Settling Scores, 1 by Sleeper77 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

The massive vault door hung partially open. This, Xun told herself, is all for you girl. The Somalian witch-mercenary nudged the security officer with her bare foot. He was out cold. With her powers of enchantment, she had mesmerized into a stupor a dozen or more guards already. Each one she left incapacitated deep in unconsciousness. Security cameras were videoing her every move. Her only concern was that she looked good in each incriminating frame. Satisfied every hostile threat was neutralized her thoughts focused on the Jewel of the Twelve Princes, an artifact native to her country that European plunderers had seized long ago. This was a prize of her own choosing and it now laid waiting within her reach inside the vault.

She set down the safe box she had been carrying as she approached the door. Her employer had hired her for a heist, an act of industrial espionage. She was to obtain a box of documents so sensitive in nature that any form of electronic transmission had been prohibited. Her theft was also arranged to make a bold statement. Her employer wanted their adversary to know that the documents had been purloined. It wasn't until she had hacked into the firm's network that she realized the Jewel of the Twelve Princes were being stored in the same location. The stroke of luck seemed almost too good to be true. Xun didn't consider herself a noble thief, but in this case she was making a partial exception. She planned to sell the Jewel and then distribute the proceeds to her own people. Still, it wasn't the charitable act that instilled a sense of pride and satisfaction. It was simply the theft itself that made her proud of herself.

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Notes: My planned Enormous Challenge series is still, well, being planned. In the meantime I've started this new series of which I have already completed a number of scenes. The first few scenes will just be introductions to the main characters. Rest assured it won't be long before either the heroine or the villainess winds up knocked out and/or in peril.