Arthur went to Jenny´s bar, it was messed up. Most parts of it were burned and there was blood everywhere. There were some heros inspecting the area so Arthur made sure to be lowkey.
He walked around for a bit more before founding something unexpected. There was a little bit of blood on the floor, but it had a weird shape, almost like letters.
They readed 'PAF'. Arthur wasn´t very sure what to make out of this, the letters were clearly written in a rush and the blood was starting to dry so Arthur could´t read it very well.
"This was written by Jenny, obviously, but what does it mean?"
He began to think, his first conclusion was that it was probably the name of a place, maybe in the city? If so, how did she know where would they take her? Then, again, they probably just said it aloud. Bunch of idiots.
He started recalling names of places starting with 'P'
"maybe a park? No, that´s in the middle of the city... Wait,is it the port? What´s in the port...?"
Then something clicked inside his head "AF... The abandoned fabric" Arthur left the bar and walked to the port, heading into the abandoned fabric.
"Alright then..."
***
Jennie was struggling to breath, there were five people in the fabric at the moment, so most of the gang was not here. Even then, she doubted she could take on the leader. On top of that, she had a power restricting necklace.
"I´ll ask again, who else was at the bar? There were signs of a second person"
"Screw you" She got met with a metal bat in the gut and she struggled to not let out a scream.
"If you talk, I´ll forgive you, we can start anew and be partners" Devil´s voice went cold "Or we can get it out of your memory by force. Lana"
"I will never join you, freak"
The woman named Lana stepped up and put her hand on Jennie´s forehead. "Nothing personal"
"I gave you a chance and you rejected my offer"
Jennie gritted her teeth and muttered a curse, she was desperate when a familiar voice talked behind the gang.
"Can you blame her? It´s one big shit of a deal"
They all turned around at the same time. A single man wearing a brown coat, long, white hair and a cigarrete on his mouth.
"And who are you, exactly?"
"I´m the man you are searching for" Arthur looked over to Jenny and nodded at her. He took one last whiff of the cigarrete before throwing it to the ground.
Arthur pulled out his gun and aimed at them, the gang put their guard up and became alert.
*Click* *Click*
"Huh?" Arthur had pressed the trigger but nothing came out of it. "Oh, right. I forgot I had run out of bullets. Meh." He put the gun on his pocket and instead grabbed the knife "This is all I need to deal with wannabe gangsters like you"
"You little..." Devil was pissed off and created a sword out of nowhere, the other gang members stepped up too.
"Bring it on" The five charged at him at the same time, one guy´s power was making his hand enormous, the other could emanate poison out of his hands, the rest had elemental powers. The leader´s powers were apparently creating weapons, but he could not create two at the same time.
The big hands guy used the hands as wings and flew upwards, the toxic guy charged at Arthur directly and started to throw punches with his hands covered in poison. Arthur made sure to dodge instead of block, and when he found an opening, he attacked only to be interrupted by the big hands guy falling on him.
He rolled backwards and a pretty big crater was made on the spot he was standing just a moment ago. "Whew..." Some fire balls were thrown at him, he prepared to dodge but instead, a water ball collided with the fire ball, creating a lot of smoke and blinding him temporarily.
A guy covered in lightning came through the smoke and tried to stab him, but Arthur reacted faster and parried his knife with his own, stabbing the attacker in his gut.
The guy fell to the floor, and the big hands guy extended his arms, as if he was going to clap. Arthur had nowhere to dodge, so instead, he threw the knife flying and indefense, the big hands guy was out.
Arthur rushed towards the corpse and picked up his knife, inmediatelly rolling to the side to evade a toxic punch.
Rapidly, he got up and stabbed the toxic man on his side "Ugh..." The guy fell to the floor and there were only three people remaining.
The leader had not moved an inch from his spot, watching closely the fight as it progressed.
Fire boy and water boy tried the same smoke attack, but Arthur just ran through it and took the guys out in a few minutes.
Arthur cleaned a bit of blood from his face and breathin heavily. He locked his gaze on Devil.
"Quite impressive, I must say. You´re not with the association but you aren´t a villain either, atleast not that I know. So, I´ll ask, who are you and why are you doing this?"
"I´m Arthur. Nothing else, I´m just here to accomplish my duty and follow my ideals"
"Ideals? Well, it is of no matter. You´re going to die, I´ve already figured out your power"
"Really? Enlighten me, then?"
"Super reflexes, am I wrong?" Arthur pondered for a moment, then he cleaned the blood out of the knife.
"You´re not far wrong" And then, they clashed.
Devil´s sword quickly overpowered the little knife, but Arthur managed to dodge the attack that was followed by an upwards swing aimed at him.
He managed to parry the attack and closed the distance between them, so Devil could not swing properly. To create weapons, it took Devil approximately three seconds, so Arthur tried to make the most out of it and attempted to stab Devil´s eye,
Devil turned his head and the knife only grazed his cheek. He succesfully changed weapons to a dagger and moved even closer to Arthur, comically seeming like a hug. Tried to backstab him, but Arthur ducked in time and he ended cutting himself a little.
From Arthur´s position, he sweeped his legs and tried to stab Devil´s face, but he rolled to the side, inmediately getting up.
"Maniac" Devil spit with venom on his voice.