Chapter 6 Having no choice left pt. 2

Continued to walk slowly at him with deadly caution towards him and seeing waiting at what he'll do next; as I was slowly shuffling around him to get a hint on his new fighting style.

He grown tired at my movements, so he then charges at me with a uncomfortable speed to close are distance with ease. Seeing him now leaped once we were close enough to strike each others with the distance; seeing I can't dodge this blow, and needed to take the brute of the attack. Forming a shield with my arms to minimize the damage from his attack.

"..."

Not wanting to show any weaknesses to him in our fight, I silently took that blow which hit like a brick, but he wasn't finished with his assault. He then made me start walking backwards when he started his attack with lightning fast jab to my shield; desperately blocking all those hard hits as I kept on ignoring the pain in the process so I could focus.

Having wide eyes once I seen a leg coming up...

Ducking down to avoid his kick, then rolling underneath the leg he kicked with to again create more distance between us again. As we again were staring each others down, but with the difference between us was me now showing my fear outwards with my sweats going down my forehead.

"You're thinking too much." he said while not looking at me, "In a fight.." he then turned around to face me, "You need to focus!" he then started running towards me again, but with a strange look in his eyes.

Knowing defending isn't going to help in this fight at all; I only when in as well. Going on the offensive this time, throwing some light jab to his face to get back for the damage he infected on me, but he was showing off his skills and experience in fighting as he easily dodged them or blocked them. Tired of him, I launched my faster punch at his look of disappointment at me for some reason, but he only grabbed my punch with ease before it even gotten close to him...

About to pull my arm away from him, but his grip was too-

"Not good enough Seth!" was the only thing I heard when he punched me square in the stomach, with the force enough to almost throw up my toast I had yesterday. Still being held by him, from him still holding my arm to keep me from recoiling in pain; he then stared at me with hazy eyes now, "You'll be eaten alive if you're this-" taking this random moment he's having right about now; punching him with my another arm to break free from him and as well getting a good hit on him.

Surprised by my sudden attack from out of nowhere, he recoiled back a little from the impact that I managed to muster up after being punched by him. Not seeing another chance I'll have with him, I started jabbing at his face in as best as I could, but my arms were still injured from all his punches, so it felt like I wasn't doing much damage as I normally should be doing when I attack. About to put everything into this one punch to finish him off.

But only punched air with that one; looking down at him to only see him smiley at me and my actions.

"Good!" was all I heard from him, while being punched in the chest, and that punched was hard enough to send me flying backwards, giving us a good distance between us again.

"Keep it's coming Seth!" hearing him hearing him praise somebody I didn't know who, "You'll surely make it-"

"Have you lost it!?" yelling at him while holding my chest where he punched hard while the brass knuckle doubled the amount of pain I felt, "Who ever this 'Seth' person is," now trying to stand up from that punch, "it's isn't me!" now again standing in front of him, while I heard something from ribs that shouldn't heard, "It's Gri-" stopped myself from almost saying the way Valérie been saying my name, "Grey." correcting myself.

He only looked shocked by this information when I told him, shaking his head around, to only go back to his usual expression when we first met. He then brought up his hand to his face to, while whispering to himself about something that I couldn't hear from here, but once he was finished with his whole crazy moment; he pulled himself together to only walk towards me with the intent to kill now, instead of his look of disappointment before.

Taking this as we're really getting serious in this fight; I only went in to take the lead in our dance. Easing up a bit when we were close together, then faking him out by pretending to go for a jump attack when I made it look I was going for; dodging his quick jab that would have hit my stomach if I actually followed through with that attack. Confuse by my trick when I looked at his facial expressions when I dodged, about to take advantage of this, and about time I actually put some damage on him by myself; as I looked at his face, he only looked disappointed again.

He then swing the arm he used to punch with as a counter to my dodge as he side chopped me from out of nowhere. Recoil from that's hit, and desperately trying to get air into my throat that he chopped with tremendous power behind it; falling down from the forces and me not caring about my standing if I couldn't breathe at the moment. Now on the floor trying desperately to get air into my body as best as I could from my lack of air passages being chopped.

Now slowly trying to get away from him as I desperately crawled away from him, "Aww.." now hearing him from behind but a bit of a pause before he said anything, "Where's that fighting spirit?" he again sounded disappointed, "Seth! You'll never get better if-"

"Again," coughing out those words, "Grey," correcting him once again while rubbing my throat, "Honestly I get mixed up with my own name as well." now feeling better then before, and now could start to breathe finally, after buying some time as I talked to him.

