Soldier of Time

XXX: Harmless Amber (2)

They were slowly approaching the building where she was. She took some binoculars, and instantly she saw that one of those people was heavily armed, and she was preparing gas masks as they headed to where she lived.

Another call from the Deer entered the young woman’s cell phone, but this time without leaving the window, the young woman greeted.

“Slevin!”

When Slevin heard the girl’s voice, he spoke much louder than he intended out of the concern and said, “Amber! Thank God! You must get out of there right now. There are people who are going for you!”

The girl kept looking at the men walking in her direction, and she released a heavy sigh before she replied, “I know! I see them. I cannot leave. They are too close.”

“They know your ability, Hanibal sent them.”

The girl knew this would be inconvenient, in a quick movement, she entered her room and took the weapon that the Deer had left her, picked up the phone, and asked, “How far are you?”

“Half an hour maybe less,” Slevin said through gritted teeth.

The girl sighed once more. He was on his way, although the men would get to her much faster than the Deer could. She liked knowing that Slevin would not leave her alone.

“I’ll delay until you get there. Don’t worry,” she said, trying to assure him.

“Hold on a little... The cavalry is on its way, and I’m coming. Amber. I will arrive.”

At the entrance of the building, the three people looked towards him, contemplating how deteriorated its facade was.

One of them was a young man with black hair and a smiling appearance.

He observed everything calmly and said, “Several people come on the way up. I will stop them.”

At that moment, he turned and looked at a building considerably more deteriorated than Amber’s, “I will locate myself in that place. You, big man, go up, and you Irina, wait for our guest. If I was him, I would come for the backyards of those buildings and houses on the hill. You can wait for him there.”

The girl nodded and began to walk while the stocky man looked at the young man, who spoke indifferently.

The guy looked at him and said, “I will send five men with you. I need the rest to stop what is coming.”

And at that moment, he began to walk. Each step he took in the direction of the dilapidated building left an image of him behind. By the time he took up his position within the deteriorated structure, he had already created twenty-five soldiers.

The girl checked her weapon, placed metal-tipped boots on her feet, and took a knife, an old gift from Simon, and she hung it on her trouser strap. She would not be taken. She would fight hard.

At the train station, the Deer began to run under El Morro at full speed, and as he advanced, he saw how people hid in their houses.

While he was running, a series of shots began to sound, and when he crossed the center of El Morro, he saw them. Several members of the vanguard were advancing towards Amber’s building as he had indicated, and there was Nasuma waiting for him.

“Hello, Deer!”Nasuma said, accentuating the last word when he saw how the emblematic knives of the Deer were with him. “So you go with everything this time.”

The Deer looked at him while on his belt horizontally rested a military survival knife on his back, hanging from his shoulders, and with the handles on the ribs were two Kukri blades.

Around his right thigh, ten throwing knives rested, all with his characteristic emblem. Also held up by his pants was a colt python 357.

Nasuma put his hand on the Deer’s shoulder and, speaking fluently, said, “We have a lot of resistance on the uphill path. If I were you, I would go up through the backyards of those houses. Maybe this is better, hurry, Deer.”

The Deer nodded, but before starting to run, he said, “I left two more at the train station...”

Smiling, Nasuma nodded, and the Deer started running without looking back, while Sabrina approached Nasuma and said, “It’s rare to see him with the horns again. Let me help you...”

And the visionary looking into Sabrina’s eyes realized that both of them were several years ago facing images of themselves that they had not possessed a long time ago.

Amber would look out the window to see which of the men would be the first to enter the building.

Five subjects advanced to the entrance, and she moved towards the stairs to see them.

Confused because she had only seen three people before, she observed these men start the ascent.

When she saw the first one, she pointed to the Deer’s gun and pulled the trigger.

The bullet landed on the railing next to the enemies, and they reacted by taking cover, they all looked at each other’s faces, and one of them stuck out his barrel and started firing upwards.

Amber hid, and the shots hit the roof of the building.

She fired two more bullets, but she thought it was impossible to hit them from that height, and she returned to the apartment closing the door.

The Deer landed in the first yard. He knew he had to move if he wanted to help Amber quickly, and that was his priority.

He started running towards the next wall while hearing the shots on the main path, that race reminded him of many things from his past, but he eliminated those thoughts by allowing himself to focus on what was to come.

The men who were going after Amber were at the door of the girl’s apartment. One of them fired a blast that would kill anyone who stayed right behind that door.

After that, he kicked it to enter, and the door opened, coming off its hinges, nothing was seen inside, one of the soldiers entered, but from the side, a knife stuck in her neck while the young woman fired in the direction of the bodies who were outside.

Two of them took cover, but the rest were shot, which ended their lives. One of the men under cover used his shotgun to shoot the young woman, but she was placing the first of them who had entered in the path of the shot and did not receive any damage although she was heavily knocked down.

The men got up, pointing in the direction of the corpse on the ground, but underneath it, a gun appeared and fired twice, leaving these fellows dead on the spot.

When these guys died, they slowly disappeared, leaving only bloodstains where they had been that slowly disappeared. They vanished just like their owners. Amber, completely confused, began to understand why she had only seen three people at the entrance.

The girl got up, she didn’t have any injuries, but she had run out of bullets. She listened to the pitched battle that the Deer staged in her mind against the people below. She took the knife with which she had killed the first appearance and felt a strong kick in her back that made her fall to the ground.

The girl bounced off the floor, but she stood up quickly, and when she looked at her attacker, she saw a muscular man with a gas mask telling her.

“Chocolate Rea...”

The Deer jumped the next wall, but something there seemed extremely strange, the temperature in that place had dropped drastically, and a kind of icy mist bathed the place.

“Hello, Deer.”

He listened in the distance as a beautiful young woman appeared walking in front of him.

The girl looked at him and said calmly, “It was about time that...”

But before she could finish her sentence, a knife flew in her direction. The girl created a wall of ice with such speed that the knife crashed into it.

She, relieved, tried to speak, but a powerful impact destroyed much of the wall that she had created.

On the other side of the yard, the Deer fired with his revolver forcing the girl to run and hide behind the house to which that yard belonged.

The young woman’s hands trembled at the terrible experience she had had, and she tried to hold her breath to return to the game, but from the roof of the house, a Deer appeared.

The young woman only, as a reflection, raised her hands and created a wall of ice between her and Slevin.

A wall that was useless because the Deer landed in front of her while her hands were in the work of creating the wall to defend herself from him.

The Deer raised the barrel of his revolver and placed it in front of the young woman to pull the trigger, this girl gave a gasp, and her heart was about to leave her mouth, she held her breath and thought about her mother, but she only heard a little click when a gun was fired.

The girl opened her eyes again and was still alive. Slevin had fired, but his revolver had not released the bullet.

An enormous relief seized the young woman only to be eliminated by a strong blow to the solar plexus that the Deer delivered, leading the girl to lose all the air from her lungs.

The young woman tried to breathe, but that was an extremely difficult task for her. The Deer carried the stirring once more and said as he looked at the girl struggling for air.

“What the hell are you doing here?” Slevin asked in frustration, finishing loading his revolver and pointing it at the girl, “You are even worse than those on the train.”

And with those words, the Slevin shot.

The shot made an unbearable beep invade Irina’s ears, who once again believed that her life was over.