Love is War

Chapter 60

When I saw even the glimpse of their shadow I immediately stood up and prepared my knives. Then my knife stabbed one of them which I immediately covered his mouth to muffle his scream. I pulled out the knife again from his body and immediately stabbed his neck.

My hands were soaked with his blood, I can’t avoid this kind of stuff. So, I threw his body on the side which attracted the attention of the other one that is with him, but before he turns around, it’s all too late for him. I stabbed the knife on his neck and let his blood squirt.

I watched his body slowly dies and I did not wait until he completely dies because of blood loss. He can’t scream because I stabbed his neck. Which is good. So, I moved on and I carefully track down my steps to not do some noise that will attract the attention of the others.

I sneaked upon these sewers following the footsteps of the others, the water flowing inside these pipes make it harder for me to move in stealth but I will do my best in order to get out of here, I made sure that my footsteps are soft as possible.

What’s harder, is how their footsteps echo all around the place which made it harder for me to locate them. So, I wandered aimlessly in this place, hoping that I will bump into one of their groups.

Then in spur of a moment there is a light and there are shadows in it, found them, I don’t know how many groups the split into, but I will use this chance to reduce their number. I slowly walked towards them but I stopped on my tracks when I saw them pause. I can barely hear their conversation from here, so I stopped and I am all ears.

“I can’t believe it! There is just 5 of them that stormed in and look how much damage they have done to us,” one of them ranted afraid of what is happening right now. Hearing that made me proud and Anthony’s death is not in disgrace. At least we exacted our revenge even everything did not go as planned.

“I got the word one of them was killed, and it is the most terrifying one,” he said proudly and that made me feel pissed off.

“Really?” the other one asked in disbelief. “I know that the berserker is with them and is still on the run,” he remarked.

“Fool! That’s why we are hunting her down right now,” this one has a deep voice and sounded angry. If my guess is correct this one is their leader.

“We are hunting down the berserker? That woman? Really?” one of them asked in disbelief and sounded so much fearful. So, my influence tot them is quite terrifying.

“That’s why you need to listen when we are debriefed by the boss,” the one with the deep voice again spoke. “Now let’s go back because we reached a dead end here,” he added, that means that they are heading this way, where I am currently hiding from them. Geez, I slowly backed awa-

My heart stopped when I hit a wooden plank and fell on the water, that created a loud splash. Why is there a wooden plank in the sewers, in the first place? Luck is not on my side on this one.

“Hey what’s that?” one of them asked his group.

“I don’t know let’s find out,” one of them remarked. I can hear their footsteps getting closer and closer to me. I need to find a way out of here. I frantically looked around the area to find some place to hide from them, I really don’t know where to go right now.

When I saw their shadows getting larger and larger, this is the time that I knew that there is no choice for me except to run. I pulled out my trusty suppressed pistol, and I started running. My footsteps created a loud splash that will surely alert them.

“It’s her!” one of them shouted and they started running, they are chasing me now! So, I ran as fast as I could. I turned to a corner using the sewers’ echo that frustrated me, right now, I used it as my advantage. The echoes will probably confuse them.

“Let’s split up!” their leader shouted. I don’t know how many are in their group but I am certain that them splitting up would be easy for me than taking all of them out in one go. I reached a door and the sign says, authorized personnel only. This must be the room of the janitors here.

I quickly grabbed the door knob, but it is hard to rotate, meaning that the door is locked. So, I stepped back and charged the door, it did not budge, I backed away again and charged it again. I repeated my actions over and over again, but still, it won’t budge. I am in a dead end right now and going back will only give my location to them. So, I did not give u-

But before I charge towards the iron door, I heard the footsteps loud enough, for me to tell that whoever that is, is near to my location. I inhaled heavily and prepared myself and pointed the pistol on the only corner where the enemy might pop out of nowhere.

I braced myself keeping the fear out of my brain. Then moments later the shadow appeared as the lights are shining upon the end of this corner, and I put my fingers on the trigger so I can fire anytime right now. I calculated the time of his appearance based on the size of his shadow and I backed away for a little bit, that gave me a clear vision of the area. The footsteps are getting louder and louder and then I pulled the trigger and closed my eyes.

“HEY!” a familiar voice shouted and I opened my eyes as fast as possible and saw Alexis on the corner. “What are you doing? You almost killed me,” complaining about my actions and I saw that the bullet just hit a few centimeters away from her which made me happy that I am not a good shooter.

That’s my weakness, my greatest weakness that’s why despite of the advance warfare technology, I am still using an old way of fighting dating back to nordic ages. Using berserk as to my advantage. When I was a child, my dad trained me and my siblings to shoot guns at early age, because after our mother died, we are exposed to the darkest secrets of dad’s so called business which soon =I became of the biggest part of it.

Unfortunately, I did not satisfy dad with my gun skills so I he has given up hope for me to be part of his gang which made me sad. He explained to me that having no skills with guns will just kill me, which he does not want because he told me how much he loves us his children. Unlike me the other two showed promise and became a prodigy.

In my teenage years, not being part of his gang, made me depressed, I did not go out of my room for months, only going outside just to eat and take the washed laundry. Dad, understood my situation and leave me be, to give me some time to think which is I am thankful for.

This is the time when I got addicted to games, with first person shooter games or tactical shooter games, to escape reality and give me the illusion that I am really good at handling guns. Well, with just a mouse to control and with no real force to control the recoil, it made it easier for me to shoot the enemies.

With that phase, I didn’t notice how time passes by so fast, and then one time, dad violently knocked on the door which surprised me. He is not angry that time for my time, he is drunk and obviously I did not open the door to let him in.

But when he spoke that time, I heard the immense grief in his voice begging me to stay safe because we are the only treasures that he has, and then I learned that one of my siblings died that day, or should I say disappeared just presumed dead because after days of searching they can’t find him. Also, the Yoshidas are not our enemies that time because it is the time that we are expanding our territories so there are many gangs that we fought against.

He said that time that he doesn’t care of how long I stay within my room if it is the only way for me to stay alive. It is also the time that I opened my doors to others as well as my heart, and consoled dad all night long. Promising him that I will stay safe and be his princess, which I regret because until now he remembers it. As far as I know drunks should forget the memories that they had when the hangover is still in effect and it turns out that dad was one kind of a drunk.

We did a funeral to my brother and that is the time that I foresaw my potential as a close combat fighter. The enemies of ours used our grief to their advantage to defeat us, without us knowing. Then one night they ambushed us and so many deaths happened. I hid afraid of what is happening. Gunshots everywhere, and that time I noticed the immense anger quelled up inside me ready to burst out anytime, because of the disrespect on my brother’s funeral and the thing that they have done to him. There is no actual body that is to be noted because we did not find him in the first place but a large portrait is displayed on the center.

When I looked around, that is when the unforeseen happened. I saw dad pinned down on the ground and the enemies’ boss is pointing his gun towards him. That time my fear disappeared and one thing only came into mind. It is that I need to save my dad, and no one in my family will die again.

I burst out and the adrenaline Is rapidly circulating over my body and grabbed a huge boulder, which I did not notice at the time and threw it towards the enemy crushing its body on the wall. Then the rest is history. I became the well known berserker to this day, and when I am angry that is where I am at my strongest and the enemy will fear me.