FALLEN ANGEL-PREPARING FOR THE HUNT
"What am I doing?" the young man asked as he eventually completed the final step of the ritual to open a portal to hell. He stares at the land below, before jumping into the hole in the ground.
(Flashback, 1 year ago)
A young demon in his 30's, walking into I-M-P HQ up to the reception desk, wearing his olive military fatigues and jacket, saying to Luna the hell hound "I have a contract of the unusual type for you and you alone. You will be paid well, up front, and the end payment upon completion of the mission. I know that you are the only one in I-M-P, who can transform to a human." Luna looks up from the magazine she was reading, her face is redder than usual, from her hangover. "How do you know that I can turn to a human? That's a trade secret!" The young demon looks at her with yellow eyes shining from beneath his battered combat helmet and says "Your adopted dad told me after I got him drunk in a bar one night not long ago. But anyways I want to use you alone and I am willing pay to you for your assistance in this matter." Luna stands up and looks at the demon with bared teeth, narrowed eyes while screaming. "I'm not some blown up sex doll that you can play with anytime you want, to satisfy your limp dick! You sad pathetic cockroach-!" The demon raises his hands in a stop gesture and says "You misunderstand me, I want to use you to PROTECT someone on the surface...My younger brother Robert Lee Thompson." Luna sits back down and looks at him and says "Okay, what does that have to do with me?" The demon smiles at Luna and calmly replies "You will be employed for a very reasonable amount up front and the rest upon completion of your services, but the contract will be for you and you alone." With that he lays out 8 stacks of 10 dollar bills amounting to $1000 each, and says; "Your up front." Luna picks them up one by one and bends them and listens to the flap of money while counting, and upon the last stack she said with a small feral grin adorning her face "The payout seems kind of low for a job like this especially when you are hiring me to basically be a guard dog, is this really all you want or is there something else you want to add to the description of this job?" the demon looks at Luna then pulls two more stacks out of his pocket. totaling $10,000 and then says "Well this is all you get until you complete the mission, no negotiation. He is in the US. Army and is currently stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan where I was killed a few weeks ago. I want to make sure he gets home alive, that is another reason why I want you to go in alone, one is harder to find than four, and there is more money for you alone." She looks at him and says "I need some time to think this over, how about we take a rain check and we will pick this up the following day, sound good little whelp?"
(TIME SKIP 3 HOURS LATER)
Luna stands in the armory of I-M-P with a small sigh escaping her lips as she though of the consequences of what she was about to do, she was about to steal weapons from her own dad. (adopted, but her dad none the less) She needed to take what she hoped her dad would miss as he inspected the armory, as she walks to the back and picks up an old samurai sword that looks on the verge of falling apart and she starts going through the combat motions alone in the back of the armory as a flood of memories begins to rage inside of her mind she started having flashbacks of when she was a young wolf who had just gotten adopted by Blitz.
(BEGIN FLASHBACK 13 YEARS AGO)
She was pick-pocketing other people just as she was taught by her family and now she was roaming the streets alone, hungry, and feral. Until she had a chance encounter with a well dressed but seriously washed out demon who had just gotten thrown out from a nearby nightclub. She looks over the target for a moment, hidden from view by the nearby garbage can so she could sneak up on him and slip her hand into his pocket right as the demon stood up, but right away he notices something is off, he forcefully grabs the hand in his back pocket. She tries to back away but could not escape his grip, he looks at her and said "What do you think you are doing with your hand inside my pocket, huh!?" As she tries to escape his grip in vain she replied in a low tone "I need the money you jerk wad." "For what drugs, sex and murder? You little hellion! From the marks on you, you look halfway there already." He said loudly as he finally let go of her wrist, dropping her on the ground as he dusted himself off. "You honestly look like you have not eaten in a month or so." "My last meal was 3 days ago, and I was eating out of a garbage can then, you little devil! Also I am literally covered my head to toe in scars and bruises to the point I could fall over, and you grabbing me is not helping matters at all stupid." Blitz looks at Luna with pity and asks "You want something to eat kid?" "You honestly have to ask me that question, dummy? Yes!"
