The Invincible Hunter

Episode 17

Jack didn’t want to kiss Karina. He withdrew his face once again when Karina tried to kiss him for the second time. Seeing that, she gently disengaged her hands from his neck and stepped backward. Jack exhaled with hands in his pockets and said, “Karina, i am…”

“No, I understand” Karina interrupted. “You never loved me. Though it’s not your fault because you never made a relationship proposal to me rather our friendship mertamophosed to relationship. Yet, i loved and cared for you, made you part of my life and…” she paused feeling the beat of her heart. It was actually breaking into two thereby stimulating her tears glands. She cleaned the tears with her hand when it finally dropped. Jack walked closer to hug her as a way of saying sorry but she shouted, “Don’t touch me!”

“I’m sorry, Karina” Jack stood at a spot. “I never meant to hurt you emotionally”
“It’s obvious that Jennifer is why you choose to hurt me like this. I knew you have something for her but…” Karina paused again drying her tears. She looked at Jack and continued. “Everything is clear now so you can leave”

Jack slowly walked towards the door as Karina stared at him. They looked at each other for the last time before he went out then Karina collapsed on the couch crying bitterly.

**

The day had totally become dark and Jennifer had not come out from her room or eaten anything. The mother began to bang on her door with a plate of food in her hand.

“Darling please, eat something. Jane! Jane!! Are you there? Jennifer!” the mother kept the food thinking that something bad had happened to her since she had been mute all those while she was calling. Just then, the husband came out. He wore a short and a shirt.

“What’s going on?”
“Jane, isn’t responding” Mrs Fenado bemusedly replied.

“Jane! Jane!!” the husband also b@nged on the door but nothing happened.
However, inside the room, Jennifer la!d on the floor with the seed beside her. She wore only her underwears; white bra and a black Tight but a white pant could be seen through it. She was actually undergoing some changes in her life. The seed kept her unconscious
showing her what happened in the past: she saw the former seed bearer, a young boy in a brown robe. She could see people being pursued by hunters and also killed. There was a burning fire at every angle of the little village. Suddenly, a hunter pursued the seed bearer into a bush nearby a river. The seed was hanging on his neck but he took it off trying to fight the hunter. In the process, two wizards appeared using their powers on him too which drove him into the river and the seed fell off. He struggled to save his life but when he came out, hunters and wizards descended on him and killed him but never la!d hands on the seed which had been carried away by the floating river..

Jennifer woke up breathing heavily. She looked at herself and the seed which she carried up immediately. “I guess that’s why i found it near a river. But why didn’t he use his powers to protect the seed? Or didn’t he have one?” she murmured and turned to the banging door which she opened swiftly.
“Jane!” the mother called.
“I’m fine, mum” Jennifer looked at her father. “Dad, i just want to be left alone”
The father kept quiet.
“But eat something dear” the mother positioned the food in her presence.
“Thanks” Jennifer grabbed it and locked the door again.

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THE_NEXT_DAY
Karina couldn’t go to work because she was totally down emotionally. Meanwhile, Randy was on his way again to the company to get a Milky Crab.

Frank, on the other hand couldn’t wait to see Hannah again.

As uncle Ben was planning to meet Jennifer to surrender the seed, so as Hannah was on her way to Jennifer’s with the intention of taking the seed from her and kill her if possible. She wore a black body-hug trouser and a shirt which she left open without buckling it. The shape of her b—-t could be seen through a white inner T-shirt. On her feet were also black shoes. Her butt0ckz shook as she walked on the road without a single smile. Few minutes later, she found herself in Jennifer’s compound then knocked at the door. Jennifer opened it and both stared at each other. Hannah saw the seed hanging on her neck.
“Hi” Jennifer began.

“Hi” Hannah replied. “Good idea” she added with a factitious smile.
“What idea?”
“This idea?” Hannah pointed at the seed.
Jennifer touched it without saying anything but smiled too. “Give me a minute” she said and entered into the house. After she came back, they began to go out together. Jennifer also wore a trouser for easy locomotion.

“So, where are we going to?”
“A place called Den” Hannah replied.
“Lion’s den?” Jennifer looked at her surprisingly.

“No, it’s just called a Den. It’s a secret place where my late parents also taught me how to use my powers”

“Okay” Jennifer concluded..