He wasn't done at all again, he then came walking towards me slowly, but this time not saying anything as he came. But hearing him slowly coming closer wasn't a pleasant experience to have when I was still on the floor from my tired body not wanting to get up; all I did was crawled as best as I could from him. But then I felt a hand came on my shoulder as I tried to worm away.

Now being pulled up to met his gaze with my own, "..Heh.." smiley at him, "What are you doing bro?" questioning him as we were at the same level. As I said those words, he only looked confused by what I said to only close his eyes tight and couldn't bear to look me in the eyes anymore; the only thing he did do was again punch me in the guts then push me away.

Taking another hard hit to the stomach, expecting to hurt like the last one, but feeling him hold back on this one but still hurting once it's landed. Being pushed down again, closing my eyes for a second to adjust to the pain he infected, "Stop it!" hearing him shout at himself.

"Kill him off Travis!" now hearing the same leader that lead them.

Now again crawling away from him, dizzy from all the hitting and being thrown around

by him. As I gotten closer to the people that circle us, they only looked disgusted by me for some reason as they moved away from me once I gotten close to them as well.

But as they started avoiding me like the 'Helo' virus, they opened up a chance once they started spreading out; not caring about their disgusted look at me as I crawled through them. But as I heard him slowly walking towards was a experience I haven't felt in a long time before any of this.

"Move." he command them to move, as they comply to his demand when they moved far from me as possibles to not get in his way, "..You'll die here..." hearing him again go on about killing me at this point, "You aren't my brother!" now hearing him go faster then before, "You're just a murderer!" now hearing him probably jump at me.

Smiling once I finally made it to my destination.

"Travis watch out-"

After someone yelled that's out, the only thing that came afterwards was a hard sound once the shield that I dropped in the beginning slammed him right in head. Now seeing him go down from that hit, moving quickly towards him to finally finish him. Jumping on top of him without any moral on what I did to him, and having no regrets as my fist started connecting to his face multiple times without any rest to each one fired at his face, only to make sure he was out for good this time and needing the use more force then I should have on a regular person.

But he wasn't-

*cough*

Now stopping once I felt something warm hit my face after that's cough; once I stopped my attack on him, I was only met with his bloody face beaten to the point where he's barely breathing.

"Twenty five." barely spitting out my finally number.

About to give into fatigue after finally beating my last opponent as badly as I could with my strength, but then again something told me to raise the shield I brought.

*bang*

Feeling the same vibration after the loud shot that came from the crowd, what came next was a scream from behind us that sounded terrifyingly familiar.

"Would you look at this?" their leader came out a little bit to look at the person whom screamed, "They were about to make a an escape while their little hero distract us." after he said that, everyone who made the circle looked to most of the students who made it to the exits.

As we all looked at the ones who stayed put in this current situation instead of running to safety like I wanted to; it's was more chilling once I seen who was the one that gotten hit once I blocked being shot, "Wow," hearing clapping coming from this annoying prick, "you're awful at playing the hero role," he then stopped looking at them to return his look at the me and the circle of people, "making a innocent take a hit for you?" as he said that, the peoples who formed the circle that I once fought in now stopped forming it and only moved to the rest of the classroom as their target instead of me now.

"Is very cowardly of you." hearing a snap his finger, they all started flooding in from the hole like rats.

Looking at the hole they're were coming from, it's more surprising how the hole was even supporting it's self and not caving in on itself. But when you looked closely at the hole that they came out from, a single pole was holding it all together and making sure it didn't collapse, and finally seeing a chance to finally end this all with just a simple strike to a weak point in the their passage; getting up from the person I almost killed by my outburst.

As I brought my shield up to run pass everyone I needed to go through, but was only met with less resistance to non than I thought I would take once I ran into their charge attack on the classroom. But the reason why I wasn't the main focus on their list was that they decided to attack the whole classroom was more important then me in this moment.

"What are you doing! Get him!" not caring about their annoying leader anymore, but as he did mention my existence in that charge attack; some did tried to put a stop to me as I gotten closer to my goal, but failed as I bashed them with the shield that was coving my front the entire run through.

