Chapter 42: Catching a fox
<Lou POV>
"Do you think they are far enough away?" Lou had been at the entrance to the bunker waiting for Reia and Akira to be far enough away.
"You shouldn't be going out anyway, but if you really want to then I won't stop you and it's not like I can in the first place." Kim was peeking over the couch with her ears twitching, looking at Lou who was hardly able to contain herself. Even with her rather laid-back attitude while they were still in the bunker Lou was on the verge of snapping.
"Alright fine I am going now before I destroy this place." Lou had barely controlled herself while telling the story and the only thing that stopped her was Kim snuggling up to her and the fact the bunker was their base.
*Sigh* "Make sure to be aware of your surroundings." Kim's ears dropped down as she preferred if Lou didn't leave at all, but Lou couldn't be stopped at this point.
Exiting the bunker Lou had rushed out to the street looking for something to destroy nearby. Walking down the street Lou had picked up a thin metal bar that had come from a collapsed building.
'I swear if I see that bitch or even catch her scent again, I won't stop hunting her until she is dead under my boot.' Walking up to a clothes shop that had a glass front, Lou had swung the metal bar into shattering it. Not stopping there she proceeded to smash every window and car she bumped into causing a bunch of noise.
Using her fists to punch some widows Lou had caused more cuts on her hands and arms, but this did not matter to her. Smashing anything and everything Lou had caused havoc in some stores, destroying anything she could.
This, of course, attracted some mutants to her location and while she was destroying something in a general appliances store they had come inside wanting to kill Lou.
"Now is not the time, so you can FUCK OFF!" Lou, seeing the mutants ran up to them and using the metal bar, stabbed it right into the mouth of the mutant deer piercing its core. The human mutant that accompanied it went to grab Lou so it could bite her but was instead met with a kick being pushed into the wall.
Lou pulled out the metal bar from the deer and ran up to the human mutant while it was stunned by her kick. Going right through the chest of the mutant, Lou had successfully killed it with no issues.
Leaving the metal bar in the mutant that had also pierced the wall behind it Lou stood back and took a deep breath.
"Fuck that felt good." Flicking her silver hair Lou had calmed herself down and was ready to head back to the bunker.
"Why the fuck did I punch the glass, that bloody hurt." Coming back to her senses Lou had felt the pain she had caused herself.
'Oh well, I'm still waiting for my shoulder to heal, a few cuts won't matter.' Lou had to wait for the small hole caused by the ice panther to heal before she was back to being 100% so a few small cuts would not hinder her recovery.
Lou walked back to the bunker feeling refreshed and a little sore after swinging around a weapon.
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<Akira POV>
Reia and Akira were exploring the streets going into varying stores and grabbing food that wouldn't expire quickly. They had also taken note of any places that had working freezers and refrigerators as they could potentially be taken back for themselves.
Finding a few stores lined up next to each other, they decided to split up to be more efficient. However, they had encountered a few mutants, but were easily dealt with and did not pose a threat.
Akira had found himself in a restaurant across the street from Reia checking out if the walk-in freezer had any food in it.
Going to the back of the kitchen, Akira approached where they stored food and to his surprise, it looked untouched and working.
'Seems like the area we are in isn't a hotspot so most things are working.' He had noticed that certain dead spots acted like hot spots for mutants. By using their phones they were also able to tell if there was any interference in the area suggesting if things worked or not.
'Assuming that most of the population is mutants now and what is left are the few citizens and special groups like the rebels, then stores should be fairly unraided.' Akira's concern was running out of supplies, but seeing as the millions of people that would have died in the last few days then most stores should be stocked still.
'I can't forget the few powerful families that are associated with the military that will likely try to take in as many people and then try to rise to power once this mutant thing is resolved.' Akira thought of Reia and his families who were of their own affiliation but collaborated with the military. There were also separate branches of families that did not work with the military and acted as their own unit.
'This isn't the time to be thinking about the politics of the city. Let's just hope we don't run into any of the leaders.' Akira had been staring at the freezer lost in thought thinking about future risks that they may face.
Opening up the freezer he felt a gush of cold air blast him and was greeted with a bunch of meat.
"Nice." Akira now had a location that they would need to quickly come back to as there was a lot of varying meat that would last them a while. Closing it back up Akira went to leave the store until the sound of some kitchenware crashed onto the floor.
"Hmm?" His first thoughts were a mutant, but if that was the case it would have been a lot louder and wouldn't have been just the one sound. He did consider a variant, but he was more leaning towards a person.
"Who goes there? If you reveal yourself I will let you go. Just want to know if it's a person or not." Akira wasn't going to be cruel especially if it was someone who is barely surviving.
After being met with silence, he aimed his rifle and slowly walked around the table to see who was behind it.
Quickly going around the corner of the table, Klein had been on the other side and jumped at him. Hesitating to shoot for a moment it had cost him as Klein pushed him up against the wall.
'Shit I should have just shot.' Akira had little to no sympathy left for Klein, but something had caused him to not shoot right away upon seeing her.
"Ha got you." Klein held her gun to Akira's head while she used her other hand to pin him to the wall.
"You won't hurt me." Akira glared at Klein knowing full well she wouldn't dare shoot. Attempting to push back and overpower her, Klein had hit Akira in the head with her gun trying to knock him out.
