"Hello, Isaac"

"Who the fuck are you?!" Zack jumped and soon snapped out of his psychotic attitude, looking at the blacked out figure with a confused and concerned expression.

"Zack?.... Who is that?" Rachel called out from behind still sat on the ground a few meters away from Zack, she looked at him but couldn't see his faces he had his back to her facing whoever that was...she could defiantly tell that he was angry as his grip on his knife tightened dramatically, worrying Ray a bit.

"...Run..." Zack spoke with no emotion as he loosened his grip a little and changed his stance preparing for a fight, 

"Z-Zack..?" Ray Extended her arm out slightly, trying to comfort him...

"I SAID FUCKING RUN DIDN'T I...GO BACK INTO THE HOUSE RAY!" Zack turned his head and shouted at the now terrified Rachel.

Ray froze in fear at what he said...he'd never shouted at her like that before, sure he had said vulgar things to her and shouted at her when they were in that unearthly place, but he had calmed and matured slightly since then and rarely raised his voice at her..'Who is this, why is he getting so worked up over whoever they are as well...?' Rachel thought to herself as she sighed and dropped her head, her eyes tearing up.

"Still as cold as ever I see" the stranger spoke again

"Tch, what is it that you want? Whatever it is you can't have it so just get lost will ya!" Zack attempted to provoke the strange person as he arrogantly smirked and turned his head looking away from the shadow. Ray shuffled over slightly edging closer to Zack,

"Please can't you just leave it..." Rachel softly pleaded reaching out to grab his available hand

"Ray....stop me if I get out of control please....ya hear me?" Zack muttered but loud enough so that she could hear him.

"Zac-" Rachel was cut off at the sound of a gunshot her eyes widened in shock and terror...

(Zacks POV)

'Shit... why am I the one always getting shot...damn how many of them are there?!?' several dark figures started to appear in the tree line, I grabbed my stomach as my legs gave way and I collapsed onto my knees as I hear the voice speak again.

"ah...sorry we had to do this but we need you for something Isaac, that bullet that has just entered your stomach is a small but lethal dose of a neurotoxin and will slowly start to kill you, we do however have an antidote...although in order to obtain it you have to co-operate and come with us though" I could feel myself getting more and more angry by the minute

"ha...like hell, I'd come with you..." I gasped for air in between phrases as I hear a soft and familiar voice speak to me

"Zack! Are you okay...oh god....you're bleeding too much I nee-" I cut her off as I snapped at the girl currently hugging me from behind

"I don't need your help...get off...of me" I tried shrugging her off but she wouldn't move, I then realised who it was '...Ray....shit what did I just say to her...damn it, the pain is making me say stupid shit'

"Ray...I'm..sor-"

"It's okay Zack...I know you're in a lot of pain...let me be useful please, otherwise the bleeding is going to get worse!" Rachel spoke sweetly to me but with a cold stern look on her face, I wanted her to smile for me...

(End of POV)

"Oh, what's this? A girl? Surely you're not with Isaac, are you? Ahah I didn't realise he had gone soft!" A different voice spoke this time, one of the several mysterious figures that spoke this time...almost trying to provoke the duo. Zack was ready to get up and kill them but he heard a small voice whisper to him.

"Zack...don't react, it'll only make things worse" Rachel hugged him tighter pulling him back down into her lap, he gave in and rested his head on her chest, as another surge of pain overwhelmed him. Ray stroked his head reassuring him, "Everything's going to be fine Zack so rest I'll take care of this" He nodded as ray said this and closed his eyes.

Ray laid him on the ground taking her white jacket off and placing it neatly under Zacks head.

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way, you give me the antidote to cure him" she gazed down at her lover cringing in pain while he slept "....or I can give every one of you a slow painful death...then sew you back up and make you into my toys .... How does that sound gentlemen?" Rays eyes dulled to a midnight blue colour as she raises her head staring at the leader with a dead expression....she bent down and picked up Zacks knife "What shall it be then?" She smiled slightly as she quickly disappeared as if she was a ghost.

