“Hunter or The Hunted”
Chapter 15


The next morning Schwartz is at the compound awaiting the rest of Rosary to arrive after they sent the bus off down the road. While they are in the room the four of them get ready for the attack on the compound.

“Here,” Schuldich says tossing Brad his headset.

Brad catches it looking at his watch as he says, “Fifteen more minutes and they will be here.”

“You all ready for this?” Nagi asks them as he puts on his headset. The guys look around at one another as they smile and nod, Fararello starts to laugh as a knock come at the door.

“Come in…” Brad calls out.

One of the guards walks in looking at Brad as he says, “Matt wants to see you in the office.”

Brad looks at the guard as he questions, “Matt? When did he get here I never heard his chopper come in?”

“He came in last night while you were out. He heard there was going to be an attack on the compound.” The guard tells him.

Brad narrows his eyes as he says, “Tell him I am on my way.” Brad turns looking at the rest of Schwartz as the guard turns walking out of the room.

Once he was gone, Nagi says, “Someone needs to let CC know Matt is here and what is going on.”

“Only one problem with that we will not be hearing from or seeing Christine until 6:30 when she finally arrives with the others.” Schuldich replies.

“By that time there will be so much commotion we will never find her.” Fararello says.

“Once the artillery building blows at 6:30 everyone will be running everywhere.” Schuldich tells them.

Brad slides his headset into his jacket pocket as he walks toward the door he says, “Do your best to find her she has to know what is going on. We do not know if Matt knows if it is Dragonfly or who it is, so be on guard at all times from here on out.” Brad opens the door walking from the room to go see Matt.


A few minutes later Brad is knocking on Matt’s office door as Matt calls out, “Come in Brad…”

Brad walks in the office as he says, “You wanted to see me.”

Brad plays off as if he does not know anything as he takes a seat in front of Matt’s desk. Matt had his back to Brad looking at a map hanging on the wall when he turned looking at Brad he replies, “Yes Brad I did, I got wind of something that really disturbed me the other day, and I was wondering if you have heard anything about it?”

“What might that be Matt?” Brad asks him.

Matt takes a seat behind his desk, as he looked Brad in the eyes he says, “I heard someone was planning an attack on the compound.”

Brad chuckles as he says, “Now that is just plain craziness. No one in their right mind would do that there is too much security around here they would get themselves killed.”

“There are a few that would try it.” Matt pauses as he looks down at his desk opening a drawer and taking out a cigar. Matt offers one to Brad as Brad shakes his head as Matt adds, “Like your girlfriend and her little group of Butterflies.”

Brad looks Matt in the eyes annoyed as he says, “Their Dragonflies and she is still in the states, and for another thing she is not my girlfriend.”

“What ever you want to call them.” Matt says waving his cigar in the air as a gesture that he could careless.

Matt rises to his feet as he walks around to Brad he stops behind him as he says, “Her little group has been killing my people for a very long while now, and I am sure she is the one that will be coming in here and trying again.”

“There are only four of them how do expect the four of them to come in here and take this compound down?” Brad asks.

“It would be real easy with a little inside help and a few others to want to help as well.” Matt replies.

Brad gets quickly to his feet as he turns looking at Matt he exclaims, “You think Schwartz is involved.”

Matt raises his eyebrows at Brad as he replies, “I know how you feel for Christine Brad and I know you both blame me for Tristan’s death. That is all I am saying.”

Brad became angered as he says, “Why would I help Chris take down the organization I am working for?”

Matt shrugs his shoulders as he says, “I am not sure why…”

Matt pauses as he turns walking back around his desk he turns looking at Brad as he says, “Maybe because you still love her and you think if you help her on this she may see you with a different out look. Who knows I maybe calling this all wrong after all you did say she was still in the states.”

Brad looks at Matt as he nods he takes a quick glance at the clock hanging on the wall seeing it was 6: 27 Brad asks Matt, “What do you want Schwartz to do about this?”

“Well I was not told when they were going to attack. Therefore, the best thing to do is ask around. Find out who else might know about all this and find out when they are going to be here.” Matt says.

