No More

Chapter 8: Countdown Part 3

Jess continued to laugh, almost shedding a tear. This is what she likes to see; the raw emotions bleeding from the soul.

She watched Lukas crying over the edge of the nether brick bridge, constantly weeping for a good 5 minutes. This made her slightly confused.

After calming herself, the laughter was reduced to giggles, then silence as Jess continued to watch Lukas. The crying was reduced to sobs, then nothing as he continued to look down into the lava. After inhaling a deep breath, he got up, turned to face Jess.

"Why... would you do this?!" he shouted, his eyes still red and puffy from crying. She just shook her head in disappointment.

[Lukas] Level 45

She thought that since they are a higher level, they would be a challenge to her. But with [Observe], she was able to find out more about them, what their weaknesses are. In the end, she only discovered emotional baggage that has been swarming between the four.

"Answer me!" he demanded.

"Or what?" She asked.

Lukas was taken back by the response. "What did you say?" he asked with narrowed eyes.

"Answer you, or what?" she clarified. "Will you give me a death threat like Aiden? Perhaps you will you insult me like Maya? Or will you be silent and full of rage like Gill?"

"Don't you dare talk about them, just shut up!" he shouted.

"Or what?" she asked again. "You expect me to care about your friends? To be honest, I have no remorse for what I have done." She replied.

"You didn't have to kill them!"

"I didn't need them alive either." She spoke bluntly.

Lukas pulled out an iron sword. Instead of feeling intimidated, Jess felt disappointment. "So you've chosen to use physical force." She said in a disappointed tone. "You really are arrogant."

"Shut. Up!" Lukas said, holding the sword in both hands. His grip became vice-like as he was trembling with anger and sorrow.

She just shook her head. "You are such a disappointment, you know that? You don't do a thing to stop your friends from trying to rob me, and now you're mad because I defend myself. Where's the sense in that?" she asked.

Lukas couldn't take it anymore, no matter how truthful she was being, he attacked. He charged at her, swing his sword in order to cut her down. Jess got bored as she easily dodged all of his sloppy attacks; rage and grief will do that.

When Lukas went in for a stab to her stomach, she sidestepped slightly to the right, grabbing his sword by the hilt with her left hand, turned to the left and pulled him forward, then she kicked Lukas in the stomach. Sending him back across the nether brick floor without a weapon.

"Really, attacking a girl? Who isn't armed? You're more pathetic than I thought." She said as she tossed his sword over the edge into the lava below.

Lukas got back on his feet, injured, as he ran at Jess, ready to punch her wither skull off her head. He raised his right fist, and punched forward, and let out a scream.

Jess simply stepped to the right again, except this time she sharply raised her left foot and made it connect with his groin. Lukas slumped over as Jess gave him a punch to the face.

As he recoiled from that punch, she grabbed his collar, pulled him forward and gave him a head-butt. It didn't help that she's wearing a wither skull on her head as her head collided with his.

She then kicked him again, sending him sprawling on the ground. Lukas was on his face, but he managed to lift it up, looking at the approaching person with barely opened eyes that are swollen with pain.