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Chapter 42 - Human Outside,

Part 1: Hunters and The Hunted

Arc 6: Kuragari.

(Around midnight at a brick mansion outside of Tokyo, it is surrounded by forest. A guard is stationed outside it, reading a magazine)

(Three people walk over to the gate, all three of them are wearing hoods over their heads)

The guard: (He gets ready to draw his gun) Hey! What do you want here? This is restricted ground, you can't be here!

Sam: (He is the one standing at the front of the group) Levi, Esperanza. How about you show me just what you can do?

(Levi and Esperanza smile and walk past the guard, through the gate)

Guard: What are you doi-...

Sam: (He covers the guard's mouth with his hand) shush, my friend. Question, what do you define as "Peace"?

Guard: *Muffled by Sam's hand* Hmm? What?

Sam: *Tch* What. Do. You. Define. As. Peace? If you scream, I will make it bloody.

Guard: *Muffled* Oh... (He taps on Sam's hand and Sam moves his hand away) I guess freedom from disturbance; tranquility? Or a state or period in which there is no war or a war has ended?

Sam: You're half correct.

Guard: Half-...

(Sam drives his fist straight through the Guard's chest)

Sam: (He pulls his fist out and sees his sleeve is bloody) Oh you gotta be shitting me. Gonna take hours to rinse the blood off.

Guard: (With blood coming out of his mouth, he falls to the ground) Jennifer...

Sam: (He kneels down beside the guard) Hmm? Who's that?

Guard: My... daughter.

(The guard takes out a photo of his daughter and takes one last deep breath before dying)

Sam: (He picks up the photo and looks at it with regret shining on his face) (He shakes his head and throws the photo away) Meh! (Several gunshots go off at the mansion) Looks like they started without me... haha. This is gonna be fun...

(Meanwhile)

(Inside Able's room in Reaper Hunting Co.)

(Able is sitting at his desk, looking at his computer and the photo of Isabel)

Able: (He looks at the name of the company that took the photo) Shashin. (He searches the company up online) "Shashin Photography, taking photos of you and the ones you love since 1969.". Doesn't seem to be anything up with it. Then again, don't ever judge the book by its cover. (He continues reading down the company's website) "Schedule a date, set a location, and we'll be there to take HD pictures of you or your loved ones.". Wait isn't this the same company that took pictures of everyone training to be a Monster Hunter in 2008? Yeah... yeah! If I'm not mistaking the theme of the shoot was "Japanese Flowers"! (He searches up Japanese Flowers and sees a list of common Japanese flowers) Well... this is probably useless.

Elizabeth: (She is knocking on the door) What are you doing up this late?

Able: What are YOU doing up this late?

Elizabeth: I can't sleep. And you?

Able: I'm trying to, decipher this photo.

Elizabeth: And why exactly?

Able: I believe it might hold the secret on how to bring Sam out of this. Don't tell Kane about this, please?

Elizabeth: I promise I won't tell him. But one request.

Able: (He picks up his wallet and starts to take out money) How much?

Elizabeth: No! Nothing with money! I want to help you! I want to be useful for once.

Able: S- sure. Take a seat then, I guess.

Elizabeth: (She pulls a seat up and sits next to Able) What have we got so far?

Able: Pretty much nothing. I got the name of the company that took the photo. That led me to Japanese Flowers. And now... I got nothing.

Elizabeth: Well... knowing my fathe-... I mean Sam. There's gotta be something in here. So let's begin brainstorming. What do we know about Japanese Flowers?

Able: Well they're just that. Japanese Flowers, we've got; Himawari (Sunflowers), Tsubaki (Camellia), Ume (Japanese Apricot), Asagao (Morning Glory), Kaneshon (Carnation), Ajisai (Hydrangea), Kinmokusei (Orange Osmanthus) and... Kerria Japonica (Yellow Rose)...

Elizabeth: Anything of importance with Kerrias?

Able: They're Sam's favorite flowers...

Elizabeth: Anything of importance with them?

Able: Yellow roses symbolize friendship and devotion. It's also the name of a... Black light company?