Brad nods asking, “Will there be anything else Matt?”

Matt looks up at the ceiling then looks back at Brad as he says, “No I do not think there will be anything else. If you find anything out though I want to know immediately.” Brad nods as he turns walking toward the door.

Brad reaches for the door just as he hears Matt say, “On second though...”

Brad turns as he hears the sound of a 9mm pistol chambering its first round. Matt was standing there pointing it right at Brad.

Brad starts to laugh as he says, “Well Matt this is unlike you. What happen to the swords?”

Matt walks from behind his desk as he says, “I knew if I was facing you I would need a gun your to quick and can dodge my blades, but you cannot dodge a bullet.” Matt walks up to Brad as he starts patting down his pockets and belt line when Matt finds the headset in Brad’s jacket pocket.

Matt reaches in and takes it out as he asks, “Who is on here?”

Brad looks at the clock, as he says, “No one right now.”

Matt looks at the clock as it is seconds away from 6:30 as he says, “Then when will she be on here?” Matt asks shoving the gun into Brad’s chest.

Just then, a loud explosion echoes through out the compound as it shakes the building Brad and Matt are in. The door flies open to Matt’s office knocking Brad into Matt. Brad and Matt struggle with the gun as the guy that ran in knocks Brad off Matt sending him to the floor.

Matt stands over Brad pointing the gun at him as he turns on the headset putting it on. Matt smiles at Brad as he says, “You and my brother are fools, fighting to protect that stupid girl. To bad, I was not able to kill her the day I killed Tristan. Then it would have never come to this.”

Brad narrows his eyes at Matt as he gets up from the floor dusting himself off, as he says, “You will not beat her Matt she will kill you this time out.”

Matt chuckles as he says, “We will see about that…”

Matt puts his hand to the headset as he says, “If anyone can hear this… Let Christine know if she ever wants to see Crawford alive she will meet me at the chopper landing pad if I do not see her there in 10 minutes I will send Brad to see her beloved Tristan.”

Matt laughs as he says, “Such language they are using I think they are a little mad at me right now.”

Matt removes the headset sliding it into his pocket as he shoves the gun into Brad’s chest again he tells him, “Come on we have a date with Christine we don’t want to leave her waiting.” Brad walks out the door first as Matt follows behind him the gun shoved into Brad’s spine as they go to the landing pad.


Later Christine was with Stacey and Ken when they heard the news about Brad, Ken asks, “What are you going to do?”

“Go meet him I have no choice Ken, Matt will kill Brad if I do not show.” Christine tells him.

“You know it is a trap Chris!” Stacey exclaims.

Christine nods as she says, “I know but I cannot let Matt kill Brad.” Christine runs off from them, fighting off attackers that ran toward her. As Ken and Stacey fight off their attackers as well.

Once at the chopper landing pad Christine walks out into the open with her katana and wakazashi drawn she calls out, “I AM HERE, where are you… show yourself.”

Three big guys walk out on the landing pad with swords as Christine quickly takes her stance to be attacked. Raising her katana above her head and lowering her wakazashi to her side, she turns slowly looking at them. One of them charged her as the fight was on, their blades clashed ringing in the air with the other commotion filling the area.

The guy pushed Christine back as another one charged her. Christine pulls one of her poisoned Kozuka blades throwing it at the guy stabbing him in the neck with it, the guy falls to his knees and then face down on the ground. The other two stand there as they look at their fallen comrade they look back at Christine charging her. Christine flips over the one as she runs her katana through his back as she lands to her feet; he falls into the other fighter. He pushes him away to the ground as he goes after Christine.

Christine flips back as she pulls her wakazashi over her head and re sheathes her katana.

The guys laughs at her as he says, “Giving up so soon.”

Christine smiles as she says, “Why should I dirty my katana on you when I can kill you with my wakazashi your skills leave little to be enjoyed you are no challenge to me.”

