TF Chapter 19 Abrupt Battle

After those taunts, there was some glaring, with Danny's jaw giving me a glimpse at how close he was to exploding entirely. It looked like Everett had hit a nerve, but he was fighting hard to surpress the most primal of man's instincts, the urge to dish out violence.

My ears could even pick out his heavy breathing, his eyes, his clenched hands. I wanted to say something, anything, but I didn't know what as I didn't have enough data about him and his family. All that I did, was stay in my position and sigh exasperatedly.

"Don't try anything rash! Do you understand?"

Bora's words were whispered in a hurry and bearing the weight of seriousness and alarm. Something about this situation had startled her, causing my heart to accelerate.

Had there been a problem? I wondered, straining my ears to catch her next words.

"These people are different from those we met before. All of them are experts! They might be weaker that us, but it will be hard to protect him if you let your rage take over!" She cautioned. Though, her words caused me to scrutinize the three men and one woman by Everett's side. The moment I looked into their eyes though, I felt myself shiver, with goosebumps breaking out on my skin. I got the feeling of being prey, while they were four predators, eyeing me and wondering where they were going to take a bite from!

Yap! These were most definitely experts! That alone was enough for me to deem them thus!

"I know!" Danny whispered back, with the words making it out of his mouth in a drawn out manner, as if just speaking was a chore, a pain.

Even with his reassurance, Bora's body showed no relaxation, instead, she entered a stage of high vigilance, her gaze moving between the four, completely disregarding Everett.

"Money and status are necessary to survive in this world. Nathaniel, you can only blame yourself for awakening such a good gift, yet having next to no background to protect you. Such trash like you shouldn't have led to the council position being lost by my grandfather! You! Just a potential forger shouldn't have cost my grandfather his position!"

By the end, he was practically shouting in rage, with spittle flying everywhere.

It was at this moment Danny moved. No one had expected the movement. Not me, not Bora and most definitely not Everett and his goons.

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His movement had the finesse of an expert, taking him right in front of Everett in a split second! Even with the scene right before me, I wondered whether he was the same version of human as I...apart from the forgers of course!

As I looked on, his right elbow pulled back, accumulating force. All this I could see because of the nano suit. It wasn't made of just nanites, but had a brain, an AI behind it.

Ting! Boom!

Everett and his hired goons failed to react in time, causing the punch to connect with the guy's stomach, launching him into the solid rock walls of the room. The collision alone must have dazed him, but Danny didn't carry on with the attack as two of the three men finally reacted, moving in to block him.

The other woman and man made for me and Bora, who instantly lost her dazed surprised and furious expression for a more peace full one. She took a stance even as the two appeared just a meter away from her.

I had seen the woman licking her lips from before while gazing at Bora. She had been aiming for her from the very start, probably because of those warrior instincts Danny and Bora had spoken about.

But the man, he was aiming for me! I could see it in his green pupils. There was greed. Everett must have offered something he couldn't refuse!

When our gazes made contact, I took a few staggering steps backward due to fear, almost tripping myself up.

Bora proved that she was truly a professional as with just a few palm strikes, she successfully managed to attract their attention, causing them to go into full defense.

"I hate women more beautiful than me!"

After uttering such a line, the woman attacked more ferociously, her moves lethal enough to kill. But with Bora being an expert in her own right, she blocked each, even managing to suppress her.

The man hung back, searching for an opening to get to me, but intentionally or not, he always found himself being forced into Bora's battlefield.

If I wasn't scared and terrified, I would have been applauding her. I didn't even have time to shift my gaze towards Danny's battle as due to my fear, I didn't want my concentration to slip from the green eyed man for an instant! What if he took that chance to slip past Bora? That possibility was always there!

I took a few more steps backward, only to feel a cold solidness behind me, the rock wall. The room had been a safe haven once, but now, I found that it was a prison.

Even with Bora handling the two, slowly by slowly, they were pushing her back, towards me.

"Bora! Are they your equals?" I asked in a panic. My heart was really pounding within my rib cage. My damn life was in her hands. Stupid Danny boy had let his rage take over!

Fear was replaced with rage as I hurled a million different insults at him within my mind.

She didn't answer, probably due to how intense the battle was and the fact that it would be a waste of energy, or it could even expose a flaw. All this I knew, yet due to my state of panic, I had spoken.

What am I going to do if that man breaks in? I wondered, my gaze finally leaving the battle to the ground where I searched for something that could give me a bit of hope, a stone. They were littered everywhere so I picked two, one in each hand. Gripping them within my palms and feeling their coldness, I felt a little bit safe, a laughable thing, yet it was true.

I raised my right hand and adopted a throwing stance. The moment the guy slipped past Bora, I was going to unleash pebble hell on him!