Blair being at the hunters inn for quite sometime now was getting ready as he would be discharged today. But he wasn't the only one that would be allowed to go, as Mia his fellow faction member would be leaving since her woulds were mostly surface wounds and just needed time to heal. They both had time to go through what had happened. Blair's respect for Mia had grown after she narrated the event to him.
Although Zayn and Blair had come in the same day, they wouldn't be leaving together as he had a more serious injury compared to Blair. Though he was recovering at a considerable pace as well, it would take sometime before he would be allowed to the leave the inn. But his condition didn't keep him any less busy. As he spent his days mostly answering and reporting back to Damien through the nurses that tended to his wounds.
In reality, they weren't exactly only trained to be nurses. As some of them had combat experience to go with their medical knowledge since most of them would go out with the hunters on hunts and offer support to the injured. With that being their role, they were in a way answerable to Damien. And the latter wouldn't waste an opportunity to send out his puns to do jobs he wouldn't want to be caught doing.
As he himself had suspected, Yang wouldn't exactly stay out of his way. So this was the best way to get information and be sure to not bring attention to himself as it would be awkward to find such a high ranking member of the faction at the inn everyday. Since Zayn wasn't the first hunter to be injured, it was sure to raise questions.
"From what I know, the one that acts like their leader has been meeting up with Yang. What they are doing exactly I don't know. But I intend to find out soon. With his permission I'd like to send three able volunteers to fish more information from them" Zayn mumbled into one of the nurses ear as she pretended to be taking his vitals. As for the three volunteers he was referring to, it couldn't be anybody else but the ones that followed Mia in shortly after she was brought brought in. They were Orin, Tuffy and Akira the trio that attacked Mia.
With Tuffy being the one who had suffered the most damage as his chest was introduced first hand to Mia's move the " Air flush". He was lucky as mia had been nice enough to try and minimize the damage which eventually only led to his chest swelling with no internal damage. But they wouldn't know how much sympathy they were showed right?. After all the one who put them here had gone. And they couldn't just let it go like that. They had a score to settle. But this time, they were going to go about it smartly.
They had only let off the hook mainly because they too suffered injuries. And Yang didn't want the whole thing to become a scandal so he did as much as possible to keep the event behind closed doors. After all he wouldn't want a certain someone getting wind about the whole situation. Although he would sometimes question his actions. Why was he helping this much?.
It wasn't like the people he had rescued from the forest made any move to join his faction. They still maintained the fact that they were not members of his faction. And they didn't look like they would be eager to join if the idea was mentioned to them considering the some of the "nice" treatments they have received.
Nonetheless it wasn't out of the ordinary for a big faction like the hunters to absorb other factions. They did get to where they are today using such methods. But the process that was involved and the trust building between the old faction and the newly absorbed one, wasn't one that Yang himself was willing to go through at the moment.
Absorbed factions would sometimes they tend to takeover the whole faction. That way placing themselves as the top dogs and the faction from before, left with the choice of staying behind and probably dealing with the hurdles that comes with being second. And the second option was deciding to move out and start off again.
While this was most likely the favourable choice in the long run, it came with its own sets of problems. The first being that the faction now in control would most likely not want their force to dwindle down as there was strength in numbers. And the second was the stress of finding a place that wasn't in the territory of another faction and favourable for normal living conditions.
Now for all these to happen, it would require a lot of cooperation. However a moving faction would be more susceptible to an attack. And when this did happen, some might want to back out and choose to join up with the faction that had newly taken over. While all these were the dangers that accompanied a faction absorbing another, Yang wasn't too bothered about it in this case as he thought how could nine teens pose any threat to the hunters.
Tuffy, Akira and Niro were beyond excited today. One being the fact that they would be allowed to go. And the second reason being that they had a meeting with someone considered to be the number two man in the whole of the faction. How great their lives seem to be going they thought. They couldn't thank that girl and her friend enough.
"Listen guys, if we play our cards right, we could become big shots in thus place" Niro said to the other two. He always dreamt of being an important person in the faction and finally, he would be getting it he thought. He could already imagine how much influence he would have over some people he's ruffled feathers with before.
"Yeah, maybe after this, we could become sir Damien's right hand men" Tuffy said looking at the others and they all had the same evil expression on their faces. Freedom to do as they liked. Who would dare stand in their way when they finally got to that place. The joy they had was becoming too much to handle.
"Then we would take over the fac.." Akira was about to say but never got the chance to as he was jumped by the other two. Niro who had his head his pinned to the pillow and Tuffy stuffing something in his mouth.
"Idiot!... Don't say that out loud" Niro scolded as he still had his hand firmly placed on Akira's head not allowing the other move even as he begged and struggled to be set free. But after a while he was let loose and he had the most grumpy look on his face as he stared at the others.
While they had their little squabble, somebody else just layed watching the trio fool around and when he was done being entertained, he got off his lying position and sat up before calling out to the trio.
"Hey, get over here you three". Zayn called out.
Quickly turning around to see whoever it was that had called out to them, the trio rushed over as if it wasn't for this person they wouldn't have gotten their gig. Well of course given who they were, they would have gone out seeking revenge either way. But what was better than seeking revenge in the first place?, seeking revenge and getting payed and acknowledged while doing so.
" what's up man, how's your hand coming"? Akira asked as they got to where zayn sat with his taped up hand. And just as quickly as the words left Akira's mouth, he received a painful ebow from Tuffy to his rib area who then went on to whisper into his hear.
"Hush you idiot, he could be sensitive!" Tuffy said. But this might have led Akira in the wrong direction as the next thing he said made both Tuffy and Niro face palm themselves.
"Eh..sorry no need to be sensitive. One time i had this twig get stuck in my toe nail.You wouldn't..." Akira was saying before he got interrupted by a now clearly pissed Zayn. He wasn't one to get pissed all the time, but getting your arm ripped off by an angry beast would certainly do a number on you.
"Listen up you idiots, this is just chance to prove you are not so useless now you got both arms. You are to simply keep an eye on them, especially the annoying one. Don't mess this up. Damien would send people to come get you shortly. Get ready" Zayn said and he waved his hand telling them they could go.
"And oh...don't underestimate the annoying one" Zayn said this time with a more scrunched up face than usual. He thought back to the fight with the beast and then suddenly something hit him " That kid, he could do what he did all along but instead watched my men die and me lose an arm! " he mumbled under his breath. Feeling Rodney had held out on them, he had now found who to dump the blame for all the mishaps that had occurred to him in recent times.
But surprisingly, he wasn't the only one who had a personal vendetta against Rodney. As after hearing the warning he gave the trio, one of them was particularly more concerned than the others. He went back to his bed and sat, no longer having any interest in participating in the chit chat his friends where engaged in.
"What he did to me back then ...its unforgivable!!" Niro muttered to himself as he clenched his fists tightly remembering the incident that happened that faithful day. But just when he was deep in his thoughts, two geared up men with swords came into the clinic and walked up to them.
"Master demands your presence immediately". One of the men said.
And with that the trio were escorted out to go meet Damien.