The moon hands bright in the sky, as we look down at the base
Three knights site outside the entrance, guarding, waiting for any threat that might appear.
I look at Okin, as she's crouched next to me up a hill. "Got a plane to get in." I whisper to her, but she shakes her head.
"No, I can't think of a way inside. We need a distraction, so that Lloyd can break us in." She begins to think, placing a hand on her chin, till she seemed to have figured something out. "I have a pla-"
I cut her off, standing from our crouched position.
"What the hell are you doing?" She quietly yells at me.
"You needed a distraction right? Then I'll make."
"No! what is wrong with you just listen and we can-"
I jump sliding down the hill, as a rifle made of shadows forms on my my shoulder.
"Not much we can do know." Lloyd shrugs making Okin more pist.
"That fucking idiot. god he never listen and does what he wants. Your his best friend talk to him, because when we get back I'm going to kill him."
Alaina crawls closer placing her hands together. "I pray for his safe travels through the afterlife."
"Don't just give up on him."
They starting traveling around the hill to find a point where Lloyd can use his ability, will I cause a distraction.
As I make it the bottom of the hill I charge at the first knight that stands gaurd, pushing the barrel of the rifle into his mouth making him fall to the ground. "Bang." I pull the trigger it makes no sound but the damage is clear only his bottom jaw remains.
The other two nights becom startled but I've already started my move.
The rifle start shrinking retracting back to me crawling down itself from the barrel as it changes shape.
I lift up the once rifle now turned hand-canon, spikes protruding form the barrel, I pull the trigger to the knight on the left pierceing his knee making him fall.
The other knight is quick to charge, swinging his sword down but I block with the gun.
Shadows start to form in my hand creaping up forming a short black dagger thats needle like in its blade appearance, with a wide sharp body that getter progressively thinner at the tip.
I stab the dagger into his neck, as grips at his throat he gasp falling to the ground.
I turn to the final knight approaching as he quivers on the ground, out of fear or from the pain is unknown to me.
I give him a tooth smile as I tower over him, I can almost see tears in his eyes.
The dagger in my hand is getting wrapped up by more shadows, making it longer and wider into a fine sword of the same design.
"No please! I have a wife and kid-" I lop his head off it's quick.
I look up at the camera that was pointed at the front gates, watching. "Come and get me. I'll wait right here."
I point the hand-canon at the camera pulling the trigger destroying it.
I turn around and walk to the middle of the oppen area, creating a chair made from shadows, I site down and start thinking about the past two years.
I'm eighteen now and I've gotten more comfortable with MPS now doing missions but I don't care to much I did it to find my sister. I've gotten closer to everyone even people outside our team, but its mainly been the four of us
I learned more about mutants, we're apparently widely hated not just by the Pure-Knights with us being separated by two factions, ones working for the Pure-knights and the other becoming rougues, seen as dangerous and needed to be put down.
Then I think to my team, Okin has become the leader of the team she's smart and better skilled in combat than I. Then theres Lloyd he has no fighting skill he focuses on using his ability, the only problem is his ability is destructive he could hurt not just everyone around him but himself. And finally Alaina, her kindness has not left her and her mutation has gotten stronger she now keeps her eyes closed. She had made Lloyd beat himself just by thinking it.
I start reflecting on myself, I've been training, my consitration, and my weapon handling, I'm fairly good with a sword. I've become cruel over these years, I love combat getting hit, hitting, makes me feel something besides the angry and sadness that the knights left. My team has made it better for me, we're almost like a family.
"Al, how close am I to you teaching me a new abilitie?" Al comes out my shadow, his white smile and single glowing eye have never changed.
"Your 98% there."
"Even after 2 years. Why is it taking so long?"
"The quality counts as well."
"Whatever we have company." He dissappear into my shadow as Pure-Knights surround me, with both gun and sword.
My smirk stretches as they surround me. I don't move from my chair i dont need to.
Shadows begin emerge from there feet, silhouette of people from all shapes and sizes, the only thing they have in common is there white smile.
They push the guns up in the air as I summon more with weapons to help me in my assault.
I create to sword in my hand as I charge at the knights, my shadows doing the same. We stab into flesh they yell in the air as I aquire more shadows and unwanted thoughts, as the last thing on there mind enters my head, some had family.
All that lies around me now is dead men as I push the thoughts in the back of my mind. They wouldn't have spared my family, so neither will I.
I approach the door its still sealed shut, I even nock on it to see how hard it is.
With that I grip my sword, all my consitration focused on my sword making it sharper, as darkness wraps around it.
I plung the sword, with no effert into the door, moving it cutting a diamond shape and pushing it down.
"Should have just walked in like this. I wounder how the others are doing?"
The three team members run to the side, hearing the sounds of the fighting faid.
Okin continues cursing my name, not only in English but in her native tongue as well. "Damn that idiot. How can someone be such a Ðụpiń."
"What does that translate to?" Lloyd ask curious.
"Don't worry about it." Okin comes to a hault. "Right here is were we'll break in." She touches the wall her, hand turning into a robot like arm with green veins. She scans through the wall. "Lloyd, right here."
Okin steps back grabbing Alaina pulling her some distance away, moving her behind her to protect from ruble.
Lloyd stretches his hand out as the air around his fingers ripple. It grow more aggressive in movement, before Lloyd shoots it from his hand breaking the wall down.
