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12. maniac

Sylver did not enjoy being the entertainment.
Despite maybe being blind and definitely only having one eye to see if not, Eyelash led her out of her (their) room and through the corridors confidently and without hesitation, back to the elevator.
She walked at such a fast pace that made it clear she did not want to talk.
She wants to see pain.
And Sylver did not intend to deliver.
They reached the elevator, the door opened at Eyelash's touch, and they stepped inside.
Earlier Sylver had avoided looking into one of the mirrors coating the walls, but now, after Eyelash had pressed the button marked with 'PT', Sylver didn't manage to ignore those tired eyes of the tired person looking back at her.
"Fascinating things, aren't they?", Eyelash suddenly said with... was that sexual arousal in her voice?
As she did not elaborate Sylver asked, "Uhm... which... which things are you talking about?"
"Why, mirrors of course! I don't even know how exactly they work but they show me so much... just so much muchness! I can see myself, and very clearly at that, and that is just so... wow!", Eyelash almost laughed hysterically. Then she went silent again, occupied with alternatingly looking at Sylver and herself.
This whole situation was so weird that Sylver felt like loudly crying out tears of pure hysterical laughter, just like Eyelash would. What in the actual fuck had she gotten herself into...
"So you are not blind?", Sylver asked, feeling stupid already as she did. "Maybe I am...", came the answer right as the elevator smoothly came to a stop, and its doors opened with a musky voice whispering Physical Training, "But how do you know that you aren't?"

Sylver had changed her mind. She wanted to go back to being the entertainment, because the other option was far worse.
They entered directly into an enormous hall with everything one would need for killing through pure physical exhaustion. Every imaginable work-out gear was scattered around the front part of the room, and in the back there was a sand pit for 1on1 or even group combat to the left and a hexagonal climbing tower out of which spears came out in random places and intervalls to the right.
And as if the thoughts of having to do those things and of Eyelash laughing hysterically as Sylver got speared right through her stomach weren't bad enough, the room of course also had to be filled with muscular to purely swole men and women, who were looking at the two newcomers as if they were their next protein-filled meals, with no exceptions.
At first there was complete silence. And then the whispers started, paired with glares filled with hunger.
"That's Eyelash!"
"Isn't that Matt's prodigy?"
"Finally a chance for revenge!"
"She can't take us all!"
"I'm gonna rip off their skins and feed them their own eyes!"
"Eyelash is bandaged! We can take the psycho!"
Sylver took a step back. Matt had said they weren't allowed to hurt or kill her yet, but there was not a single pair of eyes that seemed to remember or care about that.
Another step.
"Good to see you all again! I hadn't expected all of you here!", Eyelash laughed, but neither hysterically nor with fear in here voice. It was... joy? Excitement?
Everyone sitting stood up, and everyone already on their feet took a step forward.
The closest one to them was a big guy who probably could take on Sylver blindfolded with both his arms tied behind his back. He was the only one who took another step. A leader then.
"Eyelash!", he addressed her with hatred in his voice, "You have the audacity to show up again?"
"Why, yes darling, I do! I am showing the pretty lady around!"
Sylver acknowledged Eyelash's flawless confident comment, even though it did not at all get rid of any of the many menacing looks.
"And now I may ask all of you to stop thinking about killing me? There is not a single person in here that can kill or even harm me, and even though you could definitely could kill the pretty lady, do you really want Squad 0 as your enemies? Think about it, and then step aside, we are here for training, not for maiming and mutilating you!", Eyelash laughed, and in addition to at least 90% of the people infront of them Sylver also stepped back at those words. The 'leader' did not seem to be fazed at that remark.
"We saw what you did last time, psycho! But this time you lack the depth-perception that two eyes would give you, and we know what to expect from you! Do you really think we keep watching you killing our friends without at least analysing you? This is the chance we have been waiting for for months! What do we care about that girl? One of my friends will beat her up a bit to weaken her enough so that we can kill her when a week has passed. But getting rid of you, the infamous Eyelash, will get us high up in the ranks! Not with Squad 0, but who cares?", he roared at Eyelash who didn't even beat her eye...lash...
Sylver  on the other hand stepped back again. She could not tell who was more dangerous, all of these people, or Eyelash, but she wanted away from them all.
Sylver could not see her face, but she was sure that Eyelash smiled wickedly as she loosened the bandages on her arm and said: "Then come at me, Khurt! But don't start crying again!"
Khurt roared and his fist seemed to turn to metal as he stormed the few steps that were still missing towards Eyelash, a punch swinging towards her temple, but Eyelash sidestepped easily, and from there on Sylver found it difficult to keep up with Eyelash's speed. She seemed to move at speeds Sylver herself could only achieve when her Focus had activated, and without it most of what she saw looked more like a blurr than actual bone-breaking by Eyelash, but her main movements were distinguishable at least, even if some of them only in retrospection.

