Past - The Red pixie

"One... Two.. Three.. and you are four.," A tall woman with straight black hair reaching till the bottom of her neck, pointed her half-eaten bread towards the bald man who sat quivering at the end of the line of four. She wore an unwrinkled black suit, and a black latex glove on her left hand. Stressed about something, she walked to and fro in front of them like an impatient person halting his pee in front of an occupied bathroom.

Four men whose ages spread from late 20s to late 30s sat with their backs to the wall of their living room. Every one of them had a severed ankle, making them unable to walk or run anymore. They could have crawled or limped outside the house, but not one of them dared to move a muscle in front of the woman who stood in front of them. She looked like death itself to them, and what made her even more scary was her casual attitude towards them. No sane person could be like her, not even after 1000 years.

*num*numnumnum* Stressed, the woman chewed noisily, small and big bread crumbs fell on the pool of blood beneath her feet.

"Where, where , where is the fifth guy?," she asked all of them at once, making an angry face. They shivered, they cried, they peed, but none of their answers answered her question correctly.

"I already told you many times, I don't know where he is."

"He was sitting right there the last time I saw him, I don't know where he is now."

"Just kill me already... Just kill me..."

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, please spare me, I will never kill anyone again, I promise to be a good person."

They pleaded to spare them out of their misery, but she stopped listening right after the first guy said 'I don't know'. She pulled out a white paper from inside her black suit jacket. Her sight went towards the one line typed in Times New Roman font, which made her restless.

"They should be killed together in an explosion.," reading it aloud for the 5th time in the past 10 minutes, she stuffed the paper back in her jacket., "I need a smoke." she realized.

Her hands reached into her trouser's pocket for a cigarette and took out a carton. Unfortunately for her, it was empty. She threw the empty carton on the floor and looked towards the four bleeding guys on the floor.

"Here," one of the guys took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to her along with a lighter.

"Thank you," she showed her gratitude.

*Tlick*

*puff*

"Ahh...," she relaxed her stressed nerves. A smoke is exactly what she requires in this situation. She exhaled dense gray smoke from her mouth, which dispersed as it reached the ceiling of the room.

"What is his fcking name?," she asked the oldest guy among them, who looked like their leader.

"O...O...Odin, no wait." He replied, but he wasn't satisfied with his reply, so he thought again. The reason he wasn't able to recall the fifth guy's name was because he never used it to call him. He just called him 'twat' whenever he wanted to call him.

"Ogin, His name is Ogin," this came out from the guy who sat beside their leader.

"Are you sure," She pointed her cigarette towards him, its hot ash falling on his leg, "You see, I don't have time to fool around, so just tell me his real name."

"I am telling the truth, even I felt his name was weird, but I never asked about it," he answered back with a painful and confident expression.

"hmm...,"She wondered and took a puff. After a few more puffs, her eyes widened up and she dropped the cigarette on the floor.

"Ogin... O,G,I,N... G,I,N,O,... GINO! It's him," the realization struck her. It was a name she had heard many times before, but never seen the person who it belongs to. This was the only name on 'the top 15 most wanted criminals, alive' list which had no direct connection to any homicide, which meant he never killed any person by himself. He was never caught on any camera after he got active, only sketches of him were available, which were drawn by taking his physical characteristics into account, given by officers who saw him.

"Ahahahaha," She laughed loudly on the bloody floor, any person who sees her in this state would definitely think that she is a maniac. The laugh made her weak on her knees, so she took the support of the table behind her. "ahah.... *breathe* I wasted 20 minutes of my time and also your time, I am truly sorry for it. You people can happily die now, you don't need to wait for him anymore. He probably is watching television in his safe house by now."

"Wait!" "No" "You don't have to do that" "Thank you"

*pingping ping..ping..ping*

The woman set the time for 60 seconds on the time bomb and kept it on the table.

"Good night guys," She bid goodbye to the four wailing guys and left out of the room.

*ziiiiiiiiiiiip~~"

"I got you BABY~~~ you can slip EASY~~~ Your touch is FREEZY~~~~~," a teen guy with headphones on his ears sang while zipping his jeans. He emphasized the last word of every line by spelling it louder and longer than the others.

