The cloudy sky tinged with red was perfect for the scene at the end of the battle between a ghoul hunting cooperation nicknamed the DFA or Death From Above based on their deadly attack on the biggest group of rouge ghouls. Now another large group lay dead all over the scene, their blood sticking to the black boots of the officers. Bodies littered the streets made of ghouls and humans almost filling the roads or loaded into piles of bodies. The remaining ghouls were then slaughtered by the searching officers roaming the area.
One of those officers was Officer Raddy Chase, named after his great grandfather who came from England. He searched the piles of bodies for any movement or chance of life from his comrades brought down into the heap. Not much there other than the flickering lights of the streetlamps on glistening streams of blood that ran down into the canal to their right He was shocked at how many ghouls were killed thanks to the men and their guns, but then again only some ghouls fought. During battle he saw that the most powerful ghouls stood their ground , the others ran away. There was also children in that mob and mothers even the elderly. They were ended easily, too easily in fact. It made Raddy feel sick. He hated the fact that ghouls look like regular civilians, he wished they looked like the bloodthirsty monsters people thought they were, they would be easy to find and not so sickening to kill. He knew these were monsters, but did that make it right to slaughter children, elderly, and a group that had been dormant for many years now. Unlike everyone there, he didn't have a reason to. He never lost a family member, he never had a huge change in his live by the loss of his comrades, and he never took revenge, it was a stupid practice. Why did he do it then. He wanted to, he wanted to keep people safe so he signed up for the college that gave him the skills to kill these beasts.
The sky turned a darker shade of red making it harder to see the people who had died. He didn't even recognize a woman who said hello to him every morning. He couldn't see the twin hunters, hugging each other for the last time before a ghoul had got them, a young hunter, hired only days ago, a peppy little fellow he was. So many familiar faces, it felt like a battlefield in a war, or like what the Natzis did to certain towns full of people from the Jewish religion, but this time, he was the Hitler who lead the army. It never usually felt like this when he lead an attack, why this, why now?
He stepped over a little girl, clutching her teddy bear, a huge slash though her back by a Quinque, her eyes were glazed and open wide with fear. Blood stained her face. Raddy cursed at the fact that she looked just like his little girl at home, but she was safe and sound in the seventh ward, most likely in bed by now, her mother most likely watching the news in case of any report of the ghouls or him being alive. He loved his family, none of them had been taken by ghouls, especially not these. He stepped over a mother trying to protect her almost adult son, but he had still been impaled with her body protecting his. She had her eyes closed tight and his were wide with fear, blood soaking his short brown rhino horn cut. Raddy pushed them aside with his wave of guilt, he had done this, he had lead the team to slaughter this poor family. No he couldn't think like that, Senior Investigators from the seventh ward, Velpan hunters shouldn't think like this. These things were monsters disguised like humans, they were meant to die. He had to do it or many people would die and he would have been to blame.
His ear piece made a sizzling sound along with the overlooker's voice yelling at him, "Runner, runner. We have a runner coming your way Officer raddy". Looking around the misty strip of highway, there was in fact a little movement. A woman, clutching something to her chest ran over the crowd of bodies and tried to get away from a bunch of yelling coming from the remaining squad tripping over the ghoul's bodies and their friends too. She was doing better at it, nimble and quick, bouncing off of every body like a mountain goat for mossy rocks. Raddy ran up in front of her path, raising his Quinque, a long curly spike that cut pretty well. She didn't slow, she ran strait at him. There was a sickening crack and three red whiplike tails sprung from behind her and launched ther over him. He jumped up and slashed at her, only ripping off and few tails and some of her leg. Behind him she landed on the ground and began running for her life on the clear street where no bodies lay for the rest of the city. Raddy ran after her, carrying the big Quinque behind him.
It was easy for him to chase her, she was injured and carrying something so she eventually began slowing. Raddy forced his legs to move faster, boots making clopping noises against the pavement. No one remained on the streets, fearing the huge group of ghouls that had been chased out of the local coffee shop.
The ghoul could be heard breathing heavily the something in her arms wiggling with discomfort. In a final burst of energy, she changed directions and jumped into an alleyway, crashing into some garbage cans and a few cats that ran for their lives. Raddy stopped to see her body lying on some trash bags and old bottles. He saw her clothes were ripped and tattered, a dress once one color, but now stained black. He walked up and looked at her mask, a familiar mask. It was a mask that was painted with blue flowers, the smooth nose piece connecting to now broken visors that hid her eyes, but allowed her to see her prey or attackers. She was in fact an old S. class ghoul nicknamed Blue Lily for the mask, most were since that was all the officers could see other than their clothes they most likely changed. She moved, curling around the bundle in her arms that was now crying. It was a baby or whatever it was. I haven't seen too many baby ghouls, they were always hidden in places they could never be found out and then brought out into the sunlight when they were still little, but older than a baby like this one.
