Crow Call

Chapter 1: Just Another Job

It was a cold and rainy night. The man in the trench coat frowned as he felt the raindrops drench his bright orange hair. "Seems like it's gonna be one of those days." He would sigh as he put out his cigarette. "How I hate the rain." He looked up, his one orange eye seeming to glow in the darkness of the night. "Well...better get this over with." He stepped out of the shadows and started to walk towards 10 men that were surrounding a small crate. The man could not hear what they were saying as he pulled out his pitch black tonfas from underneath his coat. "Evening gentlemen. It seems that you are all unlucky to meet me on this dismal night." He saw one of the men pull out a small pistol and, in the blink of an eye, the man with the gun would find that his arm has been detached from his body.

"I would prefer if we can do this in a civil manner. I really hate fighting you see." The men surrounding the crate looked at one another and most of them fled. The man in the coat would let them run as they were not important, nor where they his target. "Well Mr..." he would pull out a small piece of paper from a pocket in his coat, "ah yes. Mr. Sanayama. It seems that you have committed crimes against the city of Vale and are a wanted man. I have been hired to either take you in, or to...eliminate you...pick your poison, either way...you have already lost." He could see the fear in Sanayama's eyes, but knew he would put up a fight...they always did. "C-C-C-Could you...possibly be...the Bounty Hunter that everyone calls the Crow of Remorse?"

The man in the coat smiled a little, a rare occurrence for him. He hated that nickname, but it seemed to fit with him. "Yes, it seems you have heard of me." He would drive a hand through his feather-like hair to reveal his eye patch with his symbol, an orange crow with its wings spread wide sitting in front of two crossed blades. "But I would prefer if you didn't call me that...my name is Auriaco Cantum...but you need not remember it, as you won't be seeing me again after tonight." He moved as if in fast forward. In the blink of an eye, Auriaco was behind Sanayama with his bladed tonfa pressed against his neck. "Now, remember your choices? Are you going to put up a fight? Or will you come quietly?"

Out of the corner of his eye, Auriaco saw one of Sanayama's henchmen point a P-90 at him. He would sigh a little and use his semblance to form an orange blade and drive it through the man's skull, killing him instantly. Auriaco hated to kill, but sometimes it was a necessity...tying up loose ends and all that. "Now, where were we? Oh yes. It seems that you don't want to come quietly since you ordered one of your henchmen to kill me...which leaves me with no other choice then to kill you. Goodbye Mr. Sanayama." Auriaco would jab his other tonfa against the back of Mr. Sanayama and press a small button on the handle, which caused the tonfa to let loose a small burst of dust bullets, causing Sanayama's entire midsection to explode. Sanayama died a quick death, a trait Auriaco had taught himself after his graduation from Beacon Academy.

Auriaco would look up at the sky as Sanayama's body, or what was left of it, bled out onto the ground, coating the concrete in a mix of blood and rain. He would pull out another cigarette and light it, taking a small puff before pulling out a small tablet. He sent a message to the leading detective in the investigation into Mr. Sanayama's crimes, letting him know of his fate. Auriaco knew he would be paid a little less for not bringing him in alive, but money is money. Not that he needed it. He had more than enough to survive for 20 years, and the money he didn't give to Beacon or Signal was saved up in an offshore bank account, perfectly legal by the way.

He would take the cigarette out of his mouth and sigh again. "I hate rainy nights." He threw the cigarette on the ground, not even bothering to put it out as the rain took care of that for him. He then strode off into the night towards the city of Vale, one of the major cities on the planet of Remnant.