"What did we come away from that last job we pulled?" a bandit asks.
"Not much. Just some dust and lien. It wasn't even worth the hassle to kill them all," another says around the campfire.
Two others were rifling through their catch of the day and find only the four basic dust elements and two cases of lien. The only other things that are there are items that looked valuable. Such as some painting and statues that could be the real thing such as gold, but almost all of them know it could be painted or foiled gold.
"Hey! Check this out," one says pulling out a pistol that he grips the barrel end with his hand and bends it in half. A shape blade then coming out of the handle end and extending outward as the two pieces of the pistol connect to make a sword handle. "Got ourselves something custom," he almost cheers as he takes a few test swings. "How much do you think this will go for?"
"It seems those con-artists played their part quite well," a man says looking over the carnage.
"Boss, we got a signal to follow?" another person asks.
"That way," the young man with neck long crimson hair and a red dragon tail and wings informs. Scales along his arms and legs that shone red with his hair. Though his skin seems to have a tint of light red that would blend in his coloring and hide him if it wasn't for the fact that he has some dark jeans were cut and seems to be half-length to his knees with a dark hoodie with white fur lining. His long thin tongue sliding across his sharp teeth.
"Right. Time for the Last Regiment to collect this bounty," one of the men says as they start to head in that direction.
Storm slowly grins and shows a toothful as he brings up the same looking pistol.
"I can't believe the boss took what I had found," a bandit with a black eye says at the entrance to their hideout. "I mean it was such a nice custom weapon too."
"Thanks for telling me where my weapon is," Storm says appearing beside the bandit before stabbing him through the throat.
The others start to approach as the bandit choke on his own blood and fall to the ground in death. His blood pooling out onto the dirt. Storm hums before walking past him with the others, leaving a dead body for anyone to find. "Begin the attack," Storm instructs before moving into the cave.
The men follow behind him before groaning inwardly as they came to a stop. "I hate this part," one of them sighs at the sight of two pathways to take.
"You four take that way. Quick and clean," Storm instructs pointing to the right tunnel. "You two with me," Storm informs starting to take the left tunnel.
They all start to split up as they follow the large winged leader and see some light ahead. Coming around a corner to find a few bandits going over the things they robbed and collected over time. Storm hums as he takes out his own pistol and steps out. Walking calmly over to one of the dust boxes and reaches in to take out an ice dust crystal.
Storm smiles as he leans closer and peers through it. "Wow. Finely detailed. This is more expensive than you would give it credit for," he spoke up as he looks through it all. The bandits now noticing him and immediately pointing their guns with makeshift and taped knives on them.
"Too bad all of you have to die here," Storm says before opening his mouth and, to all the bandits' shock, chopped down on the dust crystal.
"He's mad…he's dead," one of them says.
Storm inhales a bit before unleashing a wave of freezing wind from his mouth at them and they started to scream as the ice started to cover them, freezing them in place.
Storm chuckles as he steps through the freezing hazed filled air. Flapping his wings and makes the leftover dust clear out of his way. He smirks as he walks past all the frozen bandits before aiming his gun and firing at each frozen statue. A loud cascade of glass noise hitting the ground as the frozen bandits shatter into pieces. He ends up at the far end of the chamber and hums in intrigue as he notices a table flipped over and peers over before smiling and leaning on it. Shivering and panting coming from the female bandit below him.
"It's too bad that you cause problems. You look cute," Storm says grabbing her collar and pulls her up to his face as she tries to stay warm and huddle herself up. Storm hums as he looks over the ragged form. "Yeah. Way too bad. By the way," he says bringing up his pistol up to her face and she stares at it in pure fear. Before he flicks it and transforms it into a sword that slides past her hair. "Would mind giving it?" Storm asks smiling, setting her on her feet but keeping the blade close to her neck.
She shakily and slowly reaches to her waist where the pistol is holstered and slides it out. Storm kept smiling at her as he taps the blade softly against her neck before she holds it up for him. Storm nods and grabs the pistol with his other hand, flicking and transforming it as well as he looks it over. "Thanks for shining it," he says turning them back into guns and puts them away.
The bandit leader starts to slowly smile while still trying to warm up before Storm grabs the gravity dust crystal sitting on the ground near her table and holds it up to her face. "I heard these things send you flying if you try a shot. But they also make bad effects if handled wrong. You want to see what happens if I bite one and throw it behind you?" he asks chuckling as her face slowly morphed into a grim one. "Like I said. It's too bad you are a bandit and did all this. You are cute honestly," Storm compliments and surprisingly gives a peck on the cheek which she blushes and freezes up at even more before she hears a crunch and sees him biting into the gravity crystal before walking away and tossing it behind him. Her eyes watching in shock as it flies behind her and smashes against the wall. The feeling of heavy gravity pulling her towards it before slamming her against the wall and them looking ahead to see her many treasures and loot that fly at her. Storm only hearing a scream of terror as wood crunching and metal creaking is heard.
"That was easy. Sometimes I hate it. It makes things too easy and not fun," Storm notes to the others as he starts to walk out of the chamber.
"Another contract fulfilled," one of the mercs says following their boss.
"Problem is getting paid easily without running into a problem. Seriously, they are like insurance companies," Storm laughs a little.
"Or clients that don't pay," another merc adds.
"We can handle those bastards easily. It's the contracts buildings I hate," Storm mutters before smirking a little. "But I do like the receptionist if they are cute. Easy to work over."
"Best not let Borak hear that," the merc says as they hear fighting going on close by.
"I can work her too. She's not an easy girl, but she is fun," Storm sighs in happiness. "Okay. Let's get the others and get our pay," he says as they step into the other tunnel once they exit into the split.