The guy became angered as he charged Christine yelling, “I WILL SHOW YOU CHALLENGE WOMEN!” Christine dodges his attack stepping to his right Christine lifts her foot pushing it into his backside shoving him to the ground.

Christine laughs saying, “Please tell me Matt trained you three, because if this is all the better you are Matt will be a walk in the park for me.” He rolls over quickly getting to his feet going after Christine again their fight rages on as Christine just plays with him making him angrier.

Meanwhile as the fight rages one between Christine and the guy Matt and Brad were not far off watching all this go on between the two of them.

“She will kill him once she grows tired of him.” Brad tells him.

Matt looks at Brad as he says, “Her skill has grown immensely, and her strength is out standing.”

Brad smiles as he asks, “What’s wrong Matt does she scare you?”

Matt shoves Brad out into the open as Christine was about to take the killing blow on the guy she was fighting as Matt calls out, “That’s enough…”

Christine looks Matt and Brad’s direction as Matt is holding a gun to Brad’s head. “Put down your blades…”

Christine looks at Matt as she moves slowly to pull one of her poisoned Kozuka blades from her wakazashi hilt. Matt steps behind Brad as he says, “Go ahead Christine, but you better pray your aim is not off the slightest bit or you might hit Brad here. Of course, you will be saving me a bullet if you do hit him, but I do not think you want to kill Brad. Now put down your blades.”

Matt ordered as he shoved the gun into Brad’s temple. Brad looks at Christine as he says, “Don’t do it Chris…”

“SHUT UP…” Matt orders him shoving the gun into Bard’s head again.

“If you put down your blades he has us both. As long as you hold on to them he has not won.” Brad exclaims.

Christine looks at Brad and then at Matt as Matt says, “Do you want to watch Brad die as well. Because you know, I will kill him. Now put them down.” Christine slowly starts to descend to the ground, her wakazashi in hand, as she slowly pulls her katana from her belt.

“No Chris what are you doing?” Brad exclaims. Christine says nothing as she sets both blades in front of her. Christine goes to stand again as she starts to pull three needles from the case inside of her jumpsuit sleeve.

Matt slowly moves out from behind Brad as Christine tells Matt, “Let Brad go this is between you and I Matt.”

Matt chuckles as he tells her, “Now why would I do something like that? Brad is as big of a threat to me as you are and after I kill you he will really be a threat to me.”

Matt shoves Brad to walk as they walk closer to Christine, “You know this revenge thing is really starting to get out of control here. I have you after me for killing my brother and Jen out to get me because of her brother still being here and then Brad here for taking Tristan away from you and him. Well it will end today because I am going to send each and everyone of you to go see Tristan as far as Jen goes I will just kill her, James is quite happy here anyway.”

Christine locks eyes with Brad as Brad saw what she was doing. Christine smiles looking at Matt as she says, “The only one that will be dieing today is you and the rest of Sacred Hearts.”

Christine quickly pulls the three needles throwing them at Matt. She lowers herself down into a roll as she rolls over her blades she picks up her wakazashi pulling a poisoned Kozuka blade. She turns quickly throwing it at the one guy hitting him in the side he cringes pulling it out quickly as Christine unsheathes her wakazashi the guy charges her as Christine steps to his side she turns coming in behind him bringing her wakazashi down on to his head taking it from him. Matt was still standing as Christine turned to see what was happening. Brad, hit with two of the needles in his leg as one of them was stuck in Matt’s arm that held the gun to Brad’s head.

“Not good enough…” Matt says shoving Brad to the ground hitting him in the back of the head with the gun taking him down. Matt pulls the needle from his arm as four more guys came running up to them.

Matt held the gun out pointing it at Christine as he says, “Don’t move because I will not hastate to kill you Christine. You have been a royal pain in my ass since Tristan has met you.” Matt motions for the men to take a hold of her as he tells them, “Tie her up… legs as well. I do not want her to be able to fight back at all.”

