"We finally got you, you little shit!" One of the men said as he glared at the little girl with a furious look on his face.
"Make sure she doesn't escape again. Close this goddamn alley!" Another said to the other two with a cold tone. "We will take care of capturing her."
"..." The small girl's face paled as she took a few steps back while the others took a few steps forward, closing the distance between them.
"This is the last time we will treat you nicely! We have tried to be reasonable but you keep running away again and again and again! It seems you will never understand your current position." One of the two men said with an angry tone, intimidating the girl even more. She felt the wrath carried in his voice.
'I'm done for...' She thought to herself. This was truly the worst situation she could've found herself in.
When she tried to escape this time, she thought that she might find a good hiding spot before they could find her and then try to leave the capital tomorrow after mixing with the countless humans living behind the city walls.
But, she had made one single mistake... Just one single mistake and that settled everything.
"Now, don't resist or we will make it painful." The distance became mere meters as the girl found herself against the wall, with nowhere else to go.
"Stay away..." She said in a quiet tone.
"There is no life for you outside where you're put, girl. Stop pretending like you're a human. They had already decided on your fate a long time ago." The other man replied. "Just be useful and stop resisting."
"..."
His words were like a knife stabbing into her chest. She had heard it countless times before, that she wasn't a human, and that she should do what they asked from her. She didn't want to believe that, yet when everyone says those words, how can she really refute it?
'No...'
Their hands stretched forward as they were almost about to catch her. However, at that moment, she heard a loud noise coming from behind her.
"UGH!"
*SMACK*
"UGH!!"
The two men were alerted as they quickly looked up, only to see that their friends were on the ground, unconscious. Their eyes then moved to the boy dusting his hands as he stood there, looking at them.
'Ugh! My arm! How strong is this bastard?!' Feeling a horrible numb feeling in his bones, the man tried to regain his balance, only to find Arthur rushing back at him.
*BANG*
Immediately, he engaged in a brutal rain of punches. The man covered his face and neck as he tried to defend against the crushing force. But, the pain he felt with each hit cracked through his defense. He couldn't find a way to defend or even attack.
Meanwhile, in the background, the girl watched with an astonished look on her face. She couldn't believe her eyes. A weird boy had just appeared out of nowhere and beat three out of the four men chasing her.
'Who is he?... Wait, meat skewer?' Immediately, the girl remembered the thing she was holding in her hand.
"Dammit... Fuck!"
At that moment, she saw the second man slowly get up from the ground, clearly struggling to even carry his weight. Blood dripped from his face as he spat a saliva mixed with teeth.
"That... bastard!!" Looking up, his eyes made contact with the girl.
Immediately, the girl felt a shudder run down her spine. She was almost paralyzed for a moment there. She didn't know what to do, the boy was occupied with the other man and she was all alone again.
'What should I do? What should I do?!' She was terrified to the core. Everything she went through came rushing back to her mind.
"You... will pay..." The man started dragging himself toward the girl with a horrifying expression on his face, akin to a demon.
"..." She bit her lower lip before she looked down. That was when she received an idea. A very weird idea. She hesitated for a moment but then, she clenched her teeth and glared at the man.
He noticed the sudden change in her expression. Then, he saw her slowly pull all the meat out of the skewer, leaving behind the metal, sharp spike.
"...!!" His heart dropped. "Don't... you dare to even think about it..."
'Fuck... That punch gave me a concussion... I can't move properly!!' The world around the man was twisting and turning wildly and all he could do was move his arms and drag himself on the snow. He needed to get that girl first and foremost.
But, he forgot that he was completely open and vulnerable and in front of him, the girl's fearful look had turned into that of deep hatred... And a desire for revenge.
"Don't you dare...!!"
But, his words fell on deaf ears as the girl took a step toward him with her hand holding the skewer tightly. She wasn't going to spare him... She cannot spare him.
A//N: Don't forget to give the book some golden tickets for good luck! :3