(TIME SKIP 1 HOUR LATER)
Luna wolfs down her triple cheese burger and large fries while inhaling her large coke. Blitz looks up from the cheese burger combo that he was eating and says "jeez kid, slow down, no ones going to take it away from you." Luna looks up from her meal long enough to say "you would eat like this too if you had not eaten anything except half a package of lunch meat sausage and what you could salvage from a moldy loaf of bread from a dumpster 3 days ago and you couldn't remember your last meal before that." Luna returns to her meal as Blitz looks at Luna in pity and attempted understanding. He began to think of the possibility of adopting her and what that could mean for his failing business and how to raise it from the dead literally, he was trapped in a little world of his own as he began to brainstorm possible ideas then a forethought shot through his mind. He could take Luna under his wing and train her how to be both his receptionist and a possible assassin.
(TIME SKIP 30 MINUTES LATER)
Luna would try to hack apart the training dummies with the samurai sword Blitz gave her while trying to use precise strikes, but in her anger and annoyance, she just hacked them apart into tiny little pieces and splinters. Blitz tries to teach her the correct motions to go through with the sword now in his hands, but yet again Luna still could not seem to get it and teenagers were not known for their patience and understanding which was clearly evident in Luna.
(TIME SKIP 1 HOUR LATER)
They called it quits for the day as Blitz shown her the room she was going to be staying in. Luna is grateful and all but she definitely wants to put some major personal touches to it. From behind her Luna could hear Blitz "I have another surprise, I am planning on adopting you Luna." Luna whirls around to look at Blitz absolutely dumbfounded and mouth agape. Before Blitz knows what is happening Luna has Blitz locked in a death hug squeezing him so tightly that he can't breath "Luna ... can't ... breath."
(END FLASHBACK)
Luna sheaths the sword as a lone tear runs down her face, her eyes slightly watery and glassy, her body shaking from phantom pains, her fur bristled from barely contained grief and rage. She puts the sword to the side and picks up an old bolt action sniper rifle that was not in much better condition than the sword, and yet another flashback ensues within her head.
(BEGIN FLASHBACK 7 YEARS AGO)
"Breath in and hold your breath, then aim at your target and fire." Blitz says to Luna as she lays on the ground, the round goes slightly low and right of the target bullseye. Blitz looks to Luna and tells her "Check your scope and gun before you go into combat, If you fail to check your scope and miss your target, you may not get another chance at it. Or even worse is if you fail to maintain your gun, if you do that the only one its going to kill is you!"
(END FLASHBACK)
Luna slinging the sniper rifle across her back then she grabs 1 box of ammo, and slings the sword to her side, she looked at the armory one more time to make sure nothing looked out of place before she slipped into the dark starless sky. Luna crosses to the dumpster across the parking lot and pulls out all the garbage and tapes the sword and sniper rifle and ammo to the bottom of the dumpster. Luna looks at everything one last time to make sure that nothing is amiss then goes home the fast route and sneaks the book into her bedroom without waking Blitz.
The next morning she is at the reception when the young demon shows up from seemingly outta nowhere, he grinned toothily at her and asks; "Well doll, are ya ready for this job now I reckon?" "Yep, guess I am." Their hands would catch on fire as they shook, sealing the deal in an unbreakable contract. Luna pulls away in pain and shock at the fact that she knew what the fire hands meant! "YOU TRICKED ME! YOU SON OF A B-! You didn't tell me it was an unbreakable contract! I can never go back on it, and if your brother dies so do I!" She flipped over the desk in anger and bares her claws at him, wanting to rip out his eyes at the dirty trick that he had just pulled on her. The young demon calmly looks upon her "Well I guess you had best make sure that he doesn't die." she would grasp his throat with her claws growling in a low tone lightly squeezing it as she slammed him against the wall keeping him pinned for a few moments before letting him down, he sinks to the floor gasping and rubbing his throat in pain. "I should take the medical bill out of your bounty reward, but I won't! Now get on your target before I do ... NOW!" She retrieved the weapons right quick before saying the incantation before her entire body was enveloped in shadows and darkness as she was brought to the living world as her body turned into a frail human one. She looks around her to confirm that she was in Kabul and hides her weapons in an old abandoned well sneaks off to find her target.
(END FALLEN ANGEL-PREPARING FOR THE HUNT)