One of the guys held Christine’s arms behind her as Matt walked up to her and backhanded her. He then punched her in the stomach, Christine dubbed over Matt brought his knee up into her face busting her nose. Christine fell to her knees she hung her head as she spat blood on Matt’s shoe. The guys finished tying her up as Matt grabbed a handful of her hair pulling her to stand.

Christine cringed as she heard Matt say, “Let’s see how you like to be hunted. It will be a real pleasure to hunt you down and kill you like I should have five years ago.”

Christine spat in Matt’s face. Matt drew back and punched Christine in the mouth she wavered a little, but still stood as her eyes start to turn an ice blue. Matt hit her repeatedly punching her in the head, face and body, Christine stood there not moving as it made Matt even angrier. Matt stepped away from her as he turned quickly doing a spinning back kick into her chest.

Christine flew back as she fell to the ground tumbling and sliding to a stop. Christine lifts her head moving her body under her as she goes to stand Matt walks up to her in a rage as he jerks her to her feet by her hair. He draws back his fist ready to hit her again as buildings started exploding around them. One of the guards comes running from the fire that surrounded them yelling and screaming because he was on fire. Christine watched as Matt pulled his gun and shot the man dead. He turns back looking at Christine as he pulls back his hand with the gun in it and hits Christine knocking her out cold.

“Put her on the chopper and take her swords as well. Start the chopper once I kill Brad I want to leave here.”

Matt ordered them as he walks over to Brad he chambers the gun pointing it at Brad’s head, as Stacey and Jen coming running from the fires as well, Jen yells, “MATT YOU BASTARD WERE IS MY BROTHER!!”

Stacey and Jen run toward Matt as he looks at them. Brad finally starts to come around as he grabs Matt’s hand with the gun and gets it away from him the gun slides across the ground as Matt gets away from Brad. Matt runs toward the chopper as it was about to take off.

Brad runs toward the chopper as it goes to lift off the ground, Matt yells out, “I will take good care of Christine Brad do not worry. I will be sure to leave her beaten and bloody body for you to find. Oh and by the way” Matt drops Brad’s headset as he says, “I will be sure Christine has hers on so you can hear her screams of pain and defeat.”

Brad catches the headset as he screams at Matt in anger, “YOU BASTARD!!” Brad spins around running his fingers through his hair. As he saw Aya and the others running up to the landing pad.


“Where’s Chris?” Aya exclaims. “I heard all the yelling on the headset, but could not make anything out from all the explosions going on around us.” The look on Brad’s face was something Aya did not want to see. Aya looks around as he saw the chopper taking off to the north.

Aya looks back at Brad as he grabs him by his jacket jerking him toward him in an angered tone Aya says, “Tell me Christine was not on that chopper with Matt.”

Brad pushes Aya back from him as he says, “Yes she was.”

Aya swings on Brad connecting it to his jaw as Brad faltered some stepping back from Aya, Brad narrows his eyes at Aya and swings on Aya.

The fight was on as Schuldich, Fararello, and Nagi come running up to them Nagi forces them apart with his telekinesis holding them there as Schuldich says, “If you two idiots are going to stand here and beat the shit out of one another that is fine, but when Matt kills Christine because we did not act fast enough. I do not want to hear either one of you complaining about it and how you are going to get even with him.”

Brad and Aya look at Schuldich as Nagi releases them Brad says, “He took her to the reserve to hunt her and he beat her badly before he put her on the chopper to take her there.”

“What do you mean he beat her?” Aya exclaims.

Brad turns looking at Aya as he says, “He hit her, he punched her, and he kicked her. What part of BEAT do you not understand Aya and she was tied up the whole time he did this to her.”

Just then, the group heard Sebastian coming in to land as they all moved back for the chopper. When Sebastian landed, they all ran for the chopper getting into it Sebastian gets it off the ground as fast as he can once in the air he turns looking at Stacey she looks worried sick, as he says, “I heard it all on the headset. Matt is going to pay for what he has done to Chris.”

Sebastian looks at Jen and Susie seeing they are just as worried as Stacey, he then looks at Brad, which was sitting in the copilots seat Brad turns looking at Sebastian as their eyes meet Sebastian smiles as he says, “Reminds me of the good old days, wouldn’t you say Brad?”

