Chapter 6 Having no choice left pt 1

"Gris!" Valérie whispered loudly to me, "What are we going to do?!" she tried to take a peek up from underneath the desk. Dragging her back down from her idiotic action before they seen her, "Well first," now kneeling down in cover while facing her, "We shouldn't try to blow our cover." now focusing on their foot steps, "They aren't moving aggressive or reckless." only trying my best to hear them now, "Meaning they're either caution, or sadistic for actually playing hide n' seek."

"Okay-" shutting her up when I place my hand on her face, "Shhh." now hearing them move, "Okay," now patting her shoulder, "you go gather any students that happened to survive that blast or were injured by it." giving her a important task; now looking back at swarm of people, "What are you going to do?!" she sounded like she didn't like where I was going with this, "Welp," checking the hidden blade she gave me, "Time to do my job properly now."

Throwing Valérie's unfinished shield in the middle of pathways to get their attention, "Come out!" one of them yelled to me after that.

"Okay, okay." I raised my hands up from the cover, "Mind if slid over this desk to make my death a bit more respectful?" requesting one last thing before they start shooting.

"Sure," they started snickering about my request, "it's the least we could do for you in this moment." and putting their words in good faith, I threw Valérie's shirt up from the desk. Once I threw that shirt, everyone one of them started shooting her shirt once it came to view; and seeing my chance, I ran from cover to the next person workstation besides Valérie's one by sliding over their work desk.

Surprised that the person who tried to take a break when Christa told them no was still alive when I slided over here, "Oh," looking around to see if I could use anything, "you're still alive huh, though some people were too confused when I yelled at them." now regretting that I chose his workshop to cover, "Yeah everyone listened to you," he looked dumbfounded when I thought he was dead, "here." he passed me his finished shield, "We're counting on you." he gave me a thumbs up for encouragement.

"Aww," the same voice that wanted to play a game came through, "Did the little mouse die?" he started coming closer to us, while the others were spearing out to find the others, "I hoping for us to play more-"

Seeing their wasn't any other way, I ran out from his cover to rush at them before they started firing at the ones I was supposed to protect

"Get him!" the leader yelling at the others to fire.

Sprinting out from safety with the only thing protecting me was this newly forged shield; the only thing I felt in that moment was the vibration when the bullets hits the shield, and the only think I heard was their guns firing and the bullets bouncing off my shield in that moment.

Running through the path way to reach the path at the end of the path, "Rush his side!" hearing the leader yell at one of them who were the furthest from their group.

Thinking it was over if he get to my blind spot of my shield, but I couldn't care as of right now. I'll think of something when he at my blind spot. Getting close to the end of the pathway, I was about to try and move my shield around to see if I could block his bullets to the one whose trying to pull a sneaky one on me while I tried and block.

"You're done!" was all I heard from my side, thinking it was the end.

"AHH!" screaming was all I heard from the direction that person tried to flank me.

Taking this moment, I kept on running at them without any fear of getting shot on my side, and while they were probably too confused by the sudden noise of their comrade. They didn't realize my plan on why I chose this side of their.

When finally getting to the end of pathways and now straight in front of them, they only kept their fire on me through out the fight, they didn't realize my plan when through when they didn't stop there shooting when I was in front of them.

"Wai-" was all I heard in front of me till it came to a stop once I felt a liquid hit my shield.

"BITC-" came from my the same side again, but his shout only came to a abrupt stop, and what followed next was only silent over there.

"They killed Fed, and Andy!" One of them shouted, now feeling less of force when tricking them, and now watching my step for that body they made in front of me.

"Get around him again!" they try another attempt, but seeing how close I was to them, and at the pace I was getting to them, it won't matter if someone tries to in this moment.

But I didn't take into account that the person who was flanking me was much faster than the last person who tried, and only half way there, I seen in the corner of my eye was him pointing his gun towards me

"Got you!"

After he shouted at me, I only heard a gunshot after that..

Expecting to be shot afterwards, but didn't feel a thing after that gunshot.

"They got weapons!" they started shooting on the side where they tried to flank me.

Knowing I at least have some semblance of help on my side, I rushed in with no caution about anyone going to try and flank me on the only side that left me vulnerable to attack.

Finally after running with the huge shield to protect me, I finally met something hard against it instead of the small hit I was met when I first started this reckless rush down. And finally met with them, I bashed them with the shield I been given; now letting go of the shield for being useless in my fighting style, if you could call dog fighting a style.

"Don't get cocky!" someone yelled out from the hole they made with their explosion, with his gun pointed at me.

