The Huntress Race

Prologue

" You have to go, you must get out of here! Whatever they gave you it could kill our baby," a young man said desperately.
" No! If I leave they will kill you," a woman answered.
" You know that liquid they gave you made you the next Huntress, the almost invincible warrior," the man argued.
" I know, I just can't leave you, even though our baby may be hurt it can't be as hurt as I would feel if I left you," the woman rebuked sadly.
Footsteps pounded outside their cell block. " Go! I'll hold them off," the man said. The woman wiped away a tear and ran, clutching her pregnant belly she ran as fast as she could through the hole in the wall her husband had blown and in to a dark corridor. She ran awkwardly down a flight of stairs and rounded a corner. She looked up as she heard her husband yelling and battling the guards. The woman knew her husband was doomed. She had to use the head start he had given her. She took out the guard's access card he had snatched from their cell guard. A metal door blocked her way but she swiped the card on a touch screen and ran through the now open door. Footsteps echoed on the stairs she had ran down earlier and she knew they were catching up. Time to use her new powers. She concentrated hard and fire melted a hole in the wall. She heard shouts as she ran out in to the cold, snowbound landscape. A blizzard swirled around her but she didn't stop. She had to get away from the people who scorned her, who poisoned her baby and herself. She had to get away.

Hours later an exhausted mother clutched her newborn in her shaking arms, snow swirled around them but the mother knew her daughter was strong enough to fight the cold, her daughter was stronger than any. " My darling, I am about to leave this world and would like to give you one last blessing. Know that forever you will be in my heart, you are the most precious thing in my life, my little warrior and Huntress, my Alex," the woman said as her life ebbed away and she lay still forever. The snow would be her burial place. the only thing that remained alive was a baby girl, sleeping peacefully in the force of the biggest blizzard ever recorded. Never destined to know her mother. Destined to run forever.