WHISPER- shadow and bone

Chapter 13

"I may not see you just yet, but I can hear your heart racing, boy", Ivan taunted.

Jesper's heart rate accelerated. He wasn't exactly afraid, he didn't fear the bumbling Grisha who he was about to face, not one bit. No, his heart accelerated with excitement, he was excited at this opportunity to use his skills. He cocked his gun and fired, ripping through the sheets that had been hung up and striking Ivan on his kefta.

"Has no one told you keftas are Fabrikator-made and resistant to bullets, hmm?"

"Oh, I do love a challenge", Jesper drawled, a grin on his face.

"So stop hiding and challenge me", Ivan rasped. His footsteps grew closer as the pair weaved around the sheets, dancing away from death.

"So stop hiding and challenge me!", he shouted again.

Jesper shot again, tearing through the sheets with impeccable accuracy as if the bullets were guided by an invisible hand.

Ivan groaned, knocked to the floor.

"Shooting me in the same spot is clever... but ineffective", he gasped.

Ivan's footsteps echoed across the ground. A sly smile was slung across his face spotting a figure behind a sheet. Ripping it back, he frowned at the sight of a hat on a pole. Stalking about, he noticed some movement from behind one of the sheets. He yanked it back to discover a small child hidden behind it. He placed a finger over his mouth.

"Go to sleep", he whispered and the child fell onto the soft sheets.

Jesper sent another shot racing through the sheets and this time the target hit home and Ivan fell to the ground gasping in pain.

"Pretty effective... I'd say", Jesper taunted stepping on Ivan's leg, pinning him down. He flicked the gun in his fingers with ease and turned it to the Heartrenders head.

The child came scuffling over and Jesper noticed him at once. He couldn't kill in front of a child. He was a monster perhaps, but now that was truly something you could never come back from.

"Throbs a bit, am I right?"

"What are you?", Ivan groaned.

"A big softie, apparently. I really should have shot you in the head"

"You're a...", Ivan gasped.

"Shh shh shh", Jesper whispered before swinging his gun into the side of Ivan's head.

"Should have stopped while you were ahead"

His ability was a thing he and his brother shared, yet Jesper always found himself to be the better one at using it. They could both manipulate but Jesper could create magic.

"Told you I was better with this thing Ez", he laughed to himself.

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"We should get moving. It's not safe to stay in the same place for long", Mal spoke.

"We won't get far if you won't let me treat your wound", spoke Alina.

"Fine"

Mal grumbled as Alina applied ointment onto the wound on Mal's shoulder.

"You do know you can heal him painlessly right?", Ezra whispered leaning on Ada.

"Yep", she smiled back.

"Anything to get them together though! Plus I do enjoy seeing him suffer a bit", she spoke with a wink.

"Stink reminds me of Keramzin", Mal groaned.