Blue Wolf Moon

10. Red Lightning

She swung one of her swords right in front of Riya's face and she moved just in time, feeling the ice cold wind from the slash of the sword.

"What the hell!?"

The lady took out her other sword out too now and held them both in hand. They were both shaped like a lightning and lit up in blood-red color in the centre.

"Who are you!?" Riya asked standing in front of her friends.

"Your killer." she said and came charging towards Riya, slashing her swords as fast as she could. But she had been practicing too; she dodged them all before giving a swift kick in the guts, sending her ten paces back.

"Okay I don't know who you are, but you need to calm down!" said Riya looking at her opponent getting ready to fight again. She came at her screaming and Riya brought out her nails, ready to fight this time.

"What the fuck?" she heard Vihaan say before the lady threw herself on Riya, smashing her through the wall of the cafeteria and onto the veranda, right in the centre of the Innovative Film City. The crowd gasped as they stood watching with her friends who were eager to help her but couldn't.

Riya felt the bruises on her back heal as she got back up to fight again. The lady came through the hole in the wall and ran towards her with her swords again. Riya quickly zapped around her hoping it would throw her off but it was no use. She seemed to know where she would stop. Riya charged at her growling with glowing eyes before landing a couple of good hits. She was about to knock one of the swords out of her hands when she got cut by the other-

"RIYA!" Nidhi and Akul called out in panic. Jayanth was so scared he held Vihaan's hand, although he made him let go because he decided to go outside too.

"Dude! What are you doing!?" called out Akul.

"We have to help her!" he said and received a nod of agreement from Akul.

Meanwhile, Riya's arm had started bleeding. It wasn't healing as fast as it should've been, but it did end up healing. She had managed to get one of her swords out of her reach but this was getting harder. Riya was hating this. She wanted this to be over as soon as possible.

They continued fighting. Hard blows from both sides. Riya would come so close to getting her head cut off before pushing her away everytime. She was getting tired.

"Give up kid. You can't defeat me."

Riya felt her old wounds that she had gotten from the sword open up and bleed again as the red light on her swords lit up once more. She raced towards Riya and drove the sword through her stomach.

Everything went silent.

Riya looked into her killers eyes as she choked up blood from her mouth. The lady sat her down against the wall and gently placed her hand on her head.

"You did good kid. I'm sorry, but I had to. He wouldn't- "

She screamed as she stood up to see one of her own swords coming through her chest from the back. She fell over to the side - dead.

Vihaan looked over to see what he had just done.

"Riya! Oh my God Riya!? Are you okay!? Come on." he said as he came running and took her in his arms. Riya was still bleeding. She was dying. Everyone came up to them. Nidhi and Jayanth were crying and Amitha too shocked to even react. Vihaan shook himself back to reality and went towards Riya. 

"Hey Riya. You were...amazing. Guess you didn't tell me you had superpowers huh?" he said looking at her with a faint smile. She looked at him painfully and smiled too. He then stood up and put his hands on the sword that had gone through Riya. He looked into her eyes one last time before drawing it out with one swift movement. She winced as she closed her eyes, trying to hold on.