Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 174
Another burst.
Ruth barely had time to turn before she got hit. She collapsed before reaching the jet steps.
Perez shouted her name, but another barrage from Yalda forced him behind the aircraft.
Yalda never slowed.
She walked forward while firing with frightening accuracy.
Behind her, he stood.
Tobias.
His coat billowed behind him as though darkness itself followed, and his eyes looked like it carried a thousand midnights.
Beside him, strode Jude.
The Odds exploded with renewed energy.
Tobias’s eyes found Vince instantly, and Vince released Seraphina.
“This would be interesting,” Vince muttered with a smile that bordered on madness.
Tobias answered with silence as Vince got down the staircase, and they collided like two different storms.
Neither of them tested the other, they simply exploded into motion.
Vince’s punch whipped toward Tobias’s temple, but Tobias slipped outside it and answered with an elbow that split Vince’s lip.
Vince laughed, and his fist buried into Tobias’s ribs.
The impact echoed, but Tobias barely reacted. Instead, he caught Vince by the collar and hurled him into an airport baggage cart…
Hard enough to dent the steel.
The cart rolled several feet before crashing into stacked cargo.
In no time, Vince was already back on his feet.
“You’ve gotten more impressive, bastard.” He laughed again.
Tobias wasn’t in words exchange mood. He wants blood.
Nothing else.
They met again with punches, blocks, kicks, counters, and very strike landed with frightening force.
Vince slammed Tobias into a fuel barrier, Tobias answered by driving his knee into Vince’s abdomen.
Vince staggered only a step before smashing his forehead into Tobias’s.
Both men reeled, and blood trickled down both faces, but neither cared.
They fought like men who had forgotten pain years ago.
A wrench appeared in Vince’s hand from behind, and he swung it, but Tobias caught his wrist as the metal crashed harmlessly beside his head.
Tobias twisted, and the wrench flew away, but Vince answered with a brutal shoulder charge that sent them both rolling across the concrete.
Again, they rose simultaneously.
Neither was willing to kneel, and neither willing to lose.
Around them, the battle still raged on and on and on.
Jude and Estelle and the other angry Odds carved paths through the remaining Serpents while Yalda’s machine gun covered them protectively.
As the other Odds dropped the Serpents effortlessly with knives and pins and screws, Yalda dropped them with her deadly shots.
They were too mad to lose.
The airport became theirs, but Tobias’s attention never left Vince.
Vince attacked again.
This time, Tobias noticed
the slight hesitation on Vince’s knee.
Tobias struck that knee with a savage low kick, and Vince stumbled.
Another blow to the knee from Tobias, and Vince’s balance broke.
Then, Tobias drove forward with everything he had, and his shoulder slammed into Vince’s chest.
The impact hurled Vince backward, and Vince hit the ground.
He looked up and smiled madly. “You think you won?”
Suddenly, his hand slammed onto a smoke canister clipped beneath a nearby emergency vehicle.
Smoke exploded across the runway, and visibility vanished.
“Wrath!” Yalda shouted.
Through the thick cloud, Vince seized Seraphina around the waist.
An airport maintenance pickup sat abandoned nearby, and Vince threw Seraphina into the passenger seat, climbed behind the wheel, and floored the accelerator.
The truck shot through the smoke and drove out of the tarmac before anyone could reach it.
“Tobias!” Seraphina’s voice came from inside.
By the time the smoke cleared, they were gone.
Tobias got back in his car, and it screamed along the coastal highway as he drove after Vince.
Behind him, came three more vehicles carrying Yalda, Jude and the remaining Odds.
The chase became a blur of headlights.
Vince drove recklessly, ignoring bends and barriers and death itself.
Despite her bondage, Seraphina raised her leg to kick his hands away from the steering, but he punched her in the stomach, sending her head to the window to crash.
The road ended at a cliff overlooking a wide sea.
Vince stepped on the brakes hard, and the truck skidded sideways.
He dragged Seraphina out before she could escape, and she struggled violently against his grip.
“Let me go!”
“No!” His grip tightened, and he looked almost broken and desperate.
“I crossed countries for you, built kingdoms for you, burned every bridge behind me. Tell me,” His breathings turned ragged.
“Tell me you love me! We made a blood oath, that so far I tell you I loved you, you’d come back to me. I love you like sickness! Tell me you love me too, Seraphina!!”
Seraphina stared into his eyes, then she spat hot saliva across his face.
“I will never love you!” She spat. “My heart belongs to Tobias!”
Vince froze completely, but he took a little step towards her.
Seraphina took a step backward, and that step brought her toes to the cliff’s edge.
“I’ll love Tobias until my last breath,” she breathed out with teary face.
“You don’t mean that,” Vince shook his head slowly.
“I do!” She snarled.
“You’ll choose him even over your own life?” Vince’s face fell.
Seraphina smiled through tears before saying….”Every time.”
And something inside Vince finally shattered.
“Fine, Seraphina, but if I can’t have you…” He raised his pistol with trembling hands. “Then no one will.”
Almost immediately, car headlights flooded the cliff.
Tobias jumped out of the first car, and Odds spilled from the other vehicles.
Vince quickly swung the gun toward them, but they were faster as several shots rang out from Odds to him.
One bullet struck Vince’s hand, and his pistol flew from his fingers.
He roared in dangerous frustration, swirling Seraphina around to guide himself from the Odds.
His gaze landed on a heavy steel pipe lying beside an abandoned construction barrier.
He picked it, raised it on her head, and Seraphina closed her eyes, muttering… “Tobias,”
Tobias crossed the distance with impossible speed.
He threw Seraphina out of the way, and the steel pipe crashed into the side of his head instead.
The sound echoed across the cliff as he staggered.
Blood streamed down his face completely, wetting his shirt and hair and entire features.
His head obviously has a crack, and one of his eye instantly swelled as his vision blurred.
For one heartbeat, everything stood still, and Odds look like their breaths have been knocked out of them as everyone stood with wide eyes.
“Wrath!!” Yalda cracked.
“Tobias!!!” Seraphina broke into absolute insanity.
The broken cliff edge crumbled beneath Tobias, and his footing fell off to it’s demise.
He pointed his arm, reaching for nothing but air.
Then, he fell off the cliff, disappearing into the two hundred feet darkness below them.
Seraphina’s hollow scream tore across the ocean.
“TOBIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!”
TBC.
{{comment.anon_name ?? comment.full_name}}
{{timeAgo(comment.date_added)}}
{{comment.body}}
{{subComment.anon_name ?? subComment.full_name}}
{{timeAgo(subComment.date_added)}}
{{subComment.body}}