"Mister!" A young girl's voice was heard making Denzel halt in his tracks.
The girl ran to the front of Denzel, looking at the ground like she was shy.
"Thank... thank you..."
"You are welcome." Denzel strode past her immediately she thanked him. He had no time to waste with her so he walked out on her, not waiting for her to say anything else.
"Is there any way I could show my gratitude? Like do you need me for anything? I could offer my body,"
Denzel was completely irritated at that statement. 'What kind of life could she have lived to think of that, she is just a little girl.' He thought, stopping to take a look at her.
"You don't need to show any gratitude, your thanks is enough." Saying that, Denzel picked up his pace, leaving the girl behind.
"I am Emily, nice to meet you!"
Denzel ignored her, but from the way she spoke, he knew she was happy.
Denzel stayed outside a little more before he finally went back to Ted's house. Entering the house, he could see Ted on the chair in the living room, and Denzel went to sit by his side.
"Ted, good morning."
"Morning."
"You don't stay at your base anymore?"
"Naa, I vacated that room some months ago. It was getting boring, so I just turned it into my store."
"Ohh, cool."
Denzel rested his back in the chair, sighing as he pulled off the hoodie he wore.
"Denzel, where exactly did you go? Everyone was worried about you..."
"Everyone? Apart from you, who else really cared?" Denzel looked at Ted and noticed the look on Ted's face. It was an unhappy one. "I am going to get a drink," Denzel added.
"Kay."
Denzel went out of the room and returned, with a bottle of cola in his hands.
"Ted, what's wrong? You look down."
"Nothing much, just, I have been a little on the edge lately, and what's more, I would say you should stay low."
"Why?"
"You may think things are okay now, but Le...- Things are not going to be that smooth for you."
"I don't understand..."Dropping the bottle on the stool by the side of the chair he sat, Denzel looked curious.
"You are still on the loose, like you are a serial killer now."
A little frown could show on Denzel's face, followed by the restlessness in Denzel's reactions.
"Wait, you mean that stuff is still on?!"
"Yes. I know you really wanted to kill Leia, but that doesn't give you a reason to start murdering people everywhere you go. Countless lives have been lost just because of you."
Denzel got more angry hearing the words that Ted kept spitting out from his mouth.
"Wait, Ted, I didn't kill a single soul before I left Hilldale, why would you have to think that I ended up killing more people after that?"
"Huh? What do you mean? Who else is called M.D?"
"Are you dumb? Like what you say now really makes me think that you thought I killed Ariel and the rest."
"No, no, I know you didn't murder them, but, all of a sudden, you left and I never heard a word from you, I thought you were dead, but seeing you alive now really makes me think you did those deeds."
"I did nothing! Leia imprinted M.D on the body of Carter and the rest and I am sure you know that, why else would you think I would want to start killing with the name M.D?"
Ted looked at Denzel and smiled, standing up to calm him down.
"Denzel I am just kidding, I know it wasn't you, I also suspected Leia, Chill, I trust you."
"Huh? You are kidding?" Denzel's restlessness was beginning to become calm, but he was still sad, wondering why Ted of all people would have loved to pull a joke on him. "I hate you, Ted," He said.
"But you do know that she is still on it,"
"On what?"
"She is still murdering people with your name."
"That bitch, I am seriously going to get back at her. For Carter, Rocco, all of us."
"Denzel so where exactly did you vanish to? Your dad even called."
"My dad called? I should even check upon him. I would go home, any moment from now to make sure he is doing fine."
For some moments, Denzel paused.
"I went to Mountaly."
"Mount-" Ted paused when he came to actually realize what Denzel said. "Mountaly?! That place?!"
"Yes, that's where I lived for the past four years."
Ted couldn't hide his shock, he thought Denzel had gone crazy.
"Do people still live there?"
"Naa, the city is vacant, empty..."
"So how did you manage?"
"Just, you know, eating savage beasts, sleeping, training..."
"You did that for four good years?!"
Denzel nodded in reply.
"Wow!"
For hours, they spoke. Ted explained the situation going on at Hilldale, and Denzel told him about his jungle life.
When they began to get hungry, Ted got up and went to cook them breakfast. They ate and went out of the house.
Denzel was much different from what everyone knew him as so people didn't recognize him.
