"You know the Huntress who's leading the whole restore-the-city effort? Goodwitch, I think. She's sent some official warning out to everyone still in the city, telling everyone that murder is still a crime." Neo smirked at this, amused by the Huntress's infallible dedication to upholding the law.
Junior looked at her before adding, "She mentioned your newest removal, the one you got tonight. You know what this means, don't you?"
Neo stopped smirking at that. Generally, her kills were discovered after a week or so, not a few hours. She typed a new message on her scroll, "We have a new enemy."
Neo watched silently as the bar filled up with customers. This time, she wasn't here to fill a contract, she was here to find the spy that had found her kill so effectively. She wasn't in her usual white attire; she had disguised herself with short blonde hair and a black leather jacket.
Neo watched one of the younger customers sit by her side. He nodded at Junior, a clear indication he had been there before, since Junior knew what the boy was asking for.
She narrowed her green eyes as Junior arranged one of the bottles on the shelf to face in her direction. A prearranged signal, telling her that this boy was one of the customers that Junior had suspected of spying.
The boy leaned over the counter, sipping on his drink. "You should be careful," he murmured, "There's a bounty on your head. Just posted this afternoon. An assassin has been hired, the one who has been killing almost every day." Neo watched as he slid away from the counter, paying Junior the fee for the drink.
Neo silently grabbed her umbrella before following the boy out.
Neo sliced at the boy, then blocked his counter attack with her parasol. The boy gasped as the blade sliced his forearm, barely a scratch, but Neo had coated the blade with a powerful sedative. The boy backed off from the fight to examine the cut, shallow, but bleeding heavily. His shirt was soaked with sweat, making it cling to his form, hindering his movements.
"You were the assassin!" The boy gasped, trying to steady himself against the back wall of the alley Neo had trapped him in. She smirked at him as she allowed her disguise to fall. She bowed sarcastically before jumping back into the fight.
Now that her drug was in the boy's bloodstream, she just had to get his heartrate up and she would have him asleep in no time. After a moment, Neo could see the boy was visibly slowing down; his twin daggers were parrying less and less of Neo's attacks, when their blades met in the air, he stumbled more and more often.
After a few more attacks from Neo, his eyes were drooping, then hecould barely stand. As his eyes closed, Neo darted behind him to catch his fall. She swiftly tied his arms and legs together and picked up the boy.
As she picked her way through the streets back to her apartment, she smiled. Soon, this enemy would know that she was a force to be reckoned with.
A/N: Long time, no read. I'll be going back and improving grammar and spelling and such in the first chapter soon.