"B-Boss W-W-Where did that bitch go?!?" One of the leaders grunts finally choked out, sweating nervously as they all searched the ground.

"Now, that's no way to talk too a lady is it boys" Rachel whispered into two of the grunts ears as she quickly decapitated them, easily not being seen, the time she had spent with Zack catching upto him had paid off, her stamina easily beating that of the grunts.

"What th-" another minion fell to Rachels hand, overpowering the strongest of them.

'That's the strongest one out of the way, the others should be easy right? Just gotta make sure I don't let my guard down" she thought to her self as she look over at Zack from the tree branch she was perched on...

*Crack*

'Crap...It's gonna break soon better keep moving' she upped onto a nearby try and rested on a study ledge in the tree, from there she saw two men walk upto Zack and her body moving on its own reached for two small blades in her bag throwing one at the taller male the other at the small yet burly man, they both collapsed bleeding out profusely from the blade hitting the main artery in their necks.

'How many more are there?' Ray scanned her surroundings as she hopped from tree to tree being careful not to be spotted.

"Huh? What happened to them?!?" One of the remaining few men shouted to their boss

No reply

"Boss?" The man touched his Bosses shoulder trying to get his attention...

*Drip* *Drip* *Drip*

The grunt walked around to see his face, his faced whitened as he saw what had happened...the masters neck sliced open, a cut so deep it went down to the bone, the head barely staying on, the body fell to the ground, the head rolling off of the body its face drained of all colour...

"ARHHHHHHHH WHAT THE HELL!!!" Th man backed away falling over the body behind him as he screamed even louder crying out,

"It's a shame no one will ever hear you...your the only one left now...what you gonna do?" Rachel jumped down gracefully from the tree she had been sat on, she stood up facing the petrified man as she towered above him

"Please don't, have mercy I'll help you, p-please just spare me PLEASE!" The man cried as he pleaded for his life gasping for air.

"Why?"

"W-What?"

"W H Y ?" Ray stared in disgust at the distraught man below her she walked upto him

"B-B-Beca—" he was cut off as Ray plunged her knife into his hand, his screams filling the silent night

"Tell me" she began

"Wha-"

"Tell me what the antidote is...NOW I DON'T LIKE WAITING!" She stabbed her knife into the other hand while pinning his legs and head down with the rest of her body "And...who do you work for?" She dug the bloodied blade deeper into the palm of his hand

"You have 5 seconds"

"one"

The man continued to scream as the blade was pushed further into his hand

"two"

...silence...

"three"

Ray lifted the blade from the mans hand,

"four" she had is leg now impaled on the hunting knife, she twisted it around making the man cry out in agony, once again taking the knife out...

'F I V E" just as Rachel was about to puncture the mans throat she heard a whimper come from behind the mans lips...

"W-Wait ...I-I know where the antidote is...." She held the knife to his throat as he spoke in a timid manner

"B-But....y-y-you'll have to come to our base t-to get it.." He closed his eyes and prepared for the razor-like knife to penetrate his throat...

Ray sighed as she looked over at her beloved Zack laying in a pool blood still wincing from the poison slowly entering his system...

"How long does he have?"

"About 2 days Miss...give or take"

"WHAT...what do you mean give or take?!" She dug the knife into his throat a bit, giving him a slight cut

"I-I mean he's survived being shot, stabbed, electrocuted and poisoned...hasn't he?...the toxin is a high dosage but not as high as the one he breathed in when on Cathy's floor "

Rays eyes widened as she listened to him...

"H-How do you know about that... who are you exactly?" She regained her composure as she gazed at Zack then back to the man...

The man began to pull down the black blood stained hood covering him, then pulled off the mask he was wearing...

"Y-You..." Rachel staggered as she quickly rose her eyes fear stricken as she ran over to Zack...

THANKS FOR READING, I MAY UPLOAD TWO CHAPTERS THIIS WEEK IF I WRITE IT IN TIME SO BE PREPARED. HOPED YOU LIKED THIS ONE DONT WORRY THERE WILL BE MORE ROMANCE IN THIS AS THE STORY CONTINUES  ❤️😍😊