Hiding behind a stunned person from the shield bashed attack, "Wai-" using him as a body shield.

Since he had a happy triggered finger in this moment, he end up shooting at my meat shield instead.

"Stop!" everyone stopped moving, "Move aside and we'll shot him without anymore friendly fire." the people in the back were smiling at the idea. When everyone in that group got the idea, they started moving to the sides to make sure not get in the way till.

Somebody started shooting at the sides they were trying to move, but to only warn them not to take anymore steps. Confused we looked to the peoples who were the ones who shot, and were surprised that students grabbed the dead's one guns by them to arm theirselves with. Now stuck in a stand still with no one moving in fear of getting shot by the person with guns, we just waited for someone to make a move, "Are you guys that afraid of fighting that you need some guns to answer your problems?" looking at them while on the verge of laughing, "Because I thought we'll be fight once I gotten up close to you?" taking a step to them, "Or are you too afraid of fighting me that much?" smugly smiled at them, for encouraging them to fight me instead.

"Well are you!?" one of the person behind them yelled at the people in front of them, "Just kill him and nothing protecting them for our attacks." their leader was encouraging them to fight while the outer person were making a circle, "And he's just one person, it won't take long anyways." then the inner person were surrounded me as well.

"Welp," I raised you me hand, "I guess this is what you came here for." now in lax position waiting for them like a good person, "I'll wipe- no," they all started getting ready to jump me, "we'll cut that confidence smile of yours," most of them pulled out their knifes and had this crazed look in their eyes, "and feed it to yourselves while everyone here loses their hope!" the person who didn't have a knife in hand said those words while he came at me with only his fists while faster than any of his teammates.

Following his example, we both rush each others with him more faster then his teammates. Getting close to each others, he then brought up his knees; having a feeling he was going to do that, I stepped to the left a bit to make sure I wasn't going to get hit by that devastating knee, then to punish him with a hard hit to his stomach with a fist. Expecting him to go down from this, or at least recoil in pain from that punch, but all he did was take it like it was nothing at all thanks to his hard trained body; about to respond to this sudden outcome by getting away from him, but was halted by him holding me down.

Having a semblance of what he's planning, I brought out my thumb to stab his stomach with. Finally feeling the pain that I infected on him, I squirmed out of his grip to see another person from the left and right side coming with their knife in hand to stab my while I was in his hold. But seeing the left person was moving faster than the right one, and seeing this little tidbit of information; I punched him again at his stomach to finally feel my blow and him recoil to slouch down in pain for his stomach. After wasting enough time for the left person to be in range of a swing at me with his knife, and focusing on his actions; I kneed his attack to guide it to his teammates body instead of my.

'One.'

After the left one came, the right followed suit to then jump up with knife in hand to plunge into my back from my distract of handing his teammates, but his mad laugh made his whole attempt at a stealth attack pathetic when he gave out his position. With a ancient technique I learned throughout my history of fighting, I simply side step to my left to avoid his jump attack. With amazing dodging skills being tested there, he then stabbed his teammate's arm by accident from his skillfully attack.

Now looking at my performance at how I did so much damage to them with little effort, I felt it was about time they gotten here. Ducking downward to avoid the attacks from behind me, and right about time, two people tried to actually use a stealth attack right by bealy making any noise when they moved. Once I ducked to avoid their attacks, they then again they stabbed their teammates from their lack of a teamwork or planning when they came at me. Seeing I could do more damage to them, I grabbed one of each leg from both of them and flipped them forward to the others who were either bleeding out or stabbed to death by one of them missing me.

'Two, Three, Four, Five.'

And seeing the group I took out wasn't moving anymore, it was safe to say that they killed each others from their lack of teamwork, 'Welp this sh-'

Having my thoughts interrupting by a hard punch to the face to shut me up, then followed up with a knee to my head to keep the combo going. Blown back from those two hits, seeing a glimpse of them pulling out their knives once I was knocked down, but after being knocked to the ground, using that momentum to roll backwards to get a safe distance from them while using it to get myself up. Now that I gotten up from their attack while getting a safe distance from them, but wasn't expecting another surprise when two people again came out of nowhere and grabbed my arms to stop me from moving.

"Get him!" the leader now grown more furious when I'm taking them out like nothing.

Now being held by these two men while another two were slowly coming towards with their own knife in hand, "..I shouldn't be doing this.." he looked a bit conflicted by his actions, but with the things I did and the classroom done too them; it seem perfectly reasonable for his actions.

