Chapter 22

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Echo and his guys arrive at the location he told Kaylin to meet him at. In the distance Ekko watches on with two other Firelights as Echo and each man split up in different directions.

Echo looks peeks outside the shop window as he sees Kaylin and the two men from before slowly walking by the building he was in. He quickly ducked before one of the men looked inside the building he was in.

"Too close." Echo muttered to himself as he saw two vials of shimmer next to him.

He peeked back out the window as he saw the three of them stop and wait. Echo sighed as he stood up and grabbed the two vials as he began making his way for the door.

"Long time no see, Kaylin." Echo said when he was outside the building.

"Pretty foolish to come alone, then again that's what you always do." Kaylin mockingly said as she readied her blades.

"I am a foolish man, I won't deny that." He said before he whistled and the 10 men he brought with him walked out of different buildings. "But I didn't come alone."

Echo saw the two thugs pull out vials of shimmer and proceeded to drink the purple liquid.

"I'll handle these guys." Echo said as he hesitantly pulled out one of the two vials he picked up, popping the cap off and drinking the purple liquid.

Echo twitched for a second before he controlled himself as the two men charged at him. Echo dodged them easily and killed the closest one to him as he looked at the other man with rage and mercilessness in his own eyes. Echo lunged at the man with his swords drawn and sliced easily through the last man's neck as the blood began to spout like rain, covering Echo.

Ekko saw Echo take the shimmer and shake his head at his friend's decision but understood why he did it. One of the other Firelights looks at Ekko for a order but sees him just standing on his board.

Echo begins making his way over to Kaylin who has her own blades drawn.

"I've said it multiple times now, but you never could leave well enough alone." Echo says when he's directly in front of her. "First shots yours like last time."

Kaylin stands there slightly shaking as the weather changes and it begins to rain. Another figure watches from the distance as the two people she knows is about to fight each other once again. Echo knows his fate and has accepted it as Kaylin steadied her blades before lunging at him. He dodges her attack and launches one of his own as he cuts a gash into her arm, causing her to drop the blade from the hand of the arm that was cut and grimacing in pain.

"Why'd you do it?" Echo asked as he stopped a few feet away from her.

"Do what?" Kaylin asked in return as she looked away from her arm.

"The bounty." He said raising his blades again.

"Oh that? Could've sworn I canceled it." She says pacing the tip of her blade against her chin.

"If you canceled it then who did it?" He asked with a look of confusion.

"Hello there, brother." A man said as he approached.

Echo turned around to face the man and when he saw who it was he jaw dropped. The older brother he thought was dead all these years now stood in front of him.

"Jackson?" Echo asks not believing he was seeing his older brother.

"In the flesh, Hound." Jackson says clapping his hands as he approached his brother. "How long has it been?"

"12 or 13 years. I've heard the rumors and I want to know the truth. Did you kill our parents?" Echo says as he readies his blades.

"Yes, yes I did." Jackson says as he pulls a war hammer off his back. "It was worth the power that they gave me in return for it."

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