The Talon Family The Assassination of Two Part 9

“When can your men --” Kirk started to ask but dropped to the ground as Helbis shot him with a bolt. The plan was to make the Voice believed Kirk was not in on the trap and Helbis was sure this worked for their cause.

                The Voice jumped back looking for the shooter as Kirk danced on the ground. Before the Voice could take off running, Ironblood dropped from out of the darkness landing in front of him and slowly rising. “I have been waiting for this for a while,” he said.

                “Me too,” the Voice said with a smile.

                Ironblood stepped forward, and the Voice order him to stop. He did as he was told and Helbis was afraid the radios they were wearing did not work until the Voice order him to kill himself, but he did not do as commanded because he couldn’t hear it. He only guessed what the Voice had ordered him to do.

                The Voice’s eyes went wide as Gabriel blinked beside the armored hero firing a shot at the mob boss. The bolt hit the man, but he did not go down. He knocked the bolt from his chest wrapping his shirt to show some kind of armor under it. He creaked his knuckles pulling the rest of his shirt off to show the metal and readying him for a fight.

                “I got to the top by making sure someone couldn’t just block my voice,” he said.

                Before Gabriel could pop him in the head gunfire rang down from the darkness. Some more guards were rushing into the room. She rolled out of the way blinking back out of sight and firing back at them. Helbis study the show of mastery over hand to hand combat in the middle of the light. Ironblood and the Voice were going toe to toe like two professional MMA fighters. The show was impressed better than anything she saw on T.V.

                “You going to join the fight any time soon?” Gabriel asked over the radio.

                “Which one do you want me to take out?” She asked back. “The Voice or his people.”

                “Do you have a clear shot on the Voice?”

                “I got him,” Ironblood growled back.

                Helbis didn’t say a word taking aim at the few men sparing out through the room. She fired a few rounds taking out one of her targets but missing the other giving away where she was now. A few of the men started painting the steel around her with bullets not being able to see her perfectly. It was time to move, and she had planned for it. She stepped off the railing and falling to the ground below being caught by the rope tied to her. She landed on her feet popping off a shot hitting a man on the side of his chest. He dropped to the ground giving her aim for another target. She unhooked herself letting the man get away, but she had to move because someone notices her there. She moved like a cat being seeing in the dark before the wood behind her started to shatter from the bullets.

                She rolled behind enough boxes the man lost her in the dark. She moved far faster than any of the people in the cargo bay. She ran from the spot the man thought she was hiding in shooting three bolts with only one of them hitting her foe. Three shots and only one hit was not good, and she kicked herself for not taking a moment to steady herself. She let the rush of combat get the better of her, but she wouldn’t let it happen again.

                Helbis dropped to one knee slowing her breathing and fire two bolts emptying her clip along with knocking out tow men from the fight. She let the clip in her weapon fall to the floor and moved to insert the next one from her belt, but unseen to her a guard was coming out from behind a box.

                He aimed right at her head, but she rolled into the man, not having time to put another clip in her gun. She flipped around her back, shooting to her feet up, and disarming the man. He stepped back growling at her pulling a knife from his belt. He held the blade backward along his forearm and ready himself for the fight.

                Helbis smiled to herself. It has been a while since she had a sparring partner who could keep up with her. She doubted the man in front of her had any idea of who he was about to face. She knew the poor soul didn’t know she and her family spent years of their lives training in as many fighting styles as they could take. Most of her childhood was spent learning how to take out any threat she came across and right now, this man was standing in her way.

                The smiled didn’t fade at all as he dashed at her. He was fast, and for a normal person he would have won the battle before it started but Helbis was faster. She stepped out of his way with ease backhanding him in the ear. He grunts in pain shaking his head and turning to face her. He swung the knife at her while she pushed his arm out of the way with an open hand and then quickly creaking him against the jaw with a fist that closes seconds before hitting him. The hit thrown him off his feet as he took a moment to get himself ready. He showed his teeth like a wolf trying to win the pack from the leader as Helbis danced on her feet.

                The foolish man went to try to hit her, but arms of white lighten circle his body dropping him to the ground. Gabriel blinked into Helbis eyes with a wave and pointing at the center of the room. They both glanced over to see the fight still raging on, but all the men the Voice had called in were out cold. Helbis reloaded her rifle with no real need for it. Gabriel shot the man in the back of the neck giving Ironblood the chance to nail him in the jaw more than likely breaking it. He fell to the ground in a hushed pain.