Trying desperately to break from their hold, "..I'll make this painless as possible..." he then started walking to me slowly, "But I won't!" the one who punched me then started running towards me with terrifying laugh. Panicking about my position right about now, I started violently moving my arms to break free from them, "Hope you enjoy hell." one of the men who hold me down whisper in my ear.

Tried from my attempts to free myself, I didn't see him close the gap between us so quickly. But I only met him with a grin for some reason while my body moved on it own to kick him midway from attacking me. And feeling the negative force behind that kick, with the two gentleman behind me taking the impact for me as well was a nice gesture from them since they rudely grabbed me from nowhere; once we three met the hard ground and were kinda tired from our little play. Tired and was about to relax from all the actions I done, but then remembering I was still in that said fight with a entire gang trying to kill us all coming back to mind.

Quickly lifting my head up from the two gentleman's semi-bed they tried to make for me when we fall together, sadly needed to part-

"W-wh..."

'Six, Seven.'

Once I looked back to them, a person who tried to come in and try to kill steal me when I was lying down, but only met with his own two teammate's throats with his slice.

Surprised at their horrible teamwork being this awful that to the point where it wasn't actually a challenge to predict their movements, or easily guided their hand to use their attack on their own teammate with ease. But to seemingly kill two of their teammates by just a single dodge spoke volumes of their team ship.

Taking my confused state, someone ran up to me from behind to hit me on the back with their bat as hard as they could in that moment. Using that force to roll away from the person who hit me, and move to the middle of the circle to have enough time to recover from that hit before they decided to attack again, and thinking that taking about ten of them would make a dent to their number in this unfair fight. I was only met with more people around this circle they formed; double the amount I taken out when we first started this pointless fighting in the first place, and making it more unfair for me; some of them pulled out their knives to fight with.

"Enough!" shouted the leader, "Don't you use you're fucking knife!" he then pointed at the group who tried before, "It's does more damage to us, rather then him!" now more frustrated by my performance.

Some were scoffing about my ability, and some were looked to be terrified by the amount of people who were sitting cold on the ground, but my main concern was the two who got a lucky hits on me before was now missing from the circle and in the crowd as well. Now more worried about the two of them more then these lowly thugs could amount to in threat level for me, "Aww," they started making a huge circle that comprises of ten people making it, "Sad that we can't beat him down slowly," and by the look and how one of them kept on going about not taking this slowly, they probably planned on all running at me to jump me.

And from out of nowhere, they all started running together to make sure I couldn't get out of this circle of theirs. Looking around if another group would do the same with them for overkill just for only me, but only seen the ones who were caution about me was on stand by for what I'll be doing next; and only laughing at this split between them from my present alone was funny enough for me to laught at them. Having a good small laught at them for their actions, I didn't realize that they made a good amount progress in closing in on me once they made it a bit too close for my liking.

Having enough laughs for now, I when back to being combat ready when I went sprinting at the weakest one in the chin on their circle, and them building too much speed to control themselves to stop me once I ran at one of them in this close corner they made; the person who I rushed in this moment was confused by my actions on why I bend down to the level of her legs. Raising my shoulder up once we connected, I flipped her up once I aimed specifically at her legs.

' Seventeen.'

Once I slipped away from there attempt at a team attack, I only heard groaning from behind me when they met each others and not me. Wiping away imaginary dust on my shoulder, "Are we going get serious now?" trying to be as intimidating as I can in this moment without cringing at what I said or what I did. Some were caution about recklessly running at me and just waited for me to do something, and likewise as for me, I waited for someone to make a move. We stayed like this for a few seconds, which felt like a minute till.

"ATTACK ALREADY!"

When there leader yelled again at them, now lost all his patience for our little game of tipper n' tipping around. Someone came running up to me with a fist ready for me while she ran to me, jogging to met her close as well; once she thought she was close, she threw that punch at me hoping it'll hit, but seeing others that was much faster then her, simply moving a bit to dodge her attack. She was shocked at my dodging skills, before doing anything in that moment I looked to her, only winking at her for what I was about to do; I wrapped one of my leg behind her while my arm was in front of her and waiting for the impact to hit her.

Once time stopped for her. She was met with me slamming her down on the ground with two simple combos that was devastating if it landed, and she was on the unlucky side when I managed to infect them on her with ease. After seeing her go down hard from that attack, any other person would have thought she was down for the count if this was a regular fight, but this wasn't a regular fight or was I any regular person at all. Wanting less people I needed to fight in this moment, I went down on my knees to deliver a punch to her face to keep her from continuing this fight, but when I was about to punch her out cold; I was only met with a hard knee to my face when I tried to move down.

