The Hunt [BOOK 2: WAR OF MORTALS] [Completed]

Fighting for Family

The Fire. I think finally understood what Sammy meant by fire. It's all around us. Surrounding us and corralling us in one area. Michil stands in front of his army and I stand in front of mine. The fire keeps us all in one area. I would've thought this was Michil's doing, but when the fire started, he was shocked to see it. I can only wonder who set the fire and why it's specifically in a circle around us. Michil quickly brushes it off.

"You really think sending her off with some girl is going to stop me from getting to her? I will have that child and the books! She trusts me-"

"Cause she's a child. You tell them anything enough and they'll believe it. Michil the entire world isn't children. If it was there wouldn't be a war right now. Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. It's your choice."

"Oh? So, now I get an ultimatum? I don't think this is how this works, Jessaline! I'm the one who gives the ultimatums!"

"Why? Cause it shows what little control you have? I'm at least giving you an easy choice. The easy way is you surrender and allow us to take you to a police station to get booked in the nearest jail. Hard way is we kill you. Here and now. No rules. Just bloodshed and lots of it." Michil growls at me before pulling his gun on me. Before I know James is by my side pointing his gun at Michil.

"You think you're so smart, don't you, Jessaline? You have the larger army, you have friends helping you by giving you war equipment, you have your pathetic excuse of a boyfriend-" I take James' gun from him and point it at Michil's head myself.

"Call him pathetic again. I dare you. I don't need him to fight my battles. He chooses to help me as do my friends and family. That's the difference between our armies, Michil. Mine is all my family, your's is men you randomly pulled off the street!"

"You've got a lot of nerve-"

"You're right. I do have a lot of nerve. Thing is I'm not afraid to use it against you." Michil goes to step closer to me, but I quickly move my finger to the trigger. "Don't take another step. I will shoot and trust me I NEVER miss!" I smirk knowing that Sentinel will get what I'm saying and start getting his aim.

"He has his shot," Moonshine states through my earpiece. I watch as Michil takes a step toward me, but is immediately shot in the shoulder. "He's taking aim for his head next," Moonshine informs me. I take a deep breath knowing that Sentinel had aimed for his shoulder to prove his point.

"How did you- You didn't even- You fucking BITCH!!!" Michil's men immediately attack blocking off Sentinel's view of where Michil is. "You're not going to get away with pathetic tricks like that!" Michil lunges at me with a dagger in his hand. I stuff Midnight into my pocket and pull out my own dagger to block his attacks. Once more I'm stuck on the defensive end of the fight. Michil comes close to scratching me a few times, but I parry his blade away before it can. I don't know what do when suddenly men start dropping because of the fighter jet. I had almost forgot about that. The jet showing up throws Michil off allowing me to switch to Offensive. I slash at him a few times and he gets a couple of slashes at me. Then we both try to parry each other as our knives fly across the battlefield. We both pull our pistols. He pulls his and I pull Midnight. Michil curses a couple times under his breath.

"What are we doing? A western style showdown?" I joke. Michil shots at me and I luckily see the bullet flying toward me. This gives me enough time to dodge it as I shoot at him getting him in the wrist. We continue shooting at each other until we run out of ammo. Which happens at the same time. I drop the gun to the ground and go in for a hand to hand attack. Unfortunately, Michil had the same idea. I duck out of the way of one of his punches while delivering one of my own straight to his stomach. He bends over holding his stomach as I go to knee him in the face. He grabs my knee and goes for an uppercut. I dodge his punch and kick his feet out from under him. Only problem? He grabs my ankle on the way down causing me to fall on my back as well. We both spring up as he goes to punch me. I brace myself to catch it when his leg comes up and kicks me. I fly back and hit the building. I warily stand while Michil runs at me ready to punch me in the face. I duck just in time causing him to punch the wall as I uppercut into his ribs. He once more bends over as I take my chance to grab the back of his head and slam it into the wall before slamming it into the ground. I don't entirely know what else to do. So, I bring him up to my eye level before kneeing him in the dick over and over again. I can tell it's paining him, but I'm a female I'm not entirely sure how bad the pain is. Michil suddenly pulls out a second blade before going for my head with it. I block it with my wrist. His knife's blade is stuck in my wrist as I judo flip him over my shoulder. I twist his wrist to the left waiting for the satisfying crack. When I finally hear it I let go and pull his dagger out of my wrist. While I'm distracted with my wrist Michil brings up his feet and kicks me under my jaw. I stumble back a little while moving my jaw a little bit.