Elizabeth: Maybe... we should put the photo under a black light?

Able: Do you have one?

Elizabeth: Yeah! A 13 year old would TOTALLY have a black light for no apparent reason!

Able: Fine! I'll buy one in the morning. Go to sleep. And like I said, not a word to Kane.

Elizabeth: Right! See you in the morning.

(Inside the mansion)

(A guard runs up to a slowly closing vault door)

The guard: No! No! No! (The vault door closes right in front of him) Let me in! Please!

(Inside the vault)

The guard: *Shouting from outside the vault* They'll kill me! (He knocks on the door) Please! I'll do anythi-...

(The guard's horrified screams are heard outside the vault)

(Inside the vault is a panic room. Where five guards are inside, they are protecting Charles Drevin. The head researcher on dangerous Elementas at the RoundTable Organizations)

Charles Drevin: (He is standing behind 2 guards for cover) Don't worry, that door is four layers of Tungsten. There's no way in the seven layers of Hell, that they'll be able to breach it...

Sam: (He is speaking from the other side of the door) Charles Drevin!!! I've got two VERY angry people out here!!! You may know them a brother and sister, that you used in your "experiments"!!! They want to see your lifeless body in front of them!!! I assume you don't want them even more mad!? So get out of here, right now! And stare them face to face!!! Then you're gonna get on your knees and beg for mercy!!! Understando, friendo?

Charles: He... he's taking me for a joke!

Sam: Huh... seems you don't understand! Fine, guess I'll just break in! (He punches the vault door, full force and it only makes a small tink sound. The punch hurt his hand A LOT) F- FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU-...

Esperanza: (Also outside the panic room) Are you okay, Samuel!?

Sam: Yeah. Yeah. I'm fine. Okay, okay. I'ma just do something else.

(Suddenly the middle of the vault starts melting apart, when a stream of Grimm Fire blasts through and hits a guard)

(Sam, Esperanza and Levi step through the melted vault door)

Sam: Hello gentlemen. I would kill each and everyone of you in 5.6 seconds right now, but I don't have a scythe so I'll give the pleasure to these two!

(All the guards fire on them, but Levi raises his hand and all the bullets flying towards them, suddenly fly towards the roof)

(Levi Flores; Elementa: Anti-Gravity Force, an Elementa that creates a powerful Anti-Gravity blast. Gravity returns to the affected area 15 seconds after the blast is sent out. However this Elementa could be disastrous as it could theoretically destroy the Gravitational Field around Earth, causing an end of the world class scenario)

(Esperanza uses her Elementa and summons a Machete in her right hand and pistol in her left hand)

(Esperanza Flores; Elementa: Arma Cambiadora, an Elementa that summons any weapon the user wishes to from a simple kitchen knife to an assault rifle. This Elementa can be dangerous as there is no limit to what can be summoned, meaning that the user can go as far as to summon a Tsar Bomba, causing mass destruction)

(Their Elementas combined with their hatred and insanity make these two incredible threats. What's to stop them from one day ending all of Humanity? Just for the fun of it?)

(Esperanza quickly throws the machete at one of the guards and shoots the other three using the pistol)

Sam: Tie that bastard up! We still need him, but after we're done with him. You two can do anything you want with him... (Thinking to himself) Well if EVERYTHING goes to plan, then the world will know the name... Eren Yeager-... I MEAN Samuel Roy Kuragari.

(Sam starts singing the lyrics to Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones)

(Yes, I did in fact just make an Attack on Titan Reference)

(The next morning)

(Able walks down the stairs wearing a white hoodie and dark grey pants)

Kane: (He sees Able walking out the door) (Looking at a laptop screen) Going somewhere, Able?

Able: Uh... yeah. Just going shopping for groceries.

Kane: (He is still looking at the laptop) That's Annah and Elizabeth's job.

Able: Listen man. They're both pretty shaken up and in no state to be shopping, so I'll go. Okay?

Kane: Okay then. Oh and... we'll be having guests over later.

Able: Who?

Kane: Old friends.

Able: That clears up a lot, thanks.

(End of Chapter 42)