Eclipse by Smiley sn (epub e reader .txt) 📕

to blast me so I back flip and purple electricity soars above my head two inches away from my face. So close, another few inches and I would have been toast. I take another knife and flick  it towards him to get him in the neck, but he moves causing it to nestle into his arm. Blood immediately oozes out of his arm, but he doesn't react at all except for groan as he rips out the knife. What the heck? Does he not feel pain at all?

 

I force the electricity into my palms creating a ball of electricity and sent it to his stomach, but he puts up the force field again deflecting it. He glances at the sky. Buzz blasted me another bolt of purple electricity and I jump out of the way. But it was too late and a searing pain went up my foot. I cry out in pain and grab my blistering foot.

 

This is not working. He is obviously more trained in his abilities and anything I will do he will parry it and destroy me. I need to find a chink his armor, his weakness. I stand up putting most of my weight on my right leg and I put my own force field up.

 

Buzz is looking up at the sky again. Why is he looking up there? I look up too and see gray clouds indicating it was going to rain again. Is he afraid of water? Or maybe it's his weakness? I smirk. It's worth a try. But it will probably not rain for another ten minutes and I can't keep fighting like this or keep this force field. It was taking a great deal of my energy to keep it up. I look around and my smirk widens. Oh this is going to be fun.

 

I create another ball of electricity and Buzz tenses to prepare for another attack. I try to jump on the ball, but it slips under my feet and slams into the wall, creating a black circle on the brick. I sigh and place another ball at my feet and manage to jump on it before it takes up. It was like it has a mind of its own and I could barely control it as I created a path of static energy for the ball to follow. The wind rushed by rustling my hair and I could say I actually enjoyed it.  I laugh at the shocked expression on Buzz's as I head straight towards him. He tries to blast me, but I move the ball swiftly avoiding it. I grab two knives and throw them, pinning both of his sleeves to the brick wall behind him. Bulls eye! He's trapped.

 

He tries to struggle but it was stuck too deep and I knew his electrical energy consumption was draining him, plus his arm that was still bleeding, but I notice it had reduced somewhat. Could he heal himself using the electricity? Buzz tensed when he saw me getting closer, but at the last second I veered to the left and grabbed a bucket that was filled with dirty water. With some difficulty I grab and limp over to him.  I douse him head to toe and the smell hit me first. Man, that smells like it came from the sewer. His nose wrinkled up from the rancid smell permeating the air. "Think thats going to stop me. You fool." He tries to blast me, but it spirals out of control, missing me and hitting a puddle at the ground between us.

 

His eyes widen as he tries to create a force field but it weakly starts, but dies. Buzz starts breathing ragged as he tries again but it sputters to the ground in harmless embers. I could see the force of using his electricity was now paining him so much that he couldn't do it. His arms were shaking from exertion and I almost felt bad for him.

 

I smirk at him struggling to free himself from my knives and defend himself. "What's wrong, Buzz. Afraid of a little water?" I try to stand, but I decide against it when the pain nearly sent me down on my knees. But, can I? I divert the energy to my foot and the pain dulled greatly before disappearing completely. This has to be one of the better powers I have ever tried before.

 

I stand and get into his face. With great irritation I still saw that stupid smirk on his face. "Who are you and why did you come after me?" I yell in his face. I see a blur and he punches me in the side. I stumble back in pain. It hurt to even breathe and  know he must have bruised it. I hope it's not broken.

 

He went to wrestle the knife that was pinned in his sleeve free, but I grabbed his wrist and snappped it. He screamed cradling his wrist to his chest and I holding it to his chest. I get into his face and we stare at eachother. His purple eyes glaring down at me and me staring up at him just as defiantly. Maybe I do have a death wish. Maybe I don't know when to stop. I just couldn't let him win.

 

"You think this is going to stop me." I dont say anything to him. "Maybe I will come back when you least expect it. Next time I won't let that pretty little thing go and kill that barking mongrel." He spat the last word as if it left a bad taste in his mouth to say that.

 

 My anger turned my vision momentarily red. I wanted to pummel his face into the ground and wish he never crossed me. I wanted to break every bone in his body and leaving him screaming in pain. Pump him so full of electricity that he would never be able to recover. How dare he? I try hard hard to restrain myself from breaking his other wrist and his legs for good measure.

