Everywhere was dark, Denzel stood on the roof of a building, from there he could see a field, his observation focused on the middle of the field, everything looking scanty, he could see a campfire, and around it was a team of six guys, all of them eating something, most likely a cracker.
It was in the countryside, Denzel could know that from the looks of the facilities around it, and the field was from an obsolete farm where the team normally stayed the night.
According to Owl, the team always went around, extorting and looting for survival, causing trouble around the City, then they escape to that countryside to hide.
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SOME HOURS AGO...
"What has that gotten to do with you? You said they extort, rob, and cause a lot of troubles, but what has that gotten to do with you and Leia?"
"You don't have to know, your job is to exterminate them,"
"You mean I should kill people for no good reason, if I am to force myself to do that, I would need a good reason to kill them, I can't just be killing innocent souls,"
Owl sighed and sat down, "Innocent souls my foot, sometimes you have to just be a pain in the ass... Like I mean, we can't just trust everyone to tell them about ourselves, and that's why you are even going to slay some of these people. As I said, they are remnants,"
"I don't even understand a thing you are saying,"
"You would understand soon enough... if my plan doesn't work that is,"
"What's your plan?"
'What the hell did I just say? Am I stupid?' Owl covered his mouth with his right hand, his eyes wide open, he looked at Denzel, and sighed, 'He is not that reasonable,' Owl thought again, removing his hand from his mouth.
"Well, I guess it won't be a pain to tell you, in a few moments, I would have nothing to be worried about," Owl said, crossing his legs where he sat, "You see, no one knows about this underground organisation, but there are some people that were either invited here, some came here by themselves, and at some point, some escaped.
I am sure you know that those people you met in that fighting hall all live here as no one is allowed to leave, there might be snitches, and that's what we try to avoid.
These ones that you are going to take care of are all beasts, but their beasts are very weak ones, they can't harm people with it, they don't even use it at all, and one of their friends got into a fight in the fighting hall, but he brutally lost, he wasn't just killed, he was massacred.
They got frightened, saying that they can't fight there, but, you know, you have no option but to remain here, so after lots of debates and troubles, they were able to come up with a plan to escape.
At first, they reported us to the police, but Leia was able to send the officers away. After they disturbed the police so much, the officers had to force themselves into the house, and I had to make a program to cancel all the CCTV footage to turn them into a game, so they weren't able to find a thing to accuse us. They began to steal to take care of themselves, making a scene at police stations. One of them had killed someone in the past, and to avoid complicated issues, I had to cover that up using your initials, M.D,"
"Wait, you mean that it was you that assassinated people in my name?" Denzel said, folding his arms, he scowled his face.
"Well, Leia ordered me to, I had no choice," After saying all that, Owl sighed once more, 'I have talked too much' He thought to himself.
"So now that I know one major part of your secret, you know I can report you also since I know more of your secrets than them,"
"Hmph! A wanted man wants to report someone else, who do you think would get arrested first?"
Denzel hissed after hearing that, Owl had given him enough reason to make him prove himself that he wasn't killing ignorant souls.
"I am off," He said to Owl.
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Denzel jumped from the roof, switching with Mical as he did, he flew off immediately, as fast as he could, flapping his wings.
The team of six guys, looking up at the bird flying towards them at full speed, all stood up to their feet.
"Seems Owl is coming for us today," One of them said, grabbing a stick from the fire.
"No, that bird isn't Owl, he is much bigger than Owl," Another one of them answered.
Denzel landed, switching back to his human form, he walked towards the six of them.
"Huh what do I see here? Isn't that M.D?"
"Where?"
"The guy walking towards us, he looks like M.D"
"Does he also need our help getting back at Leia and Owl?" They dropped their fires, also walking towards Denzel.
Denzel could hear every single thing they said, so he chose to play along, not stopping at his pace.
"Hey! You are M.D, right? Are you here to team up with us?" Their team leader, Damien got to Denzel and said.
"If you are willing to accept me that is," Denzel stretched his hands to shake Damien.
Damien also stretched his hands to shake Denzel's hand.
"But, M.D, how did you know about us?"
"Hehe, it wasn't that hard, I heard from Owl," Denzel said gripping Damien's hand as tight as he could, Damien was already frowning his face when he heard that from Denzel, then the way Denzel gripped his hand pissed him out more, he took a look at Denzel, using his other hand to punch Denzel's hand, but the attack didn't even move Denzel, he kept smiling.
"Attack him-" Before Damien could finish what he was saying, Denzel had already twisted his hands, till Damien had fully turned back. He pulled Damien to himself, still holding that arm, and then strangling him.
"What?! Boss!!!" The rest of them yelled out, running towards Denzel with the torch in their hands, One of them was even getting ready to fling his torch on Denzel.
"Are you guys that stupid? I am holding your boss and you're trying to attack me when I am using your boss as a shield,"
"Don't... worry... about me... just kill...-" Before he could finish his sentence, Denzel twisted his arm even more.
Damien yelled, struggling to release himself from Denzel's lock.
While Damien was still struggling, Denzel felt a chilly breeze get past him and the next thing he knew, Damien was no more struggling. He released Damien's hand, he saw that Damien's hand dropped.
Denzel left Damien's body and he fell dead.
Denzel kept shivering, scared about the fact that he killed Damien, he knelt, placing his index and middle finger on his neck to see if he could still feel his pulse, but, Damien was lifeless.