TIME TO TAKE ACTION
Luciel was still left wondering why she was being compliant with these guys despite knowing what they truly wanted from her now. She could leave, no problem with her power levels, but she doesn't want to leave M-21 by himself with these guys because she knew that they were going to kill him after they got what they want. Luciel was worried, and it didn't help when Shark suddenly called the whole DA-5 members, including M-21 and herself, back to the hideout. He sounded thrilled when he called and knowing how he acts, it's probably going to be something difficult.
"Hey, why did they calling us?" Tao complained. "We still have lots to do. Krantz, did Shark and Hammer tell you what's going on?" He asked but Krantz didn't respond. "I'm curious."
They walked inside the hideout and saw Shark's tall and gangly figure standing before them. He had an utterly gleeful look on his face that made Luciel's stomach turn. Especially with his scratchy voice that made her feel sick too. "Hey, welcome back," Shark said and widened his arms out like he was showing something off. "Come on in." He laughed.
Luciel let out a sharp gasp and she felt her heart and stomach plummet to the ground in seconds as her red eyes laid upon unconscious children on the floor, high school children too who looked to be only 18 or younger. She noticed one of them though was a Noble child that Shark was probably blabbing about before. Unlike the other kids though, he was injured with bruises all over his body along with handcuffs locked behind his back.
Krantz spoke up. "Who are these kids?"
Shark lightly kicked the Noble child upside the head. "I told you. He's the Noblesse and others were with him."
"He's young."
"Yeah? But he's quite good. You know what's interesting?" He pointed to the human children. "Three of them over there are the kids that had contact with Takeo and Tao. What a coincidence, right?"
Luciel's troubled face twisted even more. "What...?" She spoke weakly and looked over to Takeo and Tao.
Takeo tightened his jaw. "What does that have to do with why they're here?" He demanded.
"I told you. They were with the Noblesse. We needed them to get him. It's a good thing we don't have to make an extra round to go take care of them." Shark snickered.
Takeo's expression only darkened. "Take care of them? What do you mean?"
"We were going to eliminate them anyway. They had contact with you." Shark matched Takeo's icy glare.
"You were going to kill them because they had contact with me?"
"You really don't know? I always do this."
Shark's last comment cause Luciel to flinch and her body turned cold. She turned her head very slowly as her face contorted and horror and disgust crept to her once delicate and pretty features. The only thing that left her mouth was a small and weak "What?" Kill? All the people that Takeo made innocent contact with? Shark killed them all without him knowing? She saw Tao turn his face away regrettably.
Takeo's expression morphed as his skin paled. "Always do this? No, you didn't..." He demanded.
Shark twisted expression didn't fall. "I'll tell you if you didn't know. Everyone you met so far, are all gone. Just for pleasure? Just to save lives? For whatever reason, everyone you contacted is dead." They caught Takeo by surprise as he didn't have the slightest idea that Shark had killed all the people that Takeo came into contact with. "Innocent human all dead because of you, get it? Well, it did keep me excited..." He snickering was like daggers in Luciel's ears.
Takeo clenched his teeth tightly as his body boiled over with anger. "Shark!" He shouted at him but Krantz suddenly stopped him in his tracks before he could totally jump on Shark.
"Takeo, stop!" Krantz ordered.
"Krantz? You want me to tolerate what he did?" He glared at him.
An evil glint appeared in Shark's eyes. "Takeo, you got this all wrong. Krantz allowed everything."
"What?"
Kratz turned to Takeo, but his expression was less than pleased. "Shark's right. I ordered all those hits."
"What do you mean? Why would you..." Takeo's voice shook.
"Have you forgotten that keeping the organization safe is the top priority?" Krantz reminded him.
"But I haven't done anything so far that would compromise the organization. They wouldn't have known I was part of the Union." Takeo tried to convince him.
"Doesn't matter. Anyone that had any contact with you needs to be eliminated."
Shark chuckled. "Takeo, it's not just you. We all wanna make friends, but we just decide not to. Heh."
"Takeo, no more foolish behavior," Krantz ordered in a steely voice.
"Yeah, you should behave. Thank about your sister. She'll get in trouble..." Shark said.
Takeo flinched when his sister was mentioned and hung his head in defeat. "Damnit." He spun around and walked out of the room.