The whole day was wasted with Denzel and Ted visiting places together. Denzel got a new phone, new clothes and other things he needed.
During their little excursion, Denzel noticed a man, about his size walk past him, and nudge him.
Denzel was about to turn back to grab him when he noticed something in his hoodie's pocket.
"What's wrong?!" Ted turned to Denzel when he noticed he kind of misbehaved. He then noticed that Denzel was trying to recover something from his pockets."Denzel, did you miss something?" Ted added.
Denzel brought something out, looking to confirm what it was, It was a little crumpled paper.
"11 pm, Hill Cafe?" The confusion in Denzel's face was glaring. He squeezed the paper and tossed it away.
"What's wrong Denzel?"
"Nothing much, someone just sent me a message that I should meet up by 11 pm."
"Huh? Who is that?"
"No idea" Denzel pushed his hands into his hoodie front pocket. "Let's go home."
Ted followed him at his back. Looking at Denzel, he imagined what sort of training he might have been through at Mountaly that made him get that big.
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11 P.M, HILL CAFE.
Denzel walked into the cafe, looking around for anyone. There weren't many people in the cafe, to be precise, it was only one man sitted at one of the tables at the end and Denzel walked to meet him.
"Was it you that sent me a message to meet?"
The man looked up and smiled. "Sit down, pal," He said pointing to the chair that was opposite his.
"Who are you?" Denzel said to the man on the chair.
"Take a seat, let's talk."
Denzel sat on the chair, but he refused to let his guard down at all times, in case anything sceptical was to happen.
"I am on the chair, now who are you?"
"Cool. I am Grayson, someone whose help you might need."
Denzel frowned his face, the guy's words pissed him off, he didn't remember telling anyone he needed a hand in a thing.
"Before you say a thing, Mister Denzel, I would like you to cool off."
"How the hell did you even know my name?"
"I expected that question, but I also expected you to ask about what I said earlier."
"Are you taunting me?"
"No, I am not. Well answering your question, I am a friend that has been watching you years, even before you left for Mountaly."
The thing that went through Denzel's mind was the fact that he might be from Leia. She was the only one who could have been interested in him at that point.
"Who ordered you to stalk me?
"Nope, stalk is a word for losers. I only did because I needed someone to help me with my plan."
"What's your plan?"
"Before I tell you that, I would let you know that I am a Beast of two, just like you, there are even more of us, many, and to let you know, you have potential, even more than I do."
'Another beast? more beasts?' Denzel thought to himself since everything sounded new to him.
"So, I aim to find out the origin of our nature and maybe to stop it."
"Why would you even need to know that?"
"Because lives of kids are just being endangered for no good reason."
"Leave me out, because I just want to leave a peaceful life," Denzel said, getting prepared to stand from his seat.
"Peaceful life? Hmph, is your life right now peaceful? Someone is trying to frame you for some crime you never committed, you can't face any relaxation now that you are a beast, in little time, more people are going to come for you."
Denzel sat down back in his chair, he noticed the smirk that showed up by the lips of Grayson.
"But, how do you know so much about me?"
"That's not a mystery, I simply just followed you, sometimes, I might be beside you but you won't know, I am a red widow spider, so that's only normal."
"So what do you need me for exactly?"
"Instead of needing you, I will say I want us to work together. I know a lot of things you would need and you know a lot of things I would need. We are both potential beasts and we both have similar goals."
"We don't have similar goals, at least for now."
"So, what do you say we form an alliance?"
"No, for now, I have some things to do now, so why don't we make it later?"
"Later is too late, you may not know, but there are people unto us. Okay, let's say we work together to get your goal, and we also work together for mine."
"Fine by me. So, what exactly is BEAST of two?"
"Ohh that, I have two animals in me. An insect and a cheetah, quite useless."
"Oh, I am an Eagle by the way."
"I know that. About M.D, it would end soon, I promise you."
Denzel's eyes opened wide and Denzel smiled, saying, "Nice doing business Grayson,"
"Does it still have to be business? Let's just begin."
The two stood, shook themselves and walked out of the cafe.
Days after days, M.D's cases were beginning to reduce and at some point, there were no assassination cases anymore. Denzel was delighted that he could pay more attention to Leia without any other cases disturbing him.