Taking aback by this out of nowhere attack, literally. I recoiled back from this out of nowhere knee to my face, and about to recover from that attack, but I was met with a push at my back from someone behind me. Almost losing my footing from that hard push, but putting everything I had to keep me up instead of falling down; only moving forward without stop from this sudden force I was given, and only focusing on this alone I almost didn't hear something in front of me.

After my ears picked up a something in front of me, my whole body and mind only focused on this new information given. And seeing this just in the right time before my face was met with his right hook, swerving my head at the right moment before it landed, and retaliated back with a uppercut to his chin. After a hard hit to his chin, he only went still as he fell down from the forces, seeing him not moving from that's hit; I could only assume he went down for good and now having one less person to deal with.

'Eighteen.'

Once he was taken care of, I was about to take a little breather from all the excitement that happened so far, but. Getting punched in the back as hard as they can from behind would ruin a moment of peace, now feeling personal attacked by this person, and literally attacked by this person, I swing my arm out to get back at them. But my swung only met air once I swung back, someone was about to laught at my mistake on hitting them, but being predictable on the ducking part, I brought my knee as well in case this person thought she was slick when she simply dodge ones.

'Nineteen.'

Taking another one out from that unexpected knee to her face, I then again got attacked by someone trying to kick me in front of me. Catching his kick easily when I took the brute of the force head on to catch it once it was over, he was surprised at this fact but probably more terrified by this, but I like to think he was surprised at this; not having the time for this, quickly yanked his leg upward to get him down and out from this fight as quickly as possibles till someone else tries to come at me. And hearing a weird sound that came from his leg when I raised it hard and fast, and him screaming in pain from that sound told me I was doing a great job.

'Twenty.'

About to stomp on his face to really make sure he won't be getting up soon, but like last time; someone had to come to their partner rescues like a white knight before I got to finish them. And the white knight that happened to save him was a person who ran up to me from the front, and carefully ran up to me to not harm his friend when he shoved me away from him. Being pushed hard with one leg only keeping up when I tried to take another one out with my stomp, as I was about to fall down from my lack of center of gravity, I desperately stumble around to make sure I won't fall down after that push; focusing on my stepping and really not wanting to go down, I was amazed that I didn't-

Once I stopped myself from falling down and were so proud of myself for my nimble feets, to only live that high for a few seconds with two people from behind grabbed my arms killed that moment of pride I had. Being held again by two random people, and this time they were smart and also wrapped one of their free leg to my legs; completely keeping me from doing anything in their hold. People started gathering around me slowly and seeing if it was actually safe to gather around me so careless, but one person didn't care about what I done and came at me with a furious look in his eyes when he stepped out from the outer circle.

Confuse by his looks being so familiar when he stepped out from the crowd, as he continued to walk towards me in this moment, the ones who were injured by me were now getting carried away from this arena. Leaving only the four of us in this circle while the rest were watching him coming closer to me...

Once he finally made it to me.

"Haa!...aahh..."

Gasping for air when his punch landed at my stomach hard, now slowly breathing from that hit to recover from it.

"..I'll make sure to hurt you as much as possible for killing my brother..." he looked to the pile of people that stabbed themselves from there awful team work; he only looked disbelief by this fact.

Now getting a better look, he looked similar to the person who was first was killed when everything started, "It's was more of their fault then my," I nodded my head over to the pile, "they started swigging their knifes around and I only dodge them." only telling the truth to him, "But I could see how you came to that if I'm still standing and there not." smiling at him.

Not responding after giving him the explanation on why his idiotic brother die when he tried to kill me, thinking he would bring out his knife to finish me in this not so great position, he only swing his fist at my face.

"I'll...sure...hurt...bad..." only hearing bit and pieces of what's he saying after his punch to the face.

"This is what's you deserve!" he then started shouting at me for some reason, "You and you're people brought this on yourself when you killed him!" he made sure to take a small breaks when hitting me so I could actually hear what he saying instead of last time, "You brought this on yourself when you killed my brother!" he tried to convince himself that this action was okay to do, "If you'd just die my brother would have still been alive!" continued to place the blame on me for his brother's attempt at murder going wrong, "..I'll end this now.." after his final punch to my face was still ringing in my ears, I barely seen him pulled out something from his pocket.

Only hearing snickering from the background when I taken all those hits, but after being hit over and over through out his speech about his dead brother whose fault was his own for choosing to fight in the first place, and it got me wondering if Valérie gotten everyone out by now from my distraction while still dazed by his blows.

