Denzel already strolled into Ted's house, when he took out his phone and texted Zoey that he had gotten to his destination.
-how about your bf? Hope both of you are good?- Denzel texted Zoey after notifying her that he had gotten to his destination.
~Oliver? Sure, he is cool, thanks for clarifying things to him.~ Denzel read Zoey's reply, plunging his phone in his pocket, smiling as he did.
"Denzel, are you fine? Cause you keep taking a look at your phone and smiling, did you get a girlfriend?" Ted turned to take a look at Denzel, and he turned back to face his front.
"Yeah, I'm good" Denzel replied him, "How has everything been here?"
"Smooth... Everything seems fine... But, how have you been? I haven't heard from you since you left here yesterday," Ted walked to a chair and sat, moving another to let Denzel sit on it.
"Ohh that, things haven't been so bad,"
Ted looked at Denzel, it looked like he was stunned about something.
"Denzel are you sure?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Because you you been trending since midnight,"
"Who? Me? Why?" Denzel looked confused, he grabbed the remote that was in Ted's room, putting on the television immediately to check for any update.
"Everyone has been talking about you, I think the cops finally got a lead about you, and they were set to capture you..."
Denzel's eyelids were raised in surprise, he knew about it, and he was sure that it was caused by Owl, "Owl, that bastard... He is really lucky--"
"Denzel, that's not the main problem here, you don't seem to know that they have also found out that you are a Beast..."
"You must be kidding, how-?"
"No one knows how, but now the M.I.B are no more in charge of you, the ones in charge of you now are the Zoo Keepers, if you need to read up on them, you may go to Chirper app, and check the latest news on them, you would get to see their photos,"
"I'm not on a single social media platform,"
"Ohh, yeah," Ted took out his cell phone, clicking some things on it, and then he showed the phone to Denzel to take a look at the Zoo Keepers.
"This them? Wait... That snake masked guy, and also a Rhino masked guy... so you mean... those two that attacked me yesterday night was from them, I kept wondering why they would wanna get at me," Denzel's confusion that he had earlier that midnight was answered, they were not from Owl, but they were there to end him.
"But, how do they know about you?"
"I would wanna ask that also, because the only ones that knew I am a Beast except the both of us are my Dad, Owl, Owl's underground pawns, Leia, Zoey and Grayson, and I am sure it isn't Owl's companions because they have nothing to gain by doing that, all they care about is the deathmatch that they always fight, it can't be Zoey because she didn't even care about me until yesterday night, it can't also be Owl because he seems to have started opening up to me," Denzel kept thinking out loud, but he was intentionally doing that, and he intentionally lied also about Owl opening up to him because he was trying to find out if Ted was indeed a traitor or not. But Ted was good at the pretending game, he didn't even look like he cared about that info, and Denzel could see why how he might have been deceived by Ted for years.
"Then it should be Grayson,"
"Probably, because he seems to be against me... The moment he left, the vehicle was attacked,"
"What?"
"Never mind,"
"So, what about Owl, what information might you have gotten from him?"
"None yet, but he told me about his past, his name is Devon Jane, his dad was an investigator kept in charge of me,"
"You mean Lucas Jane?"
"Yeah... I think so... That's all I can say about him,"
"Damn, you are so slow, how could you not even get a single thing from him?"
Denzel began to look furious, initially, the misgivings he had about Ted was one, and that made what Ted said to get to him in his head.
"What do you mean I am slow?"
"You don't understand? I mean you are kind of Obtuse because even me in grade school would have been able to get some more leads, we don't have time you know,"
"And how is that any of your business? I am risking my life, trying to get Leia, you are not even risking a thing, and you are expecting me to rush things, it's me in this tight corner but you are acting like you are the one in trouble, you are just trying to help yourself and I don't know whether it's probably because I am living off from you, but I don't know why you want me to rush things..." Denzel began to yell angrily at Ted.
"Denzel, wait, do you--"
"Please don't talk crap to me, the fact that I am not rushing things should at least be understandable, but I don't know if you are a bit retarded to understand that, and what was next? Do you say I am slow and obtuse? Let me get things down to you, the fact that I choose to be playful or dumb doesn't mean you should have a right to insult me, and I don't even think I have a reason to tell you every single thing I know before I can make my mind, you don't own me or my brain," Denzel got up from the chair, walking out of the room and then out of the house.
He was extremely angry, but his decision to leave the house was foolish, he knew he had nowhere to go. While he was walking, he realised that he might need his hood because of his whole wanted case and he walked back into the building.
"Denzel, chill, like, I didn't really mean it that way, I would want you to understand that--" Ted tried to call out to Denzel but Denzel completely ignored him, you might even think Ted wasn't there when Denzel passed.
Whilst Ted was still talking, they heard a loud bang at the door, and Ted ran out, seeing those two Zoo Keepers, Sony and Ryder stand at the front of his entrance.
The bang got a lot of attention as it was afternoon, but since everyone knew they were the Zoo Keepers, they couldn't do much, all they could do was to bring out their cell phones and get a video of what was going on.
Ted ran back immediately he saw the two of them, he pushed Denzel out in fear saying, "They are here for you," and he locked the door behind himself immediately.
"What?" Denzel looked at the entrance and could see the two of them in masks. "Fuck?!" Denzel added, moving backwards slowly.
"Ryder, let's get him as fast as we can," Sony took out his hands from behind his head as he spoke, cracking them together. He bent his neck and dashed towards Denzel.
Denzel was fast enough to dodge the attack from Sony, just a little. The attack was sent towards the side of his abdomen, and it scraped him, painfully.
"Arghhh!" Denzel yelled while he turned his back and began to run towards the door, holding his abdomen as he did.
"You prefer to come to me?" Ryder said to Denzel standing straight, his hands in his pocket, not even preparing to attack or defend any attack that might come from Denzel.
'What's the deal with these Zoo Keepers or whatever? The attack didn't even completely touch me, but I still feel tremendous pain,' Denzel looked at the side of his abdomen, and then at the two of them that surrounded him.