 

I didnt know what was wrong with me. Usually when I fought I was really good at controlling my emotions and not letting them get to me. Even when they made crude comments or insulted me. It was all the more rewarding when I beat them to the pulp. But now I was overloaded with anger and other emotions I couldnt identify that was overwhelming making it hard to keep neutral.

 

I can't kill him. I can't kill him. I can't kill him

 

I gave him a glare. "Do that and I won't hesitate to kill you. Why did you really come after me? You have three seconds to talk before I spill your innards for the buzzards to enjoy." Taking another knife , this one bigger than the others, I rip his t-shirt down the middle then point it right above where his black heart should be. "Tell me." I say hoping he wouldn't catch my bluff.

 

I get right up in his face, "Tell me now, you son of a motherless goat." I press the knife harder that it broke skin and a small trickle of blood went down his chest. To my great irritation he didn't even blink or sweat. He didnt even look the slightest bit intimidated at all. "You're going to have to try harder than that to get me to talk." he spits on my face.

 

I wipe the spit off my cheek and then I give him a uppercut to the jaw. He slams his head back against the brick wall hard. His eyes roll back as he slumps forward unconscious, a bloody gash at the back of his head. Man, I hit him harder than I thought.

 

I curse and immediately take out the knives imbedded in the brick and put it back in my boot. Buzz slumps forward on the ground like a sack of potatoes. It started pouring making us drenched in seconds. I can't leave him here. He would die from blood loss and infection if hypothermia didn't kill him first. I didn't care, but I blamed it on me being human.

 

Mostly.

 

I curse again and grab him by the legs and drag him to the corner in the alley that the rain didn't reach. Could I leave him here? He did try to kill me. A futile attempt and he did fight well. I had to admit if the rain wasn't coming so soon and I hadn't drenched him in water, it could have been disastrous for me. I can't leave him here. He was drenched and I don't know if I could heal the gash on his head without burning him as well in the process. I take off my wet button down and flicking my hair out of my face, I rip it into strips. I make a handkerchief and attract it to his head and  wrap the wound on his arm that has not closed completely. I try to set his broken wrist right to reduce the pain. Again, I didn't know why I cared. He was a dick and threatened to kill me and my newly found family.

 

Something about this seemed suspicious. It was too easy. From someone from his rank and size, it should have been much harder. Something was off. A random guy coming after me and not even being a little surprised when I could use electricity too. Then he doesn't even attack me, just defend himself like he was the victim. When I sensed his power it was much stronger than Buzz showed in his skill. I knew he was holding back. But why? Was this a trap? I look around to see him anyone was watching or coming towards us, but with the heavy rain it was difficult to see anything past five feet.

 

I look back to check to see if Buzz has awaken, but he was gone. I gasp and take a step back looking around to see if I could spot him. Cold rain slicked down my back and I shiver uncontrollably. I need to get out of here. Something was not right.  I run out of the alley and stop under a tree. The rain was less heavy and filled with noises of the storm happening around me, enough so no one could overhear my phone call.

 

I hover over the contact. Man, he's going to be pissed I didn't come sooner. But better late than never, I think as I press call. He picks ups on the third ring. Before I could say anything he was already ranting to me about where I was.

 

"Where were you? Sumi sent you the note hours ago. You could have at least called if you weren't going to show up. It is the only information we had gotten that is solid. I thought you were going to be the first one here. What the heck? Don't tell me you-"

 

I interrupt him, a smile tugging at my lips at his attempt to be stern. Sometimes he is so cute. "Kwan your concern is touching, but not needed. I just ran into some obstacles that needed to be smoothed out before I came to you. You know we need to be careful, especially now." I could tell he was frowning now.

 

Kwan's voice immediately turns into one of concern. "Obstacles? what happened? Was it-"

 

"Doesn't matter. I'm coming in ten." I hang up before he has a chance to question me further. I knew he was just worried, but if I told him about Buzz he would immediately be paranoid and add unnecessary stress. he was already going to have a cow when he finds out I have moved back with my family.