"Hey!" he shook me around to get my attention, "I want you to see when I hit with this!" he showed his brass knuckles to me, "This time I'll aim at one of your eye..." only hearing halfway through his sentence; not caring for what he'll do next. Too tired from all his punches aimed at me, I slouch down a little bit from all the heavy weight I felt in this moment, but after I moved my head down a little bit, I was surprised when I didn't feel anything after when I felt some wind go pass me.

"AWW!" only hearing a yelp of pain from my right side, and having my right side free from someone holding it; I only had a faint feeling he missed his attack from all the information I gotten.

Taking this moment, elbowing my injured holding as hard as I could to have one less person in this moment, with my elbow connected with his face, I then fired a punch to my attacker with the free arm I had, but probably being slow for him, he moved back from that weak punch of my with ease. But knowing he won't support his friends, grabbing the other holding with my free arm; confused by when I managed to, I only smiled at this poor soul for having to take my throw. Once everything was set, I used all my strength to flip him over my shoulder when I grabbed him with both of my arms and shifted my body around to flip him.

Once flipped, he only looked scared once I looked down to him after I flipped him, and that fear was well place when I stomped his face in.

'Twenty-two, Twenty-three.'

Now only me and my attacker left in the circle, I only wiped the blood that came down my nose from him, signaling to him come. Taking my invitation, he slowly came at me with his brass knuckles on hand to finish this; seeing this won't be easy like the others, I cautious walked to him as well. As we came closer, he only came to a complete stop, "No!" shouting at someone, "He's mine.." he gave a dead serious look at the peoples who tried to come in our fight.

Now having some form of protection when facing off with him, I only slowly moved closer to him, now more cautious about him if he could infected this much fear in his teammates by only a glance.

Seeing he won't come at me recklessly like the others, I decided to take the lead when I rushed at him with a fist ready for face.

But he blocked it with ease when he formed a shield with his arms, but not finished with my attack, I quickly when for a knee to his exposed side he left, wanting more power in this attack I grabbed onto his arm like shield for more force behind that knee. But it's surprised me more when he didn't even bother trying to dodge or block my knee, and once it made contact, he didn't even flinch in pain or react at all, he only stared down at me for my attack; feeling a cold chill going down my back when I put myself in a bad position.

About to retreat from this position, till he quickly grabbed both my knee and my arm that I tried to attack with; as he was about to do something with his grabbed combo, he only looked at me in disappointment as I was raised in the air.

Finishing his suplex on me, now gasping for air when he slammed me on my back, about to try and get up while ignoring my injured back, but he didn't allow it as he got on top of me with only a look of disappointment again.

"Is this all you got?" he only looked down on me, "I would have expected more from someone who killed my brother in a fistfight, while he tried desperately to be a UFC fighter," he then brought up his fist, "I'll make sure you die painfully by my hands." he fired off a punch with the fist that had the brass knuckle on it.

Using my left arm to block his attack...

"AWRRrre..."

Feeling a sharp pain in the arm that I tried to block with, only hearing a sounds that's a arm shouldn't make when blocking a single punch from someone. Not caring about the injury now, I used all my strength in this punch, aiming at his chin with my side hock, he recoiled in pain from that unexpected punch; taking this small chance, I slathered away from his hold on me to get a great distance between us.

"Seem you deserve my full on attack...huh.." he said that while getting up from the ground, "..Just know I'm only doing this because of your actions..." while he was standing up, he was grabbing something from his pocket.

"Isn't that the person who retired from UFC?" hearing someone whisper from behind me, while my opponent was taking his time finding something, "Yeah! He the one who almost killed opponent in his final match...." he started off happy when he remembered him but once he remembered the reason why he retired he only when quietly through out his speech, "Shhh," now hearing a feminine voice coming after, "Do you wanna be like him?!" she whispered from behind me, and probably pointing at me from behind as well from this familiar feeling I got when she was done.

Now knowing I was going up against a former UFC with a poor reputation for almost killing his opponent by his own merits, it didn't look great from me if he needed to use brass knuckle for me and say he'll go all out because of me.

After he finally found his another brass knuckle, he only down at it in shame, "..How far did I fell to use these?.." he only looked away from it in disgusted while equipping it without looking, "..Dosen't matter anymore..." he made sure he put it on firmly, "All that's matter is that you're still standing." once he was done convincing himself that this was the only way now.

He quickly came at me with only regrets and shame on his face...