Now that Wayne was left alone by the reporters he approached Vernon's body with a little glee on the inside.
"Hey Helgor, is there any way to make this hurt less?" Wayne asked as he knelt down beside Vernon.
Wayne just wanted to forget about the whole thing after hearing what Helgor had to say but he just kept thinking, at least I won't die. He took a couple of pictures of the body for his proof of the bounty and then let Helgor do as he pleased.
Helgor didn't hesitate and ate every piece of Vernon as if he hadn't had a snack earlier. Wayne just looked at the action and smiled wryly thinking Helgor eats like a four-year-old. After Helogr was done Wayne laid down to get comfortable and clenched his jaw as he was anticipating the pain.
"Here it comes," Wayne thought as he started feeling a tingling sensation all over his body. The tingling soon turned into a white-hot sharp pain that had all of the muscles in his body stiffening. Wayne wanted to yell but the worst was yet to come, as his skin started oozing black slime and his eyes went from white to black.
Wayne was in so much pain he couldn't move or utter a word he just let it happen. After three minutes of this, he finally fell unconscious for the only thing keeping him awake was the adrenaline from the pain.
He finally awoke after some time and felt sore all over and opened his mouth with a rasped voice.
"You better have something good for me, you bastard."
[Shadow Stealth]- Secrete Helgors' skin onto yours and become one with the darkness. It lasts for one hour until Helgor needs to retract inside.
[Dark Flame]- Spit out a dark fire that burns anything it touches.
Wayne looked at the skills and didn't know how to feel, he immediately wanted to test them out to see which way it'll sway his opinion. After twenty minutes of using the [Dark Flame], he was convinced that nothing would ever survive it, the damage was too high. He tried using [Shadow Stealth] but couldn't tell if he was really invisible or not, that would be a skill he would have to try out on his next bounty.
Wayne felt physically stronger than before, he noticed how light he felt after a few minutes of practicing his new abilities.
"Man, this power can get addicting, I just hope I don't become a masochist in the process," Wayne said inwardly, wondering already what or who Helgors next meal would be.
Wayne took off to meet Dr. Greeves to not only report the bounty but he wanted to see about getting another mission. After a few hours of running Wayne finally reached the Officer building and asked for Rue at the front desk since he couldn't tell them apart, once she saw him she knew exactly what to do. A few moments later Dr. Greeves hailed for Wayne to go follow him into the office from a distance.
Once Wayne was inside the office he showed the photos he took as his proof to Greeves.
"Wow, you actually did it, and so quick too? When I saw you on the news reports I didn't think you succeeded in getting to Vernon as of yet but, oh my, great job kid." Greeves said as he was almost at a loss of words.
"Aww shucks doc you don't have to," Wayne said in a playful gesture, then he continued.
"Well, I'm here to see about another mission that I can go on."
"Ohh, you actually have some request," Greeves said as he tapped the desk to show four missions with their details. All of them caught Waynes' attention so he read the information below it to see if he could find a deciding factor. Two on the list were bounties but they were wanted alive so Wayne didn't even bother reading more after that, between the other two, one was an escort mission and the other was a search and rescue.
The search and rescue mission is for a son who ran away and apparently, this wasn't his first time, his parents were willing to pay for someone strong enough to scare their son enough not to do it again.
Wayne was hoping the escort mission was better because he wanted to pick one of the ones that had requested him. When he looked at it he blinked multiple times thinking the pay was an error but it was no mistake, the escort was mission was requesting six strong officers to join and deliver the cargo to New Dawn City. Wayne wondered what they could be carrying that would be worth so much and need so much security but he didn't dwell on it long.
Wayne smirked as he saw where it was heading, knowing he was planning to head there soon.
"I'll take that one," Wayne said pointing to the escort file hovering.
"Ahh okay, sometimes a quick buck isn't always a good thing,' Greeves said as he grabbed the device for the mission and handed it to Wayne.
"Yeah but I've never actually been to the city so this will be a good excuse," Wayne said with a big smile.
Greeves scratched the back of his head thinking Wayne was treating missions like vacations and not life or death situations.
"Alright, I guess I should be heading out now if there isn't anything else?" Wayne said as he headed for the door.
"No you're fine, I hope to see you again soon."
"Alright, doc," with that Wayne decided to stop and see Zeak before heading out, after all, this mission wasn't going to start for another two days.
After some hours Wayne arrived, he saw that Zeaks stuff was there but he wasn't, Wayne was confused at first but then he saw Zeak walking up to him wearing an obvious disguise.
"So, how does it look?" Zeak said with his arms spread out showing off his outfit.
Wayne just shook his head," I don't think you're fooling anybody with that getup. You look like you came out of a 70's night club."
Zeak frowned a little as he thought the outfit was something no one would expect him in.
"So you're saying you can tell it's still me?"
"Duh."
"Alright whatever, let's head inside then, I was able to get into the phone." Zeak said as he walked into the dry cleaners taking off the 'disguise'.