Depths of Darkness

Sample of Depths of Darkness, the story of Sarahv, a bounty hunter with no qualms about dealing death until one target in particular is brought into the picture. Where does innocence begin and where does it end? Is darkness always present?

 

Depths of Darkness

 

 It was hard, stumbling your way through everything all alone with no one to help, no one to turn to.

It’s a familiar and constant ache.

It was something that had no answer, no way to be resolved. A never ending cycle of rebuffing and cold shoulders had shown a very ugly truth of the world.

You are all alone and the only person you can rely on is yourself.

There is only one way to get around this. Change yourself to fit the image.

               

                The closed fist impacted with the idiot’s face sending him stumbling back an inch or two. Fierce joy spread through her body in happy tingles as the blood fell unceasingly from the probably broken appendage.

                Crazed eyes narrowed on her as he relentlessly charged forward again. This was extremely unprecedented.

                He should have been discouraged by the pain if nothing else. Any sane person would have backed down. It was a survival instinct. Looking into his eyes though she could see that he was anything but sane. There was something very wrong with him.

                So distracted by her thoughts she was unable to completely avoid the wild swing that connected with her left side. She gave a grunt as she pivoted to the right to avoid the next attack and to assess the situation, which came down to the fact that the man was without a doubt done in but still come in, and his eyes were some of the craziest looking things she had seen, ever.

                The man gave a wild shout and charged, his body bent over, shoulders forward. His intent was forward and she almost felt like laughing at the stupidity of the plan. He meant to tackle her.

                Without hesitation her right hand dropped to the holster resting comfortably on her left hip and with quick, practiced efficiency she unhooked the weapon and pulled out her M85, sleek and all shiny silver metal, aiming at the moving body and fired once.

                He kept charging.

                Twice.

                Still charging. Three.

                Four.

                Five.

                Six.

                Seven.

                Finally.

                The body fell to the ground twitching.

                Panting with exertion she held her weapon before her, pointed down at the somewhat still living body.

                The eyes were dimmer but still the crazed look was unmistakable. The mouth moved in silent unheard words and she frowned in consternation.

                With barely a pause, she dropped to the spot behind his head resting the barrel between his eyes. “What are you saying?” she growled, pressing the cool metal further into his metal when all he did was continue to mouth the unheard words.

                His barely seeing eyes flicked backwards, where she was hunched behind him, and laughed. Lips pulled into a mocking smile before he began to mouth the words again, blood spilling from his mouth marring any chance of getting a reading of what he was saying. Must have punctured a lung… or something.

                Her lips pulled into a sneer, she pulled the trigger not even flinching when she was splattered with blood and brain matter not even a second after. “Disgusting creature,” she          said in distaste, wiping her weapon on the only clean spot of clothing on the body before holstering it again. Using her right arm she pushed herself up into a standing position, stretching to her full height.

                She stared down at the now lifeless body thoughtfully for a second and kicked it once and then twice for good measure, spitting on it. “May the Dark One take you to the Depths where you’ll be stuck in a never ending nightmare till the end of eternity.”

                With one last disdainful glance she walked off disappearing into the surrounding shadows, she had a report to fill out.

Author's Note

This is only a sample of what I have begun for this story, probably not even going to be an actual pice of it but something for me to work off of.

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[Alz Alz]

wow... well written!