It hit him then, the group was not the dangerous dormant group, it was a place where ghouls go for protection and to have children. He had destroyed a place filled with ghouls too weak to kill and eat, too young to kill and eat, too old to kill and eat, and to busy with personal life to kill and eat. It was a rare place where ghouls hang up their mask, settle down and do what humans do, make a family. No wonder he felt awful, he had killed a whole ton of ghouls that were doing nothing because a few of those members were seen working at the place. Why should he care though, they were still ghouls, and they were creating ghouls spawn to go over and make real killing groups like the Devil Ape and Black Dog clan, both rivals with certain things alike. All of them were evil.
With shaky hands he raised his Quinque above the ghoul, wanting to bring it down for good. Then he would kill its child. The ghoul didn't move just looked at him with pleading eyes through its visor. It looked like it was pleading, it just looked at him, a sad look on its face and pouted lips. Gah! Why was it doing that. The baby in its arms calmed down and began to make whimpering noises, the mother desperately trying to hang on to it. Raddy put down his weapon, it was getting heavy. He could see the ghoul was still dying, no matter what he does, it would still die in the end, it was too severely injured it live any longer. It was becoming limp and blood pooled onto the ground and draining into the gutter.
It looked down at its child and a tear fell onto an old plate with some now red rice on it. It then looked back up and me and pushed the bundle toward me, paling hands careful and gentle. A tiny hand reached out and grabbed its mother's hands, trying to grasp its mother's hand, just like his daughter did when she was a baby. The child whined when his mother let go and tried to reach for her. He would have rolled down the pile if officer Raddy hadn't caught him. The baby looked up at him, his eyes sea green, a color that Raddy had never seen before, it was very vibrant with little bits of blue. The baby boy's hair was black and he had fairly pale skin, but it wasn't an unhealthy color, a natural beautiful color. Officer Raddy held the curious child to his chest and it began making happy noises. Getting picked up by a funny looking scary man wearing all black and a big sword made from dead ghouls, oh that was fun, like a little boy with a fireman.
His mother smiled, not evilly, more bitter sweet. Raddy looked at the baby again, "He's beautiful, you must be very proud". He had no idea why he said it outloud, but it was true. It was a beautiful, healthy, man eating, demon baby. The ghoul looked at him, lifting her chin a little bit, "I am, thank you". Her voice was hoarse, well she was dying anyway, it wasn't as if she would sing like an angel or anything and do a tap dance or something. "Can I get his name", the officer asked. The mother ghoul only had enough energy to utter one last word, "Percy", then she died right there.
Officer Raddy, stood up, taking the baby with him. Percy eh, Percy, nice name for a bouncy baby like him. Percy laughed happily when Raddy stood up, like the boy was on a fun ride or something. Little hands came out of the bundle and caught Raddy's Zipper and began fingering the cold metal.
Raddy didn't want to take the baby back to the dead bodies, most likely stinking of dead human and ghoul by now, luckily it wasn't hot out. The clouds were turning a lighter shade of grey, morning was coming, now time to clean up the bodies, but of course he no longer had to do that. He went over anyway, the remaining men were still waiting for him to return. There was only one problem with the baby, it was most likely a ghoul. The organization would most likely want the boy dead as soon as possible and he couldn't care for a ghoul. Ghouls ate people, they needed flesh and if the baby got hungry enough, it would start trying to gum him down or die of starvation. Poor thing, he wished the ghoul would process anything, but the meat of fellow humans. There was no way the poor thing can survive. Maybe the doctor will think of something.
Officer Raddy stepped over another body of a little girl, now he knew was not a huge threat, just a random civilian he had slaughtered. Now knowing who these ghouls were, it made him sicker than he should have been. The baby curled its nose at the smell of damp and decaying ghouls bodies and wriggled in his blue blanket. His eyes were closed when the scent hit him so officer Raddy couldn't see the eyes turn black with red pupils. To stop the child from crying out and attracting attention to himself, the officer hid the child's face in his black jacket.