Brad smiles as he says, “Yeah… so lets go show this guy who the real bad guys are.” Sebastian laughs as they fly toward the reserve to save Christine and the others.


Once at the reserve Matt drags Christine off the chopper by her arm as she hits the ground. Christine slowly gets her legs under her as she stands to her feet she looks at Matt with her ice blue eyes as she says, “You think you have won, but it has only begun.”

Matt backhands her, as she stands there not moving like she was attached to the ground. Matt grabs her dragging her in the woods he pushes her away from him as he looks at her. Matt turns looking at his men as he says, “We will loosen her ropes when we get ready to leave her, but do not untie her let her get herself free. I think by that time the bus should be here and the chopper as well, since I called and told them to come early.” Christine’s eyes widen she looks at Matt with a hateful glare as she says, “Rosary will stop you Matt you will not stop us and you will not kill me. They will make sure of it.”

“Rosary you say… What happen to your Butterflies or Dragonflies what ever you want to call them?” Matt says walking up to her taking her jaw into his hand forcing her to look him in the eyes. “I must say you have the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen…” Matt tells her.

Christine spat in his face as he forces her away from him again Matt wipes his face as he says, “To bad I will have to close them never to be seen again.”

Matt reaches for her again as he grabs her headset pulling it from her he says, “You can have this back when I am killing you so all the others can hear you screaming in pain as I do so.”

“Hey Matt what about her blades here?” The pilot calls out.

Matt turns as he saw the pilot holding her katana and wakazashi, as he says, “I do not care, do with them as you please. Just make sure she does not get her hands on them.”

The guards start to chuckle as one of them takes her katana and the other takes the wakazashi. Matt turns his back on Christine as he says, “I will be seeing you soon my dear.”

Matt looks at the one guard that had Christine’s katana as he tells him, “Wait for about 15 minutes and then loosen her ropes. We should be far enough away by then.” Matt walks off as the pilot of the chopper starts it and takes off into the sky. The other guards follow Matt off into the woods leaving Christine and the one guard alone.

Christine leans against a tree as she slyly gets her hands turned in the ropes pulling one of her Kozuka blades from her other jumpsuit sleeve. She starts cutting the ropes around her hands as she hears her katana slide from the sheath she quickly looks at the guard as he pulls the katana from the sheath. He drops the sheath to the ground as it makes a thud on the rock under him.

Christine growls, as the guard looks at her he chuckles saying, “What are you worried about, it is not yours any more?”

He holds the katana out in front of him as he looks at the blade he exclaims, “What the hell… The blade on this thing is on the wrong side?!” Christine chuckles as she finally frees her hands, but keeps them behind her so he will think she is still tied she moves her legs under her as she sits on them to cut the ropes on them as well. The guard still entranced by her katana as he saw nothing that she was doing.

“You’re an idiot, have you never seen a Reverse blade Katana?” Christine says as she glares at him through her ice blue eyes.

He glares back at her walking toward her, as he says, “Watch your tongue or I might cut it out for you with your own blade.”

Christine laughs at him trying to draw him closer, as she says, “I doubt if a moron like you would know how to use a katana of that magnitude.” He steps closer to her as she continues to mock him cutting into his pride. “I guess I cannot ask for much more though, you do work for Matt. That there tells me you are not so bright.”

The guard was still walking toward her as she cut through the last rope on her legs. Christine lunges herself forward flipping her legs over her body kicking the guard in his chest. He stumbles back dropping the katana at Christine’s feet. She smiles a devilish grin as she picks up the katana; she rushes toward him as he fumbles to get his pistol at his side.

Christine holding her katana low and the blade down as she turns it lifting it above her head she says, “Let me show you how it works.”

With one fail swing of her blade, the guard falls dead at her feet. Christine goes picking up her sheath sliding it into her belt she looks out the direction Matt and the others walked she says, “Now it is your turn to die Matt.”

Christine rushes off toward Matt and the others to find them.



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