They head in through the demolished wall, were lights blare red through the halls.
Okin places her mechanic hand on the ground, creating a green grid that spead through the halls mapping out the building. She lifts up her arm creating a projected map from her forearm.
She leads the others through the halls, doing another area scan at every corner to detect any passing knight, but they make it to there destination without issue.
They arrive in the only room without red light. It's dark with the only thing aluminating the room being the massive monitor connected to the walls with a terminal just under it. Okin walks to the terminal, pulling a cord from her wrist, she plugs it in locations of auction houses begin to transfer.
Alaina stands watch, only one knight appeared through the process and she just sent him away with her ability.
The download completes, and Lloyd lets out a joyful sigh. "Finally I can go home and rest." He says with tears almost leaving his eyes.
Leaving the room back to the red halls, that are extremely quite not a sight of life around. "This is kinda creepy." Lloyd says as him Alaina hold eachother.
"Cowards." Okin give a quick insult but they continue walking through the halls, till finally they stumble upon life or what was left of it. Body's scattered the hallways torn and cut appart. What was once there insides now trail the floor, with the red ooz of blood everywhere.
Alaina puts her hands over her eyes, and Lloyd gagas holding down what he eat before the mission.
"I understand hating them but this is too much." Okin comments at the revolting seen before her.
"He did a number on them. Lets just continue." Lloyd walks not wanting to look down or step on a corpse.
Okin starts walking until Alaina grips her hand, Okin turns to see Alaina's worried face. "Don't you think he's OK."
Okin pauses, she wants to say something to comfort her to tell her I'm alright but she can't. "I'm not sure he is, but I do know that at least he has us. Let's do what we can for him as he would for us because I'm positive we can at least help him."
Alaina's face has less worry, despite still having doubt Okin's words do bring comfort to her.
Okin takes Alaina's hand and leads her across the body's, taking steps to prevent her from having to look at the body's.
They finally make it outside they pause seeing me at the entrance. I stretch my arms out like a hug with a smile waving to them, the first to approach is Okin. She starts walking into a light jog, I close my eyes with a smirk but I open them quickly as I hear her voice. "YOU DUMBASS!" Her fist makes contact, a familiar feeling one that I've grown accustomed to, but this one hurt more than usual did I piss her off that bad by jumping down.
I open my eyes the sky is bright with no clouds so blue and golden. Wait golden, I look down at me feet. There I stand on clouds I look on my head and see a halo.
God no I can't be dead, did she really, no she couldn't. My thoughts are interrupted by a cold grasp on my feet, I look down and see Al. "Can't have you die just yet." The feeling of him pulling my down with speeds that would push my organs out my mouth. I hit a ocean of shadows waking me, gasping.
I look down feeling the couch under me, I recognize it. "Finally awake." Okin says placing food on the table that lays infront the couch. We're in her room out of the many in MPS. "You know you don't have a pulse right? It's freaky."
Either that or you actually killed me, but putting two fingers to my neck answers my question, no pulse. I site up grabbing a fork from the plate, the blanket on my falls and I see my clothes changed. "Liked what you saw."
"What do you mean?" She lift and eyebrow, her fork pausing mid way to her mouth.
"Well my ability is entirely consitration based. The moment I stop thinking is the moment my ability doesn't work."
"Meaning?"
"My clothes were made of my shadows, meaning I was nude."
Okin starts coughing choking on her food.
"I want to know who had to carry me?" I laugh as she trys to stop coughing.
"Just eat the food I made."
I take a bite, it's good. The reason she had brought me to her room was so I could eat, it's something we started 3 weeks after I joined.
We were given food to eat but I couldn't cook. I just ate the ingredients and over cooked meat, she saw my style of eating and since then has cooked for me, she can be real sweet as long as you dont piss her off.
"You know you really worry us."
Us? It's strange that she's admitting that she's worried? "About what?"
"A lot you worried me about jumping in like that, why did you have to do something so dumb. It scares me that, I may find you one day on the ground covered in blood." Her hand shakes lightly. I can already tell what she's think, and the guilt makes me almost feel where my heart. "And that's not all you mutilated thoes knights."
"So what they deserve it. They would do far worse to us."
"It's not about what they deserve or what they would do, it's about whats enough, and you did far too much for some knights. You just need to finish the mission. Killing them is enough you don't need to go any further."
"Like hell I can't go further, I'll push it they will pay for what they've done."
"You won't!" She grabs my hand not hard, it's a soft grip that shakes. "I will not have you kill yourself over some grudge!" Her eyes stare with determination, making mine soften.
"Your right, I'm sorry I made you worry." The look in her eyes makes the guilt sink in, and the fear that she has for our lives. She seems skeptical I don't blame her I am only saying this to ease her fears.
"Besides that, the mission was a success we got the auction plans from them it's in two weeks be prepared." I nod. We finish our dinner and I leave for my room.
I open my door, it's as bleak as when I first got it. "Alright lets try to sleep without relying on it." I place my head on the pillow. 30 minutes. 1 hour. 2 hours. I, can't sleep. I slam my fist on the pillow out of frustration. I summon 2 shadows with a very familiar shape. They tuck me in, patting my head, repeating the words. "I love you." To me. It hurts my heart like I've been staked by an iron rod, but it's the only thing that allows me sleep.
I close my eyes ready to wake and carry through the 2 weeks.