Lize picked up a guitar bag and opened it, she took out a claymore sword. A sword? Asked Noel. Can you even use swords? Of course I can, I've never told you? No, never. Must have slipped my mind.

She turned around and walked into the darkness of the night. She stopped a kilometre away from the camp site. Table mountain is known to be about 3 kilometres wide but that is far from the truth.

Infact that is the case for most mountains, a large part of them are covered by illusion and barrier array formations but they are far larger. Noel and the others were on the true peak of table mountain, it was perfectly flat as if cut by a sharp blade.

A few hundred metres infront of her stood a group of over twelve people, nine men and three women of varying ages with the youngest being a boy who looks no older than eighteen but as an awakend he could be much older.

Greetings dear guest said Lize with a grin, her claymore firmly resting on her shoulder.

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Lucy POV

Hi, my name is Lucy, over thirty years ago I was merely a farm girl from Texas. My parents died when I was in my early 20s, I too had cancer like my pops, I knew I wasn't long for this world but a miracle happened.

One day while I was out in the woods I found a strange fruit from the bushes. I did not know what it was nor did I care, I had weeks to live anyway so I ate it, it looked really delicious and i felt a compulsion to eat it so I did. Afterwards my body felt hot like I had a fever.

Really thought I was dying for a moment there. Rushed home and tucked myself in and waited to meet my parents again. The next morning I woke with a head full of silky long hair.

I was breaking everything I touched, pretty clumsy of me. I rushed to the hospital. I realised I was more energetic than before. I could run faster, much faster than before, infact I tripped rushing to my car.

I broke the gear shift and the steering wheel forcing me to take a bus to the hospital. The doctor told me I was fine, infact I was more than fine, I was the healthiest person she had ever seen. Oh and I couldn't get drunk no more, that was a bummer.

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I had to lock myself up in my farm for months learning how to control my strength. I lived a simple life for 10 years afterwards. Even though I had the strength to topple a car and outrun a horse I never told anyone until that day.

I was coming back from the market when a car toppled over infront of me, the point is I used my strength to topple it back up and also learnt that day that I have what called an innate gift of healing after bringing those teenagers from the brink of death.

I got introduced to the association and learnt they were more people like me and I don't have to fear being dissected by the government, I also learnt I was bulletproof which was a pleasant surprise to me cause I've always been afraid of guns, I know, pretty weird for a Texas farm girl.

A few years later I met a group of people who call themselves the wolf mercenaries, they were called that because their leader could transform into a giant wolf, not like the werewolves but a wolf.

He was a good fella so I joined, signing a contract I did not understand, turns out his assistant was a cruel and unpleasant bloke, pretty ambitious too, so was the leaders son, that apple flew away from the tree. They were the ones who drafted the contracts and the leader did not know because he trusted them.

It been seventeen years since then and 8 years ago the leader died on a mission and his son took over. Since then we've been accepting missions that leave a really bad taste in my mouth.

This time it was supposed to be the case, although we hated it, we had no choice. He brought everybody to this mission, except the hundreds of normal soldiers. It was supposed to be a kidnap situation, the target was a young lad, unlucky fella that one.

Yet infront of us stood a young lass, a young lass with a grin on her face. Crimson hair and red glowing eyes, they look terrifying in the darkness of night. Greetings dear guest, she said as she tapped the giant blade on her shoulder.

Who are you? asked our stupid leader. It seems more guests are here, the girl did not answer or even look at him, with his pride, how could he take that lying down. How dare you ignore me? He shouted.

Before he could move the girl raised her hand. Don't rush, she said. Two other groups arrived after us, all of us were around the same realm with only four people at the middle realm of rank one.

31 people against one girl, we all thought it funny, we were wrong, we were very wrong. The girl approached and stood a hundred metres away from us. Have you seen this boy? Asked Bulldozer, a giant man standing at over 2,3 metres and the leader of the raging bullz mercenaries.

Why do you bother talking to her, just kill the bitch and take the boy, they obviously together. Back off Black Wolf, this is our mission. The mission belongs to whoever accomplishes it, only your ability talks here Bulldozer.

Said a woman, the leader of the Siren mercenaries, the only mercenary group made of women and the only group here with two middle stage expect.

The one you want is behind me, if you want him, come get him. We don't want to hurt you little girl so move out of the way, said Bulldozer. Hurt me? You thinking too highly of yourselves.

Our leader with his short temper moved first, he did not even use his innate gift, he looked down a bit too much on the lass, we all did, thinking his higher stage would be enough to defeat her but he was about to get a wake-up call, so were were.

He covered the 100 metres distance between us and the girl in a less than a second, we all relaxed thinking the fight was over, after all he was known as one of the strongest mercenaries in the lower rank mercenary circle.

Although he was not as strong as his father, he still had pretty decent strength among middle stage expects,yet before any of us could react we heard an explosion 300 metres behind us, we turned around and there he was Black Wolf lying in a crater groaning.

We turned to look at the girl and she showed us a mocking grin, then the nightmare began.