Luciel glanced over to M-21, but his expression gave it away. He knew these kids. He knew the noble child.
Shark placed a hand on Tao's shoulder. "Tao, I had no choice. The kid with glasses was with the noblesse. I wanted to leave him out but... You understand, right?"
Lies. It was all lie's. Luciel could smell the blood coming off him and the excited look in his eyes. He loves doing this. He loves playing the motiveless villain. Every person he killed he can probably remember the exact moment they ceased to breathe, their last dying words, and what they were doing beforehand. So many lives, and such a wast. Luciel could not remember the exact moment when human became corrupted, but she wondered though...why they became like this?
"Shark, why did you bring kids here instead of getting rid of them?" Krantz asked.
"They may be useful," Shark said. "M-21. What's your relationship with this guy?" He tapped the noble on the head with his feet.
M-21 tried to play it off with a smirk. "I told you. You asked me before, remember? I also told you to bring me what I wanted to know if you want the information."
"Yeah, right." Shark looked over to the kids. "Yeah, I can just ask them what your connection is." He said as the kids started to come too. "Oh? The kids are waking up."
The children groaned and clenched the back of their head as they sat up. M-21 spun around to avoid them spotting him, catching Luciel's attention and worry. He knew the kids just by his reaction.
"Hey, students~ Yo all awake now?" Shark walked over to them and asked.
Shinwu's head immediately spun around. His eyes scanned around the room to every person that was in it. He didn't know where they are, and who these people were. He felt his stomach drop with the thought of them being kidnapped.
"What a nice country. They eat and live well, so the boys and girls look good." Shark walked over to the girls as they were still coming to their senses. "Especially the girls..."
"Hey!" Shinwu alerted and jumped to his feet when the weird man got to close to his friends
Yuna tried to talk to Shark in a nerves voice. "Who are you?" She asked as Sui hid behind her. "Why did you bring us here?"
Shark grinned eerily. "Oh, you're pretty and even have a nice voice."
Ikhan looked to his left side and saw Regis. "Regis!" He crawled over to his friend and saw that he was unconscious and beaten up. "He's hurt! Regis, wake up." He then noticed what was binned on his friend's wrists. Cuffs. "W-What's this?"
Their hearts stopped like it just died and tears began to well up in their innocent eyes at the sight of their friend unconscious and beaten up.
Shark snarled at the weeping kids. "Don't make a fuss. He's passed out, not dead, so be quiet."
Through Ikhan's blurry eyes, he saw someone he knew he wouldn't have forgotten. He slowly goes to this feet and called out in a light voice. "Bro? Is that you?"
Tao tightened his saw and gave a regret-filled smile. "We met sooner than I thought."
Shark's crackling laugh suddenly filled the room and caused Luciel to jump from shock. "Did you hear that? He called Tao bro."
"Tao?" Ikhan said. "That's your name?"
"Yes," Tao responded reluctantly, knowing that he wouldn't get out of here alive, knowing his name.
"What's going on? Why are we here?" Ikhan demanded.
Yuna called out to him. "Ikhan, you know him?" She asked.
"I met him once before..." Ikhan said in a disbelieving voice.
"Why is he here? They brought us here?"
Shark cut in with that usual gin on his face. "I brought you here. "The several of you... I worked out a bit."
Shinwu clenched his teeth and glared. "Why did you bring us here?"
Shark's grin fell instantly. He moved faster then the eye could see and slammed Shinwu into the ground with a hard and loud slam that cracked the ground. "You little..." Shark pressed his foot into the child's head. "Why should I tell you? Do I have to answer your question? Huh?"
The children screamed till their throats went raw and cried for him to stop. "Stop! Stop it!" Tears streamed down their eyes.
"Noisy..." A voice cut in and everyone turned around and saw Regis slowly sat up with an annoyed look on his face. "It's so noisy... I can't sleep."
"Regis!"
Shark grinned. "You woke up faster than I expected. Noblesse really have a good recovery, huh?"
Regus glared at the man who did this to him. "This is nothing no need to make a fuss. Why don't you move your feet? You wanna hurt innocent kids?"
Shark looked down at the kid he was still stepping on. "Oh, he was out of line and I was teaching him a lesson..." he took his foot awake and Ikhan dragged his friend away. "Good. Now that you're awake, let's ask you some questions." He looked over to where M-21 was standing. "M-21." He called out with a deviant smile.
