Irina grabbed a vampire walking by. “Vikonika, tell every vampire you see to try to bite the human playing the role of president. It does not matter about this contest, the only thing I want to see here is his reaction.”
The vampire looked at Irina and nodded her head. Suddenly the game was on. Irina instantly took out a male wizard who in addition to not having any offensive powers, was also slight of stature with a simple punch to the nose. Irina held back her power, as she knew the simple punch was more than enough to do some damage. Irina looked for her next victim and easily found her. The Beta wolf of those mongrels she hated was in front of her with her back turned. Irina was preparing to strike when she saw the flying human take off, heading straight for the human she wanted to test.
This left Irina in a bind. She could really stick it to those mutts by landing a devastating blow on the Beta, but then she did not know if the human could fight off the flying ones attack. The flying wizard Aira, was a hard fight when combined with the four other humans she hung out with. Their prowess when all four of them were together was truly fantastic. Irina decided not to risk it and instead used her strength to jump and pull the wizard out of the sky. The wizard hit the ground hard and was deemed out. Irina then looked for her next victim when something out the corner of her eye caught her attention.
Two of her vampires had the runt of pack cornered. Irina waited to see the outcome, not caring about the game. Irina wanted to see the little pup get put down hard. The young wolf suddenly charged the vampires until she was inbetween them. The wolf kept her back to one Vampire which Irina thought was just typical of the wolves’ stupidity. The vampires gave each other a nod and one vampire went with a high blow while the other one went with a kick to the midsection. The small wolf suddenly shifted into her canine form as both vampire blows passed over her and connected solidly with each other.
The wolf shifted back and began to laugh at her vampires and how easily she dispatched them. As the wolf was fixing her clothes something snapped in Irina, she would not see her coven made fun of. She descended on the wolf before she had a time to react and punched her solidly in the stomach. As the wolf slumped down, Irina kicked the filthy thing just for good measure.
As Irina got back into the fight, she noticed the Alpha Wolf was looking at her. Irina gave her a little smirk because it was little she could do. The person the Wolf was fighting was a tough opponent if you couldn’t get your hands on her. Irina looked back and saw her Vampires fighting with the human boy she had come to see and unfortunately the principal’s android.
Irina had always hated that robot. The principal called her his daughter but Irina knew the robot was little more than a spy tool. The robot had almost found out that Irina had discovered the hidden exit to the surface in her territory. No matter her thoughts on the robot, the one thing that was certain was that the robot was a legitimate fighter. Irina had found out that the robot was in constant connection with the internet because of its built in wifi. The robot also had plenty of programs designed for her that were built in to her hard drive. The principal’s so called daughter was a master at everything imaginable. She knew every fighting style known to man as well as everything else anyone put over the internet. She also was more durable than the vampires and nearly as strong. Irina made the decision to help her comrades even if they were on the other team when she suddenly caught a blow to the jaw.
The blow rocked her a bit and she looked up to see the human known as Dylan. Irina was positive she could take him, as Dylan was very durable, but nowhere near strong enough to seriously hurt her unless she was caught unaware. As Irina was circling Dylan she saw the human Nick using his wizard powers to devastating effect.
Nick was dropping Vampires, Werewolves and Wizards alike with his powers. Irina had tasted his strength before and did not wish to again. Irina knew she had to keep her mind on Dylan since he was the enemy in front of her. As Irina grabbed Dylan's hands, she saw the Alpha wolf coming for her. Irina smiled as a plan formed in her mind. She tossed the armored human towards Khatara. It was not enough to hurt him, but it did put him directly in her way, and she could see Nick also making away towards Khatara, trapping her between them. Irina turned her attention towards Cory and saw him running to the other end of the park.
The foolish human had stopped to fight and had gotten blasted by Nick. Irina shook her head in disgust. She didn’t know what she was thinking believing that this one could have solved any of her problems. Irina walked towards Cory and let him know how foolish he was and let the robot know her feelings for her as well. Irina still could not believe it when the stupid human asked her for a kiss, like she would even consider the notion. Irina backed away and made her way towards the Vampires territory.
“Annova, Vikonika, to me.” Irina spoke without looking back.
“Yes your majesty?” Vikonika responded, even though she knew Irina’s feelings regarding such titles.
“Did any of you happen to fulfill your mission?” Irina spoke, now looking back over her shoulder looking at the two vampires.
“I know I didn’t” Annova said before continuing. “I was preparing to take apart a wizard when that damn mongrel blindsided me. I don’t think anyone else did either. What were you talking to him about?”
“I was merely letting the human know his place on the food chain.” Irina spoke, now turning her gaze towards their building.
“Your majesty if I may”, Vikonika spoke, “I do not think that is a good way to show affection. If he is what we are looking for, why would he risk whatever powers he has for us?”
“He will only be viable for two weeks afterwards anyway.” Irina spoke as she walked into their building. “Besides, it is not up to him whether he wants the risk or not. We will just take what we need. Ask Josef how far disobeying me has got him.”
