44 Unpleasant surprise 2 (2/2)

*Bam*

*Bam*

*Bam*

When Sullyvan heard three muffled noises coming from the other side of the wall separating them from the driver, he detached himself and eagerly walked to the back doors.

”We have arrived.” He sayd cheerfully, in a hurry to leave the toxic atmosphere he was in.

Lazar and Amandla also unfastened their belts and followed behind Sullyvan.

As soon as he opened the back doors, 3 beams of light coming from flashlights blinded him.

”Shit!” Sullyvan screamed while putting his hands in front of his face to protect his eyes.

Despite his complaint, the people holding the flashlights still took a few more seconds to examine his face before lowering them.

”Excuse us, Major Dawson, we just wanted to verify your identity.” Informed a strong female voice.

A voice, indeed, since only those who carried the flashlights could clearly see the people in front of them.

Though... correction made, this statement was only true for Sullyvan and Amandla.

On his side, Lazar's irises turned white, then his pupils dilated until they covered the totality of his eyes.

This physical change was unnoticed by Lazar but not its effects.

He was seeing 3 slightly blurred silhouettes in black and white as well as the structure even more difficult to distinguish from what seemed to be the TD Garden at 200 meters in front of him.

Focusing on the silhouettes in front of him, Lazar gathered some information.

First, he verified if they were with the right people and the fact that the silouhettes seemed to be indeed wearing military uniforms conforted him with this idea.

He then distinguished a woman about 1,70 meter tall with a ponytail and what appeared to be a classic sword in her right hand, 'It was her who spoke to Sullyvan.'

He was sure about it since the 2 people accompanying her were men. One on her left with a club in both of his hands, one on her right with a spear in his right hand, both of them about 1,85 meter tall.

The more passive postures of these men compared to the woman as well as the fact the she was the one who talked to Sullyvan allowed Lazar to understand that they were under her orders.

Sullyvan got out of the truck and stood next to the other soldiers.

Lazar came forward, and when the soldiers pointed their flashlights at his face, he took off his hood without question.

They didn't seem to find anything abnormal with him and his eyes came back to normal with the omnipresent light on his face, so they lowered their flashlights after a while like with Sullyvan.

”So, it's you. The guy who's taking himself for our savior?” Asked the woman with pure hostility in her voice.

For Lazar, these were the kind of questions that were best answered not with a 'yes' or a 'no' but with a neutral argument such as 'you will be able to determine who I am when you will see me in action, not before', but he preferred to save his energy for more important things than talking to a person who seems to have an already strong opinion about him.

'This night will be long...' He got out of the truck with glibness and stood a few meters away from Sullyvan and the soldiers.

When Amandla also tried to go down, all the flashlights were pointed at her, which wasn't weird at all taking into account what happened before. But then, it quickly went to mayhem.

”She wasn't planned!” Aggressively shouted one of the men in the trio of soldiers.

”I'm with Mister Walker.” Amandla said to calm everyone down.

”In that case, she can come with us.” The woman said with an almost friendly tone while lowering her flashlight as well as those of her comrades from Amandla's face, ”I will help you.” She added to Amandla as she approached her.

”Do they think I'm stupid?” Lazar thought while making 'Hate' appear discreetly.

As she was about to put her leg on the ground, Amandla felt that a blade was approaching very closely and dangerously to the said leg.

She looked up at the woman who pretended to want to help her and was blinded by her flashlight in the next instant.

”It feels good, huh? Whore!” The woman shouted as she swinged her sword up and down with the intent to kill Amandla.

Contrary to what the woman thought, Amandla wasn't as much at her mercy as she thought.

Even when blinded, she managed to roll on the ground to her right to avoid the sword blow coming to her left.

”You'll see who's the whore!” Amandla shouted, enraged by what had just happened.

'I'm going to put a fucking arrow in your ass! Let's see if you will like to die that way!' Despite her hateful feelings, Amandla kept her cold and logical way of operating in combat.

She continued to put distance between herself and the woman because her vision was still a long way from returning to normal and she made her bow appear as well as arrows.

As the woman was about to go after Amandla...

*DUMB*

*DUMB*

The sound of two masses falling to the ground caught her attention.

She temporarly lost interest in Amandla and was going to turn around to see what was going on behind her, but the blade she felt against her throat dissuaded her from doing so.

”Put away your toothpick, it's not like she was going to let you try to use it more than once anyway.” Lazar commanded with a calm but sinister voice.