• Since I entered the room, and heard that woman’s voice I knew that she was a…..something else, but I just couldn’t figure out what. Now, as I stare at her new grotesque form, I know that I was right. She holds up her left hand, it’s now covered in black feathers and so is her entire left body. “How do I look?” She said that so calmly as if she knew that this would happen.
    I could hear Fox’s breathing and grinding of his fangs against each other. “What the hell is this?” The woman laughs evilly and looks at Fox. “It’s the result of all my research combined into one form. It’s my greatest masterpiece!! I think I’ll call it…..me.” Fox slowly narrows his eyes and biting his lip until small specs of blood drip from them, until he finally manages to say, “You mean the vampire/hunter DNA experiments you were kicked out of the Trinity in the first place for?” She smiles as she whispers in a demonic tone, “Yes, and they were a huge success. I mean just look at what they’ve done for me?” Fox makes a sly smile and laughs, “So your experiment turns you into a blood thirsty turkey?”
    Apparently Fox had pissed the lady off, because I could count the veins on her angry red face.
    There were three.
    I looked over at her direction, but she was gone. Obviously Fox, Maddie, and Will had noticed too because they were looking all around for her. That very second a black and white flash had come down from the sky and impacted upon Fox’s head, slinging him into the ground. We all looked over there. “Fox!” Will yelled as the woman’s glance went from Fox’s buried body to him. Will flinched a little, but the woman’s hand got through his guard, just the sheer impact of their skin sent Will flying across the entire room. Will braced himself against the cavern wall, but was soon slammed deeper into the wall by a spinning kick from the woman. Will’s body laid there for a few seconds until he plummeted to the cavern floor.
    “Will!” Maddie screamed as she ran over to his body hoping to catch him. I see the woman pluck five of her feather and fling them at Maddie as she runs to Will. The feathers fly through the air homing into Maddie’s next position; I see them and run to try to save her. “Gotta save her!” I think this but the feathers have already made their way through her skin and she falls to the ground, blood spewing through her back onto the ground.
    I run over to Maddie’s body onto the ground, I try to wake her up by nudging her shoulder while breathing heavily and sweat on my face. I notice the woman floating slowly to the ground. “What’s that? Are you crying?”
    “Shut up.”
    “Don’t feel bad kid, I had friends-“
    “Shut up”
    “Who were killed on the battlefield also?”
    “SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!!” I yell as I charge at her my fist pulled back. I swing at her but she grabs my hand and pulls me down, and knees me in the stomach, then slams my head into the ground. After she lifts her hand, she places her feathery foot on my head. “That’s what you get for being a reckless moron.”
    “Why”, I punch the ground, “Why am I so…..weak”, I punch the ground again, blood on my knuckles now. “I-I couldn’t save them even when they… were depending on me...” The woman looks down at me. “What are you talking about kid; I would’ve let you go?”
    “….when I went to her…. She told me...to run, but I didn’t listen. I…wanted to…protect them, but I can’t even do that.” When I finish saying this a ring of black fire comes from the ground and engulfs my body, while burning off the woman’s foot. She screams and jumps away, her foot regenerates though.
    I slowly pick myself up off the ground the black flames swirling at my feet now. I lift my head up and glare at her and open my mouth,
    “Sorry, I don’t plan on letting you hurt my precious comrades anymore.”
    She laughs demonically. “You think that a pipsqueak like you”, she lunges at me, “Could stop me!?” She swings her left hand at me, but I grab it and fling her in the air behind me. I let her float for a second, she’s upside-down, then spin around and bombard her with punches and kicks, but finish it with a dropping kick to her chin, sending her to the ground face first.
    I look down at her body, black blood coming from her mouth. I turn around and walk to Maddie’s direction, but I feel a hand grab onto my leg. “Is this…what you planned on killing me with? That weak little power of yours?” I look down at her, pitifully. “No. I expected you to die quietly.” I could tell this made her mad. “You’re mocking me now huh?! You unrespectful little….twerp!!” She pulls herself up and flings a punch at me. I dodge it and punch her face twice, then uppercut her sending her near the cavern roof. I up the wall and jump off it to hover above her, then I grab her legs and flip three times, and fling her to the ground again. I soften my landing by landing on her.
    I hope that she has had enough but then I hear her breathing, but then thoughts pop up into my head, “IM GONNA KILL HIM!!” repeats in my head with the woman’s voice. Jus that instant her fist connects with my face, about five times putting me off my guard. She jumps back and throws ten of her feathers at me. The black flames rise up to protect me, but five of them pierce the flames. One of them slashed my cheek, two are in my chest, and one went directly through each of my arms. I fall over in pain trying to pull the feathers loose, when she kicks the feathers deeper forcing them to fly through my body. I scream in agony, while she lifts her leg and swings it down onto my head.
    “Had enough yet, you little b*****d?”
    “What do you think”, I breath heavily, “You old turkey?!” I see her narrow her eye and she pushes my head deeper into the ground. “Are you a glutton for punishment?” She plucks one last feather and holds it closer my neck, slowly inching towards my jugular vein. “Once I cut this you’ll bleed to death. A perfect death for a fool of your caliber!” She looks down at my face noticing my sly smile. “What the hell do you have to smile about?”
    “Oh I just find it ironic.”
    “Why is that?”
    “Because you’re pulling you feathers out.”
    “Why is that ironic?”
    “Because the more feathers you pull, the more you look like the decrepit old vulture you really are.”
    She pulls the feather back from my head, “At least I’m not about to die”, she pulls the feather back towards me.
    “That’s what you think…”, I whisper as I pull the small thin string attached to my finger down. The woman is still swinging at me but stops immediately when her head flies forward. Her body falls over, as if a small child had dropped a rag doll. I sigh then look over to the woman. “Worked again huh?”
    A knife sticking out of the back of her head, blood rushing from it, mixing with blood stains from the hunter I killed with same method.

    WORLD’S END: NIGHT NINE
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