befoe the end: chapter 2 parts 1-3

befoe the end: chapter 2 parts 1-3

Chapter 2: lives lost living
3 years earlier
“God I need to stop flying in winter.” I said as I landed on the hotel roof. While turning to Nethara and Aidda I said “and night, it’s too damn cold over here; Even for me!” both of them smiled and said almost in unison “we’re fine” scowling I said “yea, you have fur and a coat and you’re a vampire. And if you hadn’t noticed I can’t wear a coat because it the extra wind resistance doesn’t exactly help.” Nethara still with the same characteristic smile said “then just don’t fly” “I was in New York an hour ago.” Sighing Nethara finally said “well then let’s get going” I met them at the entrance, they took the elevator, I jumped off the roof. “Why don’t you ever take elevators?” Aidda said annoyed “because I hate them and I can’t have my wings open.” I replied folding my wings against my back. “but… oh never mind…” we walked around most of London looking for something to do with the girls talking to each other in the usual way, talking of sights and stuff I hardly care about. A lot of the day was spent like this. Until, “hey furry bitch!” was heard from nowhere. “The hell was that?” I said confused on what was happening “is that like… racism or something.” I heard a click behind me and I heard “get on the ground now furry” calmly I said “you know, I am probably the worst target you could have possibly chosen.” Before he could react I snapped my wings open knocking him back and making him lose grip on his gun. Turning around I caught the gun and pointed it to his face “I make m living off magic and mercenary work, I know how to kill.” I used my magic to lock his leg nerves. “now then…” I heard a bang behind me and blood splattered across my face when I turned around. A man holding a knife was lying dead behind me as I said “looks like there’s at least one rational human, or are there ears hidden behind that sniper’s hat?” The man jumped down from the top of the short building holding what looks like a heavily customized desert eagle handgun. Smiling I added “nice gun.” Holstering it he said “thanks, and no I don’t have any ears under this thing. Names Max, here you’re gonna need this around here.” He threw me a rifle from what looked like no-where. “Nice magic, but I’m fine with this” I pulled my sword from its sheath and threw the rifle to Nethara who was checking the pulse on the man behind me. Catching the rifle she said “we gotta turn the living one into the police,” I replied “you two can take care of that, I’ll talk to Max and see if I can find out what’s going on, it looks like our tourism is over.”
Part 2: that’s what you call a calm?
We had walked quite a bit away before I heard a gunshot “that sounded like a hand gun” I said shortly followed by three much louder shots “and that sounded like the rifle you gave Nethara” Max said confidently. “So anyway, what started this little war here?” I asked Max “this place has always had some hostility between the people but when some rich asshole started offering people money for proof of killing one of you people. And by money I mean about five thousand dollars. That was all they needed to kick this thing into a war and ruin hundreds or thousands of lives, this war is fueled on greed and hate. Not unlike any other.” As he finished speaking I heard a sound behind me. “Well, I’m not going to let them get that money,” I said as I stabbed my sword into the neck of my assailant. “so all of you are going to die.” As soon as I said this, several bullets were fired in my direction. Using the dead body as a shield I moved behind a wall. I saw max across from me behind a cement wall. He yelled “do you see any?” “behind the iron fence” as I said that he turned and fired through the fence catching the gunman in the midsection.” the rest of the fight continued as such, even though my thoughts were else where. Was Nethara getting attacked? How can I end his war? And after the battle, why the hell is that skyscraper covered in a magic field? Noticing the field we both turned around to look at it “I wonder what th…” he began to say when I ran towards the building sensing something horrible was going to happen. I heard him behind me “damn it, come back,” he started to say more but was drowned out by the building’s explosion.


Part 3: lost in chaos


The top half of the building was falling towards me and I saw my means of entry, there was a room that went straight through with windows on both sides. Using a wing aided jump I went through the windows and began moving up the falling building. As I reached the point of the blast I noticed there was no fire. It was a magical blast; the people that made it had to be inside when it happened. With the scale of the explosion there had to be at least five of them. I searched the part of the building that was still standing for the people that cased this. I got lucky they were still in and exhausted by the scale of their endeavor. I forced them down and handed them over to the police that Nethara and Aidda already had at the foot of the ruins. I started to talk when I noticed they started smiling at something behind me. I was tackled as I turned around to a loud “Hiiiiiiiii” still in pain from getting tackled I said “mehhh…. Hey Nini, I thought I asked you to stop doing that…” she frowned mockingly and replied “you thought I would listen?” I sighed “no I guess not, hopeful thinking. Anyways how did you know I was here?” finally letting me up she said very loudly “I could hear that explosion from my house. Could anything that big happen without you showing up?” I heard foot steps behind me, and I saw Max running up exhausted. When he got here he said “I missed everything, didn’t I?” I stood up and said “yeah, you did.” turning to the others I said “you guys should go get some sleep, its going to be day soon. try and stick around Nini I’ll need someone to talk to tomorrow. as for me I’m going to see if I can find whoever started this mess.” as I walked away I heard them talking among each other. I quickly became alone. I hate being alone, it reminds me too much of how I used to be when I enjoyed my loneliness. back before I met my friends, back when I was considered nothing but a myth. I was so different back then, and I hope I never change back.