It's a few days before Alissa shows up again, her 5 newest slaves sporting superpowers - even the ones who shouldn't have any. A result of Alissa's tampering, no doubt.
She leads her band of kids to a building - she didn't know what it was, it was probably an apartment skyrise - and takes it hostage, every ten floors having one of her slaves stationed.
"Now, time to see what he does now." she grins to herself, settling on the very top of the building.
Ares growls softly, The fuck is wrong with you? Are you just tryna see what I’d do?
Yeah. To be honest, you're very boring. Alissa sighs.
She looks out at the city's horizon. Come and get me. Actually put in effort to stop me. Stop wasting words, that's very vanilla.
He growls, appearing behind her and grabbing her hair. He slams her head into the wall. “Bitch…”
Alissa laughs and simply stands up, Aviv's feet leaving the ground.
"Go on, do that again hero. I enjoyed that." she smirks, grabbing Eli by the back of his neck and launching him away with ease. She feels the blood trickle and run down her face, to the corner of her mouth, where she licks it away with a savage look in her deep red eyes.
He hits a wall, hissing. He quickly stands up and lunges towards her, grabbing her by the neck.
Alissa laughs.
"You'll have to choke harder than that, sweetheart." she says, curling her body up and round Ares's and throwing him to the floor with her legs, snapping his wrist to get him to let go of her neck.
He yelps, slapping her hard enough to send her flying across the room. He started growing in size, growling.
Alissa laughs, coughing up a bit of blood.
"Now that was a hit." she coos.
When Ares starts to grow in size, she snickers.
"Compensating for something there?"
He snarls, storming over to her and grabbing her by the hair, yanking her up.
Alissa doesn't flinch even now, laughing.
"Go ahead, kill me. Make yourself no better than I am. No better than your friend Kathy's family." she calls out, staring Ares directly in the eyes.
He pauses, then huffs, hitting her against the wall one more time to knock her out.
Alissa is looking not so great now, blood staining her hair and parts of her face. Her eyes couldn't focus properly. But she would not let Ares win.
"Hit harder or not at all." she hisses, vicious mental claws tearing through Ares's soul.
He takes in a sharp breath, “I won’t kill you…” he takes her to his void, throwing her onto the ground. “Don’t even try escaping…” he hisses.
"I wouldn't even dream of it." Alissa snarls, sweeping Ares's legs out from beneath him and cracking his nose beneath of of her heeled feet.
He hisses, covering his nose. He glares at her, “Can you quit it?”
"No, no I can't, since you're the one who started trying to bash the back of my skull through my fucking throat!" Alissa snorts.
He snarls, “Well sorry. I’m trying to protect those citizens.” He snaps. “And may I mention you’ve been breaking my bones over and over.”
"Not any that will kill you." Alissa says dismissively, not bothering with Ares's first point.
He huffs, staring at her. “Explain to me. Explain your thought process.”
Alissa raises an eyebrow at Ares.
"Which one?"
He rolls his eyes. “Explain why you do what you do.”
"Oh, that's simple. Because I enjoy watching people suffer." Alissa grins. "It makes me feel. . . alive and active."
He rolls his eyes. “there’s such a thing as daily exercise- ya know, morning jogs, working out- going to the gym-“
Alissa snorts. "Not the sort of 'active' I meant, dear."