By now, news had spread about the tragic police station incidence. And the city was under total lockdown with strict rules enforced against movement to and from the city. This story was what most journalist would refer to as the big one. But in reality this was way past the big one. This was humongous.
Well over thirty police men on duty the night before had been killed in the most gruesome way ever perceived. With lots of structures damaged internally within the station.
"This is unbelievable" said Dave who stood outside where a lot of other people could be found. He had on him a dark sun glass and white shirt with both sleeves folded to the elbow. And he rocked black pants to go along with it.
"How could this have happened with out the alarm going off?" Hayley his partner who had been tasked by higher ups together with him to work on the case of Mr Rogers.
But right now that had to wait, as bodies were been evacuated and taken into the ambulance to the mortuary. The paramedics in charge handling the bodies weren't having a trilled day. As they had to find other halves of practically all the bodies they came across. With organs and intestines lying everywhere. The place indeed looked like a slaughter house.
"This attack, it looks coordinated". Dave said as bodies in body bags carried by and placed in vehicles for evacuation.
"Whoever they are that did it, they came for him" Hayley said as she held a lit cigarette in her hand and stared at the one body that was brought to them as requested. This was the ex mayor's body or pieces of his body. As he had "special" treatment compared to the rest.
"Yes, there's a malice behind all of this". Dave replied and waved his hands and then two people zipped the bag and lifted the body leaving with it.
" what weapon would have been sharp enough to make such clean cut each time?" Hayley said as she puffed out some smoke.
"Honestly, I don't know. But what is surprising is how it looks like only the guys here used their guns" Dave replied looking at Hayley who stared at him back.
"You mean the people that did all these, did so with no guns?". Hayley asked with an obvious look of shock on her face. Dave just nodded and turned around walking a short distance before entering a car. Shortly after Hayley followed and leaned in placing her hands on the car window and her head propped against the car door.
" Hey, you good?" Hayley asked staring at Dave. The latter removing his shades in a bit to perhaps make eye contact with the former then replied.
"Mr Rogers was the only prisoner killed. And I may not know much but that's enough sign to tell a wise person to back off from this case. Maybe I have served my time. I think it's time I retire".
Hayley hearing this from the middle aged man who she had so much trust in even if their time together wasn't the longest when put into consideration could only feel goosebumps popping out of her skin. Is it this incident that shook him, or there's more than meets the eye she thought.
" Maybe he is right, I don't have anything to prove again". Hayley thought as she watched Dave drive away. But then she started asking herself why she wanted to quit. Was it because she was scared she'd be next?. Or was it something else that influenced this decision.
"If only he knew". She said out loud as she watched the car Dave's car finally pull out of the vicinity. She herself was now heading towards her car to get out of the area. The atmosphere today wasn't just right and it wasn't a bad idea if anyone took a break from work.
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The others had left Erwin a while ago after they thought their actions and realised it was best to let Rodney figure out his own thing.
With Blair and Mia now in the hunters inn, what was left of the group at the moment was Rodney, Erwin, Eiko, Blaze, Corey, and Johan. And with two of those people being Rodney and Erwin currently not on ground, it meant what was remaining of the group currently was Eiko Johan, Corey and Blaze.
"Umm, so you said you wanted to let us all know something" Corey said eventually after watching Eiko pace about for a considerable amount of time.
They were all in one room at the moment which wasn't supposed to be as the hunters had provided separate rooms for the boys and girls. Meaning Mia and Blaze slept in the same room. But after they left Erwin who had insisted he would stay back and look out for Rodney, Eiko had asked that they all meet up for an important discussion.
"Ah yes, I'm sorry" Eiko laughed mid sentence before he continued.
"You see, I have been doing a lot of thinking and I don't know if you all pay attention too. But it seems we are the only ones with a system and not everyone here has an ability. Which shouldn't be much of a problem right?. But the other thing is what the old guy, master tofu said...". He paused to see if they were all paying attention before continuing.
" I'm probably not in the right position to tell you all. But our lives are on the line here. This is not a game and sadly we have no idea why we were picked or if its a random selection thing. But either way, I don't plan on dying here.
So I after what has happened so far, I just want to let you all know we are all that we got. And because of that, I have made moves to see that we are even connected not just by the system's faction bond".
"Ok..what may that be?" Corey asked.
"Yeah spill it already big guy" Blaze said casually. With how good looking she was, it was impossible for the boys to see the wrong in anything she did. The graphics of the game they played was superb to say the least. And as time went on they all began to realise that their current bodies was a depiction of their actual self only slightly altered in certain areas like their hair colour, height and clothes. Other than that, they pretty much looked almost like their normal self although slightly different.
"During the whole event of looking for Mia, I ran into Damien". Eiko stopped as the others now had frowns on their faces. Although Damien had been the one to have rescued them, it still didn't change the fact that first impression matters a lot. And they didn't exactly get off on the right foot. With Damien questioning why Yang had brought them in, that didn't sit well with the group who felt he was being rather insensitive and too apprehensive given the display of his powers. He could literally put them all down if they happened to be enemies anyway. So why the fuss back then, they thought.
