“Wow, its hot”, thought Dragon to herself as she sat hidden in the high grass near a tree. The temperature was supposed to drop, but if anything it had gotten significantly warmer. The sun had set about 15 minutes ago and now she was concentrating on going over all the details of her plan again. The thing seemed to strike around an hour after the last light had fallen, that gave her about 45 minutes.
She looked towards the farmhouse and was relieved to see all the lights out and no cars in the driveway. She had a perfect view of the rear stables of the farm and could almost imagine the thing crawling out of the woods as it sized up its prey. She thought about their meeting on the rooftop that night and wondered how Lightning and Whisper were doing on their missions. Then she thought about the young heroine named Midnight. She didn’t know her well but had been obsessed with avenging her defeat since that night at the warehouse. She reminded her a little bit of herself in her younger years. Quick to react and not thinking things through had also been her traits. She hoped she was doing well and also hoped that she would return to crimefighting. There were enough bad guys out there and not nearly enough good ones.
She checked her watch and was amazed to see that a half hour had passed without so much as a broken twig snapping. The sun had been down now for a while. It was so quiet out here; so different from the urban sprawl she was used to. Suddenly a strange feeling overcame her and the hairs on the back of her neck stood up. This was it. It was coming.
She heard something coming through the forest to the left of her. She slid the taser out of her belt and readied it. She would only have one shot with it and she’d be dammed if she’d miss. The thing was going down tonight.
The sound got louder, and now she could hear a low rumbling sound also. She was surprised at how loud the thing was, she had expected a hunter not a brawler. Although the thing was not exactly a natural animal and seemed more like an experiment from what she had been told.
She got ready to fire on the thing when it appeared. It was coming from exactly the same position that it had attacked at other sites. Her muscles tensed and she stared straight ahead, her eyes locked on the position that the sound seemed to be coming from.
The thing appeared huge as it broke through the brush. Dragon fired as soon as she saw the huge brown shape emerge from the forest, striking it in its hairy chest. Voltage shot down the length of the wires into the creature leaving it paralyzed in the deep grass out of sight.
“Yes”, she thought. “It’s down.” She ran over to its position to see the thing and to fully immobilize it.
She closed in on it and slowly inched closer to it. When she saw what it looked like her heart jumped into her throat. “Oh no.” It was a brown bear with a huge hunk of flesh missing from its back.
The next thing she felt was warm air blowing on the back of her head. She whipped her body around and standing there towering over her 5’5 frame was the ugliest thing she had ever seen.
The beast had been scarred by its encounter with Lightning. Its chest hair was gone and its flesh was marked by white spots where it had been seared. The things muzzle had also been damaged and looked like it had been burnt with a blowtorch. It towered over the small woman.
It bared its fangs and leaned down towards the heroine.
“My God.” She had felt for Midnight before but now had a whole new understanding of what the poor girl had gone thought. Her hand reached for the needle.
The beast watched her hand and right as she pulled it out he swiped at her head. Dragon was faster though and ducked under the claw but as she did the hypothermic felt into the tall grass out of sight. “SHIT”, she thought and now grabbed for her knife still in its sheath.
This time the monster swung lower causing her to do a back flip to escape. Now he came after her. She couldn’t draw the blade; the thing wasn’t giving her a chance to.
“Think, quick now.” She positioned herself to be able to evade anything the creature might try.
The thing closed on her. It feigned left and Dragon darted right, as she did it reached out and grabbed her by her throat.
“GHHAAAAAA”, it was too quick for even the great Dragon. It picked her up by her throat and began to sniff at her.
Dragon’s vision began to go. She reached down to her belt and grabbed the handle of her blade. In the snap of a finger she pulled it out and drove it into the shoulder of the beast.
“RRRRRAGGGGGG”, it howled in pain and threw her through the air. She landed with a thud in a bush. She crawled out of it ripping her costume as she fought to escape the clutches of it.
She looked towards the beast and saw it yank the blade out of itself. It looked at her with rage in its eyes, got down on all fours and charged her. She turned and ran for her life into the forest.
“I mean it Will, its done. We can’t go on like this.”
“Well, we certainly had a lot of fun didn’t we Emma? We got to get crazy and do things we always wanted to do to each other.” He replied.
“Yes, I’ll never forget it.” She answered.
“I’ll be right back” he grabbed his bag and went into the bathroom.
“He took that well.” She thought. She was relived it was over.
