Saint Elizabeth's Public Library, After Midnight
"I have a bad felling about this." Charles was the first person to break the silence.
"Hum… Mister Smalls sorry, but I can leave you the ghost, is very dangerous and need to be properly secure." Ophelia tried to explain.
Sadly her words were falling at deaf ears.
Marshall Smalls just stayed in silence, listening to the explanation of why having the ghost was a bad idea, the shadow of the building hiding his eyes.
Then he began to walk right to Ophelia. "My dear, it seems like you misunderstand me! I was asking." he whispered the last part, but before he could get closer to the young hunter, Gaston put a hand on the old man shoulder.
"Mister Smalls, I understand that you may be angry with this ghost after all the things that she did, but believe us, we have everything under control." The giant of a man tried to explain.
After a few second of silence the old man begun to chuckle, then begun to laugh. "Hahahahaha! Oh no young man, I assure you, you don't control anything." Marshall Smalls was a little and fragile man, without doubt he was the kind of man that need help with difficult tasks, so when he use his right hand to hold Gaston writs it was a surprise that he manage to hurt him, then slowly the Mister Smalls raised his head to see Gaston right to his eyes.
When Gaston looked at the old man eyes he could help but to take a step back surprise at the bright red eyes, suddenly the Marshall Smalls began to transform in front of everybody, his body turn black as the night, he grown twice his size, his ears become pointed and his jaw was full of very sharp teeth, and the fingers of his hands turned into claws –one that was still holding Gaston wrist- Overall it looked like a demon… in an old man suit.
With ease the demon rise Gaston to his face and began to talk, his voice deep and distorted. "Like I say, I wasn't asking!" Then he throws the young hunter right at Charles.
"Agh!"
And change his attention at Ophelia again. "I won't repeat myself again dear, give the ghost. NOW!"
Ophelia was scared, no she terrified, no even worse she was confused, the man that was is front of her, the man that had hire her for her first job, had just become in some kind of demon, a part of her couldn't stop asking question, what it was? How could transform like that? Why it wants the ghost? But another part of her, a bigger part, just wanted to run away from the horrible beast in front of her.
"Wh… Why do yo… you want her?" Ophelia managed to ask, trying to calm herself and win some time.
"Tsk tsk dear, that is secret, one that you don't need to know, now it seems that I will need to take that ghost from your hands, such a shame really, but you should thank me, I will kill you fast, if it were some of my other colleagues… Well, it's better if you don't know, now, just close your eyes." But before the demon could move, Ophelia took her gun and shoot and the monster, right at his face, unfortunately the monsters was capable of resisting the energy of the gun, and just was move a few inches backwards.
"Ugh, That's some nasty toy you have here my dear, that's probably going to hurt in the morning, well it seems that we're going to do this the hard way, remember that it was your choice when you are in ground in a pool of you own blood." Immediately the demon ran towards one of the shadows of the library, disappearing.
Ophelia just stand still, shocked in her own actions, before she ran towards her allies.
"Guys? Guys come on get up, the demon, monster or whatever just disappeared in the shadows and could attack in any moment, we need to move!" She yelled while shaking the two bodies in the ground.
Charles was the first in waking up. "Ughhhh Gaston what do you eat you fat bastard, get off me." He complained.
"Ugh, I apologize Charles." Gaston answered sheepishly.
Ophelia in the other hand was beginning to lose her patience. "Lest apologizes and more moving! Demon monster thing, hiding in the shadows!"
After a few moments -filled with more complains and apologizes- both men were up and ready.
"Ok, seriously what de hell is happening? Did de old man dat hired us just become a demon? cause dat's dark magic of very high grade, either he's a human dat can use demon or a demon dat can transform into a human, in any case we need to get out of here, we can't fight dat thing." Charles explained with a little bit of fear in his eyes.
"What? No, we can't just leave like cowards! Don't you want to know what is happening here? Why this monster was here at the first place? And what if it end hurting others?" Ophelia said in return, here was fear in her eyes just like Charles, but they had a bit of determination too.
Charles sighed with sadness. "Listen I get it, you're frustrated, but if you're going to enter de world of de supernatural you need to accept dat here are some things dat are simply too strong, believe me I had to learn dat lesson too," He answered with a frown. "Beside for all we know the monster is playing with us right now waiting for us to make a plan before getting out of the shadows ready to kill us."
Gaston, that was simply watching the discussion from the side, decide that moment to talk. "If I may, I think I know where to get some answers, but we should get to a safer place first." He said while letting his eyes travel right to ghost cube of Ophelia.
The other two hunters followed his eyes.
"Oh you have to be kidding."