" Relax guys, I was the one who stopped to talk to him. And I did that for everyone's good".
"What exactly did you tell him, you know we can't really trust anyone here right?". Johan pointed out.
"Well with how we all had to run and check every where for Mia, I asked him how Zayn had communicated back to him back then. As you all know, there isn't exactly a pay phone just sitting around anywhere around here". Eiko said
"Yeah, so what was the outcome of that?" Corey asked in enthusiasm. Mostly because he felt he could use it to contact the outside world or something.
"Well I got this"Eiko said as he brought out a small punch and layed out the contents on the table they all sat around in the room.
" what are we suppose to do with these?" Blaze asked as she picked one them up. It was a small round object that had the letter "H" carved on it. It was a ring precisely.
"Blair would have said say our vows if he was here" Eiko said and they all laughed before he went on to explain the in and out.
"That's the communication device the hunters use. Its able to track and monitor movements as well send voice messages for through a long range".
" How far can this thing work? " Johan asked
"And how are we sure it ain't bugged?" Corey added.
"Well it was able to track us to that place we met the wolf, and to be honest not even Damien knows the range of this thing. And as for the bug issue, I intend to do a check on it. Just wanted you all to have a first look at it" Eiko replied.
"OK sweet let's try it on and test it" Corey said. And they all went on to put the ring on.
*Bing*
[Foreign accessory detected!]
[Would you like a scan and modify]
[Yes] or [No]
They all looked at each other and seeing each others gaze. They knew they had all seen the same notification.
"Well it wouldn't hurt to let the system scan it now would it?". Eiko asked and with this they all chose
[Yes]
The scanning took a minute and afterwards it notified them that cleaning had begun. Which gave the others a hint that there might have been something components present that shouldn't be there.
Eiko on the other hand would have love to do what the system was doing himself. He was more than curious to know how they had managed to fit that much data in a tiny ring. Either they had someone who was a high-tech expert or it was the other option. They had used magic. But with what the system was doing, he was inclined to go with the former option.
*Bling*
*[Cleaning complete]*
*[Modifications will now begin]*
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...
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*[Modifications complete]*
*[Congratulations the " Legion com" has been successfully modified"]*
*[Item has now bonded with users DNA]*
*[Item can now be used for multiple functions]*
...
..
The others couldn't believe what they were seeing. From the physical view alone they knew the ring was not the same. As the sign crafted on it before had now disappeared and two characters appearing.
On Eiko's it read [E.L], Blaze's was a [B.L], Corey's was a [C.L), and Johan's was a [J.L]. It didn't take a genius to tell them what the signs meant. But what intrigued them most is the last notification they received.
*[unlock telepathy]*
*[Cost:12000 gold coins]*
"Would it really be able to make us communicate with our minds!" Johan asked with excitement. I mean who could blame him. He just practically saw the likelihood of achieving one of his childhood fantasies. They all wanted to try it straight away but with their current financial situation, they couldn't even dream of that amount. Nonetheless they decided to try the ring out to see if it actually worked. Would be disappointing to get all hyped for nothing right?.
"How about you Corey, head out and I'll try to talk to you"Eiko said as he pointed at Corey who then stood up to leave buy paused half way to ask.
" How will you pick me specifically though? "
"True, let's see ..." Eiko answered as he looked to be staring at nothing but in reality he had open up the system. And that's when he saw the a new tab. Opening it he saw the names of those that had the ring on at the moment. And on the top left of the screen he saw the "Broadcast option". And right there and then he understood how it worked and went on to tell the others about it.
" OK Corey can you hear me?" Eiko asked quietly so as not to allow the other hear him directly as he stood outside the entrance of the room.
"Yeah I copy E eagle". Corey said whilst trying to hold in the laughter that was about to erupt from within him. On hearing Corey's response, Eiko face palmed himself and gave the others a thumbs up signifying it worked.
The boys took turns going outside to test theirs out with only blaze refusing to participate in it. This was chiefly because they had turned it into a " Boy thing " at the moment and where playing with it.
After a while they had all gone back to settling inside and then that's when someone popped a question.
"Say, did Damien give you all these for free?". Blaze asked with a look of suspicion.
"Yeah he pretty much just handed it to me. I told you all he's cool, didn't I?" Eiko replied.
"That doesn't make sense. Why would he just suddenly relax and do nice things for us. I bet he was the one that placed that bug the system removed". Johan thought having similar thoughts with Blaze who just sat down quiet.
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Meanwhile in a different area of the faction base all together. Damien sat on the bare floor, with legs crossed. And in front of him were plants. This flowers would follow his breathe and stand up straight each time he'd breathe in and then bend downwards when he'd breath out. He did this for a couple of times before he stopped. And stood up to where the plants were. Apparently the circle was broken as one of the plants remained down when the others were up. He then bent down to look at the said plant and then viciously uprooted it.
" Those kids, they are hiding something, and Yang is making master think I'm a mad man. I'll prove them all wrong. I'll show them who's the fool!!!". He yelled out and immediately the plants began to wilt and they all died instantly.