Chapter 12; The first battle starts

Drexel

We jumped outta the plane and free falled for almost thirty minutes before they pulled on the latch and slowed their descent using the parachutes while I fell for a few more minutes before shifting into a swarm of bats and converged back to human at ground level, only then had I realized that I had unsheathed my blades. It was twelve midnight so as expected I was at full power but more importantly the paranormals were on the move right now and the city was already flooding with them. I looked about me and contacted the other's. 

" Status report?" I asked. 

" I've got six hostiles on this side, permission to strike" Xi'an replied immediately. 

" I've grounded along with Oscar" Xander replied

" It's hunting season" Oyumar replied. 

" Attack now!" I said and sheathed one of my swords replacing it with a Glock, then I ran at double speed and fired as fast as my trigger could allow the pistol touched off fifteen rounds in less than six seconds, before long their full attention turned on me and I found myself engaged in a battle with werewolves, werecayotes, weretigers and many more. 

I slammed a fresh mag into the pistol and fired off more rounds and slashed and thrusted into many more of them viciously. 

" Hey try to reduce that rage okay" Xander teased and fired at many more of them. 

Meanwhile there was a loud voice on a speaker announcing that there was a paranormal invasion and urging the residents to remain inside and stay safe. That seemed like the right decision until I saw a beast break into an apartment through the window. 

" Shit!" I thought unsure whether I just thought it or actually said it aloud and misted my way into the apartment too, I got there in time to see her, it was a woman lung towards the father and child without thinking I aimed and fired the bullet missed it's Target and grazed her head instead by then I had gotten myself in between her and the family. 

" You're gonna need to go through me!" I fumed and she probably took it as a challenge and shifted into some sort of weresnake, she looked like a modern version of Medusa but while she had no mythical powers, she was dangerous nonetheless. She looked at me straight in the eyes and lunged again I ducked to dodge a quick swipe of her clawed hand and with a quick move slashed at her gut spilling dark coloured blood and entrails everywhere, then thrusted my blade into her heart from behind, I held on thrusting deeper as she struggled and gasped and tried yet again to grasp the father or the boy but they were just beyond her reach. I twisted the blade and pulled it out trusting that the blade would have torn her heart to smithereens, she shifted back to human and fell to the ground I cleaned the sword blade on my the sleeve of my coat and looked up at the family. 

" Mom?" The boy said with a look of anguish and the man tried to comfort the boy. 

" I'm sorry, that wasn't your mum at least not now" I said torn by pity for the boy " but if you grow up to still see wrong in what happened here today, I will be waiting" I said and turned from the scene my pity suddenly replaced with unbridled self loathing and fury as I remembered the look of pain in the boy's eyes, I had put it there I've caused all this, I should have just killed Scar when I had the chance a long time ago and saved the boy and his family this suffering. 

I fought viciously for another couple hours and my powers were becoming lower than before when we realized that we had eliminated the wave of paranormals I dug my swords into the earth and looked around to survey the dead. 

While I didn't lose anyone from my team, the Fangs however where not as lucky and recorded two deaths in their twenty men team and a handful of them including my team had minor injuries but nothing more fatal than a few broken bones. 

" Drexel how do you read?" Aaron's voice came over the radio. 

" Loud and clear" I replied wryly

" Drexel give me a sit-rep" he demanded. 

" We are wrapping things up here, we eliminated the paranormals, not sure if it was absolute or not but we've saved Florida without giving your team a serious body count, for now" I explained. 

" Good the plane will meet you at the airport, I think I know where this Scar is" he said the mention of the name only served to ignite my concealed rage and I disconnected.

" Alright men, I'll applaud you guys for a successful op now let's get back to New York" I said as jovial as I could, no matter how angry I was I would never think of taking it out on my men. 

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On the plane however Xander noticed my mood I was unaware that the anger reflected in my eyes until he said. 

" Careful Drex or these guys might actually start considering your death while they still have the chance" he joked and it took a while to register and I chuckled. 

" What's up what're you thinking about" he inquired. 

" Nothing serious" I lied and he took a long look at me and guessed. 

" It's not your fault, we just need to apprehend that d*ckhead and then we could have some peace" he said and I nodded in agreement. 

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