M-21 knew that he couldn't get himself out of this anymore without the kids knowing that he was here. So, he began to turn around and totally revealed his handsome yet cold looks, and the children eyes were filled with horror and shock.
"Mister!"
Their reaction made Shark full of glee. "What the...they know you, too?"
Luciel wasn't surprised but at the same time, she wished it wasn't true. She hoped to was all a lie because now the kid's chances of surviving were even slimmer than before.
"Why are you here?" Ikhan asked with wide eyes.
M-21 didn't answer.
"We were worried. We didn't see you for a few days..." Yuna said.
M-21 still didn't answer and wished that they would stop asking so many questions.
"Say something! What's going on?" Ikhan demanded in a loud voice. "What's going on? Why are you here?"
"Hey," Shark called out. "They want to know. Tell them something. M-21, you know many people... You know these kids, too?" He covered his mouth to stop himself from laughing.
M-21 smirked. "Know them? Well... I've seen them a few times, but nothing special. No reason for me to know those kids."
His cold words left them in utter shock and were barely able to say anything as they felt like they were hit.
Hammer chewed the food in his mouth. "This is getting more interesting. Never thought this mission would be so fun." he reached into his pocket to pull out something else to eat but came up empty. "Huh? I can't watch something this fun without anything to eat." He got up off his chair. "Shark. I'm gonna get something from the safe house. Don't finish this while I'm gone." He walked to the door.
"Okay, hurry up," Shark called out and Hammer left.
This whole situation was making Luciel sick to her stomach. She clenched her fists tightly till they shook and stared at the ground.
Shark pointed to M-21. "Hey, you." He said to Regis. "How do you know each other? You two seem to know each other, but he's not talking."
Regis's expression didn't change. "Sure. We don't know each other. So there's nothing he could have told you."
"Oh my," M-21 smirked. "He just told you an important fact."
Red veins popped up in Shark's eye with a wave of growing anger. "You are a rare Noblesse and you know him... that's nothing?"
Regis's red eye gleamed at him. "You want us to make something up don't you?"
"I just know him because of m cover mission," M-21 said. "Same with the kids over there."
Shark's glared between them. He knew that they were pretending to not know each other.
He then looked to the kids. "Really? So there's nothing going on?" His face twisted as his pupils became small and a sadistic grin crept to his face that sent a shiver down their spin like sharp icicles. "Them those kids are useless now?" His plan caused them to freeze. "Then they aren't needed anymore, right. I was going to ask them about your relation, but now there's nothing to ask them. They are useless. So I should get rid of them."
Shinwu didn't know what this crazy man was talking about. He feared what he meant by 'get rid of them'.
"Shark, wait." Tao cut in. "You don't need to kill them even if we don't need them. We can erase their memory with the pill we have."
"Tao, what do you mean?"
Tao looked to Krantz. "Krantz, What do you think? That's why they gave it to us." It may cause brain damage if applied several times, but it's better then dying. It won't affect normal life.
Krantz's voice was cold and his eyes were void of any life when he spoke his answer which made the Chimera stop breathing. "Not allowed."
Tao was taken back. "Krantz!"
"We don't leave any risk behind." He said coldly.
Shark smirked. "The, shall we get rid of these packages?" He walked over to Regis.
"You should be ashamed." Regus spat. "You have nothing else but to harass innocent kids?"
"Shut up!" Shark aggressively struck Regis across the face and blood was splattered on the floor and dripped from his mouth.
"Well, it suits guys like you." Regis was held up in the air by his hair. "It's something guys like you who gave up being human would do."
Shark clenched his teeth. "You little!" He punched him and Regis's face was whipped to the side. He murderously started to pound on the child's face. "I'll make you beg for your life! But I won't kill you. I will take you to the lab alive and people will do experiments on you!"
SWAM
SWAM
SAWM
The kids cried out once again, pleading, begging for him to stop as Shark continued his assault on the kid. With every punch and swat, blood would spin onto the ground as his face became black and blue
"No!"
"Stop it!" The kids continued to pleading with their cracked voices.
Shinwu rose to his feet. "You piece of...Stop it!"
