Chapter 30: Two triggers
"You can't do that. I won't allow it." Ethan said, rubbing his temples at his wife's decision. "Hah... you think you can stop me." Ella said with a cocky tone.
He was in the middle of convincing his wife to not let herself fall into provocations of some random gang to fight them rather let him handle everything from now on, as he was supposed to.
"Look I know you did a great job in my absence but now I am back so let me handle the business from now on okay? And I am just worried about you, I am not trying to say you are weak because no matter what you have done or who you are you are precious to me." V said clasping his hands with her.
"I know you are worried about me and all but I also was in this business for 4 years and I did not take my crown just that easily." Ella said trying to reason with her husband, who was obviously in a foul mood.
After a lot of arguing and trying to reason up with each other V finally gave in. I mean who would not if you were threatened to be poisoned.
"He has not been discharged for 1 month and you started fighting? Seriously." Shell said breaking their argument.
"Okay first thing this is all his fault and second how can I not go and fight myself against the people who tried to challenge me for my throne? He just can't interfere in these kinds of matters." She said rolling her eyes.
"Shell, you know it's dangerous, right? How can she fight alone against who knows how many?" V said, trying to convince Shell as if it's going to stop Ella.
"Don't worry Ethan. I know Ella's new side better than you and I know she can handle it well." Shell said assuring him.
"You too Shell? Okay fine. I am going to trust both of you on that but on one condition."
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Ella sat in her car and drove to the destined place. The place where she was called for a challenge. It was a rundown city. The lights were flickering and the silent dark road gave a creepy vibe which Ella did not care about at least for now. She was just focused on her job.
After taking turns the road got narrower and narrower and it was hard to drive in that place so she got out of the car and took out the iron rod put on her black leather jacket and walked. The clicking sound of her boot heels were heard with each step she took.
After walking for a while she finally heard some voices.
'So they were hiding here huh.' She thought to herself and fastened her steps. She noticed a bunch of boys smoking and fooling around which made her nerve crack. She noted the number of people and analysed their physical strength according to their physiques.
'It might not be that hard.' She smirked to herself while walking towards the group of 6 well-built men.
Their chat was abrupt when she hit the water pipe of the wall with her iron rod creating a ringing sound. They all looked at her in a sync.
"What is a pretty lady like you doing in this area? Or might it be you are looking for some fun?" One of the men said walking closer to her totally ignoring what she was carrying and what just happened.
As soon as his distance was within the radius of the rod, she immediately swung it dangerously near his temple. It all happened so fast that all of them except Ella, needed some time to process the current happenings.
"And what if I am?" she demanded, tilting her head with a smirk on her face, and before the man could reply or make any movement, he was already on his knees with blood dripping down his face. Just one blow and he was down.
All of the others had a shocked expression and it was so fast to process. "So all of you think that you will live in peace after saying those things about me, the She-devil openly. Don't you think it should be a lesson to others who try to oppose me."
She said, kicking the already dead body in front of her. Just when she spoke her name out, the horror on their face took its place. The devil herself came, so retreat was not an option at all.
She threw the rod at the ground. "Come at me I am going to fight fair." As soon as the words dropped from her mouth all 5 of them charged at her.
'Pitiful' she said to herself while she dodged the punch of one of them and caught his hand just to break it. The scream of pain and the cracking sound of the broken bone filled the alley. She then kneed him right in his stomach, where the diaphragm is situated, and elbowed on his back.
"That's 2 down." She laughed when she suplexed another guy who was trying to attack her from back. "You guys sure that you are going to snatch my throne?" Ella asked with cockiness while walking towards other 4.
"Don't act cocky, you are just a woman." One of them said while picking up the rod that Ella threw a while ago and ran towards her, only to get a hammer kick right in his chest. Immobilising him immediately.
"Now I am pissed off." She growled really like a lion making the remaining flinch at the darkness and dominance of her tone.
"Just do me a favour and all of you come at once, it is getting bothersome. To think I came here just to fight some bunch of weaklings." She said while cracking her knuckles and taking her stance. She is a black belt after all.
"You bitch!" Two of them said and marched towards her while the other remained there. The sweat dripping on the forehead could be clearly seen on the once who came for a fight. The more steps they took, the faster their hearts were beating, but no matter what, they had to fight because it was do or die once you got involved with the She-devil. Nothing good came out of it when you messed with her.
Although one of them tried to trick the Ella by swinging his punch high trying to look like he was going to go for the head but just at the time of the attack his direction changed and he went to hit on stomach which was quite successful but his happiness of landing a hit on the She-devil did not remained for long as he was already a tale to the world.
She was quick enough to reduce the recoil of hit and land a roundhouse kick, which was accompanied by an uppercut punch and a side kick to the costovertebral angle.
The other looked at her in fear but attacked nonetheless turns out he was the weakest of them all as he tried to run away but this is the devil we are talking about and her reflexes are unmatched so it was easy for her to catch his arm from her one hand and his shoulder from the other.
She easily broke his one hand and kicked him on the back of his knee while he let out the sound of agony and cry but it all stopped suddenly when she cracked his neck with her hands.
"You are too loud." She said, and just when she was going to turn around, she felt something placed at the back of her head. Turns out it was a gun. "Okay so you had a gun? Why not use it earlier?" She said as she smirked when she felt the latter was shaking in fear although he clearly had the upper hand.
"Oh you lack confidence!" she exclaimed.
"Shut up! I did not use it because I wanted to rule all by myself. They were only stepping stones for me whom I used. Useless bastards. And, She-devil, you realised your mistake too, right? Letting your guard down in the battlefield is not idle." The man said while clenching the gun tightly. If it was some wise fellow he would have already shot. But when he said that something inside triggered.
All she could see was red, but suddenly the bang was heard and the man fell with blood dripping from his head.
She could see V and Shell running towards her. "Why were you letting your guard down?" V stated as you could see how stressful it must have been to watch the fight and not help his wife while staying on the side lines.
"You guys and your stupid obsession with letting guard down." Ella said as she handed the gun at the hands of V while walking away.
At first V was confused, why she handed him the gun but when Shell took his attention towards the corpse and then he realised that there was not only one gun whose trigger was pulled but there were two and the other trigger was from Ella right at the forehead.
'Don't underestimate a queen who is fighting for her crown.'