Feeling another hindrance from my front that halted me from moving a inch, "Nice try!" feeling someone grabbed the whole shield to make me stop.

Shaking the shield to get him to let go of it, it only fueled him more to hold me back. Annoyed by him, backing up from the shield he holds for me, he was only confused by my actions but quickly turned to panic once I slammed my body to the shield. As he was stunned by my attack and recoiled back from the impact, quickly following that up with a charged attack to him; about to finish him off then continued my march afterwards.

"AWWW!?!"

But as I was about to connect to him, only to feel a extreme heat coming through once we connected. Having the need to recoil back from this heat, almost letting go of the shield because of the heat, but enduring the pain from the heat that the shield was giving off.

"Are you crazy!? Our peoples are going to be hit with those molotov!" hearing yelling coming from the hole, and everything stopped and nobody was coming closer to me at all in this moment, using this time to recover my hand a bit from that attack.

"Enough!" hearing shouting from them, "It's seem I need to do everything around here!" now feeling another hit that only felt heat coming through instead of brute force.

Overwhelmed by the heat coming in front of my shield, about to give up on the shield and sooth my hand from the heat it took; but then I noticed that nobody was coming after me once he started throwing molotov at me, not from in front and behind me or either of my sides at all. Taking his kind invention to my destination without anyone getting in the way, started running again while ignoring the pain of my arm that was holding the shield up for me through out that run.

"STOP HIM!!"

Was all I heard from him as I was approaching them.

"WHERE ARE YOU GOING!?!"

As I felt the heat die down and nothing hitting my shield.

"THIS ISN'T OVER BETWEEN US!"

As he said those words, they were fading out, probably meaning he was escaping like the rest.

Having nothing left standing in the way of me and that's pole anymore; coming to a dead stop from my running and while loosening my grip on it as I spin the shield around to get more power. And seeing no another chance then this, yeeting the shield once when I had a clear shot at the pole; but as I spun around for that extra power I seen a glimpse of the chaos that happened once I decided to charged forwards instead of holding them back...

As I fired the shield to the pole, and probably because I was exhausted or simply too dizzy from that single spin, but once the shield left my hand so did my balance as well that left me. Once on the floor and seeing my work done; the shield easily dislodged the pole that once held the entire entrance for them, and by some sick twisted fate, I gotten to see the entrance fall to pieces thanks to my body falling at the right spot for me to watch the whole show unfold in front of me.

Seeing all the people who tried to kill us all flee like animals in front of me while I can't move my body in this moment, it only felt hollow seeing them like this. As the last person to make it out of the collapsing hole was about to escape there failed attempts at a attack, he was only stopped by two similar person I seen before.

"WHA-"

As the leader tried to finish his question for them, he was only met with a hard punch from the person who seemed to enjoyed it more than a normal person should have in that moment, while the others person only looked dead serious in that moment. Seeing their lips move once they faced him down in that moment, not quite hearing them from this far; as they were finished with him, they quickly gave me a look as the hole started filling up, with the crazy one giving a smile while the serious one only nod to me.

Now that time started moving at the same pace for everyone, the hole that was once opened was now close for good as witness was the leader that once lead them crushed by it for proof. Exhaustion once again over came me as my body didn't want to move after everything I done today, slowing turning my head over to see the chaos I let happened once because of my choice and having nothing better to do as I could barely move at all. All I seen was peoples who were running towards me to finish me off.

Bring up my arms to make it bit more difficult for them, but they didn't care as they swung a heavy kick to my arms with ease, "Get around him." hearing one of them giving orders to his fellows goons. As he was distracted by him giving orders, he wasn't paying attention to his kicking in that moment, and not going out without a fight; I simply bashed his incoming leg he was about to kick with both of my arms to hurt him a little.

Getting a good reaction out of him as he recoiled back from that unexpected counter attack by me, he only smiled down on me, "Lift him up." he ordered, as he ordered them, they complied and they surrounded me while going to one of my body parts to lift me up.

"Good," trying desperately to get out their grasp on me while he was talking, "Hold him study," now feeling them reinforced their hold on me tenfold after he gave them another order, "Good...good," now once I was in place, he only started sharking me while I was struggling to move my arms or legs at all thanks to their hold.

"Alrighty than." now finally picking the left side to finally stand and not moving around anymore, "How 'bout you give those lungs a good work?" as he was done his speech, he pulled out a switch knife from his pocket like nothing, "Make sure to hold him down tightly." he lightly tipped the shoulder of the one holding my left arm and the person only nodded at his request.

