Chapter 13 - Mother (2/2)
”Don't make things difficult, we wouldn't want any… accidents, now would we?” The man nodded at Lydis. From the cliff four men appeared and grabbed Lydis. One grabbed Lydis and two others had a blade pointed at one of Lydis's vital points. The fourth one grabbed the young doctor. Although he was caught the young doctor didn't struggle. Tired from running and exhausted, where once had been a will to live the young doctor was no filled with despair for the inevitable. Before Marie could react they already had Lydis.
”Trash! Release my daughter before I tear all your limbs off!” Marie turned around to face the three men. When faced with Marie's overwhelming pressure their knees almost buckled but they didn't budge, instead the one holding Lydis tightened his grip on her throat and shifted the blade closer to her throat. A fine red line appeared where the blade was pressed on Lydis's throat. ”STOP!” Marie reached out but stopped when she saw that the blade moved deeper.
”See? It would be a shame to have any 'unfortunate accidents' befall your daughter while she's… is she dead?” The captain was confused. A blade was pointed at her neck and there was already a cut but Lydis wasn't crying at all, much less moving. The one holding Lydis noticed this too and made a cut on Lydis's remaining arm to see if she was faking bravery. The whole area was silent except Marie's teeth grinding against each other. ”Huh? Who would've thought that you'd run while carrying a dead body on you.” The captain seemed amused by this.
”Sir, the child's body is also extremely cold.” The man holding Lydis lifted Lydis's hand and showed them her cold blue fingers.
”Disgusting. Is that how much you treasure her? Too bad but this is the end of you.” With a snap of his finger dozens of soldiers dressed in black armor suits appeared beside him. ”End her but, make sure you aim for her right side. I heard she got a pretty bad wound a year ago.” Hearing this Marie tensed. The wound she received a year ago was due to the betrayal of a trusted friend. Lydis had gotten kidnapped and they asked for Marie to bring the ransom. Unwilling to sit down while her daughter was being threatened Marie had blindly rushed into their base with the ransom. What awaited her was an ambush. The kidnappers were a recently famous bomb terrorist group. What Marie rescued was a dummy Lydis and in the slyphir explosion fragments of heavy metal lodged themselves inside her left leg and right eye, almost taking her life. After the failed ransom they tracked the group for another month before finally pinning them down. Luckily Lydis wasn't killed but sadly she had no memories of the time when she got captured or her mother in fact. Diagnosed as short term memory loss doctors had said that it would come back in a few months.
As though she was reliving the memory Marie's face scrunched up, hatred blazing from her eyes.
”Uh-uh. Don't move an inch, or else…” The captain gestured at Lydis and the soldier holding Lydis tightened the blade again. Marie stopped moving again.
”Release her.” Marie was spitting the words out through clenched teeth. The men around her felt the pressure increase even more and the one holding onto the young doctor collapsed. The moment that happened the young doctor turned towards the men around Lydis and threw a dark black vial at their necks. All it took was a second. Out of the three vials thrown two hit their mark while the one holding Lydis, who had been furthest away, managed to deflect the dangerous vial.
Seeing as the young doctor was going to throw something else the captain signaled for his hidden men to take care of him. From the cliff a man in black armor climbed up and wound a thin metal wire around the young doctor's throat. Without room for him to defend himself the young doctor was once again captured.
*cough* ”I can't do much more than this… too bad.” The young doctor fell onto the man in black armor and pushed against him, knocking both of them off the cliff into the torrent river below. Marie didn't waste a second of the doctor's sacrifice. Making her move while the one holding Lydis was distracted she appeared next to him and landed a punch on his ribs from the side. To shocked to do anything the one holding Lydis died instantly, his ribs crushed and lungs punctured. On his other side the impact caused his bones to pierce through his skin, making him look even more deformed. He released Lydis and fell to the ground, blood slowly streamed out of his mouth.
”I see even a wounded tigress is still a tigress.” The enemy captain glanced at his fallen soldier and back to Marie. Feeling a sudden chill Marie summoned her Embodiment weapon.
”Come my claws.” With this short phrase blades of metal gold appeared out of air and formed steel knuckle gloves on her fists. Flexing her fingers Marie shot out thin gold blades at the captain.
Dodging the blades he kicked up a curtain of dirt towards Marie. Raising her arms to block the dirt Marie didn't notice the captain had shifted to her right side. His swift kick grazed Marie's leg as she leapt to the side. Stopping her dodge midway Marie pushed off against one foot and shot towards the captain, a fist colliding with his chin. Her knuckles flipped to reveal blades on the top. The blades cut into the captain's chin, leaving behind an ugly jagged cut. Marie then kicked off from the captain and flipped around to stand in front of Lydis's body, her stance ready.
The captain didn't say anything as his helmet fizzed electricity. Short wires made visible from the cut. Soon a slow distorted snicker escaped from the captain.
”I didn't want to do this but, you're still just too much fun!” The captain pushed a button behind his helmet and a *fwosh* noise came out as the pressure inside his helmet released. A familiar face smiled gently at Marie, his young voice ringing in her ears. ”Well, squad leader, miss me?”