Deadly Duo

~Mystery Man~

Some silver arrows flashed toward the werewolf, but none of them hit her. She was very fast and several seconds later she already pounced toward Norah. Norah dodged, rolling to the left and quickly fired her attack again. Two of her arrows pierced to the alpha’s belly, made her groaning. The alpha’s hand suddenly swung to Norah. Norah successfully rolled back and got up. She moved backwards, as much as possible to be away from the alpha since she wasn’t good at a very close combat.

Norah was surprised when she saw the two arrows that already pierced the alpha were already gone and the alpha still moved fast toward her fiercely.

She turned back and ran as fast as possible. When she saw her back, the alpha was still chasing her.

She’s so damn strong, Norah was upset. While running, she tried to shot to her at the back. But since she had to focus on her way, her accuracy was greatly decreased, made the alpha could easily dodge the arrows. Damn! I can’t shoot her in this position, she thought. No matter how fast she ran, the alpha was still following her not far behind. There was no chance for Norah to counterattack.

I have to do something! I can’t keep running forever, she dared herself. By strengthening her heart, she stopped running and quickly turned around. She saw the alpha already jumped toward her. Norah shot her arrows again. But after two shots, she couldn’t dodge the alpha’s attack. Her crossbow was thrown. She fell down on the position where the alpha strangled her with the claws. The alpha was quite strong although two arrows pierced her body again. She roared in front of Norah’s face, causing wind blowing hard toward Norah.

Her red eyes seemed wanting to say that she was really going to kill her now.

“Tonitrua lucem!”

A white light like a lightning flashed toward the alpha and hit the beast until she was thrown to the opposite direction several meters away. The attack was very sudden so that she couldn’t even notice when she still focused on attacking Norah. But the attack couldn’t give too much effect to the alpha. She can still stand by her legs. She roared again, giving a sign that she was really mad.

From the west, a pair of youngsters came out from the woods. One of them brought a thin but dangerous sword on his hand, while another one brought a wand. The wind blew toward them like a hero appearance in the movie.

Norah smiled widely and relieved, “Ino!” she yelled.

With his calm face, Ino slightly peeked at Sergey who stood behind him, “Are you ready, Sergey?” he asked.

“More than ready, ‘Lil bro!” he showed his grin.

Ino looked forward again, seeing the alpha had already run toward them. Ino and Sergey were ready with their counterattack.

“Accerso!” Sergey waved his wand and suddenly several shuriken appeared horizontally and floating in front of Ino. With his quick move, Ino hit those shuriken hard with his sword, causing the shuriken rocketed toward the alpha.

With so many shuriken launched at her, the alpha couldn’t dodge all of them. She stopped moving when two or three shuriken pierced her body. She roared again, causing the same blowing wind. But the attack from Ino and Sergey hadn’t stopped yet. Several shuriken reappeared again vertically in front of Ino. With one swing of his sword, all the shuriken were hit and rocketed again to the alpha.

The red eyes bugged out, facing very much worthy opponents. She tried to dodge again, but still there were several shuriken successfully hit her.

“Accerso!” Sergey continued his spell casting.

Suddenly Ino drew out his sword and switched it with the two small crossbows floating in front of him. Quickly, he grabbed those crossbows and fired it to the werewolf simultaneously. The alpha managed to dodge almost the attacks. But the last one, she was shot. Bearing the pain, she tried to run away.

Ino suddenly yelled, “Don’t let her run, Sergey!”

“Magnum obice!” Sergey casted the spell.

But Sergey could never imagine that the alpha suddenly broke through the spell. It was like the glass scattered when the spell was broken by the alpha. She was already too far away. They couldn’t run like a vampire so they stood still.

Feeling a bit upset, Ino could only sigh.

“Sorry, Ino. I’m confused. She’s too strong, even though we already beat the crap out of her,” Sergey said.

Ino stared at Sergey sharply, “You’re not focus, Sergey. You’re strong enough to stop her. You should do it better next time.”

Not far from them, Norah was flabbergasted. What a magnificent combination! This is the first time I see them showing their true power. Incredible! So, this is the power of Ino Rays and Sergey Jackson, she was dazzled.

Sergey looked at Norah who still stood without moving, “Are you okay, Norah?” he asked.

Norah nodded quickly, “Yeah. I’m okay, thanks to both of you,” she replied, “That was close. You already beat her down.”

Sergey smiled, “No problem. There’s still another time. Next time, I make sure that we’re going to kill that werewolf. She has no chance against us,” he said confidently.

***

~Fender~

I quickly got out from my car when Frank stopped it right in front of the school and ran. I heard Frank yelled at me, telling me not to worry. But how couldn’t I when I heard that morning that Norah was attacked by the alpha the previous night? I couldn’t think anything. In my head, there was Norah and only Norah. I still remember how she told me by the phone. I already told her to stay at home, but she insisted to keep going to school.

I ran through the corridor. She said she will wait me in back yard. I didn’t care if I looked annoying when I hit other while I was running. I just kept running straight to the door in front of me. When I got out, I saw her sitting on a bench. I stopped running for a moment.

She stood up and smiled when she saw me. Without waiting any longer, I continued to run and quickly hugged her when I finally reached her. I hugged her tightly. God, I was so worried.