Shinwu charged at Shark with his fist raised.
Luciel gasped from the child's reckless attack and covered her eyes with the palm of her hands.
Shark swung his arm out to knock the kid away, but Shinwu ducked down below his fist and threw out his arm, punching Shark clear in the jaw. Stopping him in his tracks.
Raizel and Frankenstein stood on a rooftop looking down at a park that was surrounded by police. The park was in shambles with obvious sign of a supernatural battle.
"There's a sign of struggle, but no sign of the kids," Frankenstein informed his master. "We should go to the Union lab that was shut down, for now.
The night air blew through Raizel's pitch black hair as he gazed over the city with his red eyes. "Frankenstein. Do you think Luciel has anything to do with them?"
Frankenstein expression turned serious and when he spoke, he didn't hesitate. "It has been 900 years since we've seen Luciel, but I know...she wouldn't do anything that would cause trouble for innocent people. Luciel has always been against...unjust things. She will not be able to stand still."
Raizel didn't say anything and not only trusted Frankenstein judgment, but his own as well. They knew that woman in and out.
Luciel slowly removed her hands and was shocked to see a completely normal child, has actually managed to land a punch on an enchanted human.
Shinwu felt like he just hit a rock. His fist was bruised and shaking from the blow he did, and it looked like it just hurt him more than Shark.
Shark slit his tongue to the inside of his left cheek. "How embarrassing. You Punk." He glared with veins popping in his forehead. "I'll kill you!" He charged at him.
"I will give you a piece of ingot if you let them go." M-21 suddenly cut in and that made Shark halt in place.
Shark looked over his shoulder. "What?"
"You can erase their memory with that pill, Tao mentioned earlier. I assure you that the info I give is worth it." He tried to assure them these unpredictable people. "How's that?" He asked Krantz.
M-21 didn't even know what he just said. His words just came out before he could even think about it.
Krantz still kept with his cold as ice answer. "I told you. We leave no risks behind."
Sharks laughed sounded like a crow squawking. "Shall we continue?" He grabbed Shinwu by his neck and began to strangle the poor kids. "Now pay for your actions!"
Shinwu felt his airway close up immediately and the veins popped up in his neck. His eye rolled to the back of his head as his friends cried and screamed.
"Stop it! Stop!"
"You'll kill him!"
Shark mocked the kids while killing their friend. "You will don't get it!? I'm doing it to kill him!"
Luciel reached up and plugged her ears with her hands to try to block out the sound of the desperate pleating. She knew that she shouldn't jump it. She couldn't risk. She can't. She didn't want to.
70 years.
70 years of peace.
She didn't want to jump in then she would run the risk of giving her location away...and if he found her again, then she would have to go through the hell all over again.
She can't.
She can't.
Luciel was too scared.
M-21 closed his eyes and block out the sound. He tried his best to ignore them and their cries.
If he made a move then it's all over. He couldn't get the information that he so desperately wanted, and if he gave it up, then M-24 death would be in vain.
He couldn't.
Not when he's so close.
These kids have nothing to do with him...
He doesn't care if they die or not...
He spent some peaceful time with them and now he's all emotional. The time they walked home together. The time they played this game. The time they mocked him for being so bad at it.
It was nice.
It was a normal human life.
M-21 scoffed and leaped. Razor sharp claws ripped through Shark's arm like paper and he immediately released Shinwu.
M-21 knew he was going to let his friends down, but...
"Transformation?" The DA-5 gasped. "No way! A low-level agent can transform?
Luciel's eyes widen and her breathing got caught in her throat at the sight unraveling before her. "That's..." She eyed his hand that was covered in a thick layer of gray fur and with nails grown out to claws that hooked.
"Mister?" The kids called out in shock but were met with an overwhelming amount of relief and happiness.
...He can apologize in hell for his betrayal.
M-21 smirked and glanced over his shoulder at the kids. "You guys...don't call me mister for now on.
Luciel took a deep breath, but her lips quivered. She felt ashamed, just absolutely ashamed of herself.
Why did she become like this?
Is she so scared that she can't save a couple of kids?
Luciel clenched her fists so tightly they turned white. She gazed up M-21 as he stood against the DA-5 to protect the kids.
Is it worth it? She doesn't know but will regret it if she never figuring it out.