Unsuccessful in knocking him out, she tried hitting again, but Akira was able to grab her gun and throw it away. Kneeing Klein in the stomach she fell to the ground and Akira picked up his rifle that was on the ground.
"You damn bitch, what made you think you could do anything." Blood came from Akira's head and over his face. pushing his gun up against her head, he was tempted to fire, but considered dragging her back for Lou to deal with her.
"Heh, don't think you're safe." Klein had started to use the last bit of ice and grabbed onto Akira's ankles. However, Klein found it took a lot more essence to create the ice, but she still tried to make it as strong as she could.
Akira felt a searing pain in his ankles causing his muscles to lock up and let go of his rifle again. Ice started to cover his legs, trapping him in place.
Klein though was not left untouched as using the essence through her hands, caused damage making them frozen. Getting up from the ground Klein kicked away his gun and warmed up her hands with a nearby stove so she could move them.
"Don't think you will get away with this." Akira was taking a few deep breaths to recover from the ice burns.
"Doesn't matter, as long as you belong to me nothing will matter." Klein was close to being able to move her hands again as the ice that covered her hand was melting.
"REIAAAA!" Screaming out her name Klein freaked out and quickly turned to Akira. However, when she turned a sword was pointed at her face.
"How stupid can you be." Akira was rather dumbfounded by Klein's stupidity as although he couldn't move he still had his voice and swords. Klein started to sweat a bit as it was most likely Reia was about to arrive and Akira still had weapons on him.
'Damn it I was too tunnel-visioned on trapping him.' Klein was too infatuated and not wanting to fully disable him had blinded her from the consequences.
"I guess instead of actually learning how to disarm someone you were too busy in the bedroom." Akira wasn't too surprised by Klein's lack of military procedure as she was most likely too busy feeding her urges.
Klein gritted her teeth as she could tell Lou must have told Akira about what she had done to people.
"You only know half the story, that wasn't me that did it, it was the other me that I have been suppressing for years." Klein did not have much time and so she decided to try to explain her situation.
"Oh so the essence vampire where you literally drain people of their life, yeah I'm not buying it." Akira wasn't interested as no matter what the case was she still killed innocent people.
"I-i." Klein was at a loss for words as she didn't expect Akira to know.
"Akira!" Reia had run into the restaurant calling out his name.
"Right over here in the kitchen, we have a little succubus here." Akira looked Klein dead in the eyes telling her to not move.
Fear had taken over Klein and spotting what looked like an exit tried to run to it. Akira though did not allow this to happen and infusing his sword with lighting threw it at Klein stabbing her in the leg. Paralysing her, Klein fell to the floor unable to move and Reia entered the kitchen.
"Where is she?" Reia's face looked furious upon hearing what Akira said and wanted to hunt her down. Smashing the ice that was at his feet with his second sword he released himself.
"Calm down, we will bring her back to Lou so both of you can have your fair share of fun." Akira walked over to where Klein was face-first on the floor.
Reia followed Akira and seeing Klein on the floor was close to just shooting her.
"Now that we have this poor excuse of a military soldier that could hardly disarm someone I say we head back with our find." Akira pulled out the sword from her leg and Klein groaned in pain.
Reia, wanting to make sure she was awake, grabbed her by the hair and looked at her in the eyes.
"I hope you are ready for what's to come." Reia didn't care if Klein was hurt or uncomfortable and seeing her face in pain was quite a satisfying sight to Reia. Klein in an act of defiance spat in Reia's face, but all that got her was getting her head smashed into the ground.
"Fucking bitch." Breaking Klein's nose, Reia stood up leaving her on the floor.
"She doesn't have any more copied essence left?" Reia was wondering if she still had any ice left as it was the last one she absorbed.
"I think she used the last of it on me. She probably didn't realise how little she had left as ice is a very costly essence to form ice strong enough to restrain someone." Akira was glad that Klein didn't have more, otherwise, he could have been completely trapped in ice, but her naivety had saved him.
"Good, now let's take her back." Reia grabbed Klein's hair again and started to drag her across the ground.
"I'm sure Lou will be happy to finish off what was started." Akira looked at Klein disgusted and although she seemed to try to change, her tendencies still existed.
'Such a shame that she was hardly able to put up a fight against me.' Akira knew he had the advantage and her downside was being too obsessed over him, making it something he could exploit.
"No Idea why she would think I would just walk hand in hand with her." Akira still bugged by the fact that Klein seemingly convinced herself that he would just oblige and come along peacefully.
"B-because I thought you were special." Klein had spoken up and it was clear in her voice she had started crying.
"Shut up, if you didn't treat people like an energy pack then maybe you wouldn't be in this position." Reia didn't want to hear Klein talk so she tugged on her hair to get her to be quiet.
"You can only blame yourself and don't think this world is aligned by fate. Because nothing will go your way if you pray to the stars." Akira picked up his rifle and Klein's gun while explaining to her why the dumb beliefs she had will not come true.
Klein gritted her teeth as everything had fallen apart and when she thought she could get Akira, it had only blown up in her face.
Leaving the restaurant, they had cut their trip off early as they had more urgent matters to deal with.
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