Tainted Blood

Chapter 28

Zero was surprised as a male came at him with a mace in hand and swung it. He quickly rolled to the floor to avoid it.

With quick reflexes, the male pushed off of the floor for Zero slamming the mace at Zero. However, an invisible force seemed to knock the male back to the other side of the room. The male had bounced back up and raced at Zero. Zero was still sitting on the floor keeping himself up leaning on his elbow. He could hear the others fighting from somewhere within the room and a fight going on outside.

"So you have friends too," Zero mumbled under his breath. The male was about to bring down the mace on him, but then the air around Zero became heavy causing the male to face plant into the ground. Zero was unable to hold it for long as he quickly grabbed a glass on the nightstand and broke it into pieces.

The male felt the air become normal again causing him to quickly get up and bring down the mace on Zero. However, the broken pieces of glass began to rise from the floor and fly into him at his face. Zero quickly tripped the male to the floor and used the heel of his foot to slam into the male's stomach. The male grimaced as Zero had a hand around his neck. The male could feel his energy leaving him as Zero closed his eyes looking healthier.

"Thank you for your energy! I'm feeling a little better. Now… tell me why you're attacking."

Loki appeared behind Liam and brought down the throwing axe onto his back causing Liam to grimace as he attempted to hit Loki away falling to the floor trying to hold himself up with an arm. Liam attempted to use his other arm to take the throwing axe out but couldn't reach it. Loki had leaped back with a wry, patronizing smirk.

"Want me to take that out of your back? You might feel better," Loki said coolly. Liam gave him a death glare as he reached for the throwing axe embedded in his back. However, Loki had faded away. He appeared in front of him and upper punched Liam in the jaw. Liam attempted to counter attack but Loki had faded away before he could do anything. Loki appeared behind him and jabbed the axe further into his back with a palm causing Liam to fall to the ground.

Liam nearly popped his shoulder to pull out the axe from his back and glared at Loki," You're dead."

"That's what everyone says to me. My heart is breaking," Loki said dryly. Liam went racing at Loki with a vengeance as he threw the axes in his hand at Loki. Loki dodged out of the way of the axes racing towards Liam. Then he ducked out of the way of an axe flying at him and kicked Liam in the stomach then roundhouse kicked Liam back causing him to be flown back several meters.

Lillie swung the meteor hammer at Alexis after it gained momentum. Alexis dodged it but, in a swift motion, pulled the chain back causing the ball to fly back towards in line with the male. The ball hit the back of Alexis' head. He grimaced.

Lillie began swinging the meteor hammer beside her again and slammed the ball down at Alexis. Alexis rolled away barely recovering from being knocked over the head.

"I forgot how meteor hammers were," Alexis muttered. Lillie began swinging the meteor hammer over her head and swung it horizontally towards him. Alexis flipped back to avoid it and then raced towards her. She swung the meteor hammer around her uplifted leg and whipped it at Alexis head on.

Alexis sidestepped away and reached out to grab her, but Lillie had pulled the chain back. The ball came flying back. Seconds before it would hit Alexis in the back of the head again, Alexis had moved out of the way causing Lillie to be hit with her own weapon. She fell to the floor slightly disoriented attempting to shake off her blurring vision.

Before she could fight back, the male had scooped her into his arms.

"That's enough. I'm done playing with you, little girl. You really believe you can beat me as you are right now? Be realistic," Alexis exclaimed in a rather blunt tone. Lillie attempted to push herself away.

"Let me down, stupid! I wasn't playing! I was trying to kick your ass!" Lillie cried. She turned away into the other direction when she could feel wind whipping in her face. She was unable to see anything. Everything was a blur at the speed they were going," I feel worse than being hit with a metal ball now…"

"Alexis, it didn't take long to bring me her. I thought I asked Liam to do this. You must be fighting against the shadows," a deep male's voice said in a sinister manner. The male Lillie had been fighting, Alexis, put her down on the floor roughly.

"Hey! Be gentle! I'm fragile," Lillie snapped as she rubbed her head," Ow…"

"She was weakened by her own weapon so it was easily done since her comrades were busy with Liam and the others so I decided to take it upon myself to capture her, sir," Alexis exclaimed in a direct, serious tone while on one knee bowing. Lillie began to focus on her surroundings to realize she was sitting on a wooden floor in a large room. It looked to be a temple with the sliding doors. Lillie looked in front of her to see a rather large, menacing male staring at her.

The male was leaning on a cushion in a relaxed manner and an evil smirk cast over his face as he slowly got up from his place. "What do you want from me," Lillie snapped at him but the menacing male had gone to Alexis and hit him across the face dislocating Alexis' jaw.

"I didn't ask you to go, Alexis. I asked Liam. Don't ever do that again," the male had roared causing Alexis to snap his jaw back in place.

"I won't ever again go against your word..." Alexis trailed off. The male grabbed him by the neck lifting him to eye level.

"What else is there at the end of that sentence," the male snapped. Alexis scowled.

"Master..."

The male threw Alexis onto the floor," That's right, Alexis. Don't forget who I am."

Lillie furrowed her brows clearly disliking how the male was treating Alexis despite him kidnapping her. She exclaimed," He may not have been asked to go get me... but he did end up succeeding. So... are you going to keep beating up your subordinate, or are you going to tell me why you got him to capture me?"

Wrath turned to Lillie's attention as he bent down in front of her with that rather evil, malevolent smirk over his face.

"Didn't Alexis tell you? To talk."

A boy looking around eighteen casually walked into the mansion while the fights could be heard going on outside and upstairs.