After zipping his pants, he turned right, and went straight into the bosom of that tall woman.

"Ooph.... Sorry man..., " he apologized to the person in front of him., "I..... WHat the...".

That very instant, he noticed blood on that person's shoes. He leapt back and stood in an alert stance.

*gulp*

Noticing the blood soaked shoe prints on the floor, cold sweat slipped on his neck. Slowly, he raised his head to see the face of the perpetrator, who wore a 2-piece black suit. His eyebrows rose in surprise when he saw that it was an unscathed woman who stood in front of him, but also his instinct told him that she was far more dangerous than he could handle, so fighting head on wasn't an option for him.

"Gino?," She asked, surprised by his unexpected appearance.

"How do you know me? ," he asked a question in return. To him, she was a complete stranger who showed up in a house which doesn't belong to her, probably killed all of his gang except for him, and she also knew his name which not even the gang members knew.

"So you are Gi..."

"see ya," He raced towards the door and closed it behind him.

"Hey! wait," She stretched forwards but couldn't catch him before he closed the door on her face.

"Open... Open..." she tried to open the doorknob, but it wasn't turning. It was because Gino held it tightly from the outside with both his hands.

This doorknob turning battle went on for a few seconds until that woman started overpowering him.

As soon as the door knob was unlocked, Gino kicked the door right in its center. This startled the woman, the explosive force threw her back along with the broken door, whose knob remained in her palm.

Gino didn't wait to see what happened to that woman, she raced down the staircase, skipping as many stairs as possible. Most of the time, he just jumped and leaped off things to cover the farthest distance in the least time possible.

"Stop! Or I will shoot you," he heard her distant voice behind him. It didn't sound like a casual warning to him. He looked behind to get a glance at the woman who chased him like a pro.

"Oh fck!," he ran even faster. What chased him didn't look like a normal human to him. She was bleeding half her face but still maintained pace along with him, and what made her even more scary was her face. Probably because of the blood on her face, she looked like the reincarnation of the devil, and he was sure he may as well be dead if he got caught by her.

*Boooom* A building behind him exploded. People around them shouted and panicked, but these two were busy in their own chase of cat and mouse.

Gino climbed onto the rooftops to get rid of her, but it was child's play for her. Even under the midnight darkness, she kept on chasing him like loan sharks. He didn't want to take chances by hiding somewhere as long as he was a safe distance away from her, so he kept on running on the roofs.

"What did I do?, Why are you after me?," He yelled after he climbed on top of a high roof.

"...." She didn't answer.

"Do I know you?," He yelled again, but instead of answering his question, she got closer to him with every passing second., "never mind".

A tall tower with a spiral staircase on its outer wall stood in front of him, and without wasting a single moment, he climbed the rugged stairs which went on till the top of the tower.

"Fool..., I got you now," she said confidently with a smile, looking at Gino, who climbed a staircase which would lead him to a dead end.

Soon, Gino reached halfway across the stairs, the surrounding houses were way past him, and he could feel the air thinning as he gasped for breath. It was pitch dark on the tower, since it had no lights on the walls. Gino wasn't able to see the woman who chased him, but he felt her presence right beneath him.

To confirm his suspicions, he bent his torso to take a look at the staircase beneath. A cool breeze struck his face, the only thing he could see were the tower walls reflecting the dim moonlight.,"looks like she's gone."

"There you are," A head popped out from right beneath the stairs he stood on.

"Whoa," Gino freaked out and continued climbing the stairs. Even though it wasn't clear, he was sure that he saw an evil grin on her face.

A little more than a minute passed and he was almost on top of the tower. His legs were on the verge of breakdown and he was completely exhausted. The thin air made it harder for him to breathe, "Just a little more" he said to himself, looking towards the top of the tower and braced for a sprint till the top.

"I think I may have seen her somewhere, or not," he thought for a second before sprinting up the stairs.

"Almost," she said looking at the top of the tower. A wicked smile stayed on her face., "To think he is Gino... haha. I thought he was smart but he is"

"HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLlllllppppppp.....," Someone fell from the midnight sky.