The cobblestones of Dublin's back street were being explored by the soles of a slender man in a black drench coat. He took his graffling knives and held them ready. There weren't many tall buildings to swing from but he needed a good run any way. It would keep him distracted from the sickly thoughts running through his head of what he planned to do to the kidnappers of his friend.
He saw the van pull down the narrow streets towards the old harbor. Hei ran faster, unable to keep the van in sight but the screams of the life like Doll echoed throughout his head. He was getting a job from Huang. A simple killing, not hard but he hard told Yin to wait out front while he went in the closed off room. Their meeting place was a restaurant with a closed off back room for high paying costumers. Hei was getting the job when there was smashing plates and screams coming from the front.
By the time he got to the counter the robbers were gone and so was Yin. Hei ran out the doors stepping on the sandwich Yin had ordered for him. The job was quit different from the usual's, it had taken him to Dublin, Ireland. The rendezvous restaurant was in a small town. He wasn't in Tokyo anymore and that small fact wasn't helping him. Hei had no idea were to go, he had never been to western Europe. But the squeaking tires and speeding truck diving into traffic led Hei far away from the city and he's been following since.
That was two days ago almost three within the next few hours as the sun was barely up and there was no sigh of the truck. Hei checked the nearest buildings on the docking decks, the van had to be somewhere. A large ship was making dock, people swarmed the landing stage and one man in particular looked very unhappy upon the rest that looked scared to even come near him. A loud horn sounded and a bell rung. Hei ducked behind some barrels as several awkward dressed men and women armed came running up the sides. The same important looking person with a deep tan complexion and scars covering his whole face met the troopers half way.
"This man is very dangerous and unstable. He was on a boarded lock ship being transported over on death row. You are to shoot him on sight and whatever you do, do not let him touch you. That is all." The minions scattered in every direction. One man checked behind the barrels but there wasn't anything there. Hei zipped along the tops of the buildings searching for Yin or the van. But unfortunately to his annoyance there where people everywhere, looking everywhere. If he didn't fins them first they sure would and it wasn't going to be pretty.
There was a noise to the side barn below him. The scavengers hadn't gotten that far back into the rows of the maze of buildings. Hei uncoiled a graffiling knife and threw it, it made its mark above the door, then attached the other end to the roof he was on and slid across. He unfastened the wire buckling it back up and peered inside the open door. There, hidden poorly but surely not a figment of his imagination was the truck. As he flipped over an jumped down the doors banged open and a man in a crazy protecting suit came stumbling out.
He pushed pass Hei and his shoulders. Hei stumbled then with his quick reflexes started after the man. He ran around a building. When Hei got to the corner the man came running back full speed. Hei ran after him avoiding the beam lights of the detectives flash lights. "I thought I saw something." one said. "Over there." another pointed.
Hei was closing in on him but this guy, wrapped up like a mummy or not he was light on his feet. Al though he stumbled here and there he kept his balance and the Black Reaper some ways behind him. Hei felt the currents rush over and through him, a sensational feeling he could never get over but didn't show it even with the mask on. He directed the electricity at the man and when they made contact on his bare feet he stifled a scream and went sprawling to the ground.
When Hei was a few feet behind him he took his double bladed knife in both hands. "Where is Yin?" The man didn't answer. Probably because his face was still in the dirt. He struggled to his knees then balanced clumsily to his feet and turned slowly towards Hei. His eyes were blank like they didn't know the sight of day in forever. His eye were small black circles but they looked clumsily towards Hei. He figured, the guy was on drugs or drunk but either way Hei wasn't about to let him leave without an answer. "Tell me where Yin is. And I'll make it less painful for you." He demanded.
The prisoner rolled his head around his neck. The sun came from behind Hei and lightly touched the disgruntle mans face. His eyes weren't black any more instead they were turning a light blue color but dull of life, he shrugged his shoulders. "You can say you'll loosen the pain from the wrap but it won't matter, neither is it the truth. After having been imprisoned for as long as I have you don't notice them." His speech was slurred and lazy. He truly was out of it but Hei was still on guard. That's not what he meant, the threat was he wouldn't inflict as much pain as he wanted to on the attacker and kidnapper had he just simply told him the whereabouts of Yin.
"Such a shame." He sighed half whispered. "And here I thought I was finally about to be freed." he shrugged. "Oh well." He pulled the clothe off him and threw himself at Hei. He must have been working up that energy. Because Hei barely dodged his oncoming man slaughter. He kept coming at Black Reaper but the more he move the more his attacks became sluggish but the impact was still there. He punched at Hei's face and had him backing up until he was blocked by a metal wall. Hei jumped high, landing a yard away from the deranged lunatic. Hei conducted the currents around him and unleashed them full blast at the man. He kept it going. The building waned and groaned to the magnetic pressure then shards of metal came flying towards the man. Hei ducked; the man held his hands up and the air around him buzzed then as the flying arsenal came at him it all disappeared. The man inhaled deeply. He held his hands up to his face examining them and the air buzzed again. "Oh yeah. You don't know how good it feels having my magic back." Magic? Noe Hei knew he had lost it or he never had it to began with. The man looked up at him gleefully, a crooked smirk that would chill anyone directed to. "And you my sad friend are about to witness it first class." Hei threw a hook. The man shunted out of the way where it would have hit him square in the face had he really been there.
Hei had no idea how he did that. Was it the "magic" he was talking about earlier. Either way he had no time to ask because the man was shunting everywhere and Hei didn't know where he was until he was right on top of him and crunched Hei's face in as he fell to the ground. Silas sat on top of him and held a tight grip on his collar. A burning sensation vibrated his body and Hei realized he was screaming. But he couldn't hear it. His body was moving faster than the speed of sound. The man on top him looked down like an over eager child. He held Hei tightly then crouched down and slapped him in the face before getting up and leaving the barely conscious man behind.
Hei pushed himself to his elbows. Everything was blurry he could barely tell which hand was his. He saw the upside down, twisted then slightly more focused picture of a man walking more upright than a bookcase shelf. He wheezed it out but managed to say, "who are you?" The man turned back and gave a small wave. "The names Silas Nadir, and I won't be seeing you anytime soon around here." he laughed. By then Hei managed to get on his feet. There was light glowing in the distance. Was he dying? But no he wasn't. The light came from the flash lights of the people from before but for some odd reason what he thought to be flash lights looked more to be fire. Are they holding torches? Hei didn't find that out. He slunked into the shadows holding his broken mask in his hand while clutching his arm in the folds of his elbow. He, like the man, was gone without a trace.