"I don't think they mind if I don't knock. They're too busy to answer the door anyway," he said to himself. The boy began walking over to Aiden passing Mirielle. Aiden was sheet white moaning unable to wake himself of whatever nightmare he was having.

"I wonder… who you know that's so special to Jayce that he would make me come here," the boy questioned to himself as he took out a vial of what seemed to be a crushed white herb. The boy poured it over Aiden's wounds. The wounds began to heal slowly. The festering around the wound began to heal up and it began to heal to just a cut. Skin healed over it. The boy stood up and made his way to Mirielle as he bent down in front of Mirielle," Jayce thinks everyone can be saved… even if it could cost him."

He observed Mirielle for a moment to find only her arm was injured.

"I hope you aren't the ones that were convinced that Jayce is the bad guy," the boy mumbled," So help me… I'll be the one to end you."

Ashton… I want you to look after Mirielle… I sent you because you understand the immortal hunters better than anyone… A voice spoke in his mind. The boy didn't seem to be surprised by the voice. He knew who it was. The voice was the only few he ever had to communicate with.

Jayce.

Liam had punched Loki across the face but, seconds later, 'Loki' had faded away. Then within in the distance he saw Alexis leave with a girl in hand causing him to scowl.

"This is annoying," Liam cried in frustration. An evil laughter began echoing around Liam causing Liam to grind his teeth.

"It must be your backache. It's making your temper worse," Loki said in a patronizing tone. Suddenly he appeared behind Liam and thrust his blade into Liam's shoulder causing Liam to quickly turn to slash his axe at Loki. Loki dodged it.

"I recall you stabbing my axe into my back," Liam spat. Then a throwing axe seemed to teleport into his other hand and he brought it down on Loki. Loki parried it with his own blade and kicked Liam in the side. Liam stumbled back several steps as he threw the axe at Loki.

Loki had almost dodged it but it scraped his left shoulder as it past. In that second, Liam had pushed off the ground towards Loki as he began turning into his demon form. His skin was beginning to grow what seemed to be a light shade of brown feathers. Fangs protruded from his mouth as his eyes seemed to resemble a bird's. His talons sharpened and elongated turing a black color.

One of the axes had disappeared from his hand as he attempted to slash Loki across his front but had missed when Loki took a step back. Then Liam attempted to slash a second time with the same hand but a throwing axe appeared in his hand. Loki was caught off guard using his hand to grab Liam's wrist. Then Liam attempted to slash upwards with his other axe but Loki had caught his wrist.

Liam was smirking causing Loki to give him an odd look as he could sense something in the air behind him flying towards him.

Loki scowled. He bit his lower lip: dodge the axe or hold back Liam's weapons. Liam had an odd look cast over his face like he was listening to someone that couldn't be heard. Then Liam had leaped back at the last second. In a swift motion, Loki quickly dove out of the way of the axe. Liam caught it.

"It looks like I have no more reason to stay and fight," Liam said between clenched teeth and turned to run off causing Loki to look confused stopping in mid attack. What was Liam and the other attackers really doing here? Unless... they already got what they came for.

The male with the sabre came at them fiercely pulling back his sabre to slice it at Caleb.

Caleb ducked out of the path of the sabre cutting horizontally through the air over his head. However, arrows came towards him causing him to roll out of their way as they nearly struck him. He was getting pissed at the arrows as he slammed his fist into the ground causing the floor to crack open tripping the archer.

Stark had flipped with one hand on the ground hitting the female's chin with his feet as he pushed off the ground with his hand landing on his feet. Then the male with the sabre came at Stark instead, but Stark seemed to fade away.

Stark manipulated the energy around him causing him to seem like he had disappeared from the male's vision. The male with the sabre seemed confused as he stopped in mid slash, which was an inch away from hitting the female going after Stark.

"Watch it," the female scolded. Stark appeared behind the male with the sabre and shoved his hand through him. His hand had gone through the center of his chest. Stark had a rather dark, sadistic crooked smile across his face as the male fell at his feet. He was holding the male's heart in his hand.

"You guys shouldn't have broke into the house. I have the right to defend myself," Stark said in a sardonic tone as the hand that was holding the heart began to become engulfed with shadow entities," Who's next?"

"Yeah, why didn't you do that at the beginning?" Caleb snarled. Stark turned to look at him as the shadow entities disappeared. He gave a wry, cocky smirk.

"Advice from me to you. Watch out."

The archer attempted to use his bow as a sword slashing diagonally at Caleb. Caleb dodged it and caught the bow in his hand. It cut into his hand but he ignored it and used his other hand to dug his claws into the archer. The archer had grabbed an arrow from the pouch he carried behind him despite struggling. He ignored the pain and attempted to stab at Caleb. However, Caleb quickly stabbed his hand into the archer's heart causing the archer to let go of the arrow collapsing to the ground.

Stark had dodged the female's attack swiftly as he kneed her in the stomach and then elbowed her in the face disorienting the female. Out of nowhere, Aiden had appeared behind the female and stabbed him on the left side of her back. Stark raised an eyebrow at Aiden. Aiden had a deranged grin cast over his face as he began to lick the blood off his fingers.

"I feel refreshed like I haven't been in the last few hours," Aiden remarked indifferently. The female had fallen to the ground grimacing. Stark crossed his arms at Aiden.

"Weren't you dying about a few minutes ago?"

"I was feeling better when I woke up after you snapped my neck," Aiden said.

"Huh. Maybe I should've just snapped your neck when the immortal hunter stabbed you."

Caleb frowned when he looked at the spot where the archer, he female, and the male wielding the sabre should be lying dead but they were gone.