Bloody pulps two

"Lex...!"

WHAM! WHAM!

Even without Bodie talking, Lex could already hear Seppi's quiet steps towards him. He was turning around to see what Seppi was planning to do when the baseball bat plunged into his left shoulder.

And while finally facing Seppi, Seppi's second swing of the bat moved straight for Lex's head until...

Seppi put all his might into this swing, he didn't care if they get expelled. They were already fucked anyway with two disciplinary complaints, one more wouldn't hurt. College was never an alternative for him.

He wanted to join the gang in his neighbourhood after graduation, but joining them a tad early ain't a bad idea either.

Seppi dived forward and almost missed a step and twisted his ankle.

"What the fuck...?"

He blinked. Lex wasn't in front of him. A firm hand gripped his shoulder from behind with such crushing force that he was forced to drop the bat and fall to his knees.

"Aaaaaaaaaaarh... what's your arm made off? Steel?"

Seppi tried to take Lex's fingers off his left shoulder. He could swear that his collarbone was going to snap in two if he doesn't.

The more he struggled to detach one finger, the more the force in Lex's grip tightened and lynched the flesh sitting between his collarbone and first rib.

"Get the fuck off me!"

Lex heard Seppi grunt but he didn't see any visible attacks from him.

He glanced at Bodie who was sitting up and leaning against the fence for support, he was holding his sides and huffing. Lex wondered how many times they'd hit him to get him to that state and that was when he felt something come in contact with his side and he stumbled backwards, releasing Seppi from his grip at the same time.

Lex held his side, it was still stinging a little bit. He couldn't explain the feeling, it felt like he'd been run over but for a brief second the muscles in his lower abdomen experienced violent spasms.

Bodie was watching. Seppi was holding a taser. Bodie wanted to warn Lex about the taser but the curiosity he had to see how Lex would react stopped him from doing so.

Seppi had underestimated the force of Lex's grip. Even after he had shaken him off, he couldn't get back on his own two feet. He crawled further away from Lex and watched his movements from the fence. He was astonished to see Lex was still standing straight and occasionally poking at the part he tasered.

He flinched when his eyes met Lex's. They were shifting from reddish brown to full-on red and back.

Lex was partially confused about what the weapon in Seppi's hand was and how it could inflict him with such pain despite having no sharpened edge or a large density.

Lex flashed over to Seppi and his fingers wrapped around his neck. Seppi couldn't even shout for help. The grip tightened within every second and held his Adam's apple in place. He pulled up by his neck and despite Seppi being taller than him, he removed his feet completely from the ground.

Bodie thought it was time to stop but...

Lex's grip tightened and he crushed Seppi into the wired fence and let go. Seppi fell forward and landed on all fours. He tried getting back up but Lex kicked him and he flew backwards, his back collided with the fence and he groaned in pain.

Lex held him up by his collar and punched him repeatedly. The first one made his face bleach to a colour between light purple and dark blue. The second one drew blood, the third incapacitated him. The rest followed faster and it was harder for Bodie to keep up so...

"Lex, that's enough."

The arm-jabbing movement paused like Lex was a robot and Bodie's lips had the remote control microchip in them.

Lex moved away from Seppi and straightened himself. His clothes and left hand were clean and the right one was covered in splashes of blood. Bodie had to stop him or else Seppi wouldn't have made it. Not that he cared if he made it or not but his efforts to maintain a low-key shuttle at school would have gone down the drain.

Bodie ripped the black bandanna off Sonjay's head and passed it to Lex.

"Hey, rub your head clean with this and—"

Bodie arched an eyebrow at Lex's questioning gaze, did he really want to...

"No, and eww, you are not allowed to lick the blood off your hands."

Bodie's face expressed extreme disgust as he scolded Lex. Even if he was a vampire himself, he would rather die of thirst than lick up the blood of these delinquents.

Bodie walked around to the others, they were still unconscious. He wasn't bothered about Seppi telling them off, he knew better than exposing the fact that he got beat up by a middle schooler to the rest of the students. What happened up here will remain between the three of them, he'll just higher some thugs to go after them if he really wants to get revenge.

"Come on, let's go."

Lex cleaned up his bloody arm and they hurried off the roof to meet the last twenty minutes of the sixth period.