The Red Nights

Jamal rose his hand to tell Natasha not moving, [ as we don't know yet what is those things , it would be too hazardous to attack in first] . Thus , they stayed there observing their opponents. However it passed more than two minutes and the two undeads were still immobile, rather it seemed that they were in the middle of an odd transformation. The black veins kept going up from their c.h.e.s.ts and their faces were becoming more and more pale like a real dead corpse.

After less than five minutes , they suddenly jumped over Jamal and Natasha so quickly that that if it was other normal people, instead of two well trained people like them, for sure they would be crushed. They rapidly dodged aside from the mortal attack , they rolled onto the floor and quickly stood up ready to fight back. It was Natasha the first one who reacted, she moved forward and kicked hardly on the back of the neck of one of the undead criminals and he fell loudly on the ground with his head making an odd angle with the rest of the body. Jamal took down the second one too by stabbing him twice on his face followed by a punch on his neck.

" It seemed that despite being very fast in attacking, in defense they are really poor " Natasha said proudly.

" Don't drop off your guard " Jamal said cautiously.

" Do you really think they will get up again, you shredded the face of this one and I literally destroyed the neck of the other one . They definitely won't get up again."

Although he was thinking that what she said was logical, Jamal couldn't get rid of the weird sensation he was feeling.[ It could not end so easily regarding what happened after they died for the first time ] he thought. As to confirm his doubts their bodies started to shake up on the ground, they got up on their feet again, even though their wounds didn't heal rather it seemed that they became stronger, even the dark veins which were covering their bodies became darker.

Indeed they were faster than before, even Jamal hardly dodged when the two of them suddenly attacked him as he was very surprised. However he managed to push them away, he firstly stepped back to avoid his head being crushed by shredded face's punch from the left and broken neck's from the right , then he grabbed the arm of the one on his left , turned and threw him down with the same judo take as Natasha , by a kick in the belly he pushed away broken neck now on his back and finished by trampling shredded face's head.

" You see ! Never drop off the guard I told you , what would you have done if they had attacked you instead of me ?" Jamal said when he reached Natasha.

" We will figure it out now. They are coming again " Natasha replied when she pointed toward the two undeads . " They are immortals or what?! " Jamal yelled. That time it was Natasha who attacked them in first however they just ignored her when she was running toward them and just put all their attention to Jamal.

" What the heck is this! They don't even want to fight me !" She complained while she was running back to help Jamal .

One more time they achieved defeating the undeads but once again they stood. They kept fighting like that for more than a hour without finding out a way to definitely kill them and more they were defeated faster they stood up . Although they were still ignoring her , Natasha was struggling to follow the rhythm as despite her tiredness until she was hit by the elbow of shredded face . she was pushed away and fell off heavily on a wooden box and even broke it .

" Don't come! " Jamal yelled from the other side of the factory " There is no need for you to come over ".

Natasha felt like these words were more than more hurtful than all the bashes she took in her whole life. It was not like she was very wounded , just some little cuttings. For a long while she felt disappointed [ that's how he thinks about me , just a dead weight he has to carry] she started to think [ Liar ! I thought you trusted me. You're a liar. I thought you finally acknowledged my strength and I] , she suddenly realized, when she noticed a crooked metal bar in her hand, that she has had a rise of aggressivity.

After she calmed herself ideas started to become clear, what Jamal meant by " there is no need for you to come " , that is what he used to tell her everytime she tried to convince him to bring her in his patrol, he almost said the same thing before Matteo suggested him to go with her , [what was the meaning of this ] she thought [ what does he want to tell me ] . While she was wondering about it she also remembered something else Jamal had said to her before when they were at the control post " I had the feeling that it was crucial for you to come ". Suddenly she understood.

[ He is winning time for me to find out how to finish them ] . She started to feel shameful, now she knew, for having said that he was a liar , on the contrary he trusted her so much that he put his life on the line in order to permit Natasha figure out of a way to end up with those undead bastards . But it was that , even though she knew his intention, she couldn't find any single idea. [ Come on Nat' , an idea . How can you get rid of those undead bastards] .

She suddenly lifted her head as she heard something weird from the battlefield. What she saw was even odder, it seemed that Jamal managed to burn the two undeads but what frightened Natasha was that the flames didn't stop them. It became even worse , it resulted that couldn't fight them since flames completely covered their bodies , the undeads in the other hand could attack him at their ease. Things turned out to be surely complicated for Jamal.

[ Oh god! At this rate he will be crushed or burned. Or at any case he might die unless I do something] Natasha panicked , as she thought about she saw Broken neck burning Jamal's belly as he was dodging his fist . Jamal fell on his knees and immediately got up on his feet but it changed the fact that the fight was going worse for him as he couldn't stand anymore, he was tapping into his last stock of stamina and strength to still . [ He'll be killed! He'll be killed! He'll be killed! Because of me , Jamal might die, because of my weakness. Why can't I do a single thing for him even though I promise him to be his pillar, to share every drop of his pain . At the end I couldn't do a single thing to protect him , I'm really a failure] Natasha to cry slightly.

However she decided to not give up, she would not let it happen without fighting . [ If he might die, I would rather prefer dying with him ] . With all her determination she picked up her knife, she propelled herself with all the strength it left in her leg and stabbed Broken neck so violently that in the movement she also knocked Shredded face . they hit hardly a wall . She quickly removed the knife and went standing forward Jamal, between him and the undeads.

" I'll protect you no matter what , even if it costs my life " She said with all her resolve.

Jamal fell on his b.u.t.t and held his belly " You still don't get it... only a special person can definitely kill them ... furthermore there is no one more special than you " he grunted " So let's go... get rid of them at once "

While she turned to ask him how could she finish them when she had only a super strength , she saw Jamal smiled, a smile that Natasha never saw before, a smile of pride. He was proud of her even though she didn't do anything. Then she looked down and saw a quite long Japanese sword ; a katana in the place was knife , furthermore the blade of the katana was whole covered by flames. She looked up again to Jamal and thought that she was hearing his thoughts " Well ! Go finish them, my special one ".

When they stood up again, the flames were already gone from both the undeads corpses and the katana. Natasha didn't give to them the time to get ready for the coming fight. She jumped highly and killed Shredded face by cutting him off on two pieces from up to down . And with a vertical swing of her katana she as well cut Broken neck off on two pieces.

From there an odd black fluid started to flow out from the pieces of the bodies , and when it touched the ground it immediately evaporated into a minuscule black cloud.

After she made sure they were definitely died, Natasha didn't care so much about what was happening around her. She ran toward Jamal who was opening his arms with a large and she hugged him like she never did before. " I'm so relieved, I thought I may lose you. Thank god " Natasha cried." I know, but at the end you did well . You don't know how much I'm proud of you " he said while he was patting her head .

As she was about to start asking a lot of questions about what happened , Jamal stopped her before and order her to burn Edna's body with the pieces of bodies of the other two men. Natasha even found that she was no more scared about dead corpses , moreover she felt that this creepy task was no more as disgusting as before. After she finished, she headed with Jamal to the hospital to see about Jamal wounds.

" Where is your katana? " Jamal noticed when they arrived in front of the emergency department.

Natasha smiled proudly , took her knife and started to move it before Jamal as if she was about to do a magic trick. Suddenly flames appeared on the blade which grew longer until it became a katana. " I'm counting on you to teach me how to use such a weapon correctly , okay ?" she said with a cute smile on her face.