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Reports.
"You poor insufferable fool!" Yelled Samuel. "Why did you murder the wanker and his wife!?"
"You said to spy on those poachers, and well, obviously there couldn't of been two of the same. As for his wife, she was a witness." Said the man in green armor.
"Do you realize what you've done? You potentially attracted attention to both yourself and to us!" Said Samuel, with both anger and with a hint of a matter of fact tone.
"So what? What are a few miserable poachers compared to the likes of us." Said the green armored man.
"Well, Desmond, in your report, you said that only a few of these quote unquote "poachers" could take down a full grown Behemasaur with relative ease.
A whole squadron of them could easily take out all 6 of us, which is why I'm upset that you recklessly slashed away, potentially giving your position away!" Said Samuel. Samuel facepalms and begins to rub his temples.
"Well, it's not my fault that this armor has an impulse to kill every once in a while." Said Desmond, with a matter of fact tone.
"Your enhancements aren't an excuse for lack of self control!" Said Samuel.
"Heh heh heh." Laughed Desmond.
At that moment, Jethro walks in through the door.
"Ah, Jethro. What do you have to report?" Asked Samuel.
"The..." Began Jethro.
"That doesn't have anything over that witch you keep prattling on about." Said Samuel.
"I searched far and wide in that guild, not a single Blazing Soul was found though." Said Jethro.
"Impossible! Are you absolutely sure?" Asked Samuel.
Jethro simply nods his head.
"Unbelievable. A magic guild of all things doesn't have a single Blazing Soul. Unbelievable. Are you sure you looked everywhere Jethro?" Asked Samuel again.
"Boss, unless there was some secret switch laid out somewhere, revealing some sort of secret passage, I checked every single square inch of that building."
Said Jethro.
Samuel takes out some sort of circlet. The circlet glows a shining red. Jethro begins to shake uncontrollably and groan in pain.
"I don't like that tone of voice, Jethro. You seem to be forgetting whose in charge of this operation. The only reason why you carry that Arm of yours, let alone live is because of this delightful little trinket. If you want to live a little longer, I suggest you show me just a little bit more respect. Do I make myself clear, Jethro?" Said Samuel, both calmly and menacingly.
"Urrrrrrrrrgh. Yes...Sir!" Moaned Jethro.
Jethro puts the circlet back in some drawer, and Jethro drops down to the ground, breathing heavily.
"You two seem to not get the situation at hand here. If this operation is to go accordingly, we need to find as many of those Blazing Souls as possible. I had the same talk with Zoriath, Alexia, and Lilith earlier." Said Samuel.
"Glad to hear we're not the only ones having trouble." Said Desmond.
"All of you are going to be in even deeper trouble if results don't start to present themselves!" Said Samuel. "Jethro."
"Yes sir?" Asked Jethro, still breathing heavily slightly.
"Seeing how that guild of witches doesn't seem to possess a Blazing Soul, continue your search in some other area in that particular region." Said Samuel.
"Considering if there is any." Said Jethro.
"And what about me sir?" Asked Desmond.
"If these poachers are as much of a problem as you say they are, then I want them taken care of immediately!" Said Samuel. "Here's the key to the lab, take any Bio Sin you think can do the job."
"Why can't I just slice and dice them?" Asked Desmond.
"Because quite frankly, after that last stunt you pulled, we can't afford you to almost mess up our obscurity again!" Said Samuel. "Dismissed."
"Yes sir." Said both Jethro and Desmond. The two of them open the door and leave, closing it behind them.
"Sigh" Sighed Samuel. "All of this trouble, the five of them are usually much more competant than this. But still, there's always some sort of setback, and in the end, it will all be worth it." Thought Samuel to himself.
We cut to a large dark den. In the shadows looms a giant. The darkness obscures pretty much all the details, but we soon move to the head of the giant, and we see a single red eye, glowing menacingly.
Meanwhile.
David is shown shaking his head, as is Fred. All of the other workers behind them are shown with looks of shock and disbelief.
The scene laid before them is indeed very graphic. Blood is shown to be splattered all across the walls and floor. There are large gashes all across some parts of the wall. Tapestry is shown to be ripped, curtains utterly ruined, and on the floor, we are shown the body of both a man and a woman. The man is shown wearing a light brown uniform, similar to that of an old fashioned sheriff, he is shown to have a brown moustache, and short brown hair. Across his body are large, thin slash marks, bleeding rather slowly. The woman is shown to be wearing a white and blue dress, and is shown to have long black hair. We see no details on her face, as it is shown hugging the bloody floor. There are no slash marks like on the man, but rather two small holes through her torso.