“Hey, hey, slowdown, Tiger!” she chuckled, tried to calm me down. But I didn’t.

“I’m sorry,” I whispered.

“Why are you apologizing?” she asked.

“Because I couldn’t protect you,” I said with regret while I was still hugging her, “You were always there to protect me. But when you need me the most, I wasn’t there. I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.”

She let loose of my hug, looking at me with his warm eyes and beautiful smile. She held my face, and then kissed me for several seconds. “I’m okay. Please, don’t worry about me.”

I held her face also, “You hurt?” I tried to make sure.

She grabbed my hands on her face, holding it tight, “Just a small wound. I’ll heal. I’m a hunter, Fender. This is what I often face.”

“You said Ino saved you?” I asked.

She nodded, “Yes. Ino and Sergey, they saved me. They’re really awesome. When people having so much trouble facing the alpha, they beat her easily,” Norah began to tell the story since she didn’t tell me much on the phone earlier, “That was the first time I saw them fighting. All this time, I only heard stories about how great they are. My fellow hunters call them a Deadly Duo. They are feared by most of supernatural beings that have already faced them. Of course, most of them didn’t survive since you know…Ino knows nothing about mercy.”

“What is their power like?’ I asked again.

“Amazing,” she said, “Sergey is one of the strongest mages I’ve ever seen in my life. He masters equipment summoning spell. That’s what makes him the best pair for Ino who can master all weapons. He can easily call forth and dismiss the weapons as he likes, so Ino can have all the weapons he wants without bringing them while fighting. The spell is rare. Only certain people have mastered it.”

“I can imagine how great Ino was. And with Sergey on his side, perhaps he is the most powerful hunter,” I said.

Norah suddenly sighed, she held my face again, “That’s what I fear the most, Fender. I'm worried about you. You have to keep yourself on low profile. Please don’t do anything reckless. Last night Sergey asked me something about you. I said that you are as normal as you should be. He doubted it but he didn’t ask me further,” she then hugged me tightly, “I don’t want to lose you.”

I smiled, hugging her back, “You’re not going to lose me, Norah. You-know-who will train me to control my wolf,” those humming referred to Ivan since we couldn’t speak freely about him being werewolf, “As long as I’m not dangerous, Ino won’t hurt me. Right?”

“Hey.”

We both stopped hugging and looked at the one who had just called us. It was Frank. He walked closely toward us. “Everything okay?” he asked.

“Better than fine,” Norah replied.

“What about the alpha?” Frank asked again.

“She ran away again. Sergey’s great shield spell couldn’t slow her down,” Norah said, “She’s very strong. Even though she was badly hurt, she still had the power to flee. Don’t ask me why Ino didn’t chase her down. I think he was too lazy to do it. I heard Ino was always like that, never gives an extra effort to finish his work. Some rumors said that he was doing it on purpose, in order to not run out of prey.”

Frank nodded, “I can figure it out, seeing how that cocky boy acts all this time,” he said. He winced, seeing at Norah’s neck, “Your neck. She strangled you, right? Hard way?” we saw Norah nodded slowly, “Are you sure you okay?” Frank tried to make sure also.

“Why are you guys always too much worried? I’m not as weak as I look now,” Norah insisted that she was really okay.

Frank chuckled, “Okay, okay, tough girl. There’s another thing I want to ask you beside how you are doing. About last night, I heard another murder. Who died last night?” he asked.

I sighed when I heard Frank said about another murder. He didn’t talk about anything before. Perhaps he knew something on the way he walked from the parking lot to where I stand. I hated to think about murders in this town. Should there always be a murder every full moon? Since I lived here, the town was so peaceful. Yeah, maybe there was a murder or two, but not every month. I didn’t want that Moonlight Hills became like Skyfall City since my family left that city due to its criminality.

Norah sighed also. She took a deep breath first before began to talk, “Two young teenagers from another high school. It was the beta. My fellow hunters were successful to kill him. They kill two betas, including the one who murder those young boys,” Norah explained.

“What about the alpha?” it was my turn to ask, “Did she kill someone?”

Norah shook her head but Frank was the one who answered that. “She doesn’t care about killing randomly. What she wants is avenging the founder family. But I think that she let her beta army to wander around town during the full moon on purpose. Perhaps to show the founder family about what she could do,” he said.

“We have to stop her immediately. We can’t let her do as she please about those innocent people,” I concerned, “I have faced them before. They worship her. I don’t know how she brainwashed those people. We really can’t let that thing to happen again.”

“Talking about the betas, I think I have an idea,” Norah suddenly raised her voice, “I think we have to track down missing people in this town recently. Since we don’t know how the alpha looks like, perhaps we can trace her by the missing people who probably become her betas.” she looked at Frank who was still thinking about what she said, “And you, Frank,” she pointed at him, “You’ve got the access to the sheriff, right? Since your father is one of the sheriff’s close friend?”

Frank nodded, signing that he understood, “I think I can handle him.”

Her idea was so brilliant. I smiled widely and suddenly I kissed her passionately.

“Whoa! Does this have to be so vulgar here?” Frank complained.

But I didn’t care about what he felt or thought. I just finished my kiss to Norah, and then I held her face, “You’re so smart. That’s why I love you so much.” And she just smiled me back.