After stepping aside Eyelash kicked Khurt's knee from the side, his kneecap shattering. One of his goons came at her from behind with a handful of fire coming for the blind(er?) side of her face, and yet Eyelash ducked away towards Khurt who now lay only a metre infront of Sylver, kicked his face before turning back around and uppercut the other guy who was still trying to recover. Two women came at Eyelash next and she headbutted the one infront, breaking her nose by the sound of her howl, then used the slowly uncurling bandages to wrap around the other one's outstretched arm and then neck before tugging strongly and clearly breaking her neck. How that was possible with bandages Sylver did not know but it made her more afraid than when she had felt after waking up in the hospital bed not so long ago. Next Eyelash picked up one of the dumbbells on the floor and literally threw it at the closest guy's face before uncurling the bandage even more while rolling beneath a stream of water a beefy man on the other side of some racks was shooting at her from his mouth. Sylver noticed that fewer people tried to get closer and more and more stepped away as fast as possible without taking their eyes off of the madwomen on a killing spree that from the moment she had destroyed the kneecap had been laughing maniacally. Another man had managed to get in closer and was bombarding Eyelash with punches that Eyelash had to step backwards for while the guy behind the racks was still spitting water. Combined they didn't give Eyelash a chance to recover and counterattack, and for a moment she seemed to be losing too much ground right towards a woman who seemed to have noticed this as well and was touching as many heavy objects around her as possible which made them levitate next to her. What they both had overlooked was that Eyelash had finished unrolling the bandage and had started wrapping it around the guy assaulting her without any visible system behind it, but out of nowhere her arm, still with a clearly visible red scar going from underneath her sleeve all the way down to her wrist, was free and tightening the bandages, which snapped the guys wrists together before somehow bringing her knee into his stomach and then stepping on the guys tied-together wrists, bringing him down and letting his chin meet her knee on the way down as well, dislocating it and breaking both hands at the same time. Her head was turned to the spitting guy now and she ran at his hideout, her back to the woman still making weights and other things around her float. She stretched her arm backwards though, letting it sweep across the room behind her as if she was searching for something lying on a table behind her. Nobody else dared to step in anymore, but the woman took this as her opportunity and began to somehow shoot one levitating object at Eyelash after another, but even before Sylver could cry out for her to look out Eyelash somehow dodged the weighs and dumbbells that she could never have seen coming by rolling to the side and jumping up again, making one of the heavier weighs hit the spitting man right in his throat and taking him down. Then, out of nowhere, one of the weighs hit Sylver in the shoulder, spinning her around and definitely breaking bones. The woman was shooting a few weighs in her direction as well now, and all but one Sylver simply managed to dodge because she had been spun around. The one that got away hit right into her side, breaking at least two of her ribs and throwing her to the ground where her head landed on a dumbbell hard, blurring her vision and nearly making her pass out. She watched Eyelash's silhouette do something bloody to the levitation-woman before she screamed "Please, more of you! Come here!" into the room at the others. Sylver's head started burning even more when the scream hit her ears, and she started fading into unconsciousness just as she saw the murderous woman walk towards her.