"sir, we just received some reliable information about the souls we've been tracking for days now", a reaper called Reo informed Mat.
Mat immediately nodded
"like I said before, I'd like you all to treat this as a secret duty, no one is to divulge any information whatsoever about this to anyone else, not even to your subteam mates", he told the four young reapers who had joined his team about a month ago.
"I'm taking you all on the pretext of field evaluation. That is what I told everyone and they don't need to know more than that", he continued. Mat and three other Reapers called Reo, Finnix, and Xalo had set out on a journey to capture 'some' lost souls. The trip he had informed Nirvana about before was actually for the purpose of taking out the increasing numbers of lost souls in the living world.
Mat had favoured the idea of bursting their assess head-on so he could go home to his Nirvana. But the young Reapers had thought an ambush would work better to their advantage so here they were, staking out lost souls for almost 3 days now. He had the perfect little punishments for these little newbies who had kept him in the cold for 3 days now, and that would obviously be scrubbing the office stairs.
Mat groaned in annoyance, he wasn't a very patient man and his little patience was quickly running out. He had told Nirvana to expect him back in at most 3 days tops and those blasted little lost souls were dragging out his time. The inexperienced souls they had been tracking for days turned around as if to check that they were alone and not being watched. Then they rang a bell. What did they have to hide?, Mat wondered.
Seconds later, a tall familiar figure stood in the doorway. Mat frowned immediately, watching as the figure walked out and without so much as a word, slapped one of the lost souls, effortlessly breaking the poor guy's neck instantly. There was only one man that could sever another man's neck with just a single slap.
Deandre Reckso.
Mat's eyes widened.
The lost souls had unknowing led him and his boys to Reckso, the last memeber of a trio of the most dangerous lost souls to ever exist; Darksie, Blackie Soula and Reckso.
And although, Reckso was the least dangerous, Mat knew he was still a formidable enemy. He knew he would have to risk at least a dangerous injury and possibly death of one of his boys. Mat sighed as he glanced at them.
"listen here Finnix, Reo and Xalo, you all take care of the other lost souls. I'll handle Reckso", he whispered to them.
First of all, he couldn't risk any of thier lives, neither could he risk jeopardizing such a great opportunity. Mat had been after them for the longest time since he woke up in tge afterlife as a grim reaper.
His memory about that was still fudgy but he remembered how he had suddenly blacked out and then woken up in a new environment, a hospital bed. The only explanation he had been given was that he had hit his head.
One thing Mat clearly remembered though was that he had been escorted by Darksie back then. Why would a grim reaper go rogue all of a sudden?, he wondered. Was it worth it?.
Mat turned around to find his boys already gone and he smiled. Through the short time he had come to know them, they always were quick to do whatever tasks they were given. Their dedication to the force was so admirable.
He made his way to one of the Reapers he had respected,
"Reckso....", Mat called out and Reckso smirked. The lost souls that were with Reckso immediately bolted, making Mat smile. They were smart enough to run but foolish enough not to know that they can't outrun a Grim Reaper like him.
"I've been waiting for you Maity", Reckso said a very friendly voice.
"Don't call me that, it sounds like Mighty. Just call me Mat", he answered with a huge grin on his handsome face.
"oh look at you...annoyed as always. Angry Mat", he teased the young grim reaper even though Mat was currently far from being annoyed.
It was fair to say that Mat was in no mood to get all friendly with Reckso even though he had once admired the former reaper a lot.
"so what brings our pretty boy Mat here?" , Reckso asked recklessly. "are you that confident that you can capture me alone?. Okay I'll make this a whole lot easier for you".
That said, he quickly extended his hand out to Mat in surrender. A frown immediately popped on to Mat's face. He felt like there was something he was missing, even as he grabbed Reckso's hands and cuffed them.
This was too easy. Why would Reckso allow himself to get caught without a fight. He had known Reckso for a really long time, enough time to know that he wouldn't go down without a fight so why did he give himself up now?
Mat eyed him down, something wasn't quite right and he didn't like it but if this meant that he had one of the trio under lock in the afterlife, he was okay with it. He was okay as long as he could go see his Nirvana again.
"shall we?", he asked the man in cuffs. Reckso smiled and whispered a small yes of course. Then he turned to glance around and smiled again.
Mat raised a brow at Reckso and then he put his hand near his ear to communicate with his other newbies
"I got him, round the rest up quickly. We are not going home through the gates like we normally do, we are leaving through a portal"
About two minutes later, the three Reapers Xalo, Finnix and Reo arrived with 6 lost souls. Mat nodded his head briefly at them and pulled out a green circular object. It was an Afterlife Portal Plate (APP) and it was used only for emergencies. The device was created to make travelling faster and easier by providing a passage directly to the user's thoughts.
Mat pressed a few buttons on it a couple of times and then through it mid-air. Seconds later, a black hole opened up underneath them and he pushed Reckso into it. Hos shouts echoed for ten seconds before the others were 'allowed' to join him.
Their screams echoed for another ten seconds.
What a rough way to travel.
Mat and the other three joined them. They fell through the portal for a second and then they saw their home. Too bad Mat had not used a portal plate before and ended up taking everyone to the Afterlife Park. Good thing though was that the distance from there to the station however wasn't very long.
They immediately took charge of their guests, grabbing their cuffed hands and getting them to stand. Then they began the short walk to the station.
"So little Minion, where is your Master?", Mat suddenly asked. He didn't answer for a couple of minutes but a smile popped on Reckso's face and Mat licked his lip with a nod. He finally got it. The automatic doors of the station opened and they entered amid stares from everyone.
First because no body knew about Mat's little suicide mission and also because he had managed to capture a dark soul.
"so this was not our ambush plan but yours all along. You incited those poor souls in order to get our attention. You wanted us to come to you", Mat whispered to Reckso, his voice laced in annoyance.
Reckso smirked at that statement.
"oh Mat, good...now you get it. This was my plan all along".