Hunter Or The Hunted

Part 10: Power and Strength

Alicia POV:

I am going to fight because if I wait I am going to get pneumonia at least if I battle this enemy then if I do die, I die honourable. I have no weapon and they do. A gun to be more precise. To actually have a fair chance I need to disarm them of their rifle. Desperately trying to remember what Elyza had taught when in training: 'Take a deep breathe and remember you are stronger then you know. You have the skills, you just need to channel them.' I imagine her saying It in her husky voice.

I'm watching the soldier very closely and watch as they are walking slowly with their rifle scanning up high in the tops of the trees. Seizing an opportunity, I stealthily walked behind them and kicked them in the back of the knee, incapacitating them. Down on their knees, i kick their back launching them on the ground flat on the stomach. Completely winded, the soldier was gasping for air on the floor. I picked up their gun from the mudded ground and threw far away from us, greatly increasing my chance of survival. Both of us getting soaking by the pouring rain, muffling any sound around us. Picking themselves off the ground, the soldier threw off their safety helmet to reveal an infuriated looking man ready to fight. Now without a gun, the only weapons he has is his fists. Its now a fair fight.

He walks towards me briskly. "Im going to kill you bitch and I'm going to fucking enjoy it". He swung his large fist towards me, and i dodge it swiftly but taken off guard he lands a heavy punch to my stomach, leaving me gasping for air. Stumbling backwards, he gets a right hook in sending me flying onto my back. Still gulping for oxygen, i pass my hand up to my nose and feel the masses of blood traveling down it. Extreme pain was coming from my bottom lip, which split and also bleeding profusely.

The soldier staggers towards me and straddled my waist, he had a sickening grin on his face obviously enjoying inflicting pain upon me.

"Now you better behave bitch or your death with be slow and to think of it very painful" He says as he lowered his face to mine, to the point where our lips were almost touching.

"Why? I've been told that men like you, like em bad." As I finish the sentence I spit in his face causing him to lose his guard and lean back on my thighs. Spotting an opportunity, my eyes rapidly scan his belt for anything to use as a weapon. When my eyes land on a combat knife, I quickly move to grab and unsheathe it from the holster and roughly stabbed it through the smooth muscle of his upper thigh. Clutching his leg in surprised agony, he removes himself off me and falls to his side.

Utilising the moment, I try and escape by running for my literal life. But as soon as I get up I go dizzy from the previous beating. This gives a brief second for the soldier to grab my ankle and pull me toward him, causing me to fall the ground. Hard. Feeling more blood escape from my nose and lip, I also feel my head pounding. I reach up to my forehead and feel more blood escaping from a large laceration, from the impact with the floor. I stagger to stand up trying desperately to get out of the forest.

When the soldier put his arms around my body from behind and tenses as much as his body was capable. With the air literally being squeezed out of me, and the rain practically blinding me, i felt in that moment; this is how I am going to die. Tears started to form as I gasped for air. When I felt in knife still in the soldier leg, my hand gripped the handle as I yanked it out of the embedded flesh. This causing the snake-like grip to loosen around me. I thrusted forward out of reach, spun around and slit the throat of my attacker.

I watched the body fall to the ground in defeat. He let out his final breath and said "the COL will live on", before his body went limp.

I was exhausted, my spirit was broken and to say the least beaten to an inch of me. I was in an utter state of shock and confusion over the dying words of the soldier. The rain was coming down hard, I needed to get back to the house, to the girls, to Elyza. I looked up at the stars and figured out the direction of east as I knew that was the way to the house. I walked slowly clutching my ribs and trying to ignore the pain in my face as I headed back to my group.

Elyza's POV:

I was pinned up against the truck. I know a pinned position is never a good one. But I can see Octavia next to me fighting with everything she had. Spraying bullets in every direction in the hopes of hitting at least one of the enemies.

The next minute I hear commotion coming from the house, and then I see someone sprint out of the front door and towards the woods. It's didn't hit me until the very last moment who it was, that when instincts took over.

"ALICIA!", I screamed with everything I had in my lungs.

She didn't stop and kept running towards the woods, with evidently a soldier on her tail close approaching. I was about to get up and go after her when I felt a strong arm pull me back.

"No, you're not going after her. If we get up we are dead. We can't possibly lose both of you!" Octavia said as she flinched as the bullets ricochet of the truck.

"I can't lose her O!" I plead.

"I know, she can handle herself but now we need to finish these circle of light fuckers off and then we can go looking".

That's when the sadness and gulit shifted to determination and anger. The final fight was harder and with darkness starting to overcome the lights. We pushed harder till there was one person left with a bullet in their leg trying to crawl away with their life.

I walk up to the person and flip them onto their back with my foot. Pressing my foot upon their bullet wound making them wince in pain.

I look down at the solider and say "I will keep you alive if you tell your buddies at the Circle of Light to leave us alone, otherwise I will... Kill... Everyone?!"

With that the solider got up and slowly limped to one of the trucks and drove off back to the CoL to deliver my message.