I've Got Your Back

Chapter 14

Chapter fourteen:

"And the training begins!" David announced cheerfully.

I didn't really know what to expect so I just followed Hunter and the rest of the crew. We walked through, yet another door, and stepped into this wide spacious room that was set up as a gym. I assumed they used this as a training room. There were weights and target practices fully equipped with guns and bow and arrows, and a lot of empty space.

"Ok, listen up everybody!" Toby said and everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to him.

Hunter was definitely the leader, and a good one at that. He was honest, and I could tell he related to people and everyone trusted him. There was a certain confidence he had and commitment he showed to everyone, that made him who he is.

"Everyone, continue what we started yesterday while I talk to Ava. I'll be checking up on all of you so no monkeying around." he said like a sergeant barking orders.

He was in command and I could see he earned the respect he was given.

He brought me to a corner of the room and we sat on the floor as he spoke to me.

"Ava," he said in his serious army-person voice.

"What's up?" I asked not sure of what the answer would be.

He sighed and looked down at his hands , "I'm not sure how to tell you this and I hate just throwing new recruits into this Hell hole, but there really is no other way."

"Ava," he said looking at me seriously with a stern face

"There's a war. An underworld war that we are constantly fighting. But the thing about this war that's different then others is we never know when or where the enemy will attack. I know that this whole magic and supernatural stuff is hard to believe but there's more. Our enemies are Cambions. They are half demon and half human. They come in the form of a human and are pretty much invincible-for now. As happy as we all may seem we're living in constant terror. We already lost someone and it was all hard for us, Ella especially took it hard." he sighed and it seemed like he aged 10 years.

I could tell it was hard for him to continue but he did,

"Her name was Melanie and they were best friends. She-she saw it all happen first hand. It was our first attack and one of our firsts time all together. We were at some party and some guy walked up to us saying he knows what we are and that he could help us control our powers. We missed all the signs and were stupid and naive, but we followed him. A Cambions favorite thing to do is to seduce and rape women and Melanie was piss drunk so she went along with one of the guys, we-we didn't even notice her leave. Ella did though and she went to look for her. She heard her yelling and crying and found her in a room being tortured by this-this monster. She couldn't and never would speak about what she saw before we came. When we showed up Melanie was laying on the floor stark naked with stab wounds and cuts on her body, she was making these horrible grunts and was foaming from the mouth. Ella, Ella was pushed up against the wall with a knife to her neck, it was horrible. We fell right into their trap and lost someone. Ella went into total withdrawal for a long while, we all did. But what's the point of moping around if u can be out there training making sure it never happens again?"

By now there were tears in his eyes and I cld tell that he took it hard as well.

"Hey, look at me Hunter." I said

He did and I continued, " It won't happen again."

He clenched his fists and took a deep breath,

"But how can you say that? You don't know what's going to happen."

"I see the way you look after these guys, I'm looking now and I see they train well. I of all people can say that because you saved my life. If it wasn't for you I would be as good as dead by now."