He arrived at the line of big black cars filling the street so clean up would begin. Most of the jeeps and trucks were now covered in blood and most were tending to the wounds of the officers that lived through the line of guardian ghouls, there was a lot of survivors, more than there was dead, way more than there was dead. Blackish blood still covered the hoods of the vehicles and tinted the windows red. Officers milled about, some with guns still in hand or celebrating their win against what they thought to be a dormant group growing in numbers and power. They laughed and joked, punching each other in congratulations for surviving or telling their comrades how they destroyed some old retired ghoul that was once a big shot killer. Then they saw Officer Raddy's disgusted, sad look and the thing he held. Everyone seemed to hold their breath as he walked up to the most important men in the attack other than him. They were also joking about how the ghouls ran for their lives from them, then they saw Raddy and their mood turned serious.
"Good morning sirs, all is well", Raddy said. Percy moved in his arms at hearing his voice again. "Good morning Officer Raddy", doctor Yinsburen said in his usual changing high pitched tone. The doctor wasn't the friendliest looking man. Indeed he smiled a lot, but his smile was more insane than it was friendly, glistening white crooked teeth making the image more confusing. He always walked with a limp thanks to the leg that was torn off by a ghoul once and he also always slouched like the hunchback of Notre Dame. His hair, once black, but now electric greed for some reason, something to do with a messed up experiment, was long and reached his knees since he never got haircuts, but it was always very smooth with as many tangles as a supermodel which he was mistaken as sometimes giving his thin appearance and rumors say he wore a bra filled with all his lab equipment because he looked like he had bumpy breasts.
"Well, I have made a new discovery about the band of ghouls who we just attacked". Raddy unrolled the bundle a bit so the others could see Percy who decided he wanted to sleep. They all stared at it dubiously, "It is a baby. So? Where'd you steal it". Raddy pulled Percy back and shifted the boy in his arms so once again his face was against his chest. "I didn't steal it. It was the Blue Lilly's, she died and handed him over to me. She said his name was Percy before she died". The investigators looked at the bundle with newfound shock amazement, the doctor looked amused. "I have never seen a ghoul this young investigator, I am impressed. What does this prove", the doctor asked looking at the baby's hair and sleeping face beneath the blanket. "I believe this attack was not on Unkindi, more like it was on a place where ghouls go to retire and there was some members in that group there wanting to live better lives than what they did before. This is one of the results of the Blue Lily's retirement. I think that is the reason they didn't fight back like they used to during the golden age of Unkindi".
The others backed away from the baby in shock while the doctor lost his smile and stroked the black hair of the baby. One turned around and punched one of the trucks, denting the side metal that covered the wheel. "What is it Taruto", his friend asked. Taruto's jaw tightened and he grit his teeth, eyebrows furrowed in fury, "This makes us just like these monsters". "Don't think like that Taruto, we will never be like them. We are not monsters like they are. Let's just drown the thing in the river and pretend it never existed, easy as that, no trace of what happened here and we can get on with our investigation on groups that will rise". "It isn't as easy as that investigator, we still have the blood on our hands, blood that will stain our hands for eternity. None of you will be able to keep this secret so it gets out and destroys our reputation", the doctor growled,"What do we do? We raise the child".
Everyone who eavesdropped cried out in outrage and protested, complained, used logic, whatever they could to not raise the enemy's whelp. "I am just saying. If we train him right, he could be a little attack dog for us and maybe a study subject. We could try and find ways to get ghouls to eat regular food or find another thing they can eat instead of people. This could be a learning experience for us. Haven't your parents taught you about new experiences right, they are good. Let's make a new one". There was now a big smile on the doctor's face as he strolled around the crowd. No one said a word at the end so he raised a green eyebrow, "No objections? Wonderful, let's get started. I think we should try the reproduction of blood cells in the lab. First I will need a few things, I guess me and whoever pays all of you are going to Scientist Walmart and going shopping", at the word "shopping", he sung like a bird.
Officer Raddy smiled at the small baby fast asleep in his arms, breathing softly, eyes flickering slightly. "Hear that young one, you will be living with all these nice men and become a hero among human kind. You won't have to worry too much", he whispered.
Ok, I hope you are liking it so far, I try to keep what you guys like up and running and try to be as fast as possible with my updates. Another thing, I look everywhere for good Percy Jackson/ Tokyo Ghoul fanfictions that aren't just one chapter or just a few sentences. These are harder to find than gold in Kentucky (random state, I have nothing against Kentucky) so I did what a fangirl who wants more of these things out there so that is what I plan to do.