Oddity 9

Mira watched Stella's figure ran away, with nothing but the lighting storm in the skies serving her as a light in her very room, with the flash of light she notices her reflection on the wall. She needs a weapon, she immediately carried the heavy mirror off the wall, and it reaches about half her height, putting it down on the floor and covering it with a thick cloth, she jumps on it repeatedly and shattering the mirror due to the pressure and weight.

Mira silently stalks the halls. The thunder blasts outside and the lightning flashed through the skies illuminating the dark narrow hall for a second with a shuttered mirror in hand. She walks like a cat vigilant and alert, her footsteps falter as she gazes on the room of the young boy, it was messy the books scattered on the floor, the sheets and the pillows are thrown everywhere. She could have guessed the boy put on a fight, she walks past the room and follows exactly Stella's given direction.

Mira continues to walk by when she saw a little boy lying on the cold floor; his face was illuminated for a second as the sound of thunder rang her ear, quickly she did not waste any time and came closer. She touch his wrist feeling the heartbeat through the pulse she relaxes her guard a bit then she felt a gaze behind slowly she stands up and quickly turns to the side, glaring at the man who emerged from the dark veil of the shadows, his usual smile covered with a sarcastic smirk.

"I guess the little rabbit run loose." He spoke with a blank face with both arms behind his back, he slowly walks forward. Mira observes the man with narrow eyes quite annoyed by him.

"What do you want?" Mira asks.

"What do you mean? What do I want? I am only doing what I am told to do."

"Kidnaping?"

"My no...No, I am only concern with some various shady affairs in the mansion."

"It surely means something when you concern yourself too much" Gesturing at the unconscious boy, John shrugged and asks for Stella's whereabouts.

"Safe somewhere you can't hold her."

"I am only protecting you three."

"I do not believe you."

"You don't need to."

Silence engulfs the duo, without hesitation the man flashed across the room immediately appearing in front of the girl, Mira wasn't surprised. She expected this, her current body lacks the qualifications of her past life standards but even so her experience and quick wit can make up for it. She had a lot of cons facing this man head-on not to mention the victim (Callus) can be potentially hurt, therefore she runs away with all of her speed. Her body is small and agile but despite this advantage, the man quickly caught up to her, as a trained mercenary, her speed is meaningless in his eyes. Locking her on the spot Mira simply slides down between his legs revealing the shattered glass under her sleeves, she stabs the man's ankle with all her strength.

The man immediately lost his pillar of balance, groaning in pain he glares heatedly at the running small figure. He cackles in amusement pulling the glass off the flesh without blinking, he stand-ups and disappeared with the shadows.

Mira ran and ran without looking back arriving at the kitchen she immediately aims to find a knife, exploring through she couldn't find one, despised her quick movement she doesn't feel a bit panicked everything was in swift and precise movement, finding the knife she stabs through behind in 1 swift movement. John moves abruptly to the side, quite shaken off the young girl.

"You know how to hold the knife?"

"Not only that but I am much more capable regardless of my appearance."

"Would you look at that? A tiger playing for a fool, you don't see that everyday a mere child at that." He spoke with curiosity and amusement.

"Be quiet, I think he has a lot more things to say." motioning to the knife in her hand.

"This is getting silly. We need to go now."

"Tell me why!"

"I told you! There isn't much time." dragging each word with depth.

"Then I'll just have to force it out of you!" Mira then pulled the flour on her other hand throwing it on his eyes, quickly he raises an arm to block the powder off. Mira runs to the side slicing through his side. She did it quick and accurate, leaving quite an ugly wound but wasn't deep enough to do actual damage, not when the knife wasn't that sharp. Her aim is only to weaken the man and to make time while Stella calls for the guards.

Running to the halls with a bloody knife, Mira felt instant danger behind her. The danger she was so familiar with, the aura of the blood thirst. She was about to turn to the corner when she was lifted off the floor and her knife thrown far to the side, she was dragged up facing the deadly pale face of the man.

"I am done fooling around, you did quite a mess around but I still have to do my job."

Mira tries to shake off his hold when she saw a burly shadow behind the man with wide eyes she gapes at the man who smacks John down with a wooden bat on his head breaking the bat in the process, without wasting a second John instantly falls to the floor groaning with blood gushing out behind his head. Mira, who also fell with John, peers at the man.

It was someone she never met before, confused she looks around and there she notices the other 5 people standing behind the man. There are 2 maids she was familiar with and 3 other burly men, one of these men has Callus carried on his shoulder. Mira, who instantly figures out the situation, hates her sensitivity with blood thirst. John was only trying to protect them and with that, she was locked on the spot. She heard a crash from outside then she saw the soldiers from outside the mansion gate crash. She instantly knew Stella is safe.

"Where's the other girl?"

"Never mind that we need to get out of here!"

"What about him?" pointing at john.

Instantly John was incessantly kicked from behind knocking his head to the floor again and again.

"This guy is still awake!"

"Leave him! Grab the girl we can't waste more time!"

Mira was carried off on a man's shoulder, with the last glance she saw how John tries to reach out for them but was too weak to stand up, she only felt a pressure on her neck and with that, she lost consciousness.