CHAPTER 11
A Lesson Learned
I ended up falling asleep for a couple of hours when I went back home. I stared at the clock on my wall and saw it read 8 pm. I figured it was as good a time as any to head over to Ronnie’s. As I closed my door and walked down the hall, I could hear voices coming from Ronnie’s room and his door was cracked. I remembered him saying he did not have many friends, except from the twins and the voice I was hearing was definitely not one of the twins. A feeling came over me that something was not right. I just waited at the door and listened.
“I don’t want to get into this with you faggot.” I heard a guy’s voice say. “Just do the essay and I won’t have to hurt you.”
I could hear some people inside laughing after the guy said that. I could tell there was at least two females and possibly another guy. I was guessing none of females were the twins, because they just didn’t seem like the type. I continued to listen in.
“Aww, it looks like he is going to cry Nick” I heard one of the female voices say. “You need a tissue? I think there might be one in the purse we all know you have.” I could hear the people in the room all start laughing again. I had enough of this. I opened up the door and smacked Nick as hard on his butt as I possibly could with my bare hand.
“That’s a nice butt you have there.” I said teasingly “Me and Ronnie was talking about how it would actually feel for one of us to touch it.” As soon as finished I knew Nick wanted to blast me with whatever the heck is was he blasted people with. I grabbed a girl I recognized as the flying chick and threw her towards Nick. He was already in the process of blasting me and she caught the full brunt of it. I followed as she slumped to ground and caught Nick right on the nose. Ronnie was still looking stunned but I could see him coming out of it. A quick glance around the room let me see it was a two on four. There was Nick, the flying chick, the teleporting chick, and some guy with what looked like armor plated skin. I was sure I couldn’t fight all of them, but I sure in the heck was going to try. I hated bullies. I connected with Nick’s chin and he went down. I turned to see the armor plated guy knock Nick down with punch and started to kick him. I gr
abbed a lamp and went towards the guy when I saw the one chick vanish. I instantly stopped and swung the lamp as hard as I could behind me and connected on the side of her head. The good thing was that she slumped immediately. The bad thing was that I broke my lamp. I threw the pieces on the floor and started towards the guy kicking Ronnie, who was now watching me and smiling, like he knew I couldn’t take him. I drew back my leg planning to kick him in the knee when a familiar feeling rushed over me.
Unfortunately that familiar feeling was of electricity and I knew the person behind it was Nick. I fell to the floor where the armor guy proceeded to stomp on my fingers. I could hear the bones break.
“Wait Dylan, this fag is all mine.” I could hear Nick say, “Go get Chloe, we are going to need her here in a bit.” Nick walked over towards my still twitching body and broke my nose with a kick. Him and the armor guy took turns beating the heck out of us while Nick blasted us whenever the paralyzing effects started wearing off. Even the fly girl got in some pretty good licks when she recovered. Fortunately blackness took me while this was going on. My last thought as I blacked out was not of death, but that I really should have minded my own business.
I started coming to while hearing voices. I remembered what had happened but decided to keep my eyes closed.
“Chloe hurry up, what is taking so long?” I could make out Nick say and he sounded scared.
“I don’t know, I’m trying he just doesn’t heal like the rest of you.” I could hear a female voice say that must have been Chloe.
“Well his bruises are almost gone but he still hasn’t woken up” I could hear another male voice say. “We are so dead, we are so dead, we are so dead.”
“Stop crying Dylan we will figure something out” I heard Nick say.
“I need another break” I heard Chloe say.
“Another one, how many breaks are you going to take?” I heard a female voice say I. “It’s almost time for school we don’t have time for you to take another break.”
“He is not waking up because you killed him” I heard Ronnie say. “All of you did and I am going to tell. The principal will kill you all.”
I then heard a smack. Judging from the way Ronnie ended his talking, I guessed he was the recipient of it.
“Stop hitting him Aria, I don’t know I could heal him again with the way I’m feeling.” I heard Chloe say. “Besides, he can’t be dead, dead people don’t breathe.”
“Well if I am going to die because of him, he is going before I do.” I heard a female voice say.
I figured playtime was over. I did not want them to hurt Ronnie anymore and I sure didn’t want them hurting me. I groaned I little and rolled over on my side. I didn’t feel any pain at all, but I guessed it was best not to let them know that.
“Finally” I could hear Nick say relieved. “You got a little taste of what happens to people who cross me. You don’t have a mark on you so nobody will believe what happened here. My homework better be done by tomorrow or I will be back.”
I started whispering something real low under my breath so he could barely hear.
“What are you saying?” Said Nick as he crouched down lower.
I whispered again and waited until he put his ear directly over my mouth. I bit down hard on his ear with everything I had. I was careful not to bite his ear off, but I wanted to let him know I wasn’t scared. He shot up and went to kick me but the armor plated guy Dylan, grabbed him.
“Nick, Chloe can fix your ear, what she can’t fix is him.” Dylan spoke.
“Watch yourself”, said Nick. “I’ll see you again.” After that he and his little crew left Ronnie’s place.
Ronnie got up and closed the door and then ran to help me up. I could tell he looked like he had been crying all night.