Blood stains shown to have stained the back of her upper body.
A man approaches the two bodies, looks down and shakes his head. He then approaches both David and Fred.
"Who could of done this?" Asked the man.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Said David.
"There is no way a monster did this." Said Fred.
"No man or woman I know is capable of doing this type of damage." Said David.
"Especially to this scale." Said the man. "But at the same time, the wounds on their bodies seem to be too neat to come from any monster."
"How bizarre." Said Fred. "How long have they been dead."
"Based on the conditions of the wounds, and the condition of the blood, not to mention the smell, they've pretty much been dead for the past month." Said the man.
"A whole month!" Said David.
"We were none the wiser." Said Fred.
"So, who was that man that we've been reporting to for the past month?" Asked one of the workers.
"A good question." Said David. "Now that you mention it, we haven't seen him since that night all the monsters attacked."
"So, not an hour into the investigation, and we already have a prime suspect." Said Fred.
"He probably knew that we'd find out sometime after this, therefore bolted when he had the chance." Said David.
"Shit, at this point and time, he could be at the other side of the countryside by now. Maybe even farther." Said Fred.
"Don't worry, scum bags like him don't get away with this type of stuff for long. I'll just have the department put out a warrant and bounty on his head."
Said the man. "Now, you said he looked exactly like your boss?"
"Yeah." Said David.
The man simply nods his head. "Have a good day gentlemen."
The man walks off. One by one, the workers go, leaving the scene behind them. Fred and David look back at both their boss' and his wife's bodies.
"They didn't deserve to be chopped up like pigs." Said David.
"There's nothing we can do about it now." Said Fred. "Let's just get out of here, and let the people from the funeral home claim the bodies."
"Right." Said David.
The two of them leave, and a whole team of people go into the house, and proceed with their business.
We cut to Noel, jumping around, dodging some sort of red spiked ball. The spiked ball crashes into a tree, and unravels, revealing itself to be some sort of anteater like creature. It lashes out it's tongue, which rapidly fluctuates. On both of it's hands are two razor sharp claws. It makes some sort of hissing noise and once again goes on the offensive. Noel dodges the attack. It uncurls, and lashes towards him with it's claws out. Noel lashes towards the monster also.
"HYAH!" Yelled Noel.
SLASH!
Noel and the antearter creature land on opposite ends, their backs facing each other. A few moments pass by, and the anteater creature falls forward, dead.
Noel places the sword back in it's holder as the monster's corpse spontaneously combusts.
"Sigh." Sighed Noel, he then notices Fred and David walking towards him.
"You seemed to make a full recovery." Commented David.
"Yeah." Said Noel. "So, what's up with the boss man, is he OK?"
"That's what we're here to talk about. Joshua's dead Noel." Said Fred.
"What!?" Asked Noel.
"Yup. Both him and his wife." Said David.
"For how long?" Asked Noel, now clearly shocked at the revelation.
"A month." Said David.
"Who could of done this." Asked Noel.
"We don't know. Whoever, or whatever it was though, won't get away with it." Said Fred. "The sheriff is already putting out a warrant and bounty now as we speak. We told him he looked exactly like our boss, with scars under his eyes for a description."
"How long do you suppose that will take?" Asked Noel.
"If we had any idea, we'd tell you." Said David. "Don't worry about it, that scumbag will be caught, I just know it."
"I suppose. Still though, that man and his wife didn't deserve to be murdered." Said Noel.
"Joshua was a good man, his wife a good woman. They will be sorely missed." Said David.
"Just don't worry about it too much, things will return to normal, and we'll be back to doing our usual routine." Said Fred.
"Yeah." Said Noel.
"Come on, there is still work to be done. The men could really use some help taking down some of the monsters spotted on the western part of the forest."
Said David, taking out his crossbow.
"Right!" Said Noel. The three of them soon run off west.
Some time later, we are shown to be back at Noel's house. Noel is shown to be laying down on his bed, staring at the cieling.
"Who could of done it?" Thought Noel to himself. He sighs. "I shouldn't lose sleep over it."
He shuts his eyes, and turns his body into a comfortable position. We see the outside of the house again, and here the howling of a wolf.
Author's Notes: Well, here's Chapter 8 for you, I do sincerely hope that you enjoyed reading it. Leave a comment or a review, if you like, and have a good day, night, afternoon, whenever you read this. See you next chapter!