The two kingdoms of the underworld have been at a brutal standstill since hims first move with the vault at castle grim-skull ever since then Mandy has been hiring mercenary and anyone that is either willing or forced into her command tonight though was special it was her son juniors 15th birthday but as it was a happy day security was top priority and the queen herself would make sure of that

"next!"

a tall man 6"9 to be exact wearing black hooded leather jacket with Kevlar face plate and black cargo pants strides up to the queen his steel plated combat boots echo with each step in one hand was a black duffel the other was twirling a butterfly knife

"name ?"

"William sir"

Mandy stares at him for a bit before answering.

"Would you happen to go by billy?" Mandy asked hoping her longtime friend was this man before her. Though it was a hope to fall on deaf ears.

"No ma'am just William."

Mandy let out a sigh effectively hiding her sadness of being wrong. She missed her friend terribly as he was both junior's father by blood and her first love before grim as she still had no idea were he went or were he is after all this time.

"respect will get you far here William , now what's in the duffel

the man takes a knee to unzip and pull out a HK417 with suppressor and ACOG sight Mandy takes a moment to admire his choice in weaponry

Well whoever this guy is he knows his gear, Mandy thought to herself before continuing

"OK standard pay is $2000 you get it after your first term , any-"

there was a large explosion that rocked the castle.

Somewhere in the dooratoory of the castle spacificly the section were jr. minnie and mimi stayed a large disturbance of enemy units attempted to siege the area the other mercs back in mandy's location who haven't been paid yet booked it out of the castle leaving mandy her guards and William without thinking William began heading down the hallway in full sprint his weapon slung over his shoulder.

Mandy turned around to see the man run off in the direction he was running pulling out her two way radio she contacted jr. "jr keep your sister and mimi in your room ok and don't make a sound ok?."

"Ok mom." came jr's response

Gunfire erupted in the hallway outside the door along with a bright strobing light which could be seen flashing in the darkness around the doorframe. Sounds of shouts and muffled screaming, jr pressed his skull to the door to hear what was going on in the silence that followed. What he head was the muffled sobbing before the sounds of torn flesh up against the door the wet thum at the foot of the door following the blood that seeped under made him back away noticeable shaken.

Mandies pov

Following the man she rounded the corner watching in wide eyes this man, no man could not describe what she was seeing. This being before her seemed to be taking shot after shot to his torso as bullets sunk into him blackish coagulated blood seeped out but it didn't seem to hinder the man at all even when the mask was ripped from his face by a man he had pinned to jr.'s door. Red hair cut short showed over his face. A face that showed anger and determination or will to protect the fiery eyes she recognized anywhere. "Billy?..."
The man turned to her before putting back on his mask "no ma'am just william."

Pov end
With the guards responding shortly after the attack all seemed to settle around them.
Mandie sighed walking to one of the guards "tell william to report to my office." when you get the chance i have a lot to discuss with him" the guard saluted before moving about cleaning up the mess.