“I thought they killed you!” He said sounding as if were about to start crying. “I told you to watch out for that guy. I had it under control. They eventually would have left me alone. I can’t believe you almost died. I had to sit there while Chloe was trying to save you. I didn’t know what to do.”
“Calm down” I told him trying to sound in control. “It sucked while it was happening but it is over now. Just relax, they will get theirs all in due time. Trust me, they will get theirs.”
Suddenly there was a loud knock at the door, like someone was trying to break it down.
“Ronnie open up!” I heard a female say that sounded like one of the twins, since I could not tell their voices apart yet. “Ronnie let me in!” I heard the voice say as the pounding got louder, like someone was trying to shoulder charge their way through the door. Ronnie got up and opened the door and in flew Ivy.
“Ronnie you had me worried, I’m glad to see that you are okay.” Said Aimee continuing “I just saw Nick leave and he was covered in blood and they were carrying Chloe and I heard something about not being able to heal him, and Cory what happened to you?”
“Nothing is wrong with me that some twin on twin kisses couldn’t fix” I said trying to totally change the subject from the horrible night I had.
“You are a pig Cory, Aimee, Nick did this and Chloe almost couldn’t heal Cory.” Ivy spoke.
“He got lucky, I got some good hits in until his henchmen got my attention.” I said still mad at the way I got jumped. “Trust me, I don’t know when, but one day him and his little group will get theirs. Him and his little group will get caught slippin, just like I did.”
“Cory tried to help me, Nick and Dylan was in here with Aira and Vanessa trying to bully me as usual.” Ronnie started talking continuing “Cory came in and got them off of me in a hurry, but they were just too strong.”
“As long as you are not hurt I say let’s leave it alone.” Ivy stated. “Even if we manage to surprise Nick, there is no way we have a chance against Dylan, and that’s not counting how hard it is to fight Vanessa. We don’t have a chance against them. Even if we manage to get one of them alone, we would pay the price because I doubt Chloe would heal any of them before she told the principal what we did.”
“Well ya’ll sit here and take it on the chin.” I said angrily, “I am going to get payback, just you watch.” I then got up and left Ronnie’s apartment.
I hurried to my room and got myself dressed. To have been getting my butt handed to me all night I did not feel an ounce of pain, better yet I felt well rested. Well the latter part of that was that I was out for quite a while. I washed my face and headed out to where gym class was. When I got there I saw our Gym Teacher was already waiting, but instead of a jersey she was clad in some type of commando outfit. She started yelling at us to form up. She definitely was not the laid back person she was yesterday, she was all business.
CHAPTER 12
Shell Game
“Listen up.” Our teacher spoke sounding just like some type of drill sergeant. “Barricade has been spotted in Jack London square, not even 20 miles north of here. Me and bravo team are going to go bring her in. She is smashing windows and being a nuisance. Currently she has local law enforcement running for cover and she is armed. Meanwhile, Sonar himself has been located at the Mormon Temple located in the Oakland hills. He is with a pack of lycans and is starting a huge fuss. Alpha team has already left to find him. We think this is a trap. Sonar hasn’t shown himself in years and now him and his most trusted Lieutenant both show up. I know he is probably listening in on this conversation right now, but he also knows we cannot let a chance like this go to waste. You all will participate in the defense of this base should this be a target. More than likely he is just trying to lure Alpha or Bravo into a trap. The D.C. team is on its way but they are not expected for another 6 hours. Get outfitted, you have your orders.” Our teacher then turned around and went towards the door where I first entered along with four other Females dressed in similar clothing. I saw everyone heading towards the school so I figured that is where I should be heading to. We were given helmets and bulletproof vest and some type of machine gun. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do wit
h that since I never even fired a weapon before. The Vampires were sent to guard their territory while the werewolves we sent to guard theirs. The wizards for the most part stayed scattered around the big park, all facing the door. We were in groups of two and I got Aimee as my partner. We all were prone in the sand with our weapons pointing towards the door. I figured it was the only entrance in this place since we were all guarding it. It must be hell if this place ever caught fire and that was our only way out. Still, I was scared witless. Somebody out there wanted a fight and after last night, I didn’t want to give it to them.
“Aimee” I spoke, “What is going on?”
“Sonar, that is what going on”, she replied. “You heard Fairplay. He is around here somewhere and he is looking for a fight.”
“Aimee, first off who is Sonar and second, who is Fairplay?” I asked.
“I forgot you’re a newbie. You know how us wizards at this school are the good guys, well there are bad wizards out there too. Sonar is the worst. He once was with us, but he wasn’t on any team. Nobody could find out anything useful with his powers since all he could do was hear really well. He could pinpoint anyone within a hundred miles just by the sound of their voice. One day the President called and said he needed help locating Bin Laden.”
“You mean to tell me this place located Bin Laden?” I asked.
“Not this place, Sonar did it by himself. They thought they knew where Bin Laden was at, but nobody was sure. Sonar confirmed it. After that he started taking jobs with the Government finding crime lords and making them pay. Soon he found out he could get paid working for the other team, so he left. He gathered up all the rogue wizards he could find, some even left here to join him, fed up by the rules. He now has vampires, werewolves and even lycans on his side now.”
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