kick and direct it towards Johan’s face.

The kick hit Johan, stopping his movement and Troy, who collided with that beast with force, fell to the ground victim of the imbalance.

“Not bad guys, I really congratulate you.”

Troy and Johan stood up, filled with frustration when they saw the smile of that unhappy man.

Troy, without taking his eyes off, Hanibal said, “We must synchronize better, man...”

“Well. I will be the muscles you the speed. Mark the time you have to fool his power. If I can hit him just once, that will give us the advantage,” Johan said as he stood up to his full height.

“Good,” said Troy, “I’ll be the tallow.”

And with those words, he pounced on the blond killer. The first thing he did was appear in front of him with great speed. Hanibal would not stop smiling while Troy disappeared and appeared on him.

Hanibal’s prediction had already changed, and now Troy was not in that place. He was coming from the side. Hanibal changed his movement again, but this time Troy changed places much faster and did not stop. He appeared everywhere, in all of them, with a clear intention of attack.

Hanibal’s instincts and power activated as fast as possible to follow the change of the man’s movements, but Troy kept modifying his attack pattern, making it impossible for Hanibal to actually follow his posture.

Hanibal’s power gave hundreds of options at a time, and the young man did not know which one to take since they all seemed correct due to Troy’s speed and at that moment, Troy appeared in front of him, eliminating all the projections at the exception of one that asked him to lean forward.

Hanibal, in a fraction of seconds, looked at that projection but did not understand why since Troy was in that place.

The young man decided to listen to it, and Troy disappeared before appearing behind him, throwing a kick that failed due to the inclination that Hanibal had made, but that was irrelevant because Hanibal’s eyes were planted on the attack that Johan carried out on him.

His projection had ignored the young man by complexity, and he connected a strong blow with his claws on the assassin’s chest.