He came back out of the bathroom and walked up to her. “Hey, one more kiss before we part, ok?”
“I don’t think we should.”
“One more” he said.
He moved closer to her and leaned down; as he did he slid his hand out of his pocket and under her sweater. Her eyes opened and she pushed him away. As she did he pressed the trigger on the stun gun shocking her and knocking her off of her feet and onto the bed. He followed her body and kept zapping her until he was satisfied she was not a threat.
“It’s not over yet baby. I know how you like this shit.” Her body was convulsing on the queen-sized bed. He reached into his bag and pulled out two sets of handcuffs. He yanked her sweater over her head and threw it on a chair. Then he took one set of cuffs and cuffed them to the frame of the bed, he turned her over onto her stomach and connected the second cuff to her wrist and then cuffed the two of them together effectively handcuffing her to the bed frame.
He grabbed her car keys and walked out to her car. He went straight to the trunk and opened it looking for something to bind her other wrist. All that was there was a bag with her work clothes in it and what looked like a travel bag. He opened the travel bag and saw two sets of handcuffs sitting on top of some kind of satiny clothing.
He looked at the clothing and recognized what it was. A smile lit up his face as he walked back into the room. She still was out of it, but she could now focus and hear him. She glanced towards him and saw the bag. “NO, oh no, please no.” she thought.
“Hey baby, I know your secret!”
The blond woman floated in the air high above the compound. The fat Haitian was sitting on his throne like a king with all his followers around him. There was a band set up to the right of the throne with something in the middle between them. It had a roof so she couldn’t tell what it was from this high up. There were a bunch of seats in front of whatever it was.
The sun had set about a half hour ago sending his party into the stratosphere. The rap and hip-hop music was thumping and there were loud sounds of laughing and screaming from down below. “Time to crash the party” she thought and descended towards them.
“Hey, hey what the hell is that!” one man yelled as he saw the woman floating down towards them. KoKo saw the commotion and yelled, “Settle down people!!! Calm down!!!!” He looked up and smiled as he saw the beautiful woman floating downward.
She heard him say, “Everyone, put your guns away. We have a guest.” as she landed on the grass in front of him and put her hands on her hips. The music stopped.
“Welcome woman. Welcome to my humble home and my party. I was expecting you sooner or later. I am thrilled that you chose tonight to honor us.” He smiled as he sat above her.
“You won’t be so happy when I get through with you KoKo. I hear you wanted me, well now you have me. Prepare to be defeated.” the spunky heroine stood defiantly in front of him.
“Now, now, must we be so angry? Can’t we all just get along?” the crowd burst out laughing and snickering.
“Believe me, you fools won’t be laughing when I destroy your stash and end your careers.”
That hushed the crowd. “Listen, maybe we can make a deal hmmmmm. Something that benefits all of us.”
“I will never, ever, ever, make a deal or anything even close to it with the likes of scum like you. You will pay for your crimes against society in full.”
“HA HA HA HA, wow, you are something else lady. You drive a hard bargain, doesn’t she?”, he looked towards the crowd of people. Most of them were smiling or chuckling.
“Please, may I offer you a refreshment as an act of humility?” he asked the heroine.
“I would rather die of thirst rather than accept anything from you.” she replied.
“It is not from me beautiful woman, it is from my children.” He answered.
The back door of the house opened and KoKo’s seven children appeared with cups in their hands. They quickly ran towards the blond and surrounded her. The two girls in front of her offered her their cups and said, “please, please”
“I’m sorry children, now please hurry back into the house.” Lightning said.
The girls in front of her looked at each other and brought the cups down then quickly raised them back towards Lightning’s face tossing their contents toward her face. A white cloud seemed to appear in the air.
“NO” she yelled and quickly turned away …..only to turn right into another cloud that had been thrown by the children behind her. She inhaled and sucked the mist into her lungs. She was now standing in a white cloud.
“Noooooo, drugs…….have to………get ………away.” She lifted up off the ground, but the damage was done. She was losing control already. She crashed landed head first into the green grass 30 feet away with a thud. She had inhaled pure cocaine and was now experiencing an intense high. She couldn’t move.
“Ok children, time for bed now, hurry along.” Said KoKo as the children headed back towards the home.
Some of his crew moved forward to get near the body of Lightning, as he saw them KoKo stopped them. “No, I would like my Haitian guests to prepare her and bring her to the pit. She will be our entertainment for the evening now. HA HA HA HA HA”
The crowd cheered.
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