A New Life in a New Body: A Mission
#16 of NLNB
A New Life in a New Body
A Mission
Walking to the equivalent of a weight-room I decided to spar with someone to work the stress out of my body and mind. Looking around I saw some that I had sparred with before and hadn't been impressed with, out of the corner of my eye I saw a young lion, he looked a little new to his feet so I assumed he had just changed.
"Can I help you with something, you probably don't want to be around all these sweaty guys when you could share a room with me."
Looking him over I said "Spar with me first, let's see if that attitude lasts." I replied with a devious thought in mind.
Shrugging he went to the ring and we each got into our separate corners. Others were gathering around and I could hear bets going on about how long the lion would last against the 'White Demon' as I had become known. Someone rang the bell and I decided to forgo my fighting styles, I wish I knew proper martial arts, and just floor the kid. Moving quickly across the mat I landed one hit to his solar plexus and ended it by collapsing his diaphragm.
Crouching down I said "Sorry kid, I can see you don't know your new body yet but i'm not in any mode to play around, and you volunteered." Turning around I said to the others in the room "I'm bored, anyone care for a rematch, or maybe someone will volunteer for a fresh fight, at the moment I don't care if you all want to try and fight me at the same time, if we do that I can't guarantee that I won't break some bones."
Speaking up a somewhat familiar voice said "Before it gets to that point I would like to spar, never really trained in any fighting style, but my sense are pretty decent at telling me what's coming."
Looking over I saw the Chris fellow that had been fairly quiet before and grinned, his body belayed his movements by tensing the muscles he was going to use, this would be an easy fight but I decided to enjoy this one since this guy interested me.
In my head I heard "I never said you hadn't met him already." from Alvar
Noticing the bell ring I put what he said out of my mind and proceeded to gently beat the crap out of the guy. After about ten hits he went down, but he wasn't done, he got up and took his stance once more. Deciding to up the challenge a bit I dropped into a more aggressive style and threw him out of the ring with a midlevel kick before he grabbed the side and hauled himself back in.
"Impressive, most are knocked out with that move." I said before popping the bones in my spine out of joint so I could gain more flexibility.
Wiping the blood from his mouth he said "Thanks." and went back to his stance.
Moving erratic I went up to him and goaded him into throwing a punch. Bending backwards grabbed his legs and pulled him through and tossed him to the other side of the ring before I grabbed his foot in the air with my tail and let his momentum slam him to the ground.
Turning around to face him I saw he was getting up again and I said "Okay, if I fight you anymore I'm going to break something, lets go have someone check out the injuries I gave you, and I'm rather hungry, maybe we could go eat something." I said while extending my hand.
Grinning he took my hand and I pulled him over my shoulder, not a hard thing to do with the height difference, I half carried him to where I knew the clinic in this place was, after that he was on a pair of crutches and we went to the Cafeteria area and walked over to where Mike and Lisa were.
Looking worried Lisa said "What happened?"
"You beat the crap out of Chris." was Mike's response with a calm expression on his face. "Really what I'm more surprised at is that he's still conscious."
Looking slightly abashed I said "Yeah, I was trying to go easy on him but he kept getting back up."
Jaw dropping Lisa said "This is going easy!"
Laughing Mike said "She probably could beat me with just her pinky if the fight didn't involve guns or blades."
Grinning I just left to get some food while wondering what was going through Lisa's mind knowing I almost hit her earlier.
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The rest of the day me and Lisa talked about the wedding. I really was worried about it. For me the idea of getting married was my idea of the Holy Grail. I have sought after it my entire life and yet it has always been just out of reach. I've never been this scared in my entire life... well maybe just once before.
The first time I was this scared was on one of my first missions. It was an insertion into increasingly hostile territory. I was to prevent an uprising. They were a local group of radicals that were determined to kill the world.
They were purchasing uranium to build nuclear weapons. They were determined to purge the world of unmoral people which meant the rest of the world. They were really determined, they had already gathered up those who would wish to see the world destroyed.
I was to take out the leader of this extremist group. They were crazy, but wouldn't do shit without their leader. He was the corner stone of the entire group. I just loathed the fact that these were people who would not stop till they died.
I had some experience with assassination before, but I could still screw up missions like this. The mission was critical we had to destroy them before they got out of hand. I needed to make sure I could kill him. I had brought along my improvised sniper rifle. It wasn't a fifty cal. but I loved this weapon with all my heart. It was a 22, three and a half foot barrel. Equipped with a x9 scope, bi-pod, and silencer. Hand crafted, American made it was just right for my size.
The leader was black, male, and stood approximately 7'5". In his mid forties and had a distinguishing scar on his face. He was to make a speech a few days after I arrived, with Sherri. We were watching him for a couple of hours and the only place he and his right hand man (who we were to capture after the leaders assassination) had only visited a bunch of striper bars and high end clubs.
They spent at least seveal thousand dollars by mid day. We left to check out the area where he would be speaking. I wanted to go up on top of the tower. I had also figured to take in wind and height differences were huge factors. It always made me nervous. I hope this mission would work out perfectly...