Trying again once more to free myself from them as I tried to twist my arms or legs around to at least make a dent in theirs grasp.

"Don't worry," he tried to reassure me, "This is only going to hurt a lot!"

Full on panic, I started moving my entire body around to escape there grasp. Only hearing laughter as I continued to struggle, "What is thi-" as the person whose was holding my right hand up was cut off as I felt something coming from my right wrist.

"AAAHHH!"

Now taking a quick glance at my right side of me, the person who was holding me up was now only holding his bloody hand. Now having a free hand, quickly swinging my hand to the incoming attack; all that could be heard in that moment was metal meeting metal.

As I won the clash of our blade meeting, he was stunned by the sudden weapon I owned beneath the wrapped bandage coving it. Swinging my hand around to meet my the person who was still in pain over me cutting off some fingers of his, and in that's moment, everything froze for me, as I threw my blade at the head of that person, to finish him off permanently with one single move; but feeling some deep down in me before I taken that action.

'..You won't be able to go back...'

As the voice in my head gave me a great reason, I flicked my fingers again to retract the blade back into it place; leaving only my hand to hit him with. And as my hand met with his head; pushing him to his teammates that was holding my right leg, and him only caring about his hand, he didn't expect my push at all in that moment.

Once they both met, the person who was holding my leg couldn't anymore as the sudden person getting in the way of her work suddenly push her down, and once I gotten my leg back as well. Then using my free leg to kick the other person who was holding my other leg, he didn't expect it as my kick came right for his chest.

Now that the three peoples who were holding me up were taken out of the picture, bring my left arm down as I was falling down to finally free myself from their hold on me.

"FIRE!"

As I was falling down from there hold on me, I seen glimpse of bullets flying past me as I fell down, and as I brought the person who was holding my left hand down as well. To only be shot square in the head as he was more higher up than me when falling down. And as the rain of bullets continues to fire for a second, what pursued next was the ever present silence when everything stopped.

"Get those fire out now!"

Now hearing people started running inside the classroom that when quiet. And seeing my job was finally over, bring up my arms.

"Friendly!"

Shouting at them to not shot when I get up; the only thing I was met with was silence for a second, and waiting for their response was excruciating awkward in this moment.

"Raise!"

Taking the voice demand, I was getting up

"Slowly!"

Now stopping from this new request from him, and now continuing to get up slowly thanks to this new command he given. As I finally gotten up from all the corpse covering me while I was down, I got to see who I was dealing with. I only gave out a big sigh once I seen the ones holding the guns while pointing them at me were students like myself.

Then once they seen me and all of my glory, they as well only sighed at me being a friendly while the only one that had a serious look as I rose from the pile of bodies.

Once I stopped being the center of attention to them, I finally gotten to see the damage I caused. Some of the furnaces that stood tall were now either on fire or damaged by the people who were now dead, and the people who worked on these furnace were now gone and nowhere to be found except for one...

Seeing a familiar person laying on the ground near the entrance, I quickly ran to that person, ignoring my injuries while running to that person. And as I was beside the person on the floor, it was the same blonde person who made me the weapon that saved my life; laying down in her own pool of blood.

Afraid for her condition, about to grab her. I was only halted by the same person who shot me a serious look, "We'll take care of her." as he said that, more students came towards us, "Sir! We found some people alive!" they came to inform him, "Find a single person that looked to have any information or any importance to our enemies." he said while bringing me somewhere further than the rest, "And make sure to kill the rest of them properly."

As he finished with his instruction to the rest of his members, people started moving Valérie on a makeshift bed, "How do you feel?" he asked once we were far from the rest of his members, "Well, not being dead is great..." letting out the sigh at the stress I when through while bowing my head down to rub my back neck, "But what are you going to do now?" saying that while I was looking down at the floor.

"Keeping the peace."

As those words left his mouth, I was about to flick my finger, but was meet with a punch to the guts, "Thank you for your hard work," exhaustion finally taking ahold of me as my vision began to darken,

"Hero."

The last thing I saw was his teammates bring up a body from the pile of bodies literally by the close hole that was a nightmare to close.

The last I felt was guilt at how I failed at keeping the peace for them when I was in charge.

'Liar...'